Benedek Fliegauf

Directing

Benedek Fliegauf

Born

1974-08-15 (52)

Place of birth

Budapest, Hungary

Known for

Directing

Credits

31 titles

Benedek "Bence" Fliegauf, born 15 August 1974 in Budapest, is a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. Originally Fliegauf planned to become a writer. However, he had to abandon his plans due to a lack of finances. Instead, Fliegauf studied to become a stage designer between 1995 and 1998 and was hired as an assistant at Hungarian Television where he went on to become a director and editor. As assistant director, he studied under Miklós Jancsó and Árpád Sopsits. Fliegauf, who never attended film school, made his directorial debut in 1999 with the documentary Határvonal. Success first came with Beszélő fejek (2001), a film made up of six stories of everyday urban life. Fliegauf received t…

Known for

Womb poster
6.1

A woman's consuming love forces her to bear the clone of her dead beloved. From his infancy to manhood, she faces the unavoidable complexities of her controversial decision.

Womb

2010

Sparkle poster
6.2

Interviews with 3 people who had near death experiences.

Sparkle

2008

Forest: I See You Everywhere poster
5.8

The film brings together various everyday and relationship stories from Budapest that at first glance have nothing in common. A sequel to Fliegauf's 2003 film 'Forest'

Forest: I See You Everywhere

2022

About Cinema poster
8.2

An abandoned tumbledown theater in the outback of Paraíba state is the initial setting of a film about cinema, which explores the testimonials of the novelist and playwright Ariano Suassuna and other filmmakers such as Ruy Guerra, Julio Bressane, Ken Loach, Andrzej Wajda, Karim Ainouz, José Padilha, Hector Babenco, Vilmos Zsigmond, Béla Tarr, Gus Van Sant and Jia Zhangke. They all respond to two basic questions: why do they make movies and why do they serve the seventh art. The filmmakers share their thoughts about time, narrative, rhythm, light, movement, the meaning of tragedy, the audience‘s desires and the boundaries with other forms of art.

About Cinema

2015

No artwork available
NR

A bio-horror about climate change, in which strange things are released from the melting permafrost.

Bonefever

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Jimmy Jaguár poster
NR

Jimmy Jaguar, aka Jagu, is a demon who drifts from soul to soul, awakening something dark within. His hosts become vessels of revenge. But whose revenge? And why do their victims, chosen with no clear pattern, all seem to share the same eerie trait? They are alive only because “it is against the law to kill them”.

Jimmy Jaguár

2025

Film credits

Behind the camera

Womb poster
6.1

A woman's consuming love forces her to bear the clone of her dead beloved. From his infancy to manhood, she faces the unavoidable complexities of her controversial decision.

Womb

2010

Womb poster
6.1

A woman's consuming love forces her to bear the clone of her dead beloved. From his infancy to manhood, she faces the unavoidable complexities of her controversial decision.

Womb

2010

Sparkle poster
6.2

Interviews with 3 people who had near death experiences.

Sparkle

2008

Forest: I See You Everywhere poster
5.8

The film brings together various everyday and relationship stories from Budapest that at first glance have nothing in common. A sequel to Fliegauf's 2003 film 'Forest'

Forest: I See You Everywhere

2022

Forest: I See You Everywhere poster
5.8

The film brings together various everyday and relationship stories from Budapest that at first glance have nothing in common. A sequel to Fliegauf's 2003 film 'Forest'

Forest: I See You Everywhere

2022

Forest: I See You Everywhere poster
5.8

The film brings together various everyday and relationship stories from Budapest that at first glance have nothing in common. A sequel to Fliegauf's 2003 film 'Forest'

Forest: I See You Everywhere

2022

No artwork available
NR

A bio-horror about climate change, in which strange things are released from the melting permafrost.

Bonefever

—

Jimmy Jaguár poster
NR

Jimmy Jaguar, aka Jagu, is a demon who drifts from soul to soul, awakening something dark within. His hosts become vessels of revenge. But whose revenge? And why do their victims, chosen with no clear pattern, all seem to share the same eerie trait? They are alive only because “it is against the law to kill them”.

Jimmy Jaguár

2025

Jimmy Jaguár poster
NR

Jimmy Jaguar, aka Jagu, is a demon who drifts from soul to soul, awakening something dark within. His hosts become vessels of revenge. But whose revenge? And why do their victims, chosen with no clear pattern, all seem to share the same eerie trait? They are alive only because “it is against the law to kill them”.

