Discoveries from Croatia World Cinema

When his boyfriend suddenly leaves him without an explanation, Michel develops a fear of emotional attachment. He starts meeting other people, but every new pair of hands remind him of his ex.

The film revolves around a young student named Vini, who lives in Zagreb. In a short meeting with her mother, who has just returned from Germany, Vini suddenly discovers side of herself that destroys the image of her as a perfect daughter.

A short documentary film about one working day in the life of actress Ana Begic, shot in Zagreb shortly before Christmas. The film follows Ana as she conducts her daily activities, prepares for her roles and stage performances and experiences numerous interactions and rituals. It provides an unobstructed view into the real life of an actress removed from the spectacle of a transitional celebrity culture.

Goran Dević conducts confessional interviews with three men who were actively involved in the conflict in former Yugoslavia.

Roko and Mirela are friends from Split. A big music festival is taking place in the city and Mirela wants to go.

The year is 2037. Europe is in a state of complete breakdown. The owner of the last well of natural pure water becomes substitute father and husband. But when his well runs dry, he is forced to do the one last "trade".

Envolves around the mysterious death of a female librarian.

Who am I, what is my real nature? If my real nature puts no one in jeopardy, what is stopping me from living a life that is full, perhaps the only one I’ll get?

David never had the courage, but has always had dreams. Can he win the heart of a woman who no longer has a heart?

In laboratory conditions a good night's sleep.

Scoring success after success, Yugoslavia's first officially registered futsal club, Dudovo bure, singlehandedly united the people of Pakrac and Lipik and offered them a better life than they ever could have imagined.

Croatian singer/songwriter/poet Arsen Dedić tells the story of his life.

A film that emerges from the sonic and visual power of a concert by Croatian musicians Alen and Nenad Sinkauz and a performance by Dutch-Indonesian dancer Marije Nie. Historical denial, collective violence and resistance are intertwined.

Gripping and alarming film, based on amateur footage of Vukovar. In an apocalyptic urban landscape, a sniper looks for prey.

This monodrama, delivered by Dvornik, was written by famous Split-based writer Smoje and dedicated it to his beloved dog Sharko.

After several families mysterious vanish from the small village of Borovo in 1991, a gang of young boys known as "The An Group" decide to investigate their disappearence, not knowing that it's the sign of a coming war.

The documentary film produced by Croatia Records brings a combination of top artistic heritage and timeless melodies that have marked generations. For the first time, ten great songs by one of the most prolific authors of popular music, Đorđe Novković, were performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in the legendary Abbey Road Studio One.

Four friends hop on their bikes and set off on an extraordinary adventure: to reach Elbrus, Europe's highest peak. With no fixed itinerary and no certainty about where they will sleep, they ride along, lulled by the road, their encounters, and simple pleasures. Between camping under the stars, impromptu feasts, and mountain adventures, they finally reach the summit... before taking off in paragliders. Along the way, they discover pure freedom, where riding is enough to make them happy. What if the summit was just an excuse to get away?

A young newspaper photographer, driven by ambition, captures a notorious criminal in the act of murder. Obsessed with advancing his career, he overlooks the consequences of his discovery, drawing himself into a treacherous world of media corruption and organised crime.

Occupied Croatia, 1991. An army major reluctantly agress to take care of a cow that's been left for dead in a recently abanndoned building, however, taking care of the creature reveals deeper truths about the human nature to him.

A documentary about the history of the Bosnian national, linguistic, historical and cultural identity, from the earliest written records of their existence until present day.

An author in a creative crisis is sitting in front of his computer screen and trying to make a film out of random doodles. He hesitates over the title of the film and finally decides on the name Adaptation. With the help of artificial intelligence, the doodles are molded into one form or another and the actual theme is slowly revealed - the perception of the human body depending on whether it is clothed or naked. Artificial intelligence is a great invention, but during the process we realize that it is not just a technical aid, but a serious and intrusive co-creator of the process. Can the author adapt to it?

Film by Tomislav Šoban

After signing a career contract, controversial yet successful director Michael Bruni experiences an unfortunate circumstance that will affect the new production and already strained relations with his family.

Music video for the AJR's single "Maybe Man".

Promise and Ian are now 11 years old. Steve soo will announce to the group that three years after stopping, some of theme will be chosen for the European tour for their "Cirque du Soleil" style show, performing in many countries. Promise and Ian start to train even harder. Will they be selected?

A civilization rises and falls, and from its ashes another civilization emerges repeating the process.

A movie about a breakup. The narrative develops through the author's conversations with his long-time partner, and follows the contemplation of the end of a nine-year romantic relationship.

A small-time criminal gang kidnaps Bore's friend Sensei to extort money from him, but they take things too far and Bore must settle the score.

One evening, a group of high school graduates gather on their school playground, they talk, play games and drink alcohol. Feeling bored, they decide to break in the school. Stories of the creepy janitor scare the girls but the boys manage to persuade them. What started as innocent fun ends in a bloodbath when one of the students turns the night into a horror movie.

Moving Elements focuses on the creative processes that lead to making art. A car passes through all the stages of creative art process and becomes part of art works, as well as a player in abstract processes of creating. The film is meant as a tribute to filmmakers and films made in the golden age of the Zagreb School of Animation. To a certain extent it uses a visual language characteristic of the period – the 1960s and the 1970s.

In the late seventies in Rijeka, the story follows the friendship of an amateur rock band, their development, problems, love and desire for success.

Death saves the little king in a strange world.

A trip across various parts of the world and of other times to understand my ideologic heritage and what to do with it. Opera Prima is my first look at the world that becomes a mirror in which to recognize myself.

