Gregor Božič is a Slovenian director, scriptwriter & cinematographer. After graduating from film schools in Ljubljana and DFFB in Germany, Gregor enrolled in the postgraduate program at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains in France. His debut fiction feature STORIES FROM THE CHESTNUT WOODS premiered at TIFF in 2019 and screened at festivals all across the world. COMMON PEAR, his first short film, premiered in Tiger Short Competition at IFFR 2025 and pursues its festival’s journey and won awards at Oberhausen ISFF & Beldocs.
As a director of photography, he has collaborated with directors from across the region, most notably with Nebojša Sljepčević (THE MAN WHO COULD NOT REMAIN SILENT, 2024 Palme d’Or), Matjaž Ivanišin (PLAYING MEN, 2017, OROSLAN, 2021) and Igor Bezinović (FIUME O MORTE!, 2025). His work has been presented at festivals in Cannes, Toronto, Locarno, Rotterdam, New York, Tallinn, Marseille, Nara, Shanghai, among others.
Since 2008, next to working on film, Gregor has also been passionately researching old and endemic fruit varieties. Collaborating with farmers from the Italo-Slovene borderland, in 2013 he planted a gene-bank orchard in Goriška Brda and wrote a book on the cultural heritage of the found varieties of the Slovene-Italian borderland.