Elma Tataragić

Elma Tataragić is festival programmer and screenwriter. She holds PhD in Film and Literature. She wrote several award-winning screenplays for films SNOW (2008, Cannes Film Festival), WHEN THE DAY HAD NO NAME (2017, Berlin Panorama Special), STITCHES (2019, Berlinale Panorama) and GOD EXISTS, HER NAME IS PETRUNYA (2019, Berlinale Competition), THE HAPPIEST MAN IN THE WORLD (Venice FF, 2022) ONLY WHEN I LAUGH (2023) and MOTHER (Venice FF, 2025). With her films she won numerous awards including awards for best screenplay at Lecce Film Festival, Shanghai Film Festival, etc. She has been with Sarajevo Film Festival since it was founded in 1995, where she now works as main programmer for Competition Program (Feature films, Short films, In Focus and BH Film section). She also directed several award-winning short films including I REMEMBER (2016). She is the member of Filmmakers Association of BiH and Bosnian and Herzegovinian representative of European Film Promotion. She has written the series I KNOW YOUR SOUL and sit-com SMASHING IT as both creator and screenwriter. For both TV series, she has won Heart Of Sarajevo Award in 2024 for Best Script, as well as Heart of Sarajevo for Best sitcom 2024. She is the professor of screenwriting at Sarajevo Academy of Performing Arts and has written three books on screenwriting. Member of European Film Academy.