Swedish Andor actor Stellan Skarsgård will receive the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo at the festival’s 31st edition in August.
The actor is a longtime friend of the festival, as well as a curator and one of the patrons of the Katrin Cartlidge Foundation – the scholarships of which were awarded at the Sarajevo Film Festival – and presented the foundation’s scholarship to Juanita Wilson at the festival’s 15th edition in 2009.
“The Sarajevo Film Festival remains unwavering and driven in its aim to highlight subjects of great consequence, underscored by an intense lust for life. I love going there”, said Skarsgård.
The actor follows in the wake of past celebrated Sarajevo honorees who include Meg Ryan, Alexander Payne, Lynne Ramsay, Charlie Kaufman, Jesse Eisenberg, Ruben Östlund, Mads Mikkelsen and Angelina Jolie.
The 31st Sarajevo Film Festival runs from August 15th to 22nd.
