Short Films

The Apple (2006)

Dir: Mihály Schwechtje
23 min

Miracles. An apple growing on an acacia tree. A man returning from death. But what's the point?

Tripe and Onions (2006)

Dir: Márton Szirmai
7 min

Unusual rivalry between the homeless and the businessman. Short, smart, funny.

War Next Door (2005)

Dir: Péter Politzer
11 min

It is Christmas night. War is already raging in the neighboring city. Anti-aircraft batteries rumble. He is alone. Almost.

Otherside (2008)

Dir: Péter Szalay
13 min

A family escaping. A young soldier watching.

Carla Barotti (2007)

Dir: Márton Vécsei
31 min

This is a story about impatience and unconsciousness. When you hurry things and rush ahead of your destiny.

Golden Bird (1999)

Dir: István Szaladják
28 min

Duet (2003)

Dir: Péter Politzer
1 min

A Day Off (2005)

Dir: Igor Lazin Ferenc Török
5 min

With a Little Patience (2006)

Dir: László Jeles Nemes
14 min

She gets a present. Returns to her work. Looks out of the window. Sees her relatives taken away.

Execution (2005)

Dir: Tamás Buvári
9 min

At the moment of death comes the transcendent vision, the slow descent into illusion and obscurity, while the plunge into the new physical existence comes at the deepest depth. (Tibetan Book of the Dead)

Slap (2006)

Dir: Declain Hannigan
5 min

Joco (2004)

Dir: András Dési, Géza Móray
19 min

Man in the Mirror (2004)

Dir: Attila Gigor
12 min

Waxworks (2007)

Dir: Péter Szalay
26 min

Grenades (2003)

Dir: Péter Politzer
18 min

The uprising has been put down. The rebels are dispersed and still in hiding.

The Line (2004)

Dir: Benedek Fliegauf
9 min

Parrot (2000)

Dir: Gyula Nemes
24 min

Ballad (2005)

Dir: Marcell Iványi
13 min

Among the Mountains (2006)

Dir: Balázs Krasznahorkay
15 min

People. Roads. A house on the edge of the forest. An unsettling story in a tranquil setting.

Hypnos (2002)

Dir: Benedek Fliegauf
15 min

Few people can figure out exactly what awaits them in the future. But there are even less people who know what happened to them in the past.

Hit Me (2003)

Dir: András Dési
28 min

Urlicht (2005)

Dir: Diana Groó
15 min

After 5, before 6 (2000)

Dir: Lehel Oláh
16 min

"There is something very affectionate and self-sacrificing in the act of adultery."(Borges)

Postsoldier (2003)

Dir: Tamás Buvári
16 min

Trance (2004)

Dir: Benedek Fliegauf
16 min

Gen(i)us Diabolis (2003)

Dir: Róbert Lakatos
19 min

One Vote (2006)

Dir: Balázs Simonyi Barnabás Tóth
18 min

5 minutes before closing the ballot boxes, an old lady dies in a voting booth. Her vote can be decisive. What to do now? The commitee splits into two…just like the country does.

Location Hunting (2003)

Dir: Balázs Simonyi Barnabás Tóth
11 min

Young filmmaker and his cameraman are on location hunting for their extremely artistique film d’auteur, somewhere in the Hungarian Puszta on a foggy dawn.

Exhibition (2004)

Dir: Barnabás Tóth
4 min

Modern art gallery. Visitors come and go, and the old guard is watching everybody closely. She has a secret which she reveals at the end of the day.

Original Lager (2007)

Dir: Balázs Simonyi
22 min

A bittersweet true story of a young guy, who wanted to make a rock and roll band in the early eighties somewhere in Hungary…

Surprise (2008)

Dir: Balázs Simonyi Barnabás Tóth
10 min

An ordinary family’s car has been stolen. But this is only the beginning of the story.