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- A film on its director, Silvestar Kolbas, his wife Natasa, and their three children - Jakov, Eva, and Ante.
- The story of the Croatian writer, journalist and columnist Zeljko Spoljar and his alter-ego Pavle Svirac, who, in turn, writes under the pseudonym - Literary Groupie.
- A short documentary about Kashikul Vicenza, a 62-year-old postman. It covers a field of 50 villages and hamlets of the picturesque interior of Istria. This documentary was shot before his retirement and talks about this valuable and respected man.
- Pero Kvesikis very ill: only twenty percent of his lungs are functional after smoking for most of his life, yet despite his illness Pero embodies, through his passion for life, the optimistic tone of the motto that is the title of the film "while I breathe, I hope"
- Dubica is a documentary film about Hrvatska Dubica, a village on the river Una, on the border of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. This place never recovered from the destruction in the 1990s Croatian War of Independence.
- Twenty years after the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the director decides to find the actors from a film he made as a student "titled Haustorce". The winds of war have scattered the boys far away from their hometown. In his search, the director embarks on a journey around the world, hoping to recover the lost pieces of his own past along the way.
- In a period deemed today as particularly innovative and fruitful for Croatian culture, there were several important gathering places of the 70's and 80's generation in Zagreb, but one has escaped the public eye - the House in Kraljevec 35.
- The clash of two worlds in the present-day Europe. As the indigenous population seeks to defend the status quo against escalating immigration, the newcomers are burdened by their own displacement. Forced to flee their homes, they are trying to adapt to the strange new environment.
- A biographic documentary about a punk-rock icon who surpassed the music and became a symbol of common sense and free thinking.
- Aircrafts, tanks, bombs, automatic rifles, media and propaganda were the Homeland War weaponry of choice. Nevertheless, the loudest were the songs. Ones used them to describe the nightmares that befell them, others to confirm their political loyalty. The national TV broadcaster considered music an important form of political 'fight', so they commissioned, financed, recorded and intensely broadcasted it. Even twenty years after the end of the Homeland War, its soundtrack still attracts attention and sparks emotions. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, patriotic music played an extremely important role in the political changes occurring in all the former Yugoslavian countries, especially in Croatia. In the first multi-party election after the Second World War, the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) beat the reformed communists with a great help from music, which in 1990 took an active part in boosting the national spirit. The system changed - from a unitary, socialist Yugoslavia to an independent and democratic Croatia - but the structure of music serving political goals remained the same. Open aggression in Croatia in the autumn of 1991 sparked an impulse response from musicians like never before - from fiddlers and tambura players, to pop singers, to dance musicians, to rockers and punkers. The national broadcaster, Croatian Radio Television (HRT), became their most powerful sponsor - it commissioned new patriotic songs, broadcasted the existing ones, organised and funded countless patriotic music festivals and charity concerts, enabled many patriotic music videos to be recorded. Only in the first few, the most intense months of war, several hundred new songs were recorded. Their final number still remains unknown. However, many of them have not survived the war, and the story of them is still unfinished and untold. With appearances by: Zrinko Tutic, Vera Svoboda, Josip Ivankovic, Mladen Kvesic, Davor Gobac, Boytronic, Sandra Kulier, Mario Peso, Borut Separovic, Miroslav Lilic, Ante Perkovic and many others.
- With his film Generation '68, the author makes a homage to the generation with which he shares his youthful enthusiasm and the idea about a revolution that will change the world, while being "realistic and demanding the impossible". At the same time he questions the true impact of these changes on social and - probably more important - private level. Having ideas is easy; making them look credible to the generations that follow is somewhat more difficult. By rejecting the ideals of the 1968 as unworkable, the new generations are coming up with some of their own, maybe even more unrealistic ones...
- A documentary film about a family secret conceived decades ago on 'an island of broken souls' and a painful past slowly transforming into history.
