Danis Tanovic

Danis Tanovic is a Bosnian film director and screenwriter. Having started studying at the Sarajevo Film Academy, he completed his studies in Brussels following the outbreak of the Yugoslav Wars. After a number of shorts and documentaries, his first feature length fiction film was No Man’s Land (2001) which received international critical acclaim, as well as the Palme d’or and Best Screenplay prize at the Cannes International Film Festival, and the Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars in 2022. An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker (2013) received the Jury Grand Prix and a Silver Bear for Best Actor at the Berlin International Film Festival. His feature film Tigers (2014), an Indian production, was selected at the International film festival of Toronto in 2014 for the Contemporary World Cinema section. In February 2016, he brought to the screen a portion of Bosnian history with Death in Sarajevo (Smrt u Sarajevu), which was awarded the Silver Bear at the 66^th Berlin International Film Festival. He directed the first original series of the Adria region produced by HBO Success, his television drama debut in 2019. The Postcard Killings, was released in March 2020. In 2021 he directed Deset u pola (Not So Friendly Neighborhood Affair). In 2022, he created and directed the TV series Kotlina. Supported by the Creative Europe MEDIA programme, his latest film Nakon ljeta (My Last Summer, 2024) was selected as the Bosnian entry for the Best international feature Film at the 97^th Academy Awards. He is currently working on two TV series, The Hollow and Frust.