1945 Directed by Ferenc Török Produced by Iván Angelusz (1960 – 2016), Péter Reich / Katapult Film

On a sweltering August day in 1945, villagers prepare for the wedding of the town clerk's son. Meanwhile two Orthodox Jews arrive at the village train station with mysterious boxes labelled "fragrances". The town clerk fears the men may be heirs of the village's deported Jews and expects them to demand he return the drugstore he acquired for his son. Other villagers are afraid more survivors will come, posing a threat to the property and possessions they have acquired. A period drama based on Gábor T. Szántó’s short story Homecoming.

Aurora Borealis – Northern Light (Hu) Directed by Márta Mészáros, produced by István Major, Gül Togay / Filmteam

Auteur of Adoption (Golden Bear, Berlinale 1975), Nine Months (Prix FIPRESCI, Cannes 1977) and Diary for my Children (Grand Prix Special du Jury, Cannes 1984), Márta Mészáros directed once again a film that examines a social taboo, this time the story of children fathered by occupying Russian soldiers. "If you want to tell the truth, honesty is not enough." – Living in Vienna, Olga realises that there are secrets and lies in her family past, and she will not be able to put her own life in order until she works out the truth of what really happened. After returning to Hungary, her elderly mother did everything in her power to keep the past a secret from her daughter and lied to her for years, but when she falls into a coma, Olga finds a mysterious photograph and starts to search for the truth. International cast includes iconoclastic Mari Törőcsik, who has collected awards for Best Actress in Cannes, Chicago, Karlovy Vary and Monte Carlo, alongside Ildikó Tóth, Franciska Törőcsik, Antonio de la Torre, Hary Prinz and Lesław Żurek.

Brazils / Brazilok (Hu) – Directed by Csaba M. Kiss, Gábor Rohonyi, produced by Mónika Mécs / M&M FILM 

– 1st feature film

Ethno-tale with humour and tears. - Chaos bursts out among the gypsy minority of the town of Acsa when the mayor, urged by the new young priest of the village, announces that this year the gypsy football team called Brazils can also take part in the football championship of the village; and this year, thanks to a Brazilian millionaire originally from Acsa, the winning team will be invited to Rio de Janiero. The championship starts. Events, emotions and anger take unpredictable directions. Those who win in the end were not supposed to be the winners, and those who find love, were not supposed to fall in love with each other.

Coyote / Kojot – Directed by Márk Kostyál, produced by Gábor Kálomista, Dorottya Helmeczy / Megafilm

– 1st feature film

Muggy heat, small-town bleakness, unspoken social problems, hierarchy fights. This is the town of Tűzkő somewhere in Hungary. Here comes Misi who inherits his grandfather’s house and his property. Misi is a disillusioned, frustrated young man. He can’t find his role in his life, his job or a relationship. He starts to build and renovate a house with some men from the town, but it violates the local oligarch’s interests. Hard struggle begins for the property, for the love and for the life. Misi becomes a real coyote in every aspect.

Just Drop Dead / Halj már meg! – Directed by Zoltán Kamondi (1960 – 2016) produced by Gábor Ferenczy / Focus Fox

Following the sudden death of a mysterious engine driver in his sixties, the Wife, the Lover, her illegitimate Daughter and an increasing number of shady characters from his spurious past want to know the true identity of the man they loved. They are dying to know which of them was really loved by him, and where he has hidden the fantastic fruit of his double life. In their deadly struggle, our heroes find themselves in the centre of a satirical crime comedy, the sinful roots of which stretch back to the eighties, the closing decade of the socialist era.

The Invincible / Kincsem – Directed by Gábor Herendi Produced by Tamás Hutlassa / Café Film

Hungary mid-1800s – an epic romantic drama set against the aftermath of the Hungarian Revolution and the reprisals of Austrian Habsburgs. As defeated Hungarians are placed under martial law two families’ lives will become intertwined by one of the world’s greatest race horses – Kincsem. Hungarian aristocrat and supreme horse trainer Sándor Blaskovich is killed when his once friend Austrian Officer Otto von Oettingen is sent to arrest him for treason. Von Oettingen takes over the Blaskovich castle with his young daughter Klara, while Sándor Blaskovich’s orphaned son Ernő is consigned to a poor workers cottage. Ernő cannot forgive either Von Oettingen or the emperor for taking his father’s life, land and honour. Years later he will purchase and train a magnificent horse Kincsem which he believes will be his ticket to regain his family home. The horse grows into a prized and unbeatable champion, but is wild and unruly - as is the woman who also shows a keen interest in Kincsem and Ernő – Klara von Oettingen.

On Body and Soul / Testről és lélekről – Directed by Ildikó Enyedi Produced by Mónika Mécs, András Muhi / Inforg M&M Film

Cannes Camera d’Or winner (My 20th Century, 1989) Ildikó Enyedi’s romantic melodrama is an unusual love story set in the everyday world. The plot is based around the duality of sleeping and waking, mind and matter. What would happen if you met someone, who dreamt the same as you or, to be more precise, had been meeting you in the same world every night for years? Would you be pleased? Or would you feel that you had been in some way robbed? And what if this specific individual didn’t exactly appeal to you? What if you actually hated that person? (World Premiere: February 2017, Berlinale Official Competition)

The Perfect Killer / A tökéletes gyilkos Directed by József Pacskovszky Produced by Jenő Habermann / Filmart

A depressed homicide detective works on a strange case. He should catch a suspected killer who was his late daughter's best friend. The fugitive, a 23 year-old pretty girl, knocks on his door and asks him to hide her….In a few days they realize that they are a part of a bigger game.

Picturesque Epochs / Festői korszakok Directed by Péter Forgács produced by László Kántor / Fest-Film & Mátrix Film

– documentary

... home movies of Hungarian painters such as József Breznay can perhaps provide the viewer with an alternative insight into the hidden world of life and art as it was in Hungary between 1945 and 2002.Inclusion of these films and Soviet-style art so typical of the post-war era enabled Péter Forgács to compose a film that portrays the private universe of an artist and outline how pre- and post-war Hungarian culture was shaped and shifted by a communist dictatorship as it moved from radical ruthlessness to latter-day (until 1989) soft repression. Internationally acclaimed media artist and independent filmmaker Péter Forgács’s latest project addresses these questions through the lives and works of a handful of Hungarian artists such as József Breznay (1922-2005) and their personal collections of amateur film footage of family events, the birth of their children and holidays together as well as their life as working artists under a constant though ever-changing regime in the north-western corner of the Balkans, on the perimeter of Europe.

Troupers / Vándorszínészek – Directed by Pál Sándor, produced by Pál Sándor / Filmstreet

Set in the early 1800s, based on the diary of a prompter, this period road movie is laced with humour and irony. Come snow, frost or scorching heat, a ragtag band of comedians trudge along the highways and byways, hoping to make it to the capital, to perform in a real theatre in front of a sophisticated audience. Love, friendship, betrayal and reconciliation - anything is possible on this inner and outer journey, aback the rickety round top wagon.

Well / Kút – Directed by Attila Gigor, produced by Ferenc Pusztai / KMH Film

– 2nd feature film

A gas station in the middle of nowhere: a young man arrives to meet his father he hasn’t seen for 30 years. On the same day, a van with four prostitutes breaks down at the very same gas station, on the way to Switzerland. The three days they spend together in the station change their lives forever.