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National Film Office
2022-01-05
Presenting the National Film Office of Hungary
National Film Office
Presenting the National Film Office of Hungary
The National Film Office is the authority discharging national administrative and controlling duties in relation to motion picture films. As such it is subject to the general rules of public administration and the Motion Picture Act.
The Film Office has been operating as one of the most important Hungarian institutions in the field of film administration and financing for more than 17 years and is currently in charge of the 30% tax refund system.
The Film Office is responsible for many other essential procedures, which include:
- administrative procedures entitling to direct Hungarian film production subsidies
- registering and controlling all production and distribution companies and all filming in Hungary
- supervising the execution of all bilateral and multilateral international film production treaties with Hungarian participation
- classifying and supervising art-cinemas and art films distributed in Hungary
- classifying also all cinematographic works to be shown in cinemas according to age limits and monitoring the compliance
- statistical procedures for the entire Hungarian film sector
At present, the Film Office has a full-time staff of 20. We also operate two committees; the Content Rating Committee that makes recommendation to the authority on the classification of films (for the protection of minors), and the Art Committee that assists us in the classification of art films.
What does the Hungarian National Film Office do in the field of film financing? Among many other tasks, the NFO is responsible for issuing tax certificates proving eligibility for tax benefits, examining and certifying production costs and registering Hungarian production companies.
The objective of the system is to increase the number of films produced partly or entirely in Hungary to support the Hungarian audiovisual industry and the production capacity of the country, while increasing the number of experts employed in the film industry. The tax relief system achieves such goals by allowing foreign film producers to reduce the production costs, and providing additional resources for Hungarian films and co-productions by encouraging Hungarian companies to invest in film production.
What types of productions may be eligible for the tax relief? Films produced on order (productions carried out by foreign film producers with the involvement of an assigned Hungarian film production company), and films not produced on order (co-productions or Hungarian films: productions made by a Hungarian producer or co-producer). All films made in Hungary, produced either or not on order by a registered Hungarian film production company may be eligible for the tax relief. All films shot in Hungary are also subject to a cultural test in accordance with the European cultural standards and film-industrial criteria.
Films that are not in the scope of the tax relief system and therefore excluded by law are the following:
- extremely violent and/or films with explicit content ,
- reality shows,
- scripted reality shows,
- soap operas,
- advertisements, commercials.
What are the direct film production costs incurred in Hungary? Shortly, all payments listed in the budget that were paid to Hungarian taxpayers. Direct expenses paid by the qualified Hungarian production (pre-production, production /shooting time/, and post-production), as wages, above- and below-the-line, all kinds of production costs, financing costs, administration, insurance, etc. costs.
Items excluded by law:
- indirect costs (advertising, promotion)
- costs incurred following the master print (distribution)
- royalties are limited to 4% of the Hungarian budget of the film
- the sum of the producers’ fees are limited to 4% of the Hungarian budget of the film
- the sum of the producers’ fees is limited to 4% of the Hungarian budget of the film
The qualifying non-Hungarian expenses can be incurred in any country and such expenses may qualify to the tax relief system up to 20% of Hungarian production costs.
Here are some examples of recent productions that were our clients:
| Title | Year | Hungarian Film Costs (Billion HUF) | Director / Creator | Stars | Genre |
| The Day of the Jackal | 2023- | 26,9 | Paul Wilmshurst, Anu Menon, Brian Kirk | Eddie Redmayne, Charles Dance, Úrsula Corberó, Lashana Lynch, Jack Doolan, Chukwudi Iwuji, Lee Byford | British drama tv series |
| Alien: Romulus | 2023- | 20,3 | Fede Alvarez | Cailee Spaeny Cailee Spaeny Isabela Merced Isabela Merced Archie Renaux Archie Renaux David Jonsson David Jonsson Spike Fearn Spike Fearn Aileen Wu Aileen Wu |
