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Lapitch the Little Shoemaker (1997)

Fed up with the harsh treatment his master has given him, a brave little mouse (and later his dog, Brewster) sets off on an adventure.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Milan Blažeković
CAST:  Ivan Gudeljević  •  Maja Rozman  •  Tarik Filipović  •  Pero Juričić

Fed up with the harsh treatment his master has given him, a brave little mouse (and later his dog, Brewster) sets off on an adventure.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Milan Blažeković
CAST:  Ivan Gudeljević  •  Maja Rozman  •  Tarik Filipović  •  Pero Juričić

When the Dead Start Singing (1998)

At the beginning of 1990s, two Croatian emigrants, economically minded Cinco and politically minded Marinko, arrive in Croatia from Germany, homesick for their families and hometowns. In order to get a German pension, Cinco pretends to be dead and travels in a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Krsto Papić
CAST:  Ivo Gregurević  •  Ivica Vidović  •  Mirjana Majurec  •  Ksenija Pajić

At the beginning of 1990s, two Croatian emigrants, economically minded Cinco and politically minded Marinko, arrive in Croatia from Germany, homesick for their families and hometowns. In order to get a German pension, Cinco pretends to be dead and travels in a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Krsto Papić
CAST:  Ivo Gregurević  •  Ivica Vidović  •  Mirjana Majurec  •  Ksenija Pajić

Number 55 (2014)

In the autumn of 1991, a small group of Croatian soldiers go on patrol in an improvised armored vehicle. Soon after that they would get ambushed and their vehicle would get destroyed, in that situation they were forced to hide in a nearby house. Whilst stationed in ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kristijan Milić
CAST:  Goran Bogdan  •  Marko Cindrić  •  Alan Katić  •  Dražen Mikulić

In the autumn of 1991, a small group of Croatian soldiers go on patrol in an improvised armored vehicle. Soon after that they would get ambushed and their vehicle would get destroyed, in that situation they were forced to hide in a nearby house. Whilst stationed in ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kristijan Milić
CAST:  Goran Bogdan  •  Marko Cindrić  •  Alan Katić  •  Dražen Mikulić

The Priest's Children (2013)

Don Fabijan is a young priest who comes to serve on an unnamed small island in the Adriatic. In order to help increase birth rate on the island, he decides to pierce condoms before they are sold. He therefore teams up with the newsagent Petar and the pharmacist ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Vinko Brešan
CAST:  Krešimir Mikić  •  Nikša Butijer  •  Marija Škaričić  •  Jadranka Đokić

Don Fabijan is a young priest who comes to serve on an unnamed small island in the Adriatic. In order to help increase birth rate on the island, he decides to pierce condoms before they are sold. He therefore teams up with the newsagent Petar and the pharmacist ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Vinko Brešan
CAST:  Krešimir Mikić  •  Nikša Butijer  •  Marija Škaričić  •  Jadranka Đokić

Seventy-Two Days (2010)

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 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Danilo Šerbedžija
CAST:  Rade Šerbedžija  •  Krešimir Mikić  •  Bogdan Diklić  •  Živko Anočić

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 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Danilo Šerbedžija
CAST:  Rade Šerbedžija  •  Krešimir Mikić  •  Bogdan Diklić  •  Živko Anočić

Is It Clear, My Friend? (2000)

A cruel world of the Yugoslavian prison during 1980s, based on real events about a man who gets life sentence for committed crime.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dejan Aćimović
CAST:  Milan Pleština  •  Milivoj Beader  •  Ivan Brkić  •  Ljubo Zečević

A cruel world of the Yugoslavian prison during 1980s, based on real events about a man who gets life sentence for committed crime.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dejan Aćimović
CAST:  Milan Pleština  •  Milivoj Beader  •  Ivan Brkić  •  Ljubo Zečević

Tressette: A Story of an Island (2006)

Three friends in desperate search for the fourth player of the card game called tressette.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dražen Žarković
CAST:  Josip Genda  •  Žarko Potočnjak  •  Siniša Brajčić  •  Trpimir Jurkić

Three friends in desperate search for the fourth player of the card game called tressette.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dražen Žarković
CAST:  Josip Genda  •  Žarko Potočnjak  •  Siniša Brajčić  •  Trpimir Jurkić

Witnesses (2003)

Set amid the atrocities of war in the Balkans, Witnesses is retold, Rashomon-style, from various characters' viewpoints, adding new information about the complexity of war and humanity. Beginning inside a rustic house with a woman in black (Mirjana Karanovic) ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Vinko Brešan
CAST:  Leon Lučev  •  Alma Prica  •  Mirjana Karanović  •  Dražen Kuhn

