Discoveries from Yugoslavia World Cinema

Short movie directed by Marko Babac and written by Dušan Makavejev.

Short movie by Marko Babac.

Short by Marko Babac.

Education of communist party members in former Yugoslavia.

A short silent film about mountaineering expedition on Triglav during winter.

A Slovenian short documentary film.

Short film about a Bosnian miner.

The film was inspired by the interesting folk custom of the time of burning tires on the railway, all in order to stop the train and get on it, given that there was no real station and the train did not even stop.

Portrait of a conductor and his job, who also works smaller jobs on the side, in order to earn enough money for his family.

Short by N. Stojanović.

Three young athletes, alpine skier Bojan Križaj, swimmer Borut Petrič and tennis player Mima Jaušovec are always proud to represent Yugoslavia in sports competitions. Talent is not enough. They had to work hard to reach the top.

A short film.

Authentic documentary film about first four months of little bears’ lives.

The arrival of the first tourists brought unrest among the residents of the small, melancholic Dalmatian town. Some of them were tempted by the possibility of easy earnings, but besides mutual disputes, tourism also brought them encounters with people they were not accustomed to.

Short documentary written, directed and edited by Aleksandar Ilić.

Short movie written, directed and edited by Aleksandar Ilić. It won the Silver Bear for Best Short Film at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1973.

Documentary about a Hungarian police sergeant who saved people of village Kovilj during the 1942 raid.

During the 1996/97 protests in Serbia a group of 200 students walked from Novi Sad to Belgrade to support students and citizens of the capital. A photobook by the same name, with photos from the same protests was published in 2016.

The creation of video poetry: a scale of sequences shaped by René Magritte’s painting as a lyrical excess of the real world and the Macedonian landscape and architecture with distinct ethnographic dimensions.

A punk film exploring gender norms and the morbid and militaristic ways which they are imposed on women.

A boy is awarded a wooden bow, but told he should not shoot it. Disappointed, he shoots an arrow in the air and hits a hat in a shop window. As it turns out, hats with arrows can be fashionable.

A film of life and death in the world of industry where the human soul has long vanished.

Diving off the Old Bridge as a rite of passage for a boy in the city of Mostar.

Short documentary.

A short documentary looking at top gymnastic performances, filmed during the VIIth Gymnastics World Championship in Ljubljana and backed by music by Bach.

Demonstrating the dos and don’ts of social interaction in traffic, this film tells the story of a sociopathic driver who takes equal pleasure in helping distressed fellow drivers and in intentionally causing road accidents.

The effect of alcohol on driving behaviour illustrated through an intense road sequence and its tear-jerking aftermath.

A portrait of Serbian folk singer Pavle Stefanović (1928-2009).

Pupnat is a village on the island of Korčula in Croatia on the Dalmatian coast. This observational documentary follows its customs, history and ordinary lives of its residents during the last years of Yugoslavia.

A documentary about a music school based on finding the rhythmic quality in every child, focused on the visual and auditory rhythm of children’s movements.

Umkehr Film Material. Shot on Bolex H16 camera. Three Expositions inside camera. Drago Doppler film developer. Coloured with Pantone Markers. Sound originally recorded on Tascam 4 channel cassete recorder. Magnetophone system used separately during film projection. Sound created with Bass Guitar and effect processor Boss.

Film created with one 30 meters role of Agfa gewert material and 30m of blank. Basic animation few frames shots. Scratched emulsion and coloured after process of film development. Multichannel audio mix from different commercials created with Tascam cassete recorder.

Concert in the Street (RTV Koper Capodistria) presents a traditional concert in Ljubljanska Street in Izola, where many musicians perform every summer. In 1990, Drago Mislej Mef, Franci Blašković, Drago Mlinarec and Vlado Kreslin performed.

This short documentary shows the city of Banja Luka after the 1969 earthquake.

Azra is a smelter by occupation and surname (Livac – smelter), one of the few in the male-dominated profession. But she does not aspire to identify with her male counterparts, and despite the burden of hard work, Azra is open to the new love challenges.

