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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • Awakening

    Film à clef of Judit Elek’s teenage years in 1950s Budapest, between Stalinist rule and first longings.
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  • After All the Dead Sing Again…

    Concert documentary about a performance of Chasidic songs by composer Max/Miksa/Mihai Eisikovits.
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  • The Year of 1812 (War and Peace)

    An almost psychedelically luminous invocation of the Battle of Borodino set to Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture (1880).
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  • A Portrait from Our Century

    An associative animation of photos and paintings, showing mankind’s history and the fortunes and misfortunes of life in a human face.
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  • The Age of the Barbarians

    A gaudy vision of our modern age’s gruesome grimness, done as a funky picture-collage animation.
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  • The Lady from Constantinople

    Scenes from the life of a lonely elderly lady in utterly bizarre situations. A masterpiece hopscotching between surrealism and cinema vérit&eac
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  • The Philosophy of Horror – A Symphony of Film Theory

    Noël Carroll’s 1990 treatise The Philosophy of Horror Or, Paradoxes of the Heart adapted as essayistic appropriated-footage assault on the
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  • The Lady from Constantinople

    Available on Festival Scope Pro from 26 January 9:00 CET to 14 February 9:00 CET


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  • Explanation for Everything

    Rising nationalism in Europe is captured in this of-the-moment account of polarised views in Hungary.
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  • Nobody’s Daughter

    Elek’s autobiographical screenplay about her days as a farm servant, postscript to last year’s retrospective.
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