The 16th Francophone Film Days in Budapest will be held from March 4 to 14 with a number of accompanying programs; Nadia Melliti, who won the Best Actress award at last year's Cannes Film Festival, and the program's patron, Hungarian film director Ildikó Enyedi, will also participate in the event. Organized by the French Institute, […]
For the tenth time, the Indian Film Festival returns to Budapest, organized by the Embassy of India. From February 27 to March 1, the Metropolis Hall of Puskin Cinema will host a special selection of seven free screenings with Hungarian subtitles, bringing the energy, spectacular visuals, and rich storytelling traditions of Indian cinema closer to […]
The Indian Film Festival in Budapest is being held for the tenth time, organized by the Indian Embassy. Between February 27 and March 1, seven films with Hungarian subtitles can be viewed free of charge at the Puskin Cinema in the Hungarian capital. The festival brings Indian cinema culture, the energy of Bollywood, its visual […]
Renowned Hungarian movie director Ildikó Enyedi's latest film, Silent Friend, won the prize for best film at the 45th Hungarian Film Week, as well as the awards for best cinematography and editing, the organisers said late on Sunday, the last day of the festival. Cinematographer János Kende received the lifetime achievement award, and producer Mónika […]
The year begins with an exhibition at the Korean Cultural Center: "Echoes of Korea in Hungarian Handicrafts" shows how the spirit of traditional Korean art meets the creativity of Hungarian artists. The exhibition is not just a presentation of a distant culture, but rather the story of a living, evolving community where students become masters […]
The Museum of Fine Arts bid farewell to the highly successful exhibition Heaven and Hell: William Blake and His Contemporaries with an extraordinary event: on the evening of January 10, it brought Blake's visions to life with a silent disco closing program. This unique event offered visitors a special experience at the intersection of fine […]
The 45th Hungarian Film Festival, held from February 2 to 8, will feature 220 films screened at Budapest's Corvin Cinema and the Inga Cultural Cafe, organizers said on Thursday. Festival director András Muhi said that over 450 submissions have been received, adding that the event would "present the broadest spectrum of Hungarian films produced last […]
The year begins with an exhibition at the Korean Cultural Center in Budapest: the exhibition entitled 'Echoes of Korea in Hungarian Handicrafts' shows how the spirit of traditional Korean art meets the creativity of Hungarian artists. The exhibition is not just a presentation of a distant culture, but rather the story of a living, evolving […]
The László Bíró Award, named after the the Hungarian-born inventor of the first commercially successful ballpoint pen, has been awarded this year to Lídia Demján. The award recognizes people who have made a substantive and key contribution to promoting relations between Hungary and Argentina in the field of culture. At the award ceremony held this […]
The Budapest Music Center (BMC) is organizing a festival between February 15 and 28, 2026 and a year-round series of events to mark the 100th anniversary of Hungarian composer György Kurtág's birth, with "international stars and prominent Hungarian contemporary performers playing a cross-section of the composer's oeuvre at the most important classical music venues of […]
A series of programs will be held in 2026 in thesouthern hungarian city of Pécs, the seat of Baranya County, to mark the 120th anniversary of the birth of Hungarian-born painter Victor Vasarely and the 50th anniversary of the opening of the museum in Pécs that exhibits his works, Pécs Mayor Attila Péterffy told MTI […]
In June, next year, Budapest will host for the first time the 'La Femme International Film Festival Europe' (LAFIFFE) — the first international film festival in Hungary dedicated specifically to highlighting women filmmakers. The event is the European sister festival of the Los Angeles-based La Femme International Film Festival, which has been celebrating women’s storytelling, […]
Eleven contemporary Italian films will be screened at the 23rd MittelCinemaFest between November 7 and 15 at the Puskin and Tabán cinemas in Budapest. In addition to Italian filmmakers, audiences will also have the opportunity to meet Hungarian actress Fanni Wrochna, who stars in the film Eleonora Duse. According to a statement sent to MTI […]
The 2nd Budapest International Film Festival (BIFF) will present 36 movies in over 50 screenings at Budapest's Corvin Cinema between October 25 and November 2, the organizers said in a statement this Sunday. The festival program will include films from other international festivals as well as "experimental works by contemporary makers." The festival's retrospective section […]
A true global sensation will arrive on the stage of the Palace of Arts (Müpa) in Budapest at the end of October: Jung Jaeil, the South Korean composer who composed the unforgettable music for Squid Game and Parasite, will perform in Hungary. Of the two productions mentioned, Parasite won an Academy Award and a Palme […]
