Born in Hungary in 1975. He studied at the Hungarian University of Film and Drama and is now a renowned European film and theatre director, whose creations premier at the most prestigious festivals all over the world.
He has been working for the stage since 2003. He is most enthusiastic to start a new project whenever he finds an inspiring subject, a team or a venue. During the creative process he tries to build up a team. For new projects he very often casts the same actors, who are working as creative partners to him. It is with them that he devises the productions. After freelancing with more or less the same group of people for several years, in 2009 he founded his independent theatre company, PROTON THEATRE together with theatre producer Dóra Büki.
He was nominated for the Faust Award in 2017 for his outstanding directorial achievement in Proton Theatre’s IMITATION OF LIFE. This was the first time in the history of this award that a non-German theatre, in this case a Hungarian independent company was nominated. His staging of EVOLUTION, a co-production of the Proton Theatre and the Ruhrtriennale was considered the highlight of the 2019 edition of the German festival. The theatre performance has been turned into a film, which premiered in 2021 at the Cannes Film Festival, in the Cannes Premiere section.
Since 2003 he has directed on the opera scene as well. THE MAKROPULOS AFFAIR which premiered in the Flemish Opera in Antwerp was nominated for the International Opera Award in the category Best New Production. Thus, was the first Hungarian nominee.
He made his directorial debut at the Cannes Film Festival in 2003. That same year, he founded the film production company Proton Cinema Ltd. with Viktória Petrányi, who has been his constant co-writer and artistic collaborator since college. His third feature film, JOHANNA - an operatic adaptation of the story of Joan of Arc - was presented in 2005, in the independent Un Certain Regard section of Cannes Festival, where in 2014 his sixth feature film, WHITE GOD won the main prize of the section. His fourth, fifth and seventh feature-length films took part in the official competition of Cannes: DELTA in 2008, TENDER SON in 2010, JUPITER'S MOON in 2017. His first English-language film, PIECES OF A WOMAN, was in competition at the 77th Venice International Film Festival in 2020 and became a hit on Netflix.