'Sing' wins Oscar for Best Live Action Short

Kristóf Deák's short film 'Sing', got the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short.

'1945' by Ferenc Török wins 3rd prize at Panorama Audience Award

Ferenc Török historical movie, 1945, won the 3rd prize at the 67th edition of Berlinale's Panorama Audience Award.

'On Body and Soul' wins Golden Bear

Ildikó Enyedi's "On Body and Soul" is the winner of the 67th Berlinale. The Hungarian film not only carried off the Golden Bear but also the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, in addition to the Prize of t...

It's the Sound that Makes it Real

Three Hungarian titles will feature this year at the 67th Berlinale: 'On Body and Soul’, '1945’ and 'Volcano Island’. They are quite different in many ways, but they have one clear connection: Péter B...

The Objective and the Emotional – The production duo behind 'On Body and Soul'

Inforg-M&M Film produced the last Hungarian feature that was in competition at the Berlinale – 'Just the Wind', in 2012 – and now they’re back with 'On Body and Soul', Ildikó Enyedi’s new feature. We...

Strong presence of Hungarian cinema at the 67th Berlinale

The Berlin International Film Festival (9–19 February), will feature the latest work by Ildikó Enyedi, Ferenc Török and Anna Katalin Lovrity as well as many other films realized with the participation...

Against All Odds – The Rave Reviews of `Strangled'

Árpád Sopsits' latest feature took the Hungarian cinema by storm with remarkable box office results and left nothing but great reviews in its wake; 'Strangled' is now on its way to conquer the interna...

Volcano Island – Selected for Berlinale Generation

The short animation has been selected for the Generation section of the Berlinale. We asked the director Anna Katalin Lovrity about her filmmaking approach and inspirations.

A Plastic Drama with Real-life Situations

Hungary’s past is replete with unprocessed trauma. The director of ‘Moscow Square’ (Moszkva tér, 2001), the cult film about the historical events in 1989, now guides the audience back to 1945. In the...

“We All Carry Wounds”

On Body and Soul', the new feature by the acclaimed Hungarian director Ildikó Enyedi, was selected for competition at the 67th Berlinale. After a sixteen-year hiatus, Enyedi returns with a film whose...

Coming Soon – New Films from Hungary

Upcoming films: various genres and authors; long-awaited first features and comebacks. This is where you can learn about all of them.

On Body and Soul to Premiere at the Berlinale

Cannes Camera d’Or winner 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.

HNFF Incubator Program selected debute feature projects

5 low-budget projects have been selected for the 2nd Incubator Program, the Fund’s initiative to support first-time directors. From the 69 treatment applications 10 projects were selected to be presen...

Life after Saul: New Directions in Hungarian Cinema

Hungary received the Academy Award this year, but where is the next big thing? Here are some potential candidates.

Kills on Wheels Conquers the Festival Circuit

Hungary's Oscar nominee has recently been awarded in Cairo, Chicago, Cottbus, Thessaloniki and Arras.

The Noise of Licking was awarded at the Cannes Film Festival

The Noise of Licking won Joint Third Prize in the Cinéfondation Selection at the Cannes Film Festival

Son of Saul wins Academy Award for best foreign film

Laszlo Nemes's first feature film won Hungary's second Oscar in the category, following its Golden Globe win earlier this year, and Grand Prix in Cannes last year.

János Szász's Bridge of sighs starts principle photography in Budapest

Janos Szasz (Woyzeck, Opium, The Notebook) has begun principle photography this week on BRIDGE OF SIGHS with 1,7m USD (494,5m HUF) production support granted by the Hungarian National Film Fund. Int’...

The 46th Berlinale premieres new films by Fliegauf and Bucsi

The 46th Berlinale Forum will premiere Bence Fliegauf’s LILY LANE, an account of a childhood in which time and space flow together and little separates divorce, death and reunion. Reka Bucsi’s 14-minu...

Son of Saul continues winning ways

The Budapest Times: Golden Globe success fires up national film industry - Son of Saul by László Jeles Nemes has won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Accepting the award at a gal...

Son of Saul shortlisted for the Oscar

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has released the shortlist of nine features, including Laszlo Nemes’ directorial debut, that will advance to the next round of voting in the Foreign Lan...

László Nemes's first feature triumphs at pre-Oscar awards

New York, Los Angeles, Boston – Hungary’s Oscar Entry, SON OF SAUL awarded by National Board of Review, New York Film Critics Circle, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Boston Online Film Critics A...

Márta Mészáros's Aurora Borealis will bring social taboo to screen

Márta Mészáros’ newest film project, Aurora Borealis – Northern Light, has been granted production funding to the amount of 580 million HUF by the Hungarian National Film Fund. Director of Adoption (...

Shooting: feature films in production in July