Heart of Sarajevo

The official Heart of Sarajevo have been awarded since 2004, and the 10th anniversary of the Sarajevo Film Festival. Its design, as a visual identity for the festival, was chosen in 2004 from the shape that has been in informal circulation since the very beginning of the festival in the early 1990s, a heart designed by French fashion designer Agnès Andrée Marguerite Troublé a.k.a. Agnès B., a friend and patron of the Sarajevo Film Festival.[1]

Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Feature Film

Year	Film	Original title	Director(s)	Nationality of Director
1996	Breaking the Waves	Breaking the Waves	Lars von Trier	Denmark
1997	My Life in Pink	Ma Vie en Rose	Alain Berliner	Belgium
1998	I Stand Alone	Seul contre tous	Gaspar Noé	France
1999	December 1–31	Dezember, 1-31	Jan Peters	Germany
2000	Bleeder	Bleeder	Nicolas Winding Refn	Denmark
2001	No Man's Land	Ničija zemlja	Danis Tanović	Bosnia and Herzegovina
2002	Saturday	Sábado	Juan Villegas	Argentina
2003	Fuse	Gori vatra	Pjer Žalica	Bosnia and Herzegovina
2004	Mila from Mars	Mila ot Mars	Zornitsa Sofia	Bulgaria
2005	Lady Zee	Leydi Zi	Georgi Djulgerov	Bulgaria
2006	Fraulein	Das Fräulein	Andrea Staka	Switzerland
2007	Takva: A Man's Fear of God	Takva	Özer Kızıltan	Turkey
2008	Buick Riviera	Buick Riviera	Goran Rušinović	Croatia
2009	Ordinary People	Obični ljudi	Vladimir Perišić	Serbia
2010	Tilva Roš	Tilva Roš	Nikola Ležaić	Serbia
2011	Breathing	Atmen	Karl Markovics	Austria
2012	Everybody in Our Family	Toată lumea din familia noastră	Radu Jude	Romania
2013	In Bloom	Grdzeli nateli dgheebi	Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Groß	Georgia
2014	Song of My Mother	Annemin Şarkısı	Erol Mintaş	Turkey
2015	Mustang	Mustang	Deniz Gamze Ergüven	Turkey
2016	Album	Albüm	Mehmet Can Mertoğlu	Turkey
2017	Scary Mother	Sashishi deda	Ana Urushadze	Georgia
2018	Ága	Ága	Milko Lazarov	Bulgaria
2019	Take Me Somewhere Nice	Odvedi me na neko lijepo mjesto	Ena Sendijarević	Bosnia and Herzegovina

Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Director

Year	Director	Film	Nationality of Director
2017	Emanuel Părvu	Meda or The Not So Bright Side of Things	Romania
2018	Ioana Uricaru	Lemonade	Romania
2019	Emin Alper	A Tale of Three Sisters	Turkey

Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Actress

Year	Actress	Film	Nationality of Actress
2004	Marija Škaričić	A Wonderful Night in Split	Croatia
2005	Zrinka Cvitešić	What Is a Man Without a Moustache?	Croatia
2006	Marija Škaričić	Fraulein	Croatia
2007	Saadet Aksoy	Egg	Turkey
2008	Ayça Damgacı	Gitmek: My Marlon and Brando	Turkey
2009	Angeliki Papoulia and Mary Tsoni	Dogtooth	Greece
2010	Mirela Oprișor	Tuesday, After Christmas	Romania
2011	Ada Condeescu	Loverboy	Romania
2012	Marija Pikić	Children of Sarajevo	Bosnia and Herzegovina
2013	Lika Babluani and Mariam Bokeria	In Bloom	Georgia
2014	Mari Kitia	Brides	Georgia
2015	Cast of Mustang Güneş Şensoy Doğa Doğuşlu Tuğba Sunguroğlu Elit İşcan İlayda Akdoğan	Mustang	Turkey
2016	Irena Ivanova	Godless	Bulgaria
2017	Ornela Kapetani	Daybreak	Albania
2018	Zsófia Szamosi	One Day	Hungary
2019	Irini Jambonas	Rounds	Bulgaria

Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Actor

Year	Actress	Film	Nationality of Actor
2004	Milan Točinovski	How I Killed a Saint	Macedonia
2005	Peter Musevski	Labour Equals Freedom	Slovenia
2006	Rakan Rushaidat	All for Free	Croatia
2007	Saša Petrović	It's Hard to Be Nice	Bosnia and Herzegovina
2008	Leon Lučev and Slavko Štimac	Buick Riviera	Croatia and  Serbia
2009	Relja Popović	Ordinary People	Serbia
2010	Marko Todorović	Tilva Roš	Serbia
2011	Thomas Schubert	Breathing	Austria
2012	Uliks Fehmiu	Redemption Street	Serbia
2013	Bogdan Diklić	A Stranger	Serbia
2014	Feyyaz Duman	Song of My Mother	Turkey
2015	Cast of Chevalier Yiorgos Kendros Vangelis Mourikis Panos Koronis Efthymis Papadimitriou Giorgos Pyrpassopoulos Sakis Rouvas	Chevalier	Greece
2016	Gheorghe Visu	Dogs	Romania
2017	Șerban Pavlu	Meda or The Not So Bright Side of Things	Romania
2018	Leon Lučev	The Load	Croatia
2019	Levan Gelbakhiani	And Then We Danced	Georgia

Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Short Film

Year	Film	Original title	Director(s)	Nationality of Director
2001	Copy Shop	Copy Shop	Virgil Widrich	Austria
2002	10 Minutes	10 minuta	Ahmed Imamović	Bosnia and Herzegovina
2003	The Wallet	Le portefeuille	Vincent Bierrewaerts	Belgium
2004	Me, Myself and the Universe	Ich und das Universum	Hajo Schomerus	Germany
2005	Before Dawn	Hajnal	Balint Kenyeres	Hungary
2006	Good Luck Nedim	Sretan put Nedime	Marko Šantić	Slovenia
2007	Waves	Valuri	Adrian Sitaru	Romania
2008	Tolerantia	Tolerantia	Ivan Ramadan	Bosnia and Herzegovina
2009	Party	Tulum	Dalibor Matanić	Croatia
2010	Yellow Moon	Žuti mjesec	Zvonimir Jurić	Croatia
2011	Mezzanine	Mezanin	Dalibor Matanić	Croatia
2012	The Return	Kthimi	Blerta Zeqiri	Kosovo
2013	Shadow of a Cloud	O umbra de nor	Radu Jude	Romania
2014	The Chicken	Kokoška	Una Gunjak	Croatia
2015	A Matter of Will	Biserna obala	Dušan Kasalica	Montenegro
2016	Transition	Tranzicija	Milica Tomović	Serbia
2017	Into the Blue	U plavetnilo	Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović	Croatia
2018	Breath	Dah	Ermin Bravo	Bosnia and Herzegovina
2019	The Last Image of Father	Poslednja slika o ocu	Stefan Đorđević	Serbia

Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Student Film

Year	Film	Original title	Director(s)	Nationality of Director
2017	Clean	Čistoća	Neven Samardžić	Bosnia and Herzegovina
2018	Last Call	Last Call	Hajni Kis	Hungary
2019	Sherbet	Šerbet	Nikola Stojanović	Serbia

Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Documentary Film

Year	Film	Original title	Director(s)	Nationality of Director
2006	Facing the Day	Što sa sobom preko dana	Ivona Juka	Croatia
2007	Interrogation	Informativni razgovori	Namik Kabil	Bosnia and Herzegovina
2008	Corridor No. 8	Коридор No. 8	Boris Despodov	Bulgaria
2009	The Caviar Connection	Kavijar konekšn	Dragan Nikolić	Serbia
2010	The Seamstresses	Shivackite	Biljana Garvanlieva	Macedonia
2011	A Cell Phone Movie	Mobitel	Nedžad Begović	Bosnia and Herzegovina
2012	Turn Off the Lights	Lumea in patratele	Ivana Mladenović	Serbia
2013	Sickfuckpeople	Хворісукалюди	Juri Rechinsky	Ukraine
2014	Naked Island	Goli	Tiha K. Gudac	Croatia
2015	Toto and His Sisters	Toto şi surorile lui	Alexander Nanau	Romania
2016	A Mere Breath	Doar o răsuflare	Monica Lãzurean-Gorgan	Romania
2017	City of the Sun	Mzis qalaqi	Rati Oneli	Georgia
2018	Srbenka	Srbenka	Nebojša Slijepčević	Croatia
2019	When the Persimmons Grew	Xurmalar Yetişən Vaxt	Hilal Baydarov	Azerbaijan

Since 2005, the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo has been also awarded to individuals who have contributed to the development of the festival, as well as regional film in general, term which comprise filmmaking in broad area of Former Yugoslavia, Balkans, and Southeast Europe.[1] In 2016, the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award for lifetime achievement was introduced. Its first recipient was Robert De Niro.[2][3][4]

• Sarajevo Film Festival
• Golden Bear award at the Berlin International Film Festival
• Silver Bear and other awards at the Berlin International Film Festival
• Palme d'Or, the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival
• Golden Lion, the highest prize awarded at the Venice Film Festival

• Sarajevo Film Festival (SFF homepage)
• IMDb - Sarajevo Film Festival, SFF at Internet Movie Database