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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.
February 8, 2010
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.
February 8, 2010
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.
February 7, 2010
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.
February 4, 2010
The Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra of Pecs will give two concerts in Essen on February 6 and 7.
February 4, 2010
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.
February 2, 2010
A permanent exhibition dedicated to the memory of Hungarian composer and musicologist Bela Bartok opened in Osmaniye, south Turkey, on Tuesday.
February 2, 2010
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.
January 31, 2010
Budapest Madách Theatre will perform the musical Cats for the 1,300th time on January 31.
January 31, 2010
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.
January 31, 2010
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.
January 30, 2010
Budapest's Museum of Fine Arts is showing an exhibition of French masterpieces from the early 20th century collected by two Russian textile magnates.
January 30, 2010
The critic Claudia La Rocco had little praise for a production by Hungary's Győr National Ballet at the Joyce Theatre in New York on Tuesday.
January 29, 2010
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.
January 28, 2010
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.
January 28, 2010
Hungary's Péter Sárik Trio and Smárton Trio played to a full house at London's Pizza Express Soho Jazz Club on two evenings recently.
January 28, 2010
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.
January 27, 2010
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.
January 26, 2010
The city of Pecs in southern Hungary will host an international symposium dedicated to composer and pianist Ferenc Liszt in September this year.
January 25, 2010
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.
January 25, 2010
