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- 2Fik's work questions identity, gender and prejudice. In this documentary, he is followed by Benjamin Sylvand's video camera while working on his recreation of a Croatian Painting 'Hrvatski Narodni Preporod'. The painting by Vlaho Bukovac is one of the most respected and known artwork as it shows every important character of Croatian cultural and political history. 2Fik's aim was to queer out a sacralized nationalist painting. This documentary help us to discover how he did it, respecting his creative process of doing everything on his own, thanks to a camera, a remote control and lots of accessories.
- After General Flavius Aetius frees the Roman Empire from the clutches of Attila the Hun, Rome is once again secure. However, this assurance is short-lived, as Attila is no longer a threat, it only brings the Germanic tribes to once again unite against Rome. As the growing power of General Flavius Aetius becomes a threat to the Roman Senate, and the Emperor of Rome, Flavius becomes a victim of assassination to the Roman political hierarchy, which leaves Rome to two decades of corruption and turmoil. This unrest causes an intense decline in its infrastructure, finally brings the Empire to its inevitable demise. Leaving the Barbarians to finally fulfill their 400 years old dream, to destroy Rome once and for all.
- In 2002, the Psychiatric Hospital Lopaca in Croatia started admitting children with behavioral disorders. Soon, controversial stories about the treatment of children began to spread.
- Scenes from a production of The Diary of Anne Frank are combined with footage of young Palestinians talking candidly about war, first love and topics that Frank wrote about as a teenager.
- "Arvydas Sabonis.11" is a documentary movie about the legendary Lithuanian basketball player. This movie is made for Lithuanian basketball legend Arvydas Sabonis with an aim to mention his 50th anniversary celebration. Arvydas Sabonis is the most famous athlete in Lithuania, who has been proclaiming and still proclaims our country with his sport achievements all over the world. We finally understood the importance of our legend only after we had a chance to meet and talk with NBA legends, the world famous coaches, teammates of A. Sabonis, managers and his main opponents on the pitch.
- Passion. Endurance. Change. Fear. Rebirth. Dreams. All these motives are intertwined through six life stories filmed in six countries in Europe. Even though all different the heroes of the documentary are interconnected with cycling as a way of life. A change is the highlight motive that also connects all six stories, which illustrate cycling as a medium for self-knowledgement, therapy for the mind and body, something that inspires and motivates.
- Children of Transition is a coming-of-age story about David, Natalija, Lana and Marta. After an excellent performance before the scouts of FC Barcelona, eight-year-old David, called 'Messi from Slavonski Brod' by the media, cannot wait to be invited to La Masia. This inexistent piece of paper is the basis of David's dreams, but also of the dreams of his entire family of five. Eleven-year-old Natalija comes from a modest background, does not have a smartphone and other trendy things. Because of that she is bullied by her classmates and is forced to change school. Six-year-old Lana spends her days changing clothes, putting on make-up, dancing and playing games on her cell phone. A teenage life defined by bullying at school and on social networks became unbearable for fifteen-year-old Marta... What do a happy childhood and healthy growing up look like? Are they possible in a society which has not yet reached its own maturity? This is a film about the environment we create for our common future.
- Linda and Eta, two 14-year-old girls, best of friends, retreat to a secluded beach beneath the cliffs of Dubrovnik; the morning after, only one of them returns.
- The most popular children's magazine in Yugoslavia was called Modra lasta (Blue Swallow). In 1969, it created Lastan. For hundreds of thousands of children Lastan was a mythical hero who helped unhappy and confused little souls. Each child imagined him differently and felt confident to share with him what they could not confess to anyone else: Dear Lastan, I kissed him, am I pregnant?; Dear Lastan, I fell in love with a boy from my class... For decades Lastan was a legend and the best kept secret in journalism. This film, for the first time after almost five decades, reveals his true identity.
- In 2010, two young Irish guys quit their jobs, packed their bags and set themselves a challenge - cycle 26,000km's across 27 countries on 5 continents in 11 months. Drawing from over 40 hours of footage shot by Larry and Kev, 'Endure' gives you a first hand account of life on the road. We see what inspired them and we see how this once in a life time experience continues to effect their lives.
