Post Mortem collects four prizes at Spanish film festival
Hungarian film director Peter Bergendy's Post Mortem received four prizes at fantasy and horror film festival Sombra held in Murcia, southern Spain, on Saturday.
Box office sales plunge over 70 percent in 2020
Hungarian cinemas' ticket sales dropped by 72 percent to 4.3 million last year as pandemic restrictions weighed, data compiled by the Central Statistical Office (KSH) show. Almost 2.2 million of total ticket sales were at cinemas in the capital. Box office revenue declined by ...
Focus Features to distribute Hungarian-British Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris worldwide
American distributor Focus Features LLC has struck a deal to distribute worldwide British-Hungarian co-production Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris starring Isabelle Huppert, Lesley Manville and Lucas Bravo, the National Film Institute (NFI), said in a statement on Thursday.
Balaton Sound, Telekom VOLT festivals to return in 2022
Hungary's Balaton Sound and Telekom VOLT music festivals are being postponed until 2022 due to the coronavirus pandemic, organisers said on Thursday.
Filmmaker Zed Nelson tells story behind “The Street”
Boom and crisis in ‘hipster ground zero’
Budapest Architecture Film Days are currently running until March 13, and “The Street” on March 9 examines the rapidly gentrifying but impoverished part of the East End of London where a proud yet fragile tradition of market stalls and pie and mash shops now ...
Concerts from Liszt Ferenc and Budafok Dohnanyi orchestras
Playing music and the market
Hungary’s celebrated Liszt Ferenc Chamber Orchestra, which will give a free online concert from Budapest’s Liszt Academy on March 10, has developed a long-term artistic and business plan, aiming to “find a foothold as a market player and to draw a diverse audience”.
Film commissioner: Hungarian film, cinema festival to move to Veszprem-Balaton region
The annual festival of Hungarian cinema and filmmakers will be organised at a new venue, the Veszprem-Balaton region, this summer, in partnership with the European Capital of Culture programme Veszprem will host in 2023, Csaba Kael, government commissioner for developing Hungary's motion picture industry, ...
What’s happening in entertainment
Purcell to Bulgakov, Cziffra to clowns
Online entertainment continues as the coronavirus pandemic stretches on, with the Purcell Choir celebrating Joseph Haydn, a “The Master and Margarita” opera-musical, memorials to Hungarian piano virtuoso György Cziffra and a new production of Budapest’s Capital Circus.
Concert round-up – so far
Entertainment winners, losers in the pandemic
The extension of Hungary’s coronavirus restrictions until February 1 places further doubt on 2021 concerts, with a couple of first-half-of-the-year concerts already falling victim to the pandemic, and fingers crossed by promoters and fans that big-name appearances in the remainder of the new year ...
Best virtual exhibitions during pandemic
Art, history, music from home
Look on the bright side, if you can, during the coronavirus pandemic. Largely confined to home, at least it is possible to see many of Budapest's best exhibitions online from the comfort of your own living room. Here is a selection of the top ...
