Italian auteur Paolo Sorrentino is that this yr’s recipient of the Honorary Coronary heart of Sarajevo award to be bestowed upon him through the thirty first version of the Sarajevo Movie Pageant, which may even characteristic a retrospective of his movies that shall be screened as a part of the fest’s “tribute to” program.
The dignity and tribute shall be “in recognition of his excellent contribution to the artwork of cinema,” Sarajevo fest organizers stated on Tuesday. Sorrentino may even maintain a masterclass and “share his ideas on modern artwork in a dialog with the viewers,” they famous.
“I’m deeply honored to obtain this prestigious recognition and grateful for the eye given to my filmography,” stated Sorrentino. “I sit up for being with you in Sarajevo. Thanks from the underside of my coronary heart.”
The fest highlighted the impact the Italian director and screenwriter’s oeuvre has had on audiences. “Paolo Sorrentino [has] managed to do what each filmmaker desires of – he left a world affect by native, private tales,” stated Jovan Marjanović, director of the Sarajevo Movie Pageant. “With visually luxurious, emotionally stuffed, and intellectually insightful type, he gained the hearts of audiences world wide who noticed his characters, regardless of how eccentric or withdrawn, as a mirror of our world, typically absurd, generally merciless, however at all times deeply human. The Honorary Coronary heart of Sarajevo is a recognition of the nice magnificence that he gave us along with his movies.”
Born in Naples in 1970, Sorrentino’s first full-length characteristic movie, One Man Up, got here out in 2001 and was chosen for the Venice Movie Pageant. His subsequent two movies, The Penalties of Love (2004) and The Household Buddy (2006) had been in competitors for the Palme d’Or in Cannes, as was Il Divo, which gained the jury prize in 2008. Sorrentino additionally returned to the Cannes competitors in 2011 with This Should Be the Place and in 2013 with The Nice Magnificence, which gained the Academy Award, the Golden Globe, and the BAFTA Award for the very best foreign-language Movie.
After one other Cannes competitors look in 2016 with Youth, he created and directed the TV sequence The Younger Pope in 2016, adopted by the film Loro in 2018 and the sequence The New Pope in 2019.
In 2021, Sorrentino wrote and directed The Hand of God, which gained the Marcello Mastroianni Award on the Venice Worldwide Movie Pageant and 5 David di Donatello awards, adopted by Parthenope in 2024.
Earlier recipients of the Honorary Coronary heart of Sarajevo embody Meg Ryan (2024), Alexander Payne (2024), John Turturro (2024), Mark Cousins (2023), Lynne Ramsay (2023), Charlie Kaufman (2023), Jesse Eisenberg (2022), Ruben Östlund (2022), Sergei Loznitsa (2022), Paul Joseph Schrader (2022), Wim Wenders (2021), Michel Franco (2020), Mads Mikkelsen (2020), Tim Roth (2019), Isabelle Huppert (2019), Alejandro González Iñárritu (2019), Paweł Pawlikowski (2019), Oliver Stone (2017), John Cleese (2017), Stephen Frears (2016), Robert De Niro (2016), Benicio Del Toro (2015), Danis Tanović (2014), Gael García Bernal (2014), Béla Tarr (2013), Branko Lustig (2012), Jafar Panahi (2011), Angelina Jolie (2011), Steve Buscemi (2007), Mike Leigh (2006), and Gavrilo Grahovac (2006).
Earlier filmmakers within the highlight in a Sarajevo Movie Pageant “tribute to” program embody
Elia Suleiman (2024), Jessica Hausner (2023), Sergei Loznitsa (2022), Wim Wenders (2021), Michel Franco (2020), Paweł Pawlikowski (2019), Nuri Bilge Ceylan (2018), Joshua Oppenheimer and Oliver Stone (2017), Michael Winterbottom (2014), Cristi Puiu (2013), Todd Solondz (2012), Jia Zhang-ke (2009), Todd Haynes (2008), Tsai Ming-Liang and Ulrich Seidl (2007), Abel Ferrara and Béla Tarr (2006), Alexander Payne (2005), Stephen Frears (2002), Mike Leigh (2001), and Steve Buscemi (2000).