Discoveries from Croatia World Cinema

Scientist trying to built a time machine using radio waves. He is trying to sent a message to past. At the end he succeed, but unfortunetly he is not in the room to hear the message. He is reapeating the whole process.

Documentary about the life and work of Ivan Martinac (1938-2005), avant-garde & experimentalist filmmaker from Split, Croatia.

I walk through empty corridors and dance with the light. I erase myself from every frame and meet all versions of myself. Evanescence is a reflection on death and transience from the point of view of a person remaining behind. It is a film about the search for identity in an ever-changing world, whose future itself is increasingly uncertain. The death enforces the awareness of the inexorable nature of transience. Enfolded by space that is in a state of constant flux, endlessly emerging and disappearing, the author too fluctuates with it.

This is a story of an apartment building renovation that becomes a metaphor for the society. Vitić Dances uncovers the purpose and the futility of giving yourself for the greater good. It is a film about us, those around us, and the spaces in between.

Briefly depicted fragments from the characters' lives, through summer and winter, as each of them suffers a loss. Cinematic meditation on inevitable loss.

2012 was the end of the world.

The ghost of Eugene Shoemaker wanders across the surface of the Moon, contemplating its vastness and the silence that surrounds him. That all changes when his tranquility is broken by a mysterious sound of quiet cracking.

While state authorities chase down supplies of increasingly rare Covid vaccinations, the queues of those waiting for them stretch endlessly along streets. Those queuing comprise a microcosm of the populace – a tapestry of personalities that range from stern gatekeepers to elderly women deliberating over vaccine preferences. As it moves from the bustling queues to the hushed interiors of vaccination centres, Pavilion 6 shifts from patients to the nurses and other members of staff.

Women begin to explore their bodies after gaining the abbility to distance themselves from them.

Thirteen years after the unexpected death of his one time best friend, filmmaker tries to reconstruct his life and their relationship, using just the photographs and video materials which his friend shot back then. A film about the lost generation of Croatian youth in the end of the 90's, who are trying to find their identity in the aftermath of a devastating war.

A docudrama about baroque art in Croatia.

During the Croatian war of independence, five members of the National Guard escape from hostile confinement. While trying to break through the enemy lines, they fight against various paramilitary groups, dying one after another.

Determined to start a new chapter in life, Anica (20) stumbles upon a remote sheep farm where she meets Kata (10) and her authoritative grandmother Baba (60). Disturbed by Baba’s stern treatment of Kata, Anica intervenes, sparking a battle of wills. As tensions rise, Anica must make a choice: fight for Kata or earn Baba’s respect.

An idyllic morning. Different things can disturb this. Rush hour, commercials, unreliable devices and drones definitely. How did the final nail get in the coffin in a single day, for quite an ordinary man who only wanted to enjoy his morning?

An imaginative advertising film about Podravka and its soup concentrates, told through the perspective of a rooster. The first part of the film is dedicated to the rooster's life and Podravian motifs, and the second one to the Podravka factory.

A brief portrait of an experimental Italian theater group that works with physically and/or mentally disabled people.

A documentary about the Varos district in Sibenik, Croatia, which once was a home to Arsen Dedic, Vice Vukov and Miso Kovac - three singers who marked 50 years of pop music in former Yugoslavia.

Police inspector Romano is investigating the kidnapping of a journalist entangling himself into a web of secrets of a business tycoon and the police captain.

Two groups of citizens clash over the redesign of a children's playground.

In the cartoon transformations, we follow the struggle of the embryo to form into an articulated being. The being - the man is helped by the being - the woman to complete and become complete. But gender-opposed beings devour each other in the chaos of the universe and reduce their mythical game to eternal repetition and search for meaning in form.

Roko hasn't paid rent in months and now he has less than 24 hours to settle his debt. He will attempt to reach the most painless possible solution through a calm and rational talk with those closest to him.

All is grey. The sun has not been rising for years. There is a legend going around the city: Paint the sun a 1000 times and it will rise again.

In 1991, on the outskirts of Tenja, Josip Reihl Kir, the chief of the Osijek Police Department and a man dedicated to negotiations and avoding war, was assassinated. Told through the statements of a few witnesses and archive materials from the era, this is a story about the last few months of his life, in the dawn of the bloodthirsty Croatian-Serbian war, which Kir had been trying hard to prevent.

A visual adaptation of Meandri, the last album of Croatia's most popular all-female band Putokazi.

Exhausted by her monotonous everyday routine, young Tufna decides to end her life. As she prepares the noose in her room, the world around her turns distorted and strange.

While spending holidays at his grandparents’ place in the countryside, a boy learns a cruel lesson of mercy.

Easygoing Teddy is a playful little bear who doesn’t really care about forest rules. One day, he saves a bee in trouble, striking a friendship that will change his life.

In an underwater robotics test pool a machine infected by an unknown biological conglomerate conducts a fatal manoeuvre. The new compounds create their own forms, self-sustainable, self-forming and adaptable. An Anthropocene, a human product, has opened a possibility for the extension of the body without organs to host other forms of life, inhumanly wondrous and unpredictable.

