Filmmaker · Hungary
Béla Tarr
Died in 2026
Béla Tarr, born in Pécs on 21 July 1955, grew up in Budapest. An amateur filmmaker from adolescence, at twenty-two he shot, with the help of the Béla Balázs Studio, a first feature film in a documentary manner, then studied directing at the Academy of Theatre and Film Arts until 1981. From 1987 he worked with the writer László Krasznahorkai, and his films took the form of long takes in black and white. After a last feature film that won a prize in Berlin in 2011, he stopped filming and founded a film school in Sarajevo. He died in Budapest on 6 January 2026.