Feature Films

United States/United Kingdom/Bulgaria/Israel, 2025, 109’, 15+

Cast: Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Jeremy Neumark Jones, Charlie MacGechan

The film tells the never-before-told harrowing true story of a group of World War II Polish Jewish prisoners attempting the unthinkable. Forced to work as gravediggers burying their own, Solomon Wiener and Michael Podchlebnik decide to launch a daring escape from a Nazi death camp, in order to give the world’s first eyewitness account of the Holocaust. Taking place in real-time, The World Will Tremble is a nail-biting triumph of the human spirit, demonstrating that even under the most horrific conditions, humanity will still attempt to overcome insurmountable odds.

Romania, 2025, 52’, 12+

Cast: László Péter, Miklós Bagoly, Ferenc Balázs, Zoltán Boldizsár-Zeyk, Ferenc Búzás, Gábor Cseh, István Csiszér, András Dobri, Dénes Farkas  

In the darkest years of the Ceausescu dictatorship, Romania's authorities brought all foreign information under strict control, which meant that major international sporting events disappeared from the screens of the country's only television channel. Large crowds of interested viewers would climb nearby hills and mountains with improvised antennas capable of receiving broadcasts from neighboring Hungary, Yugoslavia, and Bulgaria, to catch a glimpse of the free world. The documentary evokes this unique era and phenomenon through personal experiences, stories, and recollections.

Hungary, 2024, 96’, 12+

Cast: Szabolcs Thuróczy, Tamás Polgár, Zsófia Tóth, Annamária Fodor, Eliza Sodró, Márton Patkós

Sanyi is a puppeteer and an alcoholic. Pali is an elevator repairman and an alcoholic. Together, they are searching for their friend Tomi, who has missed several Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. They are trying to stay sober, which is quite the challenge in a country where heavy drinking is widely accepted as a part of daily life. Sanyi’s wife and daughter left him five years ago because of his addiction, and although he has since started a new life and remains sober, Pali only needs a small push to relapse. Tomi might need even less of one. Racing against time, the two friends roam the streets of Budapest in a desperate attempt to find and save Tomi.

Romania/ Brazil/Switzerland/United Kingdom/Luxembourg, 2025, 109’, 15+

Cast: Eszter Tompa, Gabriel Spahiu, Adonis Tanța, Oana Mardare, Șerban Pavlu, Annamária Biluska, Ilinca Manolache

Orsolya is a bailiff in Cluj, Transylvania. One day she must evict a homeless man who lives in the basement of a building. An unexpected event creates a moral crisis she tries to solve as best she can.

Hungary, 2025, 89’, 12+

Cast: Csaba Polgár, Dorottya Mari, Juli Jakab, Andrea Fullajtár

Bogi, an overworked girl, studies classical singing at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, but, coming from the countryside, she struggles to find her place in Budapest. To support herself, she babysits her cousin Tamás and his wife Zita’s children. The couple’s relationship is fraying, and the tension between them unintentionally spills over onto the children and, ultimately, Bogi. On the day of her crucial singing exam, which is vital for her future, Bogi makes a fatal mistake.

Romania/Moldova, 2025, 75’

Cast: Mircea Andreescu, Coca Bloos, Ionut Caras, Gabriel Gheorghe, Mircea Constantinescu, Silva Helena Schmidt

A secret buried beneath a forest. A massacre erased from the history books. Two thousand people who wanted to be free. Inspired by the real-life 1941 tragedy of Fântâna Albă, the film unveils the story of a generation condemned to silence and of a love shattered by deportation and exile. Rare footage, memories, and harrowing testimonies come together in an emotional thriller about memory, identity, and survival.

Hungary, 2024, 82’, 15+

Cast: Szabolcs Hajdu, Kata Pető, Imre Gelányi, Orsolya Tóth, Erika Tankó, Domokos Szabó

A death reunites three old friends whose paths have diverged over the years. One is about to take a teaching job in Mexico, another lives a lower-middle-class life, and the third is financially ruined. Their girlfriends, who join them later, tolerate their remarks and wisecracks for a while, but eventually, they all get fed up with each other.

