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1992

At the railway siding

Petar Krelja

Croatia 1992

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Six seconds for life

Branko Schmidt

Croatia 1992

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Time of war

Mladen Krstanovic, Pavle Vranjican

Croatia 1992

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Dr. Franjo Tudman: Imamo hrvastku, I-II

Obrad Kosovac

Croatia 1992

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Destinies: Janko Bobetko

Miroslav Mikuljan 

Croatia 1992

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Hotel Sunja

Ivan Salaj

Croatia 1992

Hotel Sunja

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Žoran Šipos and his Jasna

Petar Krelja

Croatia 1992

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Zoran Šipoš and his Jasna

Petar Krelja

Croatia 1992

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Doli - the fragments of my childhood

Zrinko Ogresta

Croatia 1992

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1993

Necropolis Croatica

Mladen Lucic, Pavle Vranjican

Croatia 1993

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Scorched earth

Pavle Vranjican 

Croatia 1993

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Croatian rifles slung on croatian shoulder

M. Trnski

Croatia 1993

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Suzana´s smile

Petar Krelja

Croatia 1993

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The maize route

Petar Krelja

Croatia 1993

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The Hall

Croatia 1993

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1994

The Corridor

Vinko Brešan

Croatia 1994

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THE DECLINE OF THE CENTURY TESTAMENT L.Z.

Lordan Zafranovic

Croatia / Austria / Czech Republic / France 1994

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1995

Mother´s Name: Orange

Jasna Zastavniković

Croatia 1995

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The letter

Ivan Ladislav Galeta

Croatia 1995

A video letter adressed to two friends of the author, a Hungarian and an Englishman. A shot of the author sending (electronic) flashes with his hands. > more

1996

The Sky below Osijek

Zvonimir Jurić

Croatia 1996

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Eva's class

Petar Krelja

Croatia 1996

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Pag lace-making

Vlatka Vorkapić

Croatia 1996

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How the war started on my island

Vinko Brešan

Croatia 1996

How the war started on my island

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1997

Mirila

Vlado Zrnić

Croatia 1997

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Metropolis

Tomislav Rukavina, Stanislav Tomić, Dalibor Matanić

Croatia 1997

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Radio Krapina

Jelena Rajkovic

Croatia 1997

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Something personal

Tomislava Vereš

Croatia 1997

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1998

The Cormorant Scarecrow

Branko Ištvančić

Croatia 1998

The Cormorant Scarecrow

The Cormorant Scarecrow's basic intention is not to provide analysis of an economic problem, nor to offer solutions. This film simply wants to tell the story of a specific occupation, unusual not only because it is rare, but rounded out within it, I... > more

Duel

Zrinka Katarina Matijević Veličan

Croatia 1998

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American dream

Petar Krelja

Croatia 1998

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My brother Ante

Petar Krelja

Croatia 1998

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The Cormorant scarecrow

Branko Ištvančić

Croatia 1998

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Insanity and neurobiologie

Daniel Kušan

Croatia 1998

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Graham and me

Nenad Puhovski

Croatia 1998

Graham and me

Graham Bamford, a British citizen, has set himself alight on 29 April, 1993 in front of the House of Commons. He did this in an attempt to change the attitude of the British government towards the war in former Yugoslavia. > more

1999

Drinking water and freedom III

Rajko Grlic

Croatia 1999

Drinking Water and Freedom III is a documentary film whose story spans twenty-seven years, telling of the destiny of two stone memorial tablets and a brass water faucet, representing the everlasting change in the political reality of the area.... > more

Bag

Dalibor Matanic, Tomislav Rukavina, Stanislav Tomic

Croatia 1999

Bag

A Documentary about Karlobag, a small coastal town with very few people, a lot of trucks and heavy winds... A sad, funny and beautiful film. > more

The Fourth shift

Damir Cucic 

Croatia 1999

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Grandpa, batek, granny

Vlatka Vorkapic

Croatia 1999

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Marshal

Vinko Brešan

Croatia 1999

Marshal

Stipan, a young policeman working in Split, is punished for poor performance of his duties by being given a seemingly preposterous assignment. On the island where Stipan was born, several old retired men have been acting in a suspicious manner. They... > more

