Rajko Grlić

Rajko Grlić was born in Zagreb in 1947. He obtained his master’s degree in feature film directing from FAMU in Prague in 1971. As a director and screenwriter, he has made 12 feature films, and an adaptation of Ante Tomić’s novel „Čudo u Poskokovoj Dragi“ is currently in pre-production. Grlić’s films have been shown in regular cinema distribution on all five continents, screened in the competition programmes of the world’s major festivals, including Cannes, and have received numerous international awards. As a screenwriter, he worked on five feature films by other directors as well as Srđan Karanović’s television series „Grlom u jagode“. He was also the producer of five feature films and co-director of the feature-length documentary film „Novo novo vrijeme“. In addition, he wrote and directed 16 short films and 14 documentaries for television. He wrote, directed, and produced the interactive film school „How to Make Your Movie; An Interactive Film School“, which was named the world’s best multimedia project in New York in 1998. He is the recipient of numerous domestic and international awards and distinctions. The book „Neispričane priče“ has been published in Croatia, Serbia, North Macedonia, the USA, the United Kingdom, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, and Bulgaria.