Festival Programme
Nearly 80 Hungarian animations is screened at the festival: the competition programme includes Péter Vácz's latest animation Dog Ear (Kutyafül) and Gábor Ulrich's Capriccio, Anna Tőkés' Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design MA graduation film The Last Drop, and Mikori Tama's children's film Kippkopp and Tipptopp.
The international premiere of The Quest (Csongor és Tünde), based on the idea of the legendary Hungarian director Attila Dargay, also takes place here, out of competition, sold internationally by NFI World Sales.
Several exciting professional programmes worth the time: director Milorad Krstić and producer Radmila Rockow give an insight into the production process of the visually stunning Ruben Brandt, collector, while director-screenwriter Anita Doron and producer József Berger present Fairyheart (Tündér Lala, the book was published in English under the title The Gift of the Wondrous Fig Tree), an adaptation of the well-loved Magda Szabó's children's book, which is currently in production.
Furthermore, 61 Hungarian animation films will showcase the past and present of Hungarian animation in the Retrospectives programme curated by Anna Ida Orosz, film historian and animation specialist of the National Film Archive. Audiences can watch the Jury Award winner Four Souls of Coyote by Áron Gauder in an open-air event, as well as Ruben Brandt, collector at a midnight screening.