Kinematograf

Family tensions are slowly eroding what should have been a carefree summer for the young boy Jakov. A series of events ending in tragedy will incite his emotional revolt against the grown ups, but also his sense of guilt.

Visually engaging segments are combined with the testimonies of four female partisans.

It is 1995. Mahir is a 38-year-old refugee from Bosnia, with unknown history, living in the hotel Pula, modified into a refugee centre. His days are monotonous and empty, and his history is unknown. A spark of life comes when Una, a young girl from Pula, is drawn to him. Until the past catches up with him.

Matea is a twelve-year-old whiner who hopes her birthday party will make her more popular at school. Nera is a girl at a crossroads in life. An incident in front of a shopping mall could give her a new perspective on things. Miran is a new husband, son-in-law, and a father-to-be who is simply trying to move his things to a new apartment with the help of neighbors who start giving him a hard time. Three neighbors on the verge of a breakdown on a winter's night.

It is the International Women's Day. Today, a Police Inspector Danijel will finally show his affection to his colleague Stella. Today, a victim of domestic violence Milica will finally report her abuser. However, the inevitable encounter between the two of them will ruin their plans - while trying to resolve Milica's life drama, Daniel's own life drama takes place without him taking part. What can bring down the walls of these two lonely worlds? How much can we put up with, just to feel loved?

The thematic framework of the anthology feature film DEEP CUTS is violence in all of its forms: as a destruction of intimacy, family, integrity, trust.

An exploration of the personal experience of leaving, returning to and re-shaping identity. Its structure revolves around the depiction of Neli Ružić's site-specific sculpture Before the Dawn and Bogdan Bogdanović's monument Guardian of Freedom, both of which were set around the Klis fortress in different times, left to entropy and social change. The state of these sculptures activates the archaeology of time, invisible and erased history. The intention of the work is to use the mediums of film, narration and image to evoke the entanglement of personal, autobiographical and historical situation, individual and collective memory, as well as the concept of identity as an unstable construct.

Early 20th century London. Detective Gloria Scott and her companion Mary Lambert are spending a quiet evening in their office. Then, an unknown murderer kills Professor Jansen on their doorstep.

A film that emerges from the sonic and visual power of a concert by Croatian musicians Alen and Nenad Sinkauz and a performance by Dutch-Indonesian dancer Marije Nie. Historical denial, collective violence and resistance are intertwined.

A former soldier in a peace-keeping mission. A woman who survived the violence of the war. Somalia, former Yugoslavia. Two different wars, two different stories, crossed by a single thin line: following it, we meet the linkages between violence against women and the rituals of the patriarchal military communities. Up to discern the cultural and historical roots of male violence against women.

Istrian traditions, singing, culinary delights. All that in the time-honoured ritual of pig slaughter or prašćina. What is the importance of meat today and can we give up its utilitarian rudimentarity in the face of political, ecological, nutritionist, and other contemporary trends?

Dragoslava has four TV sets, three grandchildren, two best friends, and a husband with whom she fights over a remote control. She keeps her private archive of memories of all major events in recent political history of five countries in which she has lived, without ever moving from her apartment. She is a trained poll monitor, passionate about her right to be in the minority, but more and more desperate as another early election approach.

Twenty years before Croatia’s EU accession, immediately before the war in former Yugoslavia, the first colony of cultural refugees from Zagreb arrived in Amsterdam. The film reconstructs the life stories of the members of the cult dark noise band SexA.

After more than 160 years of existence and numerous magnificent ships that sailed from its facility, the Pula shipyard "Uljanik" became a graveyard of abandoned workshops, steel wrecks and unmovable cranes. In this post-apocalypse landscape, which today is inhabited by loud seagulls, half-starved cats and crayfish, we are caught up with the emotional testimonies of former workers..