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Saturday, March 22 2008

Happy Easter!

Easter – a moveable feast which follows nyuszi1
the cycle of the full moon, situated between 22nd March and 25th April – is one of the most important religious feasts when we celebrate the ressurection of Jesus.

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Monday, February 4 2008

Our favourites from the Film Week

Source:fiminhungary.com, The Man from LondonAs we have already reported Hungary's main film festival has already been started and lasts till the 5th of February. But what films are nominated and which has chance to get the Golden Reel?
Here comes the selection of our favourites

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Monday, January 28 2008

Hungary's main film festival (January 29-February 5)

filmweek_logo.jpgJanuary 28, 2008

Some 103 productions will be featured at the annual 39th Hungarian Film Festival opening in Budapest on Tuesday. The week-long festival which ends on February 5, 18 features, 33 documentaries, 3 documentary-style features, 36 experimental and short films and 13 science and education films will be competing in their own categories.

The main competition this year will be for the festival's main feature film prize, the newly renamed Golden Reel.

The international jury of the festival will be chaired by Klaus Eder, General Secretary of the International Federation of Film Critics.

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Tuesday, December 11 2007

Kodaly-year to conclude

Kodaly.jpgDecember 11, 2007

Concerts, a conference, a competition and several other events will be held across Hungary during the closing week of a year-long commemoration of Hungarian composer and music teacher Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967) from Wednesday.

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Thursday, November 8 2007

First EU Shorts film festival to start in Budapest on Thursday

hibernationkis.jpgThe five-day event on November 8-12 will feature 40 films selected from the best shorts shot in Europe over the past few years. The films will be classified into five thematically blocs: one for Hungarian films, two for animations and two for fictions.

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