Discoveries from Yugoslavia World Cinema

Creating mystical cinematic supernovas through elaborate cutting techniques.

Is this ball made of a green thread or something else?

Life and friendly neighbor relations on the Yugoslav-Italian border. Undisturbed growth of trading between the two countries.

Documentary about bridges, with illustrations by Zuko Džumhur.

Auto-poetical collage announcement of a filmmakers future motion picture works.

Scenes of a woman, here- taking great pride in caring for her hair, there- taking great care of the land.

A honeycomb in a beehive. A rhythmical collective of bees and the expectation of the birth of a baby bee. Immediately after birth, her collision with the World begins. She has to learn discipline and join the collective. Her mischief and curiosity make her look irresponsible, because every new situation drags her into an adventure someone needs to save her from. Different situations, different problems. She learns about life independently. Life kicks and beats her, so she finally settles in the bee collective.

A woman's body communicates with its surroundings; it is a receptor of the macrocosm that bears traces of all other laws, including even the physiology with all its energetic zones. This is the energy that corresponds to spiritual experiences, which also depend on the body technique. The communicability can be understood, among other things, as one of the variations of the functioning of the body within the sequential regime of signs.

An educational movie about deleterious effects of alcoholism.

Short film.

We begin with a fragmented portrait of Činča, between the stories she tells and the thoughts of those surrounding her. In The Head, a girl is confronted with the possibility of dying. Intermezzo focusses on the moments of abstraction amid the hustle and bustle of a city. In Our Stock Exchange, unemployed people seek work. Second Floor, Basement shows us a hospital where only two floors separate birth and death.

Short film by Martinac.

In this short film the author, in her own specific way, documents the moment of connecting the two parts of the Krk bridge.

A short amateur film by director T. Ivančić.

A nice guy who always finishes last discovers a potion that helps him turn the tables on the rude, stick it to the inconsiderate, and maybe overcome his own meekness.

The sights and sounds of the big game between Maribor and Olimpija. Stadium audience often reacts deliriously regardless of the player’s success on the field.

A smelter causes havoc in the steel company after being shot naked by a photographer during shower, and then put on a front page of a weekly magazine.

Documentary by Krsto Skanata.

What man wants and what he does is not always the same. Desire and imagination have no sharp contours, a shadow that breaks on the edges and disappears or slides down the sidewalk. It could be that a man goes into the fight with his shadow, that he wants to get rid of it, run away from it or destroy it, but left without his other self, he will be one-sided.

A 8mm experimental short made in Kino Klub Split.

Experimental 8mm film by Karpo Godina.

While looking for help with his burning house, a terrified man meets many surreal people and creatures and discovers that they too are threatened by fire.

Macedonian TV drama.

"UIjez" shows the events in the then Kosovo, that is, the process of industrialization and modernization that symbolizes the arrival of excavators and other construction machinery.

One night in a hotel room spent with unknown woman throws young man into hard nightmare, from which he wakes up only to fall asleep again and fall back to it. He dreams about escaped soldier who breaks in the mountain cottage on New Year's Eve where he meets two couples in orgy. Soldier's fear and despair grow, just like madness of drunken couples. The soldier suddenly sees his picture on the TV's monitor, and terrified realizes that he's the prosecuted one. A severe impact on the door frightens him, and he starts shooting. Only one of them he leaves alive. And then he kills himself. He wakes up distraught in a hotel room, in horror he looks at the woman next to him - a woman from his dream, gets dressed and leaves.

Short by B. Kosanović.

A comedy in four acts by Branislav Nusic adapted for TV audience. First published in 1906, it tells about small town mentality.

Shows endangered human lives and material damage done by this natural catastrophe, struggle against flooding by construction of dikes on Sava river, and the action of medical staff in prevention of epidemics.

Short silent film.

Fifteen-year-old Pavle Hromiš, obeying the will of his parents, leaves Germany and goes to live in Yugoslavia with his grandmother. He has problems with the language and the different curriculum. The only place where he feels fine is the aeronautic club where he practices hang gliding. The film was the basis for a docudrama shot the following year: The Second Generation.

