Szabolcs Hajdu

Growing Down (2025)

Sándor, a widower, is the only witness to a serious accident involving his stepdaughter and youngest son. Now he faces a dilemma: should he tell the truth and live with the consequences? Or lie and save his son from juvenile detention? ...

Vulture's Wake (2024)

A death reunites three old friends whose paths have diverged over the years: one has a teaching job in Mexico, another lives a lower-middle-class life, and the third is financially ruined. Their girlfriends, who join them later, tolerate their remarks and ...

Kalman's Day (2023)

It's a beautiful sunny autumn morning in a cosy house near a quiet lake. Kálmán doesn't know what love means anymore. His asexual wife Olga suggests redecorating in another attempt to save the relationship. Olga's sister Zita comes to celebrate Kalman's ...

Rendszerhiba - A magyar film el nem mondott története (2023)

Thirty years, three eras: they have been trying to save the Hungarian film industry again and again over the decades. Among these attempts were highs, lows, countless deals and compromises. And now some say that we are living in the saddest period of Hunga ...

Power (2023)

A boy is accidentally killed at an informal hunt somewhere on the border of two European countries. One of the people involved is Minister Berger, the hot candidate for the influential post of High Commissioner for Water Management, who will be tasked with ...

Land of Warm Waters (2021)

The Buharovs, as the harbingers of a supra-human world, blend their instinctive cosmos with a kind of quiet poetry to lead the viewer into the Land of Warm Waters and onwards to new dimensions of storytelling. ...

Valahogy így (2020)

If we are not careful, years have passed, and our life have become completely monotonous. ...

Bullhorn Lullaby (2020)

A hardcore soccer ultra, Gyula, and his wife, Mariann, long for a baby. But it turns out that Gyula is sterile and when their plans to adopt also go up in smoke, Mariann does a deal behind her husband's back: they will take in the soon to be born child of ...

Treasure City (2020)

Dropped into a web of family, sexual, political and romantic relationships where nothing is quite what it seems. One event leads to something else, people appear in one situation and reappear in another and by the end the lives of 22 people intersect in un ...

Maszatvár (2019)

In communist Hungary a young mother wants to live with her son. To do so, she has to kidnap her own child from her influential, manipulative ex-husband and escape with him to the West. ...

Bad Poems (2018)

33-years old Tamás Merthner is heartbroken, after his girlfriend Anna, who is on a scholarship in Paris, breaks up with him. While wallowing in self-pity, Tamás takes a trip down memory lane to figure out if love only exists when it's practically gone. A ...

The Rub (2018)

A retelling of Shakespeare's play from within the mind of the protagonist. The psychedelic appeal of the film was created with hand painted and rotten 35 mm and 16 mm celluloid strips. ...

Van egy határ (2017)

It's Not the Time of My Life (2016)

Eszter, her husband Farkas, and their five-year-old son Bruno are paid an unexpected visit in the middle of the night. Eszter's sister Ernella, her husband Albert and daughter Laura have returned from a year spent in Scotland where, contrary to expectation ...

Most of the Souls That Live Here (2016)

The renowned anarchist teacher Count Ervin Batthyány reappears 100 years after his death. He tries to put his theories into practice again, as he realises that the world has not turned out as he had expected. He founds a new free school with the help of s ...

Good Night, Prince! (1993)

András comes to Budapest because he failed at his school-leaving exam and he would like his aunt, a maths teacher to prepare him for the next exam. The boy wants to be an actor and intends to get to Hollywood once. His cousins and friends are making a fil ...

Brats (1991)

1989 in Budapest. A gang of teenagers is roaming about in the city. They are hanging around, longing away from here, their parents do not care about them. They sustain themselves by breaking up cars and by minor robberies. ...

Vulture's Wake (2024)

A death reunites three old friends whose paths have diverged over the years: one has a teaching job in Mexico, another lives a lower-middle-class life, and the third is financially ruined. Their girlfriends, who join them later, tolerate their remarks and ...

Kalman's Day (2023)

It's a beautiful sunny autumn morning in a cosy house near a quiet lake. Kálmán doesn't know what love means anymore. His asexual wife Olga suggests redecorating in another attempt to save the relationship. Olga's sister Zita comes to celebrate Kalman's ...

Nikó (2023)

One day, a young mother leaves her family behind and sets off into the unknown. ...

Treasure City (2020)

Dropped into a web of family, sexual, political and romantic relationships where nothing is quite what it seems. One event leads to something else, people appear in one situation and reappear in another and by the end the lives of 22 people intersect in un ...

It's Not the Time of My Life (2016)

Eszter, her husband Farkas, and their five-year-old son Bruno are paid an unexpected visit in the middle of the night. Eszter's sister Ernella, her husband Albert and daughter Laura have returned from a year spent in Scotland where, contrary to expectation ...

The Gambler (2015)

The story of a wealth Eastern European family in Las Vegas, whose misunderstanding of American ways results in the loss of their dignity and self-respect. ...

Mirage (2014)

Francis is an African soccer player whose life comes spiraling down after he fixes a match. Soon, he's on the run, taking shelter at a mountain ranch led by a deadly crime boss. Soon, Francis inspires revolt among the boss's workers, putting his life on th ...

East Side Stories (2012)

Hungarian tales around the end of the regime(s). ...

Bibliothèque Pascal (2010)

A single mother's struggle to support her child leads her into the surreal netherworld of illegal sexual enterprises, with her finally ending up in the Bibliothèque Pascal; an elegant but bizarre house of prostitution in which men can re-enact sexual scen ...

Off Hollywood (2007)

As her third film's premiere draws close, a young filmmaker begins to crack under the pressure of external forces. ...

White Palms (2006)

Having suffered as a boy under a brutal Communist-era coach, champion Hungarian gymnast Miklos moves to Canada years later in search of a new start - only to find himself unwittingly perpetuating the very same cycle of abuse among his own pupils. ...

Tamara (2004)

Sticky Matters (2001)

A girl is on the skids because of love. A short tempered and passionate young man falls in love with the girl. His emotions are so powerful that he is prepared to surrender his whole personality. The boy has a good friend, who is not sure whether their bon ...