Iranian director and screenwriter Asghar Farhadi will attend the 32nd Sarajevo Film Festival, where he will be honored with the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo award, “in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the art of cinema.”
The festival will also present a retrospective of his work, as part of the Festival’s Tribute To program.
Farhadi returns to Sarajevo eight years after serving as President of the Jury for the Feature Film Competition at the 24th Sarajevo Film Festival in 2018, where his film Everybody Knows was screened in the Open Air programme.
“It is difficult to overstate Asghar Farhadi’s significance to world cinema. His remarkable body of work reminds us that the most profound dramas are often concealed within everyday life. His films do not offer easy answers; instead, they invite us to look more closely, listen more carefully, and engage with life’s complexities. We are honoured to welcome Farhadi back to the Festival and to present him with the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo,” said Jovan Marjanović, Director of the Sarajevo Film Festival.
He made his directorial debut with Dancing in the Dust (2002). After the success of About Elly (2009), for which he won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlinale, Farhadi gained international recognition and critical acclaim with A Separation (2011), receiving no less than seventy awards, including an Academy Award and a César for Best Foreign Film. He then left Iran for France to shoot The Past (2013), which won Bérénice Bejo the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013. He then returned to Iran to direct The Salesman (2016), which premiered in competition at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, where the film won Best Screenplay and Best Actor (Shahab Hosseini). The film became Farhadi’s biggest success and earned him the second Academy Award of his career. The film, A Hero (2021) won the Grand Prix at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.
His latest film, Parallel Tales, shot in France, was screened at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival.
The 32nd Sarajevo Film Festival will take place from August 14 to 21, 2026.
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