- Nenad Bach was a rock star in his native country, Croatia, but in1984 he made the decision to expatriate in order to follow his dream of finding a U.S. market for his music, in an industry dominated by youth and pop culture. He has never given up. Most importantly he remains committed to his work as a 'citizen of the world', a tireless antiwar activist, the driving passion which infuses his life and the music he creates. Everything is Forever delves deep into the soul of an artist, who to this day has unfinished business.
- Can the family survive? A space in jeopardy. A family in jeopardy.
- Final destination shopping spree: Global Shopping Village shows shopping center developers at work. We get to know their strategies and follow them into the intricate networks of international assets and corrupt politics. But their actions are not without consequences. At three representative locations in Austria, Germany and Croatia critics and industry insiders guide us through the multiple effects: we visit a city that has lost its function, see the blossoming of boom and bubble, and experience how resistance gradually begins to form. This Austrian documentary shows that the real estate industry does not only have an impact on the global financial system, but that it also dramatically changes our cities and our living environment.
- A documentary film about a family secret conceived decades ago on 'an island of broken souls' and a painful past slowly transforming into history.
- In a last desperate attempt to save the relationship with the man of her life, filmmaker Tatjana Bozic dives into her past and makes a kaleidoscopic journey past her ex-men in order to find out what is wrong with her.
- Based on a true story. Massage salon business, which Ann is running with her best friend Vicky, is not going anywhere. It was a last resort to help her financial troubles. Loans, debts and bills are direly overdue. Even her good friend, loan shark Zi, is losing patience. Not ready to step into 'happy endings' with her massage services robbing the bank seems like if not the only but for sure very pragmatic solution. Especially since Sam, third in a trio of best friends, is branch assistant manager. Shortly after the first robbery Ann, Vicky and Sam realize that even more money is needed to make life better. As if the the monetary is the only problem to be resolved.
- Il Viandate - The traveler, that is how the painter Zoran Music saw himself. Music spent his time between Venice with his muse Ida Cadorin Barbarigohe and Paris.
- IN THE SHADOW OF WAR tells the compelling stories of four young people as they struggle to survive a war that ended nearly 20 years ago. The physical conflict is over - but its psychological impact continues. Can they break the cycle of violence?
- The film focuses on a young unemployed working-class family and their everyday struggle for survival. The family is like any ordinary European family, trying to make a living with the work of their hands. Due to the global economic crisis their life ends up in a blind alley. Everything looks as if there is no way out. That individuals cannot fight against injustice, misery, the unseen authority of the capital.
- Going through personal crisis, Tihi is struggling between two extremes: come to be through music career or to take easy way.
- The movie follows the lives of five friends - four lesbians and a transsexual person - in a span of seven years, from 2007 to 2013. Ana, Noah, Mima, Helena and Ivana were going through a number of intensive emotional turmoils, discussing them, while cameras were rolling.
- Love Island tells the story of a pregnant French woman who lives in Sarajevo with her Bosnian husband and their daughter. They go for a vacation at a Croatian island, where things get complicated when they all become attracted to a beautiful woman.
- It seems that football is still the most important thing in Koko's life. Zlatko is still spending every second reading books and scolding Koko for being immature. To prove him wrong, Koko tells him that he is in love with a mysterious girl. His love for her is not making him happy. And the girl he is in love with, is just as magical as the heroines in the novels Zlatko reads.
- You can't turn back time.
- Mitch is an artist, Mitch is schizophrenic. That's what he claims, facing the camera. This is his self-portrait, showing a man of 40 who uses the camera and film as a form of therapy. Mitch takes us with him on a meteoric journey through his environment, the psychiatric hospital where he lives. He films and asks questions about sex and beauty, and he rants but also sings, shouts about politics, rebels, scrutinizes, worries, and laughs too. He films with "gloves off" and without any sense of measure. But that's not all. It is also a journey through the margins of a country caught up in the traumatic aftermath of recent history.
