Aleksa Bujišić (b. 2001)

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Aleksa Bujišić is a Montenegrin filmmaker born in Pljevlja in 2001. He graduated in Film and Media from the University of Donja Gorica and continued his education through international study programmes. In 2022, he studied at the Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts at the University of West Attica in Athens, where he also developed a photographic series alongside his work in moving images. During his MA studies in Film and Television Directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Cetinje, he received a scholarship from the Government of the Slovak Republic and completed his final semester at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava.

Whirlwind (2026)

A Whisper I Hear (2025)

His early films include Džoli (2022) and his graduation film Provisorium (2023). Provisorium premiered at the Novi Sad FF and was later screened at the Reykjavík IFF, where he also participated in the Reykjavík Talent Lab programme.

His short documentary A Whisper I Hear (2025) and short fiction Whirlwind (2026), created during his master’s studies, form part of his MA thesis, in which he explores the same thematic material through two different cinematic approaches. A Whisper I Hear had its world premiere at Beldocs IDFF and was subsequently screened at numerous international festivals, including Riga IFF, In the Palace ISFF and UnderhillFest, while also being included in the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market.

His work is characterised by an interest in intimate family relationships, memory, silence and the boundary between documentary observation and fiction. Alongside his filmmaking practice, he is currently engaged as a teaching assistant in the Film and Media programme at the Faculty of Design and Multimedia, University of Donja Gorica. He is currently developing his first feature-length documentary film.

© 2026 Aleksa Bujišić