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- An educational film about the curly Mangalitza for which is adored from Spain to Japan. Despite slowly conquering the world, even in its home country there are many misconceptions about it. There's a picture in their heads of an exclusively acorn-fed, low-cholesterol half-wild pig, which for some reason is a star on organic markets, has its own festival and is much more expensive than regular swine. What does a Mangalitza know that a white pig does? How do they differ anyway, apart from the fact that one is a lot hairier? Why did the Mangalitza get to the brink of extinction from being the number one source of meat, and how could it have gone through a crazy career in just twenty years? How do Hungarian-Dutch Mangalitzas get to America? This documentary reveals it all. The concept of acorn feeding and the low-cholesterol fat theory gets clarified, get the viewer gets to know a Dutch nobleman and a Hungarian chef living in Japan, in whom there is one thing in common: their passion for Mangalitza. The viewer learns how Mangalitza resembles the world's most expensive beef, wagyu, and also learns what each part of the animal's meat can be used for in the kitchen. The documentary tells why a significant amount of meat is exported from the country, why only a few slaughterhouses undertake Mangalitza slaughter, why premium quality Mangalitza ham is not in Hungar, how a Spanish family helped resurrect the breed and whether the Mangalitza tenderloin will ever be on sale in stores.
- Our family has a thousand limbs. Each story lives on from mouth to mouth. And with them, and their mistakes, I learn wisdom. From branch to branch of this magical tree. The magic is in you. Pass it on.
- The documentary is about a shocking crime that happened 6 years ago in a suburbian secondary school in Budapest. Two teachers were killed on 7th january 2009. What makes the case special is the recorded audio of the murder. It's unique in European crime history. The documentary is based on the news, court evidence, archives from the trial and the recorded audio. In addition the crime scene is reconstructed using fiction film elements and actors. The film follows the crime moment by moment and presents the lives of the victims and the murderers. The key scenes were shot on the original crime scene at the school in Csepel. There are several reports in the film. Friends, relatives, colleagues and criminal experts try to find answer for the question how could this tragedy happen that nobody had predicted.
- This story is about the loss of youth. A melancholic memento about a swimming pool attendant who re-lives his days of youth again and again every day with the help of a daydream. His achievements at the Moscow Olympics echo in eternity. Jumping into the pool he rejuvenates 40 years and brings his top shape again. The style of the film is similar to the early Hitchcock films, as in the protagonist emotions rage, which we can mostly feel through the montage technique. Everything else happening in the swimming pool is slow and calm. This film etude is a micro portrait of a man, pulling the veil off the nostalgia lurking in the elderly and the vitality that is still dormant in them.
- Who and why shot Hungarian and German infants and young children in the head and exterminated entire families near the town of Prerov (Prerau) in Moravia on the night of June 18, 1945? Why did the bodies of the women and children killed here had to be cremated two years after this massacre - after these bodies were disinterred by army units - in the crematorium of the also Moravian city of Olomouc? Why didn't the Czech historian, who investigated the fate of the slaughtered Hungarian and German families and who also fought for the last honors to be paid to them, receive no praise or medal from Budapest? And what was the fate of the 90 Hungarian leventes handed over to the soldiers of the Slovak army by the soldiers of the Soviet army occupying Austria at Ligetfalu below Bratislava? This documentary explores the story of two hitherto unexplored mass murder in Pronov and Bratislava in the village of Bratislava. These two massacres, as stated in the film, are "linked by the sameness of the perpetrators, the nationality of the victims and the motivation to commit the massacre". This common motivation was nothing else than the full implementation of genocide against the Hungarian and German minorities in Upper Hungary. Survivors of the German and Hungarian camps also speak in the film. Based on the testimonies of eyewitnesses it can be traced when, under what circumstances, the excavation of the remains of hundreds - or possibly thousands - of people who were toss into the unmarked graves began, and then, to this day, how and why these works came to a permanent halt, and the mass graves stayed under the blocks of a housing estate in Bratislava.
