Joshua Jádi
director & writer
Stuporia
World Premiere @ Tirana TIFF 2025, 16 min.
Over the course of a day full of misfortune, a dancer who has been brutally robbed of his ability to dance finds the strength to heal his wounds and dance one last time.
Traces in the Forest
World Premiere @ Sarajevo IFF 2022, 52 min.
In the middle of a COVID lockdown, a three-day peace march in Bosnia shows both a woman’s search for traces of her murdered brother and a nation’s remembrance of the the Srebrenica massacre.
The Opposite of Eternity
2020, 15 min.
Anna tries to bring her mother to her dying father’s bedside for a final goodbye, but her mother keeps running away.
Joshua Jádi
Half-German, half-Hungarian, and fully devoted to the art of storytelling. Shaped by the teachings of Michael Haneke and Jessica Hausner, I'm now studying Film Directing in Barbara Albert's MA class at Filmacademy Vienna.
Member of the European Film Academy.
I'm thankful to have participated in in Berlinale Talents, Torino ScriptLab, Sarajevo Talents and Locarno Academy Summer School.
My short films have travelled to over 50 festivals around the world. Most recently, my film Stuporia premiered at Tirana International Film Festival.
When I'm not behind the camera, I curate Eastern European Cinema at FilmFestival Cottbus.