Ahmed Imamović

Biography:

Ahmed Imamović (born 1971) is a Bosnian film director, film producer and screenwriter. He directed the controversial film Go West and the short film 10 Minutes.

Ahmed Imamović was born in Sarajevo in 1971. He graduated Film Directing from the Sarajevo Academy of Performing Arts in 2002. While still studying, he directed several theatrical plays and films, including documentary film Women (1997). During the 1992-1995 war in Sarajevo, as an active member of Sarajevo Group of Authors (SaGA), he worked as cinematographer in numerous documentaries about the war and the Siege of Sarajevo. He collaborated on the production of Ademir Kenović's The Perfect Circle and Michael Winterbottom's Welcome to Sarajevo.

His graduation work, short film 10 Minutes, won him the European Film Academy's Best Short Film Award for 2002; Best Short Film Award at Sarajevo Film Festival and many other awards. With 10 Minutes, Ahmed Imamović became one of the most important figures of the Bosnian cinema. In 2005 he made the feature-length fiction film Go West, also shown at numerous festivals around the world.