MUMBAI: Saving Grace star Holly Hunter will lead the jury for the upcoming Stockholm International Film Festival. She will head up the panel selected to choose the winner of the festival‘s top award, the Bronze Horse.

The event will also honour filmmaker Gus Van Sant who directed Milk, Elephant and Paranoid Park. 

"I am honoured to be serving as this year‘s jury president at the Stockholm International Film Festival. I‘m especially excited that this year‘s festival is celebrating the extraordinary achievements of filmmaker Gus Van Sant," Hunter said.

The event, that will screen more than 20 films will go underway on 18 November.