Other highlights of the spring season included the Finn Filmnapok film festival, the Taste Finland restaurant day and the Finnovation seminar. EUNIC's Literature Night culminated the Institute's spring season, after which the summer's exciting events got underway.
The popular film festival Finn Filmnapok, or Finnish Film Days, offers its audience a wide range of new Finnish films. The film festival took place on 15–18 February for the 12th time, and attracted 1300 spectators.
At the end of February, FinnAgora and the Hungarian Evangelical Lutheran Church organised a joint seminar for friendship congregations (27.2.). The theme of the seminar was volunteer work in Finnish and Hungarian churches.
In March, the Institute organised a webinar (6.3.) on Tommy Hellsten's book The Child of Life, which was followed by a discussion of the issue of codependency. On 23.3., the Institute also organised a webinar on Finnish happiness led by Dániel Lukács.
In April, Finnovation seminar (4.4.) was held to discuss gender equality and the role of women in working life. The event was attended by around 50 people and featured speakers such as Amnesty, the Lazy Women collective as well as Anni Marttinen, chief economist at the Finnish Federation for Social Affairs and Health (Soste).
In May, FinnAgora organised a seminar (8.5.) on Roma identity in Finland and Hungary at the Finnish Embassy. The seminar featured speakers from both Hungary and Finland.
The Taste Finland restaurant day was held at the end of May (20.5.) for the 10th time. The food was prepared by visiting chefs from Finland, students from the Åland Vocational High School. The theme of this year's Taste Finland was food waste, and a record number of meal was sold during the event.
The event was traditionally held in the courtyard of the Embassy of Finland, where around 600 visitors enjoyed good food, live music and various activities. The Institute donated the profits from the event to the Salva Vita Alapítvány, an organisation supporting people with disabilities.
The expert visit for this spring season took place in May, when the plain language working group of University of Miskolc visited Helsinki and met experts from the Finnish Centre for Plain Language (29.-31.5).
In June, the Institute participated in the annual Eleven Tavasz festival (2.-3.6.), organized at locations on Bartók Béla út. This year, the event featured several Finnish-themed programmes.
The Institute's spring season concluded with the EUNIC Literature night event (8.6.), which took place in different parts of the Budapest Zoo. The debut novel Land of Snow and Ashes (Tuhkaan piirretty maa) by Finnish author Petra Rautiainen was listened to by 530 people during the evening. Rautiainen's book was read by the well-known actress Barbara Hegyi.
During the summer season, the Institute was also involved in various cultural events. In July, the Institute supported the production of Lyydia by the Agit-Cirk circus group at the Bondoró Street Art Festival in Balatonalmádi (2.7.), which was part of the Veszprém–Balaton 2023 Capital of Culture programme. In August, the Institute took part in the Garden Cinema event (6.8.) organised by the EUNIC network, which included a screening of the Finnish film The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic directed by Teemu Nikki, for an audience of around 50 – due to the cold weather, the audience was smaller than usual.