Bosnian drama I Know Your Soul was the biggest winner at this year’s Heart of Sarajevo awards for TV Series , the Sarajevo Film Festival ’s awards strand for TV shows, as the show nearly swept the drama categories. The six-part series, which is written by Oscar-nominated Bosnian filmmaker Jasmila Žbanić ( Quo Vadis, Aida? ), took seven wins including Best Drama, Best Script – Drama, Best Directing – Drama and many of the drama acting categories. The series, which world premiered at the Venice Film Festival last year, saw Žbanić take home the award for Best Script – Drama Series while Nermin Hamzagić won for Best Directing – Drama.
The show’s lead actress, Jasna Duričić, won Best Actress – Drama, while Jelena Kordić Kuret won Best Supporting Actress – Drama and Mirvad Kurić took Best Supporting Actor – Drama. Lazar Dragojević also took the Rising Star – Drama award. I Know Your Soul is a six-part series that sees Duričić play Nervena, a prosecutor in the process of a divorce and a single mother to a teenage son.
When she investigates an adolescents’ suicide, it triggers an avalanche of events in her personal and professional life. HBO Max acquired the show for Central and Eastern Europe last year and Žbanić also produced and served as showrunner. Last year the Bosnian auteur also directed an episode of HBO’s smash The Last of Us .
Serbian actor Žarko Laušević, who passed away in November 2023, took a posthumous award .