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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.

The film shoot of Scirocco directed by Yassine Marco Marroccu and produced by Andrea Taschler, made with the support of the Hungarian Film Institute (NFI), has wrapped up in the Marrakesh area, and the film crew recently returned home from the earthquake-stricken location, NFI ...

A memorial plaque designated to the Nyugati (Western) railway station as a Treasure of European Film Culture was unveiled in the iconic building's hall in Budapest on Friday.

"Explanation for Everything" by Hungarian film director Gabor Reisz has won "Best Film" in the Horizons section at the 80th Venice International Film Festival, the film's distributor, Cirko Film, said on Saturday.

Hungary is nominating Aron Gauder's animated film, Four Souls of Coyote, for the 2024 Academy Award for Best International Film, the National Film Institute (NFI) said on Friday.

The main organiser of the Sziget Festival has expressed satisfaction with this year's attendance of some 420,000 festival-goers, despite it falling short of last year's figures by around 30,000.

Dutch festival-goers form the largest group of foreigners at this year's Sziget, Hungary's biggest music festival, organiser Tamas Kadar said during a walkthrough on Wednesday.

More than a hundred programmes will be on offer during a three-day festival in Budapest to mark the August 20 national holiday celebrating Hungary's statehood, the event's organisers said on Tuesday.

Summerfest, an international folklore festival held in Szazhalombatta, south of Budapest, will get under way on Saturday, organisers told MTI.