Kumjana is a research-based filmmaker working also as a film curator and lecturer.
Born in Yugoslavia, Kumjana’s background is in social sciences. In 2006 she co-founded the Pravo Ljudski Film Festival in Sarajevo, and acts as its chief curator and director. She was leading the Film Department of the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Skopje from 2018 to 2021.
As an author, Kumjana explores the languages of cinema researching relationships related to power, war, memories and (un)belonging. She is interested in developing strategies of creating meaning from the position of filmmaking, and its potentialities as a territory of new collectivities. Her work has been shown and exhibited across the world.
Her film Disturbed Earth (co-directed with G.C. Candi) has been shortlisted for the Academy Awards, and nominated for best feature-length documentary by the Doc Alliance.
Her new film Silence of Reason traces women’s experiences of sexual violence and rape in wartime in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Kumjana currently lives between Sarajevo and Skopje.
Born in Yugoslavia, Kumjana’s background is in social sciences. In 2006 she co-founded the Pravo Ljudski Film Festival in Sarajevo, and acts as its chief curator and director. She was leading the Film Department of the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Skopje from 2018 to 2021.
As an author, Kumjana explores the languages of cinema researching relationships related to power, war, memories and (un)belonging. She is interested in developing strategies of creating meaning from the position of filmmaking, and its potentialities as a territory of new collectivities. Her work has been shown and exhibited across the world.
Her film Disturbed Earth (co-directed with G.C. Candi) has been shortlisted for the Academy Awards, and nominated for best feature-length documentary by the Doc Alliance.
Her new film Silence of Reason traces women’s experiences of sexual violence and rape in wartime in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Kumjana currently lives between Sarajevo and Skopje.