Simon, the Magician

Ildikó Enyedi was born in Budapest in 1955. She studied at the University of Economics between 1975 and 1978 and from 1979 at the Academy of Theatre and Film Art Budapest. She graduated as a film director in 1984. From 1978 to 1984, she was a member of the fine arts group INDIGO. After making short feature films with the Béla Balázs Studio, she won the Caméra d’Or prize in Cannes for her first full-length feature film MY 20TH CENTURY. In 1991, she was awarded the Béla Balázs Award. —Shanghai International Film Festival