In that period, two Croatian films were Academy Award nominees for foreign language film.

As a result, the general quality of Croatian films declined.

When Croatia became independent in the 1990s, Croatian film suffers a difficult crisis.

Besides the leading roles in theatre, he played in a number of Croatian films and tv series.

He appeared in a number of Croatian and Bosnian films since the 1980s.

His avant-garde work in the period from 1928 to 1945 remains as one of the foundations of Croatian film.

Those two films (especially the latter) have been regularly included among the top 10 Croatian films of all time, both by critics and audiences.

Since 1992 and the breakup of Yugoslavia the competition narrowed to Croatian films only.

Apart from film screenings open to the public, the annual Croatian film industry awards are also traditionally presented at the festival.

Posljednja volja was one of the more ambitious Croatian films in the 1990s.