Xmas is inseparable from traditions. The Ethnographic Museum works all year round, and especially during the holiday season, to bring the present into contact with the past, science with teaching, and cultures and generations into dialogue with each other.
In connection with the festive preparations, the museum’s online platforms pay special attention to the traditional world of the winter holidays: customs, stories and inspirations help to see how they can be incorporated into today’s everyday life. It is also worth trying the museum’s Motif Creator application, with which you can create unique motifs – even as the basis for personal gifts. It is also a great way to spend time browsing through holiday-related objects and photos in the renewed collection database or visiting the Etnotube channel, where we can deepen our knowledge of Xmas traditions through archive films or recently recorded interviews.
The Silent Friend – the Silver Spike award at the 70th Valladolid International Film Festival.
The jury, consisting of film critic Mihail Chirilov – TIFF’s artistic director, producer – Laurentina Guidotti, film directors – Elena López Riera and João Pedro Rodrigues, and film critic and cultural manager Serge Toubiana. Awarded Ildikó Enyedi’s humorous, sensitive and philosophical film.
The Valladolid International Film Festival (Seminci) is one of the most prestigious festivals in Europe, which primarily selects films that emphasize human values for its competition program.
A short preview of the The Silent Friend … An old tree stands in the middle of a botanical garden. It is lonely, like the other inhabitants of the garde. Thousands of kilometers away from their original habitat, we can admire and observe it, just as we observe the tree, it observe us. It witnesses to our short, tangled, noisy and troubled lives. The film tells three stories, three tentative encounters between humans and plants, when these two radically different perceptions are for a moment truly connected. Our human heroes, like the plants in the garden, are outsiders, lonely souls and they yearn for connection just as much as they do.
The Silent Friend had its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival, where it won six awards. It have had won the Grand Prix at the 16th La Roche-sur-Yon International Film Festival, and Gergely Pál was awarded Best Cinematography at the 61st Chicago International Film Festival.
The film will be released at the Hungarian cinemas on Thursday, 29th of January 2026, distributed by Mozinet, but in the meantime it will be screened at several pre-premiere screenings.
Pleased to bring attention to the great fans of the former Pink Floyd – Roger Waters concert film.
The Prague performance of the legendary musician who became famous with Pink Floyd will be shown nationwide for ONE NIGHTONLY! Bet it will bring joy to many!
Roger Waters, who can be presented as the creative driving force of Pink Floyd’s golden age, performed a similar show in the Czech capital as he did in Budapest by the end of April 2023. The concert series, which was described as the “first farewell tour” of the legendary musician’s life, can also provide a glorious spectacle on the big screen due to its cinematic visuals.
During the evening, 20 classics from Waters’ work were performed, some of them from within Pink Floyd and some from outside the band. In addition, a new composition was also debuted during the tour, which was titled “The Bar”. Among others, “Us & Them”, “Comfortably Numb”, “Wish You Were Here” and “Is This The Life We Really Want?” will also be performed. Waters was supported on stage by 9 of his fellow musicians to make the party as memorable as possible.
The one-time opportunity can also serve to those who missed the movie for some reason in Budapest, namely the “This Is Not a Drill” two years ago. It was already behind us in Prague, the recordings are from the end of May 2023.
The concert film is 143-minutes running time which can recreate a complete experience as much as the big screen can.
The screenings will be held in selected cinemas nationwide on the evening of July 23, in the original English language, without subtitles. Tickets are now on sale! The concert film fully in English language, no subtitle.
The concert music will only be available after the event from August 1, so if anyone wish to hear or relive what Waters and his team performed at the Czech O2 Arena before its release, then mark the date in your calendar … to grab your seat … then head to the cinema!
Just in time forgetting around be … take part … breath in alittle Culture … Robert Capa – Contemporary Photography Center
Date: Friday, June, 13. 2025. 5p.m.
District, VI. 8. Nagymező street -Budapest Location: Capa Center -1st floor
Film aesthete András Réz will give a guided tour of the exhibition Sylvia Plachy: Gifts from the 20th Century and Beyond at the Capa Center. Participation in the event is possible with a contemporary guided tour ticket which costs 3500HUF reached on the spot.
At the Hollókő Easter Festival, “a woman does not stay dry” – as the slogan of the event says, and indeed!
The traditional way of celebration, one of the most well-known Easter customs is sprinkling. At Easter, girls dressed in traditional folk costumes must be well doused with a bucket of cold water to prevent them from withering, because according to legend, fresh Easter water preserves the girls’ beauty.
Thousands of people visit this small village every year to learn about and experience Hungarian Easter traditions. The individuals at the Old Town still to-day wear their traditional colorful costums, kept their rich folklore, folk customs, with the inevitable sprinkling, concerts, handicraft demonstrations, Easter Egg Painting Yard, family and children’s programs provide unforgettable experiences in Hollókő during these three days. Will be awaiting Hungarian and foreigner visitors to this real countryside village during the occasion of Easter! The Easter Festival is a celebration of traditions and joie de vivre, where “Old Village” and its surroundings taking back in time to experience the atmosphere of the traditional Hungarian Easter!
Hollókő Old Village, is also on the UNESCO World Heritage List, where 67 red-tile historic houses have preserved their original condition and look the same as they did a hundred years ago. The specialty of Hollókő is that it is still a living and functioning village and visitors can feel as if they have stepped into a folk tale.
Distance between Hollókő – Nógrád County and Budapest by car on M3 Highway cca. 101 km , or 63 miles. Distance by car takes around 76 minutes or 1 hour.
Those who take the train to the capital to work or participate in a program … here is the first double-decker train in Hungary.
Rail is one of the safest and most environmentally friendly modes of transport.
The Budapest-Nyugati-Cegléd-Szolnok train departed from Nyugati Railway Station at 6 am on March 15, 2020. Double-decker trains will run on the two busiest suburbs, Budapest-Nyugati-Vác-Szob and Budapest-Nyugati-Cegléd-Szolnok. The production of double-deck trains is provided by Stadler Bussnang AG. performs.
From April, passengers will be able to meet the new double-decker trains on the Budapest-West-Vác-Szob railway line. After March, there will be one more KISS pilot in April and May each, and in June another seven KISS will be tested. The 11th vehicle is due to start in August, and another 21-story power train will be available by the end of 2022.
Passengers are equipped with an age-appropriate passenger information system, air-conditioned spacious train with 600 seats. It will be equipped with three standard and can be used by a disabled sink, and 4 wheelchair, and 12 bike or 5 stroller can be supplied, as well as for Wi-Fi, mobile phones and laptops charging network connections, as well as state of the art camera system will have a multi-functional spaces.
Rolling in Budapest 