There are more and more programs that are launched to acquaint city people the farmer lifestyle and agriculture. In the Countryside Adventure programme youngsters from big cities spend a week at a farm, where they have to work on the fields and deal with animals. But what happens if one of them decides to become a real farmer? Does he have any chance to launch his own business?
What does the Hungarian pig know that it’s so adored in the Netherlands, Spain, Japan and the United States? Is it really a wild pig? Why is the lard good? Everything about the mangalitsa pig in one film.
A doku-reality about dating. Three boys and three girls, six sad to be singles met strangers on camera, discussed their problems, and confronted their shortcomings.
At a time when surveys show that Hungarians want twice as many children, fewer and fewer are born in the country every year. On the other hand there are more and more singles, who can’t find a partner for long-term. We tried to examine this phenomenon through the examples of six youngsters. We accompanied them to the first meeting at a nightclub in Budapest, we made them perform improvisational excercises, discussed relationships in a teahouse and finally analyzed their behavior with the help of an expert team. A pszichologist, Dr. Almássi Kitti, the leador of the Three Princes Three Princesses Movement, Székely András and a famous Tv presenter, successful husband and father, Gundel Takács Gábor sat in this team. We examined all the occasions from the point of longterm relationships, because all the participatns have the same goal: getting married and starting a family.
This film is an entertaining way of drawing attention to a significant social problem of nowadays.
Béla Biszku was a leading figure in the purges that took place throughout Hungary after the fall of the 1956 Revolution. As acting minister of the interior, he led the bloody liquidation of those who had raised their voices against the oppressive Soviet regime on the streets of Budapest in 1956. Following the political changes in Hungary, Béla Biszku went on to live in secluded secrecy, and spoke to no one about his involvement in these atrocities. Our intrepid reporters donned disguises and rang the bell of the once famously feared minister.
This film is based on the writer and director’s personal grief. Fruzsina Skrabski started to make the film after her father died and sadly also lost her mother while the film was being made. The questions she asks are the ones everybody has. We all want to know what happens before life and after death but we only ever give these questions any serious thought when we or someone we love has an encounter with death.
When does life begin? From what point does a person possess a soul? Does such a thing as the soul actually exist?
Is abortion equivalent to murder? What happens after a person dies? Heaven? Reincarnation? Nothing?
The director examines these questions with the help of a Catholic priest and a Buddhist monk, a materialist, a gynaecologist, a test-tube baby, a researcher studying near-death experiences, a incurably ill patient and anyone who she thinks might be able to supply her with an answer.
She then places these people in front of one another. She provokes the Catholic priest to tell the test-tube baby (now a medical student) that he should never have born in the first place. She asks the materialist what the term “soul” means to him and how he would deal with the death of someone close to him. She visits a mortuary and tries to find signs to show when and how the soul leaves the body. A dying woman is interviewed who speaks about what she expects from death who sadly died shortly after filming was completed.
The film endeavours to remain neutral and provide viewers with the freedom to decide which view they consider closest to their own.
The aim of the piece is to provoke the younger generation and provide help to those expecting a baby or dealing with loss who are keen to find out as much as they can about the mystery that surrounds the division between life and death.
For most Hungarian people the word “Balaton” means a joyful holiday. For the inhabitants around the lake it is more about the workers’ everyday life. And for the ones, who are working on the water, it is life itself. Nowadays there are less and less fisherman working on the waves of the Balaton. The generation, whose livelihood depended on the good catch has already passed by. Most of the fishing on the lake Balaton is done by one big company, but it hasn’t always been like that. Just as by the shore of the seas, the side of the Balaton used to be a paradise for fishermen for hundreds of years.
The 52-minutes documentary is based on the life of a fisherman living on the lake, a day of an angler sitting on the side of the water – waiting for the great catch, whether it comes or not. During the documentary the viewer is able to get to know to the main characters in the industry, the committed enthusiasts of fishing. The owner of the fish restaurant, who helps understanding the question of the hake. The angler, who wants the lake to only be available for sportsmen not for fishermen. The police officer, who fights against the poachers since decades. What were the ice stores used for? Why is the bighead carp is a danger to the native species of the Balaton?
This film shows that the lake Balaton is a lot more, than our child- or adulthoods’ favorite resting place. It is a workplace, which used to be a livelihood for many in the past centuries.
The film starts with the meeting of two hands. They fall in love and the union of the two gives life of a little one. The tiny hand grabs the parent’s finger, discovers his own motions. He holds objects and gains knowledge. Improves. Starts to eat and drink independently, creates his first drawings. Then he finds friends, starts the school and the little child grows up to be a boy. We show the adolescence’s first successes and failures, while we place the emphasis still on the hands. Like in the life of a youngster, music, party and love appears in the movie. Adulthood starts and the love of his life becomes marriage. The easy and droll years are replaced by the years of parenthood, until they finally become grandparents. Years go by and the hardworking hands turn motionless.
The experimental short film portrays the life from the perspective of a hand. We see the happy moments and the conflicts of daily life. The touching movie tries to draw attention to the importance and beauty of the small, everyday events in life, supposed to be insignificants.
