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A series of events entitled Hungarian Interferences will be held in Bordeaux for the second time this year. The opening event of this year's festival will be a joint exhibition by the Hungarian photographer Gabriella Cseh, a recipient of the André Kertész scholarship in 2007, and the French press photographer Fréderic Desmesures of images of Budapest and Bordeaux.
The week-long festival is supported by the Balassi Institute and is organised by Róbert Varga, a lector from the local university.
"The radiation of Paris and the clear Hungarian presence there do not reach Bordeaux, so it is important that our artists should get the chance for an introduction in this western French city," Varga said. The event will also provide an opportunity for Hungarian cultural attaché in Paris András Ecsedi-Derdák to meet the university's new leaders, he added.
Highlights of the festival will include a conference and film screening about the Hungarian-born journalist and historian Ferenc Fejtő, who recently died, aged 98. The writer Attila Bartis, whose book Walk was published in France two weeks ago, will host a literary talk together with Éva Almássy. Gergely Nikolényi and Attila Futaki will promote the first Hungarian comic book published in France, entitled Spiral. Director János Szász's film Opium, Diary of a Madwoman, and Róbert Alföldi's Tranquillity will be screened at the festival. The closing event, on April 4, will be a concert by the Hangfestők Trio and a programme of Hungarian folk songs mixed with Flamenco performed by Eszter Bartók, Róbert Sinha and Róbert Vidák.
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After the festival in Bordeaux ends, the Hungarian National Gallery's popular Exhibition The Hungarian Fauves - From Paris to Nagybánya 1904-1914 will open in Dijon. Visitors to the exhibition first see works by István Csók, who incorporated elements of Hungarian folklore into his paintings. Paintings by József Rippl-Rónai, a predecessor to the Hungarian Fauves, follow. Among the other artists whose works are represented in the exhibition are Róbert Berény, Béla Czóbel, Csaba Vilmos Perlrott and Sándor Ziffer.
The exhibition has already shown at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Céret as well as at the Musée Matisse in Cateau-Cambrésis. It will show in Dijon until June 15.
The theatre of Dijon will show The Beggar's Opera by Hungary's Béla Pintér Troupe on May 16, and a series of lectures will be held at the Science-Pro University about the history and music of Hungary, Fauvism in Paris and the expressionist movements of Central and Eastern Europe. The local cinema will show a selection of films by Hungarian director György Pálfi.
