Discoveries from Yugoslavia World Cinema

Experimental short by Ivan Martinac.

An experimental work consisting of close-ups of eyes in motion.

A man is lonely. In his tragic alienation he cannot become close with another person.

Following the form of a tetrahedron, the film consists of four regular segments, each covering one topic. It gained a cult status among Split kino-amateurs of older generations.

Documentary about young earthquake victims in Banja Luka.

The film follows a pregnant woman on the path to her decision to have an abortion, from the talks with her mother and doctor, to the medical care after the abortion.

The Newsreel reports on student demonstrations in Belgrade and Ljubljana and on Tito’s response to the riots.

This short animation is the author's cynical reaction to the contemporary international political situation.

A story based on the fairy tale about Little Thumb.

Macedonian TV drama.

Based on the work of famous Yugoslav artist. France Mihelic, Fantastic Ballad depicts a vision of the last moments of human life.

A documentary film showing Dalmatian men playing their famous hand game „šije-šete“.

This meditation on transience, possessing a macabre and mysterious atmosphere, filled with a number of ambient motifs that are repeatedly succeeded by confounding silhouettes of human heads, is founded upon rhythmic contrasts and structural molding of film. In a brilliant sequence of images, the film evokes a sensation of leaving, abandoning.

Short documentary follows a group of provincial school pupils on their excursion to the capital, and their visit to the concert of Zagreb Philharmonic in Vatroslav Lisinski national music hall.

Tragic story of the brave woman Todora. Germans penetrated into the village. Villagers flee into the forest and a brave Todora rushes to the German tank and crosses the ball screen. Soldiers captured, and raped her. Her father Radul dispels the Germans, kills some of them and gets killed himself. Freedom arrives, Todora gives birth to son. Farmers despise the evaded, and her father intends to creates a memorial statue.

A short documentary

Short documentary.

Short documentary by Krsto Škanata.

A film camera evermore recorded on the celluloid tape the four interesting folk dances that were successfully performed at the first "Festival of Folk Songs and Games" in Sarajevo.

An African, a Yugoslav, an American and a Scandinavian, each gives his own views on the work of building railways in Yugoslavia.

Documentary film thay depicts the life and career of the then Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito. It represents the second film Škanata made about Tito's life (after the short film Tito three years earlier, i.e. the last film made about Tito during his lifetime).

The boy and the girl are suddenly separated from the picture book by a hand, which tears off a page from the book and makes a paper airplane in which the boy remains trapped. In her attempt to help the friend, she couldn’t achieve anything if all the children’s drawings in the city did not help her.

An alienated and lonely man goes to take a rest and dreams about the same torment and feeling of inability to bear the burdens of life that torment him even when he is awake. He dreams of his ups and downs, as well as fears which turned into symbols that also came from the rigid everyday reality.

Moving story about a lonely old man and about his everyday life in his native village Brajchino. For Vasil Popjanevski the most difficult thing in his life is loneliness. Before he had a big family. But Vasil has contact now only with the tapes of his brother and his other relatives who live in USA.

The story of the film focuses on Ruza, a woman who returns to her hometown after a long absence. She faces challenges and conflicts related to her past and her relationships with the people around her.

The daily journey of the young deliverer of the Delo magazine. The contrast between the mood of a young vendor and the impressive photos of global events reported by the newspaper.

Vera and Erzika have worked at Trudbenik textile factory in Pancevo since they were 13. Now that they are almost retired they face numerous problems and misunderstandings. The film portrays emotional states of the heroines, their families, relationships with their colleagues, a spectrum of moods and thoughts of people who have come to the end of their working age.

The film portraits a writer-amateur Bora Joksimović, a heating maintenance mechanic in the Zrenjanin theatre. Unhappy with the shows he sees in his theatre, he decides to try his luck as a playwright. And as a result he has written 53 plays with "mighty plots", like "Hitler and Stalin Conversations in Hell", "Life of a Croat Woman in Belgrade", "Fratricide" etc.

The activities of the National Technical Institute are presented, which played an important role in raising technical culture and knowledge in the years after liberation.

A film-photographic collage of the city under King Marko’s Towers, its history, development and contemporary cultural and economic growth after liberation, all accompanied by the verses of Racin and Koneski.

