Filmmaker.
Béla Tarr is one of the most prominent filmmakers in modern cinema. He made his striking first feature film in 1979, Family Nest. In 1982, The Prefab People received a special mention in Locarno. He filmed his brilliant Sátántangó, a 450-minute adaptation featured in the Berlinale’s Forum section 1994 where it won the Caligari award. In 2000, Werckmeister Harmoniak won the Grand Prize at the Hungarian Film Week, and The Man from London, an adaptation of “L’Homme de Londres” by Georges Simenon that ran in competition in Cannes in 2007. Two years earlier, the festival celebrated Tarr as “Foreign Cineaste of the Year”. In 2011 The Turin Horse, his latest feature film, received the Jury Grand Prix Silver Bear and FIPRESCI Award in Berlin and was nominated for the European Film Awards. He was also named a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres. In 2023 he received the Honorary Award from the European Film Academy.
