Akác Street
Flora managed to move out of the Gypsy colony and her life changed for the better.No one else has managed to make their own living conditions fit for human beings by their own efforts, only through the outside (although…
A Place to Win
This documentary is an experiment on ways to reconstruct living spaces inhabited only by winners though the genesis of lottery houses. How can the past speak through a building and how many threads there are still…
A Village Romance (Lesbian Love)
The village was once settled by a community of lesbians seeking refuge from the city. Only a few families have remained. One of them lives in poverty but in a valuable house. The mistress of the house falls in love with…
Bahrtalo! Good Luck!
How to hit the Jackpot? This question is not a simple one to answer for anybody. But it's even harder to solve for the two friends in this neo-realistic comedy: the "big hat" Gypsy and his Hungarian buddy - both of them…
Budapest Panorama
Budapest, 2005. A young man from Congo would like to buy the first flat of his life in Pest. A young mother also searches for her first home on the Buda side of the Danube. We follow them on their way from flat to flat.…
Casino Transsylvanie
Róbert Lakatos's new experimental documentary is a 'moving postcard' from modern Transylvania. We see images of Moldavian people in a masquerade, Gypsy musicians, stray dogs in 'very realistic' locations: at the railway…
Common Deities
Santería for many people is like voodoo, its exotic rites capture the imagination. This religion is a strange mixture of the ancient gods worshipped by the slaves brought from Africa and the Catholic saints of the…
Descendants
In the past few years in Germany, children and grandchildren of former Nazi leaders, high-power SS and Gestapo officers have spoken up about their ancestors. They shared their conflicting feelings: on the one hand, they…
Feasts
A subjective survey of the sublime and profane moments of a year's holidays, with lots of music.
Hunfootball - The 91st Minute
In the 91. minute, the adult league loses the World Cup qualification match to Sweden, as they have so many times in the past 20 years. Everything must be started over. Not long after this painful event the film follows…
Junking
A lyrical socio-roadmovie about Budapest, about people cleaning their junk out to be collected.
The Light of Our Eye
Kati and Gy?z? are like average people, but their situation is not, because they - as a blind couple - have a baby. Ferike, their two-year-old son is healthy. From the time of his birth we spent whole weeks with the…
Mathias, Mathias
„King Matthias died in Vienna around the end of October in 1490. He was poisoned. One evening he ate some figs. He was already very ill during the night, and in the morning... he was dead." A 13-minute animation…
Merzuga - Threshold of the Sahara
Merzuga is a tiny village in Morocco on the border of desert and civilization. South of Merzuga you will find only endless dry oases, sand-filled abandoned earthen houses, and endless dunes. The residents of Merzuga…
Moszny
The construction of large housing estates began in the 1980s. Private homes that stood in the way of the future housing complex were demolished and the people, usually against their will, were re-located; among them was…
Mr. Steel Axe - Entering Heaven
Gansükh (Mr. Steel Axe) is a shepherd, living in a northern Mongolian valley in the summer and as a shaman in Ulanbator in the winter. He decided to run for office at the parliamentary elections to be held in spring…
San Lázaro
This odd mix of Afro-Cuban culture and Catholicism startles us, but doesn't feel foreign.
Slitfilm
"Since I've been involved in film-making it has always bothered me that images in films are too concrete and as such they ignite the imagination but do not let it soar. The image seen in the target of a film camera…
The Wagon
The film adapts the most horrible thing of the Holocaust: the delivery of the deported people to the lagers, the days spent in the wagon. In the documentaries, books, interwiews of the last fifty year next to the fact…
Waxworks
The pigs gobble everything up, be it a hen, an egg, a man or odds and ends. But everything can be saved, and that's exactly what stove-setter Gábor Petrohai does. He puts a lot of energy collecting all these old…
The Way of the Future
Rita is 6, Rasi 13, Vince 15, Iza 14, Robi 23, Péter and Kriszta are 33 years old. All of them have spent their childhoods behind the walls of the Budapest Peto Institute. One day they are leaving. All of them. Out into…