- The Hungarian Hunting Culture is a more than a thousand-year-old tradition of the Hungarians. It is important for learning about our national values. How can a new generation and young people be introduced to an old noble way of life that has nowadays moved away from the urban man? Through another Hungaricum, the Hungarian Vizsla. A young hunter sets out to pick a new companion, a vizsla puppy. Throught talking to a Hungarian breeder, we get to know the breed characteristics of the Hungarian Vizsla, how it helps the hunter's work, how they can work together. Just as the hunter raises a hunting dog and introduces him to the mysteries of hunting, so does the film introduce viewers to this beautiful and interesting world. Together with the vizsla, he goes through the training and finally the hunt, which ends successfully after the initial failures and adventures. The story, which spans over 4 seasons, takes place in wonderful landscapes with a special visual world. A film of unparalleled beauty about the natural and cultural values of the Hungarians, starring the human and the Hungarian vizsla puppy, which is interesting for young and old alike.
- For most Hungarian people the word "Balaton" means a joyful holiday. For the inhabitants around the lake it is more about the workers' everyday life. And for the ones, who are working on the water, it is life itself. Nowadays there are less and less fisherman working on the waves of the Balaton. The generation, whose livelihood depended on the good catch has already passed by. Most of the fishing on the lake Balaton is done by one big company, but it hasn't always been like that. Just as by the shore of the seas, the side of the Balaton used to be a paradise for fishermen for hundreds of years. The 52-minutes documentary is based on the life of a fisherman living on the lake, a day of an angler sitting on the side of the water - waiting for the great catch, whether it comes or not. During the documentary the viewer is able to get to know to the main characters in the industry, the committed enthusiasts of fishing. The owner of the fish restaurant, who helps understanding the question of the hake. The angler, who wants the lake to only be available for sportsmen not for fishermen. The police officer, who fights against the poachers since decades. What were the ice stores used for? Why is the bighead carp is a danger to the native species of the Balaton? This film shows that the lake Balaton is a lot more, than our child- or adulthoods' favorite resting place. It is a workplace, which used to be a livelihood for many in the past centuries.
- Katona Noémi is a 29-year-old girl who has been living in Berlin for five years and is studying history, sociology and cultural anthropology, and works for a non-governmental organization. In 2010, after the death of his grandfather, Ferenc Katona, his Wolrd War II POW journal fell into her hands . The diary was about the fate of the wound-striped private between December 1944 and October 1945. About the American and French captivity, the unbearable, humiliation, survival, camaraderie, faith, the struggle for survival, perseverance, through the eyes of a 21-year-old man. Noemi embarks on following the path of her grandfather, traversing the 9-month captivity between Mihályfa in Zala County and Bad-Kreuznach in Bavaria, trying to understand the thinking of a generation and a historical situation, and of her grandfather. Meanwhile, the words and thoughts of his grandfather and his comrades from prisoner-of-war diaries come to life, the events of the time, the torments of captivity, suffering, hunger, misery, the secrets and possibilities of survival also come to life. Among other things also the reasons for after the return of the prisoners (October 1945-February 1946) they could not talk about all this, and the cunning fears and humiliations that silenced the Hungarian soldiers fleeing home from Western captivity. Little has been said so far on the subject of Western captivity - in the light of the events of the Holocaust and the Gulag. Through the personal story of a grandfather-grandson, our film presents the important slice of history that decided the fate of many hundreds of thousands of forced military service of young Hungarians for life, in the 20th century.
- The experimental short film portrays the life from the perspective of a hand. The touching movie tries to draw attention to the importance and beauty of the small, everyday events in life, supposed to be insignificant.
- Whoever you can't defeat, crush his honor and turn comrades against him - this is how the state security service's method of discrediting and disintegration, which was favorably used from 1957 until the change of regime, and even beyond, can be summed up. The party state secret service not only observed and intimidated the system's external and internal enemies, but also spread the most absurd accusations against them with the help of agents. The documentary of Gergely Huth and András Kerekes explains the essence of dumping on someone on the example of the charismatic opposition professor Sándor Szalai, and also draws attention to the fact examining history of the gritty Inconnu artists group: it is not at all a coincidence that by the time of the regime change, the opposition had already been torn apart by thousands of fault lines. "The blight worked," notes one of the documentary's experts bitterly. The authenticity of the exploration of the past is given by the documents and research of the Béla Hamvas Cultural Research Institute, the 52-minute work is made exciting by feature film tools.
