Mundruczó Film to Compete in Cannes

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Tender Son ? The Frankenstein Project
 
Mundruczó plays one of the main roles in the film, together with Lili Monori, Rudolf Frecska and Kitty Csíkos.
 
Mundruczó?s launched his career with the short Day After Day (2001). His first feature, Pleasant Days (2002), won the Silver Leopard in Locarno.
 
In 2003 Mundruczó?s short Joan of Arc on the Night Bus was invited to the Director's Fortnight in Cannes. He was also entered in the Cannes Résidence, a programme that supports emerging talents. In 2004, his short Little Apocrypha No.2 became the first Hungarian film to compete in the Cannes Cinéfondation, a section that introduces work by graduating film school students.
 
Mundruczó?s second feature film, Johanna, an operatic adaptation of the Joan of Arc story, was presented at Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section in 2005.
 
In 2008, Delta, his third feature, was awarded the Golden Reel Main Prize at the 39th Hungarian Film Week. The film was invited to Cannes, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize.
 
Three more Hungarian films have been invited to Cannes this year: Ágnes Kocsis?s Adrienn Pal will show in the Un certain regard section, Bálint Szimler?s Budapest Film Week winner short Here I Am in the Cinéfondation section and Károly Ujj-Mészáros?s Liza, the Foy-Fairy in the Atelier section.