Jasmila Zbanic: The role of contemporary art in today's society Event

Public evening session of the 22nd Grantmakers East Forum

PROGRAMME
Welcome by Boris Marte (ERSTE Foundation), Vesna B. Agi? (Grantmakers East Forum )
Keynote by Jasmila ?bani?
Moderated by Christiane Erharter (ERSTE Foundation)

JASMILA ?BANI?

Jasmila ?bani?, born in 1974, is an award-winning filmmaker, producer and artist. In 1997, she founded the artist’s association “Deblokada” and started making documentaries and short films. ?bani? belongs to an important group of filmmakers and artists who were very young students when experiencing firsthand the war against Bosnia and Herzegovina and against the capital city of Sarajevo in particular. During this time art became a kind of life-saver when self-organized film nights were the only thing to look forward in the besieged city of Sarajevo. While the war was still raging, they decided to start making films. The battles and attacks on the civilian population are over for almost more than 20 years but the war and its aftermath still play a crucial part in ?bani??s films.

Her feature debut Grbavica won the 2006 Golden Bear and several other prestigious awards. On the Path premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival, For Those Who Can Tell No Tales at the Toronto International Film Festival. It won the 2013 Femme de Cinema Award.

Films (selection): Grbavica (2006), Builder?s Diary (2007, doc), Na putu (On the Path, 2009), For Those Who Can Tell No Tales (2013), Love Island (2014), Jedan dan u Sarajevu (One Day in Sarajevo, 2015, doc)