Dear Filmmaker Friends,

It is my pleasure to welcome you as we prepare for the 44th Hungarian Film Week!

From February 3rd to 9th, 2025, the Corvin Cinema in Budapest will host the rejuvenated Film Week. After a 13-year hiatus, we will once again come together at the Hungarian Film Week.

When I was elected president of the Hungarian Film Association, one of my key ambitions was to revive the Film Week. Every year, we in the film industry awaited early February with great anticipation for the start of Film Week. If we had a film to show, it was to see how the audience would respond, how the industry would receive it. If we didn’t have a film, it was to watch what others had created, to sit in the theater lobby until dawn discussing the films we’d seen, and to enjoy the personal connections that transcend genres.

In recent years, I secretly waited for a miracle, hoping “maybe this year…” Eventually, I, like many others, realized that, just as with a film, the magic of Film Week lies in our own hands. If we can create films from nothing and bring our dreams to life, we can also bring the Film Week back from nothing if we come together and work for it.

I am thrilled to announce that, after more than a year of preparation and thanks to the dedication, goodwill, and commitment of hundreds of people, on the evening of Monday, February 3, 2025, the curtain will rise in the Korda Hall at Corvin Cinema, and our shared celebration will begin.

To make this week truly special, we will need all of you! Submit your films, send in your entries, and be part of this event! Let’s see each other again!

With warm regards, on behalf of the Film Week Council,

András Muhi
Director of the 44th Hungarian Film Week