British drama American science fiction horror film |
| HALO | 2022- | 67,6 | Steven Kane, Kyle Killen | Pablo Schreiber, Shabana Azmi, Natasha Culzac | American military science fiction television series |
| Dune: Part Two | 2022- | 46,1 | Denis Villeneuve | Florence Pugh, Rebecca Ferguson, Timothée Chalamet | American epic science fiction film |
| Dune: Prophecy - Season 1 | 2022- | 50,6 | Anna Foerster John Cameron Richard J. Lewis |
Travis Fimmel, Desmond Hart, Camilla Beeput,Sarah Lam, Emily Watson, Olivia Williams, Jodhi May, Mark Strong, Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, Josh Heusto, Chloe Lea |
American science fiction television series |
| Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan - Season 4 | 2022-2023 | 29,9 | Lukas Ettlin, Jann Turner, Kevin Dowling, David Petrarca, Shana Stein | Abbie Cornish, Betty Gabriel, John Krasinski, Wendell Pierce, Michael Kelly |
American political action thriller television series |
| Gran Turismo | 2023 | 29,5 | Neill Blomkamp, Jason Hall, Zach Baylin, Alex Tse | David Harbour, Orlando Bloom, Archie Madekwe, | American biographical sports drama film |
| Shadow and Bone Season 2 | 2022-2023 | 22,8 | Eric Heisserer | Jessie Mei Li, Ben Barnes, Archie Renaux | American fantasy television series |
| FBI International Season 2 | 2022-2023 | 23,1 | Derek Haas, Dick Wolf | Carter Redwood, Vinessa Vidotto, Luke Kleintank | American crime television series |
| All the Light We Can Not See episodes 1-4 | 2022-2023 | 15,2 | Steven Knight, Shawn Levy | Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, Aria Mia LobertiLouis HofmannLars Eidinger |
American historical drama television miniseries |
| Lee | 2022-2023 | 5,0 | Ellen Kuras | Alexander Skarsgard, Kate Winslet, Andrea Riseborough, Andy Samberg | British biographical drama film |
| Moon Knight | 2021-2022 | 33,5 | Doug Moench, Mohamed Diab, Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead, | Oscar Isaac, Ethan Hawke, May Calamawy | American television miniseries |
| Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan - Season 3 | 2021-2022 | 29 | Kevin Dowling, David Petrarca, | John Krasinski | American political action thriller television series |
| Borderlands | 2021-2023 | 23,4 | Eli Roth, Joe Crombie | Cate Blanchett, Gina Gershon, Haley Bennett, Jamie Lee Curtis | action role-playing first-person looter shooter video game franchise television series |
| FBI International | 2021-2022 | 19,6 | Derek Haas, Dick Wolf | Carter Redwood, Vinessa Vidotto, Luke Kleintank | American crime television series |
| The Continental | 2021-2023 | 18,3 | Greg Coolidge, Shawn Simmons, Kirk Ward | Mel Gibson, Colin Woodell, Mishel Prada | miniseries |
| Poor Things | 2021-2022 | 13,3 | Yorgos Lanthimos, Tony McNamara, Alasdair Gray |
Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe | black/ absurdist comedy film |
| The Last Kingdom Season 5 | 2021-2022 | 8,6 | Jon East, Andy Hay, Paul Wilmshurst, Anthony Philipson, Alexander Dreymon, Bernard Cornwell, Laura Grace, James Smythe, Alexander Stewart, Alex Straker | Alexander Dreymon, Eliza Butterworth, Arnas Fedaravicius | British historical drama television series |
| The Unbearable Weight os Massive Talent | 2020-2022 | 8 | Tom Gormican, Kevin Etten | Nicolas Cage, Pedro Pascal, Tiffany Haddish | American action comedy film |
| Mrs Harris Goes to Paris | 2020-2021 | 2,7 | Anthony Fabian, Paul Gallico, Carroll Cartwright | Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert, Lambert Wilson | historical comedy drama film |
| The Survivor | 2019-2020 | 4,7 | Barry Levinson, Justine Juel Gillmer, Alan Scott Haft | Ben Foster, Billy Magnussen, Vicky Krieps, Peter Sarsgaard, Danny DeVito | Hungarian-American biographical film |
| Barbarians | 2019-2020 | 4,4 | Andreas Heckmann, Arne Nolting, Jan Martin Scharf | Laurence Rupp, Jeanne Goursaud, David Schütter | German historical war drama television series |
| Outside of the Wire | 2019-2020 | 5,2 | Mikael Håfström | Anthony Mackie, Damson Idris, Enzo Cilenti | American cyberpunk action film |
| The Last Kingdom Season 4 | 2019-2020 | 6,6 | Jon East, Edward Bazalgette, Peter Hoar, Bernard Cornwell, Jamie Crichton | Ewan Mitchell, Ian Hart, Cavan Clerkin, Timothy Innes, Millie Brady, James Northcote, Emily Cox, Mark Rowley, Arnas Fedaravicius, Eliza Butterworth, Alexander Dreymon | British historical drama television series |
| Treadstone | 2019-2020 | 11,9 | Tim Kring, Nneka Gerstle, Tyler Hisel, Tim Kring, Robert Ludlum | Jeremy Irvine, Tracy Ifeachor, Omar Metwally, Han Hyo-joo, Brian J. Smith | Action Drama Conspiracy thriller television series |
| Shadow and Bone | 2019-2020 | 14,8 | Eric Heisserer, Mairzee Almas, Leigh Bardugo, Vanya Asher |
Jessie Mei Li, Ben Barnes, Archie Renaux, Freddy Carter, | American fantasy television series |
