Special Summer Film Days at Budapest Art Cinemas

  • 9 Jul 2025 6:53 AM
Special Summer Film Days at Budapest Art Cinemas
Expats are invited to Far Eastern, French and Oriental film days at the Puskin, Tabán and Toldi cinemas, while the organisers are preparing fresh premieres at the City Hall Garden Cinema.

The Far Eastern Film Days program, which starts on Friday at the Pushkin Cinema, will select from the most exciting Korean and Japanese works of recent times, from July 10 the Tabán Cinema will screen popular French films as part of the Franciadrajsé – French Film Days.

While on July 25 the Toldi Cinema will present the diverse world of the eastern region through special stories with the series Eastern Comfort, writes Budapest Film in its press announcement.

In addition to recent blockbusters, classic anime and Ghibli films will also be screened at the Far Eastern Film Days. The largest hall of the Pushkin, Metropolis, will screen the cult 1995 film Ghost in the Shell and the most popular space western anime series, Cowboy Bebop: The Movie.

Miyazaki Hayao and Studio Ghibli's latest animated film, The Boy and the Grey Heron, as well as their older works, Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle, will also be screened. 

In addition, Oscar-winning and Oscar-nominated works such as Previous Lives, Parasites and Drive for Me will also be on the program.

The French Film Days will start on July 10, during which the only art cinema in Buda will be showing two French films every afternoon for 11 days. 

Expats will be able to see Johnny Depp as Louis XIV in the spectacular costume drama Jeanne du Barry – The Lover, and last year's popular biographical drama Bolero will also return. The Cannes Film Festival award-winning Taste of Passion and the film Guest in a French Castle starring John Malkovich will also be shown.

From July 25, Toldi Cinema will screen eight films in the Eastern Comfort series, which deal with important topics such as social justice, religion, identity and the fate of women. 

Boy from Heaven is a political thriller about the dark sides of the Egyptian elite, The Holy Spider tells the story of a serial killer about control over the female body, while Capernaum - The Path of Hope tells the story of survival and social responsibility from a child's perspective.
 

The City Hall - Városháza - Garden Cinema will be showing Kyuka - Before Summer Ends in an open-air screening, and among the premiere screenings will be F1 starring Brad Pitt and Jurassic World: Rebirth. 

To mark the 100th anniversary of its premiere, Chaplin's classic The Gold Rush will also be shown for a one-off screening.

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