Balla Eszter

1989 is an important year in the political history of Hungary. However, Petya and his friends couldn't care less. They are about to graduate high school. The only important things to them are the parties, girls, making some easy cash. And of course, passing the upcoming exam with the leaked questions.

Budapeşte metrosunun karanlık dehlizlerini mekân tutan "Kontrol", bir grup bilet kontrolörünün yeraltında yaşadığı olaylara kara komedi türünde odaklanıyor. Bu genel tarife rağmen, aslında filmi bir türe sığdırmak pek olası değil. Luc Besson’un Metro’sundaki koreografiyi hatırlatan tavrıyla muhtelif insan portrelerine yer veren filmde, ortam yine alternatif bir yaşam ünitesi olarak sahneleniyor. Lakin esas mevzu, sembolize ettiği üzere, “araf” misali bir yerden bir yere geçiş hali, platformu olması. Bu ilk uzun metraj filmiyle ülkesinde gişe başarısı da yakalayan 30 yaşındaki Macar yönetmen Nimród Antal’ın derdi açık; kaos çivisi çıkmış dünyamızın, yeryüzünün sembolik bir resmini çizmek.

After surviving the Holocaust, a grieving man who lost his wife and two young boys connects with a teenage girl who lost her parents and little sister. Knowing each other's emptiness, they become like father and daughter. It is the beginning of a profound love the world doesn't understand.

A Hungarian historical movie that tells the story of the Hungarian ancestors, the seven leaders, who are looking for their new homeland in the last years of the 9th century. Before they leave their original home in Asia, they have a farewell party. They wake up with a severe hangover after consuming large quantities of kumis. The seven leaders wake up to find that their people have disappeared.

Jimmy Jaguar, aka Jagu, is a demon who drifts from soul to soul, awakening something dark within. His hosts become vessels of revenge. But whose revenge? And why do their victims, chosen with no clear pattern, all seem to share the same eerie trait? They are alive only because “it is against the law to kill them”.

Variations on relationships in a New Year Day atmosphere set in a huge and rundown 1980s style hotel awaiting demolition by Lake Balaton, Hungary. Three women and five men in various ways.

Andrei, the Russian astronaut, has been conducting his research in space on the MIR space station for months, but his landing is being delayed. His wife Svetlana calls him regularly from the space centre by video phone. A casual quarrel between the two (she forgot to pay the gas bill) gives Svetlana the opportunity to tell Andrei that she is seeing someone and that she is leaving him. She runs all the way to Rome after her Italian lover. A virgin black girl meets a man who wants only one thing: to take her innocence. A woman criminal psychologist, with an almost personal interest, "interrogates" a prisoner who breaks down and confesses, while the psychologist's life is shattered... An old man's ear is cut off by a hairdresser and an intimate relationship develops between the two.

Three young friends, from the Hungarian countryside, want more sex and excitement in their life. Together they undertake a journey to Lake Balaton, where they hope to find plenty of summer fun as well as a temporary job.

Dezso falls off his bike and goes to the hospital. As he wanders between buildings and waits in hallways, he slowly realizes: he might not have come here just to get better.

Balázs and his wife Anikó share their apartment’s renovation schedule with playboy Henrik and his latest girlfriend, while designer András and his admirer pick the same space for a private moment. When everyone shows up on the same chaotic day, secret plans collide: lovers discover each other, the faithful are tempted, and hidden betrayals come to light. Relationships are tested as each couple faces the fallout of overheard conversations and unexpected meetings.

The profound depths of Ernõ Szép's life and poetry are revived in a new film adaptation of the poet's novel, 'The Smell of Humans'. This stoic and lyrical narrative of twenty fateful days offers an authentic account of an inhuman era.