Films A-Z

Films in Toldi, Művész, Cirko-Gejzír and KINO are screened in original language with English subtitles.

Vavřinec Menšl # Czech Republic # 2013 # 80min # Czech
Obey and you will be happy. A role-playing game shows how quickly one can succumb to a totalitarian model.
Thursday, 12 November 7:30PM
Toldi
English Subtitle & Hungarian Simultaneous Translation
Saturday, 14 November 6:00PM
Cirko
English Subtitle
Saturday, 14 November 8:45PM
Művész
English Subtitle & Hungarian Simultaneous Translation
Pietra Brettkelly # New Zealand & Afghanistan # 2014 # 91min # Dari
Retrieving over 8,000 hours of film banned during the Taliban era, Afghan cinephiles excavate the country’s lost visual heritage.
Friday, 13 November 7:15PM
Cirko
English Subtitle
Sunday, 15 November 3:15PM
Művész
English Subtitle
Jean-Gabriel Périot # France & Germany & Switzerland # 2015 # 93min # German & French
An insight into the founding of the Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF), providing an exploration of radical behavior and society’s reactions to it.
Saturday, 14 November 3:00PM
Toldi
English Subtitle & Hungarian Simultaneous Translation
Sunday, 15 November 3:00PM
Művész
English Subtitle & Hungarian Simultaneous Translation
Sean McAllister # UK # 2015 # 76min # English
Filmed over 5 years, the film charts an incredible journey of Raghda's and Amer's hopes, dreams and despair: for the revolution, homeland and each other.
Fest’s Grand Jury Award, Sheffield Doc, 2015.
Tuesday, 10 November 6:00PM
Toldi
English & Hungarian Subtitles
Wednesday, 11 November 5:00PM
Toldi
English & Hungarian Subtitles
Saturday, 14 November 5:00PM
Kino
English & Hungarian Subtitles
Sunday, 15 November 5:00PM
Művész
English & Hungarian Subtitles
Ákos K. Kovács # Serbia # 2015 # 4min # English
A slice in the everyday life of migrants and refugees gathering around an old brick factory near Subotica, Serbia, en route to the EU.
Friday, 13 November 5:00PM
Toldi
English Subtitle & Hungarian Simultaneous Translation
Saturday, 14 November 1:00PM
Toldi
English Subtitle & Hungarian Simultaneous Translation
2015
Sunday, 15 November 8:00PM
Toldi
English Subtitle
Adeline Gonin # France # 2014 # 56min # Bambara
14 year old Oumou is one of thousands of young maids in Bamako, Mali, helped by activists to organize themselves. Can they break free of an abusive system?
Saturday, 14 November 1:00PM
Toldi
English Subtitle & Hungarian Simultaneous Translation
Joey Boink # The Netherlands # 2014 # 76min # Spanish
Guatemala’s first female Attorney General's epic battle against corruption, impunity, crime bosses and former political leaders responsible for genocide.
Friday, 13 November 5:00PM
Művész
English Subtitle & Hungarian Simultaneous Translation
Saturday, 14 November 7:15PM
Toldi
English Subtitle & Hungarian Simultaneous Translation
Mor Loushy # Israel & Germany # 2015 # 87min # Hebrew
First-time extended access to the censored testimonies of soldiers’ experiences during the 1967 Six-Day War, recorded by Amos Oz and Avraham Shapira.
Best Documentary at the 2015 Ophir Awards, Berlinale Panorama, 2015.
Thursday, 12 November 5:00PM
Művész
English & Hungarian Subtitles
Friday, 13 November 9:00PM
Toldi
English & Hungarian Subtitles
Saturday, 14 November 8:15PM
Cirko
English & Hungarian Subtitles
Laura Poitras # USA & Germany # 2014 # 112min # English & German & Portuguese
Follow the recent NSA surveillance revelations, from first contact with whistle-blower Edward Snowden, to his secret interviews and the ensuing global fallout.
Thursday, 12 November 7:00PM
Művész
English & Hungarian Subtitles
Saturday, 14 November 7:00PM
Toldi
English & Hungarian Subtitles
Sára Haragonics # Hungary # 2015 # 37min # English & Hungarian
The director and her family’s dreams, intimate conversations, and honest confessions as they try to cope with the loss of their mother.