Hungary, 2025, 94’, 16+

Cast: László Görög, Tibor Szervét, Győző Szabó, Julianna Czakó, Piroska Molnár

Set on a remote estate in Hungary in the mid-1990s, during the summer heatwave of the century. Iván’s regular and peaceful everyday life is thoroughly disrupted by his narcissistic ex-brother-in-law, Jakab, who moves into the family estate for the whole summer and expects everything to revolve around him. Unfortunately, Iván would much rather have it revolve around Jakab’s beautiful young wife, Léna, who, however, won’t take him seriously for a single minute. In his sorrow, Iván tries to figure out why he has failed at everything in his life: he is stuck on a rural estate in the late 1990s, breeding cattle and resigned to dancing to his family’s tune. But he is soon driven to realise that the estate means far more to him than he’d have previously thought. And if he is to defend it, he can’t afford to be picky about how... The story is a loose adaptation of Chekhov’s play Uncle Vanya.

Romania/Hungary, 2024, 60’

Cast: Tibor Pálffy, Enikő Varga, Lehel Salat, Áron Dimény, Lóránd Váta, Ervin Szűcs

Live music accompaniment by: Tibor Cári – keyboard, composer, Attila Szabó J. – cello, Patricia Marchiş – saxophone, Petra Pál – piano

This film is a remake of the 1921 Hungarian silent movie Dracula’s Death, produced a year before Murnau’s famous Nosferatu. The original film was lost during World War II, but eight emerging directors reimagined it, each directing a chapter from the eponymous novel by Károly Lajthay, published after the film’s release. Shot on 16mm black and white film, the story diverges from Bram Stoker’s classic, unfolding as a series of nightmares and events set in an insane asylum where Dracula is one of the patients. Coincidentally, this is the first Dracula movie directed and produced by Transylvanians.

France/Hungary/Germany/China, 2025, 147’

Cast: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Luna Wedler, Enzo Brumm, Sylvester Groth, Martin Wuttke, Johannes Hegemann, Rainer Bock, Léa Seydoux

An old tree sits in the middle of a botanical garden; lonely, as are the other dwellers of the arboretum – thousands of miles removed from their native habitats just so we may marvel at and observe them. Witnesses to our short, haphazard, noisy and turbulent lives. The film tells three stories, three tentative encounters between man and plant, when these two radically different perceptions truly connect for just an instant. Our human protagonists are outsiders and solitary spirits, much like the plants in the gardens. Yet, like the plants, they too yearn for connection.

SMALL HALL

Hungary, 2023, 70’, 0+

For more than ten years, Berry and Dolly has been one of the most popular cartoon series among nursery and kindergarten children. We follow the changing seasons in twelve short stories as nature invites the characters to play together each month. And in the thirteenth story, they take part in a bake-off, which reveals that anyone, even the ever-conscientious Doctor Owl, can make a mistake.

Slovakia/Czech Republic/Hungary, 2024, 129’, 12+

Cast: Alexandra Borbély, Milan Ondrík, Florentin Groll, Ján Mistrík, Dénes Ujlaki, Lili Monori

During the turbulent years of World War II and the Slovak wartime state, Hungarian widow Marika hides a Jewish boy in her house near the Slovak-Hungarian border, while coming under the scrutiny of two men – a Slovak Hlinka Guard captain and a German Nazi officer. The tension in the film is simultaneously created by the fear of death felt over hiding the child, female vulnerability amidst wartime conditions and the frustrations caused by the volatile irritability between the Slovakian and Hungarian communities.

Romania/Belgium/Netherlands, 2025, 126’, 15+

Cast: Anamaria Vartolomei, Ionuț Niculae, Rareș Andrici, Mirela Nicolau, Lucian Ifrim, Alexandru Potocean, Ana Ciontea, Thomas Ryckewaert, Tim Haars, Mike Libanon

Ginel and Natalia leave to work in the Netherlands. There they meet their fellow villagers Iță and Adrian, two young men who live off their girlfriends’ earnings and petty scams. When Natalia is assaulted in a club, Iță convinces Ginel that they have the right to take revenge. Tired of being treated as second-class citizens, the three hatch a plan. In less than two minutes, they steal paintings worth over 20 million euros. But then things get complicated. Inspired by a true story.

Hungary, 2025, 97’, 16+

Cast: Laura Döbrösi, Marina Gera, Alexa Bakonyi, Tenki Dalma, Károly Tóth

Four former college dorm friends reunite in an apartment ten years after blowing each other’s lives to pieces. They never thought they would speak again – but tonight, it is a matter of life and death whether they can get through to each other.