Hungarian cinema comes to Porto during Fantasporto 2012 in Endre Hules' film, THE MAIDEN DANCED TO DEATH (2011).
The film is about two brothers during Communist Hungary who were great dancers and once upon a time danced together. But while one brother kept dancing, the other gave it up. Now they meet twenty years later to dance together again.
I interviewed Endre Hules a year ago before the film was finished. And now here in Fantasporto I will finally s...
For years, discussions with filmmakers directly after the screenings of their films have been a special attraction of the festival experience for many Berlinale visitors. With the establishment of the Haus der Berliner Festspiele as a new venue in 2012, the Berlinale now has the opportunity to use this space to expand discussions between filmmakers and the audience. “Some topics simply demand more attention and a broader platform than the time allotted to them usually allows,” comments Fes...
Impatient waiting will end at the Festival
Ingenious directors are heading for Flying Broom again this year to halt the impatient waiting of the festival followers. Doris Dörrie, Margarethe von Trotta, Iciar Bollain, Tahmineh Milani, Dorota Kędzierzawska and Marta Meszaros
will meet film lovers with the best examples of their own cinemas on
5-12 May at 14th Flying Broom International Women's Film Festival.
Flying
Broom will present to its followers a week fu...
Czech Film Center will be hosting a film festival in Brussels, BEST OF VISEGRAD CINEMA, from March 22-27. To mark the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Visegrad Group, four recent films from each V4 country – the biggest box-office hit, the biggest international success, the best documentary and the most successful film for children and youth – will be screened at the Brusselian Cinéma Vendôme during event. The festival precedes a conference titled: Quo vadis Visegrad...
Interview with Endre Hules!
ME: Hi Endre. First, can you speak about how you got into acting, writing and directing? In which order did you start and when did you know that you had to make films?
ENDRE: I started out in the theatre as an actor, but almost immediately began writing and directing, as well. I studied acting, then I completed a degree as a director at the National Conservatory of Theatr...
Kung-Fu Magyar?A comedy. A story of friendship and rivalry. A kung-fu film without a fight. Huh? Confused? You won't be after listening to Bence Miklauzic, talking about his new film, Children of the Green Dragon, one of the most popular films this week among audiences at the Warsaw Film Festival.Hungarian film director Bence Miklauzic is forty years old. And his second feature film, Children of the Green Dragon, had its European debut this week at the Warsaw Film Festival. Just back from the ...
Hungarian films lined up at an annual Los Angeles film festival for already the ninth time in order to remind Hollywood of its Hungarian roots. Bunyik Entertainment presented a Krisztina Goda film, "Chameleon", the official Hungarian foreign-language submission for the 82nd Academy Awards on the opening night of this year's festival at Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex in Santa Monica, on November 5. The famous Hungarian-American filmma...
“The Hungarian
Film Festival is without a doubt the best ethnic film festival in Los Angeles.
It is well programmed and well
produced. I can not think of a better
way in which to promote Hungarian cinema in Hollywood.”
GREGORY LAMMLE
...Lammle Theaters
“The opportunity for film enthusiasts to see Hungarian
films, exchange ideas and generate relationships in the entertainment
community are just the beginning of the positive benefits that stem from
the Hungarian Film Festival. This festival
provides an opportunity for
Hungarian filmmakers to voice their passion for storytelling through the beauty
of film. “An American
Rhapsody”, a film by Hungarian Eva Gardos, was
the International Grand Prize winner of the Hartley-Merrill Screenwriting
Competition, but it was the Hungarian Film Festival that allowed Eva to
share her voice with the rest of the world.”
DEBBIE VANDERMULLEN…
Hartley-Merrill
“The festival has made it possible to meet and converse
with Hungarian directors, writers and actors and be
exposed to films we would
ordinarily not see. Hollywood can be quite insular. We need the Hungarian
Film
Festival to enrich our cultural scene.”
IRVIN KERSHNER … Film
Director/Producer
In loving memory
“Congratulations Bela on your
Fourth Annual Hungarian Film Festival in Los Angeles. You’re the best
Hungarian
Ambassador for introducing Hungarian Film-makers & their films
to Hollywood. All the best.
IKA PANAJOTOVIC … Film Producer
“The
Hungarian Film Festival in Los Angeles has been a very important event. I’m
thanking Bela Bunyik (Bunyik Entertainment)
for there excellent
presentation and to
keep reminding the public that the Hungarians are still
among the Best Movie makers in the world!”
MICKY HARGITAY……Actor
“The
Hungarian Film Festival never fails to delight. I look forward to seeing old
friends and new emerging talent. The quality of
Hungarian film
making
is of the highest order.”
CHARLES COHEN...Film Producer
“The
Hungarian Film Festival presents to the Los Angeles community new and rare
Hungarian films. I have been especially
enriched by meeting director
colleagues, Karoly Makk and Janos Szasz. My praise to Bonnie and Bela Bunyik for
their tireless
and wonderful work bringing the festival to us.
DAISY
GERBER…. Film Director
December 5th 2009, the first European Film Festival will open on Les Arcs snow-covered summits!
The festival wants to promote the diversity of European cinema and to reveal the numerous talents our continent has.
Located at the heart of the Alps, in one of the finest ski retreats in
the world, the festival is opened to everyone, film buffs, moutain
lovers, cinema profesionals or only curious; an opportunity to spend a
exceptional week !
Enjoy the first snows, the film screenings every day with the directors
and actors in a great atmosphere with parties, entertainments, concerts
and DJ..!
50 feature films from all European nationalities will be screened
in the 6 movie theaters in the resort. These films carry the cultural
values of the event: novelty, quality, originality, variety. 10 films
in the Official Competition for the Cristal Arrow award. This year a
Focus dedicated to Hungarian cinema is also programmed.
All told, close to 120 showings for more than 10,000 expected spectators.
The
festival is also a intense week for professionals meetings. More than
500 guests (directors, film staff, European film schools, producers,
distributors, exhibitors…) will be gathered in a unique work venue to
facilitate the emergence of new projects and the European cinema
promotion.
Be there from the 5th to the 12th of December to live an
exceptional week in a convivial atmosphere, between ski, mountain and
cinema!
Special offer : Lodging 7 nights + Festival Pass(access to all showings + access to 2 parties, within the limit of available seats)
+ 6-day ski lift package :
In the future, the FilmFestival Cottbus – Festival of East European Cinema, will cooperate with the Film Festival Wroclaw, specifically in the mutual presentation of festival films. Mediated by the Polish Institute Berlin at this year’s Berlinale, the collaboration was agreed upon by festival directors Roman Gutek (Wroclaw) and Roland Rust (Cottbus), and will be announced this week at the film festival in Wroclaw. “For us, it is an absolute stroke of luck that we have been able to win such...
