Discoveries from Yugoslavia World Cinema

The first Macedonian TV drama produced by TV Skopje.

In Collecting Courage, the second of six parts of his drama cycle Dialogues, screenwriter Ivo Stivicic dealt with the relationship of a young, unambitious and timid factory worker to the people around him, from girlfriends and work colleagues to hooligans from the cafe environment.

A documentary video presenting a concert by the Laibach group at the 1982 Novi Rock festival. A video as a document on the beginnings of the controversial band with its original members.

This is a short film by Mirza Idrizović.

Film inspired by the beauty of medieval tombstones, stećaks, scattered around the mountains of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Mak Dizdar’s poem about them. Film explores the distant past immortalized in inscriptions on these ancient tombstones.

The film dedicated to the victims of the Ustasha genocide from 1941-1945. It shows the rise and fall of Independent State of Croatia during second World War as well as genocide that happened during this regime.

Adaptation of Elio Vittorini’s novel.

This unique video by Azzam Publications, the first of its kind in the English language with real-life combat footage of bosnian Mujahideen. Features Opening sequence shoenglawing oppression of Muslims in different parts of the World and Origin of the Jihad in Bosnia. Film from the first Mujahideen Training Camp at Mehorich. Video biographies of over 20 other Mujahideen killed in Bosnia in 1992 and 1993. The Famous Prisoner Exchange Operation with the UN in 1993. Combat footage of Mujahideen operations against Croatian Forces in 1993. Exclusive footage of Wahiudeen: the Second Commander of the Mujahideen in Bosnia & etc.

TV movie about the life of a middle-aged Zagreb spinster in whose life quietly crept the man to whom she rented a room. Problems start when she realizes that her lodger does very strange and even bizarre job that police will not miss.

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 young boy faces difficulties in both his family life and his school life after talking back to a teacher.

Friday is the day that everyone goes away for the weekend. A bank clerk spends his weekend off a small island with his boat, but the weekend does not run its usual course.

The main character is the director of a social enterprise who, before leaving for the airport, faces the fact that his son was beaten during a night out.

A horse becomes a man.

Documentary about the stonecutters from Herzegovina, celebrating human devotion for work and the struggle with nature.

A filmed TV drama by the Montenegrin National Theater about St. John the Baptist.

Short documentary by Krsto Škanata.

The second film in Vlatko Gilic’s Sisyphean trilogy.

A black cat is chasing sparrow, a true friend of Snowman. With Snowman’s help the sparrow tricks and punishes the cat.

Slovenian film shot in Lendava in 1987.

The camera enters one of the Yugoslav prisons and records the life of prisoners. The dominating idea, above all, is that a man without freedom is a man without a face.

A man visits the panels of a comic page-like world in search for his loved Gloria.

The court trial of the 1933 arson attack on the Reichstag building, home of the German parliament in Berlin by a Dutch communist Marinus van der Lubbe. The incident took place only four weeks after Adolf Hitler sworn as the German chancellor The film was damaged and only 23 mins are preserved.

Moliere himself gave a prototype of a morally consistent and uncompromising person who is thus in conflict with the whole world. Miroslav Karaulac’s drama tries to portray the character of one such misanthrope as he might look in our milieu.

A friendship strikes between an intellectual couple and a poor craftsman after a chance encounter at the cemetery.

Kumbum 1+1 (1975-1987) is a variation on author's Kumbum 1 (1975-1987) feature-length alternative film, where 1+1 refers to the film being projected as two parallel (side-by-side) 16mm projections, each playing half of the feature film. Consequently, the runtime of this variation is cut in half. The conceptual design of the film is based on the assumptions and findings of empirical science concerning human perception of visual material. For the purposes of the film, the author of Kumbum developed a complex mathematical structure and, in accordance with it, arranged the visual material into a sequence of (thematically) diverse moving images subjected to rapid montage. This system served as a decoder for the lengths of 12,000 shots, composed of television footage combined with shots taken from the existing filmography of OM production. Kumbum drives and immerses the viewer in the visual, imposing the next piece of information on the brain even before the previous one has been processed.

Educational film that shows all the horrors that witch-doctors caused in backwards villages before modern medicine took over.

