Discoveries from Yugoslavia World Cinema

Short music film dedicated to the pre-WW2 performer Sofka Nikolić.

A TV documentary about the music ensemble "Sedmorica mladih" from Belgrade.

The plot takes place in Croatia during and immediately after the April war in 1941. The protagonists are a group of soldiers of the Royal Yugoslav Army of Croatian nationality, some of whom will join the Ustashas and the newly founded NDH after the war, and some the anti-fascist movement.

A ballerina doll lies discarded in the corner. Touched by sunlight, she comes to life and dances, but at sunset she stands still again.

Experimental short.

A film from 1963, the last seconds of a trampled woman's life, a reminiscence of life until the very end.

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 cartoon about a harmless cow grazing in a field. It unwittingly steps across the border that separates one country from another. Immediately the animal is arrested and taken away to be searched and interrogated. Protests and diplomatic notes are exchanged between the two nations, and at last the cow is returned to its own country where it is received with great pomp and decorated with the highest honors. It is then imprisoned to prevent any further incidents of such an awkward nature.

Individual political policies and regimes used and abused the national costume of Slovenia. Despite the fact that the individual details of the Slovenian national costume borrowed from the garbs of the German Alpine region, it has maintained the specificity of the area. Today, the national costume is presented as a tourist attraction.

Combining the style of a documentary essay and stop motion animation, and inspired by the short story "Palle Alone in the World", Puhovski shows the fantastic, but also terrifying world of Miroslav Šutej's "mobiles". In that world where there are no people, "mobiles" move independently and have their own life, parallel to the life of people, who, due to the different dimensions they live in compared to "mobiles", simply do not notice them.

Yugoslavian horror short from 1978.

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

An ex-servant becomes a lonely Shepard, killer hidden in the mountain woods during wartime. Under disguise of a black marketeer, a woman from the town maintains steady connection between the town and mountain, and organizes a resistance movement. Shepard falls in love with her, but suspects that she possibly wants gold instead.

When the Child was a Child / Was that the time of the following questions: Why am I and Why not You. Why am I Here and Why not There. When did Time begin and Where will Space end. Is Life under the sun not just a dream.

8mm film by Bojan Jovanović.

A three-projector Super 8 film.

Documentary about one of the world’s smallest mammals.

The film consists of three sequences shot by a fixed camera: the first shows the balcony of a hospital with patients (soundtrack from the film "Vivre sa vie" by Jean-Luc Godard), the second is a scraped wall and the third is a crossroad with pedestrians and cars (sound taken from the film "The Time-Machine " by George Pal).

The film is a reportage of President Tito's last stay in the SR Macedonia. Special emphasis is given to his words expressed at the gala dinner in his honor, as well as his visit to Lake "Treska" and participation in the session of the Central Committee of the SKM. On the streets of Skopje, President Tito is warmly greeted by a huge number of Skopje residents.

A TV drama about orphaned children.

The concept of the film "People (Passing) II" can best be described as an ultimate dynamic of visual and acoustic rhythm with a texture which consists of people passing, standing, sitting, laying, swinging, fukmed by static, mobile, at times intrusive, but always with a highly suggestive camera.

About fighting the elements in the mountain karst, when people also have to bring water and land; leaving such life and gradually moving to the city.

A two-minute poetic micro-manifesto of ecological and social warning about the endangerment of people and the world's nature in the 1960s.

A 1972 Serbo-Croatian language drama film directed by Jovan Acin, starring Slobodan Perović, Renata Ulmanski and Marko Todorović.

On many working sites where workers spend years away from their families, every visit is an event. A husband climbs down from a potentially fatal construction site to meet his wife for lunch.

Grandma, disturbed by her grandchildren, decides to tell them about the adventures of Comrade Snow White.

The film follows the stream of consciousness of Ksenija Hribar, a ballet dancer from Ljubljana and a long time member of London Contemporary Dance Company.

Short experimental 16mm film.

In the winter of 1941, Nazi forces pass through the village of Dolovi. No dialogue.

A documentary about Ann, the United States citizen, who came to Zagreb (Yugoslavia) to participate in the working actions along the Sava river.

