Hungarian director Bela Tarr to receive Tokyo film festival honour

Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr is about to obtain a lifetime achievement award on the upcoming 37^th Tokyo Worldwide Movie Competition.

The director, recognized for epic Satantango, Werckmeister Harmonies and Berlinale award-winner The Turin Horse, can be on the competition to current quick movies produced throughout a workshop he led in Fukushima, Japan in February. Tarr may also take part in a chat with veteran Japanese filmmaker Yoji Yamada on November 1, the place he’ll obtain the award.

Earlier recipients of TIFF’s lifetime achievement award embrace Chinese language director Zhang Yimou and Japanese manufacturing supervisor Teruyo Nogami, actor Tatsuya Nakadai and director Nobuhiko Obayashi.

Born in 1955, Tarr made his function directorial debut with 1979’s Household Nest, which gained the grand prize at that yr’s Mannheim-Heidelberg Worldwide Movie Competition. His 2011 function The Turin Horse gained the Silver Bear grand jury prize and Fipresci prize on the Berlinale. After this, Tarr retired from directing and based movie.manufacturing unit, a world movie college in Sarajevo.

Tarr has additionally obtained lifetime achievement awards from the Batumi Movie Competition, the Sardinia Movie Competition and the Worldwide Movie Competition of Kerala. He obtained the European Movie Academy Honorary Award in 2023.

TIFF is about to happen from October 28 to November 6.