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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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Marina Gera wins coveted International Emmy Award
Marina Gera's win at the International Emmy Awards is not only a huge victory for Hungarian cinema but also raises awareness of Soviet war crimes that saw millions deported from their countries.
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Hungarian wins prestigious Parma film award
Péter Bergendy’s 2018 feature film Trezor has won the Best Screenplay category at the Parma International Music Film Festival.
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13-year-old Hungarian boy's 1-minute film makes Cannes Film Festival final
Ábel Százados made a video of a boring family reunion using only his smartphone, trying different effects
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14 new film projects supported by the Hungarian National Film Fund
The latest tender of the Hungarian National Film Fund will support script writers to tell the stories of the most important events and moments in Hungarian history
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Sunset chosen as Hungary's hope for 2019 Oscars
Sunset tells the story of a young Hungarian girl who investigates the fate of her family and the Budapest family shop circa 1913
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Hungarian film wins prize at 75th Venice film festival
László Nemes Jeles film Sunset awarded international federation of film critics (FIPRESCI) prize
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Hungarians win at 42nd Montreal World Film Festival awards
Tamás Yvan Topolánszky won the award for best film, for his flick Curtiz. Attila Szász received the best director’s prize for Eternal Winter
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Five locations are used for filming each day in Hungary
The Hungarian National Film Fund received more than two thousand applications for filming on location in public spaces last year, and already more than a thousand requests had been submitted by the middle of July 2018
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Hungary raises production incentive for filming in the country from 25 to 30 percent
Variety has reported that the incentive has been increased to “preserve Hungary’s leading position and competitiveness in the European film industry"