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In this black comedy drama, we meet a seemingly perfect family consisting of Olivia, Alexander and their daughter Agata. With the arrival of 25-year-old Julian in their home, their lives are turned upside down and their dysfunctional relationships are revealed. Redemption through humour explores the theme of emotionally drained elites and places it in the context of contemporary social issues.
Jun 2024
Marina, an exhausted mother, tries to hide the signs of physical abuse her body is covered with from her son, all the while trying to figure out wheater her feeling of being watched is just in her head or is more real than she could possibly imagine.
Oct 2025
Maša travels from a big city to a small rural community searching for a man, however, she instead runs into Živka, a local who tells her that he won't be in the village for the next few days. Whilst staying there Maša is roped into helping Živka with her chores and the two women quickly bond.
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Ana and Lars are spending their summer holiday on an island in the Adriatic sea. It seems like paradise, until an unexpected encounter puts their relationship to the test, forcing them to re-evaluate what they really want from each other.
Sep 2019
Through a series of interviews with randomly selected parents, Katarina Zrinka Matijević explores the ups and downs of parenthood in the contemporary Balkan sphere, uncovering almost as much about the couples as she does about herself.
Oleg is a film student who leads a spartan life surrounded by analogue technology. A librarian during daytime, Marta is an avant-garde novelist who works with alternate subjectivity. Narrated from each of their perspectives, Čučić’s film recounts a romance that never ceases to take new shape.
Jan 2023
Marta, a lovesick 15 year old, pines for a local boy named Karlo. As the traditional local carnival approaches, its mystical atmosphere and mask making tradition will take her on a personal journey where she will discover the true meaning of her identity.
Best friends Bětka and Alma are spending a dull summer at a lakeside with Bětka’ s older sister Marie. The teenage girls want to experience something big but their efforts fail until they discover a mysterious pool on an island.
Jul 2025
Documentary filmmaker Marcella Zanki returns to her childhood home to reconnect with her father, armed with only a camera. However, as their relationship continues to build, she'll turn the project from a straightforward biography into an analysis of the human spirit in the face of industrialism and global changes.
Josip is a goalkeeper. Known and loved among football fans. As a result of an accident, the security network of social and material assurance suddenly disappears from around the goalkeeper. Josip falls on a skiing trip and now has to undergo rehabilitation at a sanatorium. In this world filled with tedious and meaningless chatter, Josip assumes the role of an outside observer.
Nov 2022
Two boys, Braco and Tut, are tossed in an adventure of a lifetime, as they search for their missing friend Hrvoje in the everchanging landscape of Zagreb in the early 1980s.
Roko Markovina, a former socialist and unionist politician from the city of Mostar in Herzegovina, reflects on the situation in Croatia and Bosnia during wartime and about the fruitless efforts that he and his wife went through to get back their home that had been taken away from them by nationalist forces who exiled them from it.
An intimate family drama that tells the story of the complex relationship between a mother and daughter. The narrative takes an unexpected turn during the Christmas holidays when the mother places a newspaper ad seeking a husband in order to remarry. Through an emotional and comedic lens, the film explores themes such as loneliness, love, respect, and understanding within a family.
Sep 2025
During the Austro-Hungarian occupation of the bay of Boka Kotorska in present day Montenegro, Marko Stijepović an ordinary man from the small coastal town of Risno, exiles to the United States where he decides to found a gold prospect on the shores of the Klondike river in Alaska and thus forever changing the face of his newfound home.
Accompanied by his wife, an aging music professor travels to his picturesque childhood hometown in order to collect his nerves after a tragic breakdown. However, upon the couple's return, nostalgic memories of all kind will trigger an equal amount of tension and happyness, with the idyllic circumstances turning more and more fragile and reaching a breaking point upon the arrival of Maša, the professor's estranged daughter from his first marriage.
Through the lense of a Super 8 camera, director Petra Belc Krnjaić captures the ups and downs of parenthood, blurring the lines between everyday life and scientific principles.
The film follows two men in their 50s, whose wives moved abroad and found new partners, in their daily lives in a small village in Croatia. The director is the daughter of one of them, and she tries to understand her parents’ decisions and why she also ran away.
Oct 2024
A reluctant vinyl collector Franko finds himself on an adventure across former Yugoslavia to find the only vinyl record missing from his collection: the "Ulica Jorgovana / Zlatokosa" single, one of the finest examples of Yugoslav funk.