Jasmila Žbanić
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Jasmila Žbanić at 2010 KVIFF
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19 December 1974 Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia |
| Occupation | Film director, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1998–present |
| Spouse(s) | Damir Ibrahimović |
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Jasmila Žbanić (born 19 December 1974) is a Bosnian film director and screenwriter. She is noted for the film Grbavica, which won the 2006 Golden Bear at the 56th Berlin International Film Festival. Her 2010 film Na putu was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.
Žbanić was born in Sarajevo in 1974, to Bosniak parents. Žbanić went to local schools before attending the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo, where she got a degree. She worked for a time in the United States as a puppeteer in the Vermont-based Bread and Puppet Theater and as a clown in a Lee De Long workshop. In 1997, she founded the artist's association "Deblokada" and started making documentaries and short films.
Žbanić went to the United States in order to work as a puppeteer in the Vermont-based Bread and Puppet Theater. She also learned to act as a clown in a Lee De Long workshop.
After her return to Bosnia and Herzegovina, she founded the artists' association "Deblokada" (meaning "de-blocking.") Through Deblokada, Žbanić wrote and produced many documentaries, video artworks, and short films. Her work has been seen around the globe, screened in film festivals and shown at exhibitions such as the Manifesta 3 in Slovenia in 2000, the Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel in 2004, and the Istanbul Biennale in 2003. Since then she has made well-received feature films.
Her 2006 feature film Grbavica won the Golden Bear award at Berlinale 2006, the Grand Jury Prize at the International Feature Competition Festival in 2006, and was awarded the Best European Film and best European actress award in 2006.
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