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Honorary Heart of Sarajevo No. 28 2022
Sarajevo Honorary Heart — Sergei Loznitsa (2022)
The Ukrainian director of Donbass — honoured at the 28th edition in 2022, months into the full-scale invasion.
- Recipient
- Sergei Loznitsa
- Awarded
- 2022 · 28th edition
- Role
- Film director
- From
- Ukrainian
- For
- For his contribution to the art of cinema.
Sergei Loznitsa received the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo in 2022, at the 28th Sarajevo Film Festival, in the same class as Jesse Eisenberg, Ruben Östlund and Paul Schrader. He is the Ukrainian director of My Joy (2010) and Donbass (2018), and one of the leading documentarians of the Soviet and post-Soviet experience.
The 2022 award carried a weight the festival could not ignore: it came months after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and a city that had itself been besieged gave its Heart to a Ukrainian filmmaker making films about that exact history. It was the roll’s most directly political moment of that decade.
Also honoured in 2022
- Jesse Eisenberg Actor, film director and playwright
- Paul Schrader Film director and screenwriter
- Ruben Östlund Film director
Sources & further reading
What they said in Sarajevo
This is not my first time in Sarajevo — I have been here before, and the history of this city resonates with me.