2000

Who wants to be a president

Rajko Grlic, Igor Mirkovic, Ivan Mirkovic

Croatia 2000

Who wants to be a president

"Croatia 2000" is a feature-length documentary film dealing with dramatic political events that occurred in the period between the death of Franjo Tudjman and the victory of Stipe Mesic at the presidential elections. > more

The years of rust

Andrej Korovljev

Croatia 2000

The years of rust

A story about workers at the "Uljanik" shipyard in Pula whose difficult and dangerous job is to apply anti-corrosion protection to ship metal. > more

Endart I – IV

Ivan Ladislav Galeta

Croatia 2000

Endart I – IV

ENDART is a sequel of the project “V.I.R.a.G.”, a work in progress based on the eighteen letters of the first sentence with intonation of James Joyce's Ulysses: 'Introibo ad altare Dei'. The sentence actually has nineteen letters, but when it is... > more

2001

A Day under the sun

Vlado   Zrnić

Croatia 2001

This poetic documentary film presents the one day events in the Zadar County. It starts late at night, during sleep. The sounds describe the nocturnal images – agitated animal-like bodies, empty streets and the allegorical scenes of a concealed... > more

The Counter

Dražen Žarković

Croatia 2001

The Counter

All the major communal utility services, including Electra (the power-supply company), are obliged to have one or two windows in their administration buildings where users can come to register their complaints. > more

Life in fresh air

Danko Volaric

Croatia 2001

Life in fresh air

Far from high politics and ideologies, geographically and metaphorically, the local politicians of the village of Djulovac in Eastern Croatia are forced to create and run their own strategy to establish communication between native Croats, native... > more

No jokes on line 310

Tomislav Mršić

Croatia 2001

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Rubikon

Željko Radivoj, Tomislav Gotovac

Croatia 2001

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Labour Day

Željko Radivoj, Antonio Lauer, Damir Cučić, Tomislav Gotovac

Croatia 2001

Labour Day

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Think pink

Aldo Tardozzi

Croatia 2001

Think pink

Many people have "pink dreams" but only two of them have tried to paint their realities in pink. > more

17 Stories

Lala Raščić

Croatia 2001

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OPERATION STORM

Božidar Knežević

Croatia 2001

OPERATION STORM

DOUBLE FEATURE In the course of “Operation Storm” in 1995, the Croatian army regained the territories of the “Republic of Serbian Krajina”, which Serbian volunteers had previously occupied and declared to be independent. > more

TRIUMPH OF EVIL

Mina Vidakovic

Netherlands / Yugoslavia / Croatia / Bosnia and Herzegowina 2001

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2002

The boy who rushed

Biljana Cakic-Veselic

Croatia 2002

The boy who rushed

This film is an intimate story about a filmmaker searching for her brother gone missing in 1991 during the recent war in Croatia. > more

Das Lied ist aus

Ivan Faktor

Croatia 2002

Das Lied ist aus

The 18-minute film was made out of 70 hours of material Ivan Faktor shot in Osijek in 1991 and 1992. The film is dedicated to Marlene Dietrich and Fritz Lang, because, according to the author, the situation in Osijek at the beginning of the war was... > more

The forgotten

Damir Cucic 

Croatia 2002

The forgotten

The film records a few months in the life of a community in the central part of the hills of Žumberak, about 40 kilometres from Zagreb. > more

Gay pride - Zagreb 2002

Hrvoje Mabić

Croatia 2002

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Gypsies in the rye

Jasmina Božinovska-Živalj

Croatia 2002

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Dreams from the railway station

Silvio Mirošničenko

Croatia 2002

Dreams from the railway station

A film about the life of the children who live, sleep and "work" at Zagreb's main railway station. It is also a story about their dreams, which will probably never come true. > more

PAVILION 22

Nenad Puhovski

Croatia 2002

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2003

Lucky Child

Igor Mirković

Croatia 2003

Lucky Child

During the eighties a fantastically popular music scene was born on the streets of the otherwise gray and sleepy Zagreb. The filmmaker recalls it all from his boyhood years. > more

