He spent two years on the front lines filming for the Bosnian Army.
His wife is French and they have five children. In 2009 they built together the first Montessori school in Sarajevo.
Member of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 56th Cannes International Film Festival in 2003.
In 2003 and 2004 he went to Kabul with Claude Lelouch and helped to rebuild the destroyed "Ariana" cinema.
His film An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker (2013) was shot on a Canon EOS 5D Mark II with a budget of only EUR 17.000. It won two major awards at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival in 2013.
He is a professor at the Akademija Scenskih Umjetnosti, Sarajevo.
Lives in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
President of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 19th Sarajevo International Film Festival in 2013.
Member of the 'Official Competition' jury at 6th Beijing International Film Festival in 2016.