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Honorary Heart of Sarajevo No. 31 2025
Sarajevo Honorary Heart — Paolo Sorrentino (2025)
The Italian director of The Great Beauty — honoured at the 31st edition in 2025, with a full retrospective.
- Recipient
- Paolo Sorrentino
- Awarded
- 2025 · 31st edition
- Role
- Film director and screenwriter
- From
- Italian
- For
- For his outstanding contribution to the art of cinema.
Paolo Sorrentino received the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo in 2025, at the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival, and the festival paired it with a full Tribute to retrospective of his films. He is the Italian director of The Great Beauty (2013) — which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film — Youth (2015) and Parthenope (2024).
The retrospective treatment marks Sorrentino as the class’s marquee name: the 2025 edition screened his work in depth while giving him the Heart, the same treatment given to Asghar Farhadi in 2026.
Also honoured in 2025
- Ray Winstone Actor
- Stellan Skarsgård Actor
- Willem Dafoe Actor
Sources & further reading
What they said in Sarajevo
My films are about emotions, not zombies or other disasters.