On 27 December, Emir Kusturica and his band, the No Smoking Orchestra, which played an important role in the Balkan folk renaissance, will play at Müpa Budapest. In this article, we explore the adventurous history of the band, known for its exhilarating concerts, and Kusturica's musical adventures. Emir Kusturica, who...
I know a place where contours are blurred, where boundaries are in a constant move, where we meet, reply to each other, melt together. Where people of the same profession gather every year to discuss past, present and future, but the strongest presentations don’t happen in suit by powerpoint, but...
Two brothers, Ágoston and Domokos Lázár have played in two Hungarian bands together (Esti Kornél* and Pegazusok Nem Léteznek**, latter dissolved in 2019). Apart from these, they also formed a duo which has been active for some years now. Last year, their first album was published, which is now followed...
LINE MOVEMENTS - ANI MOLNÁR GALLERY The Line Movements exhibition of Tamás Konok is coupled with the saddening fact that the artist himself is not able to be present at the vernissage. Tamás Konok, the doyen of geometric abstraction was recognised both in the domestic and international art scene. His...
SITUATION WITH OUTSTRECHED ARM, Trafó, 28.09.2019, 8 pm A Hungarian state secretary posted a photo on Facebook some days ago. It was taken at the opening ceremony of the new academic year at the National University of Public Service. There were four students there, representing each faculty (one in a...
It was last October when I read about the identical triplets for the first time, the ones who met as adults in 1980 and realized they were separated at birth and given to different adopted families. Many newspapers have been writing about this old story nowadays, due to the documentary...
What would you do if you found out that you have an identical twin whom you have never seen? Or when you find out that actually there is three of you? In this incredible yet real story, the three twins meet through a series of coincidences. An interview with Tim...
How can someone have moral strength, somebody that you trust when he claims that he has supreme power, without any control above him? And why people don’t realize that these two concepts are not really hand in hand? Is it worse to be a war criminal or to lose credibility?...
Bombino, Müpa, 21.12.2018, 8 pm He heard the music on a tape for the very first time. The quality wasn’t professional, maybe not even good. However, as long as it finished, filmmaker and producer Ron Wyman was desperate to find this young man. How or where, who cares – he...
SRBENKA The Croatian movie Srbenka received The Human Rights Film Award of the Verzió 15 International Human Rights Film Festival in Budapest. Director Nebojša Slijepčević is interested in several topics. Like, more than two decades after the Balkan Wars, why is Serbian nationality still problematic in Croatia? Why is the...
THE LIMITS OF WORKLabour: Our Life In 2017, more than 20% of people worked in the Czech Republic for less than 83 CZK (3,2 EUR) per hour. Minimum wage was the fifth lowest in the EU – 11.000 CZK (425 EUR). Journalist Saša Uhlová has decided to go after those...
The 18th international literature festival berlin The 18th international literature festival berlin (ilb) will take place at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele from September 5 – 15, 2018. In addition, you can attend several ilb events at cultural spots around the city – for example at the Museum für Naturkunde...
In August 20, 1968, troops of the Soviet Union, The People’s Republic of Poland, the German Democratic Republic, the People’s Republic of Hungary and the People’s Republic of Bulgaria crossed the border of Czechoslovakia. Fifty years later, the documentary Occupation 1968 shows the events from a rather unusual perspective: of these...
The 68th Berlinale International Film Festival Eldorado Documentary (Switzerland) Director: Markus Imhoof Markus Imhoof, documentary film maker, scriptwriter and opera director has become internationally famous by his film, The Boat Is Full (1981), which won the Silver Bear in the Berlinale. However, only few are aware that his...
The 68th Berlinale U-July 22 (Norway) Director: Erik Poppe On July 22 afternoon in 2011, a bomb exploded in the government quarter in Oslo. Less than two hours later, not too far from the Norwegian capital on Utoya Island, A.B. Breivik begun his carefully prepared action. On the island...
NEW YORK (people.com) - Harvey Weinstein is using an email allegedly written by Ben Affleck to cast doubt on Rose McGowan’s claim that the producer sexually assaulted her in 1997. According to a statement from Weinstein’s attorney Ben Brafman, two people whom McGowan claims to have told about the alleged...
LOS ANGELES - (THE VARIETY)- The cascading timeline structure of Christopher Nolan’s “Dunkirk” and the manic assemblage of “I, Tonya” were among the editing feats that wowed the American Cinema Editors organization this year. The two films won the dramatic and comedy prizes, respectively, at the 68th annual ACE Eddie...
LIVERPOOL - (The Guardian) - From Before I Go to Sleep to The Girl on the Train, the trope of the woman in danger from a man has powered novel after novel to the top of the book charts. But claiming that violence against women in fiction has reached “a...
22 films from 18 countries will be competing for the Golden and the Silver Bear, as well as the Audi Short Film Award, worth € 20,000, and a nomination for the European Film Awards. The Nigerian film Besida by Chuko Esiri and the Austrian film The Shadow of Utopia by Antoinette Zwirchmayr will be...
14 films, including six full-length fiction and four documentary films, will compete for the Kompass-Perspektive-Preis, endowed with 5,000 euros. In addition, a neighborhood film project that focuses on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin will be a guest at Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2018. Sure, you can always take off. Soon. Right now. Or later. You...
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