Kornél Mundruczó

Kornél Mundruczó studied acting and directing at the University of Theater and Film Arts in Budapest. He garnered international attention with his short movies AFTA: Day After Day (2001), Little Apocrypha No. 1 (2002), A Bus Came... (segment "Joan of Arc on the Night Bus," 2003), Little Apocrypha No. 2 (2004), and Lost and Found – Short Lasting Silence (2005).

His feature debut Pleasant Days (2002) won the Golden Leopard at Locarno for Best First or Second Feature. Mundruczó's second picture, screened in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, was an adaptation of the story of Joan of Arc, entitled Johanna (2005). His third outing, Delta (2008), was named best film at Hungarian Film Week.

His subsequent movies have made him a regular at Cannes: Tender Son: The Frankenstein Project (2010), White God (2014), and Jupiter's Moon (2017). Audiences in Karlovy Vary, where Mundruczó sat on the main jury in 2005, have seen Pleasant Days and Delta.

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