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- DirectorVinko BresanStarsVlatko DulicLjubomir KerekesIvan BrkicAlthough being one of the first movies to take humoristic approach towards violent break-up of Yugoslavia, this motion picture is partly based on real events that took place in September of 1991. Few months after Croatia seceded from Yugoslavia, Federal military installations are still present with previously recruited Croatian boys trapped inside. One such installation is a garrison on a small Dalmatian island, commanded by Major Aleksa Milosavljevic. Besieged by local militia, Major Aleksa threatens to blow up ammunition depots with half an island in case of any hostile action. During the stalemate, art historian Blaz Gajski comes from Zagreb in order to rescue his son from the barracks.
- DirectorVinko BresanStarsDrazen KuhnLinda BegonjaIlija IvezicStipan is a policeman who comes to small Adriatic island off the Croatian coast in order to investigate reported strange phenomena that had frightened the whole population. At first, nobody wants to co-operate with him, but he finally finds that the island is being allegedly haunted by the ghost of Josip Broz Tito, Communist leader of former Yugoslavia. For Luka, the mayor, this is the opportunity to turn entire island into Tito-themed amusement park. Tito's WW2 veterans, on the other hand, don't believe in ghosts; for them, the apparition is actually Tito himself, who had returned in order to lead them into a new revolution which would restore Communism.
- DirectorHrvoje HribarStarsZrinka CvitesicLeon LucevIvo GregurevicA young widow, an aging widower-returnee, and a priest from a bankrupt parish are struggling to come to terms with the post-war environment, complete with its prejudices, illusions, and unpleasant mentality. What follows is a romantic comedy set in rough landscape, about a woman who falls in love with a local priest. He is not blind to her love, but is unable to choose between the church and her, until the circumstances force him to make his choice.
- DirectorVinko BresanStarsKresimir MikicNiksa ButijerMarija SkaricicA young priest gets an idea to pierce condoms before they are sold in order to increase the birth rate of his island.
- DirectorDalibor MatanicStarsDora PolicIvan BrkicMilan StrljicAfter being repeatedly denied her requests for a vacation by her sexist boss, a young woman finally explodes.
- DirectorAntun VrdoljakStarsGoran VisnjicMustafa NadarevicIvo GregurevicThe film follows the life of fictional character Iva Kolar, including his experience as a Croatian university student, his role as a partisan fighting German troops, and his involvement in his nation's post-WW2 government.
- DirectorGoran KulenovicStarsIvan HercegIvan DjuricicIvan GlowatzkyThe main character Struja (Stream) is an unyielding rock musician in a demo-band called When Dirty Harry Met Dirty Sally. Struja would do anything to gather money to record the album as long as it doesn't involve giving up his rock musician beliefs. However, playing pop songs at weddings seems to be the only way out, and the rest of the bend - Struja's best friend and keyboard player Mario (Ivan Duricic), Deni, a handsome singer and bass player (Ivan Glowatzky) and Zlajfa, an indifferent drummer (Hrvoje Keckes) - are trying to persuade Struja to make a compromise. At the beginning he is very firm and reluctant to give in, but when Anja, the girl he left, announces that she is pregnant with his baby, Struja suddenly realizes that there are bigger issues in life than playing at wedding.
- DirectorKristijan MilicStarsFilip SovagovicVelibor TopicSlaven KnezovicIn 1943, group of Croatian soldiers overtake a strategically important point in western Bosnia with a goal to destroy a group of communist partisans. On the way they met some supernatural phenomena, and the action itself went very badly because the partisans ambushed them. The main character Martin inherits silver cigarette case from a dying soldier. This act connects to the story in 1993 when we meet Martins grandson Tomo. He is one of six soldiers of the Croatian army who have come to the same place in Bosnia to meet the same phenomena and similar fate.
- DirectorKristijan MilicStarsGoran BogdanAlan KaticMarko CindricIn the autumn of 1991, a small group of Croatian soldiers go on patrol in an improvised armored vehicle. Soon after that they would get ambushed and their vehicle would get destroyed, in that situation they were forced to hide in a nearby house. Whilst stationed in that house they would get attacked by rebel Serbs, Serbian Special Forces and the JNA (Yugoslav People's Army, also reffered to as Yugoslavian National Army). Their resistance to the attackers would last 24 hours whilst their fellow combatants would attempt to try and get them out of there. The movie and story is based on true events which happened during the Croatian War of Independence.
- DirectorVinko BresanStarsLeon LucevAlma PricaMirjana KaranovicWhen three soldiers discover a man inside a house they are bombing, they kill him easily, but when a second witness is discovered, she proves to be a bigger challenge and sets in motion a riveting game of cat-and-mouse. Croatian with English subtitles. Winner: Peace Prize and Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Berlin Int'l Film Festival. Official Selection: Karlovy Vary, Jerusalem and Seattle Int'l FFs.
