Bosnian actor Igor Skvarica will host the opening ceremony at the National Theater for the 25th Sarajevo Film Festival on August 16th, organisers said in a Friday statement.

Skvarica, born in 1986, is among the younger generation of Bosnian actors, whose graduation play, ‘Pocket Full of Stones’, was included in the regular repertoire of the Sarajevo War Theatre (SARTR) and participated in the prestigious International Student Theatre Festival ItSelf held in Warsaw, it said.

The 25th Sarajevo Film Festival is being held under the patronage of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and is set to run August 16-23.