Goran Paskaljević

Biography

Goran Paskaljević was a Serbian and former Yugoslav film director. Born in Belgrade, he was raised by his grandparents in Niš in southern Serbia, following the divorce of his parents. Fourteen years later he returned to Belgrade where he worked with his stepfather at the Yugoslav Film Archive. Paskaljević belonged to a group of several Yugoslav filmmakers who studied abroad and graduated from the prestigious Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU). After returning to Yugoslavia, he made some 30 documentaries and 16 feature films which were screened at many international film festivals (such as Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Toronto and San Sebastian) and met with critical acclaim. The rise of nationalism during the breakup of Yugoslavia forced him to leave his country in 1992. In 1998 he returned to Yugoslavia to make the Powder Keg (known as Cabaret Balkan in the USA) which won the FIPRESCI prize at the Venice Film Festival and at the European Film Awards. In 2001, Variety International Film Guide marked him as one of the world's top five directors of the year. The Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) presented a full retrospective of his work in Janua…

Directed

1. The Elusive Summer of '68 (1984) — Director
2. Cabaret Balkan (1998) — Director
3. How Harry Became a Tree (2002) — Director
4. Midwinter Night's Dream (2004) — Director
5. Time of Miracles (1989) — Director
6. When Day Breaks (2012) — Director
7. The Dog Who Loved Trains (1977) — Director
8. The Beach Guard in Winter (1976) — Director
9. The Optimists (2006) — Director
10. Tango Argentino (1992) — Director
11. Someone Else's America (1995) — Director
12. Special Treatment (1980) — Director
13. Land of the Gods (2016) — Director
14. Honeymoons (2009) — Director
15. Twilight Time (1982) — Director
16. Guardian Angel (1987) — Director
17. The Legend of Lapot (1972) — Director
18. Despite the Fog (2019) — Director
19. The Servant (1973) — Director
20. Earth Days Pass By (1979) — Director
21. Iz pobede u pobedu (1975) — Director
22. Kapetan Janko (1974) — Director
23. Burden (1974) — Director
24. Deca (1973) — Director
25. Sipad (1979) — Director
26. Mister Hrstka (1970) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Us from Prague (1971) — Himself
2. Kreka: Dreamcatcher (2021) — Self
3. Ideal 68 (2018) — Himself
4. Šaban Bajramović - King of Romani Music (2014) — Himself