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Honorary Heart of Sarajevo award will also go to Palestinian
director Elia Suleiman, the organizers added.
Recipients of awards will attend the screening of their most
popular movies, present their latest productions and hold
masterclasses during the 30th edition of the festival, to be
held from Aug. 16-23, the SFF said.
The SFF was founded towards the end of the Bosnian war of
1992-1995 by a group of movie enthusiasts and has been supported
since then by figures in the industry from across the world.
SFF Director Jovan Marjanovic said it was a "great privilege" to
be able to bring such industry figures to Sarajevo and connect
them with young people from the region. "These are the ties that
last and we see the people returning, enabling the festival to
grow and develop."
The world premiere of "My Late Summer" by Bosnian Oscar-winning
director Danis Tanovic will open the festival, which will
showcase 240 films in total this year.
Ryan will present a special screening of her 1998 hit romantic
comedy "You've Got Mail" at the open-air cinema that can
accommodate 2,000 viewers, as well as her latest directorial
effort "What Happens Later", in which she also stars.
Fifty-four films from southeastern Europe, Ukraine and the
southern Caucasus will compete in four selections - features,
short films, documentaries and student films - for the Heart of
Sarajevo award, including 19 world premiers.
"What unites all these countries is that they are actually the
periphery, both geopolitically and culturally," Marjanovic told
Reuters.
"So the Sarajevo Film Festival has positioned itself as the
centre of all these cinematographies, their window to the world
to some extent, a platform for their mutual cooperation and the
cooperation with the rest of the world."
(Reporting by Daria Sito-Sucic; Editing by David Holmes)
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