{"id":31729,"date":"2026-08-08T01:30:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=31729"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:30:30","slug":"bela-tarrs-legacy-to-be-celebrated-at-sarajevo-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=31729","title":{"rendered":"B\u00e9la Tarr&#8217;s Legacy to Be Celebrated at Sarajevo Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/sarajevo-film-festival\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sarajevo-film-festival\" data-tag=\"sarajevo-film-festival\">Sarajevo Film Festival<\/a> has launched a new program dedicated to the legacy of Hungarian filmmaker <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/bela-tarr-2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bela-tarr-2\" data-tag=\"bela-tarr-2\">B\u00e9la Tarr<\/a>, who died this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe B\u00e9la Tarr in Sarajevo Tribute program will focus on the work of former students from the Film Factory in Sarajevo, an innovative educational initiative set up by Tarr in 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe lineup this year includes Valdimar J\u00f3hannsson\u2019s \u201cLamb,\u201d which won the Un Certain Regard\u2019s Prize of Originality at Cannes Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIt also includes Bianca Lucas\u2019 \u201cLove Dog,\u201d which was at Locarno Film Festival, where it got a special mention in the best first feature contest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAdditionally, there is Pilar Palomero\u2019s \u201cMotherhood,\u201d which won best leading performance for Carla Qu\u00edlez at San Sebasti\u00e1n Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tJovan Marjanovi\u0107, director of the Sarajevo Film Festival, said, \u201cThe selection reflects careers that have since taken these filmmakers to many of the world\u2019s leading festivals, including Cannes, San Sebasti\u00e1n, Locarno, Rotterdam and Clermont-Ferrand. Rather than revealing a single aesthetic or cinematic school, their films reflect an educational philosophy that encouraged every filmmaker to discover a distinctly personal artistic language.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tFilms in the program:<br \/>CENOTE (TS\u2019ONOT)<br \/>Japan, Mexico, 2019, 75 min.<br \/>Director: Kaori Oda<br \/>Cenotes are sources of water that in ancient Mayan civilization were said to connect the real world and the afterlife. The past and present of the people living in and around them intersect, and distant memories echo throughout immersive scenes of light and darkness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tLAMB (D\u00ddRI\u00d0)<br \/>Iceland, Sweden, Poland, 2021, 106 min.<br \/>Director: Valdimar Jo\u0301hannsson<br \/>Cast: Noomi Rapace, Hilmir Sn\u00e6r Gu\u00f0nason, Bjo\u0308rn Hlynur Haraldsson, Ingvar Sigur\u00f0sson<br \/>A childless couple in rural Iceland make an alarming discovery one day in their sheep barn. They soon face the consequences of defying the will of nature in this dark and atmospheric folktale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tLOVE DOG<br \/>Poland, Mexico, U.S., 2022, 84 min.<br \/>Director: Bianca Lucas<br \/>Cast: John Dicks, TJ Tarver, Becca Begnaud, Corinne Bordelon, Brooke Keel Bullock, Ernie Schaeffer<br \/>After finishing a job on a Texas oil rig, John returns to his hometown in Mississippi, where he will confront not only his own repressed trauma, but that of a society grieving dying American myths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMOTHERHOOD (LA MATERNAL)<br \/>Spain, 2022, 120 min.<br \/>Director: Pilar Palomero<br \/>Cast: Carla Qu\u00edlez, \u00c1ngela Cervantes, Rub\u00e9n Mart\u00ednez, Pepe Lorente, Jordan Dumes, Olga Hueso, Gal-la Sabast\u00e9, Neus P\u00e0mies<br \/>At the age of 14, Carla is wild and rebellious. Living in a modest restaurant on the outskirts of town with her young single mother, she skips school and passes the time with her friend Efra\u00edn. When a social worker realizes Carla is five months pregnant, she is taken to La Maternal, a center for teenage mothers, to live with other young women like herself. Together with their babies, they will learn to cope with a new adult life for which they have had no time to prepare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSOIL AND WINGS (TOPRAK VE KANATLAR)<br \/>Serbia, North Macedonia, 2025, 77 min.<br \/>Director: Stefan Male\u0161evi\u0107<br \/>In the North Macedonian village of Kanatlar, Ayten and Erdo\u011fan raise their children, balancing the 800-year-old Bektashi Sufi teachings with the struggles of modern life. In this tobacco-growing valley, a Turkish-Muslim community devoted to faith, family and tradition allows gender equality to flourish quietly, rooted in the belief that all beings are equal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tTRAVESIAS<br \/>Mexico, 2021, 108 min.<br \/>Director: Sergio Flores Thorija<br \/>Cast: Alejadra Carrillo, Victor Garc\u00eda, Jaqueline Coronel, Jonathan Dur\u00e1n, Jos\u00e9 Sampeiro, Trapitilian, Daniel L\u00f3pez<br \/>Alejandra and V\u00edctor come from completely different backgrounds, and live in a city that is artificially divided by a wall: Tijuana and San Diego. She works in a beauty salon, while he studies business and is starting his own company. Following a phone call and an altercation in a club, the two have to embark on a journey to the other side of their respective borders. In this way, very soon it becomes evident how those kilometers of distance between their places of origin, dictate the way in which both face their lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWHO THE FUCK ARE YOU<br \/>Serbia, Belgium, 2019, 80 min.<br \/>Director: Marina Radmilac<br \/>Cast: Strike Lucicky, Denis Lavant, George Ilich, Marija \u0160evi\u0107, Lidija Andonov, Du\u0161an Vesi\u0107, Sofia Dimich<br \/>A black-and-white psychedelic punk drama about one man, one city, one madness. Alexander is an expat returning from the Brussels to Belgrade for the restitution of his family\u2019s property and with the intent of making an opera based on Shakespeare\u2019s \u201cRichard III.\u201d While trying to mend his strained relationship with his older brother, he pursues the project with maniacal determination all while going from bar to bar, rediscovering the charm of the city and its women and shooting his memories with a Super 8 camera. As pressure mounts, so does his obsession with his anarchist psychiatrist as he faces mental breakdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tFIREWOOD (LLENYA)<br \/>Spain, Portugal, 2025, 17 min.<br \/>Director: Manel Raga Raga<br \/>Cast: Vasile Burtic, Manuel Raga Raga<br \/>In my grandparents\u2019 home, all the clocks are stopped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tNAVAL GAYS<br \/>United Kingdom, 2022, 12 min.<br \/>Director: Grant Gulczynski<br \/>Cast: Luis Am\u00e1lia<br \/>A filmmaker has low self-esteem. 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