Born in 1974 in Sarajevo. Goran graduated in film directing at the Swedish Film Academy, Dramatiska Institutet in Stockholm in 2004. After completing his studies, he received several awards for his short movies including A Family (2005), which won the first prize at Student's Film Festival in Fredrikshamn, Danmark (best Scandinavian granulations film and in Los Angeles for best Hollywood foreign student drama). After his graduation, he directed a TV film for Swedish television, and several commercials in Scandinavia. In collaboration with Swedish Institut and SIDA he produced several short films together with people from the Rwanda Cinema in Kigali, Rwanda, between the winter of 2005 and 2007. He is now working on his first feature motion picture.