Some Birds
Béla feels like the world is conspiring against him when his son places him in a nursing home. Here, he crosses paths with rebellious teenager Zoé, who has been sentenced to community service.
Béla feels like the world is conspiring against him when his son places him in a nursing home. Here, he crosses paths with rebellious teenager Zoé, who has been sentenced to community service.
A young French journalist meets Salvador Dall repeatedly for a documentary film project which never gets to start shooting...
Levente and Zita, a couple in their forties, are visiting the home of their friends, Kálmán and Olga, to celebrate Kálmán’s name day. But they have an ulterior motive: they want to register their children at Kálmán’s home address so that they can go to a better school in the area.
It is the lunchtime rush at The Grill, a New York tourist trap that serves thousands of customers on a regular Friday like today. One of the cooks is Pedro, a young Mexican who is seeking more from life than this job has to offer.
With the fall of the Iron Curtain, Hungary's borders suddenly open up. Everyone wants to travel to Western Europe - young people in particular - but the price of train tickets is prohibitive.
The Death of Dracula / Moartea lui Dracula, r. Károly Lajthay, Austria, 1921
The two years that young Stendhal spent in Italy. Stendhal, that time still known simply as Henri Beyle, is living the life of a wanderer, looking for a direction in his life, meeting famous Rossini and falling in love with young widow Giuseppina.
In 1755, the impoverished captain Ludvig Kahlen sets out to conquer the harsh, uninhabitable Danish heath with a seemingly impossible goal: to build a colony in the name of the King. In exchange, he’ll receive a desperately desired Royal name for himself.
Peter Pearce’s parents divorced after 65 years, his wife left him after 35, and his two sons, Mickey and Nick, are off leading their own lives. When Peter flies to Tulum, crashing Nick’s bachelor party hosted by Mickey, he realizes he’s not the only Pearce man in crisis.
New Fossils emerges as a fresh force in Budapest's dynamic jazz landscape, blending youthful energy with seasoned expertise. Anchored by drummer Dániel Ferenc Szabó and bassist Marcell Gyányi, the band represents a convergence of top-tier talent from diverse musical backgrounds.
André and Vera are a young entrepreneurial couple. They get the opportunity to pitch their female health app at a prestigious competition. Before going there, Vera tries hypnotherapy to quit smoking. From this point, her attitude changes and André starts to behave unexpectedly.
Filmed over ten years, this is the story of Alice, an unloved girl trapped in a young mother’s life. At 16, she falls in love with Dorian, 35 years her senior. Although she marries him and has their son, Aristo, the familiar echoes of her own neglected childhood resurface.
Fleeing political chaos in Barcelona, talented chef Fernando arrives to the village of Cadaqués, residence of the internationally renowned Salvador Dalí. The paths of the chef and the artist will cross and cause the birth of a new culinary genius.
A young film director, Tamás, is invited to a village to lead a summer art workshop for kids. He quickly discovers that the village is overrun with corruption and that even exploitation might be involved in the lucrative local businesses.
Cahit stumbles from bar to bar in Hamburg, lost in an alcoholic haze. The boozy Turkish immigrant crashes his car into a wall, which lands him in a mental institution. There he meets the suicidal Sibel.
In the near future where emotions have become a threat, Gabrielle finally decides to purify her DNA in a machine that will immerse her in her previous lives and rid her of any strong feelings. She then meets Louis and feels a powerful connection, as if she has known him forever...
Kostas and Dima fell in love in the 1980s, when they were soldiers in the Russian army, and then Dima joined Kostas in Lithuania. But after the fall of communism, Kostas left to study in New York, leaving Dima behind.
Félix is a firefighter specializing in high altitude rescues. His main priority in life is to save people in distress at any cost. He doesn't realise that, in the process of trying to understand those he helps, he is losing himself and the most important person in his life, his son.
Luís Villas Boas, the Last Trip, r. Laurent Filipe, 2023, Portugalia
Toñi, a middle-aged transgender woman, prays in a church to a miraculous saint to have a boyfriend. Then she meets Lahcen, a young and handsome Moroccan immigrant who has just arrived in Barcelona, and she falls in love with him.
1794. General Tadeusz 'Kos' Kosciuszko returns to Poland, planning to start an uprising against the Russians by mobilizing the Polish nobility and peasants. A ruthless Russian captain, Dunin, plans to capture the general at all costs before he causes a national rebellion.
A Page of Madness, dir. Teinosuke Kinugasa, Japonia, 1926
Original music & live interpretation: Irina-Margareta Nistor & CelloFun
A young, revolutionary couple aboard the last train leaving Budapest after the Russian invasion of 1956. Meanwhile a young catholic priest is imprisoned and tortured by the communists in order to deliver information about hidden Vatican treasures.
Where Elephants Go is a film in which no elephant appears. It is a story of love and friendship between three characters in a difficult moment of their existence. Leni's, a sick little girl, but at the same time full of life.
On the outskirts of Budapest, in the heart of the woods, hides a ramshackle little hut. Inside, two social outcasts have formed the unlikeliest of bonds.
Kix is a 12-year odyssey following Sanyi's journey from a rowdy street kid in Budapest to a disillusioned young adult.
In rural southern Spain, Antonia, a teenage mother, disappears in the middle of the night. Fifty years later and much further north, Carmen, an introverted casting director, is looking for people to share their memories when arriving in a new city.
A young film director, Tamás, is invited to a village to lead a summer art workshop for kids. He quickly discovers that the village is overrun with corruption and that even exploitation might be involved in the lucrative local businesses.
In an Iran weighed down by a struggling economy, two middle-aged brothers live with their bullying father. A man prone to rages and driven by chauvinism, the father’s abusiveness found his second wife leaving him.
Joshua chats day and night with the digital clone of his deceased first love. Christi just wants confirmation that her late best friend is doing well in heaven, but has a harrowing experience with his AI likeness.