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The contrasting dreams of two generations clash within the microcosm of an ancient Buddhist monastery in Bhutan, when Gyembo an ordinary teenager is chosen as the next guardian of their family monastery by his father.

A European woman has been kept by a family as a domestic slave for 10 years. Drawing courage from the filmmaker's presence, she decides to escape the unbearable oppression and become a free person.

The Aszú of Tokaj, a sweet wine of Hungary, was once cherished by King Louis XIV, Queen Victoria, Peter the Great, Goethe and Beethoven. But the world has since forgotten the noble Aszú, two world wars, the enforced collectivisation of the Communist regime and the deadly filoxera epidemic had all wreaked havoc on the vines. Three dedicated heroes, one passion: to create The Great Wine that can return to the most refined tables of the world.

Showcases how Robi, a priest and a father of three, deals with his profession and his forbidden private life.

Kafia is 17 years old. Two years ago, she fled to Europe, Hungary on her own, escaping from a child marriage in Somalia. She has been living in a state children's home in Budapest ever since. She learns the language, goes to high school, prepares for the Hungarian graduation exam and starts a modelling career. On the surface, everything seems fine. However, behind that beautiful and confident appearance lies a heavy heart. Her repetitive daily routine revolves around constant dilemmas and self-doubt about leaving behind her Muslim culture and everything else she grew up with. As she lets the camera get closer to her the film slowly becomes an intimate confession. What does it mean, on the brink of adulthood, to break with your past and fully give yourself up to a new self in order to live in Europe?

Renowned composer György Kurtág's journey through the key places and collaborations that shaped his work, capturing the transformation of emotions into music with world-class musicians in a cinematic exploration of his musical world.

A folk musician recovering from an almost lethal car accident covers the song of a pop icon who just returned from the rehab by working an unknown small Romanian folk band's motif into it that leads to the biggest hit in the past decade in Hungary.

Four young gay guys investigate how Hungarian society and the state have been treating gays and how gays' personal experiences of social and political oppression have changed since Communism until today.

A self-educated, working-class avant-garde poet, Lajos Kassák walked across Europe in torn slippers, published an antimilitarist journal in wartime, fought Italian futurists, and believed in the revolutionary power of art to change the world. What answers does he provide to current social, historical and artistic challenges? What is the something "better, more humane than the old" that today's artists are fighting for? The film looks to contemporary Hungarian and Slovak artists for answers to Kassák's revolutionary and deeply human dilemmas.

Train to Adulthood is a coming-of-age story about three youngsters who find an escape from life's ordeals by working on the Budapest Children's Railway. While they enjoy playing at being responsible adults on the Train, at home they are forced to mature abruptly.

One autumn day Zolika, the 12 year old orphan starts to receive mysterious letters from his 'new parents'. Happiness is just two weeks away. Or is it?

An intimate journey from Eastern Europe to India and Israel - through discrimination, search for identity and the magic story of the last Jews of Cochin.