Goran Paskaljevic

Goran Paskaljević (b. 1947, Belgrade), a graduate of Prague's FAMU, is the creator of 30 documentary films and 14 feature-film productions that have met with success at prestigious international festivals. He had to leave his country in 1992 after war broke out in Yugoslavia. In 1998 he returned to make his film The Powder Keg (presented at the KVIFF in 1999), for which he received the FIPRESCI Prize at the Venice IFF and at the European Film Awards. In 2001 the Variety International Film Guide named him one of the five best directors of the year. Paskaljević's next to last movie, A Midwinter Night's Dream, a probe into post-war Serbia, won him the Special Jury Prize at the San Sebastian IFF. His filmography also includes Beach Guard in Winter (1976), The Elusive Summer of '68 (1976), How Harry Became a Tree (2001), and A Midwinter Night's Dream (2004). At the end of this year the New York Museum of Modern Art will be presenting a complete retrospective of the director's work.

MFF Karlovy Vary