Boris Trbić grew up in the former Yugoslavia, Peru, and Libya. He enrolled at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade at the age of sixteen, becoming one of the youngest students in the history of the Dramaturgy Department. He has lived and worked in Melbourne for over three decades, where he earned a master’s degree in documentary studies from Deakin University and a doctoral degree focusing on Palestinian cinema from Monash University. Over the past twenty years, he has taught film and media at various Melbourne universities and film schools, including the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), Monash University, and Swinburne University of Technology, where he coordinates the second-year film programme.
Trbić is the screenwriter of the Australian short films Snapshot (Cesar Salmeron-Hoving, 2012) and The Red Circle (Sascha-René Karner, 2016)—both screened at local and international festivals—and the co-screenwriter of Goran Radovanović’s films The Makavejev Case or Trial in a Movie Theater (2018), Waiting for Handke (2021), and A Raven Has Befallen on Your Home (2025). He also directed and produced the Australian documentary By Far Kajmakcalan.
Boris Trbić is the author of the study from 2012 – Once Upon a Time in the Middle East: Cinemas of a Region in Crisis at the Turn of the Century as well as of various critical essays, including his essays for the collection of essays from 2016 – Dislocation and Reconciliation in Kosovo: Essays on Goran Radovanović’s Film ‘Enclave’ (published by the Film Center Serbia). He co-authored two books of prose with Jelena Tucaković: Luka u manastirima (Harbourages in Monasteries: on Moments Frozen in Time) and Na kraju aleje lipa (At the End of the Linden Avenue: A Triptych on the Final Days) and has published over seventy articles on film and cultural policy in Australian, American, Serbian, and Korean magazines.
