Béla Tarr is the President of the Jury for the Competition Program

Sarajevo Film Festival with great pleasure announces that the President of the jury of this year’s competition program will be Béla Tarr, one of the most famous directors and founder of film factory at the University of Sarajevo, School of Science and Technology. Sarajevo Film Festival in its last edition awarded this excellent filmmaker with the highest prize- Honorary Heart of Sarajevo.

Béla Tarr began working in the film when he was 16 years old. He directed his first  film, Family Nest (CSALÁDI TŰZFÉSZEK, 1977), when he was 22 years old. This film, together with films, The Outside (SZABADGYALOG, 1981) and The Prefab People (PANELKAPSCOLAT, 1982) represent the first phase of Bela Tarr.

His first TV adaption of Shakespeare’s Macbeth (1982), which he recorded in two shots, announced a change and a new phase in his creative work. In the mid ’80s he started cooperating with the writer László Krasznahoraki,whose works served as the basis for Tarr’s films Damnation, Satan’s tango and Werckmeister harmonies.

(Source: Radiosarajevo.ba)