A war veteran with post-traumatic disorders talks about his practical inability to start a normal life after his fighting and killing experience. This 35-year-old married man with three children, who joined the Croatian army in the very beginning of the war and saw various Yugoslavian battlefields from his perspective of a sniper, is unemployed today and tries to adapt to his surroundings while still feeling the closest to his former, now similarly dispossessed co-fighters.

Croatian countryside. Middle of the night. Darko, owner of the local agricultural discount-shop wakes up the vicar of the small parish church to reveal his own dark secret to him. But that's not the only thing Darko is planning to reveal to vicar.

A short opera inspired by Aesop's fable The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle.

A biographic documentary about a punk-rock icon who surpassed the music and became a symbol of common sense and free thinking.

After his marriage starts failing and his wife Pierette becomes abusive, a depressed middle aged man named Johann decides to release his frustrations onto his newly arrived Croatian intern Buga.

Frustrated by the everyday rut and financial debts, taxi driver Andrija tries to find a way out by selling his family’s house in the country where his brother, a war veteran called Traktor, lives. He invites Traktor to move in with him and his wife Vesna.

A Balkan folktale about a girl who disguises herself as a man and defies the world. On her journey, she overcomes magical creatures and her own fears – until she meets a legendary beast that changes her forever.

On a faraway Dalmatian island in the 1920s Pogana, a woman from the inlands, is sold to be the new wife of a widow sailor with five children. When the Sailor is lost at sea, Pogana is left at the mercy of the cruel villagers and their customs.

Film by Leona Kadijevic

One dysfunctional family where every member listens to the different type of music, decides to seek for a professional help.

When Maja's parents come to Zagreb to visit their daughter, Nika and Maja cover their faces with masks and start playing the game Nika has grown very tired of.

Valerija lives alone in her apartment with her dog Zlatka. Every Sunday her children come over for lunch. As she gets lunch ready, Valerija reveals her life’s story.

A girl gets lost in the land of fairy tales.

Twenty-two-year-old Lana lives alone in an apartment in Zagreb. One day, an allegedly unknown man broke into her apartment. After a police insight, Lana remains living in an apartment with a broken front door and in anticipation of her father’s arrival.

One shot. Two bodies. And an interrupted sex. Film in which faces and voices are outside the shot, and protagonist is Her and His naked flesh, on that March 9th, in a casual relationship and a casual deceit. Nervous croquis of body language.

A short documentary featuring interviews with newspaper vendors in Zagreb.

Power, control, manipulation, domination, and the inevitable triumph of love.

The sea, a man, a fish... a couple of wonders and human weaknesses.

A mockumentary about the star of Madre Badessa's music videos, Tonci Huljic's cousin Toni.

Workers on strike who have not been paid for months and tourists who are forced to wait in their steamy cars in the middle of the tourist season. Krk Bridge, Croatia. August 16th, 2012.

A trailer for cinema manifestation.

A documentary on the the ethnic Vlachs from Herzegovina, who settled at the bottom of Mount Žumberak in northwestern Croatia and quickly became one of the main lines of defence of the Habsburg Monarchy against the Ottoman Empire, using what were, at the time, previously unseen methods of guerilla warfare.

Young girl possessed by the character James Bond. Double-oh-seven type of manhood is projected on the men that meets in real life, basking in the comfort of your own imagination. Protecting your fantasy than reality, it denies you the ability to romance kind of wants to experience in real life.

Miranda prepares for her mother's arrival. While preparing, she is interrupted by a small Beast from whom Miranda really wants to escape. Realizing that he cannot escape, he decides to hide from the Beast and hopes that his mother will not notice. Miranda will have to face her aggressive mother and herself.

Andrija, a fire department captain, is in a commited relationship with Marija, however, he cannot stop himself from thinking about Petra, one of Marija's best friends. After he's finished with a dangerous job he speaks to both of them, deciding to finally determine the future of their relationship that's burning down much like the trees he's trying to save.

An animated film inspired by the legend of Pozoj, a creature believed to be sleeping under the town of Čakovec. It is dangerous to upset or wake up the creature, as earthquakes and other disasters can occur.

Concert footage of Josipa Lisac at Croatian National Theatre on 3rd December 2006, held in honor of her late husband Karlo Metikoš aka Matt Collins.

A documentary about rich history of rock scene in Rijeka, Croatia.

A family, a nine-year-old child, and an inadequate elementary school curriculum. The child’s work desk becomes the stage for a tragicomic family drama. Who will be the first to break under the burden of “knowledge”? The caring parents or their self-centered offspring?

How do we speak about the horror with which we are faced but cannot come to terms with? The classmates have gathered for their fifteenth high-school reunion, reminiscing about their adolescent adventures. As the evening progresses, different dinner courses and drinks are brought out and the conversations become more open, yet there is one topic that everyone avoids, until alcohol encourages them to mention the shocking letter they have all received. The letter is a torturous confession from one of their former classmates, in which she reveals the brutal abuse she endured as a child and during high school.

Two old fisherman manage to invite two young tourists on a boat trip. Even though they don't understand each other, they set out on their dream adventure.