Wednesday, 11 November 7:15PM
Művész
English Subtitle
Thursday, 12 November 3:00PM
Toldi
English Subtitle
Anastasiya Miroshnichenko # Belarus & Sweden # 2014 # 65min # Russian
Belarusian artist Valery Liashkevich has lived in Gomel’s main train station for twenty years, painting and exhibiting his works. Seasons change, people pass by, will this film make a difference?
Special Mention Jury Award and Audience Award, Warsaw International Film Festival, 2014.
Thursday, 12 November 5:30PM
Cirko
English Subtitle
Friday, 13 November 3:15PM
Toldi
English Subtitle & Hungarian Simultaneous Translation
Friday, 13 November 9:00PM
Művész
English Subtitle
Thomas Kaske # Germany # 2014 # 16min # German
An experimental film recounting victims’ testimonies of the 1991 extremist xenophobic attacks in East Germany, accompanied by CCTV footage.
Friday, 13 November 3:00PM
Toldi
English Subtitle & Hungarian Simultaneous Translation
Gábor Hörcher # Hungary & Germany # 2014 # 72min # Hungarian
A close-up portrait of a rebellious, race-car driving teen coping with the twists and turns of life in rural Hungary.
First Appearance Award, IDFA, 2014.
Wednesday, 11 November 7:00PM
Toldi
English Subtitle
Saturday, 14 November 4:30PM
Cirko
English Subtitle
Tonje Hessen Schei # Norway # 2014 # 79min # English & Pashtu & Urdu
The CIA's covert drone war in Pakistan, and its effect on remote pilots, the military leadership and warfare, and the victims of the strikes on the ground.
Cinema for Peace Award, Berlinale, 2015
Thursday, 12 November 6:45PM
Művész
English & Hungarian Subtitles
Friday, 13 November 5:00PM
Cirko
English & Hungarian Subtitles
Saturday, 14 November 9:00PM
Toldi
English & Hungarian Subtitles
Sunday, 15 November 7:00PM
Művész
English & Hungarian Subtitles
Gamma Bak # Germany # 2014 # 80min # German
Paranoia, depression, avant-garde art, and love: a relationship across the Iron Curtain under a watchful eye of the Stasi, the German secret police.
Saturday, 14 November 3:30PM
Toldi
English & Hungarian Subtitles
Thursday, 12 November 5:30PM
Blinken OSA
English & Hungarian Subtitles
Hanna Eichner # Hungary # 2014 # 29min # Hungarian
Dealing with mediated image of the ideal woman, the film offers a glimpse into the lives of 5 young women in Hungary who challenge this stereotype.
Thursday, 12 November 3:30PM
Cirko
English Subtitle
Saturday, 14 November 11:00AM
Toldi
English Subtitle
Sunday, 15 November 1:30PM
Toldi
English Subtitle
Magnus Gertten # Sweden # 2015 # 76min # Swedish & English & Polish & Norwegian
Anonymous archival footage acquires new depth as survivors from Nazi concentration camps identify themselves in newsreels from 1945.
Göteborg International Film Festival, 2015; Best of Fests Selection, IDFA 2015.
Friday, 13 November 7:00PM
Művész
English Subtitle & Hungarian Simultaneous Translation
Saturday, 14 November 3:00PM
Cirko
English Subtitle
Sunday, 15 November 5:30PM
Toldi
English Subtitle & Hungarian Simultaneous Translation
Manu Luksch # Austria & UK # 2007 # 50min # English
An experimental anti-utopian film interrogating
 the 
culture
 of 
surveillance 
by redeploying 
authentic 
CCTV
 images.
Thursday, 12 November 4:45PM
Művész
English Subtitle
Thursday, 12 November 9:15PM
Toldi
English Subtitle & Hungarian Simultaneous Translation
Saturday, 14 November 3:15PM
Művész
English Subtitle
Sunday, 15 November 3:00PM
Cirko
English Subtitle
Vladimir Tomić # Denmark & Serbia # 2015 # 70min # Bosnian
One of thousands of Bosnian refugees living aboard “Flotel Europa” moored in Copenhagen between 1992-94, the director now uses his own footage to weave a picture of life and his own adolescence aboard the ship.
Peace Film Award, Honorable Mention, Berlinale, 2015.
