Ermin Bravo

Ermin Bravo — Biography

Ermin Bravo is a Bosnian actor, born on 5 December 1979 in Sarajevo, whose stage career took him through every theatre in Sarajevo as well as BNP Zenica, the Yugoslav Drama Theatre and Atelje 212 in Belgrade, and Teatar Ulysses on Brijuni, in productions of Antigone, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Ivanov and The Caucasian Chalk Circle; in recent years he has also mentored young actors at the Sarajevo Film Festival's Talent Campus.

On screen since 2001, he became known at home for his leading role in the 2003 film Remake, and went on to appear in Angelina Jolie's In the Land of Blood and Honey, Jasmila Žbanić's Esma's Secret and Quo Vadis, Aida, as well as Grain, Love Island and On the Path; he is also remembered for his performance in the 2017 film Men Don't Cry. Over his career he has won more than twenty awards, including the Lovorov Vijenac four times at the MESS Theatre Festival and honours from the Cairo Festival of Experimental Theatre and the Rijeka Small Scenes Festival; Remake brought him best actor at the San Francisco Wine Country Film Festival, and the ensemble of In the Land of Blood and Honey won the Cinema for Peace award.

As writer-director of the short film Dah, he won the Heart of Sarajevo at the Sarajevo Film Festival and best film at Italy's Cinema Lido festival; in 2017 he signed the Declaration on the Common Language of Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins. He now teaches acting as a professor at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo.