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Honorary Heart of Sarajevo No. 21 2015
Sarajevo Honorary Heart — Atom Egoyan (2015)
The Canadian-Armenian director of Exotica and The Sweet Hereafter — honoured at the 21st edition in 2015.
- Recipient
- Atom Egoyan
- Awarded
- 2015 · 21st edition
- Role
- Film director
- From
- Canadian
- For
- For his contribution to the art of cinema.
Atom Egoyan received the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo in 2015, at the 21st Sarajevo Film Festival, in the same class as Benicio del Toro. He is the Canadian-Armenian director of Exotica (1994), The Sweet Hereafter (1997) and Ararat (2002).
His films — about memory, loss, and communities carrying the weight of what happened to them — have a natural audience in a city that keeps its own memory carefully. His page is part of the roll’s middle decade, when the festival had settled into honouring established international auteurs in one or two per year.
Also honoured in 2015
- Benicio del Toro Actor
Sources & further reading
What they said in Sarajevo
It is a revenge film. It posits the idea that after all this time, those wounds have not healed.