INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION PROGRAM
Wojciech Diduszko
Wojciech Diduszko – programmer of Millennium Docs Against Gravity, the largest film festival in Poland and one of the largest documentary film festivals in the world, for 6 years. Before that, he worked for the Polish public television (TVP), for 10 years creating the film repertoire of the thematic channel TVP Kultura. He also worked for commercial broadcasters and was involved in independent cinema. He studied film studies and sociology. Lives in Warsaw.
Dragana Jovanović
Dragana Jovanovic obtained a postgraduate degree at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne in Germany, where she studied Film Directing and Writing. She also holdsa bachelor’s degree in Production from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts at the University of Arts Belgrade in Serbia. Her film On the Other Side of the Pillow a Rose Was Blossoming (2018) was nominated by the German Film Academy for the First Steps Award and screened at numerous international film festivals, including. Festival Premiers Plans d’Angers, ISFF Oberhausen, and DRAMA ISFF. Her most recent work, Aurora’s Dream (2023), premiered internationally at FID Marseille and won the Best Cinematography Award at Beldocs for her contribution.
Alongside her active filmmaking practice, she currently teaches at Film and Music Departments at Catalyst Institute for Creative Arts and Technology in Berlin. She is also a co-founder and moderator of the Berlin Dream Analysis Group and a grantee of the Asisi Institute for the Jungian Study of Archetypal Patterns.
Igor Bezinović
Igor Bezinović is a filmmaker born in Rijeka, which is now part of Croatia, but at that time belonged to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, before that partly the Kingdom of Italy and partly the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (and before that the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes), before that the Free State of Fiume, before that the Italian Regency of Carnaro, before that Austria-Hungary…
His films include The Blockade (Oktavijan prize for best Croatian documentary in 2012), Veruda (Oktavijan prize for best Croatian documentary in 2015) and A Brief Excursion (Big Golden Arena prize for best Croatian feature in 2017), along with many shorts of all shapes and sizes. His work has been shown internationally at events including IFF Rotterdam, DOK Leipzig, IDFF Jihlava, CPH:DOX, Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, Venice Biennale of Architecture (with Hrvoslava Brkušić for Pulska grupa), Museum of the Moving Image and the Guanajuato IFF.
SERBIAN COMPETITION PROGRAM
Pavle Levi
Pavle Levi is professor of film studies and chair of the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University. He is the author of numerous books, including Cinema by Other Means, Hypnos in Cineland, and Minijature.
Margot Mecca
Margot Mecca is an Italian programmer, producer and researcher based in Barcelona. She is Head of Industry and Programmer at Festival dei Popoli – International Documentary Film Festival (Florence, Italy).
Since 2025 she is the Artistic co-director of FEST at +RAIN Film Festival; she is also part of the selection committee of Majordocs – International Documentary Film Festival (Spain). She collaborates with FID Marseille (France), contributing to FIDCampus and pre-selection. She coordinates the Opening Scenes Lab at Visions du Réel International Film Festival (Switzerland). Since 2024 she co-curates the professional event EXIT, at La Inesperada Festival (Spain).
Göran Hugo Olsson
Born 1965 in Lund. Educated at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm after film studies at Stockholm University. Documentary filmmaker, cinematographer and inventor of the A-cam, the world smallest Super-16 film camera, and D2 the only uncompressed digital camera. Editor and founder of the short documentary TV program Ikon (SVT). Co-founder of Story AB. Member of the Editorial board of Ikon South Africa – a platform for the creative documentary in South Africa. for the SABC. Film Commissioner at the Swedish Film Institute 1999-02. Has travelled the world making films, commercials, information films and music videos. Sundance Film Festival winner 2011. Berlin Panorama winner 2014 Guldbagge winner 2012 and 2015. Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Example of films as director & scriptwriter: The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011), Concerning Violence (2014), Fonko (2015), That Summer (2018), Society of the Spectacle (2023), Israel Palestine of Swedish TV 1958-1989 (2024).
SHORT FILMS UP TO 45 MINUTES
Imam Hasanov
Imam Hasanov is a filmmaker and founder of the DokuBaku International Documentary Film Festival in Baku, Azerbaijan. His work explores identity, spirituality, and the boundaries of reality, often blending poetic vision with social themes. He is dedicated to fostering a vibrant documentary culture in the region. Through his films and curatorial work, he invites audiences to reflect on deeper truths hidden in everyday life.
Tara Gajović
Tara Gajović, was born in 2000 in Belgrade. After graduating from the 4th Belgrade Gymnasium, she enrolled at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts and is currently studying for a master’s degree in film and television directing in Belgrade. Her short film “U ramenima” received a Special Mention at the Festival of Author Film in the Brave Balkans selection, as well as two film awards at the 10th Bašta Fest. It was screened at the Trieste Film Festival and the Zagreb Film Festival. “Minel”, her short documentary film, was screened at last year’s Beldocs, in the Serbian competition program. It was screened in Munich, and is awaiting its world premiere.
The short documentary film “I Was at My Parents’ Wedding” was supported by FCS and is currently in the filming phase. With this project, she participated in the DokSerbia winter workshop, as well as the Balkan Film Market – Pitch for Torino.
Nikola Radić
Nikola Radić is a film critic and scholar. His work has been published in numerous media outlets, magazines and journals, including Senses of Cinema, Eastern European Screen Studies, Courrier des Balkans and dokumentarni.net. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Filmoskopija. He is currently working as a researcher on the project Paranational Cinema – Legacies and Practices at the University of Zurich Film Studies Department, where he is preparing a doctoral dissertation on post-Yugoslav cinema.
