American director and screenwriter Paul Schrader will chair the characteristic movie jury on the thirtieth Sarajevo Movie Pageant, which shall be held from August 16 to 23.
Schrader will work with Swedish actor and producer Noomi Rapace, Sarajevo-born, Paris-based Finnish director and screenwriter Juho Kuosmanen, and Slovenian actors Sebastian Cavazza (Una Gunjak) joins the jury.
The jury will announce the winner of the Coronary heart of Sarajevo Award on August 23.
Schrader first got here to prominence as a screenwriter with Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver (1976), and his collaboration with Scorsese continued on movies reminiscent of Raging Bull (1980).
He made his directorial debut with “Blue Collar” (1978) and went on to direct critically acclaimed movies reminiscent of “American Gigolo” (1980) and “Mishima in 4 Chapters” (1985).
In 2017, he wrote and directed First Reformed, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Finest Authentic Screenplay.
Current tasks embody “The Card Counter” (2021), “Grasp Gardener” (2022) and “Oh Canada” (2024).
Rapace got here to the eye of the worldwide leisure neighborhood in 2009 for her function as Lisbeth Salander in The Woman with the Dragon Tattoo, for which she was nominated for a BAFTA Award and a European Movie Award.
She grew to become one of many world’s hottest worldwide actors, with high-profile Hollywood roles in Sherlock Holmes: A Sport of Shadows (2011) and Youngster 44 (2015), alongside The Lambs ( balancing avant-garde worldwide works reminiscent of 2021) and You Will Not Be Alone (2022). She has additionally appeared in high-profile TV reveals reminiscent of Jack Ryan (2019), Django (2023) and this 12 months’s Zodiac.
Rapace is growing a number of tasks by her manufacturing firm, Increase Movies, together with Hamlet with filmmaker Ali Abbasi, through which she’s going to play the title function.
Kusmanin’s characteristic debut “The Happiest Day in Olimaki’s Life” premiered on the 2016 Cannes Movie Pageant and received the highest prize within the Un Sure Regard class.
His second characteristic movie Cubicle 6 (2021) additionally premiered on the Cannes Movie Pageant, this time in the primary competitors, the place it received the Grand Prix, alongside Asghar Farhadi’s Heroes shared this award.
Most not too long ago, he directed three episodes of the TV sequence Alice and Jack, starring Andrea Riseborough and Domhnall Gleeson.
In 2014, Gunjak received the Coronary heart of Sarajevo Award on the Sarajevo Movie Pageant for his quick movie Hen, which premiered on the Cannes Movie Critics Week, and later received the European Movie Award for Finest Brief Movie.
Gunjak’s first characteristic movie “The Tour” premiered on the Locarno Movie Pageant in 2023 and obtained a particular point out. The movie subsequently screened at greater than 50 movie festivals and received the Belgrade FAF Award for Finest Screenplay and the Marrakech Movie Pageant Award for Finest Actress. “The Mountain climbing” has been screened in 20 European nations.
Cavazza has carried out over 80 occasions on stage and performed over 80 roles in entrance of the digital camera, together with in acclaimed movies reminiscent of Males Don’t Cry (2017) and AI Rising (2018), in addition to the TV sequence Besa” (2018).
