The Birch Tree
The Birch Tree is a 1967 Yugoslav film directed by Ante Babaja.
The film won two Golden Arena awards at the 1967 Pula Film Festival, the Yugoslav national film awards, including Best Cinematography( Tomislav Pinter) and Best Actor( Bata Živojinović).
In 1999, a poll of Croatian film critics found it to be one of the best Croatian films ever made.
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Rachel Feldman
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Howard W. Koch
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Ante Babaja
Ante Babaja (6 October 1927 – 14 January 2010) was a notable Croatian film director and screenwriter.
Babaja finished high school in Zagreb before going on to enrol at the University of Zagreb where he studied law and economy.
He started working in filmmaking in 1949, and his first job was as assistant director to Krešimir Golik on the making of Golik's 1950 feature film "Blue 9Plavi 9").
Babaja's directorial debut was the 1955 documentary short "Jedan dan u Rijeci".
He went on to film several short films before directing is first feature film "The King's New ClothesCarevo novo ruho") in 1961, a screen adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's short tale.
In the mid-1960s Babaja made several experimental documentary films, before filming "The Birch TreeBreza", 1967), his most well known film which is today regarded as one of the classic films of Croatian cinema.
In the following decades Babaja turned to directing documentary films and only made a handful of feature films.
Nevertheless, films such as "Gold, Frankincense and MyrrhMirisi, zlato i tamjan", 1971) and "Lost HomelandIzgubljeni zavičaj", 1980) were also met with considerable critical acclaim.
He was also a longtime professor as the Zagreb Academy of Drama Arts and in 1988 he was awarded the Vladimir Nazor Award for Life Achievement.
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Hanro Smitsman
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Kathryn Bigelow
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Covering a wide range of genres, her films include" Near Dark"( 1987)," Point Break"( 1991)," Strange Days"( 1995),( 2002)," The Hurt Locker"( 2008)," Zero Dark Thirty"( 2012), and" Detroit"( 2017).
With" The Hurt Locker", Bigelow became the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director, the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing, the BAFTA Award for Best Direction, and the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Director.
She also became the first woman to win the Saturn Award for Best Director in 1995 for" Strange Days".
Bigelow was included on the 2010" Time" 100 list of most influential people of the year.
Detroit (film)
Detroit is a 2017 American period crime drama film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal.
Based on the Algiers Motel incident during Detroit's 1967 12th Street Riot, the film's release commemorated the 50th anniversary of the event.
The film stars John Boyega, Will Poulter, Algee Smith, Jacob Latimore, Jason Mitchell, Hannah Murray, Kaitly n Dever, Jack Reynor, Ben O' Toole, Nathan Davis, Jr., Peyton Alex Smith, Malcolm David Kelley, Joseph David- Jones, with John Krasinski and Anthony Mackie.
" Detroit" premiered at the Fox Theatre, Detroit, on July 26, 2017, and began a limited theatrical release on August 4, 2017.
The film received positive reviews from critics, with particular praise towards Bigelow's direction, Boal's screenplay and the performances of John Boyega, Will Poulter and Algee Smith, but was a box office failure, only grossing$ 26 million against its$ 34 million budget.

Question: Are director of film The Birch Tree and director of film Detroit (film) from the same country?
Answer: no