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Tarr will be presented the award by Icelandic President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson on September 29.
?Susan Sontag said she would want to see Béla Tarr's magnum opus Satantango ? all seven hours of it ? once a year, and counts his films among those ?heroic violations of the norms? on which cinema's future may depend. Almost a mythical figure to begin with, admired by cineastes but unknown to everyone else, his reputation has grown steadily in the 21st century. Gus van Sant was deeply influenced by his work and Tarr is now seen to be part of a trajectory reaching back to, among others, Tarkovsky,? the festival organiers say on their website.
Three of Tarr?s films ? his first feature Family Nest (1977), Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) and The Turin Horse (2011) ? will be screened at the festival.
The Turin Horse, Tarr?s dark vision of the end in a microcosm of bleak tedium, took the top prize at this year?s Berlinale and is Hungary?s submission for Best Foreign Language Film at next year?s Oscars.
