The MittelCinemaFest Italian Film Festival will take place in Budapest from November 4 to 12, with 12 recent Italian movies, including several festival winners, being screened at the Puskin and Tabán cinemas in the Hungarian capital. The event, organized jointly by the Italian Cultural Institute of Budapest and Cinecittá, will screen contemporary Italian films in […]
The European Film Academy (EFA) will award Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr with its Lifetime Achievement Award, The Hollywood Reporter reported on Wednesday. According to the citation, the award is a tribute to Béla Tarr, who is highly respected among his colleagues and celebrated by audiences worldwide for his work as a director, as well as […]
The 16th Korean Film Festival will be held in Budapest from October 13 to 20, with twenty-four fresh South Korean films and audience meetings, including the Oscar-nominated 'Past Lives', which will be released in Hungarian cinemas next year, the organizers told MTI on Friday. As they underline in their statement, this year's festival will also […]
Concerts by the Italian trio Il Volo or the musical theater performance ‘PIAF! The Show’ are just two of the events coming up in the Hungarian capital later this year and next year organized and promoted by the Budapest based agency Koncertpromo.hu. Its founder and managing director Roland Horváth spoke to Diplomacy&Trade about how his […]
The Hungarian Money Museum and Visitor Center, established by the Central Bank of Hungary (MNB), opened its gates in the newly renovated Postapalota (‘Postal Palace’) in the spring of 2022. The museum has one of the most unique educational exhibition areas in Europe, exploring the five basic functions of money – storage of value, circulation, […]
This year's Fall Festival of Museums, which will take place from September 25 to November 12 across Hungary, will focus on the relationship between science and technology, the authentic communication of scientific findings and the links between science and museums. According to Zsolt Bernert, Director General of the Hungarian Museum of Natural History, "in today's […]
From September 26 to October 1, audiences can choose from Argentine, Brazilian, Ecuadorian, Colombian, Peruvian and Venezuelan movies at the 2nd Latin American Film Days at the Uránia National Film Theater in the Hungarian capital. According to a statement sent to MTI by the organizers, the event is organized in cooperation with the Embassies of […]
The Netherlands and American science fiction author John Scalzi will be the guests of honor at the 28th Budapest International Book Festival, which will feature 140 exhibitors, 40 foreign authors, 180 programs and more than 200 book signings between September 28 and October 1 at the Millenáris Park in Budapest. The Budapest International Book Festival […]
The 20-member international jury of the European Museum Academy (EMA) has awarded the Hungarian Museum of Money in Budapest with the main prize. The final, held in Timisoara on Saturday evening, saw 34 museums from 20 countries competing, and for the first time, a Hungarian institution won the prestigious award, EMA informed MTI on Monday. […]
The European Film Academy (EFA) has awarded the title of 'European Film Treasure' for 2022 to the Hungarian capital's Nyugati Railway Station, and a commemorative plaque was unveiled on Friday in the hall of the railway station in Budapest. As the European Film Academy writes, this is the place from where the first Hungarian steam […]
Kevin Macdonald and Andrew Macdonald, two of the most successful brothers in British cinema today, took Hungarian citizenship on Thursday at the Hungarian Parliament. Their grandfather was Imre Pressburger. Andrew and Kevin Macdonald, the two grandsons of the Hungarian-born Oscar-winning screenwriter, film director and producer Emeric Pressburger (born Imre Pressburger), took up Hungarian citizenship alongside […]
Gábor Reisz's film 'Explanation for everything' won the Best Film award in the Horizons section of the 80th Venice International Film Festival, the distributor Cirko Film announced Saturday evening. The award was received by the director at the closing ceremony of the festival at the Lido. The distributor said the reception of the movie – […]
A strike by the Hollywood Screenwriters and Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) could have a major impact on the global film industry, but Hungarian studios producing foreign productions are "weathering the storm of Hollywood strikes", according to Variety.com. Variety reported in its article on the 80th Venice International Film Festival, which began last week, that the strike […]
The Korean Cultural Festival in Budapest, starting on September 8, will showcase the diversity of Korean cultural heritage. The event will last for almost a month and will feature 12 programs and live broadcasts at four venues. The festival's series of concerts will showcase the many different facets of traditional Korean music, kugak, from the […]
The oldest cultural relations organization in the world, British Council dates back 89 years and it has been continuously present in Hungary for six decades now. On this 60th anniversary, the recently appointed Country Director of British Council Hungary, Georgina Szilágyi tells Diplomacy&Trade about the organization’s role in the world, its activities in Hungary and […]
