Ildikó Enyedi

Directing

Ildikó Enyedi

Born

1955-11-15 (70)

Place of birth

Budapest, Hungary

Known for

Directing

Credits

31 titles

Ildikó Enyedi (born 15 November 1955) is a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. Her 2017 film On Body and Soul won the top prize at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival and went on to be nominated for a Foreign Language Academy Award. She has directed eight feature films since 1989.

Known for

Silent Friend poster
7.2

In the heart of a botanical garden in a medieval university town in Germany stands a majestic ginkgo tree. This silent witness has observed over a century the quiet rhythms of transformation across three human lives. At three distinct moments across the 20th and 21st centuries, these people — each carrying their own questions and inner struggles — inevitably find themselves drawn into the presence of this tree, full of mystery and meaning.

Silent Friend

2026

On Body and Soul poster
7.3

Two introverted people find out by pure chance that they share the same dream every night. They are puzzled, incredulous, a bit frightened. As they hesitantly accept this strange coincidence, they try to recreate in broad daylight what happens in their dream.

On Body and Soul

2017

The Story of My Wife poster
5.8

A sea captain makes a bet in a cafe with a friend that he will marry the first woman who walks in.

The Story of My Wife

2021

My Twentieth Century poster
6.5

A tale of twin girls, Dóra and Lili, who are born in 1880 Budapest at the same moment Thomas Edison presents his electric lightbulb to the world. The sisters are soon orphaned and separated in childhood, and follow different paths: one grows up to be a naïvely idealistic, bomb-toting anarchist, the other a pampered, hedonistic courtesan. Their paths cross once again on the Orient Express on New Year's Eve 1899...

My Twentieth Century

1989

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tacheles

2021

Invasion poster
NR

In Enyedi’s banned Film Academy graduation work, a city’s inhabitants hide underground from a horde of peculiar creatures.

Invasion

1986

Film credits

Behind the camera

Silent Friend poster
7.2

In the heart of a botanical garden in a medieval university town in Germany stands a majestic ginkgo tree. This silent witness has observed over a century the quiet rhythms of transformation across three human lives. At three distinct moments across the 20th and 21st centuries, these people — each carrying their own questions and inner struggles — inevitably find themselves drawn into the presence of this tree, full of mystery and meaning.

Silent Friend

2026

Silent Friend poster
7.2

In the heart of a botanical garden in a medieval university town in Germany stands a majestic ginkgo tree. This silent witness has observed over a century the quiet rhythms of transformation across three human lives. At three distinct moments across the 20th and 21st centuries, these people — each carrying their own questions and inner struggles — inevitably find themselves drawn into the presence of this tree, full of mystery and meaning.

Silent Friend

2026

On Body and Soul poster
7.3

Two introverted people find out by pure chance that they share the same dream every night. They are puzzled, incredulous, a bit frightened. As they hesitantly accept this strange coincidence, they try to recreate in broad daylight what happens in their dream.

On Body and Soul

2017

On Body and Soul poster
7.3

Two introverted people find out by pure chance that they share the same dream every night. They are puzzled, incredulous, a bit frightened. As they hesitantly accept this strange coincidence, they try to recreate in broad daylight what happens in their dream.

On Body and Soul

2017

The Story of My Wife poster
5.8

A sea captain makes a bet in a cafe with a friend that he will marry the first woman who walks in.

The Story of My Wife

2021

The Story of My Wife poster
5.8

A sea captain makes a bet in a cafe with a friend that he will marry the first woman who walks in.

The Story of My Wife

2021

My Twentieth Century poster
6.5

A tale of twin girls, Dóra and Lili, who are born in 1880 Budapest at the same moment Thomas Edison presents his electric lightbulb to the world. The sisters are soon orphaned and separated in childhood, and follow different paths: one grows up to be a naïvely idealistic, bomb-toting anarchist, the other a pampered, hedonistic courtesan. Their paths cross once again on the Orient Express on New Year's Eve 1899...

My Twentieth Century

1989

My Twentieth Century poster
6.5

A tale of twin girls, Dóra and Lili, who are born in 1880 Budapest at the same moment Thomas Edison presents his electric lightbulb to the world. The sisters are soon orphaned and separated in childhood, and follow different paths: one grows up to be a naïvely idealistic, bomb-toting anarchist, the other a pampered, hedonistic courtesan. Their paths cross once again on the Orient Express on New Year's Eve 1899...

My Twentieth Century

1989

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tacheles

2021

Invasion poster
NR

In Enyedi’s banned Film Academy graduation work, a city’s inhabitants hide underground from a horde of peculiar creatures.

Invasion

1986

Tamas and Juli poster
5.1

Set in a mining town, it records the development of two shy people falling in love but finding it difficult to express their true feelings. Tamas a young coal miner has an eye for the girls but is too bashful to ask for a date. Juli is a teacher in charge of a kindergarten. She too has yearnings for love but fears showing the feelings bubbling within her. The quiet and tender moments the lovers spend together are contrasted with the overpowering gigantic and noisy coal mine with its dirty metal trucks and endless rubber conveyor belts. There is an atmosphere of impending danger within the mine.

