farah
hasanbegović

Farah Hasanbegović is a filmmaker and curator from Sarajevo, working at the intersection of animated non-fiction and audio-visual performance. Starting from their own experience growing up in post-war Sarajevo, Farah’s works inhabit the unique emotional space of social and economic transition at the fault line of the polycentric world, and explore poetic audiovisual approaches to fighting despair. 

Farah draws on a strong connection to their childhood to create whimsical personal films that question the borders of private and civic identity. Farah's films have screened in competition at Visions du Reel, Ji.hlava, Doclisboa, Zagrebdox, Sarajevo Film Festival and Dokufest, have qualified for the Academy Awards and include work for UN Women and the Rosa Luxembourg Foundation.

Farah is an alumni of Bela Tarr’s film.factory, where they were mentored by renowned authors including Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Tsai Min Liang and Pedro Costa. They hold a joint masters degree in Documentary Filmmaking from DOC NOMADS and are an Erasmus Mundus merit scholar as well as a Berlinale Talents Sarajevo campus alumni. Farah was a 2023 finalist for ZVONO, the most significant award for young Bosnian Herzegovinian visual artists. Most recently, Farah was a finalist for YVAA ZVONO (2023), Programmer of the Future at the EYE Filmmuseum (2023/2024) and a WHW Academy Scholar (2026).