Directing

Jakov Sedlar

Acting credits

Behind the camera

The Miracle of Medjugorje poster
4.4

Socialist Bosnia, 1981. In the small town of Međugorje, a group of children tell the local priest, a Croat named Father Joza, that the Virgin Mary appeared before them. Ecstatic about the prospect of a miracle, he publicly announces that he believes in the apparition, putting a target on his back, with the communist authorities deciding to start their own investigation into the case.

The Miracle of Medjugorje

1995

In Four Rows poster
6.9

Zagreb, 1945. The communist partisans emerge victorious in the Balkan branch of the the conflicts that made up The Second World War. With vengeance in their hearts, they force the remaining soldiers of the Axis Power-adjacent ustaše and the Croatian Home Guard and force them in a march towards the Bleiburg field in Austria, leaving them without food or water and in a constant cycle of walking for days on end.

In Four Rows

1999

260 days poster
7.3

The carefree and somewhat idyllic life of a ten year old boy named Marijan is violently interrupted when war ravages his small town of Dalj and his families closest friends and neighbors turn on them purely because they are Croatian. Marijan is forced to witness and experience things an adult would have an incredibly difficult time dealing with. He is nevertheless faced with the inexplicably horrid events war brings out in people. The story centers on a present day Marijan- now the very successful owner of a wood manufacturing business. On one random day a man walks into his store and all of the memories he wishes he could long forget come flooding back, forcing him to relive them. Despite his immense hardships, Marijan lives on in forgiveness, always seeking the positives that lay in the future rather than rehashing and remaining in the past.

260 days

2025

260 days poster
7.3

The carefree and somewhat idyllic life of a ten year old boy named Marijan is violently interrupted when war ravages his small town of Dalj and his families closest friends and neighbors turn on them purely because they are Croatian. Marijan is forced to witness and experience things an adult would have an incredibly difficult time dealing with. He is nevertheless faced with the inexplicably horrid events war brings out in people. The story centers on a present day Marijan- now the very successful owner of a wood manufacturing business. On one random day a man walks into his store and all of the memories he wishes he could long forget come flooding back, forcing him to relive them. Despite his immense hardships, Marijan lives on in forgiveness, always seeking the positives that lay in the future rather than rehashing and remaining in the past.

260 days

2025

The Match poster
6.1

Inspired by true events from the spring of 1944 when the Nazis organized a football match between a team of camp inmates and an elite Nazi team on Adolf Hitler's birthday. A match the prisoners are determined to win, no matter what happens.

The Match

2021

Jerusalem Syndrome poster
3.7

Bozidar and Mary set out on the journey of love, but what happens along the way is quite different than what they anticipated. Will the powers of love truly conquer all?

Jerusalem Syndrome

2004

Jerusalem Syndrome poster
3.7

Bozidar and Mary set out on the journey of love, but what happens along the way is quite different than what they anticipated. Will the powers of love truly conquer all?

Jerusalem Syndrome

2004

Jerusalem Syndrome poster
3.7

Bozidar and Mary set out on the journey of love, but what happens along the way is quite different than what they anticipated. Will the powers of love truly conquer all?

Jerusalem Syndrome

2004

Fergismajniht: Forget Me Not poster
8.0

Christmas Eve, 1995. Two best friends meet up to spend their holidays together after a long period of absence. Whilst reminiscing about the coming of age in late 1950s Zagreb, they remember a mysterious woman they both fell in love with during that time.

Fergismajniht: Forget Me Not

1996

No artwork available
9.0

A documentary about Croatian politician Franjo Tudjman.

Tudjman

1997

The Conversation poster
8.9

Based on a true story of a meeting in June 1945 between two powerful men with very opposite philosophies and perspectives on the future of their country.

The Conversation

2022

1918-2018: Hundred Years of Serbian Terror in Croatia poster
NR

Chronicles the Serbian terror in Croatia through several historical periods: the Serbian occupation of 1918., the establishment of Independent State of Croatia (NDH), uprising against NDH, re-establishment of communist Yugoslavia, uprising against modern day Republic of Croatia during the Tudjman decade (1991. - 2000.) and the period between 2000. - 2018. during which the myths of "Greater Serbia" and Yugoslavia are restored, financed and spread.

1918-2018: Hundred Years of Serbian Terror in Croatia

2018

1918-2018: Hundred Years of Serbian Terror in Croatia poster
NR

Chronicles the Serbian terror in Croatia through several historical periods: the Serbian occupation of 1918., the establishment of Independent State of Croatia (NDH), uprising against NDH, re-establishment of communist Yugoslavia, uprising against modern day Republic of Croatia during the Tudjman decade (1991. - 2000.) and the period between 2000. - 2018. during which the myths of "Greater Serbia" and Yugoslavia are restored, financed and spread.

1918-2018: Hundred Years of Serbian Terror in Croatia

2018

Once Upon a Time in Croatia poster
5.4

Docu-drama about Croatia's first President, Franjo Tudjman.

Once Upon a Time in Croatia

2022

Once Upon a Time in Croatia poster
5.4

Docu-drama about Croatia's first President, Franjo Tudjman.

Once Upon a Time in Croatia

2022

Agony poster
7.0

To pay off his gambling debts, Lembach, an ex-officer of the Austro-Hungarian army, extorts money from his wife Laura and her lover Križovec. Križovec himself has a love affair with Russian countess Georgievna, who herself is also into romantic relationship with another Russian countess. This tetragonal love affair comes to its boiling point.

Agony

1998

Searching for Orson poster
5.5

Narrated by Peter Bogdanovich, this biography of Orson Welles includes the emotional memoirs of actress Oja Kodar and interviews with Steven Spielberg, James Earl Jones, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Frank Marshall, Paul Mazursky, Henry Jaglom, Gary Graver, and Merv Griffin; it's re-release is even more profound since Welles' unfinished film, The Other Side of the Wind, was completed and released.

Searching for Orson

2006

Basketball Mozart poster
NR

Film is about one of all time best basketball player from Europe - Drazen Petrovic, who after successful career in European league played in the NBA. He died in 1993 in a car accident in Germany.

Basketball Mozart

1996

No artwork available
3.3

A woman who lost most of her family during the war in Croatia and breakup of Yugoslavia is informed a decade later that her son has been found.

Mercy of the Sea

2003

To Love and Back poster
NR

An intimate and deeply personal documentary film showing a young woman traveling from repressive conditions in home country of Russia to explore her homosexuality in Tel Aviv during their famous Pride parade and then the aftermath of that emotional journey upon her return home.

To Love and Back

2021

No artwork available
NR

Documentary about the natural beauties of Croatia.

Croatia: Land of 1,100 Islands & 101 Dalmatians

1997

No artwork available
NR

Righteous Stepinac is the only film entirely about Blessed Alojzije Stepinac, and key events for the Croatian people in the 20th century.

Righteous Stepinac

2010

Forever as the End – Fate poster
NR

Following Kristallnacht in 1938, Ulrich Ollendorff’s family flees Berlin as to avoid the horrific destiny shared by six and a half million Jews who were killed in the Holocaust. Within only a few years, he becomes one of the most well respected and famous ophthalmologists in New York City.

Forever as the End – Fate

2022

Forever as the End – Fate poster
NR

Following Kristallnacht in 1938, Ulrich Ollendorff’s family flees Berlin as to avoid the horrific destiny shared by six and a half million Jews who were killed in the Holocaust. Within only a few years, he becomes one of the most well respected and famous ophthalmologists in New York City.

Forever as the End – Fate

2022