text: Animation director Réka Bucsi on how SYMPHONY NO. 42 got into the festival circuit. An interview by FilmFestivalLife.
  Variety spoke to Agnes Havas, head of the Hungarian National Film Fund about the three Hungarian features playing in Karlovy Vary, the imminent rise of the production incentive to 25%, and the return of the national movie kudofest, the Hungarian Film Week.
  Viktoria, the first film of the talented Bulgarian female writer, Maya Vitkova won the 8000-euros Breaking Waves Award of the 21st Titanic. The three-membered jury led by Hungarian director János Szász gave a special, director's award to Benedikt Erlingsson for his film, Of Horses and Men. The students' jury found Heart of a Lion to be the best piece of The European stories section, whilst the favourite of the audience proved to be The Optimists from Norway.
  This year's Titanic Festival will also present the works of Hungarian film makers too. Erik Novák's brand-new action-thriller and black comedy mixture Black Soup will have its premiere screening at the festival. Simon Szabó's short film Wall that won the main award at the Tampere Short Film Festival, and Réka Bucsi's animation short Symphony no. 42 that competed in the Berlinale can also be watched at Titanic. The original score for the Turkish movie The Long Way Home was written by Mihály Víg, and a special film selection and a round table-discussion will commemorate the recently deceased Miklós Jancsó.
  During the 21th Titanic Festival between 4-12th April the audience can watch films at five venues. Titanic operates as a competiton festival since 2005 and this year it has nine films in competition for the Breaking Waves Award. They come from Norway, Sweden, France, Iceland, Turkey, Bulgaria, Canada, USA and Chile and six of them are debut works. Existential matters, sexuality, social tensions and racial discrimination can be found among this year's subjects.
  The 21st Titanic kicks off with the screening of the English-Irish drama, Calvary and it closes with Only Lovers Left Alive from Jim Jarmusch. Between 4th -12th April at five venues the audience can watch 52 films of 25 nations divided into 7 sections. 10 of them are 2014-premieres, 5 of which had its world-premiere on Sundance Film Festival. There will be 9 films in competition for the Breaking Waves Award. The head of the jury is Hungarian film director, János Szász.
  MIYAZAKI'S FAREWELL: THE WIND RISES - OFFICIAL TRAILER
  The Wind Rises is a look at the life of Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed Japanese fighter planes during World War II.The last anime of the greatest animation director of all time: Hayao Miyazaki.
  Open society, democracy, the rule of law, tolerance and pluralism. Verzio Human Documentary Film Festival is 10 years old! The interesting and multifaceted programme includes a Chris Marker retrospective and the Titanic-hit docu The Act of Killing.
  The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its shortlist for the 2014 Foreign Language Film Oscar — the 76 submitted films sets a new record for the category.
  Hungarian costume maker Gabor Homonnay was given the Creative Arts Emmy Award for his creations used in the television series The Borgias.
  The 20th Titanic International Film Festival closes with the screening of Rufus Norris' film, Broken. The English film drama is starring Eloise Laurence, Cillian Murphy (28 Days Later, Inception) and Tim Roth (Pulp Fiction, Four Rooms). Between 5-13th April 74 films were screened, including new works of established directors, debuting films of first-time filmmakers, numerous fascinating movies from lesser-known regions and a world premier as well.
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  Thanks to Staropramen, tickets bought for this year's Czech-section films can be exchanged for a free pint of beer in Urania Cinema. So, anyone who watches a film of the 'Staropramen Beer Snacks' section will be entitled to a pint of Czech beer in exchange for the pass received with the ticket.
  Amexrap blog has put together a very useful table again which will help you to pick your kind of film from the multitude of choices offered by Titanic this year. Those who are familiar which the point system run by imdb.com will be thrilled because now you'll find each film ranked by the stars given to it, by dates and Hungarian plus original titles. Enjoy!
  The jubilee Titanic International Film Festival between 5-13th April will offer a selection of music-themed films again. In the Music For All section six documentaries, two feature films and one short will be screened. The audience can see an intimate musician portrait about Adam Green, a Grammy Award-winning roadmovie with Mumford & Sons, an incredible late-in-life rise of a 62 year-old soul singer, a guitar prodigy and his fight with the degenerative Lou Gehrig's disease, a documentary about the Pulp, the history of UK record shops, a rock 'n' roll swindle and Plan B's debut thriller.
  On the Emerald Island audience can watch a horror-comedy starring a sea-monster, a horror from the world of blocks-of-flats, a social drama, a film on the life of the legendary Belfast punk-rock rebel, Terri Holey and a documentary.