Regional Competition

Tiha K. Gudac is a filmmaker based in Croatia, where she’s working as a director, scriptwriter and producer. She has directed two feature length documentary films: Naked Island (Factum / Croatia, 2014), and The Wire (Off World / Belgium, Kinoteka /Croatia, URGH!&RTVSLO Slovenia, Relation 04 Media/ Norway, InScript Media / Lithuania, 2021), which have won awards at international documentary film festivals and have had an international theatrical, TV and educational distribution. In the recent years she has directed, written and co-produced documentary series programmes and a film for Croatian national TV broadcaster HRT. As a producer she has independently produced and worked on: film festivals, as well as fiction, documentary, and animated films, commercial and TV formats, some of which were awarded, or box office success. Her early work background was marked by years of involvement with the NGO sector, developing international dialogue building and conflict resolution projects, as well as working in PR and acting in theatre projects. She has an MA as a Master of Film Arts and an MA in Business Marketing. She is a member of Director’s Guild of Croatia, Croatian Filmmaker Association and Croatian Independent Artists Association.

Jasmina Beširević holds an MA in Documentary Film and TV Directing from the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb.  She was born in Zagreb and has lived and studied in Germany and the U.S.A. She also holds a BS in Ecology and an MA in Education. Her films often deal with topics related to children and family dynamics. Her filmography includes All Good Things (2017), The Last Picture Show (2019), Now I Am Irena (2021), Bosnian Broadway (2021) and Lina (2023).

Anja Koprivšek was born in Novi Sad. She graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade in 2019, with a degree in International Relations. Throughout the course of her studies, she completed two educational programmes in the field of Gender Studies - one in Belgrade, the other in Zagreb. She is currently a student at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb, pursuing a Master's degree in Documentary Filmmaking. Between Summers (2021) is her first film. She has been employed as an assistant coordinator at CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator since February, 2022.

Petar Vukičević was born in 1995 in Split. He enrolled in the study of geophysics at the Faculty of Science in Zagreb in 2014. In 2017, he enrolled in the Film and TV Directing programme at the Academy of Dramatic Art. His filmography includes: Sultriness (2020), The Spiral (2019), Garin rog (2019), Journey home (2021).

Dalija Dozet redateljica je i scenaristica koja živi i radi u Zagrebu, a od djetinjstva se poigrava različitim filmskim formama. Propituje filmski jezik u različitim područjima filmskog stvaralaštva kao redateljica, montažerka i scenaristica, a surađuje na igranim, dokumentarnim i eksperimentalnim oblicima i pričama. Višestruko se profesionalno usavršavala (Sarajevo Talent Campus, DocuRough Cut Boutique, ljetna akademija u Locarnu, European Short Pitch, Rise and Shine, Docu Circle Accelerator, FAMU international, Go short breaking ground). Trenutačno se bavi postprodukcijom kratkog igranog filma Jednog dana dogodit će se nešto (strašno) te dugometražnog dokumentarca Lekcije mog tate. U slobodno vrijeme šeće se i razmišlja o filmovima, što je istovremeno i izuzetno usrećuje i izluđuje.

Judita Gamulin (1992) graduated in Film and Television Directing from the Zagreb Academy of Dramatic Art where she has previously earned a BA degree in Editing. In the last decade, she has been working in film and commercials production as a director, screenwriter, assistant director and editor. To date she has filmed the short films Daddy Issues (2014), Minus 4 (2015), Flowers (2015), Marica (2017) and Sedra (2019) and currently she is developing her first feature. Her short film Flowers was among the finalists of the 43rd Student Academy Awards. She was a Karlovy Vary FUTURE FRAMES participant in 2018 and attending Cinéfondation – Résidence du Festival de Cannes 2021.

Katarina Lukec graduated in 2017 from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb and received the title of Master of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology and Master of Education of Croatian language and literature. She developed an interest in visual anthropology during her studies. In 2019 she finished School of Documentary Film Restart (Zagreb, CRO) and two international workshops: School of Visual Anthropology (Belgrade, SRB) and International Documentary Film Workshop (Krško, SLO). In 2020 she enrolled in the master's study of documentary directing at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb, which she completed in 2022. She made a couple of short workshop documentaries that have been screened at several regional festivals and is currently working on her film projects.