Jakob Krese grew up between the former Yugoslavia and Germany.
Grandchild to Yugoslav partisans on one side and a Nazi judge on the other, he became obsessed with the tensions within the relationship between the individual and the collective.
He tries to explore these structural connections in his cinematic work, searching for past memories and future possibilities of resistance.
He studied cinematography and directing in Berlin, Havana, and Sarajevo and lives and works as a director, producer, and cinematographer between Trieste, Ljubljana, and Berlin.