Croatia

Tragedy and triumph: the remarkable tale of Croatia’s first football steps
Slaven Bilic and Igor Stimac recount the birth of a team driven by a deeper purpose because of the terrible Balkans conflict
Donald McRae
12, Jun, 2022 @7:00 AM

‘I would never just direct a cute story’: Murina director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović
Her brilliant first film won a top prize at Cannes – the day after she gave birth. The Croatian filmmaker talks about being a child refugee – and why she wants to do a superhero movie
Cath Clarke
07, Apr, 2022 @2:41 PM

Murina review – smouldering intensity, fragile manhood and young beauty
This confident debut is set on the rocky Adriatic coast where a spear fisher plays a dangerous game with his wife, daughter and a dodgy land deal
Peter Bradshaw
06, Apr, 2022 @8:00 AM

Ukraine matters, but so did Bosnia 30 years ago. Where was the outcry then? | Ed Vulliamy
Echoes of conflict are loud in Sarajevo on this poignant anniversary, yet there is one key difference
Ed Vulliamy
03, Apr, 2022 @6:00 AM

Joan Capp obituary
Other lives: Nurse who dedicated her retirement years to helping the needy in poor and war-torn countries
Angus Roxburgh
28, Jan, 2022 @5:01 PM

Restoring hope: ‘Why can’t we recreate the old energy of Sarajevo?’
The Bosnian capital dreams of cultural revival by rejuvenating the hotel that was once the jewel of the Olympic village
James Tapper
09, Jan, 2022 @9:00 AM

The Croatian roots of Chile’s leftist president Gabriel Boric
His ancestors were among the tens of thousands who left Croatia for Patagonia in the 19th century
Sam Jones and John Bartlett in Santiago
20, Dec, 2021 @2:18 PM

Croatia’s soccer superstar, the former boss ... and a sport dogged by scandal
Corruption allegations swirling round the country’s football scene mirror a wider malaise
Daniel Boffey in Zagreb
28, Nov, 2021 @9:00 AM

Violence in Belgium and Netherlands as Covid protests erupt across Europe
Anger at government restrictions spreads to Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Denmark and Croatia
Jon Henley
21, Nov, 2021 @6:33 PM

Croatia violated rights of Afghan girl who was killed by train, court rules
Madina Hussiny, 6, died after police refused to let her family apply for asylum and made them walk back to Serbia
Lorenzo Tondo
19, Nov, 2021 @5:29 PM

Accidental Luxuriance of the Translucent Watery Rebus review – deeply weird animated reverie
Found footage is collaged into the suggestion of an oppressive state being resisted in this absorbing, disturbing film
Peter Bradshaw
15, Nov, 2021 @10:00 AM

Miloš Vasić obituary
Leading Serbian investigative journalist who exposed the shadowy systems of corruption under the rule of Slobodan Milošević
Misha Glenny
14, Oct, 2021 @6:39 PM
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