Ena Sendijarević is an Amsterdam-based writer and filmmaker with Bosnian roots. She studied Film Theory at the University of Amsterdam and the Freie Universität Berlin before graduating as a writer/director from the Dutch national Film Academy in 2014. Ena wrote and directed several awarded short films, including Travelers in the Night (2013) and Fernweh (2014). Her latest short, Import (2016), premiered at the Quinzaine des Cinéastes 2016 in Cannes and was the Dutch entry for Live Action Short Film at the Academy Awards 2017. Ena’s debut feature film, Take Me Somewhere Nice (2019), premiered in Rotterdam’s IFFR Hivos Tiger competition, where Sendijarević won the Special Jury Award. The film was selected for Cannes’ Acid competition in the same year and screened at other festivals around the globe, picking up several awards. Among them The Heart of Sarajevo for Best Feature Film at the Sarajevo Film Festival.
Locarno Festival
