Hrvatski Filmski Savez (HFS)

Documentary about the life and work of Ivan Martinac (1938-2005), avant-garde & experimentalist filmmaker from Split, Croatia.

Marina complains to Tomica for TV being too loud because “the baby’s just fallen asleep”. But he has a good reason for turning the volume up.

Two strangers: a man and a woman meet in an elevator. When the elevator gets stuck, irreconcilable differences between two protagonists resurface. What follows is a surreal interplay of passion and dreams and a confrontation that evolves into a ruthless fight for survival.

Croatian singer/songwriter/poet Arsen Dedić tells the story of his life.

Just like any other 13-year-old, Antun is irritated by his younger brother.

A stray dog tries to find suitable boss in a newly-built city resort.

The basis of the experimental film Sky Spirits are real-life shots of fireworks. The authors of the film have collected these shots from the year 2001. to 2008. The experiment explores the ultimate limits of fireworks as sources of light, showing this through real-life dynamic light patters which are led through video processors, resulting in chromatically rich animated samples. The material is "laboratory" processed and then formed into a film unit, while respecting the dramaturgy of fireworks. The original sound was used, which was, of course, subsequently processed, too. The whole work process is a kind of "homage to the tape" because the entire work is completely recorded and realised on digital video tapes, without using any kind of computer program.

Mario Haber was a sound engineer and a dedicated brandy maker. For over a decade, he had been recording colorful conversations and sounds in his house and around the alcohol fermenter. The Spirits Diary is a visual reconstruction of his audio recordings.

A short documentary about one of the most prominent Croatian actors of all time.

In a village near Bednja all the inhabitants are born on the same date - 17th October. There are many theories about the causes of this unusual phenomenon, but one thing is certain: it has marked the locals' private and social life.

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.

A 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.

Father and son review the problems in their communication that have been accumulating in years. The son cannot get rid of fears that his life is being a true copy of his father's projections of his future, so he shoots a video letter with his amateur camera in which he tries to make his father look bad and present the evidences that would indicate how he became a much better person than him.

In this very timely observational meditation on the growing militarization of today’s society, we are watching what is really happening aboard a US aircraft carrier, as well as behind the scenes of a military parade. With his trademark long-take sequences, using a free-associative editing style, acclaimed experimental documentarist Boris Poljak creates an atmosphere of anxiety and loneliness, perfectly in tune with the fear of the uncertain future that we all feel.

The film sheds light on the unprecedented history of Croatian cinema, which took place at the table of renowned Zagreb film critic and bohemian Vladimir Vukovic. This circle of film lovers, called Hitchcockers, brought together film directors, critics and theorists who would later become Croatian filmmakers.

While parquet floors are drying out in the apartment they've just moved in a couple of days ago, her and him are spending the night on the rooftop of their building. It's the end of summer, and their whole life together is in front of them. Premiered at Zagreb Film Festival in 2009 in Checkers programme (Croatian shorts), where it won the Golden Pram, the best film award.

Marija 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. 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. 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.

The film follows morning events at Bacvice beach. At dawn, before sunrise, the beach becomes a place of an unusual clash. From nearby clubs and cafes, numerous groups of young people cross the beach on their way home. At the same time, older people start coming. They walk, come, pass by and go.

An oniric video about the process of contemplation without cuts, because all life is in segue. Meditation on duration, time and the relationship of the inner world of an individual and the technological surrounding.

Due to professional and personal problems, Dr Zodiac loses himself to childhood obsession with circus and eventually escapes from humanity altogether.