Overview
- On Wednesday, August 19, 2026, Watson presided over the Sarajevo Film Festival’s feature competition jury and accepted the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo.
- She dedicated the Honorary Heart to the late Katrin Cartlidge and took part in a retrospective that revisited her breakout film Breaking the Waves.
- Watson said she grew up in the London-based School of Philosophy and Economic Science, described that upbringing as very strict and called the group a cult.
- She told festival audiences that leaders of the group tried to stop her from taking Breaking the Waves, an intervention she says caused a decisive rupture and led her to leave.
- Watson said acting 'saved her life,' linked her personal history to roles like Bess in Breaking the Waves, and announced forthcoming projects including Dune: Prophecy season two, Mira Nair’s AMRI, and Mackenzie Crook’s Mars Express.