Judit Elek

Filmmaker and screenwriter. She graduated in 1961 from the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest together with other filmmakers such as János Rózsa, Éva Singer and István Szabó and joined Mafilm as an assistant director. She is one of the founders of the Béla Balázs Studio, a workshop for experimental film for young filmmakers. Between 1962 and 2011, she made multiple short films, documentaries and features that reflects as much the history of her native Hungary as her own life. In 1968, Elek made her first feature film, The Lady from Constantinople, and in 1984 her film Maria’s Day (1984) screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival. Elek’s films were the subject of a focus programme at IFFR 2023.

Seminci - Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid