FinnAgora is proudly showing Finnish and Hungarian collaboration during Finn Filmnapok. Finnish and Hungarian students have collaborated and made short films just for the festival. The Hungarian students study at Budapest Metropolitan University. The short films are shown the 7 th of February at Premier Kultcafé at 16.00 . The event is free and we hope to see many there to show support for the future Finnish and Hungarian filmmakers. You can read more of the collaboration in Hungarian here: https://www.metropolitan.hu/csere-filmek-a-finn-filmnapokon?fbclid=

This years opening film at Finn Filmnapok is Aurora. Directed by Miia Tervon the movie has received 13 nominations in the Finnish movie awards Jussi. The film has been critically acclaimed and very popular with audiences both in Finland and abroad. The film tells the story of a young woman named Aurora. She works in a beauty salon and has plans of moving to Norway where there is more money to be made. Aurora has a difficult relationship with an alcoholic father and struggles with her own problems with alcohol. During one night at a hot-dog stand Aurora meets iranian asylum seeker Darian who

The 9th Finnish Film Days takes place on the 5-9th of February 2020 at Toldi Cinema! Finnish Film Days offers eight first-class Finnish films and two shortfilm collections presenting some of the brightest talents of Finnish film making. All movies are spoken in Finnish and subtitled in English and Hungarian, unless mentioned otherwise. Tickets: 1550 / 1200 HUF Pre-sale starts the 23rd of January. Buy tickets at Toldi Cinema (Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út 36-38.) or at http://toldimozi.hu/programok/ Organized by FinnAgora co-operation with TOLDI mozi, Suomen elokuvasäätiö - Finnish Film Foundation ,

Finnish visual artist and musician Hannu Karjalainen is bringing his video installation Towards An Architect and a live audiovisual performance Nightfall to Finnish Film Days festival in collaboration with Let it Be! art agency . The video work portrays a fictional architect, who is being covered in Le Corbusier paints in different colours - experiencing the response of the people forced to live in the structures he has created. Nightfall is based on 16mm film footage of a woman walking in a park at night, shot by the artist himself. The viewer is transported on a dreamlike voyage through

FinnAgora is on Christmas break from the 20.12 to the 5.1. We have already started planning next years events and are very much looking forward to them. In February from the 5.2 to the 9.2 the popular Finnish movie festival Finn Filmnapok is being held in Budapest. In spring the popular restaurant day Taste Finland will also be back which will give an opportunity to taste Finnish delicacies in Hungary. There are a lot of interesting events coming up next year and to keep up to date please follow us on social media. FinnAgora wishes everyone a peaceful Christmas Time and a Happy New Year.