 After making a few surrealist experimental short films in the early 1970s, Žižić started making feature films, his most notable works being "The House" ("Kuća", 1975) and "Don't Lean Out the Window" ("Ne naginji se van", 1977), which both won the Big Golden Arena for Best Film awards at the 1975 and 1977 editions of the Pula Film Festival.This made him the only film director whose first two feature films both won the award.In the second half of the 1980s and in the early 1990s Žižić served as head of Zagreb Film.