Family Nest(Családi tüzfészek)

A raw, unflinching social drama that exposes Hungary’s broken domestic culture, Tarr’s first feature, made when he was only twenty-two, is shot in cinema vérité style with handheld camera, super-close-up and imperceptible use of non-professional actors that recalls John Cassavetes. Revolving around a family in crisis, where a daughter-in-law aches to escape the confines of a tiny flat under the reign of an abusive patriarch, the story navigates the Kafkaesque bureaucracy of public housing and a demoralised society. The relentless claustrophobia and entrapment it evokes foreshadow a theme that lingers through his oeuvre.

Hungarian Film Critics: Prize for Best First Feature

Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival: Grand Prize