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A mother brings her teenage son to Sarajevo, where his father died in the Bosnian conflict years ago.

Aleksi is a disaffected 28-year-old who ignores her pressing responsibilities by following her impulses with various men.

'Lara's Choice: The Lost Prince' is a 2012 Croatian movie based on the popular television show 'Lara's Choice'. The plot is a direct continuation of the first season finale.

The documentary explores the lives of Canadair pilots, their routine during the continuous, multi-month shifts at the Croatian Air Force base in Zemunik, and what a firefighting operation entails.

By filming on the actual locations traversed by Marco Polo, the series brings to life the authenticity of the local peoples from the standpoints of ethnology, historiography, culture and economics. We follow the exact route depicted in his book, Il million, documenting the peoples, customs and cultures along the way to bring into sharp relief the cultural differences within the Asian mainland. Viewers are introduced to their development, becoming familiar with three completely different and, to us, relatively unknown spheres of civilisation and religion - Arabic Islam, Indian Hinduism and Oriental Buddhism. The host takes us through regions and cultures that may seem exotic - and, at times, dreamlike - in our search for the evidence of Marco Polo's passage. Interviews with common folk bring to light amazing facts and tales of unfamiliar customs, beliefs, crafts, attitudes and value systems that have developed in Asia over the millenia. The series' depiction of these faraway lands is based on contrast. Magnificent edifices like temples or palaces are juxtaposed with the details from a masterfully crafted vase. The war tactics of the Mongolian army, the greatest military force of its time, are contrasted with the life of today's Mongols in their quaint yurts. The closed Burma (Myanmar) is compared with the opening of China. Each episode forms a whole connected by the thread of Marco Polo, with the entire miniseries linking not only Polo's travels, but the world's largest circles of civilisation (European, Arabic, Indian and Oriental). Finally, the series explores the sensations of wonder and magic, which have changed little in the seven centuries since Marco Polo's time - which might be stronger than ever, especially for us Europeans.

Naked middle-aged man comes out of the sea and starts to climb up steep rocks of a deserted island. Soon he descends to a big empty sandy beach where his wife and a six-year-old daughter are passing time. Their mutual inability to communicate (woman refuses to interact with the man, girl is bored playing in the sand...) is being observed by another woman who is fishing in a boat anchored in front of the beach. When tension develops into violence, the three members of the family will become two, and finally - at the open sea - only one person remains trapped by its own emotions.

Phil island-hops in Croatia, where he dons a snorkel and has a run-in with sea urchins, feasts on fresh seafood and enjoys a happy dance-inducing gelato.