Hungarian Master Béla Tarr to head Marrakech Film Fest juryOctober 20, 2016 - 17:56 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Hungarian Master Béla Tarr is set to preside the jury of Marrakech Film Festival, following the footsteps of Francis Ford Coppola, Variety said. Tarr, known for his radical filmmaking, has so far directed 9 feature films, including “The Man From London” which competed at Cannes in 2007 and “The Turin Horse” which won Berlin’s Silver Bear in 2011. Béla Tarr’s body of work has been praised by Jim Jarmusch, Gus Van Sant and Martin Scorsese, among others. “Bela Tarr is one of the cinema’s most adventurous artists, and his films, like ‘Satantango’ and ‘The Turin Horse,’ and truly experiences that you absorb, and that keep developing in the mind I understand that he has now devoted himself to film education, with the academy that he started in Sarajevo,” said Scorsese in a statement. “He is, I think, an excellent choice to lead this year’s Marrakech jury,” added Scorsese who himself served as president of Marrakech film festival’s jury in 2013. The 17th edition of Marrakech Film Festival will take place Dec. 2-10. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. Aram I supports Karekin II’s “patriotic position” Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has expressed support for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. |