A documentary film about the Yugoslav Feature Film Festival in Pula, in the period from 1953 to 1991, a festival that primarily gathered cinematographers from all the socialist republics of the former Yugoslavia until its tragic collapse. However, the film is not only about that. It is primarily a presentation of the socio-political circumstances in which the festival was founded. Through the t...

Exhibitions, performances, village work, art, meaning, man and nature... A short half-experimental report brings some ideas filmed during the performance and an exhibition in Šikuti, on the 11th of June, 2022.

A film about a generation of Bosnian youth from the city of Mostar swept by the devastating war at the brink of the their maturity and tough decision to escape from it. Their exile stories from 90's, contained in letters mailed to the director of this film from refugee camps scattered across Europe are confronted with present condition of the city they were forced to leave. A film about missing...

My father used a camera just once in his lifetime. After 30 years he ask me to digitize the VHS material he filmed. I was wondering what he remembers.

The film touches on some historical facts about the largest refugee camp El Shatt in the Sinai desert in Egypt during WWII, based on materials from Croatian and international archives and intertwined with the visuals of this desert non-place now. An attempt to reconstruct a fragmented memory of unknown history about migration in the Mediterranean as a transtemporal filmic journey.

A letter from home.

Hundreds of frozen and starved people floating on boats in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea fleeing from the war... Familiar scenes that we are used seeing in recent times. But the year is 1944, and the refugees are traveling from Europe to Africa. After Italian capitulation, and before the arrival of German army, 28 000 Dalmatian Croats left their home villages and towns to live for two yea...

Gender transition is no different than any other human change. It has its ups and downs, scary, funny, strange, surprising, and frustrating little moments that are rarely talked about. This short film visually explores these moments through the eyes of Espi - a 24-year-old protagonist that just went through the transition.

After a friendly amateur football match, the author unexpectedly gets a visit from an old "friend"

The term "Horror Vacui" was coined by Aristotle, and it means fear of empty space. It is used as a metaphor of the fear of the uncertain future that causes feelings of anxiety and loneliness. With its one-take sequences and free-associative editing style this meditative film sends out warning of the growing hyper-militarization of the world we live in, and what it causes to the human...

Animals from Eastern Europe for the Italian food/meat industry used to be transported to the towns along the state border in Northeast Italy. From those conveyor-belt spaces of death, only one animal managed to come in and out alive.

The Kantrida Stadium had its spotlight in the 20th century, one of the memorable moments of all the people of Rijeka will forever be the historic match in 1999. A match that is perhaps best to be forgotten.

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 house was built by stage director Slobodan Praljak, and over the course of years it was inhabited and frequented by a large number of peers who, regardle...

On the border between Serbia and Croatia, a region where the bloody Yugoslav war still reverberates, there is a pile of sand in the Danube that someone wants to turn into a new nation. In 2015, the micronation of Liberland was founded by a Czech politician who claims to have planted his flag in this no man's land. As the first president of Liberland, he is trying to shape his country. Is it ide...

In Melita Vrsaljko’s debut film "Knin – Zadar", we follow the daily routine of the director’s father, a railroad shunter at the Benkovac railway station, where time seems to have stopped sometime in the last decades of the 20th century. The basis of this film’s dramaturgy is a subtle counterpoint between serenity and expectation achieved by minimalist and static shots of a space in de...

30-year-old Pero goes from garage to garage and tries to go drifting. Even with his mom, he has nothing else to talk about. Pero spends his days trying to live his dream - fry tires.

In "Scenes with My Father", filmmaker Biserka Šuran, takes her father on a trip down memory lane in which she revives scenes from their country of birth, former Yugoslavia. Memories are reflected in cinematic decor sets in which they converse about nationality, identity, love, dreams and regrets. Love letters, archive material and anecdotes from family members give the audience an ins...

Through a blend of analogue photography and digital video feedback, this film delves into the complex relationship between mental illness and demonic possession.

