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 […]
The 21st Night of the Museums awaits visitors in Hungary from Saturday afternoon to Sunday dawn with more than 2,700 programs in some 450 institutions across the country, including exhibitions, guided tours, concerts, interactive games, theatre and dance performances and children's programs. At the national opening of the event, held at the Petőfi Literary Museum […]
The Museum of Fine Arts in the Hungarian capital is reopening its renewed exhibition space for graphic art with an exhibition of reproductions of prints by a contemporary German and a 16th-century Venetian painter. With the opening of the new exhibition space on the ground floor of the Museum of Fine Arts, the museum's graphic […]
It was for the first time this May that 31-year-old Hungarian pianist Peter Bence performed in a major concert in Budapest. A real virtuoso, he sometimes plays his piano as drums or guitar. "With his unique technique, he has taken piano playing to a new level, making a great impact on new generations of musicians […]
This year's Museum of the Year award was won by the Szentendre Open-Air Ethnographic Museum in the category of ‘large museums’ and by the Kunszentmárton Local History Museum in the category of ‘small museums’, the organizers told MTI on Monday. The special prize of ICOM Hungary was awarded to the German Nationality Museum in Tata, […]
Hungarian director Anna Buda Flóra's animated film '27', a French-Hungarian co-production, won the Palme d'Or for Best Short Film at the 76th Cannes International Film Festival Saturday night. The 11-minute-long film is about 27-year-old Alice who, even though she is suffocating a bit, she still lives with her parents and tends to live in her […]
The 21st Balaton Wine and Fish Festival will be held in Balatonfüred on the Pentecost weekend, with children's day programs also taking place in the town located on the northern shore of the lake. As festival organizer Anett Kositzky told MTI, the four-day festival will offer a selection of Balaton wineries, artisanal cheeses and fish […]
From Saturday, a new permanent exhibition entitled 'Palettes', presenting Béla Czóbel's artistic and social contacts, is on display at the Czóbel Museum in the town of Szentendre, north of Budapest The exhibition presents the relationships Béla Czóbel and his wife, Mária Modok, developed with contemporary artists during their years in Paris and Hungary, including Szentendre, […]
The Krishna Valley, located on the outskirts of Somogyvámos, S Hungary, will celebrate its 30th anniversary this year with the opening of a carriage house and an exhibition, the organizers told MTI in a statement. They wrote that the jubilee celebrations will start on May 20 in Hungary's largest eco-farm: the dry mill, which is […]
The Miskolc National Theater in NE Hungary will launch its bicentenary theater season starting on August 24 with the production The Tatars in Hungary, directed by Artur Szőcs, the theater told MTI on Saturday. In October, the theater will present the operetta The Csárdás Princess directed by Attila Béres, and in December, the play ‘The […]
Two new Polish films and six VR films will be screened at the 29th Polish Film Spring (Lengyel Filmtavasz) from May 2 to 5 at the Polish Institute and Uránia National Film Theater in Budapest. According to a press release sent to MTI by the Polish Institute, this year's festival will be held under the […]
