Film

In 2024, Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra returned to perform at Müpa Budapest. The night was one big party. Was it what we would call folk punk? Balkan rollicking? Categories are meaningless. Kusturica is very consistent in his use of music in his films. (Sometimes the songs even become hits.)

In Hungarian, without subtitles. The discussions before and after the screening will be conducted in Hungarian.

The late ’70s saw tremendous enthusiasm brewing over the appearance in cinemas of a new – and quintessentially Hungarian – genre: the ‘Goulash Western’, with films like The Wind Blows Under Your Feet and Wrong-Doers. Despite winning critical acclaim for them, however, director György Szomjas decided to take a completely different approach for his 1981 film.

In the original language, with Hungarian subtitles. The discussions before and after the screening will be conducted in Hungarian.

Pele de Vidro documentary, Brazil/US, 90 min, 2023 in Portuguese, with Hungarian subtitles

EXHIBITION: FRIDA (12) színes, feliratos angol dokumentumfilm, 90 perc R.: Ali Ray SZ.: Díana Bermudez

In 2000, Lars von Trier broke free from the Dogme 95 movement he had helped create, and immediately won the Palme d’Or at Cannes.

Ciao ciao Bourbine Swiss-Italian comedy, 88 min, 2025 in Swiss German, French, English, with Hungarian subtitles

In the original language, with Hungarian subtitles. The discussions before and after the screening will be conducted in Hungarian.

In the original language, with Hungarian subtitles. The discussions before and after the screening will be conducted in Hungarian.

Jane Austen a gâché ma vie Frennch - English romantic film, 98 min, 2025 in English and French, with Hungarian subtitles

Three stories taking place over the course of a single night in Memphis, seen from three different points of view. Jim Jarmusch has come up with an incredibly exciting storytelling technique for this film. (He has often chosen unusual narrative forms in his later works.) Furthermore, he only reveals it in the second part of the triptych.