Feature Films

Wednesday – 6 November – 17:00 – 18:15

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Cast: Rodica Lazăr, Dorian Boguță, Șerban Pavlu, Andi Vasluianu

Un thriller sângeros (un soi de Cireșarii în Zona Crepusculară) se transformă în propriul său „making of”, unul teribil de vorbit – o conversație despre film, despre frică, despre ficțiune. Genul de film pe care, dacă știi despre ce e vorba, n-are niciun sens să-l mai vezi. Titlul e un nonsens căutat – mai potrivit ar fi fost Secvențe, dar era deja luat. Howard Hawks spunea că un film reușit are nevoie de trei scene bune și de niciuna proastă. Ăsta are doar trei scene – deci da.

Wednesday – 6 November – 20:40 – 22:05

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Cast: Szabolcs Hajdu, Jan Kačer, Mihály Kormos, Attila Mokos, Éva Bandor, Mária Zaujecová, Lucia Kasová, Ingrid Timková, Roman Polák, Mirkoslav Krobot, István Olasz, Péter Oszlik, Jana Olhová, Lajos Vörös, László Katona, Annamária Láng, Eszter Bánfalvi, Mátyás Langermann

A young beater is killed by a stray bullet during a hunting expedition involving prominent political figures. A lawyer will get involved in the investigation, together with an idealist minister, the grieving family of the victim, an independent journalist, and a crude cop, all seeking to conceal or expose the truth.

Thusday – 7 November – 18:00 – 19:45

12+

Cast: Zoltán Mészáros, Béla Rákász, András Szőke, József Szarvas, Armand Kautzky, Gábor Zelei, Bence Szép, Tibor Gáspár, Sándor Badár, Péter Vida, Anna Györgyi, Zoltán Czirbus, Róbert Bede, Gábor Reviczky, Sándor Fábry, András Lajsz, Can Togay, Veronika Bán-Horváth

The film deals with an unusual intellectual product of the Hungarian People’s Republic: the concept of the brigade, and the related brigade diaries, in a satirical form. The filmmakers used original diaries. Apocryphal crumbs from the 1970s to the 1980s are embedded into the present day in the context of a Hungarian talent show.

Friday – 8 November – 18:00 – 19:55

12+

Cast: Iulia Verdeş, Richard Bovnoczki, Miriam Rizea, Alice Cora Mihalache, Carina Lăpuşneanu, Ştefan Mihai, Alexandru Dan Suciu

Where Elephants Go is a film in which no elephant appears. It is a story of love and friendship between three characters in a difficult moment of their existence. Of Leni, a little girl who is ill, but at the same time full of life. Of Marcel, a young man with suicidal tendencies for no reason or perhaps for all the reasons in the world. And of Magda, a mother who is trying to forget that life is horrifying. Where Elephants Go is a pseudo-melodrama, a puzzle film that the viewers are invited to decipher. And it’s a comedy… or almost a comedy.

Saturday – 9 November – 15:00 – 16:10

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Cast: Orsolya Tóth, Nóra Földeáki, Domokos Szabó, Szabolcs Hajdu, Imre Gelányi

Levente and Zita, a couple in their forties, are visiting the home of their friends, Kálmán and Olga, to celebrate Kálmán’s name day. But they have an ulterior motive: they want to register their children at Kálmán’s home address so that they can go to a better school in the area. As they interact, one by one, hidden grievances, frustrations and desires come to the surface, and by the end of the day registering the children, something that Kálmán initially vigorously opposed, becomes the least of their worries. The story is deceptively simple and ordinary, made captivating by small details.

Saturday – 9 November – 17:30 – 19:00

16+

Cast: Károly Hajduk, Pál Mácsai, Gergely Váradi, Sára Varga-Járó, Bori Péterfy

In this free adaptation of Stefan Zweig’s The Royal Game, a young rebel couple is escaping from the Russian tanks in Budapest in 1956. They manage to board one of the last refugee trains. Meanwhile a young catholic priest is imprisoned and tortured by the communists in order to deliver information about a large parcel of Vatican treasures. On this train these story lines intersect during an exciting chess game, and it turns out that almost nobody and nothing is what it seems to be.

