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Amber, a happiness agent, travels the Bhutanese Himalayas surveying people's happiness. On his remote mountain journey, he searches for fulfillment.

As Hungary's political climate becomes increasingly radicalized, Virág, a former green politician, loses faith in the pretend-to-be democratic parliament of Hungary and retires from politics. She and her musician partner Nóra decide to adopt a child and focus on building a family together. With a sensitive lens and close access, directors Asia Dér and Sári Haragonics follow the two women through their long and ultimately successful adoption process to bring home their young daughter. But tensions begin to rise between the two as Virág thrives in her role as a mother and Nóra struggles to find her place within the family. As the rising tides of right wing propaganda in Hungary begin to overflow into their family, their lives hit a boiling point and they must face the difficult decision of whether to leave their country behind.

When a life loving, successful gallery owner is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at the age of 50, he takes it as a chance to confront his long suppressed existential questions.

How could it have happened, in a public space and in the company of people who call themselves friends? This is the question that always arises in response to yet another news story about date rape. But rape cases like this often involve more people than just the perpetrator and the victim. Missing 10 Hours makes you realize how much the decision and actions of bystanders can drastically influence the course of an evening. In this interactive VR piece, the viewer is led on a night out by Greg, a big-headed guy with bad intentions. He spikes 22-year-old Mara's drink with the drug GHB, and she gradually loses control of her actions. A walk through the night ends in a backstreet, where Greg maneuvers Mara into a dark corner. The choices the viewer makes during the evening (go along with Greg, watch passively or intervene) determine the outcome: a safe ending, or arrest and questioning at the police station.

An infertile 40-year-old woman's doubts begin to consume her after faced with a possible adoption referral.

Weeks after giving up her child for adoption, the birth mother pays an unexpected visit to the adoptive parents.

After the revolution of 1956, hundreds of thousands of Hungarians left their home country to escape political retaliation and Soviet oppression. Most of them ended up in Austrian refugee camps, and nations all around the world started collecting donations and finding various ways to help them. The stories of Hungarians who moved to the USA, the UK, Sweden and to other European countries are well known - but only a few people have heard that at Christmas 1956, a small Nordic country, Iceland also took part in the rescue mission. On a Red Cross airplane, 52 Hungarians arrived in Reykjavík at the end of the year. The film "Shelter in the North" tells their story, with the help of witnesses and historians, also showing how the rebellion out in distant Budapest was perceived in Iceland and why was it an important issue for Icelanders at the time.

Anna and Attila are a young, happy couple engaged to be married. Upon Anna's insistence, Attila finally takes her to meet his family. There's a long-standing feud between Attila and his brother Zsolt, which can perhaps be resolved, yet it won't be easy. The parents slaughter a pig on the occasion of their son's return. Things appear to be going well, until Anna's phone disappears, which gives rise to rampant suspicions.

Judit Ember became a person who can see due to the persecution she experienced in her childhood. Still, she herself remained unseen. She and her films were banned. She was an artist and sociologist. She saw the world as life, not as a subject. She sensed the suffering of the world, but always through the suffering of the people. Her body of work teaches us that taking the unaccustomed path is the only way to challenge human difficulties. Asia Dér gives an exciting and punctual film about Judit Ember, about a director who never gave up honor neither as an artist nor as a person. The film is seeking an answer to the most difficult question what is the price of artistic truth? How was someone able to make films in the 70s and 80s in a way that they are more actual now than ever?

Two sisters' relationship is put to test when they start to play a game at their friends' house.

The documentary presents a lesser known, yet very important scene of the retribution that followed the 1956 revolution and fight for independence, the Kisfogház (Small Prison) through the reminiscences of the one-time victims. People sentenced to death for political reasons were executed in the courtyard of the prison. Three of the protagonists of this documentary escaped death by hanging in the last minute, however, many other prisoners were murdered. The film offers a shocking portrait of the impossibility of processing this trauma and the survivors' incessant compulsion for remembrance.