El Shatt – A Blueprint for Utopia

El Shatt – A Blueprint for Utopia 2023

1

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 to seeing in recent times. But the year is 1944, and the refugees are travelling 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 years under the tents in the middle of Egyptian desert, in a kind of a communist model village that was formed to show the Allies how the new Yugoslavia will look like when the war ends. This is a story about them.

2023

What Iva Recorded

What Iva Recorded 2005

8.40

Iva is a girl who receives a small digital video camera for her fourteenth birthday. Delighted by her new toy, the girl immediately starts taping everything around her, recording a series of events surrounding her birthday celebration on her first tape. These ninety minutes form the film What Iva Recorded on October 21st, 2003.

2005

Escort

Escort 2023

3.80

For the first time in his life, Miro (40) spends the night with a prostitute someone sent to him in a hotel after a business.

2023

The Lost Dream Team

The Lost Dream Team 2025

7.00

On the 1991 European Basketball Championship an incredible event occured. A team of some of the greatest Balkan basketball stars accepted gold and watched the flag of their country be lifted up. The flag of a country that no longer existed.

2025

Hives

Hives 2012

6.00

Thursday morning, Jerusalem. Nira goes to work. Ahmad in London does the same, Ralf in Cologne and a priest in Prague too. Matija, Croat, goes to work as well. Ok, he doesn't, but he acts as if he does. Ahmad is taking his routine red bus journey. Out-of-breath young man comes in and interrupts it. Schoolteacher Nira is also interrupted - her pupil jumps out and performs a love rap song he wrote for her. The priest in Prague doesn't feel like singing today, he is in the mood for (over)sleeping instead. Someone falls asleep, someone else - Ralf - falls in love. All five mentioned above are listening to the top-news about the disappearance of bees. And trying their best, each one of them in his or her own 'hive': Zagreb, Jerusalem, London, Cologne, Prague...

2012

See You

See You 1995

5.00

In the war-driven Balkans in 1991, four friends meet to pay respect to a dead friend...

1995

Goran

Goran 2016

5.33

Goran just wants to drive his taxi and take care of his blind wife Lina. But people close to him have their own agendas and dreams which threaten his carefree existence. In the idyllic surroundings of snow-covered Gorski Kotar, the fiery personalities of the highlanders surface and collide.

2016

Extracurricular

Extracurricular 2019

1

The recently divorced father of a nine-year-old, furious his daughter can't spend her birthday with him, bursts into her classroom with a birthday cake and a rifle. A hostage crisis ensues, and the mayor of the town in which the events take place will try to use the situation to gain advantage ahead of the elections, stopping at nothing. The son of a young policeman is in the same class, and before the events unfold, he'll have to answer a question as well.

2019

Agony

Agony 1998

1

To pay off his gambling debts, Lembach, an ex-officer of Austro-Hungarian army, extorts money from his wife Laura and her lover Krizovec. Krizovec himself has a love affair with Russian countess Georgievna, who herself is also into romantic relationship with another Russian countess. This tetragonal love affair comes to its boiling point.

1998

Unclean Spirit

Unclean Spirit 1970

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A father and son from Croatia visit a Slovenian exorcist, hoping to solve the supernatural problems that are plagueing the latter's life.

1970

Basketball Mozart

Basketball Mozart 1996

1

Film is about one of all time best basketball player from Europe - Drazen Petrovic, who after successful career in European league played in the NBA. He died in 1993 in a car accident in Germany.

1996

Fuck Off I Love You

Fuck Off I Love You 2017

3.60

Alvin signed a book deal for a book depicting love in modern age based on his own experiences. But he did not count on the fact that return to those experiences hurts.

2017

Debut

Debut 2018

1.00

Ivan has just scored a goal and rushes to kiss Marko.

2018

Seventy-Two Days

Seventy-Two Days 2010

6.30

A family from isolated village in Lika makes a good living out of American pension earned by their late granddad Djuradj and received by his widow Nedja. The very existence of a family is threatened when Nedja dies, but the head of the family comes up with a cunning plan.

2010

Koko and the Ghosts

Koko and the Ghosts 2011

4.50

Young Koko has just moved with his parents from his idyllic countryside home to a big city. There, with the help of his new friends and a neighbour he investigates the mysterious case of a dead old man who used to live in the flat he has just moved into. Koko and the Ghosts is a family film based on a popular Croatian series of young-adult novels written by Ivan Kušan.

2011

Even Pigs Go to Heaven

Even Pigs Go to Heaven 2022

6.50

A road trip comedy about a pig that is about to lose her virginity amid a brewing war.

2022

Metastases

Metastases 2009

7.06

Eliciting images of cancer, this drama explores the illnesses that plague modern Croatia. Four young junkies in Zagreb maturing in the wake of war reflect the petty hatreds, violence, prejudices and mood hanging over the country like a disease that spreads with no cure in sight.

2009

Lonely

Lonely 2024

1

Just as the sun is setting on his life filled with disappointment and regret, an old man finds hope in an unlikely friendship.

2024

100 Minutes of Glory

100 Minutes of Glory 2004

5.30

True story about the tragic life of a famous late 19th century deaf female Croatian watercolor painter Slava Raškaj.

2004

Recognition

Recognition 1996

1

During the war, Ana lost members of her family and was raped by a member of the Serb paramilitary forces. Years later, she accidentally sees her tormentor in the middle of Zagreb. She goes to the police, but the man who fits her description was allegedly killed in the war. While nobody believes Ana, the murderous rapist is determined to eliminate her.

1996