Kornél Mundruczó was born in Hungary in 1975. He studied at the Hungarian University of Film and Drama and is now a renowned European film-director, whose films premier at the most prestigious festivals all over the world. He directed his short film AFTA shortly after leaving school. It went on to win numerous international awards. PLEASANT DAYS, his first feature film, was awarded the Silver Leopard in Locarno in 2002 for best first and second feature. He entered in the Cannes Residence in 2003. His second feature film, JOHANNA –an operatic adaptation of the story of Joan of Arc- was presented in the Un Certain Regard in 2005. His third feature film, DELTA won the FIPRESCI Critics' Award in Cannes 2008. His latest film TENDER SON was shown in the Offical Selection of Cannes 2010.

He has been working for the stage for some years now, with Krétakör Theatre among others, but basically whenever he finds a topic, a group or a venue which inspires him. During the working process he tries to build a team and often ends up inviting some of the same actors, who become creative partners. It is with them that he devises the productions. He is not an official member of any theatre and mostly works on commission.
His theatre work, the FRANKENSTEIN-PROJECT won three awards at the 8th National Theatre Festival, Pécs for Best Performance, Best Actress as well as the Audience Award and has recently started touring extensively from Strasbourg through Wiesbaden to Nitra, Paris, Cracow, Brussels, Vienna, Ljubljana, Vilnius, Riga, Rotterdam and Karlsruhe. His new theatre performance HARD TO BE A GOD is an international co-prodution of the following festivals: Alkantara Festival, Lisbon, Portugal; Baltoscandal, Rakvere, Estonia; Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal; KunstenFestivalDesArts, Brussels, Belgium; Rotterdamse Schouwburg, The Netherlands; Theater der Welt 2010, Essen, Germany; Théâtre National de Bordeaux, France, Trafó – House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest, Hungary.