A collage of archival materials from President Tito's stays in Macedonia from the liberation until 1962. The film uses archival materials from Vardar Film by the following authors: Trajče Popov, Branko Gapo, Dimitrie Osmanli, Ljube Petkovski, Branko Mihajlovski, Mišo Samoilovski and Kiro Bilbilovski.

According to a pre-arranged day and place, the border between two countries, the People’s Republic of Macedonia and the People’s Republic of Bulgaria, opens for one day. This time, no travel documents or other documents are needed to see relatives and friends on both sides of the border. It is another opportunity to meet or another attempt to trace the separated. That day carries a lot of sadness in itself, for the elderly, it will perhaps be the last meeting, the mother will never find her son again. The day passes and the border is here again, with all its seriousness.

A short film about a cat drinking milk set to the song "Popcorn" by Gershon Kingsley.

One man's battle for humanity! Bosko Drljic is a man that left he's job, way of living, and everything material behind, and gone in nature to hunt mystical creature Nirdala, witch represents all the evil in the world.

The trial of the Catonsville Nine, the nine Catholic activists who in 1968 went to the draft board in Catonsville, Maryland, took 378 draft files and burned them to protest the Vietnam War.

Short by Makavejev.

This is an experimental film: abstract characters in movement represent symbols in special audio- visual relations; the symbols then remind the spectator of familiar, concrete phenomena. Abstract forms from the world of acoustics and painting tend towards the harmonization of all of the consisting elements and make people laugh.

Short animated film.

The story published in 1921 follows Corkan, general scapegoat in Visegrad, a figure of fun who himself joins in the mockery. The object of his obsession is physically inaccessible: a tightrope walker in an Austrian circus company visiting Visegrad.

Professor Balthazar rests in the mountains in the winter, and at the seaside in the summer, where he meets friends. His vacation is active. His ingenious invention will protect his friend Hans’s mountain village from an avalanche, which will in turn solve the problem of his other friend, from the coast.

Live performance of educational film about the film. Experiencing cinema as Bildungsroman, told with references on history of film as a free resource, and then film itself as manifesto.

16mm film by Radoslav Vladić.

In this child's game, a live-action boy and girl draw characters and compete who is better. The girl draws a flower and the boy draws a car that runs it over. Then a drawn lion chases a drawn girl, until it all becomes frightfully serious.

Two friends fall in love with the same girl who is actually a doll.

Once a man of great influence and means, Ivanov has fallen into debt and out of love with his wife. Spending his evenings away from home, among the idle and morally corrupt, Ivanov finds himself drawn to Sasha, the daughter of a wealthy friend, who appears determined to save him.

A film about the construction of the hydroelectric power plant in the village of Tresonche, on the Radika River. The film was shot with the participation of students from the Nikola Tesla Electrical School in Skopje, 1950.

Based on novel by M. Cihlar Nehajev, this TV drama testifies the position of intellectuals before the First World War. It raises several questions: what is the price of intellectual work, what’s the position of inteligentsia in the Croatian province, and what’s their role in the political movements.

Short documentary.

Short animated film.

An animated short by Borivoj Dovniković Bordo.

Macedonian TV drama.

Film about post-WW2 migrations within Yugoslavia. For the next few decades after the war, many Yugoslavs moved into homes formerly owned by Germans.

Short 8mm experimental film.

A man is smoking. Something itches him and he scratches it. Then this repeats elsewhere. He starts to scratch himself harder and harder and at different places. Everywhere, from his sleeves, coat, trouser legs, small people start to fall out, and the man can no longer crush them.

A documentary showing the stay of the delegation of the People's Republic of Macedonia in Pirin Macedonia, i.e. in the People's Republic of Bulgaria. Footage filmed in Melnik, Bansko, Sveti Vrach, Rozhdenski Monastery.

A Slovenian short documentary film.

Skopje's old bazaar depicting the old, already ancient crafts carried out by tailors, coppersmiths, goldsmiths, silversmiths, leather craftsmen, etc.

The last play that Miroslav Krleza ever wrote. Especially interesting is the directorial concept, which sets the play in the space of the old Dubrovnik fortress, and used the audience as semi-active participants in the event. Two acting ensembles played for different audience with a short time lag.

A 1974 Serbo-Croatian language drama film written and directed by Paolo Magelli, starring Branislav Jerinić, Rastko Tadic and Miodrag Andrić (Ljuba Moljac).

A super 8mm film by Davorin Marc.