Nadica Denić

Nadica Denić is a media scholar interested in the relationship between cinema and contemporary politics in Europe and beyond. She is currently working on an FWO-funded postdoctoral project Cinema Under Siege: A Critical Evaluation of Artistic Freedom in Contemporary Europe (2026-2029), on creative and collective tactics against constraints on artistic freedom.

Prior to joining Vrije Universiteit Brussel, she was a Lecturer in Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam, where in 2024 she also defended her PhD, Cinematic Ethics of Migration: First-Person Voices in Contemporary Documentary, which examined how first-person filmmaking operates as a practice of negotiating, contesting and transgressing bordering mechanisms in Europe.

Her writing has appeared in Studies in Documentary Film, Film-Philosophy, and Cinéma & Cie, among others. She is a conference committee member of The European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS).

Alongside research, she regularly curates film programs and events in collaboration with film festivals and cultural centres, including the ongoing Cinema Under Siege film series at International Documentary Film Festival’s (IDFA) Het Documentaire Paviljeon in Amsterdam.