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28 Jan – 7 Feb 2027

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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  • 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 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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  • BERG

    The sensation of being overwhelmed by nature shot in aesthetic black and white. With an undercurrent of spiritual connectedness.
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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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  • Tisztás

    An exploration of the Transylvanian region, its residents, stories and how culture and nature interlace.
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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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  • Lipstick

    Vesna, born in Yugoslavia, travels from Vienna to Budapest on New Year’s Eve. Melancholy amid the festivities.
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  • Videoblues

    Two brothers communicate through video letters that reveal their changing relationship.
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