Wednesday, 11 November 9:00PM
Művész
English Subtitle
Friday, 13 November 9:15PM
Toldi
English Subtitle & Hungarian Simultaneous Translation
Saturday, 14 November 7:45PM
Cirko
English Subtitle
Dénes Nagy # Hungary # 2015 # 52min # Hungarian
Self-harmers usually hide their scars from the outside world. The film follows characters trying to overcome their unsettled past.
Wednesday, 11 November 7:15PM
Művész
English Subtitle
Saturday, 14 November 5:15PM
Toldi
English Subtitle
Sunday, 15 November 4:30PM
Cirko
English Subtitle
Mária Takács # Hungary # 2015 # 97min # Hungarian
What was it like to live as a gay man in socialist Hungary? Four young men seek answers.
Wednesday, 11 November 3:00PM
Toldi
English Subtitle
Sunday, 15 November 3:15PM
Cirko
English Subtitle
Jerry Rothwell # UK & Canada # 2015 # 110min # English
In 1971, a group of friends sailed a boat into a nuclear test zone. Using unique 16mm footage, this film presents the extraordinary story of the pioneers who founded Greenpeace and defined the modern Green movement.
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Editing, Sundance Film Festival, 2015.
Sunday, 15 November 5:00PM
Toldi
English Subtitle & Hungarian Simultaneous Translation
Sunday, 15 November 7:15PM
Toldi
English Subtitle & Hungarian Simultaneous Translation
Eyal Sivan # Germany & France # 2004 # 88min # German
Relieved of his duties and purpose with the closing of the Stasi in 1990, "Mr B." delivers an account of twenty years of his life within the organization, supported by never-before-seen Stasi archive footage.
Saturday, 14 November 11:30AM
Toldi
English Subtitle & Hungarian Simultaneous Translation
Sunday, 15 November 5:15PM
Művész
English Subtitle
Bori Bíró # Hungary # 2015 # 12min # Hungarian
A glimpse into the work of a unique initiative offering drug-addicted pregnant women and mothers assistance in Hungary.
Sunday, 15 November 1:30PM
Toldi
English Subtitle
Elena Khoreva # Russia & Ukraine & Estonia # 2014 # 85min # Ukrainian & Russian
The life stories of people of the same professions in Kyiv and Moscow set against the background of ongoing dramatic events.
Wednesday, 11 November 3:15PM
Toldi
English Subtitle & Hungarian Simultaneous Translation
Sunday, 15 November 7:30PM
Cirko
English Subtitle
Nurit Kedar # Israel # 2013 # 96min # Arabic & Hebrew
A stunningly complex history of an Arab-Jewish family grappling with the legacy of the 22 terrorist attacks committed by their father in Israel. Reflecting on the past and his own history, the son introduces the viewers to the many worlds he lived in.
The Van Leer Group Foundation Award for Best Documentary Film, Jerusalem International Film Festival, 2013.
Wednesday, 11 November 5:00PM
Művész
English Subtitle & Hungarian Simultaneous Translation
Saturday, 14 November 7:00PM
Kino
English Subtitle
Sunday, 15 November 3:00PM
Toldi
English Subtitle & Hungarian Simultaneous Translation
Želimir Žilnik # Serbia # 2015 # 94min # Serbian & English
Life is full of challenges for people stranded against their will in the Balkans after the long escape from Afghanistan, Syria, Ghana, and Cameroon. A collaborative docu-drama that holds up a mirror to Europe’s restrictive immigration policies.
Cultural Diversity Award, GoEast Film Festival, 2015; Winner of the 62nd Belgrade Festival of Documentary and Short Feature Film, 2015.
Thursday, 12 November 5:15PM
Toldi
English & Hungarian Subtitles
Sunday, 15 November 6:15PM
Cirko
English & Hungarian Subtitles
Hanna Hovitie # Finland # 2015 # 13min # English
Achat was seven years old, her parents sent her away from Congo to be adopted in France. A story of a nomadic life and a broken identity.
Friday, 13 November 3:00PM
Toldi
English Subtitle & Hungarian Simultaneous Translation
Lisbeth Kovacic # Austria # 2014 # 25min # English & German & Hungarian
Years after Hungary joined the Schengen area the Hungarian-Austrian border persists culturally and socially, while citizens on both sides are increasingly polarized on the issues of migration and free population movements.
