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Browse 50 movies from Kino Klub Zagreb
Two friends, Cigo and Max, are traveling to the seaside in an old car that Max inherited from his late grandpa. What begins as a trip to the seaside takes some weird and unforeseen turns.
Dec 2011
Through a collage of characters, we see families falling apart and reuniting in a difficult world where generations clash and the perception of morals swiftly changes.
Jan 2025
Envolves around the mysterious death of a female librarian.
Jan 2018
A Foundation reporter, Isidor Dukas comes to the Institute to make a report. For the purpose of objective reporting, the Foundation uses agents with induced, synthetic identities. In confrontation with one of the test subjects, what was supposed to be a routine control turns into a never ending maze.
Apr 2015
Short observations of one or more journeys, somebody's smile and a dog.
Jun 2020
He lived across, just like this, across the street. He entered his house when we were all going home. The store was closing. In the summertime, it's at 9 PM. That's the last time I saw him.
Jan 2013
A short film about an oar and the motor engines that should replace it.
Jan 1976
A wise-ass Croat reporter goes to Krško, the site of the only nuclear plant built in Former Yugoslavia. It turns out that her reporting trip coincides with the plant disaster that has apocalyptic consequences.
Mar 2016
First breath is a decision. Each subsequent breath is a struggle for a goal still not in sight. A struggle for life. He is a former professional runner. A marathon runner. He reveals his suffering, pain and effort which are crucial elements of each and every race.
Jan 2014
Unencumbered by a professional education and open to new ideas, Vladimir Petek (b. 1940) was energetically exploring in the 1960s what film could do as a medium if used in nonstandard ways. In his early works, the obsession with the medium was connected to his youthful delight with female beauty, and Petek created some of the most striking portrait films in Croatian cinema, which might be seen as the more filmically inventive cousins of the Screen Tests that Andy Warhol started doing in 1964 to explore film’s seemingly innate ability to turn almost anyone into a "star." Encounter offers a portrait of a woman (Ksenija Filipović, his then-girlfriend) whose face becomes mysterious, desirable, and endlessly captivating on film, all the more so because of Petek’s various interventions in the film stock.
Dec 1963
A short film about ants and their everyday activities. The audio of the film is currently lost.
Jan 1971
The original anti-film. In the film, there are scenes of streets of Zagreb taken by author with a hand-held camera turned backwards, having no control over the content of filming. The filmmaker subsequently produced the concrete music. Such “planned coincidence” of filmmaking became a polemic thorn in side of the documentary tradition of Croatian cinema.
Jan 1963
After being away for a long time, Matija returns to Osijek to resolve an issue that has recently come up. During those few days he confronts issues from the past.
Sep 2021
A series of vignettes from the author's journey in a train.
Gravitational waves are passing through every existing dimension, even the almost undetectable ones. The scientific experiment, in its basic utilitarian nature, is aimed at the understanding of the multidimensional structure of things and has the potential for an uncanny experience. The device has successfully detected the unknown dimension at an infinitesimal scale and set up the parameters for magnification and tracking of all the activities in the ambient of non-place visible to us. By its typology, the universal architecture of non-place is optimised for documenting the unknowable and determining the topology of the unexpected. The film follows the course of the intense activities of the entities present in the N dimension that generate a sort of beyond-human experience.
Sep 2018
An experimental staged documentary.
Jan 1966
A cat trying to nap.
Jul 2024
Zagreb as seen through the reflections of shop windows.
Jan 1969
The dog Hux Flux is diagnosed with cancer. His vet found herself in the middle of intimate home atmosphere with his owners, friends and other pets in their household at this critical life period. The vet made this film.
Documentary about a female designer.
Feb 2016