Kornél Mundruczó

Born in Hungary in 1975, he studied at the Hungarian University of Film and Drama and is now a director of European film and theatre. After working freelance for several years, in 2009 he founded his independent theatre company, Proton Theatre, with theatre producer Dóra Büki. In 2017, he was nominated for the Faust Prize for his direction of the play Imitation of life. In 2019, he directed Evolution, which was turned into a film and premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, where he has been invited since 2003. His third feature, Johanna, was presented in 2005 in the Un certain regard section, and in 2014 his sixth feature, White God, won the main prize in this section. Three of his other feature films were in the official competition at Cannes: Delta in 2008, Tender Son, the Frankenstein Project in 2010 and Jupiter's Moon in 2017. His first film in English, Pieces of a Woman, was in competition at the 77th Venice International Film Festival in 2020 and became a hit on Netflix. In 2012 he presented Disgrace at the Avignon Festival, a play based on the novel by J.M. Coetzee, followed in 2021 by CZĄSTKI KOBIETY - Une femme en pièces.