Born in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in 1975, she grew up in Sarajevo in a family of artists. Throughout her time at school she worked on theatrical productions in a number of creative positions.

She has lived in Vienna in 1992, since the beginning of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Studied Directing and Editing at Vienna’s Film Academy, University of Music and Performing Arts. For both subjects she made a number of documentary and fiction films and participated at international and domestic film festivals.
Her thesis film, “Auswege,” opened the Diagonale—Festival of Austrian Film in March 2003, its world premiere was at the international film festival in Berlin—Forum des jungen Films, and it received more than 30 invitations to festivals after that.
In 2003 she founded the film production company Mobilefilm with Eva Testor.

Nina Kusturica writes articles for books and periodicals, teaches at the University of Vienna, and conducts directing and editing workshops.

Nina Kusturica lives in Vienna and works as a director, editor, writer and producer.