- DirectorDalibor MatanicStarsJudita FrankovicIva MihalicIgor KovacA girl talks her boyfriend and her sister into traveling to the Lika backwoods. Their father, who abandoned the family years ago, lives there. Having found out that he is ill, this is the daughter's last chance to have a talk with her father about everything that happened in the past. In the isolated horizons of Lika, the once deeply hidden dark family secrets start being revealed...
- DirectorZrinko OgrestaStarsKsenija MarinkovicLazar RistovskiTihana Lazovic20 years ago, Vesna moved her family to Zagreb, away from the events that almost destroyed their lives. However, an unexpected call will bring back the memory of a secret that she has been trying to hide all these years.
- DirectorIvona JukaStarsHelena BeljanLana BaricNatasa DorcicThree daughters battle for acceptance, redemption and new opportunities.
- DirectorBranko SchmidtStarsRene BitorajacFranjo DijakRobert UgrinaFour friends from the neighborhood grapple with maintaining their relationships amid the challenges of alcohol, drugs, hooliganism, crime, and the shadows of their country's history.
- DirectorVinko BresanStarsIvan HercegNada SarginPredrag 'Predjo' VusovicThe film is set in the present day, but the backdrop to the film is the brutal Balkans War of the 1990's.The main character Martin (Ivan Herceg) is a Croatian War veteran who falls in love with Desa (Nada Sargin), a Serb.
- DirectorIgor MirkovicStarsAna KaricRadko PolicRenata UlmanskiSeventy-year-old teenagers running away from home. They are not running away from their parents, they are running away from the inevitable.
- DirectorBranko SchmidtStarsRene BitorajacNatasa Janjic MedancicLeon LucevA medical horror of corrupt gynecologists and true events from Croatian hospitals that will shock the public.
- DirectorVlatka VorkapicStarsJudita FrankovicGoran BogdanDejan AcimovicA comedy about two people with different world-views, from different places, whose fate, with the help from a bull Garonja (a name given to the black bulls in villages of Croatia), intertwine. Ante (Goran Bogdan) is a peasant from Dalmatian hinterland, a son of an bull fights organizer, and skilled insurance salesman. He is known by his powers of persuasion. At the voting for the Law for animal protection, biggest controversy is considering bull fights. Sonja (Judita Frankovic) is from Zagreb, an inveterate activist fighting for animal rights. In Dalmatian hinterland nobody can understand her attitude. They conclude that Sonja, regardless of the declared intense love of animals, would not dare stand in front of a bull. About Sonja and Anthony , the central pair who in his romantic comedy game going a little farther - a little back, a series of actions is carried out in the style of a wild untamed satire at the expense of local "yellow" media and important institutions such as the Croatian Parliament.
- DirectorDalibor MatanicStarsKresimir MikicAreta CurkovicIvo GregurevicA godforsaken mountain village is the only home that a young football player, a miser peasant and a fat girl have. This isolated part of the country finds itself in the middle of the referendum for or against the EU. Our characters couldn't care less - they are absorbed in their problems. The young football player who accidentally killed his mother doesn't want to join a rich foreign football team and is willing to risk his father's love because of it. The lonely fat girl is so desperate for a friend and for a lover that she will end up seeking both in the pig-sty. The miser peasant will find out that the real misery is in loneliness.
- DirectorDalibor MatanicStarsOlga PakalovicNina ViolicKresimir MikicA lesbian couple rents an apartment in a seemingly normal building which happens to be populated with all kinds of freaks. Initially kind but unaware of their secret, a landlady tries to introduce one of them to his son, but after spying on them through the keyhole, the Pandora's box of hatred and violence has been opened.
- DirectorOja KodarStarsNada AbrusMiljenka AndroicAndrea BakovicMaria lives with his son Darko in a Croatian village that was attacked by Serbian Chetniks one night. Them two manage to escape, and find hideout in the nearby town. Maria takes up job in the laundry, while Darko joins Croatian Defendors, much to his mother's opposition. After discovering that her son was killed, Maria sets off to the front so she could bury his body if nothing else.
- DirectorDejan SorakStarsJosip GendaKrunoslav SaricNina BellTwo friends, Fabijan and Dakar, go fishing on a calm river close to Zagreb. In his youth, Fabijan was a Partisan, and Dakar a member of the Foreign Legion. Suddenly, while fishing, they are attacked by unknown assassins. While fighting for their lives, they wonder if this is revenge for unsettled accounts from their past. Fabijan and Dakar set off on a quest for the assassins and motives for their attack...
- DirectorPavo MarinkovicStarsStjepan PericDrazen KuhnEcija OjdanicA razor sharp comedy all about relationships and red tape. Kreso is at a loose end. A fully qualified biologist, he's about to hit middle age, disillusioned, out of work and stuck in a marriage that should probably never have started. At least his son still looks up to him. Meanwhile, the country's cash-strapped government is busily looking for unique ways to save money, and now, over 20 years after the 1990's war, sets its sights on the widows of fallen soldiers. Anyone unmarried but in a new relationship will no longer be allowed a military pension. Enforcing such an unpopular measure requires a new department: The Ministry of Love, whose purpose will be to gather information on any widows breaking the new law. With nothing to lose, Kreso agrees to be put forward by his pushy father in law. The only problem is, together with his eccentric partner, Sikic, he's completely the wrong man for the job.
