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Sziget Festival has become one of the largest music and cultural events of its kind in Europe. The dates are set for when a flood of festival goers colonize an island in the Danube for a week of madness. Anyone who has ever attended will tell you that there is something unique and indescribable about the atmosphere of the whole happening. Sziget means different things to different people. Some see it as a symbol of freedom while others associate it with love. And then there are those who are just there for the party. Sziget is synonymous with summer, the outdoors and a life lived together for a week every year. Everything spins in a simultaneous cycle for seven days and seven long nights as the music plays and masses of fans let down their hair. Music and faces. These are perhaps the two elements that can provide the greatest taste of Sziget as it really is... It's for those who have been and those still to experience summer in the city as it was meant to be...

Transglobal Underground come from London and are arguably the best in the world when it comes to blending Asian sounds with modern musical trends. The film follows them as they arrive in Budapest to perform at Hungary's famous Sziget.

1996 saw Budapest's famous Sziget Festival christened Pepsi Sziget '96 with a bigger budget, more star performers and a broader selection of cultural programs than ever before. This film provides a short taste of Budapest's famous pop pageant where the atmosphere is always something out of this world. It does its very best to capture the marvellous madness enjoyed by anyone lucky enough to have been there in person.

Szöke: the independent filmmaker, the actor, the moralizing mouth of Tilos Radio, the grotesque humorist, the psychologist... Whoever follows this man will meet a thousand faces, but whatever he has to show is always astounding. The first part of the film is shot at Sziget, where he attempts to present his own publicly private view of cultural chaos. The masseur, the reporter, the tour guide... Szöke and the Surroundings, where we get to know a little about the man and a lot more about the island that is Sziget. The film comes back to pay him a visit a year later. It's summer again. But this time only he stands in the spotlight in Private Szöke.

There are no traditional stars in the strange micro climate inhabited by the youngsters dancing to the monotone drone of a thumping base. Their role's been stolen by the DJs, who arrive at the party with tracks recorded back in a studio, and it's these that they mix into their own special sound in front of their fans. DJ Pedro gives us an inside glimpse into this closed world and shows a little of himself in the process. Pedro has since changed his stage name, and now he's known as DJ Vittorio Waxman.

Secret agents arrive at Sziget. After successfully assimilating, the two spies - both journalists - file a flurry of reports back to their boss at base.