Born in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 1969, Danis Tanović filmed the siege of Sarajevo as a war cameraman before becoming a director. No Man's Land (2001), in which a Bosnian and a Serb soldier are trapped in a trench in the space between the lines, was a black comedy of the war and won the Oscar for best foreign language film, the Golden Globe and the prize for best screenplay at Cannes. An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker (2013) won the Grand Jury Prize and best actor in Berlin. Death in Sarajevo (2016) also won a Silver Bear.
Filmography
- No Man's Land (2001)
- Triage (2009)
- Circus Columbia (2010)
- An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker (2013)
- Tigers (2014)
- Death in Sarajevo (2016)