Following the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Ferenc was imprisoned in Gherla Prison but was given amnesty by Nicolae Ceaușescu seven years later and released.

In 1984, sixteen-year-old Attila and his father were stripped of their Romanian citizenship and presented with stateless passports, and advised to leave for Hungary.

The film was directed by Róbert Alföldi and stars Dorottya Udvaros, Zalán Makranczi, Dorka Gryllus and Judit Hernádi.

[10][11] In 2010, Bartis and poet István Kemény published a book, titled Amiről lehet, which features conversations from interviews they conducted of each other.

[13] In 2019, Bartis published Az eltűnt idő nyoma, a collection of diary entries and "sticky notes".

[14][15] In the early 2000s, Bartis spent time living abroad, with a DAAD scholarship in Berlin, Germany, and then Java, Indonesia for a while.

[4][16] His books have been translated into English, Arabic, French, German, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Romanian, Polish, Czech, Croatian, Norwegian, Estonian, Serbian, Dutch, Italian, Slovak, Russian, Macedonian and Uyghur.

[4] In 2010, Bartis published a photo-book titled A csöndet úgy, featuring 365 low-resolution photos taken with a mobile phone from January 2005 to December 2008.

[2] In 2018, he published a photo-book, titled A szigeteken, with text by Katharina Narbutovič, Zsolt Petrányi and Attila Szűcs.

[22] Bartis adapted Tranquility into a dramatic play, titled Anyám, Kleopátra, which premiered at the National Theatre in Budapest in 2003.

Bartis made his debut as a theater director in 2016 and directed his play Rendezés at the National Theatre in Târgu Mureș, Romania.