I Will Not Be Your Friend: The Films of György Pálfi

An old man hiccups, a goose goes about its business, flies buzz, and a runaway cart causes a stir in the village in György Pálfi’s nearly wordless—and quietly sinister—feature debut.

In this masterful embodiment of Pálfi’s fluidity of vision, a woman jumps from the roof of her Budapest apartment block and plunges into seven different microcosms of contemporary Hungarian society.

György Pálfi brings Stanisław Lem’s 1968 philosophical sci-fi novel to the screen with this head-spinning, cerebral thriller involving government secrets, Cold War politics, and extraterrestrial activity.

A hedonistic pervert, a gluttonous champion speed-eater, and a passionate fatalistic taxidermist are fleshed out in this astonishingly grotesque feature about three generations of a very, very bizarre family.

Pálfi’s improvisational film offers a glimpse into life in 2008 Budapest.

Based on Hungarian novel Our Street by Sándor Tar, Pálfi’s most recent feature centers on a benevolent man trying to survive in his post-apocalyptic, war-torn village.

This montage mash-up is composed of 450 clips from the most famous movies in history, directed by György Pálfi and produced by Béla Tarr.

Just as visionary and enigmatic as his feature films, this program of shorts includes a modern, comic-book style retelling of ancient myth, a vérité look at the life and times of a group of four year olds, and a young boy discovering life, death, and love in a fish market.