A group of eccentrics are playing. A little man wants to join in but is always sent away and is finally murdered. In heaven he meets others of his kind and plays with them but a still tinier man wants to crash their games.

Animated puppet short involving two sweethearts.

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.

Records one of the most important events in the history of the Macedonian people: about the Ilenden Uprising and the Krusevo Republic of 1903.

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.

German adventurers discover the cultural and natural riches of Yugoslavia regions, their own carelessness almost pays for their fascination with their lives, but the intellect still wins in mastering nature, which offers the winners resources for a better quality of life. All this is framed by a love story. It is a meeting of two cultures and two views of the world.

While his marriage is falling apart, a cocky journalist is worried about environmental pollution.

Engineer and leftist illegal Neven Novak runs away from a train in which Ustashas transport their prisoners to the prison camp Jasenovac. He returns to Zagreb and tries to save his son Zoran from an orphanage. During his stay in the orphanage, Zoran was indoctrinated with fascist ideology. When he realizes that his father is an enemy of the regime, he refuses to escape with Zoran to the Partisans' territory. Novak faces his son's antagonism and the police that chase after them.

The film depicts former rural appearance of the Trnje and Novi Zagreb neighborhoods and the process of urbanization of these areas, which in the 1960s resulted in the construction of buildings, bridges, roads, and tram lines.

Short animated film.

Macedonian TV drama.

Ante Zaninovic's story of a man's persistent battle with the forces of nature.

What does a seemingly ordinary hat hide?

Tells about a little violinist who played so wonderfully that his violin was considered magical.

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

A short film about one of the auhor's favourite motifs - the visual allure of the sea's surface.

This is an animated film by Vefik Hadžismajlović.

This film is based on the engravings of Hristofor Žefarović, an 18th-century painter, engraver, writer and poet. He was exclusively engaged in copper engraving and book illustration after 1740. he engraved copper plates for his books, and printed them in the "etching-typographical workshop" of his collaborator Thomas Mesmer in Vienna. His engraving was of great cultural-historical importance to the Baroque art of the time. His style of 'bright cut' engraving was thoroughly masterly and original, specializing in the higher branches -- engraving for printing -- of the engraver's art.

Super8 post-punk film by Davorin Marc. Paura in citta does not only display a bold and powerful exploration of form and themes that seem to have occupied Marc throughout his oeuvre, the film is also a straightforward document of the spirit of the times and surroundings of its making.

It is about difficult times in Croatian family in Istria under Italian rule and the beginning of Italian fascism.

Milan, a successful company director, is replaced, and he decides to find out why.

An overview of the group Zemlja’s socially conscious and artistic work.

After the death of the father who was addicted to gambling and left his family unsecured, the mother sends her sons abroad to earn money. The sons send the money which she uses to buy fertile land from her neighbors. Their father's sin determines the path of his four sons.

1893, city of Mostar, Herzegovina, Austro-Hungarian Empire. Stoyan, a poor country boy comes to town and starts to work for a rich but crooked and greedy store owner.

While a man is trying to rest on a public bench, passersby want to know what he keeps in the bag next to him.

Plot is about a man who’s been in his apartment ever since his wife left him. Evening after evening he’s getting drunk and calls a hot line girl called Kiki... Srdjan Dragojevic's student film.

Related to the well-known story of how a young man, who came to be called Kaspar Hauser, appeared in a German town in 1828, apparently not able to speak more than a single sentence; A söchener Reiter möcht i wärn wie mei Voter aner gween is ( I want to become a horseman like my father once was).

The sailor with the rose is now a tugboat engineer whose sole task is to tow the target during firing in the navy. The day of his departure from the Army is approaching, when he will say goodbye to the sea and the navy. In love with a young postwoman, after long wanderings, the sailor with a rose decides to become a postman in order to stay close to his beloved.

A yellowish black and white photo of a city square from the late 19th century. At one point everything in it comes alive – people at café tables, women in windows, passers-by. They all become part of a lively street scene.

Pseudo-kaleidoscopic grids, a declared homage to Georges Méliès but closer in spirit to the ethereal poetics of James Broughton and the intergalactic Jordan Belson.

Poetic parable of children in war and their sacrifice.