{"id":5682,"date":"2026-08-07T20:12:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=5682"},"modified":"2026-08-07T20:12:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:12:43","slug":"bela-tarrs-legacy-to-be-celebrated-at-sarajevo-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=5682","title":{"rendered":"B\u00e9la Tarr\u2019s Legacy to Be Celebrated at Sarajevo Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tThe Sarajevo Film Festival has launched a new program dedicated to the legacy of Hungarian filmmaker B\u00e9la Tarr, who died this year.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=5680\">Variety Toasts Young Hollywood\u2019s Hottest at Cover Bash With Tate McRae, Sombr and Malachi Barton<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\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>\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>\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>\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>\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>\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>\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. 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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>\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>\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. 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As pressure mounts, so does his obsession with his anarchist psychiatrist as he faces mental breakdown.<\/p>\n<p>\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>\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. He hires an actor to play himself, a filmmaker with low self-esteem, making a gay film about sex, the body and himself, inspired by the filmmaker\u2019s sex, body and self.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tTHE BRIDGE (LE PONT)<br \/>France, 2025, 22 min.<br \/>Director: L\u00e9a Triboulet<br \/>The filmmaker unexpectedly came upon the bridge where her mother died and decided to confront this place with her camera. The process of filming and editing became one of observation, contemplation and confrontation. Her mother inhabits every landscape she films. Does a place not retain any memory of what happened there?<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=5676\">Virginie Efira \u2013 a \u2018Showgirls\u2019 Fan \u2013 Enjoyed the \u2018Benedetta\u2019 Controversy: \u2018When Verhoeven Said There Would Be Lesbian Sex Scenes, I Just Replied: \u2018No Problem\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sarajevo Film Festival has launched a new program dedicated to the legacy of Hungarian filmmaker B\u00e9la Tarr, who died this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4441,1620],"class_list":["post-5682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film","tag-bela-tarr-2","tag-sarajevo-film-festival"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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