- DirectorKrsto PapicStarsIvo GregurevicMustafa NadarevicDragan DespotAfter the breaking of mass movements in 1971., the student Ilija Baric must leave the country because of his political beliefs, and his father Luka lost a job and goes to work to Germany. After Titos death in 1980. there is a new political motion, but repression is still strong. That feels even decennial John, the brother of Ilija, who is in love with Marina, the daughter of the Head of the police and Communist Andrew.
- DirectorKrsto PapicStarsIvo GregurevicIvica VidovicMirjana MajurecAt the beginning of 1990s, two Croatian emigrants, economically minded Cinco and politically minded Marinko, arrive in Croatia from Germany, homesick for their families and hometowns. In order to get a German pension, Cinco pretends to be dead and travels in a coffin. Soon, Marinko joins him because he is running away from an old agent of the Yugoslav State Security Service. On their trip in a motor hearse, Cinco and Marinko face many adventures, which culminate when they are stopped at Serbian barricades close to their destination.
- DirectorKrsto PapicStarsDrazen KuhnDragan DespotMladen VulicAn obscure actor is hired by the police to get a confession out of a dying mafioso.
- DirectorDavor ZmegacStarsLjiljana BogojevicLjubomir KerekesNatasa DangubicBoris is a satisfied fifty-year-old man with a wife, a daughter, a son, and - A lover. Younger one, of course. But he suddenly runs out of luck and thinks up a new plan to get back his harmonic life. However, with each new move he becomes more tangled up in a web of unexpected situations, his baits fall on unforeseen places, and his marital triangle gets more and more angles.
- DirectorRanko VarlajStarsAnte KostelicIvica KostelicJanica KostelicGnothi Seauton (know thyself) is a feature documentary about a Croatian brother and sister skiers who, in spite of coming from poverty in a country with no snow, set out to become Olympic skiing champions. Together have won 10 Olympic medals. Their struggle to win and overcome injuries makes this story full of sacrifice, courage and fantastic success.
- DirectorZeljko SenecicStarsSenka BulicAna KaricBranko BlaceLife and times of Josip Racic, young and talented Croatian painter from the beginning of 20th Century, who went to Paris to seek fortune and died there in mysterious circumstances.
- DirectorNebojsa SlijepcevicA love story Balkan style.
- DirectorPavo MarinkovicStarsNenad CvetkoDijana VidusinJan BudarSasa is an unsuccessful writer who works as a restaurant critic. His life starts to change when he meets and falls in love with Ines who works in a private sports center. However, things get complicated when he writes a bad review for the restaurant owned by a well-connected man. To get his life in order, Sasa has to face up to all of his character flaws.
- DirectorDrazen ZarkovicStarsKresimir KanizajDrazen KuhnTeo OsarcevicTwo loyal, aging fans of a low-league amateur team look forward when shady upstart wants to invest his money, so that the side would go pro and make it to the top flight. However their enthusiasm quickly vanishes as they realize that the businessman sees only profit, without much true love for the club.
- DirectorTomislav RadicStarsIgor KovacSuzana NikolicBoris BuzancicA big family reunion at the weekend cottage around traditional food preparation "kotlovina" (pig on a spit and lots of drinking) with quaintly amusing and earnest situations revealing what is stronger: ties of blood and background or culture and the way of living.
- DirectorDalibor MatanicStarsAreta CurkovicNiksa ButijerGoran BogdanKeka is a virtuoso housewife who suffers because of the lethargy of her marriage with Baja, a concerned railway worker. To make things even worse, Keka is being seriously courted by Ilija, a handyman who is so clumsy that he produces apocalypse wherever he shows up. After Baja finally becomes aware of Ilija's intentions and after the two of them demolish Keka's home as a result of their clumsy showdowns, Keka decides to leave both of them and to go on a trip to the only place where she felt some happiness - to a small coastal village where she and Baja went on their honeymoon... However, things start to complicate because Keka falls under the scrutiny of Lujo, an untypical lonely fisherman-flirter. Baja and Ilija decide to go on a trip, to embark on the biggest adventure in their lives and to prove their love to Keka...
- DirectorTomislav MrsicStarsSasa AnocicZivko AnocicMatija AntolicEight outsiders are trying to create a theater play while breaking every rule of theater craft.
- DirectorBranko SchmidtStarsKresimir MikicMei SunLeon LucevThe journey of a Chinese woman and her fellow countrymen as they travel in search of a better place to live, only to end up struggling for survival in the Balkans.
