mon emotion and intention of transmission of ideas. Árpád Bogdán Boldog Új Élet! / Happy New Fear (working title) Producer: Gábor Sipos, Gábor Rajna, Production company: Laokoon Film Shooting: October—December 2004, B u d a p e s t Expected release: February 2005, 36 Hungarian Film Week The film wishes to depict the interdependence and equality of cultures by presenting a wide range of Gypsy and non- Gypsy cultural values. By showing the various sides of modern Gypsy culture, the makers of the film wish to draw the attention of the whole society to the endangered ways of self expression of the minorities and the difficult situation of the cultural revival. József Pacskovszky Négy évszak az ûrben / Four Seasons in Space Producer: Pál Sándor, Production company: Hunnia Filmstudio Shooting: from May 2004, Budapest, Rome, Moscow Expected release: February 2005, 36 Hungarian Film Week Stories set among the stars and on Earth about interdependence. Nemes Gyula Egyetleneim / My Only Ones Producer: György Durst, Production company: Mediawawe 2000, Duna TV Shooting: November 2003— August 2004 Expected release: February 2005, 3 6 t h Hungarian Film Week Stories about boys and girls. Gyula Nemes’ thesis film, his consultant is Vera C h y t i l o v a . Péter Mészáros Bíborkagyló / Cythéra Producer: György Durst, Production company: Mediawave 2000, Duna TV Shooting: from autumn 2004 Expected release: spring 2005 The film is a bitter, modern adaptation of Leaving for the Island of Cythere by Watteau, one of the most mysterious paintings of the 18th century, about the gray and hopeless passing of love. Nándor Hevesi — Kornél Szilágyi Álomvadászat / Dream Hunting Producer: György Durst, Production company: Álomvadász, Duna TV Shooting: from summer 2004 Expected release: spring 2005 Real events appearing in a dream and their washback effect on reality is depicted in the film within the framework of a love s t o r y . 14 Fi l m s i n Pr o d u c t i o n Tamás Sas Holló a hollónak / Dog Doesn’t Eat Dog Producer: Dénes Szekeres, Production company: Tivoli-Filmproduction t h t h Shooting: November 2004, Hungary Expected completion: 2005 Somewhere on the river. As if we were at a party of a travel agency. The guests are happy, hopes to win the right of the timeshare of an exotic flat. But in the semi-final everyone falls out except for eight guests. György Pálfi Taxidermia / Taxidermy Producer: Gábor Váradi, Production company: Eurofilm Studio Shooting: from May 2004, Hungary, Vienna Expected completion: May 2005 The screenplay of Taxidermy tells the story of a family, three historical eras, three lives, three men, from the grandfather to the son in the second half of the 20th century and today, in the first years of the 21st. Zoltán Kamondi Az érsek látogatása / The Archbishop’s Visit Producer: Zoltán Kamondi, Executive producer: András Tóth, Production company: Honeymood Films Shooting: August—November 2004, R u m a n i a Expected completion: September 2005 A surrealistic vision about the period of political changes in a far Eastern European c o u n t r y . Ildikó Enyedi Szelíd Interface / Tender Interface Producer: Péter Miskolczi, Production company: Eurofilm Studio Shooting: October—December 2004, H u n g a r y Expected completion: October 2005 New York. The summer of 1939. Europe is a faraway, messy and irritating place. America is preoccupied with something entirely different. People are afraid that they will be attacked by extraterrestrial creatures. A small village in Jászság, the summer of 2003. Makk Károly A waterloo-i gyôzelem / Victory at W a t e r l o o Producer: Pál Bokor, Production company: Atlantic, Novotny&Novotny Filmproduktions (Austria), Net- Entertainment (Germany) Shooting: autumn 2004, Hungary, Vienna Expected completion: autumn 2005 The Waterloo Victory is a real comedy of errors with a lot of situation comedy and music. The eventful plot and the charming characters are put in the 1920’s of Budapest and in a world of silent films — a movie of great images. László Kántor Anya csak egy van / Mother Is Just One Producer: Zsuzsa Kulcsár, Production company: New Budapest Filmstudio, M T V Fi l m u n i ó N E W S L E T T E R w w w . f i l m u n i o . h u Shooting: from February 2005 Expected completion: December 2005 A tale told by a foolish old lady who is unrestrainable, has a stormy emotional life, is completely unpredictable by her children thus creating continuous anxiety who, for no particular reasons, it seems, is able to get from the wildest desire to live to the deepest despair, to traverse heaven and hell a l t e r n a t i v e l y . Tamás Almási Márió, a varázsló / Mario, the M a g i c i a n Producer: László Berta, Production company: Panoráma Film Shooting: autumn 2004, Hungary Expected completion: December 2005 In the early 1990s, when the political changes have hardly been accomplished, Italian shoe manufacturers arrive in a remote village in Hungary. The