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Bela Tarr To Receive Lifetime Achievement Award At Tokyo Film Festival


The Hungarian filmmaker will receive the award during a Special Talk event also featuring veteran Japanese director Yoji Yamada.

In February 2024, Bela Tarr led a filmmaking workshop in Fukushima Prefecture in Japan, during which the participants made short films, and Kaori Oda directed a behind-the-scenes documentary. TIFF programming director Shozo Ichiyama said: “In 1995, the Tokyo International Film Festival featured Satantango by Bela Tarr, marking a significant historical event. “After directing the masterpiece The Turin Horse in 2011, the director shocked the world by announcing his premature retirement.

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