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In France, Katalin Moldovai's film, Without Air, won the Audience Award, while the film's lead actor was awarded the Best Actor prize in Greece.

13/11/2023 - The young Hungarian filmmaker born in Romania discusses his debut feature, a very subtle film about a teacher progressively ostracised

The 17th Bucharest Hungarian Film Week, the celebration of Hungarian cinema in the Romanian capital, starts this Sunday at the Romanian Peasant Museum.

Three Hungarian productions were awarded at prestigious international film festivals over the weekend in Warsaw, Poland and in Sitges, Spain.

14/09/2023 - The debut feature from Hungarian filmmaker Katalin Moldovai meticulously explores political correctness’ destructive power on teaching

Top 10: the TS Eliot Prize shortlist Each year, the T S Eliot Prize offers poets a chance to win a huge sack of cash, and critics a chance to generalise about trends in poetry. So here goes: long fragmentary narratives are in, love poems are out (though Natalie Diaz unfashionably flies the flag for sensual abandon). Who’ll win the £25,000 prize? If I were judging, it’d be Sasha Dugdale or Shane McCrae. But I’m not, so I’d bet on Diaz, with a side-flutter on Bhanu Kapil. I’m sore ab...

Daisy Lafarge’s Life Without Air was published this year by Granta Books. Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, the collection explores states of airlessness, from ghostly asphyxiations to the toxic environments of extractive capitalism, and ensuring consequences both psychic and ecological. Granta spoke to the poet about the zoonotic diseases, ancient processes of inoculation and resisting totalising metaphors.   The title of the collection is ‘Life Without Air’ – a refe...