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.
So far, the institute has shown 21 shorts and three feature films at the screenings, which start at 11pm on Fridays. The features that have been shown include Tibor Kocsis's New Eldorado, György Pálfi's Hukkle and Nimród Antal's Control.
András Derdák, who heads the institute, recently announced plans to build a 50-seat retro art cinema this year as part of its renovation. The cinema will show 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.
