Movies: Béla Tarr

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

A filthy Con-Man stumbles into an old Balkan village where he tries to win the people by calling himself a doctor....

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

A student film by Béla Tarr, from 1979. Presumed lost until very recently....

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

The last ship (Utolsó hajó) is leaving the quay. Sirens are sounding....

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....

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 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....

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....

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