Gergely Váradi

Craze

Lenke has to face the fact to stop clinging to her relationship after her partner blurts out that he's breaking up, before a family dinner. Lenke goes through the stages of letting go but takes one last, desperate act to avoid it.

Night Method

On a film set inside a decaying socialist-era hotel, a young insomniac actress suffocates under her director’s manipulative gaze. Drawn to the half-dreamed nocturnal world of the hotel’s staff, she infiltrates their secret games by impersonating the long-lost love of the resident bar pianist. Blending haunted melodrama with meta-documentary, Night Method exposes the survival tactics of a Hungarian generation whose self-exploitation mirrors the very toxic patterns they long to outrun.

Tigris

Summer Cold

It's Zoé's birthday tomorrow, and she and her boyfriend are planning to go to her parents' holiday home by Lake Balaton. Next day's celebrations are not expected to offer any surprises. Zoé has never made so-called bad decisions, until today.

Schizo from Budapest

Mastergame

A young, revolutionary couple aboard the last train leaving Budapest after the Russian invasion of 1956. Based on a novel by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig.

Eviction

A young court bailiff's first eviction case turns into a nightmare because of a desperate old lady who is willing to sacrifice everything to keep her home.

Guerilla

In 1849, the liberation war against the Habsburg Empire is close to its end in Hungary. Having hidden from military draft, Barnabás leaves his hometown and walks across the country to find and save his wounded brother who has been hiding with a guerilla group deep in the forest. Despite their exhaustion, lack of food or information, they are still fighting for their cause. Barnabás finds his brother alienated and distrustful. The tension between the boys further increases when they turn out to be attracted to the same nurse in the camp. Hoping he can earn his brother's trust and take him home, Barnabás decides to stay and lie about his past. In the meantime, he has to face the cruelty of war.