Born on 20th February 1969, is a renowned film director, producer and screenwriter from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Tanovic is often thought of as the best filmmaker among his peers in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Many of his work received international recognition. His debut film “No Man's Land”(2001) won the Best Screenplay Prize in Cannes Film Festival in 2001. One year later the same film won the Best Foreign Language Film in the Academy Awards. After that, he completed “Hell”(2005), one of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s posthumous trilogies. Later he made "Triage"(2009) and "Cirkus Coumbia"(2010). Tanovic’s film "An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker"(2013) received the Best Actor Award and the Grand Jury Prize in the 63rd Berlin Film Festival. His latest work "Death in Sarajevo"(2016) was again recognized and praised in the 66th Berlin International Film Festival, winning the Grand Jury Prize and FIPRESCI Award this time.