The Sarajevo Film Festival has named the jury for its feature film competition, joining British actress Emily Watson with European Film Academy CEO Matthijs Wouter Knol, Greek producer Athina Rachel Tsangari, Croatian filmmaker Igor Bezinović and North Macedonian actress Sara Klimoska. The panel will decide the Heart of Sarajevo Awards at the Bosnian festival, continuing a tradition of high-profile juries that has previously included Mike Leigh, Jeremy Irons and Asghar Farhadi.

The festival runs for a week in mid-August, with the awards ceremony held on 21 August. Watson, recently seen in Chloé Zhao's Hamnet and known for Breaking the Waves and Gosford Park, currently stars in HBO/Max's Dune: Prophecy. Her fellow jurors bring varied credentials: Bezinović won a European Film Award for his documentary Fiume o morte!, Klimoska has starred in several Milcho Manchevski films and passed through the festival's own Talents Sarajevo scheme, and Knol has led the European Film Academy since 2021.