This time Barnabás Tóth presents a thrilling crime story with many local stars (Maste Game), Tudor Giurgiu recalls the 1989 revolution (Libertate), Zsolt Anger stars in an Italian film that went straight to Cannes (A Brighter Tomorrow). On Sunday, there will be four films that will be screened to the public – just make sure you pick one!

The surprise winner of the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival was On the Adamant, a film about patients and carers in a psychiatric center in Paris, which will be screened at CineFest in the CineDocs program. The ship floating on the Seine welcomes adults with mental disorders and offers care to help them recover or improve their condition. The dedicated caregivers do their best to resist the decline and dehumanization of the psychiatry profession. French director Nicolas Philibert’s film is a unique journey: human, sensitive and intimate.

The last screening of the film at the festival. Tickets for the screening are available for 1.000 HUF and are best purchased in advance.

Giovanni, the well-known Italian film director, is about to make a political film about the impact of the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary on the Italian Communist Party. Only, with his marriage in crisis, his co-producer on the verge of bankruptcy and a rapidly changing film industry, everything seems to be working against him. Zsolt Anger plays one of the roles in A Brighter Tomorrow, which is in the competition program at CineFest, as it was in Cannes.

Tickets for the screening are available for 1.000 HUF and are recommended to be purchased in advance.

The Red Rooms, shown in Karlovy Vary and screened in competition program at CineFest, is the most innovative and disturbing cinematic film of the year. Ludovic Chevalier is accused of the brutal murder of three underage girls. Unlike most people, Kelly-Anne is fascinated by the man, becomes obsessed with him and attends his trial. The line between reality and fantasy becomes increasingly blurred for her.

The last screening of the film at the festival. Tickets for the screening are available for 1.000 HUF and should be purchased in advance.

Barnabás Tóth returns to CineFest after the Oscar-nominated Those Who Remained. The director’s latest film, Master Game, is inspired by Stefan Zweig’s Chess Story, but the plot is set in 1956, on the last refugee train, creating a Hitchcockian tension. The film stars, among others, Gergely Váradi, Sára Varga-Járó, Károly Hajduk, Pál Mácsai and Bori Péterfy. The creators of the film in the competition program will be present at the screening and will be happy to answer questions from the audience after the film.

Tickets for the screening are available for 1.000 HUF and are best purchased in advance.

Glória Halász’s film Circus Siblings, shown in the CineDocs competition program, stars members of a special Hungarian class of artists. They are given the opportunity to pursue international studies. Their journey, full of trials and unexpected turns, leads them to the Kiev Academy of Circus Arts. Through the relationship between the Hungarian students and their Ukrainian teachers, a bridge is built between the two cultures, as they and their peers forge a family and grow up. The screening will be followed by an audience meeting!

Tickets for the screening are available for 1.000 HUF and are recommended to be purchased in advance.

This year, in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA), the Korean Cultural Centre is presenting three films as part of the Open Eye program that have been highly acclaimed in their home country. In the first of these, the science fiction film Save the Green Planet, aliens plan to invade the Earth and are already here disguised as politicians and businessmen. At least, according to a young man who takes action as the world’s self-appointed savior: kidnapping the leaders to get them to confess.

The film will be shown only once at the festival! Tickets for the screening are available for 1.000 HUF and should be purchased in advance.

In the chaotic days of the 1989 revolution, a police station in Sibiu is attacked, resulting in a bloody clash. Desperate to escape the siege, police captain Viorel is captured by the army and charged with terrorism. Tudor Giurgiu has already been at CineFest with his film Why Me? and now he is back with a powerful Hungarian co-production of a historical film, Libertate, which had its world premiere in Sarajevo and is now in the competition program. Director Tudor Giurgiu will attend the screening and will be happy to answer questions from the audience after the film.

Tickets for the screening are available for 1.000 HUF and are best purchased in advance.

Directed by Ottó Bánovits and Sándor Takó, Nikola Before Tesla, screened as part of the CineDocs competition program, is the inspiring story of the world-famous inventor’s life in Central Europe. Following Tesla’s own narrative, the film reveals the fragile man behind the emblematic genius we all know. The screening will be followed by an audience meeting!

Tickets for the screening are available for 1.000 HUF and are recommended to be purchased in advance.

Screened in Venice and shown here in the Competition Program, Slovak-Czech Victim is a gripping drama about a woman torn between her family and the right path in her search for the truth. When the son of Ukrainian immigrant Irina is attacked, the whole town stands in solidarity with the family and condemns their Roma neighbors who allegedly committed the crime. But soon a different truth begins to emerge.

The last screening of the film at the festival. Tickets for the film are available for 1.000 HUF and are recommended to be bought in advance.