Good news to all movie enthusiasts: the 17th International Titanic Film Festival launches in little less than a month. Hungary’s biggest international film event offers a traditionally varied and multicoloured programme with lots of daring and unique films to the audience between 8 - 18th of April, 2010.


More than 60 films have been selected for showing. The festival offers an impressively wide range of films from comedy to crime, from social drama to animated films. Various genres are presented from all over the world, from Chile through China to Sweden. This year's special categories will include a war theme and "the Year of the Tiger" category, the latter compiling the best of last year's Chinese and Taiwanese productions.


 Shane Meadows: Le Donc and Scor-zay-zee

“This year, there are two basic international trends – and not only in cinematic terms. Firstly, the presence of armed conflicts, not only in the media, but in the public mind as well. A great number of exciting and thoughtprovoking films have been made about this topic, and we are proud to present a few of the bests, like the Chinese movie City of Life and Death. Talking of China, the country’s swift progress includes the development of its film industry, in quantity, but first of all, in quality. Our section, Year of the Dragon contains a selection of Chinese and Taiwanese films.


 Bahman Ghobadi: Nobody Knows About The Persian Cats

However, one does not need to look to distant places to find conflict, since family life and love affairs are made up of human relationships of the most exciting kind. Our section Family Ties is about all of that, but if you are looking for something tougher, you will fing it on The Dark Side, a selection of films about crime. In the always present MUSIC section, there are motion pictures composed to the music of the likes of, say, Philippe Heritier and Blur.” György Horváth, festival director 

Source: titanicfilmfest.hu

Tibor Halla
22 March 2010

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Relevant programs: •> [Exhibition] Fresh Europe / Mania, passion oblige •> [Concert] The New Piano Cocert •> [Conference] Towards a Multiage Society: The cultural dimension of age policies •> [Film] In Memoriam: The Galloping Major - Ferenc Puskás - projection of the Match of the Century •> [Film Club] Relatives (Rokonok) •> [Filmclub] Cancelled •> [Opening/Vernissage] Péter LAJTAI LANGER •> [Concert/Classic] Lily MAISKY •> [Grasshopper Club] TeatRumi Kompánia •> [Dance house / Táncház] TeatRumi Kompánia - Tarnsdanubian and Moldvan dances •> [Film Club] The two life of aunt Mici (Mici néni két élete) •> [Concert/Classic] Hungarian Culture Day - Hungarian Contemporary Music •> [Intellectual] Knowledge Cafe •> [Concert/Jazz] Lajos DUDÁS and Philipp van ENDERT duo •> [Film Club] Pumpheads (Kútfejek) •> [Children Club] Grasshopper Club •> [Concert/Classic] An evening for the memory of Jenő Hubay •> [Concert/Jazz] Nikoletta Szőke & Jazzclusive •> [Film Club] The Corporal and others (A tizedes meg a többiek) •> [Concert/Classic] Gergely Bogányi