Jimmy Jaguár

2025

No artwork available
9.0

A collective film made by ten prominent Hungarian filmmakers to express what each of them wishes to bring with them of their own culture and personal experience with Hungary's accession to the European Union.

From Europe Into Europe

2004

Lily Lane poster
5.0

A mother and son as grapple with the questions of life and death on an inner journey filled with strange stories.

Lily Lane

2016

Lily Lane poster
5.0

A mother and son as grapple with the questions of life and death on an inner journey filled with strange stories.

Lily Lane

2016

Lily Lane poster
5.0

A mother and son as grapple with the questions of life and death on an inner journey filled with strange stories.

Lily Lane

2016

Hungary 2011 poster
NR

Anthology film made as an act of protest against Hungarian government of Viktor Orban.

Hungary 2011

2012

Hungary 2011 poster
NR

Anthology film made as an act of protest against Hungarian government of Viktor Orban.

Hungary 2011

2012

Hypnosis poster
6.5

After a session of hypnosis reveals suppressed trauma, a young woman confronts memories of her past.

Hypnosis

2003

Just the Wind poster
6.3

Drawing inspiration from the death-squad murders of several Gypsy families in Hungary in 2008, director Bence Fliegauf's chilling and unforgettable real-life horror story follows a family whose dreams of emigration and escape are suddenly, horribly destroyed.

Just the Wind

2012

Just the Wind poster
6.3

Drawing inspiration from the death-squad murders of several Gypsy families in Hungary in 2008, director Bence Fliegauf's chilling and unforgettable real-life horror story follows a family whose dreams of emigration and escape are suddenly, horribly destroyed.

Just the Wind

2012

The Line poster
6.0

What happens to children whose parents forget to pick them up from school?

The Line

2004

Trance poster
NR

An unusual experiment in attempting to document the ecstacy of an age.

Trance

2006

Milky Way poster
6.6

An avant-garde, psychedelic, poetic minimalism, meditative, cartoon-esque sketch of the modern world.

Milky Way

2007

Milky Way poster
6.6

An avant-garde, psychedelic, poetic minimalism, meditative, cartoon-esque sketch of the modern world.

Milky Way

2007

Forest poster
6.5

Every day life for young men and women in Budapest is on display. All "teenage savages" at the time when communism disappeared in Eastern Europe, they now view the world in a sinister way. Examples: A woman becomes irritated with a man who has left his dog. A father has an argument with his wife about an alarming (to the parents) arousal of sexuality in their 10 y.o. daughter. A young girl is distressed by her growing realization that she is more and more like her sadistic grandmother. A conversation between two guys, apparently about an old car, takes an unexpected turn.

Forest

2003

Forest poster
6.5

Every day life for young men and women in Budapest is on display. All "teenage savages" at the time when communism disappeared in Eastern Europe, they now view the world in a sinister way. Examples: A woman becomes irritated with a man who has left his dog. A father has an argument with his wife about an alarming (to the parents) arousal of sexuality in their 10 y.o. daughter. A young girl is distressed by her growing realization that she is more and more like her sadistic grandmother. A conversation between two guys, apparently about an old car, takes an unexpected turn.

Forest

2003

Dealer poster
7.0

A drug dealer spends his day pedaling around Budapest visiting friends and clients.

Dealer

2004

Dealer poster
7.0

A drug dealer spends his day pedaling around Budapest visiting friends and clients.

Dealer

2004

Is There Life Before Death? poster
9.0

We all live in continuous hypnosis, and those people who awake from the dream and start to live their own lives frighten the rest of us. This film documents András Feldmár's thoughts, thoughts that make listeners very uneasy, thoughts that prompt us to search our souls. Through his thoughts we become acquainted with a man who continually searches his own soul and has a way of thinking that makes us very uneasy.

Is There Life Before Death?

2002

Talking Heads poster
7.0

"The first completed project of my own was the short film Talking Heads... that film already contained everything I would like to deal with over the next decade." - Benedek Fliegauf

Talking Heads

2001

Talking Heads poster
7.0

"The first completed project of my own was the short film Talking Heads... that film already contained everything I would like to deal with over the next decade." - Benedek Fliegauf

Talking Heads

2001