Thursday, 12 November 3:30PM
Cirko
English Subtitle
Friday, 13 November 5:00PM
Toldi
English Subtitle & Hungarian Simultaneous Translation
Jiří Stejskal # Czech Republic # 2014 # 84min # Ukrainian & Russian
A family farm’s struggle to survive the encroaching high-rises in the middle of a new Kyiv suburb: a 4-year drama with bulldozers, arsonists, a trial, and a tight community held together by love, humor, and unshakable faith.
Audience Award, DocuDays UA, 2015.
Wednesday, 11 November 5:30PM
Művész
English Subtitle
Thursday, 12 November 3:30PM
Cirko
English Subtitle
Sunday, 15 November 1:15PM
Toldi
English Subtitle & Hungarian Simultaneous Translation
Tamara Trampe # Germany # 2014 # 78min # Russian & German & Ukrainian
The director returns to Ukraine where she was born during World War II, to uncover a history many would rather forget.
Heiner-Carow-Award, Berlinale 2014; Dok Leipzig, 2014.
Thursday, 12 November 7:00PM
Kino
English & Hungarian Subtitles
Friday, 13 November 3:15PM
Cirko
English & Hungarian Subtitles
Saturday, 14 November 7:15PM
Művész
English & Hungarian Subtitles
Ayat Najafi # France & Germany & Iran # 2014 # 93min # English & Farsi & French
A political thriller and a musical journey that follows Iranian and French female soloists between Tehran and Paris. Will their performance be possible in the country that banned female singers from appearing in public?
Best Documentary Award, Montréal World Film Festival, 2014.
Thursday, 12 November 8:45PM
Művész
English & Hungarian Subtitles
Friday, 13 November 7:15PM
Toldi
English & Hungarian Subtitles
Eszter Cseke # Hungary # 2015 # 45min # Arabic & English & Hungarian
Ten babies are born every day in Zaatari, the largest refugee camp in the Middle East, near the Syrian-Jordanian border. An intimate portrait of a Syrian family and their newborn fifth child.
Sunday, 15 November 3:30PM
Toldi
English Subtitle & Hungarian Simultaneous Translation
Klára Trencsényi # Hungary # 2014 # 34min # Hungarian & Serbian
A close-up of the Serbian community in South Kosovo fifteen years after the war: a priest, an artist and a teacher prepare for Easter as their community is overwhelmed with fear and isolation, but hopes for a better future.
Thursday, 12 November 3:30PM
Cirko
English Subtitle
Sunday, 15 November 1:30PM
Toldi
English Subtitle
Harun Farocki # Germany & France # 2000 # 60min # German
A camera/gun combination of a maximum-security prison underscores the unity of observation and power. Merging fictionalized accounts and the reality of prison surveillance, Farocki delves into new forms of social control.
Wednesday, 11 November 9:00PM
Toldi
English Subtitle & Hungarian Simultaneous Translation
Thursday, 12 November 4:45PM
Művész
English Subtitle
Saturday, 14 November 3:15PM
Művész
English Subtitle
Tarek Raffoul # Hungary # 2013 # 9min # Hungarian
A mother's struggle to secure a future for her 37 year old son with Down-syndrome.
Sunday, 15 November 3:30PM
Toldi
English Subtitle
Hrvoje Mabić # Croatia # 2015 # 95min # Croatian
At the age of 16 Ana’s parents forcibly sent her to psychiatric hospital to cure her homosexuality. After five years of traumas she is now free, but will she manage to overcome the demons from the past?
Wednesday, 11 November 8:45PM
Toldi
English Subtitle & Hungarian Simultaneous Translation
Friday, 13 November 7:00PM
Művész
English Subtitle
Sunday, 15 November 8:00PM
Cirko
English Subtitle
Bhojrat Bhat # Nepal # 2014 # 59min # Nepali
For Team Mugu, a girls' football team in Western Nepal, sport offers a glimpse of the outside world, as well as proving to them and others how much they're capable of.
Friday, 13 November 3:30PM
Cirko
English Subtitle
Saturday, 14 November 11:00AM
Toldi
English Subtitle & Hungarian Simultaneous Translation
Michael McEnvoy # Afghanistan # 2015 # 82min # English
NATO troops have evacuated but the war in Afghanistan continues unabated. An intimate film about the human side of combat on the frontline of the ‘War on Terror’.
