Hungary's Ildikó Enyedi to Chair a Jury in Cannes

Flanked by Ana Lily Amirpour, Charlotte Le Bon, Karidja Touré and Shlomi Elkabetz, Hungarian director and screenwriter Ildikó Enyedi will be the head of the jury to award the Short Film Palme d’or and the 3 La Cinef prizes for student films in the Official Selection at the 76th Cannes Film Festival in May this year.

Her career as a feature film director began successfully at the Festival de Cannes in 1989, where her movie 'My 20th Century', selected for Un Certain Regard, won the Caméra d’or. "It encompasses all the epistemological effervescence in which yesterday’s cinema was born and today’s cinema was forged," the festival's website says.

Her elaborate aesthetics supporting intimate scenarios is the spice of her distinctive filmography like in 'On Body and Soul', which received the Golden Bear at the Berlinale 2017 or 'The Story of My Wife', which was featured in competition at the 2021 Festival de Cannes.

With her world-renowned films, Ildikó Enyedi weaves an impressive body of work of subtlety and grace, where rarity engenders precision, where the act of filming measures a way of conceiving cinema, according to the organizers of the Cannes Film Festival.