- DirectorBranko SchmidtStarsLuka DragicBarbara VickovicMustafa NadarevicOsijek, Yugoslavia- 1968. 17-year old Tomo is the great hope for the city of Osijek in the junior rowing cup that Chairman Tito is scheduled to open in that city. However, Tomo's main obsession is not rowing, but girls, but he has no luck with them whatsoever. Because of a physical handicap, which he even hides from doctors, he ends up in hospital. Local political bigwigs want to force the young man to row no matter what. The pressure on Tomo becomes unbearable when his father is arrested on the eve of the rowing cup because the authorities regard him as politically suspect. The "Queen of the Night" of the title refers to a beautiful prostitute who ushers Tomo into manhood.
- DirectorBranko SchmidtStarsFilip SovagovicBojana GregoricLjubo KaporA young violinist who plays at the war front decides to join his parents in Vienna after his best friend loses an arm during Serb attack.
- DirectorBranko SchmidtStarsGoran NavojecSanja MarinHorst JansonThe story follows a group of Croatian refugees who have been forced to leave their hometown of Vukovar by Serbian forces during Croatia's struggle for independence. The people are settled at a railway station in a village near Vukovar, where they live in a train which is adapted to serve as a temporary accommodation.The situation grows dim as the date of their return proves to be uncertain, and the lives of the survivors and refugees becomes more and more complicated being burdened by PTSP and strong feelings of hope to return to their homestead.
- DirectorBranko SchmidtStarsSlobodan CusticFabijan SovagovicAsja JovanovicAfter spending 13 years in prison, forty-year-old Djuka Begovic returns to his home-village in Slavonia. He promises to his mother that he will begin a new and honest life. He finds new meaning in taking care of his daughter Smilja. He tries to chase away destructive thoughts that threaten to overwhelm him by throwing himself into hard work. However, everything around him reminds him of his past and his family's tragic destiny. His family was wealthy at the beginning of the twentieth century, but was destroyed by the capitalist powers that took over the villages and broke the traditional family cooperatives. Djuka's personal life was marked by constant conflicts with his father.
- DirectorZeljko SenecicStarsMichaela KezeleSlavko JuragaBoris CavazzaDestinies of few people from Dubrovnik, as well as Croatian fighters against Yugoslav People's Army in the battle of Srdj, mountain behind the town's walls.
- DirectorJakov SedlarStarsIvan MarevichEna BegovicGoran NavojecThe story about the Bleiburg massacre, seen from a Croatian Home Defenders point of view.
- DirectorJakov SedlarStarsMartin SheenMichael YorkMorgan FairchildIn 1981 in Medjugorje (BA), a group of kids claim that Virgin Mary appeared to them on a hill. The local priest believes them and spreads the word. Religious tourism blossoms. The communist government is concerned and arrests the priest.
- DirectorArsen A. OstojicStarsDino DvornikMladen VulicCoolioDuring last two hours of the year, the three stories are happening in the dark and deserted streets of coastal town of Split, separated from the wild New Year's Eve parties.
- DirectorOgnjen SvilicicStarsEmir HadzihafizbegovicArmin OmerovicJens MünchowIbro takes his son Armin from their small Bosnian village to Croatia to audition for a German film about the Balkan conflict.
- DirectorOgnjen SvilicicStarsVedran MlikotaJosip ZovkoElvis BosnjakTwo young hicks from Dalmatian hinterland are coming to Split in order to spend the night and pick local girls. In the meantime, Ive Dumanic, a brewery worker, has just lost his job after accidentally mixing beer with tonic.
- DirectorOgnjen SvilicicStarsDaria Lorenci FlatzFilip RadosVera ZimaMirjana is returning to Croatia from Germany where she spent some time as a refugee. She is pregnant. Now, when the war in Croatia is over and her visa expired, Mirjana is coming back to her family in a remote and devastated village. Her family is trying to move on with their lives after the war. They rebuild their house and they are trying to find a new husband for their pregnant daughter. Being patriarchal and devoted to their tradition they believe a woman needs to have a husband and a child has to have a father. Of course, the child and the father have to be of the same nationality. Problems start when Mirjana gives a birth to a boy with Asian features. The family and the neighbors are shocked. Mirjana¡¦s rigid father refuses to accept a grandchild of a different nationality, not to mention the one of a different race! Mirjana and her son are forced to leave. She returns only when her father falls seriously ill and requests to see his grandson before he dies.
- DirectorZrinka Katarina MatijevicStarsFranka MikolaciTena Nemet BrankovMarija TadicThe Trampoline is not a romantic love story - it is a film about a powerful and sometimes double-edged love, and the darker side of a mother-daughter bond that has been stretched to breaking point.
- DirectorRajko GrlicIgor MirkovicIvan MirkovicStarsGoran BareDrazen BudisaRadimir CacicIn December 1999, the presidential race in Croatia is in it's peak. Chances are split evenly between the contenders and the fight is getting really nasty. Whoever wins will shape the Croatian future in the first years of the 21st century.
