Maja Novaković is a Bosnian filmmaker born in 1987 in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Passionate about art history and cinema, she pursued higher education in these fields, obtaining a Master's degree in Art History before starting a Ph.D. focused on "Poetics of Heritage in the Work of Sergei Parajanov." Her cinematic approach is deeply influenced by aesthetics, symbolism, and the cultural heritage of landscapes and traditions. In parallel with her studies, she works as a research assistant at the Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Her first documentary short film, "And Then Comes the Evening" (2019), focuses on the daily life of two elderly women living in rural Bosnia, deeply connected to nature. The film received exceptional international recognition, being selected in over 130 prestigious festivals, including Hot Docs, SFFilm, Sarajevo Film Festival, Jihlava IDFF, Camerimage, and Busan ISFF. It won more than 50 awards, including Best Short Film at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, which qualified it for an Oscar nomination. "And Then Comes the Evening" was also screened at the Metrograph Cinema in New York and nominated for Cinema Eye Honors and Doc NYC: Short List. In 2024, her latest film, "At The Door Of The House Who Will Come Knocking", continues exploring themes of time, solitude, and the connection between humans and their environment. Premiering at Sheffield Doc/Fest, it won the prestigious Grand Jury Award. This documentary takes a meditative and sensory approach, revealing the unseen dimensions of daily life through patient observation and rich visual compositions. Through her contemplative style and artistic sensitivity, Maja Novaković has established herself as a unique voice in documentary cinema, continuing her poetic and ethnographic exploration of universal human experiences.