Discoveries from Yugoslavia World Cinema

A TV drama.

A new year's special dedicated to the popular comedy "Ljubav na seoski nacin".

A wildlife documentary about marmot.

Observes the lives of three families - all victims of war. Three tragedies focus in particular on the way children and young people suffer.

This film is based on the so-called comedy of the absurd. The unusual animalism of the figures and their distinctive animation and sound treatment promise that the film will be acceptable to children. Probably even adults will not be indifferent to this variety of fabrications.

A girl attempts to reach red apples from a tree. Aliens land on Earth and the girl offers them the fruits.

Cukrarna, an old building where the poets Murn and Kette once lived, is an important place in Ljubljana. For a long time this building has been the refuge for different people of all occupations and age, a small gallery of tragic human destinies.

A tamer of horses discovers a large mechanical horse. A conflict develops when the horse tamer attempts to tame the horse and the horse attempts to destroy the man. Considers the relationship between man and technology.

A photographer tries to make his customer smile for the photo.

A con leaves the prison with a plan to deceive people by entering financial bank business.

Akademija Republika shows a group of people gathered around the club from 1981 until 1995 and how it changed and influenced the cultural and night life around them.

In occupied Belgrade, a writer considers ethical dilemma of a professor involuntarily involved in a difficult situation, which forces him to choose to be for or against the resistance movement.

The plot depicts lives of several young people from Zagreb from the perspective of a girl carrying a “god of the play” doll.

Kreso is in the eighth grade of elementary school and loves motorcycles and playing pinball. Because of his hobbies, he has a reputation as a bad boy, and he doesn't fare any better with grades either. His single mother is torn between jobs and has no understanding for his problems, so the boy is left to manage on his own.

The theme of the film is the celebration of October 11, 1948 in Prilep, Kumanovo, Kichevo and the commemoration of the day of the liberation of Debar. In honor of the holiday, in Skopje, in Daut - Pashin Amam, an exhibition about the Revolution and the National Liberation War is opened. Then, the holding of folk fairs, agricultural exhibitions and a book exhibition on the occasion of the "Book Week" are shown.

Following the form of a tetrahedron, the film consists of four regular segments, each covering one topic. It gained a cult status among Split kino-amateurs of older generations.

The head of the family, Maksim Obad, has a problem with the authorities, because he betrayed a friend, which took Dimitrije to labor camp. Maksim’s life wish is to build a family tomb and to specify in his will that after his death half of the estate is sold and transferred to the family of his former friend and victim. This decision does not please his son and daughter-in-law, who are afraid that old Maksim's conscience will deprive them of their inheritance.

Macedonian TV drama.

Shot in the Kosovar village of Nevokaze, it depicts the traditional lifestyle of an Albanian family numbering 117 members, all living under one roof and in great harmony. One of the finest examples of ethnographic film to come from this region, it has been called a ‘spiritual portrait of the nation’.

The movie based upon the classical Slovene novel Martin Kačur, depicts the clash between the teacher Martin Kačur and his conservative environment. Due to his progressive ideas, he is transferred to a small town. The village environment is even more depressing than his former surroundings were, as the influence of both the secular and the Church authorities is even greater in the country. Even though Martin meets Tončka and the two of them get married, he gradually becomes a disillusioned and embittered man. In time, when society's strictures become somewhat milder, Martin is transferred to a more friendly environment, but all the injustices he has experienced have already bitten too deep. Unlike his wife, Martin finds it very difficult to accept changes. When his son dies, it seems as though he has lost all his elan and the will to live. Will he be able to go on bringing the light of knowledge to the ignorant masses, or will his ideals be buried forever like a man in a snowdrift?

A middle-aged manager of a big-scale company pays visit to his native island with his wife, in order to attend ceremony of unveiling a memorial plaque dedicated to local partisan heroes. During his visit, he's constantly overwhelmed by the memories from the past, his first love, the combat days and his enthusiasm to introduce electricity on the island, which was not appreciated by his fellow islanders.

Ogg is a dreamer, a bizarre, unconventional being who enjoys playing and constantly makes up new situations. His true friend Eva is in vain trying to explain the real purpose of the object he is having fun with. In Ogg’s hands the umbrella will remain practically unused, but it will nevertheless turn into an extremely inspiring toy.

A group of children find space to play between an unfinished apartment house and a brickyard, building their own world in the inexhaustible possibilities offered by their imagination. Their play, joy and laughter bother the construction site guard, and that means the end of the game.

