Born November 29, 1966, in Vojvodina, an autonomous province of the former Yugoslavia. At the age of 10 he moved with his parents to Germany, where he graduated from the Heinrich-Böll-Gymnasium in Troisdorf-Sieglar and went on to study philosophy at the Cologne University for two years. He then attended FAMU, the Prague Film Academy and graduated in 1994. His graduation film was Shooting Days - Emir Kusturica Directs Underground, premiered at the IDFA in Amsterdam and nominated for the Joris Ivens Award. Since 1996, Aleksandar Manić has focused on making documentary films mainly concerned with Balkan-related and human rights topics. Other documentary films include: The Astropolitan (1990); The Battlefield; Falling and Rising (1992); The Orphans of Enver Hoxha (1999); The Dredger; The Walls of Kosovo (1998); The Shutka Book of Records (2005, screening at over 80 international film festivals, 15 awards). He runs the production company Cabiria Films, currently developing film projects as a script writer, producer and director. He lives in Prague.
Czech Republic