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- "Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical." At daytime Ervin works as a teacher in a suburban school where he tries to survive among the deviant students and apathetic teachers. At night he spends every minutes to finish his first comic book for a little publishing house. He tirelessly draws his noir world where gangsters and corrupt policemen fight the local man of justice, the private investigator. One day he finds one of his students with serious injuries in the school-yard and he suspects that's not an accident. Ervin tries to investigate the case while the atmosphere around him begins to change, it seems the noir-world from his comics starts to appear beyond the school walls and his character slowly turns into his protagonist, the private investigator.
- Three extraordinary Eastern European guys try to escape from their destiny and find freedom through surfing.
- Tita the teenage girl hates her life and tries to lie a new, more interesting one for herself. She slips into a world of more lies, parties, drugs and sex.
- Story of a fake heart attack which ends with a real heartbreak.
- Andor Czettl in his early sixties, visits the declassified Communist archives one day to read the reports filed about him. He realizes the shocking fact that his very best friend János Pásztor was an informer and was writing reports on him for decades. Writer-director Sára Cserhalmi's first feature focuses rather on the contradictory relationship of the two protagonists then the bare act of the problem, and in the meantime reflecting to those chapters of Hungary's recent past that are still unclear. How can an informer live with himself? How can the one who was reported on cope with the current state? Dear Betrayed Friends confronts the audience with this overly sensitive subject that has never been told before in Hungary.
- A group of friends play a role playing game till their deaths in a haunted forest because of their inability to remember the safe word.
- Two gangsters drive through Budapest to deliver a message from their boss. Curiosity of the amateur gangster regarding the content of the letter and his passion to overcomplicate things lead to big troubles.
- It's hard to care about others when you're not in control of your own life. Set in today's Hungary, Memphis follows Szilvi, a twenty year-old prostitute who sells her body under the supervision of a gang by a busy country road. Szilvi is a selfish, aggressive creature. On an ordinary morning a quarrel she starts about a pair of cheap earrings ignites a chain reaction of unexpected events; by the end of the day she finds herself in an inconvenient situation: it seems she's the only one who can take responsibility for the small family living on a close-by farm.
- Tamás is a talented cartoonist, who, however, does not exhibit, but is forced by the police to work as a phantom painter. His talent solves some crimes. Now he is confronted to sketch a serial rapist.
- Bureau follows everyday events inside a fictional immigration office, where we meet Anna, a new member of the staff. As we follow Anna's daily routine, we find ourselves faced with sometimes humorous, sometimes thought-provoking and often touching tales, and begin to understand the pressure that all of this places on those manning the desk. The film was supported by the European Union's European Integration Fund.
- The protagonist of this short film is Marci, a director working on his second feature film. On the last shooting day he records a secret self-portrait. In this confession of the young talent the defining experiences of his childhood and film career come to light, and in the meantime the context between the self-portrait and the feature film slowly unravels.
- The third part of the BP Underground series is about Budapest's underground electronic music scene. Just like the other episodes it also evokes the emergence and growth of the genre with its unique visual world and a lot of archive footage. Among other things, it seeks to discover how Budapest as a center shaped the subculture. The BP Underground electronic music episode acts as a kind of time capsule to bring the feelings of the 90's back from an era of the unrestrained influx of western influences when it was trendy to attend Acid Parties, everyone was into Rave, and Goa Trance and the best parties were at Katlan and Frankhegy. Copied cassette tapes were spreading like mushrooms, many were trying out imported drugs while listening to Tilos Radio and DJ Palotai was a god. How did the characteristics of each style evolve? What is the difference between jungle and drum and bass? How does one learn to love Goa trance and how does one become a techno freak? The social aspect is also put into focus: Is there any socially decisive factor as to who chooses the electronic music scene? Who are the personalities still known today that used to be central figures? What do they think about their roots decades later? What does it mean for some of the musicians to rise from being unknown underground artists to achieving national fame? What is the specific Hungarian flavor of the different styles which are mainly rooted in British/American culture? What is the underground electronic music scene like today? Is it still relevant? Does it still have power and a voice in our digital world? To what extent did it remain underground?
- Pisti calls upon a meeting with the 'League', because Kati's scooter disappeared. The four kids start the investigation in their DIY superhero costumes, but the action goes wrong. Pisti has multiple missions: finding the scooter, defending his honor, and saving their friendship.
