Tomislav Žaja

History

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).

Movies

Escape To The Sea
Escape To The Sea
Producer
A German soldier, after avoiding death in a Partisan raid, wanders through the unforgiving mountainous terrain of an unfamiliar country, helplessly seeking salvation.
Ivan's Game
Ivan's Game
Producer
The life story of Ivan Gudelj, one of the greatest Croatian football players of all time.
Ivan's Game
Ivan's Game
Writer
The life story of Ivan Gudelj, one of the greatest Croatian football players of all time.
Ivan's Game
Ivan's Game
Director
The life story of Ivan Gudelj, one of the greatest Croatian football players of all time.
Magic Mirror
Magic Mirror
Director
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.
The Little Gypsy Witch
The Little Gypsy Witch
Writer
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
The Little Gypsy Witch
Director
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.
Headnoise
Headnoise
Co-Producer
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.