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Benedek Fliegauf will be in the race for the Golden Bear at the 62nd Berlinale with Just the Wind.

The Hungarian film industry is pinning its hopes for the 2011 box office on two December releases.

Hungarian director Szabolcs Hajdu in mid-production with The Gambler, the follow-up to his 2010 film Bibliotheque Pascal.

The halt of MMK payments on its contracts for subsidies in mid-2011, left a number of Hungarian film production companies in a difficult position financially.

More than one year after the Hungarian Motion Picture Foundation stopped supporting the Hungarian film industry, the Hungarian National Film Fund has published its grants

The 8the Jameson Cinefest Hungary (17-25 September 2011, www.cinefest.hu) has selected 14 films to screen in competition and six films screening out of competition.

After its establishment three months ago, the Hungarian National Film Fund has announced the names of the five film professionals.

Katalin Vajda has been named the new director of Hungary's Filmunio, the national organization that promotes Hungarian films internationally.

The Grand Prix of the 11th New Horizons IFF went to Attenberg. Sándor Kardos's Gravedigger received the jury's special mention along with the FIPRESCI award.

Shooting begins for Axterix and Obelix: God save Briatnnia, Edouard Baer to fight for the Gauls alongside Gerard Depardieu

"I am not a pessimistic guy. If I was pessimistic, I would never even have started to make films. I hope that these films will be watched in twenty, thirty or forty years, and I think this is as optimistic as you can get in today’s world."

Screening schedule and contacts.

Due to the blocked finances of the Motion Picture Public Foundation of Hungary in 2010 and based on the figures which can be seen in the Hungarian state budget plans for 2011 the organization announced that „it doesn’t have the financial possibilities to organize the Hungarian Film Week” (http://www.hungarianfilmweek.com/frontpage/News/). However with regard to the fact that next spring Hungary will have the presidency of the European Union and considering the importance of presenting to the public the productions made with public funding MMK asks the Ministry of National Resources to insure the necessary finances to organize the event.  

MAB, the first series created directly and only for Internet in Hungary is ready to be launched (trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogInq8enG8I&feature=related). The project has been initiated by Ádám Horgas, director at alternative theater groups. The series will be comprised of 16 episodes, 8 minutes long each and will be broadcasted on Youtube.

Though the official decision about the liquidation – promised for 31st October – hasn’t been announced yet, the future of Motion Picture Foundation of Hungary seems at least uncertain. However – as Index.hu has shown it - certain directions can already be seen from the newly published budget-plan of Hungary for 2011.  

For the first time of its existence animation films will also be part of the Hungarian Film Week which will take place between 1-8 February 2011.