Kornél Mundruczó graduated from the Budapest School of Dramatic Art and Cinematography in 2004, and quickly gained international recognition as a director. Pleasant Days (2002) won the Silver Leopard at Locarno; Delta (2008), Tender Son: The Frankenstein Project (2010), La Lune de Jupiter (2017) and Évolution (2021) were shown at the Cannes Film Festival; White God (2014) won a prize in the ‘Un certain regard’ section.
Since 2003, he has also been working in theatre and opera, notably with Proton Theatre, which he founded in 2009 with Dóra Büki to preserve maximum artistic freedom and produce independent shows, often on an international scale. In France, he presented Hard to be a god at the Novart Festival in Bordeaux in 2010 and at the Filature in Mulhouse in 2011, Disgrâce by J. M. Coetzee at the Avignon Festival in 2012, and Imitation of Life, by Kata Wéber, at the MC93 in 2018. He has also directed productions in Germany, Poland, Switzerland and Belgium.