- A local barber in a small Serbian village comes up with an idea to erect a monument to Michael Jackson to attract tourists from around the world. Some locals like the idea others do not. And then we take a special Balkan ride.
- Croatian singer/songwriter/poet tells the story of his life.
- Mystery: Born to Rock is a story partly inspired by real life events. From the turbulent streets of the western suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, emerges a story of hope as four young boys overcome adversity to conquer the odds and live the dream. From the land of AC/DC, a new chapter in Rock history is born and Mystery are taking the world by storm!
- In the late 1980s, a boy has been found in the mountains of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Nobody knows how he came about in the wild, nor if animals fed and raised him.
- In the autumn of 1991, a small group of Croatian soldiers go on patrol in an improvised armored vehicle. Soon after that they would get ambushed and their vehicle would get destroyed, in that situation they were forced to hide in a nearby house. Whilst stationed in that house they would get attacked by rebel Serbs, Serbian Special Forces and the JNA (Yugoslav People's Army, also reffered to as Yugoslavian National Army). Their resistance to the attackers would last 24 hours whilst their fellow combatants would attempt to try and get them out of there. The movie and story is based on true events which happened during the Croatian War of Independence.
- Sea, rocks, sheeps, moonscape... What in the world could be fun here? That was the question that Axwell, one of the world's most famous music producers and DJs, was asking himself on his first drive to the island of Pag. Just a few hours later, he admits his thoughts were already totally different - beautiful beach full of happy people dancing all day and night in the great atmosphere of the crazy party that goes on and on! Thats exactly why Papaya club became one of the hottest world's party destinations. This is the story about Zrce Beach on island of Pag, situated on the Croatian side of Adriatic - the story that attracted millions of young partygoers from all around the world and created a new image of the island of Pag and Croatia. Fifteen years ago, Zrce beach was just one of thousands beautiful beaches on the Croatian coast, not much different from others just another summer resort for local and regional tourists, campers and families with only one summer club called Kalypso. Right until one day, when a few visionar youngsters from Zagreb who were already famous for their student and thematic parties, recognized the potential of Zrce beach. Their start was modest in 2002 - an open air venue with only one bar and just a few beach umbrellas! The next season they named the place Papaya. At the same time, Aquarius club opened right next door. Although you might think that the opening of a competition is something purely negative, the clubs together attracted a big mass of young people looking for great summer parties! After few summer seasons, Papaya became internationally known, the place expanded, clubbers from all over the world started discovering Papaya and by 2010 Papaya became an ideal place for performances of world's biggest DJ names. And they say theyre happy to come back every year! Papaya was the first club to promote Day & Night festival with 7 out of Top 10 DJ names such as Tiesto, Armin Van Buuren, Swedish House Mafia, Axwell etc.
- CONSUMED is a film about life's most important minutes. The protagonists of the film are persons over the age of 55 - those who have more than 30 million minutes of life behind them. The most important minutes in their lives have already happened and their last minute is drawing nearer and nearer. The film follows the protagonists from the point they answer a public invitation to persons over the age of 55, it shows their partaking in an audition and in the process of making a theatre performance and a documentary film. They are challenged to tell about the most important minute in their life in as many seconds as their age. They talk about life and death, happiness and pain in a brutally honest way. Are they "consumed", and if so, is it because the best years of their life are behind them? Or are they "consumed" because they live in a society that casts them away and treats them as a burden and a redundancy. The documentary CONSUMED records the process in which the protagonists become more than just randomly gathered individuals: As a collective, they have to deal with the decades of their own silence and to take the responsibility for the world in ruins they are leaving to the new generations. Because of the fact that they grew up and were working in a completely different social system, the protagonists question whether they in their 30 million minutes have missed to contribute to their society and community. Do they have the strength and determination to prove that they are not "consumed" and to give the minutes they have left for a better and a more just society?
