Discoveries from Yugoslavia World Cinema

A distinguished sculptor Mr Peacock laid an egg. Thrilled with himself and his work of art, he made it widely known.

The adventures of a boy and girl through different environments.

The human desire to win, shown through the fights at the World Freestyle Wrestling Championships held in 1981 in Skopje, Macedonia.

The work related to the liquidation of the ‘Bogoslovec’ asbestos mine, in the village of Bogoslovec, has been entrusted to a man who has been doing the job for seventeen years. The mine's facilities and the crumbling machinery themselves speak for the absurdity of the entire procedure.

Documentary about a JNA military parade.

An animated cartoon which tells of Captain Arbanas Marko, a character who acquires strength when he touches his sword. One evening he conquers a valley where three beautiful sisters live, takes them by force, and returns to be confronted by a fate he has not anticipated.

Last school days of one graduating generation. They should say goodbye to a part of life, part from their friends, and there is also uncertainty, hope, plans, wild love "for the rest of the life", and parents with their ambitions, and it would be all incomplete, if not for professors who are slowly losing their authority. Senior prom is the central place for serious and funny events in which parents, professors and pupils are involved.

A New Year’s Eve musical short.

Short documentary dedicated to Petar Petrovic Njegos, a Prince-Bishop (vladika) of Montenegro, poet and philosopher whose works are widely considered some of the most important in Montenegrin and Serbian literature. The documentary was made on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his death.

A Macedonian TV film.

A reportage from the Fourth Parachute Championship of Yugoslavia, which was held in Ohrid and organized by the Aeronautical Union of Yugoslavia.

A butterfly collector seeks the last missing piece of his collection.

A young married man goes into the army and when he comes back finds out that his wife has gone off with another man.

Short documentary.

Three brothers struggle to survive on the harsh, inexorable and melancholy plains of Slovenia's Prekmurje region. The oldest flees from home in search of a better living, the middle brother survives by refusing to comply with tradition and the youngest, who received his education as a vet in the city simply cannot get used to the slow pace of country life. Will their father live to see the day when respect for the traditional ways will heal the wounds of the impoverished land?

About a woman waiting for her sailor husband, and when he returns, "she continues to wait". It's a story of transience, and the deeper meaning of happiness. It's about all that's beautiful in this transient world.

Axel convinces Bum that Bum is stranded and suggests that he puts his soul into a box and sells it to a pawnbroker. And really, Bum’s life changes… This is Yugoslav TV adaptation of the Wittinger’s novel.

We follow a caregiver who takes care of the elderly and infirm.

A psychological study of a hero who, after being badly beaten up by Gestapo, rats on his comrades and friends and becomes their vicious killer. Now the death seems like a salvation to him.

This movie is about sheer coincidences. We follow a young man who is running. Then we introduce a girl also in a hurry. Are these two going to meet each other? Than we find out that there is a third person, another young man, waiting for someone. Who will meet with whom, and what surprises await us at the end? Furious editing rhythm builds up, until an audiovisual crescendo shows us what it's all about!

A film about the villages of Mesheishte and Klimeshta, places known for the large economic migration to Austria, caused by the poor economic living conditions in this part of Macedonia.

A documentary showing the purchase of grain from the 1947 harvest along with an overview of the achievements in other areas of the economy in the People's Republic of Macedonia.

A display of the ancient way of fishing with birds, on Lake Dojran, the only place in the world where people are fishing with birds.

Documentary about the New Year’s Eve train Novi Sad-Sarajevo.

The film is based on the short story of the same name by Radoje Domanović.

Slow death of Istrian towns, far from the sea and abandoned by its residents. The houses can't be sold even for peanuts.

8mm experimental short.

Short documentary.

Documentary about the first Assembly of Trumpeters in Guča.

Luigi and Bepina, the stars of TV show "Our Little Town", pay visit to Zagreb.

A story about a poor man who finds a way out of his situation by escaping into dreams and desires. The screenplay is based on the short story "A Little Sun" by the contemporary Syrian writer Zekerija Tamir.

Minja, a 19-year-old girl leaves her provincial town after her affair with the professor of drawing in order to avoid the scandal. In the big city, she meets Nenad and changes under the influence of love.

