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21th CineFest date: 5-13 September 2025. The entry period begins in January 2025.

On 14 September 2024, the awards of the 20th anniversary CineFest Miskolc International Film Festival were handed. The Norwegian Loveable won three prizes, but the Hungarian January 2 and the American Dìdi were also awarded. The audience prize went to the Norwegian film The Arctic Convoy. Emeric Pressburger Prize – The Festival’s Main Prize for the Best Film: LOVEABLE, Director: Lilja INGOLFSDOTTIR Adolph Zukor Prize – The Festival’s Grand Prize: DÍDI, Director: Sean WANG East of Europe prize: 78 DAYS, Director: Emilija GAŠIĆ Attila Dargay Prize – The young talent of Hungarian animation: BARTIS Bálint CineNewWave Prize: YOUR DAD, Director:

A joint program of the Theatre Museum and CineClassics offers an insight into the works of graphic artist and photographer György Paraszkay in the exhibition space of the Theatre Museum (Miskolc, Déryné u. 3.).

The Fly was the first Hungarian film to win an Academy Award – but it wasn’t the director, Ferenc Rofusz, who received the prize, as he was not allowed to travel to Hollywood. The film and its maker received many awards at home and abroad, from the Kossuth Prize to the Szent István Award and the CineFest Lifetime Achievement Award. The discussion will be moderated by Péter Muszatics, curator of CineClassics, and will start on 10 September at 5 pm in the Béke Hall.

“God’s fi nger touched the picture”, says Sándor Kardos. This is true of the classics he has photographed, from Little Valentino to Eldorado, and it is also true of the photographs of the Horus Archive, the private photography collection he founded, because „the sum of the images represents the one, the whole”. From a fraction of the millions of collected amateur photographs an exhibition was opened in Budapest in 2020 and in Szeged in 2021 the essence of which is the plurality of additional meanings and associations that arise involuntarily. In Glance of Horus, he writes about „conjectures in the

The international recognition of CineFest is hightlighted by the partnership we established with the Shanghai International Fil Festival in 2017, a collaboration that was reaffirmed this year. As we celebrate the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and Hungary, this milestone provides a scepial opportunity to showcase Chines cinems in partnership with the Shanghai International Film Festival, as part of the Belt and Road program. The „China Focus” program will take place from 11 to 13 September, featuring the screening of five films. One film, ’Brief History of a Family’, will compete in the festival, while the other four

As part of the Cineversity programme, this year CineFest Adventure will be held on Sunday, 8 September at 8pm in the Csengey Garden (3530 Miskolc, Csengey Gusztáv u.). This time six short films have been selected and the screening is free of charge. The programme of the selection:

A hidden treasure of cinematic history at CineFest, or ‘Warhol of Borsodi’ emerges from beneath the roof tiles.

Founded in 2010, CineClassics is one of Hungary’s longest-running film history programs.

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Turkish-Hungarian diplomatic relations, this year’s festival is prepared with a special program called “Turkish Days”. The Turkish program will take place between September 7 and 9. In the documentary competition program of the festival, the film Eclipse will be screened, and outside the competition, 2 new Turkish films (Hayat, Bildiğin Gibi Değil) will be premiered. A delegation of filmmakers and Turkish film specialists is coming to the event. TURKISH CINEMA INDUSTRY It is widely accepted that the film depicting the destruction of the Ayastefanos monument in Istanbul on November 14, 1914, recorded

Miskolc’s Kinodomino is presenting five screenings at this year’s CineFest. They will screen a wide range of documentaries and offer a variety of accompanying events at special alternative venues.

This year, CineFest is not the only one to celebrate a jubilee: the youth series “After Me, Guys!”, based on the novel by the same title by Péter Berkes, was filmed 50 years ago in Miskolc and Budapest. To mark this occasion, CineFest is preparing an exciting program on Saturday, 7 September, in cooperation with the Cineversity program of the University of Miskolc.

From 6 to 14 September, CineFest is not only the place to see the greatest films, but also to meet the filmmakers. Among others, Patrick Duffy, best known as Bobby Ewing in the Dallas series, will be visiting the festival, this time as an actor in the film Rebound!

Sándor Kardos will receive the CineFest Lifetime Achievement Award at the closing gala on Saturday 14 September.

From 6 to 14 September, the 20th CineFest Miskolc International Film Festival offers an exciting documentary program in addition to the feature films. This year’s CineDocs selection includes films about Imre Pressburger, born in Miskolc, and another film legend who revolutionized filmmaking technology, Leni Riefenstahl, Béla Bartók’s unknown journey to Turkey, and the writer István Nemere’s untiring work ethic. In addition to the filmed life’s journeys, the films take us around the world to the Swedish forests, the Georgian mountains and the bustling streets of Cuba.

Week by week, more exciting details are revealed about the CineFest Miskolc International Film Festival program as we get closer and closer to the event taking place from 6 to 14 September. This year’s selection of the Open Eye program, which has become a tradition, will feature films from outside Europe, with separate sections for Chinese (China Focus) and Turkish (Turkish Days) films.

The CineFest Miskolc International Film Festival is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a new feature film competition category. From 6 to 14 September, in addition to the now traditional Competition Program, Open Eye and CineDocs, audiences will have the chance to choose from eight feature films in the East of Europe selection. The line-up will bring the best of contemporary Eastern European cinema, with Hungary included in the selection.

This year, for the 20th time, CineFest Miskolc International Film Festival will present the biggest and most acclaimed international films. The competition program of the jubilee festival includes the latest works of well-known filmmakers from previous years, such as Sean Baker, Szabolcs Hajdu and Yorgos Lanthimos.

Zsuzsa Mihalek, set decorator for Poor Things, won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects. The award was shared by James Price, Shona Heath and Zsuzsa Mihalek, who worked together. The Poor Things, screened at CineFest, won 4 awards, with the film’s main character Emma Stone winning her second Oscar. Directed by Jorgos Lánthimos, the film shot in Hungary and competed at CineFest in Miskolc after Venice, received 11 Oscar nominations. The Anatomy of a Fall, also showed at CineFest, won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. The screenplay was written by Justin Triet and Arthur Harari. Congratulations! We are working

Yorgos Lanthimos’ film Poor Things received 11 Academy Award nominations, Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall got 5 nominations and Celine Song’s Past Lives 2 nominations. Wim Wenders’ film Perfect Days, which premiered at CineFest, also received an Academy Award nomination. The film will compete in the Best International Feature Film category. In total, 4 films from CineFest were nominated for 19 Academy Awards. A great pride for us and huge congratulations to the filmmakers!!!