Set amid the atrocities of war in the Balkans, Witnesses is retold, Rashomon-style, from various characters' viewpoints, adding new information about the complexity of war and humanity. Beginning inside a rustic house with a woman in black (Mirjana Karanovic) ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Vinko Brešan
CAST:  Leon Lučev  •  Alma Prica  •  Mirjana Karanović  •  Dražen Kuhn

Celestial Body (2000)

When two enemy sides ex-change the captives in the middle of a minefield, a nameless man without identity and memory, subsequently named Jakov, leaves the column unnoticed and wanders around in order to minimize other people's sufferings. On his dangerous journey, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lukas Nola
CAST:  Filip Nola  •  Filip Šovagović  •  Barbara Nola  •  Leon Lučev

When two enemy sides ex-change the captives in the middle of a minefield, a nameless man without identity and memory, subsequently named Jakov, leaves the column unnoticed and wanders around in order to minimize other people's sufferings. On his dangerous journey, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lukas Nola
CAST:  Filip Nola  •  Filip Šovagović  •  Barbara Nola  •  Leon Lučev

God Forbid a Worse Thing Should Happen (2002)

The adventures of a small town Croatian family during the 1960s. The decade will leave eternal marks on all of their members, but most of the story focuses on the youngest one, a boy, Frula, who discovers the love and fashion of the time.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Snježana Tribuson
CAST:  Luka Dragić  •  Filip Ćurić  •  Ivo Gregurević  •  Mirjana Rogina

The adventures of a small town Croatian family during the 1960s. The decade will leave eternal marks on all of their members, but most of the story focuses on the youngest one, a boy, Frula, who discovers the love and fashion of the time.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Snježana Tribuson
CAST:  Luka Dragić  •  Filip Ćurić  •  Ivo Gregurević  •  Mirjana Rogina

First Class Thieves (2005)

A story involving a group of traveling actors who perform at an experimental prison where the thieves have first class comforts provided to them by a reformist warden. Ironically the troupe performs a play named The State Thief, a play about thieves for thieves.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Fadil Hadžić
CAST:  Goran Grgić  •  Emir Hadžihafizbegović  •  Franjo Dijak  •  Mladen Vulić

A story involving a group of traveling actors who perform at an experimental prison where the thieves have first class comforts provided to them by a reformist warden. Ironically the troupe performs a play named The State Thief, a play about thieves for thieves.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Fadil Hadžić
CAST:  Goran Grgić  •  Emir Hadžihafizbegović  •  Franjo Dijak  •  Mladen Vulić

24 Hours (2002)

A two-part omnibus consisting of b/w comedy about a group of friends who try to cover up a murder, and thriller set in an abandoned warehouse where three policemen guard their witness-collaborator who claims "they" will come and shoot them all.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kristijan Milić  •  Goran Kulenović
CAST:  Hrvoje Kečkeš  •  Janko Rakoš  •  Lucija Šerbedžija  •  Sven Šestak

A two-part omnibus consisting of b/w comedy about a group of friends who try to cover up a murder, and thriller set in an abandoned warehouse where three policemen guard their witness-collaborator who claims "they" will come and shoot them all.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kristijan Milić  •  Goran Kulenović
CAST:  Hrvoje Kečkeš  •  Janko Rakoš  •  Lucija Šerbedžija  •  Sven Šestak

The Living and the Dead (2007)

In 1943, group of Croatian soldiers overtake a strategically important point in western Bosnia with a goal to destroy a group of communist partisans. On the way they met some supernatural phenomena, and the action itself went very badly because the partisans ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kristijan Milić
CAST:  Filip Šovagović  •  Velibor Topic  •  Slaven Knezović  •  Marinko Prga

In 1943, group of Croatian soldiers overtake a strategically important point in western Bosnia with a goal to destroy a group of communist partisans. On the way they met some supernatural phenomena, and the action itself went very badly because the partisans ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kristijan Milić
CAST:  Filip Šovagović  •  Velibor Topic  •  Slaven Knezović  •  Marinko Prga

Love Life of a Gentle Coward (2009)

Sasa is an unsuccessful writer who works as a restaurant critic. His life starts to change when he meets and falls in love with Ines who works in a private sports center. However, things get complicated when he writes a bad review for the restaurant owned by a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Pavo Marinković
CAST:  Nenad Cvetko  •  Dijana Vidušin  •  Siniša Popović  •  Jan Budař

