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Angelina Jolie received a special award at the Sarajevo Film Festival when she visited the festival with Brad Pitt. She was given a standing ovation at the City’s National Theater. Angelina Jolie has chosen Bosnia and its three-year war from 1992 to 1995 as the setting for her first film as a director. She is calling the film, `In the Land of Blood and Honey’. The film is due to be completed soon and will be released this Christmas.

Angelina Jolie has been working in Bosnia for quite some time now as a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. She has organized the funding of several houses for refugees in Eastern Bosnia. The Festival Director presented Jolie with the award at the closing ceremony. The Director told the audience that he Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award was being given to a great artist not only for the impact she has had in the cinema world but also for her persistence with her active work in the problem areas of the real world.

The film that she is directing narrates the story of a love affair between a Serb and a Bosnian Muslim woman  who exist on the opposite battling sides during the disturbed times of the conflict. She is shooting the film in Budapest as the Bosnian authorities rejected a filming permit in Sarajevo, taking objection to some details in the plot of the film that dealt with female victims involved in sexual violence.

Angelina Jolie told Reuters that she wants to realize her dream of crossing the Sahara Desert on a camel in twenty eight days. She would like to accomplish that in stages with breaks at stations where she will make her kids stay.