Havas films

“The trick for a national film industry like Hungary’s is, for its filmmakers to produce something which is culturally specific and exotic, but universal enough in its themes.”

SHANE DANIELSEN, former artistic director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival

 

“Having the advantage of a law envied by its neighbours, young Hungarian filmmakers were certainly not reliant to find audiences both in their own country and, particularly, abroad. And this law does not on its own explain the formidable freedom of these directors, a freedom unequalled today in European films.”

JEAN-BAPTISTE SELLIEZ, on Young Filmmakers from Eastern Europe, Cannes Film Festival, 2006
Head of Research and Distributor Relations, www.europa-cinemas.org

 

"In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director."

ALFRED HITCHCOCK, English filmmaker and producer

"Sometimes you have to lie to tell the truth."

ROBERT FLAHERTY American filmmaker who directed and produced the first commercially successful feature length documentary film, Nanook of the North (1922)

"Our eyes see very little and very badly so people dreamed up the  microscope to let them see invisible phenomena; they invented the  telescope...now they have perfected the cinecamera to penetrate more  deeply into he visible world, to explore and record visual phenomena  so that what is happening now, which will have to be taken account of  in the future, is not forgotten."

DZIGA VERTOV (1926) Soviet filmmaker  - the foremost avant-garde figure of Soviet-Russian cinema