PRODUCTION: Rafael Kapelinski Shoots Polish/Hungarian Coproduction Budapest Diaries
BUDAPEST: The Polish/Hungarian coproduction Budapest Diaries / Budapesti napló by Rafael Kapelinski wrapped shooting in Budapest on 9 May 2022. The historical drama is set in 1981, when the political…
Hungarian Captives Released in the Netherlands
BUDAPEST: Kristóf Deák's debut feature Captives / Foglyok is currently screening in over 15 cinemas in the Netherlands, where it was released on 28 April 2022.
PRODUCTION: Áron Gauder Works on Animated Film on Native American Creation
BUDAPEST: The production of Áron Gauder’s Minden a rokonom is approaching completion. “The animation is 95 percent complete, with five minutes left in the 100-minute film. The last phase of…
FNE Podcast: György Ráduly: Director of the National Film Institute - Film Archive
FNE's Georgian correspondent and film critic Alexander Gabelia spoke to György Ráduly, director of the National Film Institute - Film Archive about the 2022 FIAF Congress, as well as the…
FESTIVALS: Hungarian Motion Picture Festival Announces 2022 Programme
BUDAPEST: The 2nd edition of the Hungarian Motion Picture Festival will screen nearly 100 films from 9 to 12 June 2022. The festival is organised by the National Film Institute…
FIAF 2022 Congress to Be Held in Budapest
BUDAPEST: The 78th Congress of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) will be hosted in Budapest by the National Film Institute – Hungary 24-29 April 2022.
Hungarian Series The Informant Broadcast to 61 Countries on HBO Max
BUDAPEST: The Hungarian spy drama series The Informant / A besúgó, written and directed by Bálint Szentgyörgyi, was released in 61 countries worldwide on HBO Max on 1 April 2022.
Big Budget International Productions Heading to Hungary
BUDAPEST: Hungary is ready to welcome new international productions in 2022, including Dune: Part Two by Denis Villeneuve and the Netflix miniseries All the Light We Cannot See, after a…
Academy Award for Hungarian Set Designer Zsuzsanna Sipos
LOS ANGELES: Hungarian set designer Zsuzsanna Sipos has been awarded an Academy Award for production design together with Canadian production designer Patrice Vermette for Dune, at the 94th ceremony held…
PRODUCTION: Balázs Lóth Preps Historical Adventure with Record High Production Grant
BUDAPEST: Balázs Lóth is currently in preproduction with the historical adventure film Now or Never! / Most vagy soha!, for which he received a record amount of funding of 12.2…
Kino Lorber to Release Miklós Jancsó Collection on Blu-ray
BUDAPEST: Kino Lorber will release The Round-Up (1966), The Red and the White (1967), The Confrontation (1968), Winter Wind (1969), Red Psalm (1971), and Electra, My Love (1974) on a…
PRODUCTION: Hungarian/Romanian Documentary Whose Dog Am I? in Postproduction
BUDAPEST: The docu-comedy essay Whose Dog Am I? / Ki kutyája vagyok én? / Al cui câine sunt? by Robert Lakatos is on the finishing line of postproduction. The film…
FESTIVALS: Verzió Film Festival 2022 Calls For Submissions
BUDAPEST: The 19th edition of the Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival calls for documentary films addressing human rights and social issues. The festival will take place in person…
FNE Visegrad 2021: Q&A with Viktoria Petrányi, Co-Founder of Proton Cinema
BUDAPEST: Producer Viktoria Petrányi, the co-founder of Proton Cinema, whose long list of credits includes Hungarian award-winning titles such as White God, as well as acclaimed international productions, talks to…
FNE Visegrad YR2021: Hungarian Film Production Booms in 2021 Despite the Pandemic
BUDAPEST: The Hungarian film industry will close a record year in 2021, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, with a spend of more than 200 billion HUF / 544m EUR, the country’s…
Hungary’s Gentle Competes at Sundance
BUDAPEST: The Hungarian film Gentle / Szelíd by László Csuja and Anna Nemes has been selected to compete at Sundance, the first Hungarian film to do so. The festival runs…
FNE Visegrad YR2021: Distributors in Hungary See Cause for Optimism
BUDAPEST: Although film distributors in Hungary had predicted an upheaval in film distribution patterns as a result of COVID-19 – with streaming and VOD as likely winners – their worst…
Kino Lorber Releases Miklós Jancsó's Films in USA
BUDAPEST: Kino Lorber has released six films by Hungarian director Miklós Jancsó, with screenings taking place at the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles in November 2021.
FNE Visegrad YR2021: Hungarian Exhibitors See Return of Audiences After COVID Closures
BUDAPEST: The number of cinema-goers has been rising only slowly in 2021, following the period of shut down forced by the COVID-19 pandemic.
FNE Podcast: Visegrad YR2021: Tamas Liszka: Budapest Cinemas Group
FNE’s Georgian correspondent Alexander Gabelia spoke to Hungarian Tamas Liszka who is head of the Budapest Cinemas Group, about the challenges he has faced as a cinema operator during the…
