László Melis

Em 1913, durante o declínio do Império Austro-Húngaro, uma jovem mulher (Juli Jakab) retorna à Budapeste, cidade em que nasceu, depois de anos vivendo em um orfanato. Ela começa a trabalhar na loja de chapéus comandada por parentes distantes sem que eles saibam dos laços que compartilham com a jovem.

The hidden messages in a famed, mysterious painting by Hans Holbein the Younger are slowly revealed to an art restorer hired to reproduce it.

1944, campo de concentração de Auschwitz, durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Saul (Géza Röhrig) é um judeu obrigado a trabalhar para os nazistas, sendo um dos responsáveis em limpar as câmaras de gás após dezenas de outros judeus serem mortos. Em meio à tensão do momento e às dificuldades inerentes desta tarefa, ele reconhece entre os mortos o corpo de seu próprio filho.

Um conto premonitório sobre as relações entre uma espécie superior e o seu inferior caído em desgraça. Banido e traído, "o melhor amigo do homem" revolta-se contra o seu antigo mestre.

A trip nearest to the boundaries of life and death: back and forth.

Gabriel Ventuza lives the peaceful life of a herbalist, growing and cultivating medical herbs in Italy. One day he receives an order from his older brother who is just out of prison for one day. Gabriel should go to the remote little town of Bogdanski Dolina in Far-Eastern Europe, the place of their childhood and take out the mortal remains of their father, the late people smuggler, the famous Victor Ventuza. Gabriel leaves his "eventless" life behind and goes to accomplish his mission. He is robbed on the way, his belongings, passport, money and even his clothes are stolen and finds himself in a small closed town surrounded by hills of stinking toxic waste, where strange priests rule and fear keeps people quiet, producing a general atmosphere of insecurity.

After her husband's death, Hanna Szendroy, the former primadonna, portrayed by Maya Komorowska is caught in the claws of the real estate mafia. She looses her lavish home and ends up homeless at the Keleti train station. When she returns to her house, now full of homeless people moved in by the real estate mafia, an unexpected relationship brings hope into her life again.

The tumultuous history of Hungary through the twentieth century is viewed through the saga of the Hungarian-Jewish, furniture-manufacturing family, the Vendels. After taking over the once successful, but now failing, family business in the 1930s, the family patriarch's dashing elder son decides that the family needs an infusion of new blood. A matchmaker presents him with a photo of a pretty German nursery school teacher. When the two meet, they instantly fall in love, but because Hungary has an alliance with Germany, and the Third Reich prohibits marriage between Gentiles and Jews, the couple must hide their union. Their marriage ultimately stands as a dark foreshadowing of rougher times to come as troubles ensue with the advent of World War II, when the family, its employees and servants must retreat to the basement, where the shop emerges increasingly as a refuge in a world growing more violent and less tolerant.

Documentary discussion with actress Kathleen Gáti as she recalls the eight months she spent tending to her mother dying of cancer.

1952, Budapest. Kati is thirteen years old when her mother dies. Her father works as a founder at the Miskolc foundry, deprived of his former position of director-engineer. Kati is left alone in their flat, transformed into a place crowded with tenants. That is, not quite: in her imagination her mother is alive again, for she still needs her.

Three people live together without having anything to do with each other. The macho father used to have a shooting gallery which he had to sell. Yet secretly, he keeps on dreaming about it.

Short animated Hungarian film.