Sarajevo Movie Competition will honour Palestinian director Elia Suleiman with its Honorary Coronary heart of Sarajevo Award, and can display a retrospective of chosen works by the filmmaker.
The award might be introduced to Suleiman on the 30th version of the competition, which takes place from August 16-23.
Suleiman was a visitor on the competition in 2019, the place his movie It Should Be Heaven was screened within the Open Air programme. He additionally served because the president of the jury on the competition in 2016.
Suleiman’s first function Chronicle of a Disappearance received the Greatest First Movie Prize at Venice in 1996. In 2002, Divine Intervention received the Jury Prize and the Fipresci Worldwide Critics Prize at Cannes in addition to the Greatest International Movie Prize on the European Awards in Rome. His final function movie It Should Be Heaven received the Jury Particular Point out in Cannes in 2019, and the Fipresci Worldwide Critics Prize.
Suleiman was named Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by France’s Ministry of Tradition in 2020, and was the recipient of the European Achievement in World Cinema award in 2022. He additionally serves as a creative advisor for the Doha Movie Institute.
Jovan Marjanović, director of the Sarajevo Movie Competition, stated: “Along with his trademark wit, humour and profound perception, [Suleiman] navigates the complexities of our existence, shedding gentle on the absurdities of life with unmatched readability and poignancy, portraying the spirit and identification of Palestine with a novel authorial model. Now, within the darkest of occasions in his homeland, his work serves as a beacon of understanding, reminding us of the facility of storytelling to encourage significant dialogue.”
