The Golden Reel, the grand prix of the 41st Hungarian Film Festival, was given to Szabolcs Hajdu's film Bibliotheque Pascal at the festival's award ceremony in Budapest on Monday.
Hungary's cultural diplomacy works well and should not be changed, Education and Culture Minister Istvan Hiller said on Monday at a meeting of cultural diplomats and heads of Hungarian cultural institutes abroad.
This year's international Mediawave festival in Szombathely will offer music, dance and film events together with workshops between April 30 and May 16, the festival director told MTI on Saturday.
The Hungarian animation studio Kecskemetfilm cheered the Oscar nomination of an Irish feature in which they had participated, the Hungarian Film Union told MTI on Wednesday.
Hungarian Culture Minister Istvan Hiller has opened the refurbished Rakoczi Museum in the Turkish city of Tekirdag where the Hungarian national hero Francis II Rakoczi spent his last 15 years, the chief consul in Istanbul told MTI late on Monday.
The Hungarian opera singer Viktória Vizin sang the title role in a production of Carmen at the New York Metropolitan opera on Wednesday, filling in for Ologa Borodin, who fell ill.
The 88-year-old Hungarian director Miklós Jancsó's new film So Much For Justice, a historical drama loosely based on Hungary's King Matthias, will open the 41st Hungarian Film Week.
Altogether 55 selected masterpieces will be shown at the "Degas to Picasso: French Masterpieces from the Pushkin Museum in Moscow" exhibition that will open in Budapest's Fine Arts Museum on Thursday.
Germany's A Company AG, the majority owner of Hungarian film distributor Budapest Film Kft, plans to release 12-20 films annually in Hungary, A Company CEO Alexander van Dulmen told the press on Thursday.
Budapest's Trafó House of Contemporary Arts will host the Temps d'Images, an international festival established by culture broadcaster ARTE and arts centre La Ferme du Buisson to foster the growing performing arts and moving images scene, on February 7-26.
The Cinema City chain of movie theatres is showing screenings of opera and ballet performances in High Definition as part of the CineMaestro series starting in February.
Four Hungarian and seven Slovenian organisations have organised a Handcrafts Academy in the framework of a cross-border cooperation project, project director Ákos Czigány Zágorhidi said at a press conference in the Hungarian city of Zalaegerszeg on Monday.
Budapest's Bárka Theatre celebrated the songs of Tamás Cseh, whose work and performances left an indelible mark on Hungary's cultural scene, on the Day of Hungarian Culture. Those lucky enough to get into the packed theatre witnessed a remarkable chronology of the last 40 years in Hungary.