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Organisers of next year's Sziget Festival in Budapest on Tuesday announced 40 performers expected to attend the event, including Fred Again, Martin Garrix, Sam Smith, Stormzy, Louis Tomlinson and Big Thief.

Prisoner Number Seven, a 1929 silent film believed to have been lost, will be screened in Budapest's Urania cinema on December 15 as part of this year's Season of Classics Films programme supported by an EU cultural scheme, the National Film Institute (NFI) said ...

Semmelweis, a feature directed by Lajos Koltai, has won the main prize, based on the audience's rating, at the 19th Toronto European Film Festival, the National Film Institute (NFI) said.

The Veszprem Jazz Festival to be held as part of the Veszprem-Balaton 2023 European Capital of Culture scheme will feature international stars, experimental performances crossing musical borders, as well as young Hungarian jazz musicians playing between Thursday and Sunday.

Hungarian filmmaker Gabor Reisz's "Explanation for Everything" won awards in two categories at the 59th Chicago International Film Festival, the film's distributor, Cirko Film, said on Saturday.

Lajos Koltai's romantic historical film feature focusing on the life of celebrated Hungarian obstetrician Ignac Semmelweis, known as the savior of mothers, will be screened at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York on the October 23 national holiday marking the 1956 ...

The Palace of Arts (Mupa) will include in its 2024 schedule international star orchestras and world-class soloists, such as Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Maria Joao Pires and Daniel Harding, Philippe Jaroussky, Bela Fleck, Francesco Corti and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.

Peter Fazakas's The Game (A jatszma) was awarded the Violetta d'Argento prize at this year's Parma Film Festival, the National Film Institute said on Monday.

The Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest opened an exhibition including 70 works of French Impressionist giant August Renoir on Thursday.

The Netherlands and US sci-fi writer John Scalzi will be the guests of honour at this year's International Book Festival which will also feature a roundtable of EU Literature Prize laureates between Sept 28 and Oct 1, the organisers said on Wednesday.