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.”
Sarajevo Film Festival
The Sarajevo Film Festival is an international film festival with a special focus on the region of South-East Europe (Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Georgia, Hungary, Kosovo*, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey), shining an international spotlight on films, talent and future projects from the region.
Sarajevo Film Festival started in 1995 and takes place in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Paweł Pawlikowski’s ‘Fatherland’ to Open 32nd Sarajevo Film Festival
Fatherland by Paweł Pawlikowski (Agata Grzybowska) Fatherland by Oscar-winning director Paweł Pawlikowski, will open the 32nd Sarajevo Film Festival, set to take place August 14 to 21, 2026.
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Paolo Sorrentino to Receive Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award at Sarajevo Film Festival
Paolo Sorrentino (Michael Avedon) Italian director Paolo Sorrentino will be honored at the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival with the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo award for “his outstanding contribution to the art of cinema”. The festival will also present a complete retrospective of his films as part of the “Tribute to” program; and Sorrentino will hold a Masterclass and share his thoughts on contemporary art in a conversation with the audience. The festival will be held from August 15th to 22nd, 2025.
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SAFE PLACE and MUSEUM OF THE REVOLUTION Lead Winners of 28th Sarajevo Film Festival Awards
Safe Place by Juraj Lerotić The 28th Sarajevo Film Festival closed with the world premiere of film May Labour Day by Pjer Žalica. Safe Place by Croatian director Juraj Lerotić won the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Feature Film along with Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actor for Juraj Lerotić. A traumatic event, a sudden suicide attempt, tears the fabric of a family of three in the film inspired by personal experience of the director, Jurja Lerotić, who also won the Best Actor prize for playing the main role in the film.
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51 Films to Compete for Heart of Sarajevo Awards at 28th Sarajevo Film Festival
Corsage directed by Marie Kreutzer 51 films will compete for the Heart of Sarajevo awards at the 28th Sarajevo Film Festival taking place from August 12th to 19th, 2022. The Festival’s four competition sections – for feature, documentary, short and student film – will feature 21 world, 7 international, 1 European, 21 regional and 1 B&H premiere.
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Ruben Östlund to Receive Honorary Award + TRIANGLE OF SADNESS to Open Sarajevo Film Festival
Ruben Östlund, director of Triangle of Sadness Swedish director Ruben Östlund will receive the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award at the 28th Sarajevo Film Festival and his latest film Triangle of Sadness, winner of the Palme d’Or at the Cannes festival, will open the festival.
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Paul Joseph Schrader to Receive Honorary Award at Sarajevo Film Festival
Paul Schrader © Franck Ferville Director and screenwriter Paul Joseph Schrader will receive the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award at the 28th Sarajevo Film Festival in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the art of film. The festival will also host a special screening of The Card Counter starring Oscar Isaac and Tiffany Haddish.
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47 Films to Compete at Sarajevo Film Festival 2021
Sarajevo Film Festival A total of 47 films will compete for the Heart of Sarajevo awards at the 27th Sarajevo Film Festival in the four competition sections – feature, documentary, short and student film.
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Director Wim Wenders to Receive Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award at 27th Sarajevo Film Festival
Wim Wenders The 27th Sarajevo Film Festival will pay tribute to director Wim Wenders, presenting him with the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award along with a retrospective of his selected works in the Festival’s “Tribute to” Program. The 27th Sarajevo Film Festival will be held from August 13th to 20th, 2021.
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26th Sarajevo Film Festival Awards – EXILE Wins Best Film
Exile (Exil) directed by Visar Morina Exile (Exil) directed by Visar Morina won the top prize, Heart of Sarajevo, for Best Feature film at the 26th Sarajevo Film Festival which was held online from August 14th to 21st. The film follows Xhafer, a Kosovo-born pharmaceutical engineer living in Germany, who suddenly feels discriminated against and bullied at work because of his ethnic background. As he loses his job, his wife and his family, he walks a delicate tightrope between his life as an integrated, middle-class family man, and foreigner in his adopted country.
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Mads Mikkelsen to Receive Honorary Award at Sarajevo Film Festival
Mads Mikkelsen in “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.” (Lucasfilm Ltd.) Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen (“Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” “Polar,” “Arctic”) will receive the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award of the 26th Sarajevo Film Festival. The Award is given for outstanding contribution to the art of film. At the festival Mikkelsen will hold a Masterclass that the festival public will be able to watch online, via ondemand.sff.ba.
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Sarajevo Film Festival Moves ALL 2020 Events Online
Sarajevo Film Festival Just days before opening night, Sarajevo Film Festival has made the decision to conduct all festival events of the 2020 edition entirely online from August 14 to 21. The festival in a statement explained, “Due to greatly increased concern regarding the epidemiological situation in Sarajevo, and record cases of COVID-19 infection in the city in the past several days.”