The 15th Calcutta International Film Festival, which starts on November 10, will show a retrospective of films by Mészáros. The director will be a special guest at the event.
The festival will also show a selection of recent Hungarian films directed by Róbert Alföldi, Tamás Almási, Péter Bacsó, Gábor Dettre, Gergely Fonyó, Béla Paczolay, Elemér Ragályi and Ferenc Török.
György Pálfi's latest film will show in Mumbai along with the Hungarian director Roland Vranik's Transmission.
György Pálfi debuted on the international film scene with an ingenious village murder mystery that contained hardly a word of dialogue. He followed up with a film called Taxidermia about the extremes humans will go to that was both revolting and marvelous. Pálfi's new film shows several interconnected stories about the rights and wrongs and relationships that make up the lives of the citizens of Budapest. The film has an improvisational feel and offers a true-to-life glimpse of life in the Hungarian capital in January 2008. I Am Not Your Friend, complemented with a short, also called I Am Not Your Friend, which documents early social networking among some of the capital's kindergartners, premiered at the 40th Hungarian Film Week at the end of January.
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