- What would a man think about the soul and the acts of women? He is passing through beautiful hallways surrounded with magical historical paintings of women who all leads him towards his destiny.
- A feeble woman (70) has her daughter (42) move in to help her, although they have not seen one another for quite some time. Instead of spending quality time with her daughter once she is there, mother hangs out in her own room alone with her son, Andris, on the phone. Andris was not able to move in to help. Their mother-daughter relationship is all but rosy. Mother criticizes, constantly gives her chores to do and emotionally terrorizes her daughter from the moment she moves in and we get the feeling that it is unwarranted. When the daughter brings her a present, she scolds her again. When she tries to help, she is pushed away. When the daughter tries to work, her mother makes every second a living hell. If necessary, she even pretends to feel badly in order to make her daughter feel guilty for not spending her every waking moment at her beck and call. Mother continues to complain to Andris on the phone, even about the smallest things, and always in secret. On one occasion, her daughter overhears the secret calls and freaks out when she realizes that her mother is speaking to her dead son, her brother, on the phone. Andris lost his life when they were just children in a tragic accident by the lake nearby and mother is unable to get over the tragedy, she is still not capable of letting him go, as a matter of fact, she envisions him as a grown man, very much alive and well. It is now time for daughter and mother to put their long-term conflicts behind them once and for all but she blames her daughter for Andris' death.
- Two friends set out for the coast, with a sedated grandmother in the back of a van.
- Joan is a member of a group of volunteers. She participates in staged accidents. Her kindness is impossible. She is perhaps Joan of Arc. The first scene of an opera triptych.
- Sylvia is the only parent to David, 17. With the help of a virtual reality headset, the boy has developed a daily habit of becoming the Hammerer, the slave warrior, who rises against his master, and fights several levels to kill him.
- ShortIldiko runs a campsite, close to nature, far from the hustles and bustles of the capital. Ildiko is excited to learn that her former teacher from secondary school will pay them a visit. Ildiko gladly becomes nostalgic about the school years spent with Vera as her teacher, but mostly because of Vera's care for the students who needed her support. Coinciding with Vera's visit, Ildiko's daughter returns home with her openly gay friends from a demonstration in Budapest. Vera notices their rainbow flag and cannot keep what she really thinks to herself.
- There are those who don't say what they think - they're called average. There are those who say, what they don't think - they're called liars. And there are there are those who say what they think: they usually become martyrs. The Kiss Goodnight is a dark comedy about speaking your mind and facing the fears everyone faces - well, that is if they dare to look the right way. It's a satire about realizing that prior to living up to expectations, one must first learn to live.
- In a village in East Hungary, Dani, a teenager grown up in an orphanage, falls in love with Zsofi, his classmate. He tries to get close to her, but in an obscene and grotesque behavior, not understanding the rules of the game of love...
- Katherine, who survived the Holocaust at age seven, visits her fatherland of Transylvania, Romania for the first time departing from Sweden with her family. Not only do both happy and frightful memories of her forgotten past come to life, but she must also face the depressing reality of Ceausescu's communist dictatorship and the romance developing between her husband and her sister. Parallel to her story and simultaneously, we get to know her childhood love and friend Sandor, who serves the dictator as a forester and whose story has a tragic ending. The film ends with the surprising and odd encounter of the two stories.
- The fourth episode of the BP Underground documentary series is about Budapest's underground rock music scene presenting the members of the first and most important underground rock-metal bands, subgenres in the 90s and the 2000s.
- BP Underground is a documentary project exploring the underground youth subcultures of Budapest, Hungary in the 90s and 2000s, right after the iron curtain fell.
- A city where nobody wants to live. An assignment that should never be accepted.
- Dia is a young female kickboxer who lives in the suburbs of Budapest with her mom and younger brother. Her dream is to compete in Germany where she can earn good money. All she has to do is win her upcoming championship. Two weeks prior to that Dia finds out that she is pregnant from her lover, who also happens to be her coach. Now she must face not only her competition, but time and the thought of abortion aswell.
- An everyday situation, shopping for glasses, turns into a surreal affair. In a claustrophobic world, the optometrist, the grandson and the grandfather wrestle and there is only one way out. Because that gun has been loaded for too long. In this modern adaptation of Slawomir Mrozek's eternal play, Charlie, political hatred leaves the online sphere to walk straight in through the door.
- A story about an accidental and fatal acquaintance of a Hungarian boy and a Russian soldier during the 1956 Revolution in Budapest.