- Moving Past Trauma is a documentary that tells the story of people who grew up in orphanages or foster homes under very difficult circumstances, yet, against all this, made it past their childhood traumas and managed to become balanced, happy adults.
- The Hamvas Institute's research on ÉK '87 is a real gold mine, as the revealed state security documents document many conflicts of intellectuals and politicians from the eighties - some still in the foreground and some already retreated to the background. It turns out that the partial collapse of the regime change and the resurgence of the prewar popular-urban debates cannot be attributed solely to the much-mentioned, incurable factiousness of the Hungarian nation. It is almost unbelievable how much effort the secret service of the party state has concentrated in order to integrate into even the most modest anti-regime movements, create constant unrest and confusion in them, thus breaking the opposition unity of the upcoming regime change, distorting its purity and goals.
- It's a documentary about the civilian and police victims of the 2006 protests in Hungary and tells the story of the prostest from the point of view of the victims.
- It is well known that Horthy's younger son lived for his passions rather than politics. He enjoyed life and was an important figure of the social elite of Pest. He loved sports, competitions and was rumored to be a huge womanizer. One can say that he stuck out of the ruling idyll of the governor and his family. Then, after his not too success assignment as the Hungarian ambassador in Brazil and his uncle's tragedy, he is given an important role in politics. Although many did not believe in his abilities, his father still entrusted him with the management of the exiting office, which was tasked with preparing the exiting from the war. The covert operation of the organization was a great responsibility, but Horthy Jr. - the former playboy - stood his place. On October 15, 1944, however, the operation ended for him. His abduction, which falls into the category of political crime story, sealed his fate.
- It is documentary about how the war raging in Eastern Ukraine effects the 150 thousand strong Hungarian minority living in Ruthenia. It is also trying to answer the question: how can a Ruthenian Hungarian be a Ukrainian patriot? In the center there are tragedies of human destinies, and the reasons that led there, and also the things that might offer consolation.
- The decline of the Hungarian population is a serious economic and social problem for the country, while Hungarian youth, people in favor of having children and those in the skilled classes want far more children than is eventually be born. The Three Princes, Three Princesses Movement surveyed what is behind the low birth rates. One of the biggest obstacle of having children is that young people can't find a partner, or even if they do, they still don't want to commit. Today, millions of forced singles are looking for partners in the country.
- In Hungary, the proportion of farmers under the age of thirty-five is eight and a half percent, and the thirty percent of those applying for area-aid is over sixty years. For young people in the countryside, agriculture and farming are no longer a charm. One can hear more and more about the programs that are being launched with the aim of promoting and introducing young people to rural life and farming. Such is the Rural Adventure program, in which young people spend a week with a rural farmer and do agricultural work there. But what if a metropolitan young person decides to become a farmer as a result? Does he or she have a chance to create a functioning farm? The film is trying to find an answer to this, it introduces young couples who have exchanged their managerial pace to this impossible mission. People who chose the peace of the countryside over urban congestion despite not having any peasant tradition in their family before. But the film also takes a look at the other side of the coin. What about the aging peasant who is connected to rural life through his family? How does he see the centuries-old challenges of peasant life, and what keeps him close to the acre? How does he see the first steps of the urban brats? These parallel worlds show an interesting contrast, and at the end of the film, everyone can decide if He or She would move to the countryside for farming.
- Glorious or just shameful. Hungarian historiography did not skimp on the qualifiers when dealing with the Hungarian Council Republic, for seventy years it presented the history of 133 days as either only positive or only negative. What happened at the same time as the break-up of Hungary in 1919 greatly influenced its later history. Despite keeping the Council Republic alive for less than half a year, it became an indelible part of Hungarian historiography. Manipulated school curricula, incomplete historical adaptations appeared in books and films. In 1989, the clarification of what had happened seventy years earlier became secondary. The intended purpose of this documentary is to present the later processing of the Council Republic and thus the history falsification that happened. It is important to clarify exactly what and why happened between March 21, 1919 and August 1, 1919.