- DirectorIgor SeregiStarsRene BitorajacMatija KacanMarko CindricSeries of events leading to football fans war on the streets of Belgrade.
- DirectorDejan AcimovicStarsCvita ViljacEric CantonaAndjela RamljakA fairy tale based on Mate Lovrak's childrens novel "Anka the Brazilian". The story is set in the rural landscape of Central Europe at the beginning of the last century. Anka is an orphan girl adopted by a rich aunt. Shortly after Anka's arrival, the classy aunt shows a different face and a disappointed and depressed Anka flees, wanting to return to the orphanage. The road leads her to a brickyard in the depths of the forest, where she finds a temporary home among workers with a rough exterior but warm hearts. There he discovers the fairy-tale world of forest creatures that only children of great imagination see ...
- DirectorIvan-Goran VitezStarsKristijan JaicStjepan PericTena Jeic GajskiThis comedy of the absurd is set in the Nazi puppet Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during World War II. The hero, Ljiljan is a young peasant poet who joins the Partisan movement just before it falls apart, abandoned by its leader Tito. The last remaining hope for resisting Nazism is to assassinate Hitler. Ljiljan's task is to write a song that will allow his Partisan band to infiltrate the inner sanctum of the SS - by entering an SS talent show. If they win the competition, they will be invited to perform before Hitler and the NDH's high command. This is a satirical coming-of-age tale with a difference, capturing the craziness, comedy and horror of war in the Balkans.
- DirectorIvan SalajStarsFrano MaskovicBorko PericNadia CvitanovicSinisa Mesjak is an ambitious politician who gets involved in a scandal. In order to keep him away from the public eye, the government sends him to Trecic, an isolated Croatian island with no telephone or internet signal.
- DirectorDario JuricanHana JusicAndrija MardesicStarsMarija PiliskicDaria Lorenci FlatzRakan RushaidatMatea is a twelve-year-old whiner who hopes her birthday party will make her more popular at school. Nera is a girl at a crossroads in life. An incident in front of a shopping mall could give her a new perspective on things. Miran is a new husband, son-in-law, and a father-to-be who is simply trying to move his things to a new apartment with the help of neighbors who start giving him a hard time. Three neighbors on the verge of a breakdown on a winter's night.
- DirectorDario JuricanStarsMilan BandicDario JuricanIvica TodoricTHE BOSS (Gazda) is Croatian documentary movie about privatisation, transition and corporations in Croatia. The movie also talks about largest Croatian private company Agrokor which was a media tabu in Croatia until Agrokor's collapse in 2017.
- DirectorZrinko OgrestaStarsJasna BilusicPolona JuhVladimir JurcA group of trainee therapists come together for their regular group psychotherapy session, but when their normal routine is disrupted, events take an unexpected direction: as their professional masks start to slip, long repressed personal tensions soon bubble to the surface.
- DirectorBranko SchmidtStarsDanijela BeganovicGoran BogdanPavle CemerikicMiran is an unconventional priest who prepares children for the ceremony of confirmation. One of them is Goran, an orphaned teenage boy who enjoys Miran's attention. One day, a new boy moves into the neighborhood, and immediately becomes Miran's new pet student. Goran gets jealous and admits being in a sexual relationship with the priest, which sets in motion a series of unfortunate events.
- DirectorZrinko OgrestaStarsJasmin TelalovicMarija TadicZlatko CrnkovicA panoramic view over society across ten unfortunate characters whose stories sometimes intertwine.
- DirectorRajko GrlicStarsPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicBojan NavojecDaria Lorenci FlatzNikola is a man who knows how to really enjoy life; he's even able to rouse sympathy for his sinful ways. His brother, Braco turns a blind eye to his philandering although, with a broken marriage behind him, he doesn't have a clear conscience, either. Is there anything positive to be said about infidelity, or does it simply deserve the utmost contempt, particularly when it's more premeditated than spontaneous?
- DirectorGoran RusinovicStarsSlavko StimacLeon LucevAimee KleinThe story of Buick Riviera is told through fates of two men, both Bosnian (ex Yugoslavian) emigrants, belonging to the two different religious groups that fought for the city of Sarajevo during the War. One fateful night, these two emigrants meet on a deserted road in the middle of America, with some unexplainable force bringing them together and the next 24 hours they spend together, mentally sabotaging each other and trying to figure out who is guilty of what, they change their lives forever without proving anything, just like the war itself.
- DirectorLukas NolaStarsTihana LazovicMilan PlestinaLana BaricCan the thread of bad luck, violence and suffering which is braided deeply into the generations of one family be broken? Beba's mother is a woman of poor health and weak character. Beba's father is sullen and violent. Beba's brother is possessive and problematic. Beba's boyfriend is from a correctional institution. Has Beba's daughter any chance to break this vicious circle, has she got any chance to become a beloved, happy person?
- DirectorZrinko OgrestaStarsLeon LucevJadranka DjokicDaria Lorenci FlatzThrough a period of five days, the story follows intertwined characters who live in false serenity and rather chaotic general order.