All about Eva

Silvestar Kolbas

Croatia 2003

All about Eva

Director´s wife desperately wanted a child. This is the story of her struggle. Shot during extended period of time, film follows a couple (director and his wife) through numerous attempts, personal dramas and final success of the artificial... > more

Peščenopolis

Zrinka Katarina Matijević-Veličan

Croatia 2003

Peščenopolis

Peščenica is poor industrial suburb of Zagreb. In the past, it was declared to be a separate “State” in Croatia as a satirical mirror image of the contemporary Croatian politics. > more

Direkt: The Growing up of a generation "V"

Nebojša Slijepčević

Croatia 2003

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Do not come close

Mladen Dizdar 

Croatia 2003

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Krešo

Ana Trkulja, Ana Blažic, Ines Samardija, Marijana Brekalo

Croatia 2003

Krešo

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Everything´s fine

Dana Budisavljević

Croatia 2003

Everything´s fine

Lidija is porn actress with 107 films in her career. She's 35 years old. > more

The Wellman

Brano Ištvančić

Croatia 2003

The  Wellman

The main character of the documentary Wellman, Antun Gabajček – Nuno, is one of the last practitioners of an old and dying profession. > more

The Barge keeper

Silvio Mirošničenko

Croatia 2003

The Barge keeper

Portray of a man who takes care of the barges on the river Drava in the Eastern part of Croatia. > more

The House

Ana Hušman

Croatia 2003

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AGAINST ALL ODDS

Netherlands / Serbia and Montenegro / Croatia / Bosnia and Herzegowina 2003

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2004

Lora, Testimonies

Nenad Puhovski

Croatia 2004

Lora, Testimonies

A Film about the prison located in the frame of the military harbor "Lora" in Split where more than 1000 prisoners from Split, Dalmatia, Yugoslavia and Bosnia and Herzegovina were detained from 1992 till 1996. > more

Imported Crows

Goran Dević

Croatia 2004

A very intelligent and funny, yet very simple film about people and their “truths”. > more

Direkt: A perfect society

Hrvoje Mabić

Croatia 2004

Direkt: A perfect society

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La Strada

Damir Čučić

Croatia 2004

La Strada

Over a thousand meters long, and with 200 houses along it, the main street of the Istrian town of Vodnjan has been a showroom of crafts and trades for centuries, a stage for processions and carnivals, and a meeting point of various languages,... > more

Arebesque

Damir Čučić

Croatia 2004

Arebesque

Film follows and metrically structures the geometry of city surfaces and traffic directions, using the tram as a time capsule, and the opening of tram window as a frame of the urban landscape shot in movement. > more

LORA TESTIMONIES

Nenad Puhovski

Croatia / Serbia and Montenegro 2004

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THE FUGITIVES

Mirko Klarin

Netherlands / Serbia and Montenegro / Croatia / Bosnia and Herzegowina 2004

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2005

Facing the Day

Ivona Juka

Croatia 2005

Facing the Day

A documentary which centres on inmates of the prison in Lepoglava, Croatia, and their rehearsals for a production of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. > more

Direkt: Common people

Nebojša Slijepčević

Croatia 2005

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Welcome home, brother

Ivona Juka

Croatia 2005

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Cesar Franck - Wolf Vostell

Tomislav Gotovac

Croatia 2005

Cesar Franck - Wolf Vostell

The film deals with the great Paris organist / composer César Franck, who lived in the second half of the 19th century, playing popular melodies for hours and drinking absinthe with prostitutes in the bars of Paris. > more

Park

Saša Ban

Croatia 2005

We follow the film's protagonists – a girl chewing a gum, a pair of lovers, a local bully, a group of pupils and a random bunch of workers – as they spend their free time in a park. > more

From morning till evening

Dražen Žarković

Croatia 2005

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OF MICE AND MEN

Iris Elezi

Serbia and Montenegro / Bosnia and Herzegowina / Croatia / Albania / UNMI Kosovo (Serbia and Montenegro) 2005

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IZVAN RAZUMNE SUMNJE

Mina Vidaković

Netherlands / Serbia and Montenegro / Croatia / Bosnia and Herzegowina 2005

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LIVE AND DEEDS OF RADOVAN KARADZIC

