Aida Begić (born 9 May 1976) is a

Bosnia Bosnia and Herzegovina, sometimes known as Bosnia-Herzegovina and informally as Bosnia, is a country in Southeast Europe. Situated on the Balkans, Balkan Peninsula, it borders Serbia to the east, Montenegro to the southeast, and Croatia to th ...

film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...

and

screenwriter A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwriting. These can include short films, feature-length films, television programs, television ...

Education and career

She graduated in Film and Theater Directing from the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo in 2000. Her graduation film "The First Death Experience" has been screened at more than twenty international film festivals. This film participated in the 54th Cannes Film Festival – Official Cinefondation Selection and later received five awards: Best Short Film – 6th Ourense Film Festival, Spain, 2002; Critics' Award – 30th Huesca International Film Festival, Spain, 2002; Methexis Award – MedFilm Festival, Italy, 2002; Special Jury Mention – 9th Archipelago New Media Film Festival and Short Film, Italy, 2001. Aida Begić is an assistant professor in directing (Prof. Haris Pašović) at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo. She made a number of commercials, videos and promotional films. In 2004, she and Elma Tataragic founded the production company MAMAFILM. Her feature debut, ''Snow'', won the 2008 Grand Prix at Cannes’ Critics’ Week and in 2012, she returned to the festival with ''Children of Sarajevo'' emerging winner of a Special Distinction in Un Certain Regard. She also shot segments of the portmanteau films ''Do Not Forget Me Istanbul'' (2010) and ''Bridges of Sarajevo'' (2014), the latter of which premiered in Cannes as a Special Screening. Her last feature film was 2017’s ''Never Leave Me''.

Filmography

*''

Snow Snow consists of individual ice crystals that grow while suspended in the atmosphere—usually within clouds—and then fall, accumulating on the ground where they undergo further changes. It consists of frozen crystalline water througho ...

'' (''Snijeg'', 2008) *''Do Not Forget Me Istanbul'' (2011) *'' Children of Sarajevo'' (''Djeca'', 2012) *'' Bridges of Sarajevo'' (2014) *'' Never Leave Me'' (2017)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Begic, Aida 1976 births Living people Film people from Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina film directors Bosnia and Herzegovina screenwriters Women screenwriters Bosnia and Herzegovina women film directors