This year, the 120th anniversary of the birth of Hungarian film is celebrated with an online film evening, screenings of old and new Hungarian films, and an online animation mini-festival.
Since 2018, we have been celebrating Hungarian Film Day on April 30, in memory of the fact that in 1901, the first Hungarian film with dramatized scenes, entitled The Dance, was shown on this day.
On the occasion of the anniversary, the Hungarian Academy of Arts (MMA) and the Uránia National Film Theater together with the Film Archive of the National Film Institute are organizing a free online film evening. The selection of short films from Sándor Sára, Ferenc Kósa, Imre Gyöngyössy, János Tóth, Zoltán Bicskei and Zoltán Siflis can be seen in Uránia's web cinema.
The public media is prepared with an all-day stream of programs and films. Duna Televízió broadcasts the second Hungarian sound film, 1931's Hyppoli, the footman, the Fairy Tale Car, the Carousel and the drama Aurora Borealis – Észáski fény.
Viewers of M5 can see the documentary In Pursuit of the Yellow Chick, the film drama Love, and the Oscar-winning film Saul's Son by László Jeles. Duna World broadcasts the black-and-white comedy Mágnás Miska and István Szabó's Oscar-winning Mephisto. Classic and contemporary Hungarian fairy-tale films will be shown on the M2 children's channel, and Macskafogó will be shown on M2 Petőfi TV.
In addition to the public media channels, the best Hungarian films are shown on the RTL, TV2, ATV, HírTV and HBO channels. Netflix, HBO GO and Cinego are also celebrating with Hungarian films.
15 restored classics will be available for free on the National Film Institute's Filmio website. On the film institute's new website (filmarchiv.hu/hu/120), among other things, interesting items from the Filmarchívum's collection can be viewed under the title 120 years / 120 pictures.
The Hungarian Academy of Rome is celebrating with an online animation mini-festival. In the program created in cooperation with the Film Archive of the National Film Institute, a selection of the works of the best Hungarian directors from the beginning of the 1960s to the end of the 1980s will be shown.
MTI
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