Kadić Vesko
Kadić Vesko

Director

VESKO KADIĆ (Ostrožac, 1945) is a director and editor, film critic and theorist. He graduated from Department of Fine Arts at the Higher Pedagogical School in Sarajevo and Department of Editing at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb.
As cinema-amateur he realized more than twenty, mostly rewarded short films. Later, as a professional, he directed short documentary film INDEXI (1969), short feature-animated film MAKRED (1971), experimental film CONSCIOUS ACT AT THE TWIN OF THE INFINITE (1992)…
He was employed as film editor and director at TV Sarajevo. After the war, he was editor of film program on The Radio-Television of the Federation of BH, where he also directed TV series AFTER 22 (2002).
He was director of National Cinematheque of BH from 1994 till 2002.
Vesko Kadić is also known as a film and TV critic. In 1972 he became member of the editorial board of film magazine Sineast. He also wrote for magazines Ekran (Ljubljana) and YU Film danas (Belgrade), as well as for Sarajevan magazines Odjek, Lica, Naši dani, Spektar, Svijet, Nedelja, Oslobođenje, Večernje novine. From 1994, he occasionally writes for newspapers KUN (Oslobođenje) and web portal Filmofil. He has published two books: first one on basics of amateur cinema techniques (Osnovi tehnike kino–amaterizma, KSBIH, 1987) and second one as collection of essays, reviews and memories of Sadudin Musabegović, Bosnian art and film theorist (Sjećajući se sobe, Buybook, 2017).
Among other, Vesko Kadić was also interested in directing of amateur theatre and radio dramas, as well as in caricatures and comics.
He is a member of The Association of Filmmakers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as The Assosiation of Fine and Applied Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2018, Vesko Kadić recevied the award „Ivica Matić“ for contribution to BH film and cinema.

Filmography

2018 - DOG'S BALCONY - Short film - (cinematografpher, editor, producer, director, screenwriter)

2016 - MORE THAN 39 STAIRS - Short film - (cinematografpher, editor, producer, director, screenwriter, animation), TOPA & ARČI - Short documentary film - (cinematografpher, editor, producer, director, screenwriter)

2011 - HOW I DID... - Short animated film - (cinematografpher, director, screenwriter, animation)

2007 - FLIGHT No. 945 - Short animated film - (director, screenwriter, animation), MONA LISA IN A PRIVAT GALLERY - Short animated film - (director, screenwriter, animation)

2006 - THE PORT OF NEUM - Short animated film - (director, screenwriter, animation), TIME - Short animated film - (director, screenwriter, animation)

2000 - TUNNEL - Feature film - (editor)

1994 - TRILOGY - Short film - (director, screenwriter)

1993 - A CELLIST FROM SARAJEVO - Short film - (director, screenwriter), BREAK - Short film - (director, screenwriter), DON'T LET THEM KILL US - Short documentary film - (director, screenwriter)

1972 - NEWLY BUILT - Short film - (director, screenwriter)

1971 - MARKED - Short animated film - (director, screenwriter)

Other movies

2004 - PACIFIST, animated
1992 - CONSCIOUS ACT AT THE TWIN OF THE INFINITE, experimental
1971 - INDEXI, documentary