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| Palimpsest is a manuscript or document that has been erased or scraped clean for re-use, memory that has been hidden and rewritten.
Palimsest is also a documentary about the journey of Marina Spet in space and time in the USSR, where erasure was part of the totalitarian regime.
Marina Spet - a lady of 92 years of age - is the daughter of Gustav Spet, a philosopher and professor who once studied in Germany under Husserl and taught at several Moscow universities. He was sent to Siberia in 1935 and executed for allegedly promoting a pro-German fascist organization in the Soviet Union.
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| 40 years ago a young man left the south of France to discover the world. In Hungary he found exciting music, good friends, love and family. Along the way he found his own music. Miquèu (Michel) Montanaro performs a peculiar mixture of Occitan, French and Hungarian music and is a well known guest of dance halls of Italy, Columbia, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Belgium, Izrael, Canada, Cuba, Palestine, Algeria, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and the USA. ...
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| This documentary can be treated both as an episode of a three-part-series about marriages between Hungarian girls and foreigners, and as a single self- contained title.
Mubarak is a 2m tall, 30- year- old Muslim from Africa. Zsuzsa is a young lady with gentle curves from Budapest. They are in love.The pitfalls of acceptance, adjustment and... |
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| This documentary can be treated both as an episode of a three-part-series about marriages between Hungarian girls and foreigners, and as a single self-contained title. Love through the Internet. A fairy tale about an adventurous marriage connecting three continents. Is a two –month-old internet acquaintance enough to know that... |
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| This documentary can be treated both as an episode of a three-part-series about marriages between Hungarian girls and foreigners, and as a single self-contained title. In 1956, Elena was only four when her parents left Hungary to build a new life in Argentina. She became an immigrant for the second time when she returned to Hungary in... |
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| The village was once inhabited by a community of lesbians seeking refuge from the city. Only a few families have stayed. One of the women that stayed lives in a nice, comfortable house. She falls in love with her Gipsy neighbor, lady M, who is heterosexual, and an alcoholic. Lady M is regularly beaten by her aggressive husband and threatened to have her children taken...
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| Cuba…colors… stray dogs…A thought – provoking exercise in style with an unbiased look at everyday life in Cuba today...
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| Remedios is the most pyromaniac of all Cuban villages. The village celebrates Christmas in quite a unique way. The carnival atmosphere is followed by an endless succession of exploding firecrackers, rockets and other explosive devices and it lasts until dawn. As a result, the whole village is like a battleground...
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| Kati and Győző are an average couple, but their situation is not. They are both blind and they have a baby boy. Ferike, their two-year-old son, is healthy. The crew has spent weeks with this family ever since Ferike was born, and the camera registered it all.
This documentary is a collection of unexpected and unrepeatable moments from the life of these exceptional people...
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| The creators of this documentary joined the concert tour of „Romantic Violence”, a cult rock band of the so-called national rock movement, from December 2005 until autumn of 2006. The mission statement of the band is: Hungary to the Hungarians, freedom, anti-communism, we want the Hungary of the 19th century back. Their dream is to strengthen...
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| In the summer of 1989 tens of thousands of tourists from communist East Germany came to Hungary. They were deeply disillusioned because they felt they had no future in East Germany. There was no freedom, no choice in the shops, salaries were low and they could not travel except to Eastern Europe. They wanted to go to a prosperous and free West Germany but... |
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| This is a spectacular, exciting and emotional portrayal of Ferenc Puskás, an ordinary young man from Kispest (a district in Budapest) who became the brightest star in the football galaxy. He became a legend in his youth as the captain of the famous Golden Team of Hungary, but adoration turned to persecution when he fled his homeland in 1956. His football genius took him... |
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| Ghetto, brick factory, train station, mass graves - 60 years later the neighbors of the Hungarian Jews remember. What was done and what could have been done? What did the bystanders see and what do they believe they saw in their small town community during the last days of World War II?
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| Moleman is a documentary diary about the underground subcultures of a bustling Central European capital, Budapest. A flourishing art life lies under the cultural surface of the metropolis, and various alternative recreational activities are available. There are many who do not follow the mainstream taste and do not fall for the temptation of the commercial media. The originators of the subcultures... |
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| Ten years after the war in the former Yugoslavia, 25 Bosnian refugees still live in the Debrecen refugee camp. The one-time inmates of a mental hospital in Bosnia-Herzegovina long to go home. This documentary of Péter Németh Gábor shows the absurdity of the legal situation the patients of the mental institution of Jakes in war thorn Bosnia found themselves after they were evacuated...
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| Privatization, Irish pub, mortgage, auction. Who would guess we're talking about a synagogue in Kőszeg, a small town in Hungary? The synagogue is in the center of the town. Officially under landmark protection, it's falling apart giving in to decay. The Cultural Heritage professionals throw up their hands in despair and hope for the best. Meanwhile, the property... |
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| „Aerobatic paragliding is a kind of a dance for me in the third dimension”- states Gábor Kézi in this documentary. Through a blend of aerial dynamics and multidimensional interaction, Adrenaline and Turbulence explores the subculture subtleties of the evolving extreme sport of paragliding aerobatics (commonly known as acro) by following the development of two of world’s best acro... |
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| The life, demolition and reconstruction of the Kopaszi dam. Shot ten years long in a forgotten landscape into the center of Budapest.People living in houseboats and wooden houses, struggling against flood, snow and investors who want them to evict. This documentary was winner of the best short documentary award in Karlovy Vary in 2008.
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| The film crew has spent 7 years at one of the most unique institution-complexes in Central East Europe among Hungarian drug addicts. While watching this movie, the audience may also become part of the therapy and has an opportunity to experience a different „time experience”. This documentary demonstrates that issues raised by addicts in recovery - who behave surprisingly naturally...
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| A tiny, isolated Hungarian village is sinking. The inhabitants watch helplessly as their homes slowly fall apart. A mysterious phenomenon and there is no one to help. However, József, the major, takes action. A true optimist: he reaches out to the world and hopes for a change. He leaves nothing undone that might help.
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| Gábor Rimner was recruited by the CIA in Sudan in 1973 at the age of 18. He had been living in Kart hum with his family since 1965 where his father worked as an architect. After 18 months of training he moved to Budapest. He spied against the Soviet forces stationed in Hungary for eight years. In 1981 he was turned into the Hungarian authorities by a jealous ex-girlfriend. Luckily, he was...
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| Éva Magyar is a Hungarian dancer, actress, choreographer and director. An admirer of Pina Bausch, a passionate, powerful and authentic artist, a brave woman who never gives up, an inventive and original performer who does everything in life her way. An internationally acclaimed artist who has run her own theatre company, The Shamans, where she has created, directed and played in performances...
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| A boy strolls around Budapest and listens to its sounds. The pulse of the city and its noises transform into a continuous rhythm that inspires the boy. His life is nothing but pure rhythm. The boy and the city breathe together day by day. The city talks, the boy listens. |
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| This documentary is a portrait of a Hungarian family facing modern dilemmas. Mom goes to work every day, Dad stays at home with their one-year-old son. How can work and family life be balanced? |
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