Discoveries from Croatia World Cinema

Documentary about one of the hero's and legend's of the Croatian civil war Andrija Matijaš Pauk. From the battlefronts of Zadar and Dubrovnik to the excellent way he led the tanks in Operation "Storm". His tragic on the second to last day of the Croatian Civil War on the entrance to the town of "Mrkonjić Grad". His 4th Guard Brigade added to their name the nickname "Pauci" meaning Spiders. This documentary by Darko Dovranić from 2018 shows the life of Andrija Matijaš. It is logical that most of this documentary is set during the Croatian civil war rather then the times of peace, because after all in the hardest moments the biggest heroes shine in the dark. About "Pauk" talk about the men that fought alongside him as well as his mother Anka and his wife Nada which decided to give the "Pauk's" legacy to the safekeeping of the country he died protecting.

Using real recorded footage from the 1990s the documentary depicts the town of Novska during the Croatian Civil War from 1990 to 1995.

Docummentary about the hero of Croatian Civil War "Damir Tomljanović Gavran". Shown on the 25th Anniversary of his death on the mountain of Velebit. This documentary visits all the places he fought in and stories of people who fought beside him have to say about him including his mother Marija,

Crew members of the American B-17 Flying Fortress bomber where hit in 1944 during an operation above enemy territory,and the closest airport where they could safely land was on the island of Vis in Croatia. But because of the severe damage to the aircraft it fell in the sea near the island of Vis. Pilot Emerson and the gunner Sterling survived the crash After 60 years Emerson and Sterling return to see the what was left of the plane they where in that night.

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We follow Emma, a young painter with a desire to create, through the process of facing her feelings of frustration, hopelessness, inspiration, excitement and, finally, pleasure. In the process, she dives into her imagination, a place she wishes to reach with her art.

The filmmaker observes large piles on the streets of her city during bulky refuse collection day, while passersby inquire as to what she's doing.

In outer space with no common physical laws, where on each planet lives but one creature, they're faced with heaviness of free time. Each of them spends it differently indulging in useless activities and setting artificial goals for themselves due to lack of purpose, not knowing they were created merely for one lonely person's amusement.

The story of rock band FIT is a real-life story about four young schoolmates who start up a band without even knowing who would play which instrument.

Beauty parlours as places of listening between 3 women in Women Women Women. The young stripper Kika has a troubled night. In Naftalan, the mother of the director is being treated for psoriasis in a specialised hospital and in White Trash a dumping ground is inhabited by hundreds of gulls in a dense fog. Now I Am Irena confronts a past pregnancy and Welcome to Igrane shows a region’s resistance to touristification.

Koni and David met in Skopje. Several months later, Koni comes to Croatia to visit David.

Jupiter May Be Closer Than You Think is one in a series of improvisational films that combines elements of gothic horror and psychological thriller, touching on themes of being alone, alienation, psychological deterioration, self-destructiveness, suppressed tension and boredom.

Searching for her role, a young Actress is trying to grasp what she sees in her own reflection. She notices how her outline, albeit blurry enough for her exhausted and weary face not to shame her, is in fact unrecognisable. The long, almost incurable insomnia has made the world surrounding the Actress also fade. Objects and spatial parameters have disappeared and time frames vanish. We are left with the expression of the Actress’s body and the flow of her thoughts in the background.

When things go completely out of control, the main character must decide between accepting the reality or suffering through their own delusion.

'The Room' is a one-take first-person short animated horror film portraying a woman shut in her room and hiding from a creature.

A man called Josh finds a job in a newspaper that seems too good to be true. When his first day starts, his doubts are confirmed. Who exactly is his boss? WHAT is exactly his boss?

In that moment, all the news published published on September 3 2015 became real. Banalities of the day and personal memories got mixed up incredibly strongly.

An anthropomorphic figure with an elephant's head stands in front of a mirror. As we sink deeper and deeper into layers of a strange organism that resembles a nervous system and a plant at the same time, the character reacts in a violent way.