The Embassy of Hungary is holding its second Hungarian Film Festival (HUFF 2.0)
from November 28 to December 2.
This year’s festival, held in cooperation with the Film Development Council of the Philippines and Ayala Malls Cinemas, will present six Hungarian films.
Below is a list:
Budapest Noir is a detective thriller set in the mid-1930’s Budapest. Its plot revolves around a crime reporter who thinks he has seen it all, when a tip leads him to an unusual crime scene, that of a young girl’s murder. This leads him to a world of pornographers, brothels and Communist cells leading to the highest echelons of power.
In Ferenc Török’s drama 1945, a rural village prepares for the wedding of the town clerk’s son, when
two strangers arrive at the train station. The villagers are afraid that survivors will return, posing a threat
to the properties they acquired during the war.
Lajkó, Gypsy in Space is a black comedy about the first living being in space, who was not actually a dog
called Laika but a Hungarian crop-sprayer by the name of Lajkó. In 1957, the Soviet Union decides
to give Hungary the honor of providing the first cosmonaut to orbit in space and the most suitable
candidate turns out to be none other than Lajkó, whose life as a pilot reflects his lifelong attraction to
the stars.
Final Cut by György Pálfi tells the ultimate love story through the performances of hundreds of actors from the past hundred years of world cinema.
The animation film The Legend of King Solomon (dubbed in English) is an epic adventure of romance,
magic and mayhem. It is based on a popular folk legend, in which animals, demons and humans meet. The
film follows the adventures of the young King Solomon, the Arab Princess Nama and the African Queen
of Sheba, as they they fight the King of Demons, Asmodeus.
Mephisto will have a special screening for the opening night on November 28. The Academy-award winning classic from 1981 shows a German stage actor who finds unexpected success and mixed blessings for his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-World War II Germany.
The film is presented in its original German language version, subtitled in English.
