Italian director Paolo Sorrentino will be this year’s recipient of the Sarajevo Film Festival’s Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award and a retrospective of his films will be shown as part of the festival’s “Tribute To” program.
Sorrentino will also hold a Masterclass and share his thoughts on contemporary art in a conversation with the audience.
The award is in recognition of his “outstanding contribution to the art of cinema.”
Jovan Marjanović, director of the festival, said: “Paolo Sorrentino managed to do what every filmmaker dreams of – he left a global impact through local, personal stories. With visually luxurious, emotionally filled and intellectually insightful style, he won the hearts of audiences around the world, who saw his characters, no matter how eccentric or withdrawn, as a mirror of our world, often absurd, sometimes cruel, but always deeply human. The Honorary Heart of Sarajevo is a recognition of the great beauty that he gave us with his films.”
Sorrentino said he was “deeply honored” for the recognition and “grateful for the attention given to my filmography.”
Sorrentino’s first full-length feature film, “One Man Up,” was selected for the Venice Film Festival 2001.
Sorrentino competed for the Palme d’Or in Cannes with “The Consequences of Love” in 2004, “The Family Friend” in 2006 and “Il Divo” in 2008, with “Il Divo” winning the jury prize.
He returned to Cannes competition in 2011 with “This Must Be the Place” and two years later with “The Great Beauty,” which won the Academy Award, the Golden Globe and the BAFTA Award for the best foreign-language film, as well as three European Film Academy awards.
He was selected once again in competition at Cannes in 2016 with “Youth,” garnering three EFA awards, an Academy Award nomination and two Golden Globe nominations.
In 2016, he created and directed the TV series “The Young Pope,” starring Jude Law and Diane Keaton, nominated at the Golden Globes for best actor for Law and at the Emmy Awards for outstanding production design and outstanding cinematography.
In 2018, Sorrentino directed the movie “Loro,” starring Toni Servillo, and in 2019 he directed the second series set in the world of modern papacy, “The New Pope,” starring Law and John Malkovich.
In 2021, he wrote and directed the “The Hand of God,” nominated at the 2022 Academy Award for best foreign film, winner of the Leone d’Argento Grand Jury Prize and the Marcello Mastroianni Award at the Venice Film Festival.
In 2024, he wrote and directed “Parthenope,” presented in competition at Cannes and winner of the Biglietto D’oro among the most viewed films of the year.
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