US writer-director Paul Schrader will receive the honorary Heart of Sarajevo award at the 28th Sarajevo Film Festival, which takes place from August 12-19 this year.
Schrader will attend the festival to collect his award on August 13, with the presentation followed by a screening of his most recent film The Card Counter, starring Oscar Isaac and Tiffany Haddish.
He will also give a masterclass that morning as the opening session of the Talents Sarajevo Masterclasses programme.
Schrader broke out as a writer with Martin Scorsese-directed Taxi Driver, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1976. He directed his first feature Blue Collar in 1978, and has gone on to make films including American Gigolo, Cat People and First Reformed, for which he was nominated for the best original screenplay Oscar in 2019.
Previous recipients of the honorary Heart of Sarajevo include Angelina Jolie, Jafar Panahi, Gael Garcia Bernal, Robert de Niro and last year’s recipient Wim Wenders.
Austrian filmmaker Sebastian Meise was previously announced as the jury president for this year’s edition of the festival.
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