Pjer Žalica (b. 1964, Sarajevo) graduated in direction from Sarajevo´s Academy of Performing Arts, where he now teaches, and took a course in screenwriting and production at the Grožnjan International Summer Film School (Croatia). He has won a number of top prizes at international festivals, primarily for the war documentaries School of Military Skills (Škola ratnih vještina, 1993), Made in Sarajevo (Godot Sarajevo, 1993), MGM Sarajevo (1994) and Children Like Any Others (Djeca kao i svaka druga, 1995). He also made the short The End of Unpleasant Times (Kraj doba neprijatnosti, 1998), and he co-authored Ademir Kenović´s first post-war film, The Perfect Circle (Savršeni krug, 1997). Žalica´s feature debut, Fuse, has met with rave reviews at home and abroad.
MFF Karlovy Vary
