Discoveries from Yugoslavia World Cinema

A bad decision makes lots of conflict within a group of friends.

A short propaganda cartoon about the right to vote. Drawings were made by Walter Neugebauer and it was shot by Frano Vodopivec.

Father, the ex-WWII fighter and head of the family, is reluctant to use connections to help his son to get a job. His idea of morale and conscience are to be juxtaposed to the actions he must take.

Radomir Belacevic, an artist and a scientist, is last seen on July the 9th in front of his private company "Studio film" in Dr. Aleksandar Kostic Street. The author of more than 20 novels, competent and scientific books, has vanished in the prime of the preparations for making his first movie. The relatives and friends of Mr. Belacevic were unable to help the members of city police because they don't have any information about sudden and mysterious disappearance.

Short documentary about the train line operating along Virpazar-Bar route.

The film focuses on the life of a Macedonian intellectual who faces personal and professional challenges in the society of the 1980s.

In 1920s Ljubljana, a student of theology decides to leave his studies and dedicate to music.

An experimental staged documentary.

The film depicts one working day in the lives of travelling workers in different parts of Croatia: Baranja, Slavonia, Zagorje, Kvarner and Banovina. Through interviews and by employing the so-called friendly-camera method, the director portrays these exhausted, sleepy people and their dreary daily grind. Their lives are particularly well reflected in the early morning scenes of salesmen asleep in the most peculiar places and in the most curious ways: leaning against a fence or a wall, sitting on the railway tracks.

Creativity is most often a Sisyphean task. In contrast to this is the immense will and perseverance of the creator who, despite seemingly insurmountable obstacles, continues to create.

The father dreams that at least his son Grga will return from Germany to his homeland because his second son is an employed Party member, lives in the city, and tries to push through some new projects in his village which traditional environment is opposed to.

Macedonian TV drama.

Lost film directed by Tito Strozzi.

In 1902 in St. Petersburg, Russia, loner scientist Anton Kerzhentsevi studies primates. He's attracted to Tatyana, his friend Alexis' wife. As Anton slowly goes mad, he starts planning on how to kill his friend and get away with it.

Unfinished and lost experimental film about the activities of Albanian rebels in Kosovo (known as Kachaks) in the 1920s.

One of the three polemical articles in the series "Forbidden" in which there are critically opposed stands on various phenomena in society. The works of Fulgosi offered sarcastic view on everyday life which prompted some to declare him "a genius of his time".

A young pianist joins the partisans because he decides not to play for the Germans before the scheduled concert. By taking a random path, guided by his conscience, he was initially accused of being a spy. The young pianist will feel a certain uneasiness among the partisans all the time, thinking that the task of the moment is only a direct struggle with the enemy.

Socialist Slovenia’s first feature-length experimental film, DAILY NEWS was shot in 1980 on Super-8mm by then-26-year-old Franci Slak, who would go on to become an acclaimed industry director. As its title suggests, the film is a diary in which the author records his observations of the outside world; as Silvan Furlan writes, it “evokes with a certain nostalgia those golden days of the underground, when the freedom of filmmaking was written in capital letters.” Film theorist Jože Dolmark appraised it best: “the film contains a desire to record (not strictly chronologically) the experience of a lived day: what happened to you, what you experienced, or which is more interesting, what you would like the day to look like, according to how you’ve imagined it. I think the entire power of DAILY NEWS lies in this desire of Franci’s for what remained unspoken, what slipped, what remained outside the edges, and what we’ll never know.”

The fox is considered one of the most cunning animals. It easily outwits its prey, even hunting dogs, but will it manage to escape the cruelest and smartest of its enemies - the man? The depiction of the fox's life in nature confirms the character of this animal known from fables. However, the fox's lifestyle can also be seen as a cinematic allegory of survival in impossible conditions.

A commander of the youth working action brigade wants his team to win the award, but the problem arises when a series of graffiti regarding his subordinates' dissatisfaction begins to appear on the facilities across the camp.

A boatman who worked for others all his life gets into smuggling of luxury watches so he could earn enough for old age. A girl he loves and money is all that he wants, yet one dawn separates him from his dream...

A 1981 Croatian language drama film directed by Miroslav Mikuljan, starring Bozidar Alic, Hermina Pipinic and Zvonimir Torjanac.

With the layering of picture (double exposure, flowing changes of images, frosen image, solarisation) and sound, the artists and the objects in the television studio merged into electronic sensations - an infinite series of over-illuminated, perforated and broken images. The video was made on the basis of the multimedia project (screening and installation) of the same title, and it was presented as 'the deconstruction of screening' in the framework of experimental programme on television. (RTV Ljubljana)

The film consists of several short stories. Between them, always the same leitmotif appears – a short joke with a different ending. The stories are always about absurd and ridiculous situations depicting the relationship between a man and birds.