Tamas and Juli

1997

Tamas and Juli poster
5.1

Set in a mining town, it records the development of two shy people falling in love but finding it difficult to express their true feelings. Tamas a young coal miner has an eye for the girls but is too bashful to ask for a date. Juli is a teacher in charge of a kindergarten. She too has yearnings for love but fears showing the feelings bubbling within her. The quiet and tender moments the lovers spend together are contrasted with the overpowering gigantic and noisy coal mine with its dirty metal trucks and endless rubber conveyor belts. There is an atmosphere of impending danger within the mine.

Tamas and Juli

1997

No artwork available
9.0

A collective film made by ten prominent Hungarian filmmakers to express what each of them wishes to bring with them of their own culture and personal experience with Hungary's accession to the European Union.

From Europe Into Europe

2004

First Love poster
NR

A girl meets a boy. The most normal thing to do when you are 16. A girl meets a boy she has never seen yet - alone, at night, in a dark parking lot. The most foolish thing to do when you are 16.

First Love

2008

First Love poster
NR

A girl meets a boy. The most normal thing to do when you are 16. A girl meets a boy she has never seen yet - alone, at night, in a dark parking lot. The most foolish thing to do when you are 16.

First Love

2008

The Mole poster
NR

An agent, sent to solve the secret of the lives of those who have a daily routine, wishes to be a part of them. After revealing the secret - that the whole world is a projected image - he enters this dream-reality.

The Mole

1985

The Mole poster
NR

An agent, sent to solve the secret of the lives of those who have a daily routine, wishes to be a part of them. After revealing the secret - that the whole world is a projected image - he enters this dream-reality.

The Mole

1985

No artwork available
NR

A film in seven parts.

Winter War

1991

No artwork available
NR

A film in seven parts.

Winter War

1991

The Conversations of Donkey and Rabbit poster
4.5

In “Spaces #3”, 7 internationally acclaimed directors shot, after commissioning by the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, a short film at home, making their own timely comment on the new reality that we live in. The project is inspired by the book “Species of Spaces” by the French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist, Georges Perec and the days of quarantine. The idea is to create a film at home, using the environment, the people or the animals in that space. The only outdoor areas that may be used are outdoor living spaces, such as the terrace, the garden, the balcony and the stairwell. “The Conversations of Donkey and Rabbit” is Ildikó Enyedi’s submission.

The Conversations of Donkey and Rabbit

2020

Flirt: Hipnózis poster
NR

The director of the film subjected herself to hypnosis with the assistance of a famous Hungarian doctor. The event was recorded by a fixed camera, placed earlier by the director. (BBS Catalog 1961-91)

Flirt: Hipnózis

1979

Simon, the Magician poster
6.4

A crime is committed in Paris, and the police are clueless. They call in Simon, a sorcerer with supernatural powers. whilst in Paris, Simon falls in love with Jeanne, although they do not speak each other's language. When Jeanne leaves for a couple of days, Peter, another visionary, calls Simon for a duel: They both have to spend three days buried alive. Will Simon ever meet his love again?

Simon, the Magician

1999

Simon, the Magician poster
6.4

A crime is committed in Paris, and the police are clueless. They call in Simon, a sorcerer with supernatural powers. whilst in Paris, Simon falls in love with Jeanne, although they do not speak each other's language. When Jeanne leaves for a couple of days, Peter, another visionary, calls Simon for a duel: They both have to spend three days buried alive. Will Simon ever meet his love again?

Simon, the Magician

1999

Simon, the Magician poster
6.4

A crime is committed in Paris, and the police are clueless. They call in Simon, a sorcerer with supernatural powers. whilst in Paris, Simon falls in love with Jeanne, although they do not speak each other's language. When Jeanne leaves for a couple of days, Peter, another visionary, calls Simon for a duel: They both have to spend three days buried alive. Will Simon ever meet his love again?

Simon, the Magician

1999

Magic Hunter poster
4.6

A battle-scarred, has-been Hungarian cop, tormented by his memories of nearly killing an innocent woman in his custody, enters into a Faustian pact in which he trades his soul for a handful of "magic" bullets that always hit the mark. A mysterious and mythical story.

Magic Hunter

1994

Magic Hunter poster
4.6

A battle-scarred, has-been Hungarian cop, tormented by his memories of nearly killing an innocent woman in his custody, enters into a Faustian pact in which he trades his soul for a handful of "magic" bullets that always hit the mark. A mysterious and mythical story.

Magic Hunter

1994

My Fear in My Arms poster
3.0

From the music of American composer Colin Stetson, Hungarian filmmaker Ildikó Enyedi crafts a story of a man in a cap abound in the nighttime forest along with his pet dog. This short film is part of the 2x25 Project of Film Fest Gent and the World Soundtrack Awards. The project commissioned 25 composers to compose a short piece of music, after which 25 filmmakers made short films that are the ultimate symbioses of music and cinematography, fitting completely within the DNA of the festival. The result: 25 exceptional films where the music inspired the form, narrative and texture.

My Fear in My Arms

2023

The Knight of the Rose poster
NR

Short student film made by Ildiko Enyedi at the Hungarian University of Theatre and Fine Arts.

The Knight of the Rose

1981