Budapest is a good place for rambling. And if you don’t simply follow the routes recommended by the guidebooks to visit the tourist sights, it can be very exciting too. Thanks to the Contemporary Architecture Centre [KÉK], those interested in architecture and the history of the city can satisfy their curiosity and thirst for culture this year with visits to two out-of-the-way places. The two venues are in a similar state and situation: run down and inaccessible to the average person. One is the No. 1 plant of the Kőbánya Brewery with the malt house and its striking chimney and the Dreher family’s villa. On the guided walk participants can learn about the history and construction of these two architectural curiosities, then at the end of the tour enjoy a dance performance or a contemporary music production created for the unusual venue.

Budapest is a good place for rambling. And if you don’t simply follow the routes recommended by the guidebooks to visit the tourist sights, it can be very exciting too. Thanks to the Contemporary Architecture Centre [KÉK], those interested in architecture and the history of the city can satisfy their curiosity and thirst for culture this year with visits to two out-of-the-way places. The two venues are in a similar state and situation: run down and inaccessible to the average person. One is the No. 1 plant of the Kőbánya Brewery with the malt house and its striking chimney and the Dreher family’s villa. On the guided walk participants can learn about the history and construction of these two architectural curiosities, then at the end of the tour enjoy a dance performance or a contemporary music production created for the unusual venue.

Founded in 2006, Royal Bones, the Danish circus company has highly skilled members who are equally trained in circus, dance, theatre and music. The play is directed by Lars Rudolfsson, who is possibly the most influential figure in Swedish music theatre, and has worked both with the ABBA and the Royal Swedish Opera. In this work with Royal Bones, whole artists can prove their talents in every second of the play, he evokes Shakespeare’s world with phenomenal artistes and musicians drawn from strange fairy tales and king dramas. Goblins, kings, traitors and magicians, mad lovers and spleeny princes fill Rudolfsson’s stage in the production that is a truly magnificent spectacle but difficult to define through its genre.

In the space of a week Budapest can catch up with the best of current Russian cinema. Beside a bunch of short films, nine feature-length films by leading representatives of the latest generation of Russian directors who break with conventions, shatter taboos and renew genres, will also be screened.

The Spot
Director | Yuri Moroz
The everyday lives of three prostitutes in Moscow, the catastrophic uniformity of past and present, this full-length film takes a look at the harsh rules of a harsh world.

Khrustalyov, My Car!
Director | Alexei German
In the period of paranoia before his death Stalin had doctors of Jewish origin tried on trumped up charges in the so-called “doctor trials”. The film’s doctor-general Glinsky is one of the victims. The KGB sets a trap for him and then deports him in secret. A new approach to Stalin’s madness.

Tickets can be purchased at the venue.

In the space of a week Budapest can catch up with the best of current Russian cinema. Beside a bunch of short films, nine feature-length films by leading representatives of the latest generation of Russian directors who break with conventions, shatter taboos and renew genres, will also be screened.

Tractor Drivers
Directed by Igor Aleinikov | Gleb Aleinikov
The first Russian adaptation of the highly successful Soviet film of the same title made in 1939 is a post-modern comedy about the changed world, an ironic gesture to the Stalinist regime in the context of a new era.

Playing the Victim
Director | Kirill Serebrennikov
The strange story of Valya, who drops out of university and takes a job with the police, where his task is to play the victim. His unusual job requires him to play the role of victim when the police make on-the-spot investigations.

Tickets can be purchased at the venue.

The Hungarian cabaret is celebrating its 100th anniversary. It was in 1907 that Endre Nagy created, or to be more exact, naturalised this art form in a venue called Bonbonnière. His name became synonymous with cabaret in the following decades; so much so that people went to what they called the „nagyendre” in the evenings. Péter Kárpáti’s new drama recalls this world and its creator, who was deprived of his theatre at the height of success, and even betrayed by his company. Kárpáti’s play has not been written as celebration, or as a documentary, or even as a taste of art history. The backbone of the story is made up of the personal drama, the tragedy arising from discrepancies of talent and ambition, as well as the never fading stories of intrigue and betrayal behind the scenes.