The film is a moving document of the catastrophic earthquake that struck Skopje on July 26, 1963, and its aftermath. Authentic footage shows the moments immediately after the earthquake, during the rescue of the injured and the clearing of the rubble, as well as the efforts to eliminate the consequences of the earthquake, with help from our community and from abroad.

A TV drama set shortly after WW2 about court trial of former German generals accused for bombing the Yugoslavia's capital Belgrade.

Two men fighting over a suitcase to discover its content. At the end the smaller guy lets the bigger one have the suitcase. They are both surprised when they open it. Inside there are another two men with another suitcase and the whole story repeats.

Holiday adventures of schoolboys spending their time on an airport taking flying lessons with sport planes.

Retelling of G .B. Shaw's Pygmalion set in Zagreb in the beginning of the 20th century.

A super 8mm film by Davorin Marc.

Short film.

A TV drama.

Lost Croatian silent film.

A man is standing in the scene when a fly arrives and begins to irritate him. He tries to swat the fly, but it keeps growing bigger to the point where it shatters the scene. Eventually, the man and the fly decide to negotiate.

Študijski posnetek za nedokončani abstraktni film is a Yugoslavian (Slovenian) Short Documentary TV Film. It is defined as an experimental. It was directed by Tone Rački.

Macedonian TV comedy.

With fast changing visuals and moods, an artist presents his family's twentieth-century story.

A short documentary directed by Miodrag "Mika" Milošević, in collaboration with cinematographer and animator Nikola Majdak. Focusing on Slovenian gymnast and Olympic champion Miroslav Cerar, the film presents his routines through an emphasis on movement, timing, and form, using stylized camerawork and editing to highlight the visual structure of gymnastics performance.

Robot Minus serves Doctor Sinus, its creator and constructor, who works at a desk. However, a magnetic horseshoe gets into the robot’s mechanism and disrupts its functioning. Dr. Sinus first tries to tame the Robot, then breaks it, but it’s all in vain.

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.

Bad weather, farmers who do not allow the dumping of their estate, and people who are willing to sabotage for ideological reasons, disrupt the building of hydro-power on the Neretva river. Upon completion of construction, the benefits of electricity assures people of the necessity of progress.

A little boy, child of the space age, encounters an old and crotchety magician and his familiars, and outdoes all the wizard's tricks with the products of modern science.

A middle-aged married couple returns from a successful shopping trip in Trieste. Along the way, they stop at a motel with the romantic name "Moonlight" and decide to spend the night there.

Dervisi: This 1955 documentary reveals the strange practices of one of the most ancient Muslim denominations and rites that aim to achieve mystical ecstasy.

The film depicts the formation of a clay head, which the sculptor makes in memory of a childhood event, when a man's head was cut off and piled on a stake.

The film compares scenes from the frescoes of Serbian medieval monasteries with scenes of church councils held in churches. Relying on his pictorial sensibility (he graduated in History of Art), using symbols, real landmarks, without a narrative flow but accompanied by sound and original music, Petrović's short film Sabori, which is also a documentary, becomes a timeless film.

A handicapped woman talks about her decision to give birth to a girl despite her harsh living conditions and pressures from the surroundings to give up the pregnancy.

A vicious circle of violence that inevitably connects the killer and his victim.

Adaptation of an eponymous Albert Camus novel.

Being an apprentice and a master of such craft is of vital importance. This is about speaking. The orator’s profession can be useful at work, but in the family it has all the negative consequences.

An old and a young man are travelling together. The old man reminds the young of his father, and the young man reminds the old of his wasted and meaningless life.

The film uses an alternative shooting method, the so-called staring camera, two years before the same method used by Andy Warhol and two years before the use of similar methods at the GEFF in Zagreb. The tape is connected in a circle, like an endless tape.

A story about a hard-working man who earns his piece of bread honestly. But this time, his attempt to become head of the workers’ syndicate and his statement will change his and the lives of many workers in the company.

Souvenirs, memories, nostalgia, alienation, the ephermal quality of life ...these are the subjects of this animated diary. The film is not made in the usual way (screenplay, storyboard) and was born at the moment when the author sat at his desk and began animating.

After fourteen years, the married couple meets their old friend who lives in Australia for the first time, but the memories and emotions that this meeting evokes, however, fail to bring about a significant change in their monotonous everyday life.

A study of activity surrounding a changing room by a place of swimming.

Documentary about drug addicts. His later movie "Landscapes in the Mist" arose naturally from this documentary.

A group of Macedonian partisans are hiding away in the mountains from Bulgarian fascist authorities that occupy Macedonia.

Documentary about the 20th anniversary of Sarajevo liberation.

Short documentary