A documentary short film about the genocide at the Jasenovac concentration camp in Croatia in World War II.

A film by Petar Milić.

One of the nails does not enter the tree at all, it can not be nailed. It is associated with dignity, endurance, steadfastness. One must always stand behind one's principles and determinations.

Experimental film by Ivan Martinac.

Experimental 8mm film by Karpo Godina.

A made-for-TV musical comedy featuring popular Yugoslav music ensemble Sedmorica mladih, in which they act as a traveling troupe and perform various numbers in a circus settings.

A documentary set in a modern Croatian railway station, contrasting its promise of progress with the visible presence of unemployment and social stagnation.

Short Croatian documentary from the former Yugoslavia by Ante Babaja that captures the different faces in a waiting room.

A super 8mm film by Davorin Marc.

Today, a butterfly can never be certain that flitting from flower to flower won’t cause major incidents…

A 1979 Serbo-Croatian language drama film written and directed by Stevo Žigon, starring Jelena Zigon, Marko Todorović and Olga Spiridonovic.

Twinkle Sleepyhead is the youngest star in the sky. Because she constantly comes late to her work, the Moon sends her to Earth to punish her. She may return to the sky when she proves that she has learnt her lesson. Among the people she meets on Earth there is also a bandit Ceferin, who wants to steal her golden hair. Due to the Twinkle Sleepyhead's innocent goodness his heart starts to beat instead of the stone he had before. Twinkle Sleepyhead returns to the sky.

A historical overview of Sisak, the city on three rivers, from the Roman era to the post-WWII industrialization.

This is the first feature, as well as the first sound film made in Yugoslavia. It is a collection of vignettes made for tourism purposes showing the most beautiful parts of the country.

After Stipe Zvonarov returned from the Austro-Hungarian army to his Slavic village, he found his wife Mara and mother. Women rightly expect Stipe to accept rural jobs, but he can no longer accept the monotony and restrictions of rural life.

Yugoslav Partisan propaganda film about the post-World War II events in Pula.

Sylvester is a master tailor. He designs only masterpieces. When his sister Vivian gets unstoppable hiccups, shaking everything around them, Sylvester’s job is in danger. With humour, Professor Balthazar solves this case too and Balthazartown gets a new, singing train engine.

Yugoslav Partisan propaganda film about the liberation of Istria at the end of the World War II.

A boy falls into his prehistoric book and falls in love with a cave girl.

Apartment… factory… apartment… factory. All days are monochrome, similar. What happens when a man suddenly meets a friend he hasn’t seen in a long time.

A story about Italian soldiers, enemies who have their own problems and hopes. Based on short stories of Mesa Selimovic, Bosnian writer.

A powerful ironic work of the society in which a hydro-central is erected in an area where there is no water.

A documentary about president Tito's return to the country and the welcome party in Gevgelija, Negotino and Skopje.

A trailer for Animafest Zagreb 1988.

A meditative essay.

Macedonian TV drama.

A man feels guilt over his parents’ death in a car accident.

Short animated film.

Short documentary about Ilija Dzhadzhev, Macedonian musician who plays Hawaiian guitar.

A spoiled rich kid wants to break his piggy bank with a large hammer.

A three-projector Super 8 film.

A three-part anthology film.

Titoism abused the school system, as well as all institutions of culture and media in order to create obedient subjects who do not have their own opinion about reality and who live in a fictitious world of ideological constructions. Children from eight-year schools are forced to quote by heart the values ​​of the so-called self-governing socialism as their own. This is the best way to create generations of conformists who the so-called elites can rule.

A New Year’s Eve musical short.

A meeting and a walk of two young people in Ljubljana's parks, Tivoli and Rožnik. In the inner dialogue of the young man, Ljubljana and his beloved face each other.

After Šojić has been imprisoned, Pantić hopes that the new boss will be better than him only to find out that the new boss is an exact copy of Šojić.

Gangsters hide the stolen money in the refrigerator, which is committed to the school for the arrangers on the seashore. In the same school, a young man responses the advertising for the photographer, so he could provide a free holiday for himself and his friends. Gangsters come there as well, accompanied by detectives. On top of all that, the school is full of girls who try to win the confused young man's heart. This generates a series of comic complications in which the young man finally discloses the gangsters from prosecution, while at the same time being rescued from girls by his friends who have now arrived on holiday.