Nikola Ljuca

director

Candidate for a diploma at FDA, Belgrade, class of Slobodan Šijan and Stefan Arsenijević. In June 2010 he received his first award in the category “Up to 10 000 bucks” at Cinema City Festival in Novi Sad for “Thursday” after which he participated in over 10 national and international festivals: Montreal, Canada (camera award and award for acting); Cork, Ireland; Uppsala, Sweden; Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia, Bydgoszcz, Poland; Syracuse, Italy, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina (award for best director); Vrnjačka Banja, Serbia, etc.

Over the years he attended master classes of renowned world directors: Wim Wenders, Michael Cimino, Volker Schlendorf, Milcho Manchevski, Andrzej Žulavski and Márta Mészáros. He is currently finishing his short film “Scenes with Women” within Sarajevo City of Film project.

Filmography:

Thursday (2009) – short

The Beginning of Summer (2008) – short

Darija’s Side of the Bed (2005) – short