Kornél Mundruczó was born in Hungary in 1975. He studied at the Hungarian University of Film and Theatre and is now one of the best known European film and theater directors. His creations have been presented in prestigious festivals all over the world. He has been working for the theater since 2003. He starts a new project every time he meets a challenging subject, a team or a new place.

After working independently for several years with the same team, in 2009 he founded his own independent theater company Proton Theatre together with producer Dóra Büki. For his outstanding direction of Imitation of Life, a show created with Proton Theatre in 2017, he received a Faust Award nomination. In the history of this award, Proton is the first non-German company to receive a nomination.
Mundruczó has also directed operas since 2003. The Makropulos affair, which premiered at the Flemish Opera in Antwerp, was nominated for the International Opera Award in the category Best New Production.

In cinema, he made his debut at the Cannes Film Festival in 2003. In the same year, he founded the film production company Proton Cinema Ltd. His third feature film Johanna – an adaptation of the story of Joan of Arc – was presented in 2005, in the independent Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival, where in 2014 his feature film, White God, won the Best Film award in the Un Certain Regard section. He has also participated in Cannes’ Official Competition with Delta in 2008, Tender Son in 2010 and Jupiter’s Moon in 2017. His first English-language feature, Pieces of a Woman of 2020, was in Competition at 77th Venice International Film Festival. In 2021, his film Evolution premiered in the new section of 2021 Cannes Film Festival, called Cannes Premiere, designed to give returning Cannes auteurs a safe place to screen new work outside of the competition.

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Imitation of Life
2019 Edition
24.09 – 06.10