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Sorted Letters 2000
Lajos Mezei is a middle-aged, insignificant, average man. He works at the post office sorting letters with a machine. His life is but a series monotonous everyday events, but he has a passion that makes him different from his fellow humans. This passion replaces all human relationships and events in his life. He flees into a world of his own, hermetically sealed, which only he can understand and where he therefore feels safe. One day, however, his well-balanced life is turned upside down.

Europa Camping 1992
A pretty mixed society get together in a camping area. They enjoy their vacation and do not know that two of the vacationists are demolition experts, who are looking for a huge bomb which may explode in any minute. Written by Tamas Patrovics

Itt a szabadság! 1991

Shooting Gallery 1990 star_border 1
Three people live together without having anything to do with each other. The macho father used to have a shooting gallery which he had to sell. Yet secretly, he keeps on dreaming about it.

In memoriam Hajnóczy Péter 1985 star_border 10
The footage was shot in the writer's room a few days after his death. Everything in the room was untouched. The poet György Petri reads from one of Péter Hajnóczy's works, Miss Embolia. A sacred image of the Eastern European "beaten generation."

The Fallen 1985 star_border 8.5
The documentary was shot in the prison for juvenile delinquents in Hungary. It does not aim at judging whether the perpetrators were convicted rightly or not but, given the burden they carry, how they can reintegrate into society after they are released.

The Mole 1985
An agent, sent to solve the secret of the lives of those who have a daily routine, wishes to be a part of them. After revealing the secret - that the whole world is a projected image - he enters this dream-reality.

The Prefab People 1982 star_border 6.4
Using verite conventions, a young couple with a baby and a child are worn away by the monotony of their lives.

In Flagranti 1982
Black and White Short. Featuring collage centered around a drive through the country.

Birds 1981
A film study in which the symbol of flight which contradicts human limitations inspires an emotional rhythm of scenes varying along three lines: the human desire for the sky (the first attempts for flight), the death of birds (experiments on animals) and the death of a human being in heights (a fall which isn´t a flight).

Women's Hands 1981
A man becomes acquainted with the mystery of female hands during a trip.

Leleplezés 1979

Family Nest 1979 star_border 6.8
A family slowly disintegrates under various pressures in late 1970s communist Hungary.

Version 1979 star_border 8
A Hungarian jew is forced to give a false testimony on his relatives in WW2 Hungary.

Gyuri 1978 star_border 6
The documentary-feature film taking place in the seventies is the "development novel" of Cséplő György, the intelligent and ambitious Gypsy boy. Having finished only two terms at school, the eighteen-year-old boy leaves Németfalu with two of his companions to find employment in Budapest and to break out of his miserable existence in the village cottage with the help of his small savings.

Changes That Have Been 1977
Following Antal Végh's sociography the members of amateur film studio Cinema 64 recorded a 90 min 8mm film in the village of Penészlek in 1968. During a return to the village eight years later they have the chance to compare the changes from past to present in the lives of the local residents.

Mistletoes 1977
Judit Ember returns to follow the life of Nóra Szabó, the heroine of her documentary film 𝘛𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘰̈𝘳𝘵𝘦́𝘯𝘦𝘵 ("Instructive Story", 1975). The troubled young woman who formerly attempted to commit suicide by jumping off a fourth floor is now an unmarried and pregnant mother with two children. Her own mother also brought up her children in similar circumstances, in a closed community without men. But Jenő, the unflaggingly energetic labourer and father of Nóra’s third, as yet unborn child, brings change into their lives.

Mozgóképanalízis 1977
The twenty-minute film, divided into two parts, is made up of old newsreels and scenes recorded on the Budapest metro. The filmmaker places the celluloid tape, which is attached to the camera, on the trick table, examines the frames meticulously and cuts out individual details. The archival images are put into different contexts by different interventions.

Self-Fashion Show 1976 star_border 6.5
According to Peter Brook, all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged is for a man to walk across an empty space whilst someone else is watching him. Thus, an empty space becomes a bare stage. However, this raises countless questions about the relationship between reality, everyday presence and role-playing, something experimental filmmakers coming from the 1970s world of theatre dealt with in detail. Tibor Hajas explored the topic in a short experimental film made at BBS.

Instructive Story 1975
The protagonist of the film is Nóra, a teenager blessed with remarkable intellect, but unable to utilise her talents due to conflicts at school and with her family, with a tendency to harm even herself. The film looks back on the past life of Nóra and her circle of friends seven years back, investigating what brought them together then torn them apart as they have to face their old selves, lives and fates.

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