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The Turin Horse (A torinói ló, 2011) follows six days in the life of an old man, his daughter, and a horse. Loosely inspired by January 3, 1889, when Friedrich Nietzsche collapsed after witnessing a beaten horse in Turin, the film shifts focus from the philosopher to the fate of the animal and its owner. In stark black-and-white, it traces the rhythm of their daily existence as it slowly dissolves into exhaustion, silence, and decay. Shot in Hungary, the film's power lies in its radical slowness, visual composition, and existential depth. At the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival, it won both the Grand Jury Prize (Silver Bear) and the FIPRESCI Award.

Béla Tarr (1955–2026) ranks among the most distinctive figures in European auteur cinema. He worked at the legendary Balázs Béla Studio and studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatre and Film. His career produced landmark works such as Sátántangó, Werckmeister Harmonies, and The Man from London; he also founded the independent workshop TT Filmműhely and the international film school Film.factory in Sarajevo. A filmmaker and educator, Tarr co-directed The Turin Horse with Ágnes Hranitzky and co-wrote the screenplay with Nobel Prize-winning author László Krasznahorkai.

The Turin Horse will be screened on Wednesday, May 13, at the zikkurat next to the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. The projection begins at 20:00. The evening is conceived as a shared event in public space; the guest speaker will be film critic Aleš Stuchlý. The program opens with a short video portrait of Béla Tarr made by the Flysch collective. The evening closes with DJ Bowling, who will transform a program of student videos from the Multimedia studio into a musical set. Sutnar Faculty Dean Vojtěch Aubrecht and Head of the Audiovisual Department Vojtěch Domlátil support the public screening. The film was provided for screening by Paris-based distributor Luxbox.