Lidija Burcak (Suisse)
Lidija Burčak is a filmmaker and writer with a passion for autobiographical and intuitive storytelling. Between 2012 and 2020, she worked as a scribe on various Swiss film productions. She has also created short films such as Sarma & Skype (UK, 2017) and Broken Skin (UK, 2019), and made television documentaries such as Blinde Welt (CH, 2024) and Psychedelika in der Therapie (CH, 2023).
She has also published a book, Nöd us Zucker, containing diary entries from her teenage years. The book toured German-speaking Switzerland from 2022 to 2024 and won the cantonal recognition prize in 2023.
His practice is playful and experimental, incorporating trial and error to create stories that surprise and touch audiences.