Cycle
From 03.05. To 07.05.2011.
Program of contemporary Hungarian films II
Films in cycle
Family Nest
(Családi tüzfészek, Hungary, 1977)
Directed by: Béla Tarr
PHOTOGRAPHY: Ferenc Pap
Synopsis:
Tarr’s first feature is a social drama about a young couple with a daughter who are forced to live in a small apartment with the husband’s parents and their two other children. In order to get their own apartment and finally have some privacy, each week they go on a bureaucratic mission...
b/w, 108'
PROJECTION:
Tuesday 03.05.2011 AT 20:00
Kind of America 2
(Valami Amerika 2, 2008.)
Directed by: Gábor Herendi
PHOTOGRAPHY: Balázs Márton
Synopsis:
The sequel to the film A Kind of America follows the three brothers from the first part after Tamás directed a movie. They receive a postcard from America and travel to New York to find an impostor Alex. He ran away with their sixty million and Akos’ girlfriend. In New York, they learn that Alex is being forced to direct a theatre play or the Hungarian mafia will kill him. The brothers get involved in the whole mess by buying the rights to the play before Alex does.
color, 110 min
PROJECTION:
Wednesday 04.05.2011 AT 20:00
Happy New Life
(Boldog új élet, 2007.)
Directed by: Árpád Bogdán
PHOTOGRAPHY: Márk Györi, Gábor Szabó
Synopsis:
Partly based on autobiographical experience, the film tells a story about orphans who live in Hungarian state homes until they turn 18. The protagonist is Attila, a young Roma child who wants to learn details about his childhood and the reasons for him becoming an orphan. He gets his chance when the former director of the orphanage gives him his dossier. Unfortunately, there is nothing helpful in it…
color, 80 min
PROJECTION:
Thursday 05.05.2011 AT 20:00
Intimate Headshot
(Intim fejlövés, 2009.)
Directed by: Péter Szajki
PHOTOGRAPHY: András Petrik
Synopsis:
The story takes place over he course of one day. We follow four men: Even though they do not know each other, at the end of a long day they all end up in the same nightclub. All of their stories have one thing in common: sexuality. One of them found his wife in bed with his best friend, a businessman spends his time surfing for porn, a young man finds out his fiancée’s secret the day before the wedding…
color, 74 min
PROJECTION:
Friday 06.05.2011 AT 20:00
Camembert Rose
(Rózsaszín sajt, 2009.)
Directed by: Barnabás Tóth
PHOTOGRAPHY: Przemyslaw Niczyporuk
Synopsis:
After his wife’s death, middle-aged gynecologist Tibor lives alone with his son, medical student Dániel. He is a widower but constantly dates different women. His son does not approve of such behavior. He decided a long time ago that he would save himself for true love and successfully resists his father’s encouragement to find a girlfriend. During the holidays he meets a woman who openly displays her affections to him…