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Tokyo Film Festival Honors Director Béla Tarr with the Lifetime Achievement Award

MTI-Hungary Today 2024.10.22.

Filmmaker Béla Tarr will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 37th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF), opening on October 28, the organizers announced on Monday.

“The director, known for his distinctive cinematic style, earned international acclaim for his 438-minute film Satan’s Tango (Sátántangó, 1994), for which he was honoured at the Berlinale,” Variety quoted recalled the statement.

TIFF’s website also mentions the director’s Werckmeister Harmonies, screened at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes in 2000, and The Turin Horse (2011), which won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize and the FIPRESCI Prize at the Berlinale.

Béla Tarr was awarded the Honorary Award of the Academy President and Board at the European Film Awards last December and was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Cairo Film Festival in 2022.

After The Turin Horse, he announced his retirement from filmmaking and

has since dedicated himself to educating the next generation of filmmakers, teaching master classes around the world and founding a film school in Sarajevo in 2012.

The festival’s website also reports that the 37th TIFF will screen short films created under Tarr’s guidance at the director’s recent master class in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. There will also be a special talk with the Hungarian director, who will receive the TIFF Lifetime Achievement Award at the Tokyo ceremony on November 1.

Ichiyama Shozo, TIFF Programming Director, praising Tarr’s career, emphasized:

the screening of the seven-and-a-half-hour Satan’s Tango at the 1995 Tokyo International Film Festival was a momentous event in film history”

and “the film with a unique style that departed from traditional cinematic narrative and captivated the festival audience.” “In recognition of his significant contribution to world cinema, the Tokyo International Film Festival would like to present the Lifetime Achievement Award to Béla Tarr for his work as a filmmaker and educator,” explained the programming director.

The Tokyo International Film Festival will take place from October 28 to November 6, in the Hibiya-Yurakucho-Marunouchi-Ginza area of Tokyo.

Fact

Debuting with the film Family Nest (1979), Béla Tarr began his directorial career with a brief period of what he refers to as “social cinema,” aimed at telling everyday stories about ordinary people, often in the style of cinema vérité. Over the next decade, he changed the cinematic style and thematic elements of his films. Tarr has been interpreted as having a pessimistic view of humanity; the characters in his work are often cynical and have tempestuous relationships with each other, which critics have found darkly comic.

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