Controversial trends in film distribution in Hungary
But while the whole market seems to be growing, the distribution of independent films is in crisis, and the art house cinema network called Artmozi Hálózat (http://www.artmozi.hu/) has also serious problems – the kult cinema Bem in Budapest closed in the beginning of July due to financial reasosns, though temporarely it reopened soon after.
The biggest distributors have left the market: th SPI International Hungary (http://www.spi.hu/) quitted in april of 2009, and the Budapest Film (http://portal.budapestfilm.hu/) has been suspending the distributional activity until a new investor joins to the distributional sector of the company.
The independent distribution takes nevertheless the minor part of the whole market, the two major distributors UIP-Dunafilm (http://www.uipduna.hu/dynuip/) and Intercom ( http://www.intercom.hu/) have the 2/3rd of the market.