Born in Sarajevo in 1950, Ademir Kenović studied in Sarajevo and for a time at Denison University in Ohio, and was a film-maker in Yugoslavia and then Bosnia. He directed A Little Bit of Soul (1987) and Kuduz (1989), made during the late Yugoslav years. During the siege of Sarajevo he founded the production company SAGA and filmed the city. The Perfect Circle (Savršeni krug, 1997), in which a poet takes in two orphans during the siege, was his best known film and won the François Chalais Prize at Cannes. He produced Danis Tanović's Days and Hours.
Filmography
- The Perfect Circle (1997)
- At Uncle Idriz's (2004)