Bela Tarr swaps film making for running unique school

SARAJEVO, Feb 26:  Revered Hungarian director Bela Tarr’s famously uncompromising approach to cinema will now be passed to future generations as he begins a new course for budding filmmakers in Sarajevo. The 57-year-old retired from directing after the release in 2011 of “The Turin Horse”, a bleak, black-and-white portrayal of a peasant and his daughter abandoned by man and God in their remote, windswept  cottage. (agencies)