Discoveries from Yugoslavia World Cinema

A short documentary.

The human has been freed of physical labour by automatic devices. But the machine made a slave out of the human. The human has become a machine: working, living – and nothing more.

A historical overview of Baroque buildings and cultural monuments in Ljubljana.

A display of factories in Macedonia that process tobacco, as well as the sorting process and packaging of the final product - a range of different types of cigarettes from Macedonian production.

The film is dedicated to the victims of the snow blizzard in Mavrovo, Macedonia that happened from February 11th to February 14th, 1956.

An overview of the Yugoslav Feature Film Festival in Pula 1956 as well as meetings with filmmakers.

A film poem based on the verses of the Macedonian poet and revolutionary Kočo Racin. His poetic journey is conveyed through a cinematic panorama of the life of the Macedonian people in the past.

Tourist panorama of Tržič and its surroundings.

An attempt to use animation to explain the theory of relativity.

A review of the past Struga Poetry Evenings with a presentation of the laureates of the Golden Wreath of Poetry.

The personality of Lazar Lečić, coach of the basketball club “Rabotnički” from Skopje, is an example of enormous dynamism and professionalism in his work. Following his reactions during a basketball game, we witness a real drama filled to the maximum with a variety of emotions and gestures. His face fully and in a very characteristic way expresses everything that happens on the court.

Short documentary about the first football competition in Macedonia.

A short documentary showing the state of agricultural management in the Kumanovo region, before and after the construction of Lipkovo Lake and the irrigation system.

Motifs from the life of the Macedonian people, through their folk art presented with fabrics, carvings, architecture, agricultural crops specific to this region, up to the folk songs and dances that cultural and artistic societies have the opportunity to present at the festivals in Bitola and Shtip.

Celebration of Labor Day, May 1st. While Skopje is decorated with flags and banners on the occasion of the holiday and the city is deserted, the picnic areas are full of people who have fun in a variety of ways; then, after the holiday, they leave the nature polluted with waste.

A man is bothered by a ringing telephone, and is followed by it until it takes a drastic turn.

Rekvijem is a Yugoslavian (Slovenian) experimental film.

Yugoslavian experimental short film.

Short experimental 8mm film. A cinematic contemplation from nothing to something.

Short Yugoslav film.

Short documentary about Dragan Antonijević 'Arlekino', a parody music performer.

Olga Pajek’s stunning yet seldom projected Too Much is a student exercise that deploys suffocating chiaroscuro lensing to depict the ecstasy and anxiety of a throbbing basement punk club (the infamous Disco FV) in early 80s Ljubljana.

Wedding in Pirot, 1937. Najdan Mladenovic from Pirot and Desanka Cicanovic from Leskovac got married in Pirot on 21st November 1937. Groom was the son of a distinguished merchant, founder and constructor of the factory Tigar and hydroelectric power plant Temac, Dimitrije Mladenovic – Mita Gaga. Bride and groom leave for the wedding, general merriment and folk dancing after the wedding, breaking of bread for happiness of bride and groom, leaving for lunch, bride and groom with their families and cousins.

Describes the highway "Bratstvo i Jedinstvo" between Zagreb and Belgrade, which was known as one of the deadliest highways in Europe because of how neglected it was

Passing away, an old lighthouse keeper recollects the key events of her life, with the past and the present converging at her deathbed.

Because of and So are the first short films by the artist: silent black and white 2x8mm films. They were created based on her interest in film and at the same time her study of psychology and pedagogy.

Short documentary by Krsto Škanata.

Short educational documentary about military practice from the title.

Short experimental documentary about an abandoned town.

Short documentary about the naive painter Ivan Lacković-Croata.

Tradition of fairs is still very much alive. Merchants grab every opportunity to sell their goods to customers. Presenting a couple of fairs in Slovenia, Gradac and Brežice.

A 16mm experimental short. Hajdler dragged the East German color film stock ORWO directly in front of the projector lamp, occasionally pressing the film to the lamp and thus causing the film stock to burn gradually, producing spectacular color effects in the process.

Short by Papić.

A film by Dragan Nikolić.

A short film.

A short experimental film.

Showing the boom in agriculture in Macedonia reflected in good yields of cotton, poppy, fruit, etc. New factories and self-management, housing estates, schools and cultural centers.

Short documentary.

Short film.

Short documentary.

Short documentary.

Documentary movie about the Ustashe.

Movie about Stalinism. The film was shot in 1971, but, according to the testimony of Škanata himself, at the closed screening, the then leaders of the SK Serbia Latinka Perović and Draža Marković told him that "it is good, but it is not yet time to show it". It was not shown until twelve years later.

Documentary that shows the consequences of the Vevčani case, which was, the violent conflict between the residents of the Vevčani settlement and the authorities of the then SR Macedonia. The film shows how the residents reconstruct the conflict during the traditional carnival, i.e. how they ironically compare the partisan victims in the Second World War, to whom they erected a monument with the inscription "Thank you for freedom", with their own fight against the tyrannical government.

Documentary about Croatian Ustashe terrorists and their attacks in Yugoslavia.

An experimental short that contemplates death and ephemerality.

Puppet story of a little goose-girl Anka, who grew up among wild forest animals.

A short documentary feature about totalitarianism.

Silent lost film.

The process of violin making performed by Ivan Hus (1898-1992), a well-known Croatian violin maker.

The Catholic Eucharistic Congress held in Ljubljana in June 1935, with the Papal Legate, Cardinal August Hlond of Poznan, as guest of of honour, and a mass held in the new Central Stadium designed by Joze Plecnik.

A monodrama featuring Montenegrin village woman.

Short documentary about the construction of the hydroelectric power plant Zvornik.

Oil on glass, short animated film about changes in life, 2000.

A man constructs wooden wings enabling him to fly, but he is bounded by the giant wire cage encircling both the fliers and non-fliers.

"Fitzgerald" is Jovica's nickname among his friends. One day Jovica, a film projectionist from the childhood of Zilnik, an old jazz pianist and one of the actors from The Way Steel Was Tempered, hear of Ella Fitzgerald's unexpected death. Jovica is desperate; he plays the piano all night long and cries. His wife threatens him saying that she will throw him out of the house unless he gets rid of the piano.

First color film in Bosnia. Bojko shot people bathing and cruising in their boats on the Vrbas river near his hometown of Banja Luka.

Short by P. Majhrovski.

The first part in Gotovac’s trilogy of structuralist films is dedicated to jazz musician Duke Ellington and director George Stevens. A camera placed at the front of a moving streetcar records the passing urban landscape: the train tracks and the passing streets and pedestrians transport the viewer (now a passenger on the streetcar) fifty years back in time.

Documentary short film.