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The film Drinking Water and Freedom was made in 1973. It was only one minute long. The review commission for films from Socialist Republic of Croatia prohibited it from public screening. Its sequel, Drinking Water and Freedom II, was made in 1986. It tells the story of the fate of its predecessor and at the same time details what happened with a well and a stone plaque, the objects that had caused its ban. In 1998, Drinking Water and Freedom III was made, a third instalment and a continuation of the story about water, freedom and the well.

The Blockade is a unique view from within on the most massive, longest, and politically most significant student protest in the country, since 1971, that started in April of 2009 at the Faculty of humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. The struggle against the commercialization of education and the blockade of teaching classes lasted for 34 days. The rebellion spread onto more than 20 faculties across the country and the students became an active and relevant political subject. The director followed everything: from the exhilarating preparation meetings and blocking of classes to the first signs of exhaustion, through personal situations and discussions late at night, from the initial support of most faculty members to the moment they turned their back to the movement and the attempt to reach the missing minister of education. This film shows that the blockade was not just physical and that it has a much broader meaning.

Goran Dević conducts confessional interviews with three men who were actively involved in the conflict in former Yugoslavia.

In 1991, on the outskirts of Tenja, Josip Reihl Kir, the chief of the Osijek Police Department and a man dedicated to negotiations and avoding war, was assassinated. Told through the statements of a few witnesses and archive materials from the era, this is a story about the last few months of his life, in the dawn of the bloodthirsty Croatian-Serbian war, which Kir had been trying hard to prevent.

The urban space of Zagreb is dominated by the investors' interests, while the identity of neighborhoods and the quality of life of residents are threatened.

Pescenica is an old industrial suburb of Zagreb. As a satirical depiction of Croatia's recent politics, it has been declared independent republic. What's it like there today? Over a year, the film crew was combing streets, avenues, parks and backyards, focusing on the lives of four Pescenica inhabitants: its self-proclaimed president, a teacher in a Roma school, a cleaning lady in a film distribution company and a young stage director. All that in order to portray Pescenopolis, the film's protagonist that floats between mud and clouds.

iIsland is a feature documentary about the last 13 inhabitants of the island of Biševo and their struggles to save the island community from extinction. Lada, who is a yoga instructor, and Lucio, who works as a cook on a ship, have established a city council for the island to obtain legal status. They hope this will protect it from the aggressive tourist industry, which wants to turn the old school building into a tourist centre with multimedia, touch-screen presentations.

Lidija is 37, she was born in a small town on the Croatian coast. At the age of 19 she left for Amsterdam, where she was promised a waitressing job, but she ended up in the Red Light District. After 15 years, she returns to her hometown to turn a new page and become a mother. In the film she speaks up for the first time about leaving and returning to a conservative community, everything she experienced in between and describes Amsterdam’s windows, porn sets, Playboy covers.

A young filmmaker returns home and starts a search for her father, whom she knew only two month and whom no one ever talked about, although he was a famous musician, once even the gituarist of the legendary Parni valjak band. While she is trying to fill the gaps her father left behind, unsolved family issues emerge and she finds out she is pregnant.

20 years after the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the director decides to find the actors from a film he made as a student. The winds of war have scattered the boys far away from their hometown. In his search, the director embarks on a journey around the world, hoping to recover the lost pieces.

Some sixty years ago, a man went missing for four years. He returned back a changed man carrying along a painful secret. He later built his family’s life around this unspoken secret.

The clash of two worlds in the present-day Europe. As the indigenous population seeks to defend the status quo against escalating immigration, the newcomers are burdened by their own displacement. Forced to flee their homes, they are trying to adapt to the strange new environment.

Well-known Croatian author Pero Kvesić, who has been struggling with a severe lung disease, documents his death from his own point of view. Recording his everyday struggle, the picture resembles a peculiar blog filled with self-irony and witty comments about life and death. Although the world around continues to shrink, the hero and the director in one does not cease to fill it with sense.

How do the children affect the feelings and opinions, as well as the relationship between Silvestar and his wife? How does he affect each child? Do children change him? Does each of them do it differently?

With his film Generation '68, the author makes a homage to the generation with which he shares his youthful enthusiasm and the idea about a revolution that will change the world, while being "realistic and demanding the impossible". At the same time he questions the true impact of these changes on social and - probably more important - private level. Having ideas is easy; making them look credible to the generations that follow is somewhat more difficult. By rejecting the ideals of the 1968 as unworkable, the new generations are coming up with some of their own, maybe even more unrealistic ones...

Love has probably never been so commercialized and falsely portrayed as today. It became a commodity that everybody can afford. However, very often the real picture is something completely different.This film tells about this different picture.The film "Together" tells about love relationships that encounter difficulties. Those are real difficulties that test not only the relationship but very often also the destinies of the persons involved.

Children of Transition is a coming-of-age story about David, Natalija, Lana and Marta.

A biographic documentary about a punk-rock icon who surpassed the music and became a symbol of common sense and free thinking.

Like many other transitional countries, Croatia became rather conservative. In it’s own, funny way, this film is investigating the area of autoeroticism.

A documentary about the sudden rise to fame of Alen Vitasović, an ordinary man from the village of Orbanići, whose sudden rise to fame in the Croatian musical industry shocks everyone, including himself.