Dunav Film

In a futuristic, antiseptic food factory, workers select healthy chicks, while the rejects are carried along a conveyor belt until they are crushed by a mallet and drop into a garbage bin. A single black chick appears among the yellow and is shoved toward the garbage bin. Before the mallet strikes, the gasping chick rebels.

Screened in the official competition at the Cannes Festival, this controversial documentary depicts a hypnosis session in which participants, under its influence, inflict pain on themselves and others. The film addresses important themes such as manipulation, abuse of power, and collective obedience.

Short animated film.

Diploma work in 2000, Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade.

Short documentary.

Short documentary.

"Dan više" is about a mudbath near the small Serbian town of Bujanovac that is famous for healing illnesses. People cover themselves from head to toe in mud and then float on the water: Vlatko Gilić created a ghostly, surreal scenario, whose everyday quality is concentrated into an allegory of human suffering and quest.

A portrait of a restless young man in late-1960s Belgrade whose cool exterior masks deep dissatisfaction, violent imaginings, and a search for identity amid urban life.

A boy wanders the city alone on a hot summer's day. He tries to escape it, but ends up finding a new friend. The film turns into a literal flight of fantasy.

A short animated film inspired by children poem "Plavi zec" (Engl. Blue Rabbit).

Short documentary.

"In continuo" uses slaughterhouse imagery to present the warlike nature of man, first depicting the cleaning and mechanical preparations for the slaughterhouse and then the killing, however, the animal slaughter itself isn’t shown.

The lives of many people in one Serbian town are changed after Tito's breakup with Stalin.

Short animated film.

Short film about the earthquake in Montenegrin littoral.

Short documentary.

Short animated film.

Vlatko Gilić, after not getting enough funds for his last film, Days of Dreams, and after getting his scripts he wrote in the 1980s rejected for being too "artsy", was unable to direct movies for the rest of his life. In the meantime, he had the chance to direct this short documentary movie about the natural beauties of Montenegro, for a ski hotel, after meeting its hotel manager.

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

Short animated film.