Željko Stanetić does not shy away from less-discussed topics about our wartime pasts, topics met with more silence than others. A longtime activist from Novi Sad, Stanetić worked on issues of population displacement at the Vojvodina Civic Center, a nongovernmental organization. He made the documentary film “Nepodobni građani” — Citizens Out of Favor — about the Croat population’s expulsion from Vojvodina. “Milena” is his first fiction film, and premiered at the March Festival in Belgrade. It was also screened in Los Angeles and the Sarajevo Film Festival.

Beyond his work as a filmmaker, Stanetić has worked with the Coalition for RECOM, a network of nongovernmental organizations from across the Balkans who advocate for the formation of a commission that would systematically interrogate all war crimes and human rights violations that occurred across former Yugoslavia from 1991 through 2001.