Havas told Variety that the Hungarian film business was going through a “renaissance”. Attending the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival this week, Havas said the Hungarian Film Week would return in mid-October.

She added that three Hungarian films were in competition at Karlovy Vary: György Pálfi’s “Free Fall” (Szabadesés), Virág Zomborácz’s “Afterlife” (Utólélet), which opened the “East of the West” programme, and Gábor Reisz’s debut “For Some Inexplicable Reason” (Van valami furcsa és megmagyarázhatatlan) also in the East of the West section.

Havas said the Hungarian film industry could further benefit from a planned rise of film production tax incentives from 20 to 25%, pending European Union approval in June.

Hungarian lawmakers are scheduled to vote on the motion in the autumn, she said. She pointed to Hungarian films which had gained international acclaim over the past years, including János Szász’s “The Notebook”, a Crystal Globe winner at Karlovy Vary, and Kornél Mundruczó’s “White God”, which won the main prize in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes this year, Havas told the paper.

Next year’s shooting plan includes two big-budget Hungarian historical dramas: Pálfi’s “Toldi”, based on János Arany’s narrative poem, and Gábor Herendi’s “Kincsem”, about the eponymous race horse, she said.

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