Amnesty International Human Rights Film Award and the Panorama Audience Award, Berlinale, 2015.
Wednesday, 11 November 6:45PM
Művész
English Subtitle & Hungarian Simultaneous Translation
Thursday, 12 November 3:00PM
Toldi
English Subtitle & Hungarian Simultaneous Translation
Friday, 13 November 7:00PM
Kino
English Subtitle
Saturday, 14 November 3:15PM
Cirko
English Subtitle
Krzysztof Kopczyński # Poland & Sweden & Ukraine # 2015 # 86min # Ukrainian & Russian & Hebrew & Yiddish
The Ukrainian town of Uman is a place of pilgrimage during the Jewish New Year. Tensions grow as local residents and thousands of pilgrims navigate the changing face of the town.
Friday, 13 November 5:00PM
Toldi
English & Hungarian Subtitles
Saturday, 14 November 5:00PM
Művész
English & Hungarian Subtitles
Benny Brunner # The Netherlands # 2014 # 76min # Hungarian
The mayor of Érpatak, a village in eastern Hungary, develops his own social model that divides the villagers into "builders" and "destroyers".
Thursday, 12 November 5:00PM
Kino
English & Hungarian Subtitles
Saturday, 14 November 9:15PM
Toldi
English & Hungarian Subtitles
Sunday, 15 November 5:00PM
Cirko
English & Hungarian Subtitles
Andrey Shabaev # Russia # 2014 # 60min # Russian
Svetlana sells her Moscow property to acquire a farm 200 km away from the capital. Struggling with lack of infrastructure, prejudices, and less-than-competent helpers, will this iron lady be able to run it on her own?
Thursday, 12 November 3:00PM
Toldi
English Subtitle & Hungarian Simultaneous Translation
Friday, 13 November 6:30PM
Cirko
English Subtitle
Saturday, 14 November 9:00PM
Művész
English Subtitle
Dragoș-Mihai Hanciu # Romania # 2014 # 17min # Romanian
An old ferry, as if frozen in time, speaks of isolation and solitude, time and destiny.
Saturday, 14 November 1:00PM
Toldi
English Subtitle & Hungarian Simultaneous Translation
Joshua Oppenheimer # Denmark & UK & Indonesia & Norway & Finland # 2014 # 98min # Indonesian & Javanese
Through Oppenheimer’s footage of perpetrators of the 1965 Indonesian genocide, a family of survivors discovers how their son was murdered, as well as the identities of the killers.
Grand Jury Prize, Venice International Film Festival, 2014.
Thursday, 12 November 7:00PM
Toldi
English & Hungarian Subtitles
Friday, 13 November 8:30PM
Művész
English & Hungarian Subtitles
Saturday, 14 November 4:30PM
Cirko
English & Hungarian Subtitles
Sunday, 15 November 7:00PM
Kino
English & Hungarian Subtitles
Patricio Guzmán # Chile & France & Spain # 2015 # 82min # Spanish
Legendary Patricio Guzmán explores Chile’s coastline, weaving together stories of early colonial conquest with the brutality of the Pinochet regime. Some say that water has memory; this film shows that it also has a voice.
Best Screenplay Award, Berlinale 2015.
Wednesday, 11 November 7:15PM
Toldi
English Subtitle & Hungarian Simultaneous Translation
Thursday, 12 November 8:30PM
Művész
English Subtitle
Sunday, 15 November 6:00PM
Cirko
English Subtitle
Claudine Bories # France # 2014 # 106min # French
They are twenty. They have no qualifications. They are looking for work. A topical and tragicomic look at the realities of today’s job market.
Grand Prix Golden Dove, DOK Leipzig, 2014.
Thursday, 12 November 7:00PM
Cirko
English Subtitle
Friday, 13 November 7:00PM
Toldi
English Subtitle & Hungarian Simultaneous Translation
Saturday, 14 November 7:00PM
Művész
English Subtitle & Hungarian Simultaneous Translation
Sunday, 15 November 5:00PM
Kino
English Subtitle
Fernand Melgar # Switzerland # 2014 # 101min # French & English & Spanish & Wolof & Romani & Fula
A cold winter spent at an emergency shelter for the homeless in Lausanne, as both nightly residents and staff try to cope and rebel in their own small ways.
