Janko baljak biography

- Janko Baljak’s newest documentary is more of a tribute to Želimir Žilnik’s work than a simple biography of the iconic filmmaker

Želimir Žilnik is a filmmaker whose unique style and approach blur the line between documentary and fiction.

His fiction films have the documentary qualities of truthfulness, while his documentaries are as tense as fiction films. In more than 50 years as a filmmaker, he’s directed more than 60 films, short and feature-length, documentaries, fiction films and hybrids in which he aimed to expose the part of the truth that was hidden under the surface.

Now he has himself become the subject of a documentary called ŽŽŽ (Journal About Želimir Žilnik), written and directed by Janko Baljak, known for his documentary work predominantly in the short and mid-length TV format, on socially relevant topics for Serbia and former Yugoslavia from the early ‘90s onwards.

ŽŽŽ (Journal About Želimir Žilnik) premiered