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Son of Saul wins critics’ prize in Luxembourg

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Budapest (MTI) – Son of Saul by Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes has won the critics’ prize at Luxembourg’s CinEast film festival, the Hungarian National Film Fund told MTI on Saturday. The Cannes award-winning Son of Saul was chosen from among…

The Day of Hungarian Folk-tales

In the spring of 2005, the Hungarian Reading Society called everybody’s attention to the importance of the subsistence of our folk-tales. Their initiation aimed to pass down the wisdom of these tales to the next generations. So from that year,…

A Hungarian girl’s photo in Castle TV series

Flóra Borsi’s talent has reached Hollywood! One of her photographs can be seen in Richard Castle’s office, in the famous television series. Szeretlekmagyarorszag.hu writes that her art has been acknowledged a few times before: one of her graphics can be…

40 New Productions at the Documentary Festival

This is the second year that the International Documentary Festival is organised. Besides the four Hungarian creations, outstanding movies have been chosen from all around the world. The visitors can choose from almost 40 movies in total and watch them…

Son of Saul in official selection for Lux Prize

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Budapest (MTI) – Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes’s Cannes award-winning film Son of Saul and Alexander Nanau’s film Toto and His Sisters, made in Romanian-Hungarian-German co-production, are among the ten films in the official selection for the 2015 Lux Prize, the…

Hungarian film wins FIPRESCI prize at Cannes

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Cannes, May 23 (MTI) – Hungarian film “Son of Saul” was awarded the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) prize at the 68th Cannes Film Festival. An international jury of nine film critics awarded the prestigious prize to “Son of…

Sony buys Hungarian Cannes contender

Cannes (MTI) – Sony Pictures Classics has acquired US distribution rights to the Hungarian film competing for the Palme d’Or, “Son of Saul” (in Hungarian: Saul fia). The distribution agreement was signed by the film’s international distributor, Films Distribution, at…