Regulations of the 46th Hungarian Film Week

In keeping with tradition, the 46th Hungarian Film Week aims to gather and present the fullest possible range of work by Hungarian filmmakers, thereby serving the development of Hungarian cinema and deepening personal connections among filmmakers and between filmmakers and audiences.

It also aims to create opportunities for representatives and generations of the different fields of the film industry to meet, to foster professional dialogue and creative collaboration, and to support new generations of filmmakers in presenting their work and starting their careers.

The Film Week consists of ten competition categories as well as the Panorama, Information and AI Information Sections.

Competition categories:

1. Feature Film
2. Short Film
3. Experimental Film
4. Documentary Film
5. Short Documentary and Documentary Series
6. Popular Science and Portrait Film
7. Short Animated Film
8. Animated Series
9. Television Series
10. Music Video

The line-up of the competition categories is selected by three-member pre-selection juries invited by the Director of the Film Week.

Special provisions set out in Section 6 apply to the pre-selection of the Music Video category, based on the cooperation with the Magyar Klipszemle (Hungarian Music Video Festival).

In this section, the Council invites, and welcomes applications from, Hungarian films or films made with the participation of Hungarian filmmakers, as well as international co-productions, that have not been entered into the official competition.

Films not selected for the competition by the pre-selection jury but considered professionally valuable or interesting may be screened here. This section may also include films that wish to be presented at the Film Week but have not been entered into the official competition.

The Hungarian Film Week announces a separate, non-competitive AI Information Section to present the current state of the use of artificial intelligence in moving image production in Hungary.

Works made entirely or partly with artificial intelligence may be entered into the section without genre restrictions, including traditional film and moving image genres, commercials and political advertisements.

Entering a work into the AI Information Section does not exclude entering it at the same time into the appropriate competition category of the Film Week.

The section’s programme is put together by experts invited by the Director of the Film Week. The works presented do not receive awards.

Films and moving image works completed or released after 1 January 2025 may be entered by filling in the online entry form on the website and accepting these Regulations.

Films and moving image works already entered for the 44th or 45th Hungarian Film Week may not be entered again. New seasons of television or other series that have been entered previously may be entered.

An entry becomes valid once the entrant has provided all mandatory information on the entry form and declared that they hold the rights required to enter the work and to have it screened in accordance with these Regulations.

Entry deadline: 6 December 2026

The Organiser will notify entrants by e-mail about the validity of their entry and whether the work has been selected for the programme.

Entry to the Hungarian Film Week is free of charge.

The Director of the Film Week is the President of the Association of Hungarian Filmmakers.

The Director is assisted by the five-member Council, whose members are invited by the Director of the Film Week.

The jury of each competition category is made up of persons invited by the Director of the Film Week and endorsed by the Council.

Works in the Feature Film, Documentary Film, Short Film and Short Animated Film categories are judged by five-member juries, and works in all other categories by three-member juries.

The decisions of the juries are professionally independent and final; there is no professional appeal against them.

Jury members may not take part in judging a category in which their own work or a film by a close relative is competing. Jury members must disclose any other interest or conflict of interest that could affect their impartiality.

In the feature film competition, the works are also judged by a three-member Interfaith Jury.

Certain professional film organisations, for example the professional associations of cinematographers, editors, sound engineers, film composers, production designers and costume designers, may set up their own professional juries, within a framework agreed with the Director of the Film Week, to assess the work of their peers taking part in the competition.

In each competition category, the juries of the Film Week present three awards:

• Best Film
• Best Director
• Special Prize

The Interfaith Jury awards the feature film it considers the best.

The Council may ask individual juries to present additional awards.

In agreement with the Director of the Film Week, professional film organisations may each recognise, with an independent professional award, the work of the peer in the competition they consider the best.

The awards presented by the juries carry no cash prize.

Awards are granted on professional grounds and do not give rise to any legal claim to money or other benefits.

No awards are presented in the AI Information Section.

As a general rule, the screening format for selected films is DCP.

For the AI Information Section, the Organiser may also accept other digital screening formats, depending on the technical possibilities.

Information on the selected films is included in the Film Week’s online catalogue, available on the official website of the Film Week.

The Film Week does not pay rental fees or any other financial contribution for the films in the programme.

Producers or authorised representatives of the films must deliver the screening copy (DCP, in a downloadable online format) by 15 January 2027 to nevezes@mfszemle.hu or to the upload platform designated by the Organiser.

Please specify the frame rate (FPS).

After the screenings, the filmmakers present are introduced to the audience by the host of the screening.

After the screenings of the films in competition, we organise professional discussions with the filmmakers, whose participation we count on.

A filmmaker or group of filmmakers may enter several films, but each entry must be registered on a separate form.

International co-productions with Hungarian participation may also be entered.

By entering, the entrant grants a free, non-exclusive licence for the public screening of the selected film within the official programme of the 46th Hungarian Film Week, including any repeat screenings.

For later screenings of award-winning films outside the period of the Film Week, the Organiser will consult the rights holders separately and obtain the necessary screening licences.

The entrant warrants that they hold the rights necessary to present the entered work and that its use by the Film Week in accordance with these Regulations does not infringe the rights of any third party.

The entrant authorises the Film Week to use the film’s title, credits, synopsis, poster, stills, trailer and any short excerpts provided for this purpose during entry to present and promote the Film Week’s programme.

Personal data provided during entry are processed by the Organiser in accordance with the applicable data protection legislation and its published privacy notice.

Entrants are informed during the entry process about the transfer of personal data to the Magyar Klipszemle and its conditions. Data are transferred on an appropriate legal basis.

By entering, the entrant accepts the provisions of these Regulations.

The Council is entitled to decide on professional and organisational matters not covered by these Regulations, respecting the principles of the Regulations and the equal treatment of entrants.