Film

"God exists, and he lives in Brussels.” This bold assertion is what sets Belgian director Jaco Van Dormael's film in motion.

The essence of Gaïsha can perhaps best be described as Arab music with subtle shades of psychedelia, rap, and a Belgian twist.

Note: this film is not about the Belgian royal family. The story presents us with a fictional king of Belgium (Nicolas III), who is visiting Istanbul when he learns that his country is disintegrating. His efforts to return home, however, are severely hampered by a solar storm that makes communications and air navigation impossible.

In how many ways can this brave new world go wrong? Led by the pigs, the animals in an English farm rise up, drive away the people that had enslaved them and create their own state.

If there was one true Hungarian blockbuster in the 1970s, then Johnny Corncob was undoubtedly be it. At just 32 years of age, Marcell Jankovics touched on one of the most important topics in Hungarian cultural history.

How can you tell a story to children that is full of historical references and where a young boy beats up an old man three times over? Attila Dargay asked himself this very question. His response would become one of the most popular Hungarian animation films of all time.

André Rieu, the world-famous Dutch violinist, returns to Budapest after 7 years to the MVM Dome. During the concert, Rieu and the 60-member Johann Strauss Orchestra, the world's largest private orchestra, take the audience on a stunning orchestral journey.

It hardly needs saying that if someone makes an animation film for adults, even in 1979, when Bubble Bath was made - a few years after the explosive success of Mattie the Goose-boy and Johnny Corncob - it is far from clear whether it would be capable of exploring current social issues.

A Dalszerelőműhely és az ISON bemutatja: TAYLOR SWIFT AKADÉMIA
Kétnapos swiftológia-kurzus Fazekas Gergely zenetörténész vezetésével

The popular folk-rock band MORDÁI, which was founded by Soma Nóvé - who made his name with the group Middlemist Red - feeds on the bedrock of experimental Hungarian folk music of the 1960s and 70s, boldly reconceptualising folk songs and well-known melodies with jazz motifs and elements of improvisation.

A Dalszerelőműhely és az ISON bemutatja: TAYLOR SWIFT AKADÉMIA
Kétnapos swiftológia-kurzus Fazekas Gergely zenetörténész vezetésével

If you only mention the title Fehérlófia (Son of the White Mare) to a Hungarian, they will likely start listing the familiar characters in their head: Fanyűvő, Kőmorzsoló, Vasgyúró, and of course the delightfully named Hétszűnyű Kapanyányimonyók. But who are these mysterious figures, whose names speak to the child inside us all?

In Hungarian, without subtitles

The discussions before and after the screening will be conducted in Hungarian.

LAKVAR was founded by two versatile musicians, the Hungarian-Bulgarian singer-songwriter and percussionist Hajnalka Péter, and the Georgian songwriter, guitarist and panduri player Zura Dzagnidze. Their album Fiction and Folklore, which was released last year, features a reappraisal of Balkan, Caucasus and Central European traditions blended with elements of jazz, pop and rock music.

In Hungarian, without subtitles

The discussions before and after the screening will be conducted in Hungarian.