| The Alienist: Angel of Darkness | 2019-2020 | 18,2 | David Caffrey,Amy Berg, Stuart Carolan, Gina Gionfriddo |
Martin McCreadie, Ted Levine, Dakota Fanning, Matthew Shear, Douglas Smith, Robert Wisdom, Luke Evans, Daniel Brühl | American period crime drama–thriller television series |
| HALO (a.k.a. Silver) | 2019-2020 | 37,8 | Steven Kane, Kyle Killen | Pablo Schreiber, Shabana Azmi, Natasha Culzac | American military science fiction television series |
| Dune | 2019-2020 | 29,5 | Denis Villeneuve | Zendaya, Jason Momoa, Rebecca Ferguson | American epic science fiction film |
| The King | 2018-2019 | 6,5 | David Michôd, Joel Edgerton | Robert Pattinson, Ben Mendelsohn, Timothée Chalamet, Joel Edgerton | epic historical drama film |
| The Witcher | 2018-2019 | 11,7 | Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, | Freya Allan, Henry Cavill, Anya Chalotra | fantasy drama television series |
| Terminator: Dark Fate | 2018-2019 | 20,6 | Tim Miller, David S. Goyer, Justin Rhodes, Billy Ray | Linda Hamilton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mackenzie Davis | American science fiction action film |
| Gemini Man | 2018-2019 | 7,4 | Ang Lee, David Benioff, Billy Ray, Darren Lemke | Will Smith, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Clive Owen | American science fiction action thriller film |
| Picasso | 2018 | 7,2 | Kenneth Biller, Noah Pink, Suzan-Lori Parks | Samantha Colley, Seth Gabel, Antonio Banderas | American biographical anthology drama miniseries |
| The Alienist | 2018 | 22 | Jakob Verbruggen | Daniel Brühl, Dakota Fanning, Luke Evans | Period drama · Crime · Thriller limited television series |
| Colette | 2018 | 1,8 | Wash Westmoreland | Keira Knightley, Fiona Shaw, Dominic West | biographical drama film |
| The Spy Who Dumped Me | 2018 | 9 | Susanna Fogel | Justin Theroux, Kate McKinnon, Blanka Györfi-Tóth, Mila Kunis, | American action comedy film |
| Red Sparrow | 2018 | 11,3 | Francis Lawrence, Justin Haythe, Jason Matthews | Jennifer Lawrence | American spy thriller film |
| Blade Runner 2049 | 2017 | 28,5 | Denis Villeneuve | Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, Ana de Armas | American epic neo-noir science fiction film |
| Atomic Blonde (The Coldest City) | 2015-2017 | 4,9 | David Leitch, Kurt Johnstad, Antony Johnston, Sam Hart | Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, John Goodman | American action thriller film |
| The Childhood of a Leader | 2015-2016 | 0,7 | Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold, Jean-Paul Sartre |
Robert Pattinson, Bérénice Bejo, Liam Cunningham, Stacy Martin | historical drama film |
| Maigret | 2015-2016 | 1,6 | Ashley Pearce, Jon East, Sarah Harding, Thaddeus O'Sullivan, Guy Andrews, Stewart Harcourt, Georges Simenon | Rowan Atkinson, Shaun Dingwall, Leo Staar | British television series |
| Inferno | 2015-2016 | 11,2 | Ron Howard | Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Irrfan Khan |
American action mystery thriller film |
| Spy | 2015 | 7,3 | Paul Feig | Melissa McCarthy, Jude Law, Jason Statham | American spy action comedy film |
| The Martian | 2015 | 11,8 | Ridley Scott, Drew Goddard, Andy Weir | Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig | science fiction film |
| Hercules | 2014 | 14,2 | Brett Ratner, Ryan J. Condal, Evan Spiliotopoulos, Steve Moore | Dwayne Johnson, John HurtIan, Ian McShane | American action-adventure fantasy film |
| Houdini | 2014 | 2 | Uli Edel, Bernard C. Meyer, Nicholas Meyer | Adrien Brody, Kristen Connolly, Evan Jones |
American Historical drama mini series |
| 47 Ronin | 2013 | 4,2 | Carl Rinsch, Chris Morgan, Hossein Amini, Walter Hamada | Keanu Reeves, Hiroyuki Sanada, Kô Shibasaki | American historical fantasy action film |
| World War Z | 2013 | 3,5 | Marc Forster, Matthew Michael Carnahan, Drew Goddard, Damon Lindelof | Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Daniella Kertesz | American action horror film |
| A Good Day to Die Hard | 2013 | 10,4 | John Moore, Skip Woods, Roderick Thorp | Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney, Sebastian Koch | American action thriller film |
| The Borgias | 2011-2013 | 15,3 | Neil Jordan | Jeremy Irons, François Arnaud, Holliday Grainger |
historical drama television series |
| The Rite | 2011 | 3,2 | Mikael Hafström, Michael Petroni, Matt Baglio | Colin O'Donoghue, Anthony Hopkins, Ciarán Hinds | supernatural horror film |
For more detailed information, please consult the relevant parts of the Hungarian Film Act.
Our new English-language information website will be available soon. In the meantime, for any further questions please contact the following
e-mail address: filmiroda@mk.gov.hu
dr. Miklós TABA
Head of the National Film Office of Hungary