Directing

Zuko Garagić

Place of birth

Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary

Known for

Directing

Credits

6 titles

Zuko Garagić’s speculative, historical-biographical films, pursue what he calls “archives of the imagined.” Through setting “dead facts” in the present, foregrounding the mediation between past and present, he looks to question whether history is a vast repository teeming with answers, a refuse heap of discarded dreams, or a bottomless pit that swallows all specificity? He graduated summa cum laude from NYU and earned his MFA from Columbia University, where he also taught film as a Teaching Fellow and Adjunct Professor. Zuko is also a PhD Student at the University of Chicago. Zuko is currently in development on two feature films: one a documentary about European immigrants who crossed the A…

Known for

White Bird poster
7.8

After being expelled from Beecher Prep for his treatment of a classmate with a facial deformity, Julian has struggled to fit in at his new school. To transform his life, Julian's grandmother finally reveals her own story of courage of her youth in Nazi-occupied France, where a classmate shelters her from mortal danger.

White Bird

2023

No artwork available
NR

Six stories stage the confrontation between two individuals, suspended between chaos and order, stillness and movement. From this tension, images, gestures, and relationships come to life, giving form to an untamed conflict between past, present, and future.

Chaos/Order

2026

The Minusio Tapes poster
NR

Decades after burying a series of recordings he believed lost forever, a respected architect dies. When the tapes are discovered beneath his home, a stranger appears at his daughter's door claiming to know the man better than she ever did. The Minusio Tapes is a study in what survives concealment: how the past insists on being found, one recording at a time. Produced under the creative supervision of Ramon Zürcher and Silvan Zürcher during the Locarno Film Festival 2026 Spring Academy.

The Minusio Tapes

2026

They Call Me Mihajlo poster
NR

A young man and his adult friend are desperately trying to escape a war zone. Everything hinges on a forged passport, a new name and a new identity - those things hold the keys to life and death. For in this war everyone is in the same boat and simultaneously against each other.

They Call Me Mihajlo

2020

Anatomy of a Lost Sound poster
10.0

Anatomy of a Lost Sound traces the life of an incendiary sound, the space it conjured: a paramilitary youth camp, one of many metastasizing across Central and Eastern Europe, and the enigmatic figure most indelibly marked by it, Zulfikar Veritić. This hybrid work offers a brief biography of the sound and the figures who fueled its ascent and spread.

Anatomy of a Lost Sound

2025

Film credits

Behind the camera

No artwork available
NR

Six stories stage the confrontation between two individuals, suspended between chaos and order, stillness and movement. From this tension, images, gestures, and relationships come to life, giving form to an untamed conflict between past, present, and future.

Chaos/Order

2026

The Minusio Tapes poster
NR

Decades after burying a series of recordings he believed lost forever, a respected architect dies. When the tapes are discovered beneath his home, a stranger appears at his daughter's door claiming to know the man better than she ever did. The Minusio Tapes is a study in what survives concealment: how the past insists on being found, one recording at a time. Produced under the creative supervision of Ramon Zürcher and Silvan Zürcher during the Locarno Film Festival 2026 Spring Academy.

The Minusio Tapes

2026

The Minusio Tapes poster
NR

Decades after burying a series of recordings he believed lost forever, a respected architect dies. When the tapes are discovered beneath his home, a stranger appears at his daughter's door claiming to know the man better than she ever did. The Minusio Tapes is a study in what survives concealment: how the past insists on being found, one recording at a time. Produced under the creative supervision of Ramon Zürcher and Silvan Zürcher during the Locarno Film Festival 2026 Spring Academy.

The Minusio Tapes

2026

They Call Me Mihajlo poster
NR

A young man and his adult friend are desperately trying to escape a war zone. Everything hinges on a forged passport, a new name and a new identity - those things hold the keys to life and death. For in this war everyone is in the same boat and simultaneously against each other.

They Call Me Mihajlo

2020

Anatomy of a Lost Sound poster
10.0

Anatomy of a Lost Sound traces the life of an incendiary sound, the space it conjured: a paramilitary youth camp, one of many metastasizing across Central and Eastern Europe, and the enigmatic figure most indelibly marked by it, Zulfikar Veritić. This hybrid work offers a brief biography of the sound and the figures who fueled its ascent and spread.

Anatomy of a Lost Sound

2025