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).

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Ivan's Game poster
NR

The life story of Ivan Gudelj, one of the greatest Croatian football players of all time.

Ivan's Game

2019

Ivan's Game poster
NR

The life story of Ivan Gudelj, one of the greatest Croatian football players of all time.

Ivan's Game

2019

Ivan's Game poster
NR

The life story of Ivan Gudelj, one of the greatest Croatian football players of all time.

Ivan's Game

2019

Neighbors poster
NR

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.

Neighbors

2018

Neighbors poster
NR

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.

Neighbors

2018

The Little Gypsy Witch poster
6.5

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.

The Little Gypsy Witch

2011

The Little Gypsy Witch poster
6.5

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.

The Little Gypsy Witch

2011

Igor Zidić: Are We Alive? poster
NR

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.

Igor Zidić: Are We Alive?

2026

Igor Zidić: Are We Alive? poster
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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.

Igor Zidić: Are We Alive?

2026

Igor Zidić: Are We Alive? poster
NR

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.

Igor Zidić: Are We Alive?

2026

Escape to the Sea poster
NR

A German soldier, after avoiding death in a Partisan raid, wanders through the unforgiving mountainous terrain of an unfamiliar country, helplessly seeking salvation.

Escape to the Sea

Magic Mirror poster
NR

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.

Magic Mirror

2017