Gábor Reisz’ Hungarian/Italian coproduction Ground Floor / Földszint will have its domestic premiere in the CineFest’s main competition four days after its world premiere in the Venezia Spotlight section at the Venice International Film Festival (2 – 12 September 2026).
„The competition programme of the 22nd CineFest is once again on par with Europe’s most prestigious film festivals: the year’s most important films are premiering here in Hungary for the first time”, said festival director Tibor Bíró.
The festival is launching a new competition programme, V4+, a reimagining of the former East of Europe competition. One of the eight films selected in this competition, Igor Šeregi’s hit The Wedding / Svadba, will open the festival.
The Official Selection also includes OpenEye, CineNewWave, CineDocs, with sidebar section such as CineClassics and CineTribute.
Feature Film Competition:
Flies / Moscas (Mexico, Spain)
Directed by Fernando Eimbcke
God Forgives Everyone / Che Dio Perdona a Tutti (Italy)
Directed by PIF (Pierfrancesco Diliberto)
Ground Floor / Földszint (Hungary, Italy)
Directed by Gábor Reisz
Produced by Proton Cinema
Coproduced by All at Once
Heysel 85 (Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany)
Directed by Teodora Ana Mihai
Minotaur / Minotaure (France, Latvia, Germany)
Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev
Produced by MK2 Films
Coproduced by Razor Filmproduktion, Forma Pro Films, Aslanyurek Film Production, CG Cinema
Supported by the Latvian Developement and Investement Agency (LIAA), the Riga Film Fund, Arte France Cinéma, LEAF Entertainment
Mommy Blue (Hungary)
Directed by Bernadette Mayer
Produced by Kino Alfa
Coproduced by Salamandra Film, CineSuper
Supported by the National Film Institute – Hungary (NFI)
Only Beautiful Things to Look at / Prameň (Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary)
Directed by Ivan Ostrochovský
Produced by Punkchart Films, Negativ
Coproduced by the Slovak Television and Radio, Proton Cinema, the Czech Television
Supported by Czech Audiovisual Fund, Eurimages, the Slovak Audiovisual Fund, the National Film Institute – Hungary (NFI), the Hungarian National Film Office, Kultminor
Our Father / OčeNaš (Serbia, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, Croatia, Montenegro)
Directed by Goran Stanković
Produced by Dart Film
Coproduced by Pipser, Serious Film, Mak Film, Marletti, Flaneur Films
Supported by Film Center Serbia, Hubert Bals Fund, Creative Europe - MEDIA, the Netherlands Film Fonds, the Audio-visual Center of Republika Srpska, the Sarajevo Canton Ministry of Culture and Sport, the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg, Eurimages
Prosecution / Staatsschutz (Germany)
Directed by Faraz Shariat
Red Rocks / Les roches rouges (Portugal, France, Italy, Spain, Qatar)
Directed by Bruno Dumont
Rose (Germany, Austria)
Directed by Markus Schleinzer
The Battle of Oslo / Blücher (Norway)
Directed by Daniel Fahre
The Garden We Dreamed / El Jardín Que Sonamos (Mexico)
Directed by Joaquín Del Paso
The Red Hangar / Hangar Rojo (Chile, Argentina, Italy)
Directed by Juan Pablo Sallato
Too Many Beasts / L’espéce explosive (France)
Directed by Sarah Arnold
Truly Naked (the Netherlands, Belgium, France, UK)
Directed by Muriel D’Ansembourg
V4+:
The Wedding / Svadba (Croatia, Serbia)
Directed by Igor Šeregi
Produced by Eclectica
Coproduced by Viktorija film
Supported by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC), Creative Europe - MEDIA, HRT
Whites Wash at Ninety / Belo se pere na devetdeset (Slovenia, Croatia, Italia, Serbia, North Macedonia, Montenegro)
Directed by Marko Naberšnik
Produced by Perfo Production
Coproduced by Biberche, Black Cat Production, Kinorama, Protos Film, Quasar
Supported by the Slovenian Film Centre, Pro plus, FS Viba Film, Film Center Serbia, the North Macedonia Film Agency, the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, the Film Centre of Montenegro, the Film Commission Friuli Venezia Gulia (FVG), Eurimages
3 Days in September / 3 zile in septembrie (Romania)
Directed by Tudor Giurgiu
Produced by Point Film
Coproduced by StaySharp Film, Libra Film Productions, Arome 22
Supported by the Romanian Film Centre (CNC, https://cnc.gov.ro), SEE Cinema Network
Gorky Resort / Pojedynek (Poland)
Directed by Łukasz Palkowski
The Altar Boys / Ministranci (Poland)
Directed by Piotr Domalewski
The Widower / Udovac (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Directed by Hari Šečić
The Dreamed Adventure (Germany, France, Bulgaria, Austria)
Directed by Valeska Grisebach
Produced by Komplizen Film Production
Coproduced by Kazak Productions, Miramar Films, Panama Films, Valeska Grisebach, New Matter Films, ARTE France Cinéma, ZDF/ARTE, and in collaboration with ARTE Franc
Supported by Der Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Filmförderungsanstalt, Deutscher Filmförderfonds, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, Creative Europe MEDIA, Aide aux cinémas du monde, Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée, Institut Français, the Bulgarian National Film Center, Österreichisches Filminstitut und ÖFI+, Filmfonds Wien
10 Nights of Adventure / 10 éjszakás kaland (Hungary)
Directed by Erik Novák
Produced by Krez Film
