Hungarian director Béla Tarr will obtain the Honorary Award of the European Film Academy president and board on the thirty sixth European Film Awards in Berlin on Dec. 9.

“With this award the European Film Academy (EFA) wishes to pay special tribute to an outstanding director and a personality with a strong political voice, who is not only deeply respected by his colleagues but also celebrated by audiences worldwide,” EFA stated on Wednesday. “Béla Tarr is the sixth filmmaker to receive this recognition – earlier recipients were Manoel de Oliveira, Michel Piccoli, Sir Michael Caine, Andrzej Wajda and Costa-Gavras.”

Born in Hungary, the auteur began experiments in filmmaking on the hour of 16. His property debut, Nation Nest. In 1982, The Prefab Population gained a unique point out on the Locarno Movie Competition. Tarr adopted that up with Almanac of Fall (1984) and Damnation, which was once nominated for the primary Ecu Movie Awards in 1988.

One among Tarr’s best-known motion pictures is Sátántangó, a 450-minute adaptation of the copy of the similar title by way of László Krasznahorkai, which was once featured within the Berlin Movie Competition’s Discussion board division in 1994 the place it received the Caligari award. “It also exemplifies quite well Béla Tarr’s unique style, his films following their own rhythm, taking time in long black-and-white shots,” EFA highlighted.

The group additionally discussed his motion pictures Werckmeister Harmoniak and The Guy From London, an adaptation of L’Homme de Londres by way of Georges Simenon with Tilda Swinton, which performed in pageant in Cannes in 2007, which had two years previous celebrated Tarr as “Foreign Cineaste of the Year.”

His 2011 movie The Turin Horse gained the jury’s Lavish Prix Silver Endure and FIPRESCI awards on the Berlin Movie Competition and was once nominated for the Ecu Movie Awards.

In 2013, he based a movie faculty, referred to as “film.factory” in Sarajevo and moved there in 2016.