Nina Kusturica

Nina Kusturica was born in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina, she grew up in Sarajevo in a family of artists. She lives and works in Vienna as a director, editor, writer and producer. She studied directing and editing at Vienna Film Academy, University of Music and Performing Arts. She has made various feature films and documentaries and participated in numerous international and national film festivals: Berlinale Forum of New Cinema, Mar del Plata, Rotterdam, Max Ophüls Prize, Duisburg Film Week, Premiers Plans Festival d'Angers, Mostra Internacional de Cinema Sao Paulo, Leeds Film Festival and many more. The exhibitions of her work took place in Cairo in 2012 and in Vienna in 2010, and screened as part of Film programs in the US, Chile, Mexico, France, Russia, the UK, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Turkey, Poland, Italy and Germany. Nina Kusturica gives classes at universities on film, acting, human rights and diversity and also regularly speaks at international meetings and seminars, both in Austria and abroad.