Sasa is an unsuccessful writer who works as a restaurant critic. His life starts to change when he meets and falls in love with Ines who works in a private sports center. However, things get complicated when he writes a bad review for the restaurant owned by a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Pavo Marinković
CAST:  Nenad Cvetko  •  Dijana Vidušin  •  Siniša Popović  •  Jan Budař

Storm (2009)

Hannah Maynard, a prosecutor of Hague's Tribunal for war crimes in former Yugoslavia, charges a Serbian commander for killing Bosniaks. However, her main witness might be lying, so the court sends a team to Bosnia to investigate.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hans-Christian Schmid
CAST:  Kerry Fox  •  Anamaria Marinca  •  Stephen Dillane  •  Rolf Lassgård

Hannah Maynard, a prosecutor of Hague's Tribunal for war crimes in former Yugoslavia, charges a Serbian commander for killing Bosniaks. However, her main witness might be lying, so the court sends a team to Bosnia to investigate.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hans-Christian Schmid
CAST:  Kerry Fox  •  Anamaria Marinca  •  Stephen Dillane  •  Rolf Lassgård

National Hero Lily Vidic (2015)

This comedy of the absurd is set in the Nazi puppet Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during World War II. The hero, Ljiljan is a young peasant poet who joins the Partisan movement just before it falls apart, abandoned by its leader Tito. The last remaining hope ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ivan-Goran Vitez
CAST:  Kristijan Jaić  •  Stjepan Perić  •  Tena Jeić Gajski  •  Ivan Đuričić

This comedy of the absurd is set in the Nazi puppet Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during World War II. The hero, Ljiljan is a young peasant poet who joins the Partisan movement just before it falls apart, abandoned by its leader Tito. The last remaining hope ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ivan-Goran Vitez
CAST:  Kristijan Jaić  •  Stjepan Perić  •  Tena Jeić Gajski  •  Ivan Đuričić

As a Bad Dream (2003)

Story about people and their destinies, frustrated by war traumas who try to erase memories of their past.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Antonio Mitrikeski
CAST:  Loris Curci  •  Robert Englund  •  Tamara Garbajs  •  Fehmi Grubi

Story about people and their destinies, frustrated by war traumas who try to erase memories of their past.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Antonio Mitrikeski
CAST:  Loris Curci  •  Robert Englund  •  Tamara Garbajs  •  Fehmi Grubi

Anka (2017)

A fairy tale set in the bucolic countryside of Central Europe at the turn of the 20th century. Anka, an orphan girl, bravely sets off in the pursuit of a home, facing the hardships of life, and ultimately finds her place with the help of a magical world and its ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dejan Aćimović
CAST:  Cvita Viljač  •  Éric Cantona  •  Anđela Ramljak  •  Linda Begonja

A fairy tale set in the bucolic countryside of Central Europe at the turn of the 20th century. Anka, an orphan girl, bravely sets off in the pursuit of a home, facing the hardships of life, and ultimately finds her place with the help of a magical world and its ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dejan Aćimović
CAST:  Cvita Viljač  •  Éric Cantona  •  Anđela Ramljak  •  Linda Begonja

Dead Fish (2017)

Drama set in a small provincial town in post-war Croatia about 20 locals who try to understand why one of their neighbors killed himself.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kristijan Milić
CAST:  Dragan Despot  •  Nermin Omić  •  Dražen Mikulić  •  Saša Anočić

Drama set in a small provincial town in post-war Croatia about 20 locals who try to understand why one of their neighbors killed himself.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kristijan Milić
CAST:  Dragan Despot  •  Nermin Omić  •  Dražen Mikulić  •  Saša Anočić

Three Stories About Sleeplessness (2008)

It is nighttime. In Croatia, a young woman cannot sleep because her baby keeps crying. Her mother-in-law is also being kept awake by the baby's crying and she is not shy about offering unwanted child-rearing advice to her daughter-in-law. In Spain, a young husband ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tomislav Radić
CAST:  María Almudéver  •  Jasna Ančić  •  Dražen Bratulić  •  Žuža Egreny

It is nighttime. In Croatia, a young woman cannot sleep because her baby keeps crying. Her mother-in-law is also being kept awake by the baby's crying and she is not shy about offering unwanted child-rearing advice to her daughter-in-law. In Spain, a young husband ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tomislav Radić
CAST:  María Almudéver  •  Jasna Ančić  •  Dražen Bratulić  •  Žuža Egreny
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