Producer
Slices pregnant with meaning from the lives of 3 males in Budapest: a 13 year old football player who gets the apartment to himself for unexpected reasons, a philandering 40 year old classical bassist who has to deal with kids, work and unexpected problems of his own making, and a 91 year old photographer slash counterfeiter, who weaves the last strands into his rich tapestry of a life.
Hermann Sámuel
Na Hungria, em agosto de 1945, moradores se preparam para um casamento no vilarejo onde vivem. Enquanto isso, dois judeus ortodoxos chegam à estação de trem local com misteriosas caixas. Os habitantes do povoado temem que os homens possam ser herdeiros dos judeus deportados da aldeia e que mais sobreviventes possam vir, representando uma ameaça às propriedade e bens que adquiriram durante a guerra.
Co-Producer
A story of children who feel safer in the streets than at home, about children seeking out sturdy lifeboats that cross between the world of fantasy and the harsh reality of life. Jarka is one of these children. Ten years-old, and living with a mother who is not yet ready to be a mom, Jarka spends most of her time alone. Pushed by her desire for love and to form a fully functional family, she finds herself substituting a "mother" to two babies.
Producer
Em busca de identidade, cinco músicos judeus investigam suas raízes étnicas e seguem sua imaginação até o Leste Europeu.
Co-Producer
Mehmet is a man living with his family in a mountain village in the Black Sea region. He earns his living by breeding a few animals, while passionately looking for a mineral reserve on the mountains, but his pursuit is seen useless by his family. Devastated by vain efforts, his hope is renewed with a competition. Mehmet will attend the bull fight held in Artvin, but he returns from Artvin completely lost, once again. This simple story pictures the naive portrait of a touching life, a life struggle in hardship and the relationship between nature, animals and human beings.
Producer
In Eastern Hungary, powerful usurers keep residents of the poorest Roma communities in a permanent debt spiral. Young parents Feri and Gina try a different strategy to get relief from local boss Simon.
Producer
The first woman rabbi in the world, Regina Jonas, comes to light, courtesy of Rachel Weisz – who plays her – and her father George Weisz, who was the executive producer for this poetic and beautiful documentary. The daughter of an Orthodox Jewish peddler, Jonas was ordained in Berlin in 1935. During the Nazi era and the war, her sermons and her unparalleled devotion brought encouragement to the persecuted German Jews. Regina Jonas was murdered in Auschwitz in 1944. The only surviving photo of Jonas serves as a leitmotif for the film, showing a determined young woman gazing at the camera with self-confidence.
Producer
Numa cidade romena da fronteira com a Hungria, Nelu, um segurança de meia idade, vive tranquilamente com a mulher e gosta das suas pescarias em território húngaro. Certo dia, encontra um refugiado ilegal turco que tenta fugir das autoridades para ir para a Alemanha ver o seu filho. Nelu resolve então ajudar o pobre homem, apesar de os dois não se entenderem, e começam suas aventuras para levar Behran a seu destino.
1958. In the cell of the condemned, seven men await the signs of an approaching execution. All of them recall their pasts and envision their wish-dreams.
Hungary's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1984
The story of a childless Jewish couple in WWII-era Hungary who adopt a Hungarian boy and raise him with their values and traditions.
