Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie was close to tears as she received a special award during an unannounced visit to Sarajevo’s film festival Saturday with partner Brad Pitt.

“I will start crying if you don’t stop,” Oscar-awarded Jolie told the audience who gave her a standing ovation at the city’s National Theater.

Jolie chose Bosnia’s 1992-95 war as the setting for her first film as a director. “In the Land of Blood and Honey” is due to be released in December.

She has also visited Bosnia as a goodwill ambassador for the U.N.’s refugee agency UNHCR and funded the construction of several houses for returnees in eastern Bosnia.

Festival director Mirsad Purivatra presented Jolie with a heart-shaped award when she appeared at the closing ceremony.

“Tonight we are giving the honorary Heart of Sarajevo to a great artist, not only for the great impact she has in the world of cinema but also for persisting and her active engagement in the complexities of the real world we live in,” Purivatra said.

Jolie, dressed in a long peach dress, stood on stage with eyes full of tears waiting for the clapping to die down.

“I told Brad in the car I was afraid I was going to cry,” she said, her voice breaking.

Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and their brood of six will be spending June in Malta as he films zombie flick World War Z. Pitt, 47, and Jolie, 36, have rented a palatial $11 million mansion in Qrendi, Malta, just five minutes from the ocean, and plan to live it up with their kids before the movie starts rolling.

But on Tuesday night, the couple soaked up some adult time with dinner at Trattoria Da Pippo in the nearby town of Valetta.

Leaving Shiloh and the gang behind, the twosome met up with ten other friends and colleagues for a sumptuous Maltese meal.

Explains a local insider: “It’s a lunchtime restaurant, so it was opened especially for them. Brad wanted a dinner for some of the people working on the film. It was an intimate setting.”

As ever, Pitt was “a gentleman” with his love of six years. “He held the door, and pulled out her seat,” the insider says, adding that the sat next to each other.

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Hollywood star Brad Pitt and his equally celebrated partner Angelina Jolie arrived in Malta on a private aircraft this afternoon (saturday).

Labelled the sexiest stars in film history and attracting major global media attention, the couple who are accompanied by their six adopted and biological children, left Los Angeles yesterday evening in a Bombardier Global Express jet.

They arrived in Malta this afternoon and exited Malta International Airport in a couple of vans from the VIP area.

Brad Pitt was last in Malta in 2003 for the filming of the ancient epic Troy in which he played the mightiest of the Greeks, Achilles. This time round, he is a United Nations worker and father of two girls.

Brad Pitt is in Malta for the filming of World War Z, a movie he is producing.

Read more/discuss. Thanks Silenek & Gabriella.

The pair have been together for six years, and have six children together, with talks about tying the knot now getting serious.

Speaking to the Telegraph, she said: “I am very lucky with Brad. He is a real gentleman, but he is also a real man’s man. He’s got the wonderful balance of being an extraordinary, great, loving father, a very, very intelligent man and physically he’s a real man, in all things that it means.”

Angelina also commented on Johnny Depp’s comments that the couple were a modern day version of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, saying: “Well, I’ll take it as a compliment. When we made The Tourist we hung out constantly, although we were boring and just had play dates with the kids. [Depp’s boy] Jack and Maddox played the computer the whole time.”

Read more/discuss. Entire official interview at the Forum.

Angelina Jolie confirmed that her new tattoo is the birthplace of baby daddy Brad Pitt, and says she has no plans to adopt “at this time.” Instead, Angelina is busy using her new movie, Kung Fu Panda 2, as a teaching aid to her children about adoption.

Angelina and her Kung Fu Panda 2 co-star, Jack Black, chatted with Extra about their new film, which deals with the subject of adoption.

“They laughed out loud hysterically through the whole thing and they just loved it, and then I was serious-mom-in-the-car and said, ‘Does anyone have any questions?’” Angie explained of showing her children her new movie.

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Jolie’s latest tattoo sparked adoption speculation last month, when she revealed a new set of map coordinates on her arm, just underneath tattoos of coordinates of the birthplaces of her six children. But as PEOPLE.com suspected, the tattoo was in honor of Pitt, not a new child.

“Well if they know that it’s latitude and longitude they would have figured out quickly that it was Brad’s birthplace.” Jolie told Extra on Wednesday. “It’s Shawnee, Oklahoma.”??

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The actress recently revealed a new set of map coordinates on her arm, just underneath tattoos of coordinates of the birthplaces of her six children. The seventh line of coordinates begins with the latitude N 35°10’44″. While the longitude is obscured, it appears to begin with a W instead of an E, which points to the United States.

Pitt was born in Shawnee, Okla., and the coordinates on her arm appear to read N 35°20’33″ W 96°56’34,” likely reflecting his birthplace.

Read more/discuss. We do not encourage gossip on this website but this is harmless and a new likely explanation instead of the worldwide adoption rumors which have been denied already.

“Earlier this week, the Daily Mirror U.K. and others reported that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are in the process of adopting a child from Haiti. Rather, Ms. Jolie is focused on enhancing the welfare and legal protection of children within Haiti. As such, she has been meeting with government of Haiti officials, Haitian legal experts and non-governmental organizations regarding a new initiative of the Jolie-Pitt Foundation. The recently launched Jolie Legal Fellows Program will assist the justice system in Haiti to improve child protection.”

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Brad Pitt’s brother, Doug Pitt, is climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in an effort to bring safe drinking water to African communities. Philanthropy apparently runs in the family. Doug Pitt – a photojournalist, father of three and Brad Pitt”s brother – is on Day 4 of a climb up Africa’s highest peak, Mt. Kilimanjaro. It’s part of an effort to bring clean, safe drinking water to African communities.

Pitt blogged on Sunday: “After an early wake-up call of 5:45 a.m. the team walked more than nine miles reaching an elevation of 14,800-feet for lunch. The pace has slowed to make sure that everyone’s bodies adjust to the new altitudes, but spirits are still high despite cold temperatures and frequent rain.”

Read more. Thanks Gabriella.