Born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1955. She studied economics and filmmaking. My 20th Century (1989), her first feature film, won the Camera d`Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Ildikó also made the features Magic Hunter (1994, 18th Mostra), Simon, the Magician (1999) and On Body and Soul (2017), winner of Critics and the Ecumenical Jury prizes and the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.