- During a warm summer night, Robert, a naive 17 year old and Feri, the roma member of the high school drama group, are forced to deal with prejudices, that have existed longer then themselves. This short is based on my experiences during high-school where I used to take part in the drama group. Its topic, the prejudice against gypsies is unfortunately even more relevant today than it was 15 years ago.
- This story is about the loss of youth. A melancholic memento about a swimming pool attendant who re-lives his days of youth again and again every day with the help of a daydream. His achievements at the Moscow Olympics echo in eternity. Jumping into the pool he rejuvenates 40 years and brings his top shape again. The style of the film is similar to the early Hitchcock films, as in the protagonist emotions rage, which we can mostly feel through the montage technique. Everything else happening in the swimming pool is slow and calm. This film etude is a micro portrait of a man, pulling the veil off the nostalgia lurking in the elderly and the vitality that is still dormant in them.
- Two couples split up the very same night, in the very same bar, to the film noir mood set by the smooth jazz. Adam leaves the woman of his life, while Eve leaves the man of her life and they both cite the same reasons. Word for word.
- "Gee, Haw" - the stockmen of the plains drive the four-ox wagon using these two words. Through their mysterious practice - they are claimed to drive their draft animals without reins, only using words - we were let into such secrets as the preparation of "slambuc" (traditiona food of the plains), the peculiarities of horse and grey cattle keeping, and the solution of unexpectedly arising situations. This movie seeks to show the viewer the day-to-day life of stockmen, wranglers - the people of Hortobágy. Our protagonists were taken in as children by the plains, which - they say - once captivates you, keeps you forever. Through the intimate, honest interviews we get a glimpse of the part of their lives which usually remains hidden - as if peeping through the keyhole. Owing to the time spent in the field and the mutual trust we built, we explored such topics as time, the relativity of the course of one's life, commitment, fear of passing away and the relationship of men living a hard life to their women. The short stories give us a peek of the laconic or smart old shepherds, the hardships of the life in the wilderness and the frequently appearing humor, which runs through the life of these tough men living in the ruthless Hortobágy plains. Wranglers of the wild east have never been to the Wild West but believe and claim that life in Hortobágy has been hard and still is. 2018-2020 Hortobágy Máta puszta.
- I make mine. You make yours. He makes his. Everybody makes their own. Ervin Szabó: Paper Planes Seven stories independent from each other. Meaningful and eloquent shorts which can be viewed separately, just like the videos on the internet. Fiction, in a documentary style. About grown-up children, and young adults, who fight the everyday battle, trying to survive and enjoy the moments. Misfits, looking for their way of success. Titi and Detti Titi has her own problems with the grocery store where she works and with her sexual preferences. Detti her girlfriend. She is dreaming about becoming a fashion designer, prepares new designs every day. Her father is an aggressive alcoholic, she is afraid only of him. Petike and Tesó carry bands. Petike is a gypsy, and often calls Tesó, whoo is a big baldheaded guy, a skinhead. In return Tesó calls him gippo, but strictly for fun, they are good friends. They dream about having a joint logistics venture. Petike has a serious cough. Beus, Timi and Ferci Beus and Ferci are a couple, Timi is a friend of Beus. Their planned holiday just cannot start because of the usual broil of the couple. Timi forgets to brig her bed linen, Ferci goes up to her apartment to help. Joci - is receptionist at a fitness center. His life is not complete, after work he usually hangs out with his breakdancer friends on the streets. One day, the skinheads beat up Kiskati, the breakdancer girl. The offenders show up, one of them is the Bald, who often goes to the gym where Joci works. Joci has the sabers used for practicing. He loses one of them. Andris and Roland two guys in their twenties trying to make a living as DJs. Andris is a composer too, his first work is about to be published by a foreign company. Roland is envious that is why he is trying to cross Andris everytime. They are preparing for a weekend party, where both of them play. Roland wants to play some fresh stuff, but he just cannot find it anywhere. Andris is trying to help. Zoli doesnt really like to go outside, he is a bit like all of us. All he wants is to finally write out the demons from himself. Everytime he is to start, the phone starts to ring, someone knock ont he door, the tea is ready, or he has to go to the post Lego, Erika, Galkó and Zsani the branch is going to a party, they meet the tram stop. They all fantasize about drugs and uncontrolled sex. They are uninhibited, they know no limits. They want to have the city, but it has them as well. They have to pay a huge price for their freedom.