EFFEA Jury

Haris Pašović, a multiple-awarded director, made his name in the late 80s with his landmark theatrical production in Belgrade of Wedekind’s “Spring’s Awakening”. When Sarajevo fell under the Siege, Pašović returned to the city. During this dramatic period, he directed plays and created the first Sarajevo Film Festival themed “Beyond the End of the World”. His feature documentary “Greta” about Greta Ferušić, a survivor of the Auschwitz death camp and the Siege of Sarajevo, was shown at the New York Jewish Film Festival at the Lincoln Centre and other festivals around the world. His shows were played at many famous theatre festivals. He directed, among others, also “Hamlet” and “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare; “Faust” by different authors; “Nora” by Henrik Ibsen; “Conquest of Happiness” by Bertrand Russell and most recently “Mephisto” by Klaus Mann. He is an artistic director of the East-West Centre Sarajevo. Pašović is a professor of directing at the Performing Arts Academy Sarajevo and “Arts and Leadership” at the IEDC Bled School of Management in Slovenia.