International Film Festival @ Margaret Island Budapest

  • 9 Aug 2021 3:25 PM
  • Hungary Matters
International Film Festival @ Margaret Island Budapest
An international film festival is held on Budapest’s Margaret Island until 22 August, featuring European, Israeli, and Far Eastern films made in recent years.

The films are screened at the island’s athletics centre, rearranged as an open air cinema for the festival, organised by EUNIC Hungary.

The programme includes films such as Ferzan Özpetek’s La dea Fortuna, Tiago Guedes’s Tristeza e alegria na vida das girafas, and Michael Steiner’s Wolkenbruch, all screened in original language and with Hungarian subtitles.

Detailed program available here

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