- DirectorSnjezana TribusonStarsKsenija MarinkovicRenata PokupicOzren GrabaricA Christmas tale with singing and poisoning
- DirectorHana JusicStarsMia PetricevicNiksa ButijerArijana CulinaWhen Marijana's dominant father falls seriously ill, she takes over the role as head of the family. The new power constellation also gives her new freedom that she has to find out a way to deal with.
- DirectorArsen A. OstojicStarsAlen LivericMustafa NadarevicBiserka IpsaIvan, a 36-year old ex-rock singer and a disillusioned war veteran who lost both legs in the recent Croatian Homeland War, discovers a dark family secret, which fundamentally changes his life he now wants to end.
- DirectorRajko GrlicStarsNebojsa GlogovacDejan AcimovicKsenija MarinkovicA gay Croatian professor confronts his own xenophobia after agreeing to help his Serbian neighbor prepare for a citizenship exam, while the neighbor's wife cares for the professor's elderly homophobic invalid father.
- DirectorDinka RadonicMarija Ratkovic VidakovicMarija (33) grew up in a family that lives Yugoslav ideals even today. Given that Marija and her family are of Serbian origin, who continued to live in Croatia, regardless of the pressures of the recent war, the Yugoslav identity is the one they felt closest to (more than only the Croatian or Serbian one). She had always felt that her family's ideals were her own, until her life path turned her in a different direction. When she founded her own family with her husband, she began to question her parents' and grandparents' values, as well as her own, and if that was the environment in which she wanted to raise her son (5). Within a journey through the family history, Marija opts for a "new beginning" in a totally different environment and sets up a new home - in Sweden. This film is a story about growing up, separation from the nest, and accepting one's own value system, and how to get there, in the atmosphere of a stable and loving family.
- DirectorBarbara VekaricStarsTihana LazovicGoran MarkovicSebastian CavazzaAleksi is a disaffected 28-year-old who ignores her pressing responsibilities by following her impulses with various men.
- DirectorDalibor MatanicStarsTihana LazovicGoran MarkovicNives IvankovicThree different love stories, set in three consecutive decades, in two neighbouring Balkan villages burdened with a long history of inter-ethnic hatred: this is a film about the dangers - and the enduring strength - of forbidden love.
- DirectorIgor BezinovicStarsAnte Zlatko StolicaMladen VujcicZeljko BeljanStola has been spending his summer in the sweltering haze of festival parties. But one day, he runs into Roko, an old acquaintance, who is on a mission to discover medieval frescoes at a nearby monastery. Roko convinces Stola and a random group of partygoers to join him in his search. However, when their bus breaks down in the middle of nowhere, their brief excursion turns into an allegorical journey into the unknown.
- DirectorDavor ZmegacStarsMustafa NadarevicLeona ParaminskiSven MedvesekA homeless man who lives in abandoned bus finds out that his daughter comes from Germany to meet him for the first time in twelve years. Ashamed of his present situation and unable to cope with it, he breaks into apartment of his rich ex-friend who is involved in criminal activities.
- DirectorArsen A. OstojicStarsAlma PricaOlga PakalovicMijo JurisicIn order to recover the body of her son lost during the war in Bosnia, a grieving, but strong-willed Muslim woman, Halima, must track down her estranged niece, who we find carries a mysterious connection to him.
- DirectorEduard Galic
- DirectorArsen A. OstojicStarsFilip MayerRomina TonkovicMladen VulicMartina starts a relationship with Filip, a young man who spends most of his time playing video games. After Martina convinces Filip to steal her father's money to go to the Party Beach, everything turns into a bloody nightmare.
- DirectorMarina Andree SkopDrazen ZarkovicStarsLucija SandoNils Ole OftebroAlex RakosA girl and an alien robot have a day to find her grandpa after he is kidnapped.
- DirectorAntonio NuicStarsBojan NavojecIva BabicMirela BrekaloLife Is a Trumpet has a loose jazz musician as the groom, a butcher as his father, and two families of different backgrounds whose members are not as different as one might expect.
- DirectorFilip MojzesFilip PeruzovicDubravka TuricStarsZivko AnocicLily AnticLana BaricThe thematic framework of the anthology feature film DEEP CUTS is violence in all of its forms: as a destruction of intimacy, family, integrity, trust.
- DirectorDanilo SerbedzijaStarsRade SerbedzijaKresimir MikicBogdan DiklicA family from isolated village in Lika makes a good living out of American pension earned by their late granddad Djuradj and received by his widow Nedja. The very existence of a family is threatened when Nedja dies, but the head of the family comes up with a cunning plan.
- DirectorAntonio NuicStarsFranjo DijakVito DijakPasko VukasovicAfter spending four years in prison, a drug dealer will do anything to keep custody over his son.
