HUNGARIAN CULTURAL CENTRE FILMCLUB

Thursday, 7 October 2010 19:00

at

the Hungarian Cultural Centre

10 Maiden Lane

London WC2E 7NA

Underground: Covent Garden

For reservations please call 020 72406162 or e-mail bookings@hungary.org.uk

I AM NOT YOUR FRIEND (2009)

(Nem vagyok a barátod)

Director:

György Pálfi

The Hungarian and international award winning director's well known for his never ending experimenting in his films and showing the world on a different way what you've never seen before.

The summary of his film in his own words as written on imdb.com:

"I am not your friend is a film of improvisations - not only from the part of the nine amateur actors, but from the D.O.P., the director and the scriptwriters as well.

The story unfolds itself instantly by the reactions and ideas of actors during the 20 days of shooting and developed into what is presented to the audience. But the story perhaps is less important than the world which opens up in front of us, a taste of Budapest in January 2008."

CAST AND CREW

Writers: Gyorgy Palfi and Zsofia Ruttkay.

Producers: Peter Miskolczi and Gabor Varadi.

Actors: Csaba Czene, Kata Farkas, Kamilla Fatyol, Csaba Gosztonyi

(find more information on imdb.com)

STILLS FROM THE MOVIE

For more information about the director and his films please visit:

Interview

http://www.hungarianfilmweek.com/film-2008/film-2008/Interview-with-Gyorgy-Palfi.html

Hukkle (2002)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289229/

Taxidermia (2006)

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi1775763993/

HUNGARIAN CULTURAL CENTRE FILMCLUB

Thursday, 16 September 2010 19:00

A great chance to meet the director in person

at

the Hungarian Cultural Centre

10 Maiden Lane

London WC2E 7NA

Underground: Covent Garden

For reservations please call 020 72406162 or e-mail bookings@hungary.org.uk

THE EARTH'S LOVER / A FÖLD SZERETŐJE

Director: Zsolt Pozsgai

Zsolt Pozsgai is a Europa Prize winning playwright, theatre and film director.

He was born in 1960, Pecs, Hungary.

The urge to become a writer started in his early teenage years, and at the

age of 14 he was already directing.

While he studied Hungarian Literature at Pecs University he gained experience in various fields by taking on different positions, such as a driver, teaching assistant and postman.

When he was 24 he worked as an assistant director at Pecs National Theatre, then as its director. Later on he worked for a book publisher, but was required to do his national service as an air traffic controller for fighter aircraft.

In that time he wrote his first play, Horatio, performed in 1988, and since then his dramatic works have been regularly shown in Hungarian theatres.

By the end of 2005 there were more than 40 pieces which have appeared on stage in 54 theatres. A number a works have been performed abroad as well, in the USA, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France, Bulgaria and Macedonia.

Besides earning a title as a successful theatre director he also wrote and directed several television series.

One of his feature films, THE EARTH'S LOVER is about the maker of world-famous porcelain of Pecs, the inventor of eosin, Vilmos Zsolnay. It's a story from Hungary which takes place at the end of the 19th century.

(Source and more information: www.pozsgai.com)