2nd Annual Hungarian Film Festival

Wednesday, November 6, 2013 - 16:51

For the second year in a row, the Cinema Department of San Francisco State University will be offering a festival of contemporary Hungarian films the weekend of November 22-24.

 

For the second year in a row, the Cinema Department of San Francisco State University will be offering a festival of contemporary Hungarian films the weekend of November 22-24.  For the first time this will coincide with a course, CINEMA 325.03, possibly the first course ever on contemporary Hungarian cinema taught in the New World.

The program will include a variety of documentary, fiction, and animated films, including the official Hungarian submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, The Notebook.  It will also include guest appearances by two directors, Andras Vagvolgyi and Reka Pigniczky.

All screenings will be in Coppola Theater (room 101) in the Fine Arts Building.  Everyone is welcome.  Admission is free.  We advise guests to come early because seating is limited, especially during the times of the class, Friday and Saturday from 9 to 5.

 The films are presented in conjunction with the 13th Hungarian Film Festival of Los Angeles and with the collaboration of Bunyik Entertainment.

 

Schedule of Events:

 

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22 (4pm – 10pm)

 

4pm – 6pm

 

Selection of contemporary Hungarian documentary films

 

6pm – 7pm

 

DINNER BREAK

 

7pm – 10pm

 

Director András B. Vágvölgyi will introduce his film Colorado Kid (2011, 111 min)

and answer questions after.

 

Bela is arrested in 1959. Is it because he was a revolutionary in 1956 or because he was a gambler at the racetrack?

 

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23 (9am – 10pm)

 

9am – 1pm

 

Rickshaw Rush, directed by Gergő Somogyvári (2012, 55 min)

 

A documentary about young Hungarian rickshaw drivers in Amsterdam. What are they doing there?

 

Short films:

 

My Guide directed by Barnabás Tóth (2013, 12 min)

 

Beast, directed by Attila Till (2011, 20 min)

 

1pm – 2pm

 

LUNCH BREAK

 

2pm – 4pm

 

Director Réka Pigniczky will introduce her latest film Heritage (2013, 63 min)

and lead a Q&A afterwards with the audience.

 

The final section of a trilogy about the Hungarian Revolution and its aftermath.

 

6:30pm – 7:45pm

 

A selection of short animated and documentary films

 

8:00pm – 10pm

 

The official 2013 Hungarian Oscar submission for Best Foreign Language film

The Notebook (2013, 100 min) directed by János Szász.

 

Twin boys are left with their grandmother in the Hungarian countryside to escape the ravages of  World War II.

 

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24 (5pm – 10pm)

 

5pm – 7pm

 

Strong, directed by Andras Kollmann (2011, 88min)

 

A documentary of the exploits of Zsolt Erőss, the most famous Hungarian mountain climber, who disappeared earlier this year on Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas.

 

7pm – 8pm

 

DINNER BREAK

 

8pm-10pm

 

Aglaya, directed by Krisztina Deák (2012, 116 min)

 

A Hungarian – Romanian family of circus artists escapes from the Ceausescu dictatorship to the West in the 1980’s and devises ingenious ways of survival.

https://sites.sfsu.edu/cinema/news-in-brief/2013/2141