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Honorary Heart of Sarajevo No. 25 2019
Sarajevo Honorary Heart — Paweł Pawlikowski (2019)
The Polish-British director of Ida and Cold War — honoured at the 25th edition in 2019.
- Recipient
- Paweł Pawlikowski
- Awarded
- 2019 · 25th edition
- Role
- Film director
- From
- Polish-British
- For
- For his contribution to the art of cinema.
Paweł Pawlikowski received the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo in 2019, at the 25th Sarajevo Film Festival, in the same class as Iñárritu, Huppert and Roth. He is the Polish-British director of Ida (2013) — which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film — and Cold War (2018).
Seven years later he returned. His film Fatherland (2026, starring Sandra Hüller) — which won Best Director at Cannes — opened the 32nd Sarajevo Film Festival on 14 August 2026. He attended the gala screening. No other honouree on the roll has both received the Heart and opened the festival in two different decades.
His SFF arc spans the festival’s entire life: Serbian Epics (1992), Ida (2010), Cold War opened the 24th (2018), Honorary Heart (2019), Fatherland opened the 32nd (2026). Thirty-four years between the first and last. Read the full arc →
Also honoured in 2019
- Alejandro González Iñárritu Film director
- Isabelle Huppert Actress
- Tim Roth Actor and film director
Sources & further reading
What they said in Sarajevo
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