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Honorary Heart of Sarajevo No. 17 2011
Sarajevo Honorary Heart — Angelina Jolie (2011)
The American actress and director, honoured in 2011 — the year she was making her first film, set against the Bosnian war.
- Recipient
- Angelina Jolie
- Awarded
- 2011 · 17th edition
- Role
- Actress and film director
- From
- American
- For
- For her contribution to the art of cinema.
Angelina Jolie received the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo in 2011, at the 17th Sarajevo Film Festival, in a year that also honoured Jafar Panahi and Emil Tedeschi. She is the American actress of Girl, Interrupted (1999) and Lara Croft fame who turned director.
The Sarajevo connection runs deeper than the award. The same year she was honoured, she was in the region making her directorial debut, In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011) — a love story set against the Bosnian war, filmed in Bosnia and told in Bosnian. Sarajevo’s festival gave her the Heart as she was giving the city her first film.
Also honoured in 2011
- Emil Tedeschi President, Atlantic Grupa
- Jafar Panahi Film director
Sources & further reading
What they said in Sarajevo
Once for my mother, the second time for Bosnia.