György Pálfi

György Pálfi (b. 1974, Budapest) is a leading Hungarian director with many festival awards to his name. After shooting experimental films on Super 8 in the late 1980s, he attracted international attention with his feature debut Hukkle (2002), winning a European Film Award as Discovery of the Year, with further honours at the festivals in Sochi, Cottbus and Budapest. His next film, the visually opulent parable Taxidermia (2006), was premiered in Cannes' Un certain regard and was also seen by Karlovy Vary audiences. In 2012 he created the highly distinctive cinephilic collage Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (Final Cut: Hölgyeim és uraim), premiered in the Cannes Classics section. Free Fall is his second film to be screened in competition at Karlovy Vary; he first competed here in 2009 with I'm Not Your Friend (Nem vagyok a barátod).

MFF Karlovy Vary