Jackie Chan opens the Chinese Film Festival in Budapest

The Chinese Film Festival opened in Budapest’s Uránia National Film Theatre on Sunday, where film star Jackie Chan was the guest of honour.

In his opening speech at the Festival, Mr. Balog stressed “The Chinese and the Hungarians, the Chinese and the Europeans, have a common language, and this common language is none other than the language of culture, which we would like to speak as often as possible and with increasing loudness”.

With relation to the cultural relationship between the two countries, the Minister said that last year the Chinese public had had the opportunity to listen to the works of Béla Bartók in Shanghai, a exhibition of ancient Chinese art opened in the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest in 2015, and in 2014 the works of Hungarian artist Mihály Munkácsy were exhibited in Shanghai and Beijing, where the Hungarian Cultural Institute opened its doors in 2013.

“We would very much like, and are providing all possible support for, the Chinese Cultural Institute to open in Budapest soon”, the Minister highlighted. Mr. Balog also mentioned that in June Hungary would be hosting an international conference with the participation of China’s Minister of Health and the relative ministers of every Central European country, one of the main topics of which will be Chinese medicine.