Movies: Béla Tarr

Twenty well-known Hungarian artists - 10 right-wing (said to be) and 10 left-liberal (said to be) writers, directors, actors, musicians talk about the regime change and what has happened to us here in the last 30 years....

On her regular day at work, Paola starts to feel that she is missing out something exciting....

This short doc was made during Béla Tarr's Masterclass under his mentorship. The film follows a day in the life of a Roma family in rural Hungary. It focuses on the children, who are raised by their grandparents. From morning until the sun goes down,...

The story of a mother who now needs the full-time care of her son who struggles to keep giving it....

A film within a film within a film within a fish....

Diplomafilm is a short film that Béla Tarr made to graduate from Art School, in 1981. It is the predecessor of The Prefab People, with the same plot and the same actors, but with some changes in the plot....

Anthology film made as an act of protest against Hungarian government of Viktor Orban....

A cowherd, sheep, and the wind, all have an equal presence in the village. Death and life are one and indivisible....

Miners in a Bosnian coal mine. The camera silently watches over the miners working tirelessly amidst endless noise and the flickering light of lanterns....

The story of a mother who now needs the full-time care of her son who struggles to keep giving it....

The experiment presents a cinematic poem to filmmaking and film itself. Directed by eleven filmmakers, all under the vision of Bela Tarr's 'film.factory', delving into what keeps us making films....

Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr and film critic Howard Feinstein discuss his innovative filmography, punctuated by clips from his films....