Regional Competition

Corina Schwingruber Ilić studied at the University of Arts in Basel, in Belgrade, and at the Lucerne School of Art and Design. She has shot a number of award-winning short docs together with Nikola Ilić, such as Kod ćoška (2013) or Just Another Day in Egypt (2015). Her shorts Baggern (2011) and Ins Holz (co-directed by Thomas Horat, 2017) became festival hits, while All Inclusive (2018) was selected at over 200 festivals such as Venice, Toronto and Sundance and was honoured with the Golden Dove of DOK Leipzig among many other awards.

Nikola Ilić, originally from Belgrade, Serbia, is an independent filmmaker and cinematographer interested in creative and observational documentary filmmaking. Since 2007, he has lived, studied, and worked between Switzerland and Serbia. His short films have been shown and awarded at many international festivals around the globe. His most recent feature film Doc (co-directed with Corina Schwingruber Ilić) won a DOK Leipzig Golden Dove, as well as many other awards – including Big Stamp award at ZagrebDox. He has been nominated three times for the Swiss Film Award and has won the Zürich Film Award and the Film Award of Central Switzerland twice. He is co-founder of the Pro Short Association and a member of the Swiss Film Academy.