Hungarian movie director Ildikó Enyedi on Sunday received the Femme de Cinema Sisley - Les Arcs award at the Les Arcs film festival in France, founded in 2013, to highlight the work of outstanding female filmmakers. The award ceremony was followed by the screening of Silent Friend, Enyedi's latest work starring Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Enzo […]
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 […]
Hungarian painter József Rippl-Rónai's portrait of Lajos Kunffy sold for HUF 65 million, while among his contemporaries, Ilona Keserü's painting Landscape fetched the highest price, HUF 40 million, at the Virág Judit Gallery winter auction. According to the gallery's announcement on Tuesday, nearly 200 items went under the hammer at Monday evening's auction, including masterpieces […]
An invited audience of well-known figures from the film industry celebrated Ildikó Enyedi's career at Origo Film Studio this Thursday. The film director, who recently celebrated her 70th birthday, received the Hungarian Hollywood Council's Adolph Zukor Award in a ceremony, the Council says in a statement. The highest honor of the civil organization, founded in […]
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 […]
Hungary’s first and unique higher music education institution opened its doors 150 years ago, on November 14, 1875, under the name National Royal Hungarian Academy of Music, with Ferenc Liszt as President and Ferenc Erkel as Director. The institution soon became an internationally renowned citadel of Hungary’s music education, and has maintained its high standards […]
Hungarian film director Ildikó Enyedi will receive the lifetime achievement award of the The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) at the 46th Cairo Film Festival, the federation said on its website on Thursday. The award will be handed over to Ildikó Enyedi before the screening of her latest film, 'Csendes barát' (Silent Friend), on […]
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, […]
Canadian-born Hungarian-British writer David Szalay has been awarded this year's Booker Prize, Britain's most prestigious literary award, for his new novel 'Flesh'. The five-member jury, led by 1993 Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle and including Kiley Reid, Chris Power, Ayobámi Adébáyo and Sarah Jessica Parker, announced the decision late Monday evening in London. The shortlist, […]
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 […]
English singer and songwriter Calum Scott is to perform this October in Budapest, returning to the Hungarian capital with a solo concert after stealing the hearts of the Hungarian audience by opening Ed Sheeran's concert last year. He tells Diplomacy&Trade how he tries to help sensitive people with his songs while remaining an everyday person […]
The Lumiere Festival taking place from October 11 to 19 in Lyon, France will feature Hungary as the guest of honor, with a special focus on the legacy of director István Szabó, Hungary's National Film Institute said on Friday. The festival will feature restored classics such as Apa (Father), the Oscar-winning Mephisto, and Being Julia […]
