Rada Šešić is a festival programmer, lecturer, and film director. Born in the former Yugoslavia, she is now based in the Netherlands. She serves as Head of the Documentary Competition at the Sarajevo Film Festival, Programmer of the Documentary Competition at the Trieste Film Festival, and is on the selection committee of the DOHA Film Fund. She is also Co-head of the Docu Rough Cut Boutique and leads Last Stop Trieste. From 2001 to 2023, she collaborated with IDFA Amsterdam as a film selector. She has lectured at the Master of Film program in Amsterdam and worked as a mentor and consultant for numerous European and Asian documentary workshops. Between 2008 and 2023, she was one of the founders and the Artistic Director of the Eastern Neighbours Film Festival in The Hague. From 2000 to 2020, she also advised the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) on South Asian cinema. As a filmmaker, Šešić has directed documentaries and dance films in Sarajevo and the Netherlands, including Lam Arabi, Room Without a View, Soske, In Whitest Solitude, and On the Way to School. Her films have been screened at around 60 festivals across Europe, Asia, and the United States, including at MoMA in New York. She has served on more than 50 juries, among them IDFA and Hot Docs. A member of NETPAC and the European Film Academy (EFA), she has also lived and taught in India, lecturing at Srishti in 2008 and 2010.