After a shock, landslide electoral defeat introduced down longtime strongman Viktor Orbán final month, there’s a breath of recent life within the Hungarian movie trade. Right here’s a rundown of the a few of the buzziest titles native producers are bringing to the Cannes market, that includes a mixture of prime Hollywood stars and rising native abilities.:
Moulin
Director: László Nemes
Producer: Alain Goldman
The Oscar-winning “Son of Saul” director’s newest, which is competing for the Palme d’Or, is a French-language historic drama that tells the story of the resistance fighter Jean Pierre Moulin, who helped free France from Nazi occupation.
Gross sales: 193
Embers
Director: István Szabó
Producers: Robert Lantos, Tibor Krsko
Ralph Fiennes, Viggo Mortensen and Charlotte Rampling topline the star-studded solid of the newest from Oscar-winning director Szabó (“Mephisto”). Tailored from Sándor Márai’s acclaimed novel, it follows as soon as inseparable buddies who reconnect many years after one’s mysterious disappearance.
Gross sales: Embankment Movies
My Notes on Mars
Director: Lili Horvát
Producers: Lili Horvát, Dóra Csernátony
Mackenzie Davis and Rupert Good friend star in Horvát’s English-language debut, which tells the story of a superb scientist who reappears weeks after vanishing on a hike along with her husband and buddies, providing the couple an opportunity to rekindle their marriage.
Gross sales: Paradise Metropolis Gross sales
Cheaters Welcome
Director: Dénes Orosz
Producers: Dorottya Helmeczy, Gábor Kálomista
The newest from the director of the blockbuster musical rom-com “How Could I Live Without You?” follows a pair whose relationship is pushed to the bounds over the course of two chaotic days, pushed by misunderstandings and manipulation.
Gross sales: NFI World Gross sales
Untitled
Director: Gábor Reisz
Producer: Julia Berkes
The follow-up to Reisz’s 2023 Venice premiere “Explanation for Everything” follows a many whose apathetic spell is damaged when he finds himself on the forefront of a tragicomic home revolution.
Gross sales: N/A
How Might I Stay With out You? 2
Director: Zsombor Dyga
Producer: Attila Kirády
The follow-up to the record-breaking romantic musical comedy, based mostly on the songs of rock star Ferenc Demjén, which topped the field workplace in 2025 and was probably the most profitable Hungarian movie of the previous 40 years.
Gross sales: NFI World Gross sales
Simply One Extra Want
Administrators: Kata Dobo, Fanni Szilagyi
Producers: Dorottya Helmeczy, Gábor Kálomista
A romantic comedy that follows a music supervisor whose extraordinary life takes a dramatic flip when she discovers a mysterious pocket book that enables her to rewrite actuality. However quickly she learns that she isn’t capable of change her destiny — simply keep away from accountability when issues begin going unsuitable.
Gross sales: NFI World Gross sales
Espionage for Freshmen
Director: Viktor Oszkar Nagy
Producer: István Main
A Chilly Warfare-era interval comedy that’s impressed by the true story of a Hungarian resort receptionist whose life takes an surprising flip as he turns into ensnared in an internet of affection, espionage and self-discovery.
Gross sales: NFI World Gross sales
Solely Baby
Director: Balint Szentgyorgyi
Producer: Gabriella Illes
The characteristic debut of the creator and director of the HBO Europe collection “The Informant” is a Hitchcockian thriller a couple of childless couple whose vacation within the countryside is upended by the arrival of a mysterious visitor.
Gross sales: NFI World Gross sales
Retreat
Director: Hajni Kis
Producer: Julia Berkes
The newest characteristic from Kis, whose debut “Wild Roots” premiered in competitors at Karlovy Differ in 2021, is about at a distant countryside retreat the place a despondent man’s raging feelings put him into battle along with his spouse and the group.
Gross sales: N/A