Locarno Film Festival, Special Mention, 2014.
Thursday, 12 November 5:15PM
Cirko
English Subtitle
Saturday, 14 November 1:15PM
Toldi
English Subtitle & Hungarian Simultaneous Translation
Michel K. Zongo # Burkina Faso & Germany & France & Qatar # 2015 # 90min # French
Explored through the eyes of former workers, a new form of anti-capitalist resistance emerges following a devastating factory closure in Burkina Faso.
Best of Fests Selection, IDFA 2015.
Thursday, 12 November 9:00PM
Toldi
English Subtitle & Hungarian Simultaneous Translation
Friday, 13 November 5:15PM
Művész
English Subtitle
Saturday, 14 November 6:30PM
Cirko
English Subtitle
Clément Abbey # Belgium # 2014 # 40min # French
In a small Belgian village, Genevieve attends to the elderly in retirement homes, in their houses or in consultation. A dedicated doctor immersed in the lives of her patients.
Friday, 13 November 3:00PM
Toldi
English Subtitle & Hungarian Simultaneous Translation
Tamara Erde # France & Israel & Palestine & Poland # 2014 # 93min # Hebrew
How does the Palestinian and Israeli education system teach history? The film follows several teachers in Jerusalem, Nablus, and Ramallah over one academic year full of dilemmas about interpreting the Holocaust, Nakba, colonies, cultural heritage, and refugees.
Friday, 13 November 5:00PM
Kino
English Subtitle
Saturday, 14 November 3:00PM
Művész
English Subtitle & Hungarian Simultaneous Translation
Krisztina Meggyes # Hungary # 2015 # 28min # Hungarian
As a new refugee camp is established near Vámosszabadi in Hungary, the village is faced with questions of tolerance, fear of the unknown, migration and globalization.
Friday, 13 November 5:00PM
Toldi
English Subtitle
Sunday, 15 November 4:30PM
Cirko
English Subtitle
Morgan Knibbe # The Netherlands & Greece & Italy # 2014 # 74min # Arabic & Bengali & Greek & Italian & Tigrigna & Wolof & Persian
An unconventional, poetic exploration of a serious social problem: the hopeless existence of refugees stuck at Europe’s edge.
Wednesday, 11 November 8:30PM
Művész
English & Hungarian Subtitles
Thursday, 12 November 7:15PM
Cirko
English & Hungarian Subtitles
Saturday, 14 November 5:00PM
Toldi
English & Hungarian Subtitles
Tamás Almási # Hungary # 2015 # 85min # Hungarian
Born in a remote Roma slum in Hungary, a talented young boy’s life changes when he gets accepted to the prestigious Snétberger Music Talent Camp.
Al Jazeera Award for Best Documentary, Sarajevo Film Festival, 2015.
Wednesday, 11 November 5:00PM
Toldi
English Subtitle
Sunday, 15 November 7:15PM
Művész
English Subtitle
Alexander Nanau # Romania # 2014 # 93min # Romanian
Three Roma siblings in a run-down suburb of Bucharest struggle to shape their own future after their mother’s imprisonment. An immersive portrait of complex family bonds partially filmed by the children themselves.
Best International Documentary, Zurich Film Festival, 2015.
Thursday, 12 November 5:00PM
Toldi
English & Hungarian Subtitles
Friday, 13 November 5:30PM
Cirko
English & Hungarian Subtitles
Saturday, 14 November 5:15PM
Művész
English & Hungarian Subtitles
Alina Rudnitskaya # Russia # 2013 # 29min # Russian
Juxtaposed with Victory Day celebrations, young Russians discuss the impact of the 2013 laws against propaganda supporting so-called non-traditional sexual relationships on their lives.
Friday, 13 November 6:30PM
Cirko
English Subtitle
Saturday, 14 November 5:15PM
Toldi
English Subtitle & Hungarian Simultaneous Translation
Máté Konkol # Hungary # 2014 # 8min # Hungarian
Conversations in Budapest pubs located in houses that were once marked with a yellow star in 1944. What does this past mean to pub-goers?
Sunday, 15 November 3:30PM
Toldi
English Subtitle