villagers hope that their long cherished hopes and dreams will be now fulfilled by the first capitalists to arrive here. Kornél Mundruczó D e l t a Producer: Viktória Petrányi, Production company: Proton Cinema, The Coproduction Office (France), Essential Filmproduktion (Germany) Shooting: winter 2004—2005, at the Danube Expected completion: December 2005 Science fiction at the border of a world torn into two. The script was developed in the program of Cinéfondation — Résidance du Festival de Cannes Béla Tarr A londoni férfi / The Man from L o n d o n Producer: Gábor Téni, Humbert Balsan, Miki Zachar, Joachim von Vietinghoff, Christoph Meyer-Wiel, Juliusz Kossakowski, Production company: T. T. Filmmûhely Shooting: from November 2004, Corsica Release: 2006 Based on the novel of the same title by Georges Simenon. Iván Bánki Vonat a pokolból / Train from Hell Producer: Miklós Szita, Production company: Goess Film Shooting: 2004—2005, Hungary, Austria, Turkey, Switzerland, Israel Expected release: 2006 How could Kasztner save out 1684 people from Budapest on a train on july 30, 1944? Who was he? (The good and evil in one soul?) How devilish game did he play and how mutch did he pay for it? Péter Gárdos Donna Bella Producer: Dénes Szekeres, Production company: Tivoli-Filmproduction Published by <strong>Magyar</strong> <strong>Filmunió</strong> Ltd. V á r osli g eti fasor 38. 1068 Budapest, Hungary Tel: +36 1 351-7760, Shooting: from April 2005, Hungary, Germany, Austria Expected completion: January 2007 Story of a 15-year-old Jewish orphan and a beautiful woman with a dark past in Budapest, 1946: murders, passions, sins. Peter Greenaway Tulse Luper Bôröndjei 3. / Tulse Luper Suitcases 3 — From Sark to Finish Production company: Focus Film, ABS Production S. L (Spain), Delux Productions (Luxemburg), Gam Film (Italy), Kasander Film Company (Holland), Net Entertainment (Germany), Studio 12-A (Russia) Shooting: 2004, England, Germany, H u n g a r y Expected completion: December 2004 The film will follow the history of the 20th century through Tulse Luper’s life from 1928, the discovery of uranium (which is important for the atomic bomb as well as the development of history) until 1989, the tumbling of the Berlin wall, comprising 92 events which had an important impact on world history, from the point of view of 92 characters and showing the contents of 92 s u i t c a s e s . Enzo Monteleone Alagút a szabadság felé / Tunnel of F r e e d o m Production company: Focus Film, Palomar Spa (Italy) Shooting: August 2004, Hungary Expected completion: March 2005 A group of Italian university students living in Berlin dig a tunnel under the Wall in 1961 to help their friends who got stuck in East Berlin escape. Menahem Golan, B a d e n h e i m Production company: Focus Film, Cine Images (Germany), Novapool (Germany), Sofi Film (Germany), Terra Film (Austria) Shooting: 2004, Austria, Hungary, G e r m a n y Expected completion: November 2005 A surrealistic tragic comedy about the adventures of the participants of a Jewish cultural festival in Austria in 1939. Lamberto Lambertini A szívemre célozzatok / Fire at My H e a r t Production company: Focus Film, Indrapur Cinematografica srl. (Italy) Shooting: from August 2004, Italy, H u n g a r y Expected completion: September 2005 A young man’s struggle for himself and for love, amid the eternal struggle between old and new, reality and appearance, the heart and the mind during the reign of Murat, the mysterious king of the mysterious Naples. E-mail: filmunio@filmunio.hu Layout by Czeizel Balázs Printed by Gelbert Ltd. HU ISSN 1785-4865
A <strong>MEDIA</strong> <strong>Salles</strong>, the initiative on behalf of European cinemas, with the support of the <strong>MEDIA</strong> Programme and the Italian Government, is promoting in 2004 a new edition of the exhibitor training course: e c e „ EU R O P E A NCI N E M AEX H I B I T I O N: A NE W AP P R O A C H” BU D A P E S T, HU N G A R Y 22—26 SE P T E M B E R2 0 0 4 in collaboration with the European Film College, DB (the Danish exhibitors’ association), Mozisok Országos Szövetsége (the Hungarian exhibitors’ association), <strong>Magyar</strong> <strong>Filmunió</strong> and with the support of the Hungarian Ministry of Cultural Heritage. Main topics: Promotion and marketing Which films for which audiences? Theatre management The European dimension New developments in technology Lessons will be held in English and in Hungarian. Deadline for applications: 2 August 2004 Fee: 200 euro For enrolments after the deadline: 300 euro The training initiatives promoted by <strong>MEDIA</strong> <strong>Salles</strong> are open to exhibitors from countries belonging to the <strong>MEDIA</strong> Programme. For further information, please contact the <strong>MEDIA</strong> <strong>Salles</strong> offices Tel.: + 3 9 . 0 2 . 6 6 9 8 4 4 0 5, e-mail: infocinema@mediasalles.it or visit the website www.mediasalles.it