Pater Sparrow

1050 AD: Robert Cole returns to England to bring the medical light of the Orient to his countrymen. But he fails because of the intrigues of the established London doctors, who feel threatened by the new knowledge. And it is not only the human body that is full of seemingly impenetrable secrets, the soul also holds its own mysteries.

Day in and day out, lovers Cynthia and Evelyn enact an elaborate sadomasochistic fantasy as mistress and maid. But as their ritual of domination and submission begins to turn stale, Cynthia yearns for something more conventional, while Evelyn tries to push their taboos even further.

At a gas station in the middle of nowhere, a young man arrives to meet his father he hasn't seen for 30 years. On the same day, a van with four prostitutes breaks down at the very same gas station, on the way to Switzerland. The three days they spend together in the station change their lives forever.

Novák cannot sleep. Not to disturb his girlfriend, he spends his nights in the streets of Budapest and gets into weirder and weirder, more and more impossible and dangerous situations and liaisons. Unless he dies, he may regain his dreams by them.

A feature-length anthology film. They are known as myths, lore, and folktales. Created to give logic to mankind’s darkest fears, these stories laid the foundation for what we now know as the horror genre.

A girl in her thirties who lost all her hope in finding love meets a black cat, who can talk, but only the girl can hear it.

Something bizarre happens at the zoo. A man wakes up completely naked among the crocodiles. He doesn't remember how he ended up there, and he also can't seem to recall where he's been in the last three years. The unusual case is assigned to a young, female detective and her alcoholic male partner, about to retire. All traces lead to a mysterious cult whose guiding motto is: "Consciousness is suffering."

After a young soldier sides with a troupe of travelling actors in a fist fight that erupted while they are performing a play, he is forced to flee and the troupe decides to take him in.

Two orphaned brothers from a marginalised segment of society have to face separation.

John and Ninni – both heirs to their own individual amusement parks – fall in love amidst the whirling world they both inhabit. A forbidden love and a war between their two families puts their love and loyalty to the test.

Set in 19th century Vienna, Ignac Semmelweis, a short-tempered but passionate doctor, delivers babies and carries out autopsies on a daily basis while looking for the cause of puerperal fever, the mysterious epidemic that decimates patients in the hospital.

A modern-day reimagining of Alice-in-Wonderland with the beloved creatures turned into human characters and follows Alicia on a wildly magical trip into the Wonderland that is Budapest. Having recently lost her beloved mother, Alicia backpacks through Europe to fulfill her mother's last wish. A chance encounter with a strange girl forces Alicia on a mind-bending overnight adventure, where she meets not only a mysterious young man, but a whole menagerie of individuals that take her on an odyssey that will open her heart and mind.

A murder mystery set in 1936 Budapest, just as Hungary was preparing to align itself with Hitler. A beautiful young girl is found dead and nobody wants to investigate—except Gordon, a crime reporter who has a gut feeling that things are not what they seem.

A psychoanalyst, newly arrived in a very superstitious village, encounters absurd events.

The story takes place on New Year's Eve that a group of friends have been celebrating together for years. The host is the newly divorced psychologist, Aliz, and her guests are her younger brother, Döme, the chemistry teacher, Kristóf, the gynecologist, Gábor, the cook, and Márk, the photographer. They are all childhood best friends. In the meantime, Gábor's wife, Saci, the lawyer, and Márk's girlfriend, Fanni, the young special education teacher joins the group. The topic of the conversation veers in the direction of how nowadays people store many secrets and confidential information on their cell phones, and what kinds of conflicts may arise if the phones fall into unauthorized hands. Each of the seven members of the group insists on not having any secrets, on their lives being an open book, to which Aliz suggests that they should prove it.

'...while something is hot, one cannot touch it. However, when it gets cold, it’s not worth it anymore.'

T?ICK is the depiction of the relationship between man and woman, or if you like, separate but according to their function, connected principles. However, there is no philosophy or doctrine behind it, which could make it tangible. Thus, it doesn't operate in a complete system, but in one that can be continued. It tries to be a wake-up call to help everyone get rid of their daytime inhibitions and liberate their personal capacity for understanding.

Whispers crawl through soil Old roots murmur secrets He cannot reach, cannot speak His eyes taste the sky

A bookshop renowned for its rare works is mysteriously and filled with copies of a book entitled 1, which doesn't appear to have a publisher or author. The strange almanac describes what happens to humanity in a minute. A police investigation begins and the bookshop staff are placed in solitary confinement by the Bureau for Paranormal Research. As the investigation progresses, the situation becomes more complex and the book becomes increasingly well-known, raising numerous controversies. Plagued by doubts, the protagonist has to face facts: reality only exists in the imagination of individuals.

A mysterious death occurs in a retirement home for elderly actors. A neglected old actor, once famous for his Poirot-like roles, begins to investigate. He thoroughly interrogates the suspects, but has no easy task finding the killer among his fellow actors.

The life of Hungarian poet Miklós Radnóti, who died in the Holocaust. Seven individual stories show milestones in the poet’s life, with characters taken either from his works or from his personal history.

Biopoic of actor Győző Szabó's younger years struggling with his drug addiction.

As part of the Temps d'Images festival, TRAFÓ Budapest produced 'bildtheatre' performances titled RECYCLEd, experimenting with the relationship between theatre and film, exploring the analogies of recycling, which in this context refers to any cyclically repeated notion. The dramaturgies of the productions were shaped by themes, according to which their far-fetched ideas were transformed and thus became open to further use, i.e., symbioses formed between them when they were recycled. These fictional etudes by Pater Sparrow were short sensations based on dialogues, represented by strange characters, in some shifted spaces and times and in surreal settings, teeming with visual allegories and codes.