A long-forgotten photo album preserving scene stills of the film featuring young Hungarian aristocrats was brought back to life, and through this an 10-minute fragment has been reconstructed from stills.

Gala screening of the 4K restored Academy Award-winning film Mephisto. Special guests: István Szabó, director of the movie, Klaus Maria Brandauer, leading actor and the legendary film critic David Robinson.

Works by Ferenc Molnár have inspired many films, from the earliest days to the present day. We examine the filming stories behind 12 Molnár works.

At the Annecy Animation Film Festival we are representing the activities of the Film Archive with a new animation catalogue.

At the Cannes International Film Festival we are representing the activities of the Film Archive with a new sales catalogue.

The story, the creators and the reconstruction of the first Hungarian film.

Many years ago, between 11-15 October 1961, Budapest, and more precisely the Hungarian film archive, hosted the 17th congress of FIAF.

Our service covers Hungarian films made from the earliest days of Hungarian filmmaking to the beginning of the 2000s, furthermore, other films made in the early 2000s. Nearly 1000 full-length feature, animation and documentary films, and several thousand short films can be selected from our collection.

As a valuable consequence of the fusion between the Archive and the Hungarian National Film Fund in January, 2017, there is a great possibility for a long-running and comprehensive film restoration programme. In the coming decades we are going to restore hundreds of Hungarian motion pictures.