- DirectorTomislav RadicStarsAnja Sovagovic-DespotIvo GregurevicBoris SvrtanIva is a girl who receives a small digital video camera for her fourteenth birthday. Delighted by her new toy, the girl immediately starts taping everything around her, recording a series of events surrounding her birthday celebration on her first tape. These ninety minutes form the film What Iva Recorded on October 21st, 2003.
- DirectorNeven HitrecStarsLjubomir KerekesLucija SerbedzijaIvo GregurevicIn a small Croatian village in 1991, a carpenter Kuzma falls for much younger Ana. In spite of their surroundings' opposition towards their relationship, the couple marries and Ana gives birth to their son. Being also familiar with the statuary, he makes a sculpture of Madonna for the local church. A quiet life of the village is disturbed when the first clashes between Croats and Serbs arise.
- DirectorMladen JuranStarsMelita JurisicFilip SovagovicAlen LivericA young man flees to the United States searching for the American dream.
- DirectorZrinko OgrestaStarsJosip KuchanMarko MatanovicIvo GregurevicWistful croquis of the neigborhood in western Zagreb at the beggining of the '90's.
- DirectorDejan SorakStarsGoran NavojecBorko PericTarik FilipovicAnte and Dusko are two Dream Team players. Besides being a Croat and a Serb who fought on opposite sides in the war, both used to be volleyball players. Today, they live normal lives, one in a remote craggy region, the other in Banja Luka. There is little chance of them ever meeting again. The International War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague has indicted Colonel Skoko, a hero to some, a criminal to the others. The two main witnesses to his defense, Mato and Joso, have disappeared without a trace. Skoko's sponsor from the intelligence circles, Antisa, wants to find two men resembling Mato and Joso, to impersonate them before the Hague investigators, and hopefully bring down the indictments. Naturally, the two men he finds are none other than our heroes, Ante and Dusko
- DirectorSnjezana TribusonStarsMirjana RoginaGoran NavojecSuzana NikolicProtagonist of the film is Melita Zganjer, woman who desperately tries to lose weight. This proves to be very difficult because she works in a pastry shop. Unlike her man-eating roommate Visnja, she only dreams about love and spends all her free time watching South American soap opera "Slave of Love". The man of his dreams is much closer than she thinks, though. Janko, young man who delivers pastry, loves Melita but is too shy to express his feelings. In the meantime, Eva, policewoman and another of Melita's roommates, tries to set her up with one of her colleagues. Those efforts fail, but Melita's dreams seems to come true with Antonio Mulero, "Slave of Love" star who arrived to Zagreb to shoot a feature film.
- DirectorBranko IvandaStarsKlara NakaTamy HosierZrinka CvitesicIt's inspiring true story about two thirteen year old girls who were, on the eve of World War II, great dancing and acting stars in Zagreb. Selling out theater venues, they weer praised in the most superb headlines by the Croatian and European press. They were filmed by Parisian 'Pathe' and Berlin's UFA... During the Nazi persecution of Jews and later German nationals' flight from communists, a dramatic friendship was born through entertainment, dance, but also anxiety. This led towards an unexpected end.
- DirectorNiksa SvilicicStarsVedran MlikotaDolores LambasaAljosa VuckovicThe mailman, Sime, is one of the favorite people of a small town, on an island in the middle of the sea. Sime is very intelligent and the locals have high regards for him because he is unusually well versed in all the events and destinies in the small town. He knows the weather forecast, what winds will blow, what the sermon on the Sunday mass will be. For all the locals Sime is an untouchable genius. However, unlike the locals, the viewers soon find out that the Sime's ingenuity is based on his reading of the mail. Fascinated by other people's destinies, Sime has perfected a way for opening letters and keeping complete records on the people living on the island. He keeps a precise track of who gets what kinds of letters, and that gives him insight into discrete and private affairs of people. One day a beautiful woman named Dea moves into town, and all the men try and court her. However, Dea is keeping some kind of a secret and she completely ignores all their attempts, also charming attempts by the mailman Sime. Suddenly, by chain of events, she completely by accident finds out about the mailman's "hobby" i.e. that he reads other people's mails. At that time she herself starts receiving letters from a mysterious Klara who she starts an intensive correspondence with. The mailman, naturally, reads Dea's mails and he's putting the "puzzle" of her life together. He plans a courtship based on the things he finds out about her. He likes Dea very much so he gives his best to win her over (naturally, he does it by using privileged information he acquires by reading her letters). After a short time Dea "falls" for his charms and everything seems idyllic. However with time, town's people turn against Sime claiming that Dea "stole him away". Sime is not concerned about it because the more time he spends with Dea the more he likes her. However what is Dea really like?
- DirectorZoran SudarStarsGoran VisnjicAlison Heruth-WaterburyStefan LysenkoAfter the death of a wealthy Croatian emigrant, it is discovered that he left his fortune to an unknown, illegitimate relative back in Croatia.
- DirectorDejan SorakStarsDubravko SimekKsenija PajicVanja DrachDramatic story of a returnee from Argentina who tries to find answers to the unfortunate events from the past.
