Blue Danube Film Festival 2020 Vienna-Budapest
Blue Danube International Filmfestival is moving online this year.
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Digital Budapest Fashion & Tech Summit 2020
The Hungarian Fashion and Design Agency will organise a recurring international conference referred to as the Budapest Fashion & Tech Summit taking place between 30 November and 1 December, this year in an online format.
Photo Exhibition in Beijing Shows Empty V4 Capitals Due to Epidemic
An exhibition opened at the Hungarian Cultural Institute in Beijing presenting photographs of the empty capitals of the Visegrad Group countries in the midst of the coronavirus epidemic.
László Benkő Dies at 77
László Benkő founder of the iconic Hungarian music band Omega has died at the age of 77.
Photo of the Day: Leopard babies at the Gyöngyös Zoo
Leopard babies were born at the Gyöngyös Zoo on 4 October 2020.
CSAK Design Market – Online Edition
This time, CSAK Design Market is organized online to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus epidemic.
Nimród Antal to Direct Liam Neeson Thriller
Hungarian film director, Nimród Antal is going to direct the film entitled Retribution starring Liam Neeson in the spring.
National Museum to Close Due to Covid-19
The Hungarian National Museum and its affiliates will be closed from Wednesday on due to coronavirus-related restrictions. The museum said on Tuesday that its staff would be working on the museum’s websites, making a large part of its programmes available online, including guided tours of the collections scheduled for November. Collections belonging to the National […]
Budapest to Host Next Year’s MTV Europe Music Awards, Too
Budapest will host next year’s MTV Europe Music Awards, it was revealed at the annual contest on Sunday, co-hosted by the Hungarian capital and London. Hungarian supermodel Barbara Palvin and French DJ-producer David Guetta emceed the MTV EMA from Budapest. The capital’s Széchenyi spa was the backdrop for a performance of Guetta’s hit Let’s […]
Renowned Poet Géza Szőcs Dies at Age 67
Renowned poet Géza Sőocs, holder of the Kossuth and József Attila prizes and president of the Hungarian PEN Club, has died at the age of 67, PEN said. Born in Romania’s Târgu Mureș (Marosvásárhely) in 1953, Szőcs became an important voice in Romanian Hungarian literature in the 1970s. As an editor of “Counterpoints” (Ellenpontok), a […]