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Honorary Heart of Sarajevo No. 28 2022
Sarajevo Honorary Heart — Jesse Eisenberg (2022)
The American actor and director honoured at the 28th edition in 2022 — the same week his first feature screened there.
- Recipient
- Jesse Eisenberg
- Awarded
- 2022 · 28th edition
- Role
- Actor, film director and playwright
- From
- American
- For
- For his contribution to the art of cinema.
Jesse Eisenberg received the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo in 2022, at the 28th Sarajevo Film Festival. He is the American actor of The Social Network (2010), a writer of plays including The Spoils, and — from 2022 — a feature director.
The award landed in the same week as a natural centrepiece: the festival gave him the Heart and then screened his directing debut, When You Finish Saving the World, at the open-air cinema. He has since gone on to write and direct A Real Pain (2024), which earned him an Oscar nomination — the region’s own modest pride, since the film was made partly in Poland and draws on his family’s Polish-Jewish history, the same line of memory that runs through Bosnia’s own Jewish story.
Also honoured in 2022
- Paul Schrader Film director and screenwriter
- Ruben Östlund Film director
- Sergei Loznitsa Film director
Sources & further reading
What they said in Sarajevo
Bosnia is half the size of the New Jersey I grew up in, yet it produces incredible films — it has become part of Europe's film tradition.