Directing

Tomislav Žaja

Tomislav Zaja wrote, directed and produced over fifty documentaries, few shorts and experimental films, two TV adaptations of theatre plays and three fiction films. Tomislav Zaja is a director known for The Haidari Crisis (2006), Two Sisters (2008), Solo (2008), On The Edge (2010), Demetri and Bruno (2012), New Day (2013), The Little Gypsy Witch (2014) and Free (2015).

Known For

Ivan's GameIvan's Game · 2019
Ivan's Game
2019
MovieDocumentary
The life story of Ivan Gudelj, one of the greatest Croatian football players of all time.
NeighborsNeighbors · 2018
Neighbors
2018
MovieDocumentary
An observational documentary about people with mental illness who are leaving their institution after decades spent in isolation and once they get out trying to put their shattered lives back together.
Family AlbumFamily Album · 1981
Family Album
8.01981
MovieTV MovieDrama
A 1981 Croatian language drama film directed by Miroslav Mikuljan, starring Bozidar Alic, Hermina Pipinic and Zvonimir Torjanac.
The Little Gypsy WitchThe Little Gypsy Witch · 2011
The Little Gypsy Witch
6.52011
MovieFantasyComedy
Family music comedy with fantasy elements that portrays the life of an unusual Roma family seen through the eyes of a ten year-old Manusha.
Igor Zidić: Are We Alive?Igor Zidić: Are We Alive? · 2026
Igor Zidić: Are We Alive?
2026
MovieDocumentaryHistory
After five years, Croatian art historian and author Igor Zidić finally finished writing his monumental biography of the Croatian painter Vlaho Bukovac, but, immediatley turns his gaze onto a new potentially promising piece, a biography of yet another Croatian painter, Imanuel Vidović. However, the journey he decides to take whilst writing said book will not only be a journey through time and space, but also a personal one, as Zidić reconnects with his own childhood self and realizes why he fell in love with writing once again.
Escape to the SeaEscape to the Sea
Escape to the Sea
MovieDramaWar
A German soldier, after avoiding death in a Partisan raid, wanders through the unforgiving mountainous terrain of an unfamiliar country, helplessly seeking salvation.
HeadnoiseHeadnoise · 2002
Headnoise
6.62002
MovieThrillerDrama
In Yugoslavia's Livada prison in 1970, inmates led by Keber convince reluctant authorities to let them watch the televised Olympic final basketball game between the home country and the U.S., but taunting guards interrupt the viewing and prod the prisoners to the point of a riot. After a period of a kind of blissful anarchy where the inmates taste freedom, Keber enlists the house "intellectual" Mrak to devise a system of prisoner self-government aimed at forcing reforms on the state.
Magic MirrorMagic Mirror · 2017
Magic Mirror
2017
MovieDramaMusic
A 10 year old girl living in Croatia, her Gypsy Grandmother dies leaving a curse on the family set by her Grandfather. A schoolboy who moves into her town befriends her and helps her to find the Grandfather to lift the curse from her family.

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