The institute is showing films projected onto a wall on a 150-square-metre rooftop terrace. In order not to disturb the neighbours, it is showing the films with headphones and calling the venture Silent Cinema.
The institute also plans to build a 40-seat retro art cinema this year as part of its renovation, said institute director András Derdák. The cinema will screen two films a day, showing works not only from Hungary, but from the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia, with the co-operation of the countries' respective cultural institutes in Paris. The cinema will be called "V4" after the Visegrad Four countries of Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia.
The institute initiated a roundtable discussion on the promotion of Hungarian films abroad at the recently ended 39th Hungarian Film Week. Participants at the discussion, which was organised by the Balassi Institute, an umbrella organisation for Hungary's 19 cultural institutes abroad, included directors, producers, the heads of Hungary's cultural institutes and the country's newly appointed cultural diplomats.
