His Master’s Voice

Canada, Hungary, France, Sweden and USA | 2018 | 108 minutes | Director: György Pálfi

Peter, a journalist from Hungary, notices a man who looks like his long-disappeared father in a documentary film. He escaped Communist Hungary in the 1970s and nobody has heard of him since. Peter travels to the USA to find him. The series of events leads to the revelation of secret research on voices from space. 

One of Hungary's most distinctive directors, György Pálfi, refers to a book by the icon of Polish sci-fi Stanislav Lem.

György Pálfi is a Hungarian filmmaker. His film Taxidermia was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. Pálfi's films have received numerous awards and nominations. At the 2002 European Film Awards, he won the European Discovery/Fassbinder Award for his début film Hukkle. At Les Arcs European Film Festival in 2014, Pálfi won the first annual ARTE International Prize for the best project in development, The Voice, about a son searching for his father, a scientist who went missing 30 years ago.