Branko Ivanda was born in Split, where he also completed his high-school education. He obtained his degree in Film and TV Directing from the Zagreb Academy of Dramatic Arts. For more than thirty years he has been directing TV fiction films and dramas, music and documentary programs and a few theatrical plays. He writes scripts and essays and occasionally directs commercials.
He directed four feature-length fiction films. His TV and theatrical films were shown at numerous Croatian and international festivals, winning numerous awards (FIPRESCI Award at the Berlin International Film Festival, Diploma at Bergamo Film Festival, Best Debutant Award and a few Golden Arenas at Pula Film Festival). He is a laureate of Portorož TV Festival (twice), Mar Del Plata International Film Festival and Goa International Film Festival. A few times he was Croatian Radiotelevision's representative at Prix ITALIA.
Since 1980 ha has been teaching Film and TV Directing as a full professor at the Zagreb Academy of Dramatic Arts. From 1985 to 1990 he taught at the University of California in Los Angeles.
Gravity, Or Fantastic Youth of Boris Horvat the Clerk, fiction (1968)
Sammy, fiction (1972)
A Summer Day on the Island, fiction (1973)
If There Were No Water, documentary (1973)
The Wooden Box of Tomas Vulf, fiction (1973)
Nocturno, fiction (1974)
Gothic and Renaissance of the Adriatic, documentary (1974)
Psychopaths, fiction (1974)
The Hare, fiction (1975)
Long Journey into the White, fiction (1976)
The Case of High-School Graduate Wagner, fiction (1976)
Court-Martial, fiction (1978)
Bombers' Trial, fiction (1978)
Too Late, Captain!, fiction (1981)
A Crime in School, fiction (1982)
Night after Death, fiction (1983)
In the Camp, fiction (1983)
Five Dead Addresses, fiction (1984)
Sisters, video (1992)
Poetry and Revolution, documentary (2000)
Dubrovački škerac, fiction (2001)
The Horseman, fiction (2003)
Ordinary People, TV series (2005)
Lea and Darija, fiction (2011)