10 · 22 · 17 Béla Tarr receives the UNAM Film Library Medal Share with twitter Share with facebook Share with mail Copy to clipboard Gabriela Martínez @GabbMartivel Prior to the screening of his film The Turin Horse (2010), Hungarian director Béla Tarr received the UNAM Film Library Medal in recognition of his long career and for being a source of inspiration for young filmmakers. Guadalupe Ferrer, director of UNAM's Film Library, presented this recognition accompanied by Daniela Michel, general director of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM). Béla Tarr, Daniela Michel. The filmmaker was born in 1955 in Pécs, Hungary. He began his career as an amateur director and later worked at Balázs Béla Stúdió, the most important experimental film workshop in his country, where he made his feature film directorial debut. In 2003, he founded TT Filmműhely, an independent film studio, of which he was a director until 2011. He was an academic and professor at Film.factory, the Sarajevo International Film School, which he founded in 2012. He is currently president of the Hungarian Filmmakers Association and a member of the Széchenyi Academy of Arts and Literature. He has received the Kossuth Prize, the most prestigious award for Hungarian artists, and the Balázs Béla Prize, which recognizes the best directors in Hungary, among other important national and international awards. His filmography, which includes titles such as Damnation (1987), Sátántangó (1994), Werckmeister Harmonies (2000), Man from London (2007) and The Turin Horse (2010), has been essential in the history of cinema.