Looking for a cinematic subject in a sparsely populated area of north-western Istria, students are faced with history written on a seemingly idyllic landscape. Faced with traces of history, they begin to question their own relationship to the space in which the line between idyll and reality is becoming increasingly blurred. "Terra Magica" was created as part of the hybrid film worksh...

Although a constant and seemingly always the same, Big Breakwater Volosko is constantly changing. Period of the day, period of the year, locals with their daily routines, tourists, children explorers, bora, jugo... All this builds the character and the song of a place whose primary function is to protect the port of Volosko from strong winds and waves. An audio-visual meditation that creates a...

The film was created during Filmaktiv' New school of documentary film exercise in filming space or place. It shows an atmosphere of a bar and it's own little world which is loved by the director and visitors shown. Second living room.

The film follows three women, Aleksandra Pleša, Diana Primožić and Nina Rosić, who dedicated their lives to caring for and adopting abandoned dogs. Nina is a volunteer at a shelter for neglected animals in Crikvenica and says that this is her meaning in life. She was also active in the area of Banija, where she led a large dog rescue project after the earthquake. Aleksandra works with the shelt...

Six gamers meet for the first time in the sandbox video game Garry's Mod where they are free to build their environment. While playing, they chatter about the medium of video games, the freedom it allows and how it satisfies their needs. The game setting is mirrored then in the physical environment. We see gamers sitting together in the laboratory of the Faculty of Civil Engineering reflecting...

Landscape in a small fishing port. Playful alternation of day and night, light and darkness, beautiful memories and loneliness after the disappearance of a person. Longing for the good old days.

This documentary-feature film chronicles a human tragedy. It brings the testimony of the surviving participants of the tragic march across Matić poljana in the winter of 1944. Due to the controversies that followed this event, the author's intention was to deprive this story of any political-ideological influences.In the winter of 1944, the partisan units of the Second Brigade of the 13th Primo...

Zahra and Maria meet at university in Bucharest in the 1970s. When the hope of political change draws Zahra home to Iran they are forced apart. For the next decade, their only way to communicate is through letters. Divided by two revolutions, their words describe women struggling to be heard, countries moving in different directions, and two souls united in their longing for each other.

In an intimate interview with the protagonist, the author goes with her through the detailed stages of her rare and long-term chronic disorder. The author wants to ask questions about whether we can develop a sense of empathy or whether it is overcome by a sense of outrage and misunderstanding.

We enter every relationship burdened by identities we have bequeathed from our primary families, be it economic, social or religious. Love, marriage and parenthood between the Croatian woman Tea and the Roma man Mirsad seem in that sense like mission impossible, because their daily life will become scrutinized by their families’ completely different value systems and customs. Burdened by rigoro...

Searching for the rhyme of image and meaning. Inspired by 1973 Bas Jan Ader series of photographs "In search of the miraculous (One night in Los Angeles)".

This hybrid film takes us on a journey into a world without men. Reality and subconscious mixes in an intimate encounter with ancestresses. The author silently questions: „How does it feel to have a family tree consisting only of women? What do our ancestresses whisper from their silent portraits?”.

This observational documentary film shows a large number of Istrian residents connected to the promenade of Franz Josef I, its buildings, beaches and the sea. We follow the lives of individual people and their direct interactions with other people through the changes of the seasons, thus showing how these same changes also affect the promenade itself during the tourist season and after it. The...

This film was made as an epitaph to Martin Semenčić, the renowned sound designer. Through a form of video diary following Martin on his trip to Pula film festival where won one of his five golden arenas for sound design, we get to know him as an energic, positive and humorous person.

This essay film explores the technological evolution of military bunkers built within the San Francisco Bay’s eroding coast. The film observes a dynamic geological relationship between the literal structures of colonial power, and the land itself. Against the backdrop of a changing landscape and its mythology, the film looks at the evolution of military technologies of seeing.