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An Afghan POW attempts his escape.

During Romania's 1989 revolution, Sibiu witnesses a violent attack on a police station that spirals into armed clashes between soldiers, police, protesters and secret police.

When the question is to be or not to be, there is only one answer.

In 1888 Amsterdam, a stubborn violin maker and his pharmacist cousin face hardship and tragedy as they oppose the powerful businessmen who plan to force him from his house and erect a luxurious new hotel in its place.

As was the case in Sam Mendes' film American Beauty, this "Beauty" features a disintegrating family. Andras is a food technician who has tired of his wife, Margo, and is looking for a bit of adventure. He finds some with one of his teenage daughter Erna's girlfriends. Erna, meanwhile, takes up with the shy son of a neighbor, Orosz, a former Russian officer who stayed on in Hungary after the country gained its political independence. While Margo has a liberating affair with a younger man, Andras and the girl young enough to be his daughter experience a disappointing and frustrating relationship.

Éva is allergic to all kinds of chemical substances, air pollution, radio waves and electronic fields. She needs to live in total isolation and can have no contact with her environment. The slightest mistake may cause her death. Her only relations are with her brother and the doctors continuously experimenting on her. One day a psychiatrist comes to investigate if her illness is real or exists only in Éva's mind. Will love be enough to save her?

Middle-age film projectionist still lives with his mother in Belgrade. he is also film aficionado and quite content to be in his mother company. NATO's 1999 bombing of Serbia starts and two of them become refugees. After quite surreal journey they end up in New York, of all places. That is were he realizes that he cannot do his old job any more, one he loved so much. While he and his mother were trying to survive, the new age of Cinema Digital Projection started. Some discarded projectors gave him an idea. His new mission in life will be to travel around and show people the magic of the real cinema, created by film strips, mechanical projectors, big screen and flickering light.

In a small village in Eastern Hungary, Jóska is on his way home from the pub. Behind Jóska's back, Mari, his spinster sister, sends love-letters in his name to Yelizaveta, the daughter of an Ukrainian family they know. She thinks Yelizaveta will agree to marry him, hoping for a better life in Hungary. Yelizaveta works in a brick factory in Beregszász. Now she is waiting for Jóska at the train station of the small Ukrainian town. The morning after, an Ukrainian truck takes Yelizaveta and her stuff to Hungary. Jóska, still dead drunk, is placed on the platform of the truck. They arrive at the small farm in Hungary. The Ukrainian driver asks Yelizaveta: "Sure you want to stay here?" Her answer is definite: "I am going to live here." She dreams of learning Hungarian and of starting to work. She soon gets pregnant, however, and has problems communicating with the local people. Standing on a ladder, she paints the pigeon-house in the yard, though her belly is huge already. When Jóska comes home, he pulls the ladder from underneath his pregnant wife. A daughter, Anyochka, is born. Jóska's sister tries to make the baby her own. Yelizaveta works even longer hours, but noone seems to be satisfied with her. Jóska drinks excessively and has jealous fits, not even letting his wife go to the shop alone. Yelizaveta can't stand it any longer. She can't walk back to Ukraine with her daughter, since the little girl does not have a passport...

At the end of World War II, Hungarian Jews are forced on a death march to the Austrian concentration camp Mauthausen. Only few civilians try to rescue them.

What starts out as a relaxing weekend at lake Neusiedl ends in fear and horror for two friendly couples. Three children have gone missing from the neighbouring village. As tensions increase people start showing their true colours.

Mate, a lonely, divorced real estate agent is put in charge by his boss to sell a suburban storage building. The storage is rented by the Chinese, who keep their semi-legal goods here before selling them on the market. The stock comprising of several thousands of boxes is guarded by a Chinese man, Wu, who also lives in the storage. During this forced association a strange friendship begins between the two lonely men, even though Wu is told by his boss to prevent the sale of the storage under all circumstances. The boss is also giving enticing promises to Wu to help him realize his dream: go back to China and create his own football team. The situation is further complicated by the pizza girl, who is equally liked by both men and stirs up the strange life of the storage.

It is the story of six extraordinary Hungarians who grew up in Budapest, Hungary during the waning days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. All were gifted and determined to succeed : Leo Szilard, Eugene Paul Wigner, Edward Teller, Janos Lajos Neumann Margittai (John von Neumann), Endre Erno Friedmann (Robert Capa) and Mihaly Kertesz Kaminer (Michael Curtiz). They had to leave their country and eventually Europe due to the tumult of war and anti-Semitism. . All six ended up in America where they became world famous in their own fields and left a permanent mark on the history of the 20th century through their artistry, inventions and sheer brilliance. These six men, all from the same schools and districts in Budapest, left a permanent footprint on culture, science and politics that remains indelible into the current century.

Stop Motion animation short film about Albert, who is a neurotic perfectionist who, with all his might, is ready to help to his colleagues, even if they don't want to.

When I Killed The Cat explores the depth of perception through Jim, a different kind of thinker and unusual perceiver. It shows the layers present in the human condition, revealing its mysteries and uniqueness. Psychological and cognitive characteristics are very present in the visual narrative, living through Jim's mental circumstances. They show a true and visceral vulnerability that keeps evolving as minutes go by. We get to know a man frightened by his shadows and traumas, still deeply attached to memories. We get to know the cause of his fear too, and his inner voice through an ambiguous mother figure. It all happens fast and progressively, when Jim's friend ask him to take care of her cat. But, is it really just a cat? Is it really just a friend? The tragedy of a broken perspective comes alive in every dialogue and gesture. It brings to light that, sometimes, when broken memories make it to the surface, everything else yearns to feel wrecked.

The film is a "growth story" taking place in Hungary today, which presents humorous, yet profound situations and conflict situations from the life of a family.