Croatian Wartime Documentaries: 1991-1995 in Retrospective

Zdravko Mustać was born 1961 in Zadar. Belonging to the fourth generation of the Split school of alternative film, during the 1980s he made around 20 alternative films. In the 1990s he pursued film on a professional level, and started expanding his interests to different forms of film and video expression. He has made over 30 documentaries, video works and short fiction films. His works have been successfully shown at screenings and festivals in Croatia and worldwide (New York, Moscow, Washington DC, Copenhagen, Budapest, Berlin, Ljubljana etc.). He won three Oktavijan awards for his short experimental and fiction films at Days of Croatian Film 1996, 1999 and 2001. His documentary Purgatory screened at ZagrebDox 2005.