SEMMELWEIS (Hungary)

Official submission for 2025 Best International Academy Awards. 1847, Vienna. Ignác Semmelweis, the short-tempered but passionate Hungarian doctor delivers babies and carries out autopsies on a daily basis whilst looking for the cause of puerperal fever, the...

THOSE WHO REMAINED (Hungary)

DFS members will receive an E-mail link on 5/2 to enable them to watch this film. THOSE WHO REMAINED   *** On shortlist for Acad Awd Best International Feature film. ***  A lyrical story of the healing power of love in the midst of conflict, loss and trauma, THOSE WHO...

THE CITIZEN (Hungary)

In his late fifties Wilson, whose family was killed during an outbreak of civil war in Guinea-Bissau, enters Europe as a political refugee and settles for a sedate life as a security guard in a Budapest shopping center. Wilson’s main desire is to acquire...

FEVER AT DAWN (Israel/Hungary)

COACHELLA VALLEY PREMIERE Based on the novel of the true story of writer/director Péter Gárdos’ parents, FEVER AT DAWN journals an unlikely love affair between two Hungarian Holocaust survivors recuperating in Sweden.  Twenty-five year old Miklós has been given six...

PRIMA PRIMAVERA (Hungary)

Coachella Valley Premiere – One Time Screening Gábor, a middle-aged, simple-minded man, finds his life is suddenly thrown into chaos when his caregiver mother is shot in a bizarre bank robbery that he witnesses.  He forms an unlikely alliance with Joli, a no-nonsense...