Saturday – 10 November – 19:40 – 21:25

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Cast: Ágnes Krasznahorkai, Soma Sándor, Zsolt Bölönyi, Tünde Skovrán, Áron Dimény, Ágnes Lőrincz, Eszter Tompa

In a small Hungarian town, Anna is a dedicated literature teacher. Beloved by her students for her unorthodox and creative approach, she assigns Agnieszka Holland’s Total Eclipse, depicting the relationship between French poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine, so they can better understand Rimbaud’s poetry. When a conservative father interrupts his son during the screening and hears of the assignment, he reports Anna to the school’s principal. She is accused of misconduct and spreading homosexual propaganda. The teacher’s call sets off a chain reaction that gradually turns her colleagues and the school principal against her. The increasingly ruthless treatment makes her work impossible, jeopardizing not just Anna’s livelihood, but all her social relationships.

Sunday – 10 November – 11:00 – 12:10

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For more than ten years, Berry and Dolly has been one of the most popular cartoon series among nursery and kindergarten children. In the season Berry and Dolly 6. a common theme is empathy, attention, and the continuous effort to fulfil the wishes and desires of others. Once again, the series revisits 13 memorable adventures shared by Berry, Dolly, and their friends, such as the birth of owl chicks and the Cave Spider’s accident. In addition to well-known characters among the children’s audience, new characters also appear: the Copper Beetle, master of bells and chimes; Otto Badger, who gifts a red frisbee to his friend, Reggie Squirrel; and the Millipede, invited by his distant cousin, the Centipede, for an apple harvest. The cartoons are devoid of any gratuitous violence; the intention is to teach “niceness and goodness”, and are easy to follow and relate to by even the youngest children.

Sunday – 10 November – 13:30 – 14:55

12+

Cast: Tamás Szabó Kimmel, Zoltán Bezerédi, Ágnes Máhr, Leo Gagel

The generous but stubborn boxing coach, Tamás gets along well with everyone but his own son. They have not spoken since the boy, Iván moved to Israel and turned to religion in an orthodox community. When Tamás’s beloved wife, Zsuzsa dies unexpectedly, Tamás agrees with his son that he can come and sit the Shiva in his house as long as he brings his grandson, Ariel with him. As past conflicts resurface, they embark on an unexpected journey of self-reflection and reconciliation. Father and son are not just obliged to face their old grievances during the one-week religious mourning, but also help Ariel deal with his own grief and his obsession that grandma’s spirit is still in the house.

Sunday – 10 November – 15:20 – 16:50

12+

Cast: Bogdan Albulescu, Cezar Antal, Alin Boeru, Ayrton P. Bryan (voice), Horia Cucută (voice), Silviu Debu, Larisa Ioana Enache, Alin Florea, Vlad Ghinea, Ionuţ Grama, Andreea Hristu

A freelance journalist investigates a mysterious AI corporation after a fire claims the life of its star employee. As he races to uncover the truth, he unravels a web of secrets, exposing the AI software’s dangerous impact on the world.

Sunday – 10 November – 18:30 – 20:00

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Cast: András Kern, Róbert Koltai, Judit Pogány, Gyula Bodrogi, Tamás Jordán, Ildikó Hámori, Katalin Takács, Ildikó Bánsági, András Bálint, Mariann Hermányi

Murder at the Pirandello Former Actors’ Home! A few retired giants of acting live peacefully in a towering villa surrounded by a well-kept park. The idyllic scenery would be perfect… were it not marred by two unpleasant disturbances. One is the new resident, former star Tivadar Tolnai, not quite ready to retire and making his – hardly flattering – opinions about them known to his fellow actors in sweeping style. The other is an unexpected death, which Mr Tolnai is highly suspicious of, prompting him to launch his own investigation. During his perilous endeavour, he can only rely on the help of a young nurse. The culprit is among the residents of the actors’ home… but the actors are professional liars, so only a master detective can catch the murderer. But Tolnai will take any risk to finally invite his former colleagues into the living room to perform the big reveal…