Guy at the Bridge

Lunchtime Dossers

June 2024 •English

In a modern world in which the events of Shakespeare’s stories are a reality a group of laborers knock off for lunch and react to the events of the world around them.

THE SCHOOLGIRL

February 2024 •Lithuanian

Grandma's recount of her journey to school, but she was never alone in the forest.

House of a Witch

April 2024 •Nepali

A witch, cloaked in the guise of a villager, navigates life amongst unsuspecting humans.

Tall Tales

February 2019 •Hungarian

Shortly after the end of World War II, a con man on the run finds himself in a passionate love affair that may well cost him his life.

Flight from Vienna

January 1956 •English

A Hungarian Secret Service official attempts to defect the country and earn political asylum in the West.

Kontroll

November 2003 •Hungarian

A tale about a strange young man, Bulcsú, and the fellow ticket inspectors on his team who work aboard the subterranean Budapest Metro. A tale about racing along the tracks, and about a mysterious serial killer. And a tale about love.

Minden

January 2023 •Hungarian

8MM 2

November 2005 •English

Entering a seamy underground world of peep shows, nude clubs, and live Internet sex is David Huxley, an aspiring politician who has everything to lose. Secretly filmed in a steamy three-way with his fiancée Tish and a gorgeous young model, David is desperate to find the extortionist who's demanding an exorbitant amount of money for the negatives. But when the blackmail trail ends in murder and David is kidnapped, Tish must come up with $5 million ransom or her fiancé's once-promising career, and life, may come to a dead end.

The Miracle of Bern

October 2003 •German

The movie deals with the championship-winning German soccer team of 1954. Its story is linked with two others: The family of a young boy is split due to the events in World War II, and the father returns from Russia after eleven years. The second story is about a reporter and his wife reporting from the tournament.

Gloomy Sunday

October 1999 •German

Budapest in the thirties. The restaurant owner Laszlo hires the pianist András to play in his restaurant. Both men fall in love with the beautiful waitress Ilona who inspires András to his only composition. His song of Gloomy Sunday is, at first, loved and then feared, for its melancholic melody triggers off a chain of suicides. The fragile balance of the erotic ménage à trois is sent off kilter when the German Hans goes and falls in love with Ilona as well.

Over Here, Nothing New

October 2014 •Portuguese

Alex is a young adult from a social housing district. When he left his home in the morning, he faces a situation apparently out of the ordinary.

Mortal Spring

January 1973 •

An adaptation of a well-known novel by Hungarian writer Lajos Zilahy.

Playground

March 2023 •Spanish

When Uri arrives at a rave in Montjuic, he can’t quite find his place. It’s his first time… but he’ll end up finding a way. A short film about integration at a hardcore rhythm.

La niña tatuada

September 2024 •Spanish

Confidence

January 1980 •Hungarian

Janos and Kata are thrown together during the Second World War and forced to pose as husband and wife to hide from the Nazis. The intensity and suffocating intimacy of their new relationship and the circumstances in which they find themselves, forces them to confront past prejudices and assumptions and challenge what they truly believe.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

September 2011 •English

In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet mole within his former colleagues at the heart of MI6.

Formidable

April 2008 •French

Social comedy about 2 forty-somethings who're looking for a new purpose in life.

An American Rhapsody

June 2001 •English

A Hungarian family forced to flee the Communist country for the United States must leave a young daughter behind. Six years later, the family arranges to bring the absent daughter to the United States where she has trouble adjusting. The daughter then decides to travel to Budapest to discover her identity.

Fateless

February 2005 •Hungarian

An Hungarian youth comes of age at Buchenwald during World War II. György Köves is 14, the son of a merchant who's sent to a forced labor camp. After his father's departure, György gets a job at a brickyard; his bus is stopped and its Jewish occupants sent to camps. There, György find camaraderie, suffering, cruelty, illness, and death. He hears advice on preserving one's dignity and self-esteem. He discovers hatred. If he does survive and returns to Budapest, what will he find? What is natural; what is it to be a Jew? Sepia, black and white, and color alternate to shade the mood.

Rompamos con el maltrato

May 2007 •Spanish