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Budapest embarks on 6-month season celebrating Erkel, Mahler, Liszt - A six-month series celebrating the anniversaries of Ferenc Erkel, Gustav Mahler and Franz Liszt will start in Budapest this Sunday, the director of Hungarofest said on Tuesday.

MTI photo exhibition on 1989/94 opens in C Romania - An exhibition showing political changes during the 1989-1994 period on photos mostly from the Hungarian News Agency MTI's archives opened in central Romania's Targu Mures on Thursday.

President Schmitt opens Zsolnay porcelain exhibition - Hundreds of unique porcelain objects by the renowned Zsolnay porcelain factory went on show in Pecs, southwest Hungary, on Wednesday, at an exhibition opened by President Pal Schmitt.

Israeli Cultural Institute opens in Budapest - An Israeli Cultural Institute has opened in central Budapest to present all segments of Israel's diverse "mosaic culture" to the public, Director Gabor Balazs told a news conference in Budapest on Wednesday.

Hungarian culture to help close gap with China, says state secretary - Presenting the diversity of Hungarian culture and its world-class products aims to narrow the gap between Hungary and China, state secretary for culture Geza Szocs said at the launch of a programme series in China on Monday.

MTI publishes photos from 1968-1979 - Hungarian News Agency MTI has published the seventh, penultimate volume of a series of photo albums entitled "Pictures of an Era".

Hungarian Composer Takes Work to Japan -

The 34-year-old Hungarian composer Márton Illés is taking his work for large ensemble Torso III – which has already been performed in Berlin, Hamburg, Paris and Rome, to Tokyo on August 23.

Six month season celebrating Erkel, Mahler, Liszt

A six-month series celebrating the anniversaries of Ferenc Erkel, Gustav Mahler and Franz Liszt will start in Budapest this Sunday, the director of Hungarofest said on Tuesday.

Exhibition Shows History of Cycling in Capital
The Budapest Historical Museuem’s Kiscelli Museum is opening an exhibition on the cultural history of bicycling in the capital this autumn.

Bartók Recording Named “Album of the Month” by BBC
A recording from the Bartók New Series has been named album of the month in the latest issue of BBC Music Magazine.

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Hungarian Films to Compete in Locarno

July 14, 2010

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The Hungarian director Benedek Fliegauf’s new film Womb as well as a Romanian-Hungarian-French production called Morgen will compete for the Golden Leopard at this year’s Locarno Film Festival, which starts on August 4.

Womb

Womb, which follows a symbiotic relationship through life, death and rebirth, is Fliegauf’s fourth feature film. It is a German-Hungarian-French coproduction supported by the Hungarian Motion Picture Foundation. It stars Eva Green and Matt Smith.

The script for Womb won the Krzysztof Kieslowski Prize at the ScriptEast forum in Cannes in 2008.

Fliegauf will attend the screening of the film in Locarno.

Morgen is the Romanian director Maran Crisan’s first feature film. The Hungarian actor István Dankó is one of the film’s stars and it features a cameo appearance by the Hungarian director Szabolcs Hajdu. The film is a coproduction of Slot Machine and Katapult Film, headed by Iván Angelusz. It was shot in Sarkad, in Hungary, and Salonta, in Romania.

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