Štefanija spends her days working a repetitive job in a small, cramped space. Behind the glass, tobacco shop workers are almost invisible to the buyers and the passers-by, although their jobs are an essential part of urban everyday life. Using hybrid form and stylization, the film depicts the working conditions in tobacco shops from the worker’s perspective.

Contemporary Croatian artist and performer Siniša Labrović and his wife Snježana Klarić, both in their 50s, decided to move from Croatia to Berlin, without knowing German and without a concrete plan on how to survive in Germany.

The subject matter of the film I is sexual identity. The protagonist is a woman trapped in a man's body. Striving to break free from the body, the voyager undertakes a trip to the world of fiction, where he jostles a puppet which helps him to escape from the grasp of reality.

Communication is lacking. This can be felt, just like the things that can never be truly spoken. But lack does not mean a black hole, it is a space that fills itself.

A young girl goes on a ride in a submarine and is greeted by various sea dwellers on her way.

A television news crew goes to an antique bookshop because they received an information that a strange guest would appear there. It turns out that the strange guest is – Librophileas, the ancient, mystical creature which lives everywhere where there are books. He explains why he has appeared at that particular place and at that particular time. Among other things, he says that the PDF format and Kindle device terrify him, pointing out his archenemy, another creature called Copyman. The movie is based on a true story. Librophileas explains the magic behind the trick of putting a book under the pillow before going to sleep and knowing all the leasons in the morning, a trick we all used to practice when we were schoolkids. This is a full short movie, but additional episodes will be made. It promotes reading books, and is suitable for both adults and children.

The director is filming her mother's GP practice while fighting the dysfunctional health system and troublesome patients. In the end she also fights herself, trying to figure out how much more she will continue to work while young doctors keep emigrating from Croatia on daily basis. As soon as she retires, there will be no one to replace her.

A grandiose transoceanic cruise liner sails the seas.

Following the river flowing through the centre of Sisak, the film creates a portrait of a former industrial city. The river today is a space for leisure and relaxation. However, when we examine the people that live and spend time there, the social conflicts of the transition break out onto the surface. The river reveals the remains of past that were left in the water.

Electronically processing the image, with digital animation and use of analogue generators of image and sound, "Convergence" researches the convergence of body, virtual figures and codes.

How to fight the incompetent, overnight licensed bankruptcy trustees and corrupted new owners of Croatian ITAS Prvomajska metal factory, whose goal is to destroy once profitable company and lay off all the workers? The ITAS workers solution was this – occupy it! All this is happening in Croatia, after the bloody war between ex-socialist Yugoslavian countries.

The documentary Accidental Son is an autobiographic story of Robert Zuber. As a child, Robert grew up in a children’s home and was later adopted by a foster family. He never paid much attention to it because his foster parents loved him as their own child. But, after the death of his foster mother, the bureaucratic apparatus tries to convince him that he actually has no parents. On his 31st birthday, Robert decides to straighten things out. He gets in touch with his biological mother and tries to find out the facts of his early childhood. At the same time, he wants to know who his biological father is. This search is full surprises. The film is a part of UNICEF’s campaign ‘Every Child Needs a Family'.

The affecting anatomy of the decision to make the last push for the summit and the almost surreal reflections on what might have been.

The expansiveness of empty landscapes that call attention to their subtle forms in a dynamic macro-perspective, and densely built urban ensembles combined with fragments of dry instructions and inconspicuously urgent communications to create a reserved fictional meditation on the relationship between man and machine.

Milan and Silvana live in Medulin, a small coastal town in Croatia. Milan rears cows on the nearby island of Finera, tending them daily, as many did before him. But Silvana wants much more and keeps complaining that Milan should pay more attention to their house and possibly rent it to tourists. However, a dramatic event in Milan's life will clearly show that the times have changed and they are not getting any younger.

A docudrama about the life and work of Ivan Vučetić, a simple barrel maker from Šibenik who, through careful experimentation revolutionized the history of forensics and solved one of the most brutal cases of infanticide in Argentinian history.

Through observing the landscape and models of cohabitation between living and non-living entities, Croatian experimental filmmaker Ana Husman, examines the ways in which memories are built and narratives formed. And also how they disappear and fragment. A caring cinematic homage to female members of Husman's family, as well as to Lika, a neglected, sparsely populated region from where they originate.

“an experimental documentary shot in Lebanon from 2019 to 2021 dealing with issues of dislocation, points of view and memory. Through the position of ‘peripheral vision’, which I practice as an observer, Detours builds a narrative of sensory impressions, orientations, alienated images, images that remain outside of the frame. The work is not a documentation or analysis of current policies and turbulent events but an experience of disorientations within them. The film was shot using Super 8, still analog cameras, digital cameras and various lenses.” - Vida Guzmić.

Documentary about famous Croatian comedy sketch group's 20th anniversary. Gitak TV is a comedy group, known for its humorous sketches. It was founded by Mate Peruzovic, Marijo Grabovac, Bernard Peric, Matija Cizmic and Ivan Rozic.

A carefree boy meets a beautiful woman, a symbol of eternal love. Later, throughout his life, he searches for his boyish ideal in all women, but she is unattainable.

Documentary about Bad Blue Boys, the fans of Dinamo Zagreb football club.

In this documentary Edo Maajka, Bosnian hip hop star talks about war, his life as a refugee, war crimes, forgiving and making peace, nationalism, music scene in Croatia and Bosnia, Balkans mentality, love and hate, cevap restaurants, Sava river, partings, life of music stars, Lepa Brena and Nele Karajlic, politicians. His mode of narration and his charisma, his sincerity and his relaxed camera appearance will surely capture the spectators' attention.

Experimental animated short film which combines pictorial elements in order to dialogue with our recent history and the ancestral times.