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Music has been banned in Afghanistan, and now an orchestra conductor and his son, a tuba player, attempt to start over by emigrating along the Balkan route. During their flight, seemingly endless, they cross paths with an Italian woman, a doctor. This encounter will change the two refugees’ lives and that of the young woman as well.

Introverted 16-year-old Lucia befriends a popular student after joining an all-girl choir at Catholic school. When the choir travels to a convent for a weekend of rehearsals, Lucia starts to navigate the unfamiliar surroundings, complex teenage social structures, and her own sexual awakening.

Just out of high school, Lavinia, Carla and Danila leave for a yachting holiday. Accompanied only by a skipper, the three of them sail along the Croatian coast at the start of a new stage in their lives. Full of dreams, free and laid-back, they are unaware that sharing everything on the social media is about to transform their holiday into a brutal rite of passage to adulthood in which nothing, especially their friendship, will ever be the same again.

An early summer evening begins with a game, while one kid counts to three thousand, the others hide in a row of suburban gardens. During that time, a young father spends the rest of his day with someone else’s child, an old man awaits a call that will change his life and the future of a year-long friendship becomes uncertain. The game ends when mosquitoes start rising from the grass.

Socialist Croatia, 1962. In order to keep up with the newly appointed laws regarding the urbanization of rural areas, the national goverment constructs a concrete titan they call Block 62, in the middle of a previously uninhabited field, adveritizing it to potential newcomers as an utopistic home of the future. Things seem to be going fairly well until one of the tenants, Milan, a war veteran and an agent for the Yugoslav Secret Service, commits suicide, seemingly not of his own accord. Fearing what this could mean for the security of the state, the Secret Service sends in another agent, Ivan, to move into the housing block undercover, alongside his pregnant wife Milica, and report on any suspicious activity he comes across. Upon their arrival, the unexplained deaths and suicides begin piling up more and more, and one of the tenants, a sickly 12-year-old named Ana, starts exhibiting strange symptoms and seemingly supernatural abbilites.

A teenage girl decides to replace her controlling father with his wealthy foreign friend during a weekend trip to the Adriatic Sea.

The year is 2037. Europe is in a state of complete breakdown. The owner of the last well of natural pure water becomes substitute father and husband. But when his well runs dry, he is forced to do the one last "trade".

Isn't it strange how few personal stories we know about something experienced by millions of women? Inside is a poetic exploration of abortion through the memories of women who have lived it. Fragmented reflections unfold through the language of flowers, archival footage, and abstract imagery, while the world outside presses in through expectations, judgment, and a noise that was never truly theirs to carry.

A trip to the nearby shop takes an unexpected turn for eight-year-old Maks when his grandfather, who has dementia, decides to go looking for a woman he once loved.

Hana, a shy sweet sixteen, is secretly in love with Mario, a schoolmate and half of popular youtube duo Luka & Mario. Hana observes the shoot in which Luka accidentally hurts Mario. Hana helps Mario with the wound, and gets invited to go with him and Luka to a lake where they will shoot a solar eclipse tomorrow.

During the Croatian War of Independance of the 1990s, a group of soldiers knocks on the door of a small family apartment. Šomi, the youngest of the family, tries to protect them at all costs.

Two best friends spend an afternoon on a football field, dreaming of making it to the local football team. But dreams come with a price.

Borna is a young, up and coming star in the world of Croatian football. However, as his training continues, he realizes that his desire to win may not, in fact, be his true wish at all.

When they were both children, David and his younger brother Luka both ended up in a terrible accident that caused the latter to go blind and left both parties with incurable feelings of resentment and grief that they decide to try and cure with a hiking trip. However, during the trip, Luka accidentaly injures himself and both brothers will home to overcome their grievances in order to come out of the peril alive.

Every year, over 35,000 students from elementary schools across Croatia visit the city of Vukovar as part of the Memorial Center of the Homeland War program. The film follows an eighth-grade class on this trip, documenting their entire journey, from departure to their return home.

A weekend in the city park is meant for recreational activities. During a twenty minute period, several men seek out a way to pass their time at a cruising spot located in the heart of a small peninsular grove.

Krešo Poskok, a lonely man from a small backwards Croatian village, searches for Lovorka, a woman he had an unforgettable one night stand with fifteen years ago, not knowing that she had gotten engaged to Kapulica, the nearby town's chief of police. Whilst this small town conflict is busy taking place, the challenges Croatia experiances whilst joining the European Union turn the reunion between the two starcrossed lovers into an even more herculean task.

Determined to start a new chapter in life, Anica (20) stumbles upon a remote sheep farm where she meets Kata (10) and her authoritative grandmother Baba (60). Disturbed by Baba’s stern treatment of Kata, Anica intervenes, sparking a battle of wills. As tensions rise, Anica must make a choice: fight for Kata or earn Baba’s respect.

1993. A passenger train from Belgrade to Bar is stopped by paramilitary forces in an ethnic cleansing operation. As they haul off innocent civilians, only one man dares to stand up to them. This is the true story of a man who could not remain silent.

Maria, is a single mother living in Serbia where housing is unpredictable, healthcare expensive and job opportunities are scarce. Desperate to provide for herself and her 6-year-old son, she resorts to petty scams to make ends meet. Stefan Ivančić’s Upon Sunrise, offers a poignant glimpse into the everyday struggles of a woman trying her hardest to navigate grave social inequality, with little to no support from the state.