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Browse 44 movies from Akademija likovnih umjetnosti
Three little wolves, two brothers and a sister, spend a late afternoon together.
Apr 2015
Every person we know, love and live with carries a stranger in their head. And they know we do too.
Jan 2017
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
A short opera inspired by Aesop's fable The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle.
Jul 2020
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
Our Problems is a short animated film about the importance of everyday pleasures, difficulties and issues from the protagonist's point of view, and their relative immateriality compared to the WHOLE UNIVERSE. The greatest problem in the world is the greatest only in this world and no matter how big and important we think it is, the rest of the universe is oblivious of it.
Jun 2017
A small raccoon is happily decorating his den. Without any worries, he goes to sleep. The next day a lumberjack suddenly appears and destroys the den that the raccoon loves so much.
Oct 2021
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
Miranda prepares for her mother's arrival. While preparing, she is interrupted by a small Beast from whom Miranda really wants to escape. Realizing that he cannot escape, he decides to hide from the Beast and hopes that his mother will not notice. Miranda will have to face her aggressive mother and herself.
Jul 2025
Benign demon deeply disappointed with his life in hell and drunkard father one day decides to leave his home.
Jun 2012
A watchmaker's apprentice realizes that the perfect clockwork can be made only if he sacrifices himself completely.
May 2013
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
Exhausted by her monotonous everyday routine, young Tufna decides to end her life. As she prepares the noose in her room, the world around her turns distorted and strange.
Jun 2024
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
Through life each person needs to deal with certain obligations and responsibilities. While most people only feel discomfort, others experience anxiety over performing even the simplest tasks wrongly.
Jun 2018
Daily life of an old lady living all alone in a village in abandoned Zagorje. All houses are on sale and everyone is gone.
Jan 2020
We follow Emma, a young painter with a desire to create, through the process of facing her feelings of frustration, hopelessness, inspiration, excitement and, finally, pleasure. In the process, she dives into her imagination, a place she wishes to reach with her art.
Jun 2022
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.
A story that follows two young people who find themselves at a bus station at 2 o'clock in the morning. The young woman Alisa is suspicious and unwilling to engage with the young man, Erik. Slowly, they start a superficial conversation, through which their memories emerge, offering us an insight into their problems.
As years and years go by, a tiny civilization makes its way upwards.
Jun 2021