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Neda moves from Croatia to New York and struggles to find a new home despite being far away from her estranged father, the only family she's ever known. Things seemingly change when she discovers Electronic Witches, a fictional queer internet bad whose music begins to create solace for her loneleyness. Her enjoyment quickly turns into obsession which seemingly transports them band from the wavelengths of the Internet into our world.

Filmed on 16mm film, this visual expression is rooted in its archival materials and backed up by the poem by Hans Magnus Enzensberger. It speaks of the forgotten people, their lives and their deeds. These two Archives have been found on the flea market in Zagreb. One is of a famous architect and the other one is of a famous composer. This film ponders on this occurrence, on the vanishing of and forgetfulness of humans.

Who am I, what is my real nature? If my real nature puts no one in jeopardy, what is stopping me from living a life that is full, perhaps the only one I’ll get?

One day, my granny dyed her wedding dress black. She wanted to be buried in it.

Horizon is an intimate story about the sea in the midst of an ecological crisis. In the collective imagination, the open sea and its isolated islands have always been a place of longing, contemplation, escape, even salvation. But, can these places still provide an escape in a time of global warming and pollution? This film essay, shot on the remotest and most isolated island in the Adriatic, observes the primordial seascape and the layered environmental changes that surround it.

Presented in the form of a series of fictional letters sent from Nina Kurtela to Aki Kaurismäki read against a backdrop of atmospheric exterior shots, Dear Aki is an experimental visual-narrative essay on the nature of identity, nationality and belonging in the globalized world.

The main character is trying to give an answer to a simple question. He is wandering through a labyrinth of intuitive visions. In some particular way this question seems to determine his life. His answer is always the same - Do we have any answers to the big important questions.

On a paradise island, not everything is as perfect as it seems. A found footage film made out of crime scene photographs discovered in a deserted police station in Croatia.

In the “White Horse” café, waitress and guests apathetically go through their routines. Meanwhile, the reality surrounding them seems to destabilise more and more: between white noise and the sound of tuning forks, between daydreams of galloping knights and ever-growing mountains of drizzling packet sugar. Ivana Bošniak Volda and Thomas Johnson Volda pile up layers of these images and sounds, until they crack – and clear the way to breathe.

The water reached up to our necks, and very soon, over our heads. The mountains became islands and the islands became hills in the darkness of the deep. The palms became sea anemones and the sea anemones remained what they were. The Wall Street was still full of sharks. Venice floated a while longer, and then… If a global catastrophe is a state of mind, then music is the raft.

Striking black-and-white animation traces the expansion of creatures from land, sea, and air. A film premiering at Klik Animated Film Festival.

During the 90's, Croatia suffered systematic destruction of its anti-fascist monuments. By combining the images of these impressive works of abstract sculpture with the potent nature surrounding them, Monument creates powerful visual metaphors.

A grandiose transoceanic cruise liner sails the seas.

An idyllic day trip to the countryside unexpectedly turns into a test of a romantic couple’s relationship.

An animated short drawn in chalk.

A ghostly lo-fi work about an apparent seance.

What is this force that defies gravity, a force so powerful that drives plants to reach up and imbues us with the strength to sail against the current? If we let go to its upward motion, it carries us to a wonderful ease. Raise your sail and catch the leeway...

Experimental animated short film which combines pictorial elements in order to dialogue with our recent history and the ancestral times.

L.H.D.'s song Tzar of Premantura inspired this stop-frame animation showing the fictional process of healing and repairing a city (Sisak, Croatia) that had lost its former industrial strength and overall beauty. After the war and privatization came the pandemic and the earthquake that left the city scarred. But, broken and forgotten things can be fixed.

Animated film by Marko Tadić reflects his interest in producing imaginary, fictive narrative worlds that are exploring models of the history and future alterations. This animation is a part of the installation combining cut-outs and objects, and refers to several literary SF classics.