A dark subtle poetry about return to nothingness and death written on 16mm color reversal film. The film tries to bring out a environment that deposits at the bottom of everyone’s life. The title of the film means the “cradle” in Croatian language. It is the same peace in the cradle and the grave.
An anthropomorphic figure with an elephant's head stands in front of a mirror. As we sink deeper and deeper into layers of a strange organism that resembles a nervous system and a plant at the same time, the character reacts in a violent way.
This film tells about how women idealise and romanticise love affairs, and all they do and tolerate to be loved.
Eva and Mia are sisters. Mia is cheerful, open, has Down syndrome, doesn‘t care much about the fashion and loves people. For ten years Eva has been filming Mia and herself in order to comprehend their relationship.
Market shoppers use all of their senses when trying to ascertain whether the groceries are local or imported. The privileging of local produce over imported goods is ever present regardless of whether or not the groceries actually are better, this follows to lines of argument – that by buying Croatian produce they are supporting Croatian agriculture and that domestic produce is familiar and tastier, although it is not the origin of the goods but the method of its production that counts. They rather chose to buy local goods simply because it is "our" , Croatian, local produce, and not some foreign, unfamiliar and alien foodstuff which is therefore deemed of lesser quality.
Second and last documentary film with remastered WWII archive talks about the Croatian aviators - Croatian Luftwaffe Legion under Wehrmacht, who fled from Eastern Front to the Soviet side (June 1942). One defected voluntarily while other didn't.
Through the lense of Eastern philosophy and martial arts, writer and director Ivan Ožegović explores not just Hong Kong, but also his own internal landscape.
A documentary about the sudden rise to fame of Alen Vitasović, an ordinary man from the village of Orbanići, whose sudden rise to fame in the Croatian musical industry shocks everyone, including himself.
Clips from the everyday life of a cultural worker problematize some of the conditions and ways of working in the independent cultural sector. From flexible working hours, underpayment, project financing, multitasking several jobs at the same time, to the problem of resting for which there is no time at the end of the day.
Inside a fragmented miniature space of a diorama, this space appears as a compact and idyllic whole with a breath of warmth and coziness of a sunshine-flooded home. However, in reality, this is a cluster of small, broken, dissected walls and facades alike those that the artist uses in her animated puppet films. Besides highlighting the indexicality of the filmic space, this work reflects on the idea that home (for this author) is not a fixed place and a stronghold, but an illusionistic hideaway, where the fragmented space of the miniature holds such attributes as a fragile feeling of security.
Ivana, a succsesful, albeit heavily traumatized and psychologycally damaged reporter, decides to take her husband Zoran and ten year old son David on a vacation on the Adriatic coast. However, after Ivana snaps and physically assaults her son, cracks in her and Zoran's relationship begin to show.
After money that was being saved for a man's funeral mysteriously vanishes, chaotic disarray begins growing within a family's ranks. However, amidst all of that chaos, the man's widow finally manages to find her voice and begin to take charge as an unexpected matriarch.
Jelena is conducting a population census. She knocks on the door of Marko, her former friend. What begins as Jelena’s job slowly turns into a quiet companionship in which the two unravel the layers of their past friendship.
Pavilion 22 deals with one of the darkest episodes of recent Croatian history - the events in the infamous pavilion at the Zagreb Fair in 1991. The film reveals a completely unknown and dark side of the events that took place within the Zagreb Fair complex in the fall of 1991 when war broke out. Originally conceived as a center for the mobilization of police reserve forces, the pavilion soon became a transit camp for all suspects, mainly of Serbian nationality, from where many were taken to Pakračka Poljana by the so-called Mercep unit.
Two roommates navigate the ups and downs of shared living, which take an unexpected turn when a mysterious visitor joins them one night.
The painter is always stopped by a butterfly before making his first brushstroke. Even global disasters seem to be part of his artistic misfortune. And when he finally succeeds, his success vanishes like the flutter of butterfly wings. Can the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil really cause a tornado in Texas? The butterfly is there—but the effect is not.
We follow the course of the Zrmanja river, from the hydroelectric power plant to its mouth, recording the coexistence of nature and industry in an area on the brink of an ecological disaster.
Being a nurse is a special calling that only a few individuals can really find themselves in. But what really goes on behind close doors and how do the backbones of medicine deal with everyday life, stress, burnout and hellish working conditions?
The medieval orders of Knights Templar and Knights Hospitalier had done wonders for modernizing the Croatian region of Slavonia and introducing the highest standards of civilization known in the medieval era amongst its world of merchants, craftsmen, farmers and cattle herders. However, how much of their influence can be felt there to this day? And how much was lost in the sands of time?