Lazar Stojanovic

Netherlands / Serbia and Montenegro / Croatia / Bosnia and Herzegowina 2005

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RISE AND FALL OF GENERAL MLADIC

Lazar Stojanovic

Netherlands / Serbia and Montenegro / Croatia / Bosnia and Herzegowina 2005

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2006

Grbavica

Jasmila Žbanić

Bosnia and Herzegowina / Croatia / Austria / Germany 2006

Grbavica

At first glance, life in Sarajevo is much the same as in any other post- Communist state. But only the former Yugoslavia a few years ago was the scene of a war in which people were tortured, murdered, and systematically raped. > more

Dead man walking

Petar Orešković

Croatia 2006

Dead man walking

In September 2004, Himzo Muratovic returned from the dead. His village was burned to the ground in 1992 by Serb paramilitaries. Thousands of people in the area were declared missing. > more

Good morning

Ante Babaja 

Croatia 2006

Good morning

Ante Babaja´s last film is a personal documentary story about – him. He got as a gift a small amatuer Sony camera and started to film things that happen in his old people retirement home every day, where he lives after two strokes and two cardiac... > more

Once upon a time

Hrvoje Hribar

Croatia 2006

Carried away by the idea of a new fishing technique, a fisherman hochs all his owns and goes out to the sea to try his luck. Hos neighbours and family don't think much of his chances ... > more

I will kill you

Nikola Strašek

Croatia 2006

I will kill you

A tragic incident in 1998 changed the lives of three young men. On that fateful night, three friends decided to rob their drug dealer for fifty ecstasies. They arranged a meeting with him on a parking lot in Novi Zagreb. > more

The Haidari crisis

Tomislav Žaja

Croatia 2006

The Haidari crisis

Habiba Haidari and her seven children were quite sure that Sahi Ahmed, her husband and their father, was killed in a Taliban prison in Kabul (Afghanistan). They had no word from him for years, so no one knew that he had survived. > more

Half-sister

Ljiljana Šišmanović

Croatia 2006

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DEAD MAN WALKING

Petar Orešković

Croatia 2006

DEAD MAN WALKING

DOUBLE FEATURE Nine years after the end of the war Himzo Muratović, who was offi cially declared dead and given the status of Bosniak “šehid” (a martyr fallen on the battlefi eld), re-appears in his village, obviously very much alive. > more

2007

Radio 101 Independence Day

Vinko Brešan

Croatia 2007

While Croatian President Franjo Tuđman is lying in American Walter Reed Hospital treating his ulcer, one hundred thousand people have gathered to fight for the life of a local radio station! Who lied? Who fought for democracy? > more

Queer

Hrvoje Mabić

Croatia 2007

Alex has never felt good in a female body. Jelena grew up with a liberal world perception, her environment however doesn't accept her because of her male features. > more

Bad blue boys

Branko Schmidt

Croatia 2007

Bad blue boys

This is a film about the impossibility of Croatian war veterans to socialise into today Croatian society, due to the fact that in Croatia – a country in transition in which the unscrupulous capitalism rules, only a few understand their illness and... > more

At home

Gjorce Stavreski

Macedonia / Croatia 2007

At home

The film follows life destinies of eight people with Macedonian and Croatian origin each living in the others’ country. > more

2011

LAND OF KNOWLEDGE

Saša Ban

Croatia 2011

LAND OF KNOWLEDGE

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On April 2009 students begin their 35-day occupation of the lecture theatres in Zagreb University’s faculty of humanities and social sciences. Free education for one and all, they chant,... > more

2012

FAMILY MEALS

Dana Budisavljević

Croatia 2012

FAMILY MEALS

“We never, ever talked about anything!” The director’s four-strong family has come together to celebrate a double birthday. Once they sit down to eat the filmmaker finds words to express emotions she has kept silent about up to... > more

2013

MARRIED TO THE SWISS FRANC

Arsen Oremović

Croatia 2013

MARRIED TO THE SWISS FRANC

The dream of home ownership suddenly seems less remote when banks are willing and eager to furnish a loan. For some 120,000 Croats, however, the sweet and simple deal turned out to be misleading if not to say deceptive. Encouraged by politicians and... > more

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