
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
6.1A 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
6.2Interviews with 3 people who had near death experiences.
Sparkle
2008
5.8The 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
8.2An 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
A bio-horror about climate change, in which strange things are released from the melting permafrost.
Bonefever
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NRJimmy 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
6.1A 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
6.1A 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
6.2Interviews with 3 people who had near death experiences.
Sparkle
2008
5.8The 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
5.8The 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
5.8The 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
A bio-horror about climate change, in which strange things are released from the melting permafrost.
Bonefever
—
NRJimmy 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
NRJimmy 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
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
5.0A mother and son as grapple with the questions of life and death on an inner journey filled with strange stories.
Lily Lane
2016
5.0A mother and son as grapple with the questions of life and death on an inner journey filled with strange stories.
Lily Lane
2016
5.0A mother and son as grapple with the questions of life and death on an inner journey filled with strange stories.
Lily Lane
2016
NRAnthology film made as an act of protest against Hungarian government of Viktor Orban.
Hungary 2011
2012
NRAnthology film made as an act of protest against Hungarian government of Viktor Orban.
Hungary 2011
2012
6.5After a session of hypnosis reveals suppressed trauma, a young woman confronts memories of her past.
Hypnosis
2003
6.3Drawing 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
6.3Drawing 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
6.0What happens to children whose parents forget to pick them up from school?
The Line
2004
NRAn unusual experiment in attempting to document the ecstacy of an age.
Trance
2006
6.6An avant-garde, psychedelic, poetic minimalism, meditative, cartoon-esque sketch of the modern world.
Milky Way
2007
6.6An avant-garde, psychedelic, poetic minimalism, meditative, cartoon-esque sketch of the modern world.
Milky Way
2007
6.5Every 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
6.5Every 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
7.0A drug dealer spends his day pedaling around Budapest visiting friends and clients.
Dealer
2004
7.0A drug dealer spends his day pedaling around Budapest visiting friends and clients.
Dealer
2004
9.0We 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
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
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

