Selma Spahić

Director (BiH)

Selma Spahić was born in 1986. She studied film, theatre and television directing at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo. During her studies, she directed short and documentary films, and was assistant director on the feature SNOW by Aida Begić. She has directed plays and held theatre workshops in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro and Great Britain. She has directed classic plays, contemporary international and Bosnian-Herzegovinian plays and documentary theatre. Her work has received numerous awards at festivals in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the region, and has been shown at some of the most important European festivals in countries such as Germany, Switzerland and Poland. Her plays often utilize multimedia and include many elements of film language. She is the Art Director of the MESS International Theatre Festival in Sarajevo.