Urša Menart

Urša Menart is a Slovenian writer and director. She has graduated in Film and TV directing from the University of Ljubljana Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in 2010. She had been working as an assistant director and documentarian before starting to work as a screenwriter. Her two documentary films, There Once Was a Land of Hardworking People (2012) and What About Mojca? (2014), started her career as director and screenwriter. She later worked as assistant director and script collaborator on Nightlife (directed by Damjan Kozole and co-written by Kozole and Ognjen Sviličić), which won Kozole Best Director in Karlovy Vary IFF in 2016. She made her debut feature as writer/director with My Last Year as a Loser (2018), that won the Slovenian national awards Vesna for Best Film and Best Screenplay. She collaborated with Kozole and Sviličić again on Half-Sister, which premiered in Competition at Karlovy Vary IFF in 2019. She was awarded the Župančič Award of the City of Ljubljana for Art and Culture. She also recently worked on her second feature film My Last Year as a Loser (2018), the short film Short Deeds (2019), and the TV series documentary 50 knjig, ki so nas napisale (50 books written by us, 2020-2021). Lately, she has been developing her third feature film project (‘Everything that is wrong with you’), coming out in 2025.