The film talks about the struggle to increase wool and meat in sheep farming in Macedonia, through the merinization of old types of sheep. This merinization is carried out with the merino sheep through artificial insemination of the new type of sheep that produces six times more wool than the old one. In addition, artificial insemination has other advantages such as: a larger number of fertilized sheep, a reduction in contagious diseases, and more.

A wildlife documentary about marmot.

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

While riding in a cab, Zivota finds an ID that belongs to singer Vesna Zmijanac. After he returns it to her, she invites him to the New Year Eve’s party where she is performing, but his wife Zivadinka is suspicious about the whole situation.

Documentary movie about the spread and the fight against the variola vera virus (smallpox) in Yugoslavia in 1972.

Macedonian TV drama.

The story of World War I from the perspective of Serbia.

A married couple living in a remote farm find themselves in the midst of war, where many different sides walk through the area. They attempt to save their lives and stay neutral despite accusations of being traitors that every army brings upon them.

The story of a young woman courted by numerous suitors which she turned down, to eventually choose an unexpected fiancé

Short documentary by Krsto Škanata.

A super 8mm film by Davorin Marc.

In order to save her marriage, Marija tries to erase from memory the trauma that she's been haunted by ever since youth. The shock she had suffered killed all the love she felt for Dinko. When she meets him again, now that he has become a hopeless drunkard, she feels lost even more.

Short biographical documentary of the town of Jajce. From details dating back to the period when the Romans lived in the area, to those that show the centuries-old invasions of many conquerors in these parts of Bosnia. The walls of the heroic city are located near Pliva Lake and its famous waterfall.

The film analyzes the Titoist (Stalinist) rituals that were used to manipulate public opinion and the masses. In parallel, the film shows the monument of Edvard Kardelj, the main Orwellian ideologue of Titoism in the center of Ljubljana. The workers surrounding Kardelj are beings without articulated faces. Kardelj has the only human face. They all go to the so-called happy future. The monument confirms in an astonishing and perverse way that the so-called self-governing socialism produced a mass of impersonal and authoritarian individuals in the crowd, which the so-called communist elites rule unscrupulously by manipulating the feelings of the masses "about a better future".

In northern Croatia, a typical problem pops out during the engagement between two neighbors, a widower and a pregnant woman.

The adaptation of notable work by Slovenian writer France Bevk about catholic priest who maintains national dignity among his villagers, and doesn't fall under fascists' influence during Italian occupation of the area.

In the performance-video "Instrukcije br 1", Sanja Ivekovic draws 'instructional' lines for a facial and neck massage on her skin using ink. Instead of beautifying facial features, this massage becomes a blotchy, unattractive procedure.

Theatre adaptation of Maxim Gorky’s timeless drama first published in 1901, about narrow-mindedness, exclusivism, containing one’s self in some arbitrary, imaginary borders, strict divisions… All these traits help to define the various situations and human relations within the text.

Živka, a kitchen helper at a restaurant where visiting sports teams eat, is in love with basketball star Mensur. Late at night, on a deserted street, the two meet by chance and he spends the night with her in a dormitory.

Inspired by the teen rebel genre popular at the time, the film portrays a boy peer pressured into taking a wild ride in a stolen car that leads to tragic consequences.

Break-up flick.

A documentary film about the great floods in Macedonia, filmed from 16 to 18.11.1962. The film shows the catastrophic floods in November 1962 that hit Macedonia, when the largest Macedonian rivers: Vardar, Treska and Crna overflowed their banks. The film shows footage during and after the floods and the efforts of the people in the fight against the raging water element and in saving the endangered lives and material wealth.

TV drama written by Milan Begović that tells about the pathological jealousy between a man and a woman.

Leo Fabiani's priceless muse about everyone having someone to fear.

Short documentary about life in the village of Remete, 5km nortwest of Zagreb.

A simple metaphor for life - a donkey toiling away at a mill.

Kristl plays a prisoner who can smile only when he sees The General.

The first Croatian sound feature film. Viennese painter, bound to an oath that will endure whole month without a woman, goes to Adriatic coast to paint, but in Trogir he sees beauty Mira and falls in love with her.

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.