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Hollywood’s Meg Ryan and John Turturro to be honored at Sarajevo Film Festival

SARAJEVO (AP) — The Sarajevo Film Festival, the largest film showcase in the region stretching from Vienna to Istanbul, will honor Hollywood star actors and directors Meg Ryan, John Turturro and Alexander Payne for their contributions to the arts, festival organizers said Monday.

Hollywood’s Meg Ryan and John Turturro to be honored at Sarajevo Film Festival

The honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award will also be given to Palestinian director Elia Suleiman, organisers said.

The SFF said the award winners will attend screenings of their most popular films, present their latest productions and hold masterclasses during the 30th edition of the festival to be held from August 16 to 23.

The SFF was founded by a group of film lovers at the end of the 1992–1995 Bosnian War and has since been supported by film industry figures from around the world.

SFF director Jovan Marjanovic said it was a “great privilege” to bring such industry figures to Sarajevo and connect them with the region’s youth. “These are relationships that last a long time and we see people returning, helping the festival grow and develop.”

The world premiere of Bosnian Oscar-winning director Danis Tanovic’s “My Late Summer” will open the festival, which will screen a total of 240 films this year.

Ryan will present a special screening of her 1998 hit romantic comedy “You’ve Got Mail” at the open-air cinema, which can seat 2,000, as well as her latest directorial film “What Happens Later,” which also stars her.

54 films from South-Eastern Europe, Ukraine and the Southern Caucasus will compete for the Heart of Sarajevo Award under four selections – features, short films, documentaries and student films – including 19 world premieres.

“What unites all these countries is that they are really on the margins, both geopolitically and culturally,” Marjanovic told Reuters.

“So the Sarajevo Film Festival has established itself as a hub for all these cinematographies, to some extent their window to the world, and a platform for their mutual cooperation and collaboration with the rest of the world.”

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