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Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (but it’s really Budapest)
The British-Hungarian co-production of Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris is set to finish filming in Budapest by the end of November.
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Eternal Winter wins prize at International Film Festival
Eternal Winter is the latest masterpiece in a long series of successes for the Hungarian film industry.
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Hungarian production selected for prestigious Venice Film Festival competition
Lili Horvát’s film "Felkészülés egy meghatározatlan ideig tartó együttlétre" will be the first Hungarian film to be entered into the Venice Days program.
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Hungary’s film industry attracted a record-breaking HUF 164.4 billion spend last year
Official figures show that Hungary’s film industry attracted a record-breaking HUF 164.4 billion (EUR 465m) direct spending last year, 50 percent up from the previous year.
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Filmmaking will soon fully resume in Hungary
The government commissioner for motion pictures said filmmaking will soon fully resume in Hungary once coronavirus-related restrictions are lifted.
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‘Those Who Remained’ one step closer to Oscar nomination
The final five nominees in each category will be announced on January 13 and the winners on February 9, 2020.
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Auction of Andy Vajna relics to take place on December 7
Over two hundred of Vajna’s possessions, including unique film relics, furniture, and a Bentley will be put up for auction at Nagyházi Gallery on December 7.
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Hungarian film put forward for 32nd European Film Awards
Reisz Gábor’s 2019 feature film Bad Poems has been selected as one of the potential nominees of the prestigious European Film Awards.
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Hungarian director wins grand prize at Critics’ Week of the Locarno Film Festival
Hungarian director Réka Szabó’s documentary “The Euphoria of Being” has won the grand prize at the Critics’ Week of the Locarno Film Festival.
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Three Hungarian films win awards at 48th Luguskie Film Festival
Árpád Bogdán’s feature Genesis won the Golden Grape award, Ágota Varga’s The Prison Chaplain won silver, and Schwechtje Mihály’s Hide and Seek won bronze.
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349 million euros spent on Hungarian film industry in 2018
A bout 84 percent of the spend on film productions last year was by foreign filmmakers
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Terminator 6 to be filmed in Hungary
Tim Miller’s Terminator film is scheduled to begin production in March 2018 in Hungary and Spain
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Hungarian government helps fund a permanent exhibition of world renowned war photographer Robert Capa
The exhibition will open at the Capa Centre in Budapest following a 500 million HUF (1.64 million EUR) government grant to refurbish the property and to construct an extension