- The film explores the international community and Croatian human rights organizations' accusations of war crimes committed after the wartime Operation Storm. In summer 1995, the Operation Storm resulted in final liberation of the occupied territories in Croatia. Minister Cacic's comment on the burning of Serb houses in Krajina area immediately after the operation triggered uproar among the members of HDZ party. Five years later, some dramatic facts leaked to the public, revealing that - as it seems - not everything had been taking place in accordance with the rules of war.
- 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.
- Milan and Silvana live in Medulin, a small coastal town in Croatia. Milan breeds cows on a nearby island, as many have done before him, but Silvana wants much more than that.
- Cedo is a documentary film about Cedo Saraba, a man pushed off the stage, the likes of whom we see daily in streets, parks and trams, collecting plastic bottles and scrounging money. Cedo is 45. He is homeless, alcoholic and drug addict with no legal income. His mother is a Croat and his father is a Montenegrin. Cedo's parents moved to Zagreb in the 1950s: mother came from Croatian Podravina and father came from Bosnia. Cedo was born in 1965 (he was named after his father's brother). His mother worked as bookbinder. She also cleaned houses of wealthy citizens. Father was a machinist, but he never really worked: he was a bum, alcoholic and womanizer. Besides Cedo, he had at least five more children. He never recognized them because they were all born out of wedlock. He only recognized Cedo (who has his family name) and his stepsister, who lives in Switzerland. He lost his life in a bizarre accident: while jumping off a train, he ran into a lamp post and died. At the time of his father's death, Cedo was 16 months old and his troubles were yet to begin. At the age of 12 he started to drink. At 16, he was diagnosed with alcoholism. Although a Catholic, baptized by Franciscan monks, he and his mother were harassed because of their family name in the 1990s. Cedo's first name was not very popular either. The 1990s also saw him becoming addicted to heroin. Cedo Saraba and a few of his mates agreed to tell their life stories.
- Behind the Looking Glass is a self-portrait made by combining a series of film clips dating back from 1965 to the present-day (showing how other people perceive the author) and introspectively made video footage of the author, made over the past decade. The film is a collage and a dialogue; it confronts the author's life and those of twenty or so characters that she played in her career.
- This film depicts the issue of white plague (depopulation) on the example of a village in Slavonia, becoming symptomatic of the current conditions in the country.
- The unresolved 1991 murder of the young Sisak girl Ljubica Solar inspired the director to tell a story about the young generation he himself belongs to. The lives of these people were to a large degree affected by the war and they are facing the eternal small-town dilemma: to go or to stay? By telling a story about a dead girl and her mother - who has an idea who the murderers of her daughter might be but gets no help from anyone - Devic also tells a story about Sisak's dark side. I Have Nothing Nice to Say to You is a documentary film noir about a city that the war has made even darker than it would normally be. Owing to the unusual blend of a socially relevant subject and a highly aestheticized auteur style, one critic called this film "Croatian documentary (anti)Twin Peaks"!
- Cheese and Cream is a film-essay about Zagreb's milkmaids and deep crises of political will and national identity in the period between 2002 to 2006. Milkmaids, one of the symbols of Zagreb, have become an endangered species due to the economic turmoil of a society in transition. On top of it all, they may become extinct soon because their way of production and sales does not meet European standards. Can milkmaids and cottage cheese join the European Union and how? Who are they, anyway? Should they survive and why? Who can help them and how?
- The film, made in the comic-esthetics itself, deals with the life and work of Edvin Biukovic - Eddy, one of the most acclaimed Croatian comic-strip artists. Although he drew Star Wars episodes in the U.S., in Croatia he was almost anonymous. He died in his early thirties. Eddy's Gone is also a story about the comic-strip culture in Croatia
- Category: Optimist is a film about coping with a potentially lethal disease - leukemia - and everything that comes after treatment. When patients get well, owing to a fortunate combination of medical science, doctors' efforts, help from family and friends and one's will to fight, their lives change completely. In the challenges ahead, the most important thing is to stay optimistic.