Director of the European Film Academy Matthijs Wouter Knol and Yorgos Lanthimos’ producer Athina Rachel Tsangari are among the industry professionals tapped to join British star Emily Watson on the Sarajevo Film Festival jury.
Alongside filmmaker Igor Bezinović and actress Sara Klimoska, they will judge the feature film competition at the Bosnian film festival, running for a week in mid-August.
Watson joins a rich constellation of auteurs who have previously presided over the Sarajevo jury in past editions, including Mike Leigh, Jeremy Irons, Asghar Farhadi, Ruben Östlund, and Mia Wasikowska.
The group will award the Heart of Sarajevo Awards in the feature film competition at the ceremony on Aug. 21.
Watson most recently starred as Mary Shakespeare in Chloé Zhao’s adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s award-winning historical novel Hamnet. Her notable film credits include Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves, A24’s God’s Creatures opposite Paul Mescal, Small Things Like These, Netflix drama Steve, and the Oscar-winning Gosford Park. On television, Watson currently leads the HBO/Max series Dune: Prophecy and has just finished shooting the second season.