Veronica is a high school student studying to be a glazier, although she dreams of being a theatre actress. The only thing that she finds joy in at school is the company of her friend, Klemen and writing the script for a theatre play in her spare time together with a retired actress whom she has befriended. Her parents find it difficult to understand her acting ambitions - or rather, they would probably find it difficult, if they would bother to take the time off their busy schedules to try. Nor does anyone else understand Veronica. When all her plans go awry, she ends up in a home for juvenile delinquents. When she is released into the custody of her parents again, she eludes their vigilant guard and runs away to the country, to Klemen. Only Klemen's father makes it abundantly clear to her when she gets there that Klemen will not stand by her side either. Veronica finds herself out on the street again, where everything is possible and the future is open to her...

Short by Makavejev.

Short movie by Marko Babac.

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.

An eminent and respected merchant has a problem with gambling, alternately winning and losing until the fateful night when he loses everything. He decides to kill himself, but his wife stops him. Kind words make him go with his son to the church to pray and start new life from the beginning. Based on a novel by famous Serbian writer Laza Lazarevic.

A film about one of the oldest preserved crafts in the Balkans - the coloring of wool rug covers, which is still cultivated in the village of Virovo in the city of Demir Hisar. This craft is carried out with the help of natural resources as the terrain of the village is hydrographic - located between mountain streams.

Two gentlemen are having an argument. How heavy is their disagreement?

The film is a collage of photographs about the life of a boy, a printing worker, who from the earliest days becomes a member of SKOJ and KPJ and gives his life for their ideas, along with his girlfriend. At the Labor Day celebrations, the boy Kosta wore a rose in the lapel of his coat. That is why his friends started calling him "the boy with the rose".

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

In this politically charged drama, the turbulent times just following Marshal Tito's rejection of ties to Moscow comes to life. Interestingly, even in the first few years after the Yugoslavian leader's death, the subject matter of this film was considered too hot to handle, and the director had to appeal to the courts for permission to shoot it. In the story, Martin is a schoolboy with a sense of the absurd and a willingness to use ridicule to amuse himself and his classmates. He has an uncle who is high up in the nation's bureaucracy who protects him and his grandfather now that his father has died. His grandfather is too stubborn to give his farm to the local farming collective, and Martin himself is in hot water with the principal for making fun of his girlfriend, one of the students at the high school. However, as long as the uncle is able to protect them, they remain out of hot water.

A dramatic tale of greatest Serbian female writer Isidora Sekulic, an exceptional woman who all her life fought with her work and creative impulses. It starts with her death - towards life, maturity, youth and childhood, emerging from her authentic texts, letters, prose, travelogues and essays.

The story takes place in Ottoman-ruled Bosnia, and shows tragic destiny of a wife of the local feudal lord.

Documentary short on a park consisting of 16 terraced lakes in the thick forested mountains of Croatia, then a part of Yugoslavia.

A poster announcing the opening night of an opera. A crowd of snobs, so called »music lovers« rushes in. The tenor, well aware of his magnificence, has some troubles in his wardrobe with his button refusing to fit in his collar.

A Serbian TV adaptation of the famous play by D. H. Lawrence.

A violent hunter is ambushed and defeated by a flock of birds and other animals.

Documentary.

A short documentary about flights with paraglider.

Documentary by Janko Baljak.

Documentary about three characters, creative people who can not fit into their community-suburban settlement near Belgrade, looking for the inner place to live and work…

Short documentary.

A 8mm short film.

Documentary about the history of Užice and its role in WW2 as the first territory liberated in Nazi occupied Europe and the fighters of the Yugoslav partisan movement the town gave birth to.

Animated short.

As a project manager and a contractor of the Splendid Hotel, Draško Karovski is accused of its demolition in which two people lost their lives and great material damage was done.

N. N. wanders alone in the environment in which he lives, He tries to find a soul mate. In vain. N. N. remains alone - for the rest of his life. Dying. Funeral. Coffin covered with flowers. A solemn, sublime atmosphere. An endless crowd of people see off N. N., a man and friend whom everyone loved and respected.

One of the oldest preserved sound film recordings shot in Croatia is a short speech by Ban of the Sava Banovina Josip Šilović.