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Thursday morning, Jerusalem. Nira goes to work. Ahmad in London does the same, Ralf in Cologne and a priest in Prague too. Matija, Croat, goes to work as well. Ok, he doesn't, but he acts as if he does. Ahmad is taking his routine red bus journey. Out-of-breath young man comes in and interrupts it. Schoolteacher Nira is also interrupted - her pupil jumps out and performs a love rap song he wrote for her. The priest in Prague doesn't feel like singing today, he is in the mood for (over)sleeping instead. Someone falls asleep, someone else - Ralf - falls in love. All five mentioned above are listening to the top-news about the disappearance of bees. And trying their best, each one of them in his or her own 'hive': Zagreb, Jerusalem, London, Cologne, Prague...
Sep 2012
A short opera inspired by Aesop's fable The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle.
Jul 2020
Lucana (25) competes with her brother Stjepko (30) to win their mother's affection. Lucana has no chance of winning because she cannot change what's between her legs.
Oct 2022
Every person we know, love and live with carries a stranger in their head. And they know we do too.
Jan 2017
In the distant future, survivors in special groups on a post-apocalyptic, epidemic-ravaged Earth are tasked with finding signs of life, but are forced to leave after The Technology Unit discovered two dead bodies in a bath.
Jan 2009
Pig, in the countryside, gets slaughtered by two butchers. After he wakes up in his room, in his bed, he realizes that it was just a dream. On his way to work, Pig notices the butcher from his dream, who starts haunting him.
Jun 2010
Fear is part of our identity, it is our everyday life and we experience it in different ways. We grow up with it, and over time we overcome or suppress it. However, it is always present, transforms itself into something else, follows our steps, and enters our dreams. It is said that fear has big eyes, they grow where we meet the unknown and then, to some aspects of reality, such as time, we give unrealistic proportions. Only when the fear is overcome, the eyes shrink and the picture becomes clearer.
Jan 2021
A man and a woman accept each other in spite of all their insecurities.
Jan 2025
Singing skeletons dream about breaking free from their geometric formation and taking a swim in the great, big, blue sea.
Jun 2020
A look at the life on the Mediterranean borders of Europe, where tourists try to relax while "illegal" immigrants struggle for a chance of a better life. Breaking out of a strictly confined tourist zone, two Swiss children experience quickly that reality here has very little to do with the posh life in their camping site. A storm hits the shore and washes away almost all distinctions between the rich and the poor.
May 2009
This is a story about a supernatural being named Tantos who lives on a red planet called Arbor Inversus. Tantos senses that the planet Earth is in danger and decides to do everything in his power to save the inhabitants of the Earth.
Jun 2021
Benign demon deeply disappointed with his life in hell and drunkard father one day decides to leave his home.
Jun 2012
An anthropomorphic robot-lamp lives in a world populated only by humanoid electronic beings. By accident, he finds himself in an awkward situation when he falls into the heart of a secret organization, now blind without his eye-lightbulb.
Apr 2021
When things go completely out of control, the main character must decide between accepting the reality or suffering through their own delusion.
Jan 2020
Communication is lacking. This can be felt, just like the things that can never be truly spoken. But lack does not mean a black hole, it is a space that fills itself.
Jun 2014
Three little wolves, two brothers and a sister, spend a late afternoon together.
Apr 2015
A fish is in a therapy session with a psychiatrist, complaining about its problems, but the psychiatrist is not taking it seriously and is making fun of it instead.
Jun 2024
Daily life of an old lady living all alone in a village in abandoned Zagorje. All houses are on sale and everyone is gone.
As years and years go by, a tiny civilization makes its way upwards.
A young man experiences other people’s lives and emotions. Unable to find his own self, he visits a psychiatrist who immediately diagnoses the problem. It can be resolved in ten steps, with the help of a cassette player. As the metronome sounds the start of the treatment, the patient is launched deep into his own subconscious.