 In the mid-1960s Babaja made several experimental documentary films, before filming "The Birch Tree" ("Breza", 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 Myrrh" ("Mirisi, zlato i tamjan", 1971) and "Lost Homeland" ("Izgubljeni zavičaj", 1980) were also met with considerable critical acclaim.