The motto of the festival "Before and After 1989" indicates that films will be shown from the periods before and after the exceptional year to give a better and more complete picture of the old system and the transition, the centre said.
The times before the fall of the Iron Curtain will be evoked through titles such as Karoly Makk's classic "Love" from 1971 tracing a political prisoner's complex relationship with his ailing mother and Peter Gothar's "Time Stands Still" about two brothers and their love in Budapest during the revolutionary times of 1956-1968.
Films showing the 1990s include Oscar winning veteran director Istvan Szabo's drama "Sweet Emma, Dear Bobe" and young filmmaker Ferenc Torok's "Moscow Square" about the dreams of the post-1989 generations.
The festival will also show Peter Bacso's classic "The Witness", a political satire about the communist regime in the early 1950s, in tribute to the director who died in March.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
