Biography
Ildikó Enyedi is a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. She was born on 15 November 1955 in Budapest. She studied economics before training in film at the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest and in Montpellier, France. She began her career with short films and conceptual art before making her feature debut.
Her first feature, My Twentieth Century (1989), won the Caméra d’Or at Cannes. She is best known for On Body and Soul (2017), which won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. Subsequent films include The Story of My Wife (2021) and Silent Friend (2025), which she also wrote.