- DirectorDejan AcimovicStarsMilan PlestinaMilivoj BeaderIvan BrkicA cruel world of the Yugoslavian prison during 1980s, based on real events about a man who gets life sentence for committed crime.
- DirectorZrinko OgrestaStarsZdenka AnusicEtta BortolazziVanja DrachA young man is determined to find out what happened to his grandfather who was arrested and then disappeared in WW2, why did the new communist government label their family as traitors and why was his father killed many years later.
- DirectorSnjezana TribusonStarsNatasa DorcicMilan StrljicZoran CubriloDuring the war, Ana lost members of her family and was raped by a member of the Serb paramilitary forces. Years later, she accidentally sees her tormentor in the middle of Zagreb. She goes to the police, but the man who fits her description was allegedly killed in the war. While nobody believes Ana, the murderous rapist is determined to eliminate her.
- DirectorBogdan ZizicStarsSlavko JuragaBarbara VickovicIvan TomljenovicAt the end of 1991, a prisoner Ivan escapes from Serbian camp. He finds a hideout in the property of a wealthy Serbian landowner Stevan, who eventually finds him and offers him two choices - to submit him to the authorities, or to make Ivan work for him. Ivan accepts the latter and while staying on the farm he gradually introduces the landowner's deranged family. He also meets his daughter-in-law Anica, a beautiful Croatian woman married to landowner's bloodthirsty son who fights in Croatia. A secret love affair is being developed between the two Croats.
- DirectorRajko GrlicStarsToni GojanovicSergej TrifunovicEmir HadzihafizbegovicA small border post on the Yugoslav-Albanian border in the spring of 1987. Frustrated and always drunk, lieutenant Pasic feels a strange pain in his groins. He seeks help from the only doctor among the soldiers, Sinisa, who diagnoses a sexually transmitted disease. Not wishing his wife to know about it and trying to find excuses not to go home, he declares a state of emergency, claiming that the Albanian army is preparing an attack against Yugoslavia. A joke transforms into war hysteria: soldiers dig trenches, Pasic grows wilder as the days go by, Sinisa embarks on a dangerous liaison, and his best friend Ljuba decides to leave the army. The situation slowly runs out of control...
- DirectorDana BudisavljevicStarsAlma PricaBiserka IpsaIgor SamoborThe story of Diana Budisavljevic, who embarked on a campaign of rescuing more than 10,000 children from the Ustasha camps in Nazi-occupied Croatia. A dramatized retelling mixed with archival material and interviews with survivors.
- DirectorSnjezana TribusonStarsFilip CuricLuka DragicMirjana RoginaThe adventures of a small town Croatian family during the 1960s. The decade will left eternal marks on all of their members, but the most of the story focuses on the youngest one, a boy Frula who discovers the love and fashion of the time.
- DirectorDaniel KusanStarsAntonio ParacKristian BonacicVanja MarkovinovicIt seems that football is still the most important thing in Koko's life. Zlatko is still spending every second reading books and scolding Koko for being immature. To prove him wrong, Koko tells him that he is in love with a mysterious girl. His love for her is not making him happy. And the girl he is in love with, is just as magical as the heroines in the novels Zlatko reads.
- DirectorDaniel KusanStarsAntonio ParacKristian BonacicNina MiletaAfter a young boy moves from Zeleni vrh to Zagreb, he starts to reveal mysteries about his new house. Soon Koko and his friend, Zlatko, are deep into their investigation...
- DirectorDejan SorakStarsMarija StjepanovicFranjo KuharDora LipovcanStill today, years after the war, some regions are contaminated with broken families, poverty, crime and low-grade uranium. In the middle of nowhere in Western Herzegovina, at a NATO military training range, a nine-year-old girl called Alica, together with her uncle Valentin, collects shells and scraps of grenades to sell on the black market. Valentin dies of cancer, Alica's diagnosis is not good but there's no money for therapy. Alica's journey through the Land of Wonders begins.
- DirectorDavor ZmegacStarsIgor GaloGoran GrgicSasha TurjakThe crash of student strike, also the crash of "Croatian Spring" in December of 1971. causes a violent separation of it's 3 participations: A member of student leaders Jakov, his brother Mislav and Jakov's girlfriend Suncana. Jakov escapes abroad while Mislav and Suncana remain in Zagreb believing that nothing bad can happened to them. Meanwhile, Mislav is getting arrested and Suncana stays alone. 20 years later, Jakov returns from Australia looking for a new beginning. He stays at Mislav's who married a girl from a rich family, after released from prison and becomes a dentist. Soon, the brothers discover that the scelator from the past were not buried, after all and the case of Suncana Krizic, who got killed in 1972. under mysterious circumstances, becomes Jakov's obsession in finding the truth. Mislav's suspicious resistance towards this private investigation, unclear role of ex-UDBA operator Brkan and Jakov's sympathy towards Brkan's granddaughter Tala is about to complicate Jakov's psychological state.