"With the harmony of the work of nature and humans, a unique song emerged under the slopes of Trebević - white Sarajevo!"

A chatterbox pesters a man with a flow of words.

Macedonian TV film.

During divorce proceedings, children have to make a hard decision which parent they want to stay with, which leaves an indelible mark on the children's souls.

Short animated film.

In the film, we see at first glance a harmless pet, a Great Dane-Harlequin breed. Then we see the man, the trainer, and we hear him order several times: Slaughter it, slaughter it! In the end, the dog becomes an obedient executioner, and it kills bloodthirsty. At that time, a bloody war was being prepared, and different, far more sinister trainers appeared: national leaders. They trained the brain of the Balkan man to kill and slaughter... The film is not about dogs, it is not a document or a testimony, but a metaphor about the transfer of evil from ideologues to executors.

Uikan Mekulovic is seventy years old, lives alone and has been e deaf-mute all his life. Every day no matter what the weather is like he walks several kilometers to the nearest cinema.

Zilnik's 102 minutes long TV series is about a couple of guys, one good and naive, the other liar and manipulator, trying to make a living the best they can...Along the way they meet a guy who eats glass, metal and plates, then a couple of strippers, and a lot of ordinary people. Zilnik's dry realistic approach is filled with humour and documentary parts with some real peasants and working-class people.

Many have moved to the cities in search of a better life, but Ana remained in the village.

Existential questions are put in the form of tragicomedy and lead to grotesque.

Shown at Genre Experimental Festival (GEFF) in Zagreb in 1963, this experimental short film by Vladimir Petek subverts the conventions of cinema, rigorously attacking the filmic material.

After early silent black-and-white short films, this is the author's first more experimental film. She shot it during the summer film school in Koper in 1968. It is already sound and colorful and also shows various expressive procedures and also greater knowledge of editing. At that time, she and her colleague Tone Rački were in charge of film education at the Pionirski dom in Ljubljana, where they had a camera and 8mm films, and it was also possible to edit them.

A documentary on the Romanies living on the outer fringes of Slovenia in the Prekmurje and Dolenjska region who, like the free and migratory birds, are eternally settling in one place after another. With the help of classical documentary tools, such as interviews, narratives of experiences and statements made by the Romanies and the permanent residents of these regions, we are presented with an insight into the complex relationships between the Romanies and their neighbors and the attitudes of distance and derision, but also of sympathy and tolerance taken by the surrounding inhabitants. It is a tale without finite answers or truths. The answer is both close and yet far away, just like the eternally migratory people - the Romanies.

Paintings and graphic works of Slovenian artist Spacal. An attempt to break into the humanitarianism, synthesis and rhythm of his arts.

A short film focused on the flora and fauna of a bog.

A short film about an oar and the motor engines that should replace it.

How can one film nothing, how to depict infinity in a film? A camera pointed towards the sky registers one such attempt. The infinite sky in the frame is seen precisely that way – like nothing, a film stripe worn out, empty surface, 0 (zero). The hand holding the camera is trying to keep the slide in the same motionless position. At one point, the camera slightly moves to the left out of fatigue. A roof with a chimney appears in the bottom left hand corner – the only part of the scene which inadvertently reveals the attempt and the wish – how to film nothing.

On a clearing in a large forest, grandfather Vjest and his three grandsons live in harmony, keeping ablaze the hearth where Svarožić, the protector of the house lives. However, their shrewd enemy the Witch abodes in the swamp...

A 8mm experimental short.

A showcase of performances in a Međimurje village Orahovica in which various local performers sing then-popular light melodies, dance folk dances, exchange jokes, and the ceremony is crowned by the selection of the local Miss 1971.

Documentary about "zadušnice", a holiday in the Orthodox Church dedicated to the dead and their salvation.

The necessity of progress and the strength of nostalgia.

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

Satirical cartoon featuring a jewel robbery.

City of Sarajevo from the view point of children.