Maja Novaković is a Ph.D. candidate studying Sergei Parajanov’s poetics of heritage. Her debut, Then Comes the Evening, premiered at Visions du Reel (2019) and secured an OSCAR® qualification by winning at the Full Frame Documentary Festival. It received over 50 awards, was screened at 130+ festivals- such as Hot Docs, Sarajevo FF, SFFILM, Camerimage, Jihlava- and made the Cinema Eye Honors nomination and Doc NYC Short List. She is a Sarajevo Talents and IDFAcademy alumna.