Short experimental 16mm film.

A new combination of a drawing put in a classical artistic space and of surrealist contents arising from metaphors and associations. Classical cartoon heroes are swapped with their animated movements and silhouettes.

Slobodan Šijan captures his own self-portrait with a camera, and then "glues" it to shots of a cemetery with a double exposure.

Made for New Year's Eve program, "Two Hours of Quality Program" exceeded all expectations becoming more than just a small TV movie. Using black humor as its sharp weapon, it dealt with ongoing chaos in the country and the introduction of new values to the urban culture.

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

Short documentary about the hedgehog.

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

A filmed stage play based on Kosta Trifkovic novel about mischievous girl who, together with her female cousin, makes fun of the whole bunch of her admirers.

A portrait of a 90-year-old Carthusian monk dr. Josip Edgar Leopold from the Pleterje monastery.

A depiction of the 1961 ‘Marshal Tito Cup’ football match, which was played in Belgrade between the Skopje club Vardar and Varteks from Varaždin.

On a little girl's birthday, her parents' friends come. The received gifts are piled up in her room and most of them are the same. The guests forget the little celebrant and close in the lounge. The dance begins, and the elders play cards. The little one is left alone. Neighbors are disturbed by the noise and ask the caretaker to intervene. He goes to the apartment where he is celebrating. The girl opens the door for him. He invites the good old caretaker to his room to show him the toys. Wanting to beautify her birthday, the caretaker tries to cheer up the little one. With the help of her toys she enters the world of fairy tales. The dolls come to life and the girl happily participates in their game. Time passes, it is already late at night and the girl falls asleep. The caretaker leaves quietly, leaving her in the interior of her room full of toys.

A young painter comes to the monastery where he's supposed to paint Virgin Mary. There he meets and falls in love with a beautiful novice named Agripina, eventually modeling his artwork by her appearance. This gets him in trouble with the church canons and Mother Superior, and he leaves.

Short experimental 8mm film. Love letter #1.

Short feature film shot in 1950 and directed by Branko Ćelović. It is an adaptation of the theater play of the same name by Branislav Nušić. In the film, the famous Serbian actor Mija Aleksić appears in his debut role as the scribe.

The camera follows four people, musicians, on their walk through the city, seemingly in real time. They go through photogenic city squares and streets and end up at the beach.

On its quest of death and terror, plague approaches a small village. The village knows nothing and lives its normal life…

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.

Musical cartoon satirising the relationship between Man and ape and suggests that man himself may have far to go before he is out of the trees.

Advertising cartoon for Kalodont toothpaste.

This movie shows the traditions of Kosovar Albanians that live in highlands and also tells a love story of two young people, a boy who lives in a village and a girl who just comes back from the USA to her native homeland.

This documentary tells the story about the athlete Vera Nikolić, Europan champion at 800 m, who trains hard in order to break the world. She is missing just a little bit…

A small, neglected boy protests against his busy parents by rambling across the city alone.

City council of Prilep, Macedonia, decide to ruin the old part of the town and built new housings there. Unable to stop the demolition, the shoemaker Dimko and other local craftsmen throw an all-night party for the memory of the last day of bazaar.

One film projected two times with a difference of a couple of seconds.

The movie shows the demolition of the old chapel on Jezerski vrh on Lovćen where the Montenegrin bishop Petar Petrović Njegoš was buried, and the subsequent construction of today's Njegoš mausoleum. The film was completed in the 1970s, but it was not available to the public, it was banned and it ended up in a bunker until the beginning of the 1990s, when it was shown on the Radio Television of Serbia.

A magnificient poem of the tragic love between two wild ducks. The suicidal sacrifice of the male for his female, we do not witness a hunting scene, but a real tragedy of the birds Romeo and Juliet.

The first-ever Croatian colour film, shot and developed by Maksimilijan Paspa, the founder of Kinoklub Zagreb.

At request of the citizens of a new quarter a bridge for pedestrians has been built over the railway. However, the inhabitants are still crossing the railway as before.

Images of an untypical Split landscape, a devastated complex filmed on the location of today’s Poljud stadium. Tasić rounds the atmosphere with the sound he himself composed.