- Kralj and Joke are small time crooks, with their unsuccessful attempts to get rich. They arrive at the small local fair with intention of selling smuggled cigarettes, but they immediately get into trouble. First they got into an argument with an old woman (who calls police) and then they force a group of former drug addicts to give them their booth with souvenirs. Soon, Kralj is caught by police and sentenced to 6 months of prison, while Joke manages to escape. Joke seeks help from a mutual friend Sporki to rescue Kralj, and together they forge a plan that will not go as smoothly as they expected.
- Seeking Truth in the Balkans explores the legacy of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) from the human rights versus the jurisprudential perspective. We explored the insights of over 100 persons who were engaged with ICTY either in the region of the Balkans or at the Hague. In 1993 the UN Security Council unanimously voted to create a Tribunal to prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide attributed to the worst bloodshed in Europe since the Second World War. Twenty-one years have passed the Tribunal is wrapping up its cases. With over 161 indictees all accounted for, what will be the true legacy. Was peace, justice, reconciliation or truth achieved by this landmark experiment in international law. This film attempts to explore these questions by visiting those in the region most impacted by the decisions of the Tribunal.
- Football seen through the eyes of directors from several parts of the world.
- When the Croatian War of Independence ended, Bosnian Croats whose villages had been destroyed in the fighting were forced to relocate. They were rehoused as refugees in the homes of Croatian Serbs who had left Croatia. Now, the Serbian owners are returning and the Croatian residents are facing an uncertain future. Somewhere in this powder keg atmosphere, an old man called Jozo, a Bosnian Croat, disappears without a trace. The police officer Filip, who also lives in a Serbian house, is entrusted with the case. Everyone believes that a returning Serb has murdered Jozo, but Filip launches an in-depth investigation, determined to be unbiased and fair, even though he has his own ghosts from the past to deal with. Through his relationship with his father, Filip tries to understand the real reasons for the old man's disappearance. As the film moves towards its climax, Filip's investigation becomes more and more personal.
- The most popular news in 2013, according to Croatian online portals, was the tragic death of Dolores Lambasa. The documentary observes the final year of her life and her intense relationship with the media.
- A father and a son live in a poor area, near the Bulgarian-Turkish-Greek border.
- Three stories that take place in one night gradually build a bleak picture of Ivo's life.
- 'The Weight of Chains 2' is a documentary film largely dealing with the effects of the Washington Consensus economic doctrine on the newly established former Yugoslav republics, but also with neoliberalism as an economic concept. Through interviews with Noam Chomsky, Oliver Stone and many others, the author, Serbian-Canadian Boris Malagurski, attempts to analyze why so many people in the Balkans are disappointed with the systems imposed after the fall of socialism and how capitalism could be improved. Looking at the examples of Ecuador and Iceland, the film tries to uncover alternatives to the prevailing orthodoxies of Western economic dictates and help developing nations find their own way to shape their economies and their countries.
- A hitman arrives in Zagreb to perform a task. In the mosaic structure and collision of surreal and real situations, the trajectory of the main character will intertwine with several characters. His past and inattention cause many misunderstandings that lead to tragic consequences.
- After their son has been beaten up in the street, parents find their world of false security collapsing and have to re-examine their lives and question everything into what they believed.
- Friends and colleagues talk about Niksa Fulgosi, an eccentric TV host from the 1970s.
- Kreso becomes victim of an unjust social system and various life situations that unfold one after another, gradually leading him to utter financial and existential destruction, while he is powerless over the outcome and can do nothing to change his life for the better. He finds self-achievement only in the video blog (vlog) he occasionally shoots where he reveals his positive thoughts on life.
- A persistent rain falls on Zagreb. That day Janko finally decides to take the threads of his life in his own hands. For him this means, before anything, an attempt to establish a relationship with Iva who he has wanted to approach for some time followed by dealing with his aging father Franjo, a miserable translator who needs an escort to an award ceremony where he will receive an award for lifetime achievement. Iva and Franjo have their own secrets that they don't want to keep to themselves and also ideas of how this rainy day should go. Someone should, in the end, walk the dog.