The Swedish interim star Stellan Skarsgård will be celebrated with the honorary heart of Sarajevo during the 31st edition of the festival in August.
The actor is a long -standing friend of the festival, as well as a curator and one of the Katrin Cartlidge Foundation customers – whose scholarships were awarded to the Sarajevo Film Festival – and presented the Foundation Stock Exchange at Juanita Wilson during the 15th edition of the Festival in 2009.
“The Sarajevo Film Festival remains unshakable and motivated with its aim of highlighting subjects of great consequences, underlined by an intense lust for life. I love going there,” said Skarsgård.
The actor follows in the wake of the famous Sarajevo winners who include Meg Ryan, Alexander Payne, Lynne Ramsay, Charlie Kaufman, Jesse Eisenberg, Ruben Östlund, Mads Mikkelsen and Angelina Jolie.
“It is a real honor to present the honorary heart of Sarajevo to Stellan Skarsgård, an actor of remarkable depth, strength and integrity,” said Jovan Marjanović, director of the Sarajevo Film Festival.
“Stellan was a longtime friend of Sarajevo, and we are delighted to welcome him behind.
With more than 150 television and film credits in his name, Skarsgård is one of the most celebrated actors in Sweden.
He started playing at the age of fifteen in the Swedish television series Bombardment and in. After this initial success, he continued his work with the prestigious Royal Dramatic Theater of Stockholm while appearing in a range of Swedish films.
The International Skarsgård breakthrough occurred in 1982 with Hans Alfredson The simple -minded murdererFor which he won the Berlinale Silver Bear for best actor. He then worked with other best Scandinavian directors such as Bo Widerberg and Kjell Grede.
His first important role in Hollywood came in 1990 when he depicted a Russian submarine captain in October hunting. This marked the beginning of a prolific international period, including Zero Kelvin (1995), his first of many films with the Norwegian director Hans Petter Moland.
In 1996, he appeared in Break the waveswho marked the start of his longtime collaboration with the Danish author Lars Von Trier. The film won the Grand Jury Prize in Cannes and brought generalized recognition of Skarsgård. He appeared later in Von Trier Dogville,, MelancholyAnd Nymphomaniac.
Skarsgård has since worked with a range of influential filmmakers, including Gus Van Sant (Good desire to hunt), Steven Spielberg (Amistad), John Frankenheimer (Ronin), Paul Schrader (The Exorcist: Dominion), David Fincher (The girl with the dragon tattoo), and Miloš Forman (Goya ghosts).
He entered the successful kingdom as Bootstrap Bill Turner in two Caribbean pirates Movies and world public charmed in Oh mom! and its suite. He joined the Marvel cinematographic universe as a physicist Erik Selvig Thor and resumed the role in four additional MCU titles.
On television, in 2015, Skarsgård played in the poignant BBC series River by Abi Morgan. He then obtained an appointment to the Emmy Emmy and a victory in the Golden Globe for his haunting performance in the HBOs Chernobyl.
He continues to balance prestige and popular work, with a recent cameo in SimpsonsA leading role in Denis Villeneuve Dune acclaimed films and reversals Andor (Star Wars) and the winner of the 2025 Cannes Grand Prix Sentimental value.
The 31st Sarajevo Film Festival takes place from August 15 to 22.
