Cannes FIPRESCI Prize Winner 1st feature film
One Day
by Zsófia Szilágyi / HNFF Incubator Program
in Competition – Feature

Anna is 40. She is always in a rush. She has three children, a husband, a job and financial stress. Anna meets deadlines, makes promises, takes care of things, brings stuff home and remembers everything. But she never catches up with her husband. She’d like to talk to him. She feels she is losing him. And she feels she can’t always evade what comes next. A clash between the everyday, the unbearably monotonous and the fragile and unique.

Ghetto Balboa
by Árpád Bogdán
in Competition – Documentary

The documentary follows a boxing coach and his trainee from the very beginning to the first successes. Both characters are of Roma origins from the infamous Ghetto in the middle of Budapest. Misi Sipos (60), an ex member of the 8th district mafia, while recovering in a prison hospital after a shootout with a rival gang, turned to God and left behind his criminal past. As his personal “mission” he started a local community boxing club aimed at young children from troubled families, to keep them away from crime and show them an alternative for their future. Zoli Szabó (21) is one of these kids. He has been boxing in the amateur league under Misi’s guidance for 6 years. and his fiancée, who is already pregnant. Despite his young age he has to face up to the responsibility of providing for his new family. He has a tough decision to make, as he either becomes a professional boxer, which comes with a lot of sacrifices or he follows in the footsteps of his mobster father. 

Easy Lessons
by Dorottya Zurbó / HNFF Incubator Program
in Competition – Documentary

Easy Lessons by Dorottya Zurbó

Kafia is 17 years old. Two years ago, she fled to Europe, Hungary on her own, escaping from a child marriage in Somalia. She has been living in a state children’s home in Budapest ever since. She learns the language, goes to high school, prepares for the Hungarian graduation exam and starts a modelling career. On the surface, everything seems fine. However, behind that beautiful and confident appearance lies a heavy heart. Her repetitive daily routine revolves around constant dilemmas and self-doubt about leaving behind her Muslim culture and everything else she grew up with. As she lets the camera get closer to her the film slowly becomes an intimate confession. What does it mean, on the brink of adulthood, to break with your past and fully give yourself up to a new self in order to live in Europe?

1 st Hungary-Qatar coproduction
Nine Months War
by László Csuja
in Competition – Documentary

Nine Months War by László Csuja

Jani (24) lives in a small town in Western Ukraine in the Hungarian minority. He is an only child and his father died five years ago. He is fed up with the boring life in his town and drowning in the love of Erzsike (45), his mother. He gets his draft-call from the Ukrainian National Guard, to fight the separatist. He could sneak out of the country to escape the military service just like his fellows did, but instead he chooses to go to the war 1,500 km away – why? He is not a patriot. He is not even Ukrainian. Combining visuals of cinema verité and mobile footage of war, Jani’s coming-of-age story unfolds throughout the nine months of military service and a few months after discharge.

MOME Anim Diploma Film
Off Season
by Orsolya Láng
in Competition – Shorts

In a small fishing village during off season a day is like another. The inhabitants live side by side like the elements of the landscape. But a small sway is enough to break the routine, and the closed worlds become close words. Special days reveal themselves only when they come close to end.

SZFE Diploma Film
A Siege
by István Kovács
in Competition – Student Films

A Siege by István Kovács

A strong and smart woman during the Siege of Sarajevo is desperately seeking water so she can finally wash her hair and feel herself attractive again, but the snipers undermine her plan.

SZFE Diploma Film
Friss Hús Best Hungarian Short Film Award
Last Call
by Hajni Kis
in Competition – Student Films

Last Call by Hajni Kis

We are following the last day of Anikó Kárpáti (61), as she is about to leave Budapest to move to her daughter’s family. She begins a mad dash through the city in order to close her life in Hungary.

Ruben Brandt, Collector
by Milorad Krstic
In Focus

Ruben Brandt, a famous psychotherapist, is forced to steal 13 paintings from world-renowned museums and private collections to prevent his suffering from terrible nightmares. Accompanied by four of his patients, he and his gang of thieves strike regularly and with great success: The Louvre, Tate, Uffizi, Hermitage, MoMA. 'The Collector' quickly becomes the most wanted criminal. Gangsters and headhunters chase him around the world while the reward for his capture keeps rising, approaching a hundred million dollars. A carter of insurance companies entrusts Mike Kowalski, a private detective and leading art theft expert, to solve the case.

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