Hungarian cinemas' ticket sales dropped by 72% to 4.3 million last year as pandemic restrictions weighed, data compiled by the Central Statistical Office (KSH) show. Almost 2.2 million of total ticket sales were at cinemas in the capital, Budapest. Box office revenue declined by 71% to HUF 6.4 billion forints (EUR 18.5m). Cinemas in Hungary […]
The country's first fragrance museum was inaugurated in the Herb Garden of the Pannonhalma Abbey on Sunday, offering an insight into the thousand-year-old Benedictine monastic herbal culture. In the Herb Garden's building 'A', the exhibition spaces of the show manufactory were created and the new essential oil distillation equipment was installed. Building 'B' of the […]
Due to the uncertainties caused by the epidemic situation, Sziget will not take place this year as it did last year. The organisers have announced that one of Europe's biggest festivals, which is Hungary's most important tourism event, is planning a big comeback in 2022. As the festival's website puts it, "Due to the global […]
Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai was awarded the Austrian State Prize for European Literature this year. Krasznahorkai's "novels and short stories, written in a unique style, with an impressive visual expressiveness, uninhibited in their search for real and surreal scenes, with cool irony and a keen mind, are well thought out, perfectly written and clearly composed", […]
Lili Horvát's romantic drama ‘Preparations to Be Together For an Unknown Period of Time’ won the Best Central-Eastern European Film Award at the 45th Cleveland International Film Festival. The jury of American film experts said Lili Horvát's film was a refreshing blend of Italo Calvino and Kieslowski's wit, an ambitious guide to the intricacies of […]
The Hungarian Press Photo Competition and Exhibition has been the largest Hungarian review for the photojournalist profession for more than thirty years. This year’s winning works of 2020 photos were selected by the jury from 2,515 entries. Not surprisingly, the most covered theme in 2020 was the new coronavirus pandemic. In the 'News, event photo' […]
It is a traditional Hungarian Easter Monday fertility ceremony of men sprinkling women with water. This year, people were advised to avoid visiting other households. The male members of the Marcal Dance and Folk Art Ensemble – wearing a mask due to the coronavirus epidemic and keeping proper distance – sprinkled a close relative of […]
British actress Vanessa Kirby was announced this Monday as one of the five candidates for the 2021 Academy Awards in 'Actress in a leading role' for her performance in 'Pieces of a woman' by Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó. 32-year-old Vanessa Kirby is best known for her portrayal of Princess Margaret in the television series 'The […]
Ildikó Enyedi’s Balaton Brigade wins the Berlinale Co-Pro Series pitch. The Cold War-set historical spy drama series will travel to the upcoming Séries Mania Forum in Lille this August, Cineuropa reports. The project Balaton Brigade by Hungarian creators Gábor Krigler, Balázs Lengyel and Balázs Lovas, set to be directed by this year’s International Jury member […]
The sixth season of Virtuosos, a unique international classical music talent show of Hungarian origin, concluded this past December. For the first time, it was named ‘Virtuosos V4+’, looking not just for a young Hungarian talent, but also from the other countries of the Visegrád Four (Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic) and Serbia. The Hungarian […]
The National Film Institute (NFI) is celebrating the 120th anniversary of the first Hungarian film with several programs that will include film screenings, exhibitions and other activities, NFI said in a statement to the Hungarian news agency MTI that the programs will begin with the Day of Hungarian Film on April 30. In July, NFI […]
Lajos Tihanyi's painting 'Akt studium' (Nude study) was sold as the most expensive classic work at Hungarian art auctions in 2021. The hammer price for the Tihanyi work was HUF 95 million at the winter auction of the Judit Virág Gallery. On the back of the work, which has been hidden for a hundred years, […]
The internationally expanding Virtuosos classical music television talent search began its sixth season this last November. This time, young people from the four Visegrád countries and Serbia compare their skills and knowledge. The super jury of the contest features international stars like Spanish opera singer Plácido Domingo or German television personality Thomas Gottschalk. Thomas Gottschalk […]
A recording of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons by the Budapest Strings chamber orchestra has been seen on YouTube by over 220 million times! On this occasion, the concertmaster and the Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Budapest Strings Foundation talk to Diplomacy&Trade about the past and present of the orchestra as well as on […]
An eighty-page publication in Hungarian and English, richly illustrated with images, was published on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Hungarian Jazz Association. ‘30 Years of Jazz’ reviews the history of jazz and the association, gives an idea of the domestic institutional system and intellectual background of the genre, introduces Hungarian performers of […]
