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On September 13, 2025, the awards of the 21st CineFest Miskolc International Film Festival were presented. Joachim Trier’s new film, Sentimental Value, won the festival’s main prize, the Pressburger Award, while the jury’s grand prize, the Zukor Award, went to Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut, The Chronology of the Water. The Iraqi film The President’s Cake, which was made with Hungarian post-production assistance, received three awards, while the audience award went to With Friends Like These. As festival director Tibor Bíró said at the closing ceremony, “This year’s festival competition program brought the latest and most significant works of contemporary cinema

The 21st CineFest Miskolc International Film Festival is not only a celebration of the most important films of the current year, but also a tribute to significant artists who have contributed to global cinema over the decades.

The 21st CineFest Miskolc International Film Festival will open with the latest film by French director Cédric Klapisch, whose films are extremely popular in Hungary.

This year’s festival pays tribute to the work of this year’s two Lifetime Achievement Award winners, Péter Tímár and Róbert Koltai.

The CineFest Miskolc International Film Festival presents the Ambassador of European Cinema award to outstanding European filmmakers. The aim is to recognize European artists who have made a significant contribution to the development and promotion of the continent’s film industry. Previous recipients include Juliette Binoche, Jean-Marc Barr, Franco Nero, and Vanessa Redgrave, and in 2025, one of the most significant figures in contemporary Norwegian cinema, Erik Poppe, will appear on the stage of the House of Arts.

CineDocs is the CineFest section featuring full-length documentaries. Thanks to the selection, we can discover numerous locations, eras, and life stories from Kazakhstan to Romania and Hungary.

Following the previously announced Open Eye and East of Europe sections, the lineup for the Official Competition has finally been revealed.

The 21st CineFest Miskolc International Film Festival will showcase the latest Hungarian-related films.

As in previous years, the CineFest Miskolc International Film Festival will not only showcase the biggest foreign festival hits, but also the latest Hungarian films. For the first time in the festival’s 21-year history, the latest films by two Hungarian Academy Award winners have been selected for the competition program: the latest films by László Nemes Jeles and Kristóf Deák will both be screened at CineFest between September 5 and 13.

This year, between September 5 and 13, the CineFest Miskolc International Film Festival invites film lovers to Miskolc. The theme of this year’s CineFest Our Home Miskolc program is the historical relationship between Miskolc and Košice, and their subsequent cooperation as sister cities. In preparation for the festival, the “North Hungarian Regional Film Fund Miskolc” and the University of Miskolc are launching a short film competition. Hungarian and Slovak youths between the age of 14 and 34, students or groups of students can submit films made after January 1, 2023, in any genre, on the theme of “The historical relationship

Hungarian film fans will have the chance to see the most anticipated and critically acclaimed films of the year in Miskolc, Hungary.

This year’s 21th CineFest Miskolc International Film Festival will take place from 5 to 13 September 2025, as previously announced. The biggest international film festival in Hungary is now calling for entries in the categories: feature films and documentaries (deadline: 31 May), and CineNewWave for emerging filmmakers (deadline: 30 June). Only films that were made in 2024 or later and have not been previously screened in Hungary are eligible. Entry forms: Feature film Documentary film Entry Regulations (PDF)

To close the 20th jubilee of CineFest Miskolc International Film Festival, a book launch and press conference took place on 11 December at the Sub Rosa Café in Miskolc. At the event, József Tóth-Szántai, mayor of Miskolc, gave a welcome speech, and the booklet “The History of the CineFest Miskolc International Film Festival 2004-2024,” looking back on the past 20 years of the festival, was presented. Tibor Bíró, festival director, and Péter Madaras, programme director, outlined the plans for next year’s CineFest. The anniversary booklet will be available in all libraries in Miskolc.

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: