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Marika, a Hungarian widow dressmaker shelters a Jewish boy in her home on the Slovak-Hungarian border during the turbulent years of WW2 and the Wartime Slovak State.

The desperate lives of Hungarian soldiers on the Eastern Front through the eyes of a captain. Their task is to find and capture Soviet partisans to secure the front lines.

A hardcore soccer ultra, Gyula, and his wife, Mariann, long for a baby. But it turns out that Gyula is sterile and when their plans to adopt also go up in smoke, Mariann does a deal behind her husband's back: they will take in the soon to be born child of a young Roma woman. The ensuing state of affairs turns all of their lives upside down. While Gyula has to continually hide the truth from his racist friends, surprises await him in his private life, and when Cupid's arrow strikes him from the most unexpected direction, he is faced with both comical situations and acute moral dilemmas.

A heart-warming mutual learning process in a second-chance school, where the venturous teachers are just as much on shaky ground as the students themselves.

Three boys, they all committed murder. After discovering their haunting faces and disturbing stories in a banned prison documentary from 1984, the filmmaker goes out to find them and discovers untold secrets and a Hungary he has never known.

In 1980s, many Hungarian youngsters dreamed of visiting a unique summer camp in Epipo. A realm of role-playing and magic, yet behind innocent games lurked humiliation and concealed abuse. After 25 years secrets is still a part of them.

As Hungary's political climate becomes increasingly radicalized, Virág, a former green politician, loses faith in the pretend-to-be democratic parliament of Hungary and retires from politics. She and her musician partner Nóra decide to adopt a child and focus on building a family together. With a sensitive lens and close access, directors Asia Dér and Sári Haragonics follow the two women through their long and ultimately successful adoption process to bring home their young daughter. But tensions begin to rise between the two as Virág thrives in her role as a mother and Nóra struggles to find her place within the family. As the rising tides of right wing propaganda in Hungary begin to overflow into their family, their lives hit a boiling point and they must face the difficult decision of whether to leave their country behind.

An image of the everyday life of a village in North-East Hungary; harsh but empathetic, without passing judgments. What happens if a dying traditional culture gets mixed with half-modernized circumstances, creating a strange new world?

Alone, Eva Fahidi returned home to Hungary after WWII. At 20 years of age, she had survived Auschwitz Birkenau, while 49 members of her family were murdered, including her mother, father, and little sister. Today, at age 90, Eva is asked to participate in a dance theatre performance about her life's journey. This would be her first experience performing on a stage. Reka, the director, imagines a duet between Eva and a young, internationally acclaimed dancer, Emese. Reka wants to see these two women, young and old, interact on stage, to see how their bodies, and stories, can intertwine. Eva agrees immediately. Three women - three months - a story of crossing boundaries. Whilst the extraordinary moments of Eva's life are distilled into theater scenes, a truly wonderful and powerful relationship forms among the three women.

Bureau follows everyday events inside a fictional immigration office, where we meet Anna, a new member of the staff. As we follow Anna's daily routine, we find ourselves faced with sometimes humorous, sometimes thought-provoking and often touching tales, and begin to understand the pressure that all of this places on those manning the desk. The film was supported by the European Union's European Integration Fund.

Turkish-Arab-Muslim-Hungarian or Muslim-Arab-Hungarian-Turkish Budapest, as we never knew it. Will the butcher, who knows the Islamic cut, arrive to the store opening from Istanbul in time? And why cannot tear himself away from Hungary the oldest and much seen Turkish of Budapest? Is the deeply religious bachelor looking for a Hungarian or a Turkish wife, and how does the Arab adolescent, who was born in Budapest, get alone with his identity, at a time when love tears his heart and the religious prohibitions control his soul? Through the small-scale scenes of everyday life we approach the large-scale issues of integration of the Muslim community of Budapest.

Jelena Popovic is a Serbian citizen in her early 30s and, just as with her fellow Generation X'ers in Eastern Europe, travelling and moving away from home is much easier for her than it would have been for her parents. Borders today are open, or at least far more open than they once had been, English is the universal language, and one can get online even in the middle of a park. However, this seemingly ideal situation has hardships up its sleeve that catch our traveller completely off guard. Documenting snippets of Jelena's six-month stay in Hungary, the film moves away from an arrival full of hopes and plans - first at a slower pace that soon becomes more like a free fall - to a state of despair, where she feels as if someone had pulled the ground out from underneath her feet. All the excitement and countless new opportunities notwithstanding, what started out as a road to self-discovery and self-actualisation therefore turns into a gridlock, where nothing is certain, there's nothing to hold on to, and even time itself feels as if it had been stopped.

In a village in East Hungary, Dani, a teenager grown up in an orphanage, falls in love with Zsofi, his classmate. He tries to get close to her, but in an obscene and grotesque behavior, not understanding the rules of the game of love...

The 3Weddings documentary-series represents three mixed marriages contracted in Hungary. Through the personal perspective of these stories, the documentaries allow a deep insight into the rather out-of-the-common relationships of these couples and into the inner processes of immigration and integration.

Immigrants from the poor parts of the world camp out at the Hungarian-Serbian border, on the outskirts of the EU. In the Hungarian town of Röszke, illegal newcomers are caught by patrols made of local volunteers. At the same time in Subotica, which is on the other side of the border, the local minister also gets on with his job. He helps immigrants overcome the difficulties of their journey and get through to their "promised land."

A dramatic journey into the depths of being a refugee.