The European Art Cinema Day, which will be held on Sunday, November 13, in hundreds of cinemas on the continent, including 28 art cinemas in Hungary, awaits the fans of art cinemas and European films with great films and thought-provoking stories.
In addition to three new Hungarian films, the domestic program will be enriched by award-winning European works from Cannes, Berlin, Venice and Karlovy Vary, and David Lynch's Oscar-nominated classic, The Elephant Man, will also be shown.
The goal of this international cinema event, launched at the initiative of the International Association of Art Cinemas (CICAE) and the Europa Cinemas network, and taking place for the seventh time this year, is to draw attention to the importance of art cinema as a cultural and community space, and to the diversity of European cinema.
In Hungary, 28 cinemas participate in the program, which is organized by the Art-Mozi Egyesület, with the support of the National Cultural Fund and the Hungarian Academy of Arts, in cooperation with domestic art film distributors. On this day, the participating cinemas - seven Budapest and 21 rural movie theaters - welcome the audience with a special selection of films, pre-premier screenings of festival-winning European co-productions and new Hungarian films.
This year, the domestic film selection is particularly strong. Before the premiere, Natasa Stork, who plays the twins, won an award in New York with her double lead role in Veszélyes leht a fagyi, Fanni Szilágyi's romantic drama-comedy, György Mór Kárpáti's grief-focused film set in a high school drama camp, Next Summer and Eszter Kodály's Petrovics. the second part of his film trilogy, A mi Kodályunk 2. – Psalmus Hungaricus, a musical documentary. In addition to the new Hungarian films, the organizers are also paying tribute to a successful film from last year: on the European art cinema day, the film award of the Art-Mozi Egyesület will be presented, which was won this year by Kis Hajni's Külün Falka.
As in previous years, the screening series also brings award-winning film specials from A-list international film festivals. Alcarrás, a sensitive family drama set in a small Catalan village, which won the Golden Bear award for best film in Berlin, and Eight Mountains, which won the jury prize in Cannes and follows the decade-long friendship of two young men, by Felix van Groeningen (Alabama and Monroe, Wonderful Boy)'s new film, Karlovy Vary's grand prize winner, the meditative Italian film drama The Cave, which is a seven-hundred-meter-deep, unknown, I have to go, and was recognized with a special jury prize at the Venice and Miskolc Cinefest, showing the ordeal of the Ghanaian refugee couple deported back to Serbia it is about the exploration of a cave system.
Fans of Scandinavian films will not be left behind either, God's Land, which debuted in the competition program of the Cannes Film Festival, is included in the program, about the story of a Danish missionary who in the 19th century. In the 19th century, he travels to Iceland, but the harsh countryside not only tests his plans, but also his worldview and religion. As a program aimed at the young generation, this time a German family adventure film was replaced in the program: A kis Winettou, in which we can learn about the childhood of the Indian hero Karl May.
In addition to the new films, this year's program also includes a restored film classic: David Lynch's shocking film drama, nominated for eight Oscars, starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and John Hurt: based on the tragic true story The Elephant Man, which has been fully restored for the 40th anniversary of the show .
The detailed Hungarian program of the seventh European art cinema day and the screening times of individual films can be found on the website of the Art-Mozi Egyesület.
Source: mno.hu
Cover image: The Toldi cinema in 1970 (Source: Fortepan)
