DIRECTED BY Rea Rajčić

HR • 2023 • 13' • short • documentary • drama, comedy

Production: Eclectica

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Funded by HAVC

1001 Nights tells the story of Ema (85) and Maja (80), the most loyal viewers and the funniest critics of Turkish soap operas. For the last five years, Ema and Maja have spent every evening together, watching Turkish series in Ema’s apartment in the Mediterranean town Split as a way of coping with loneliness. This is a story about a microcosmos that appears where we least expect it, but when we need it the most. It is a story of a friendship that started when everything else ended.

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DIRECTED BY Trifun Sitnikovski

MK, HR • 2024 • 21' • short • fiction • romance, drama

Production: DNF Films (MK)
Co-production: Investigative Reporting Lab Macedonia (MK), Izvan fokusa d.o.o. (HR)

• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

After receiving a letter from the college in Amsterdam to which she applied, Nadia must decide in which direction to continue her life and education. Her best friend Ivan is both a support and a weight, due to the confusing feelings that develop between the two of them. The tension in their relationship can change their plans for the future forever.

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DIRECTED BY Renata Lučić

HR • 2024 • 70' • feature • documentary

Production: Wolfgang i Dolly

• Debut film
• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

Tomislav and Joso are in their 50s and we find them living without their wives. The women went to work abroad a few years ago, in search of better lives. There they found new partners and decided to stay permanently. Tomislav and Joso are still married to their wives, but the marriage exists only on paper.  

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DIRECTED BY Vida Skerk

HR • 2024 • short • fiction • fantasy, horror

Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti Sveučilišta u Zagrebu

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Film produced within a film school or a film academy
• Funded by HAVC

After waiting an eternity hiding in the shadows of a gloomy town, Aleksandar unexpectedly meets the love of his life again and questions whether a tragic fate is inevitable for both of them, or if they're getting a real second chance.

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DIRECTED BY Slobodan Tomić

HR • 2023 • 7'25'' • short • animation

Production: Zagreb film

• Funded by HAVC

Aleph represents a unique point through which we can see all events in space and time. It depicts the spot from which one can see every event on this planet. The protagonist entangles in a world of simultaneous events. Passing through Aleph's portals, he experiences humanity's sufferings. The accent is on continuous metamorphoses, as well as the atmosphere of anxiety complemented by noises from radio and TV sources, screams, growls... His character has constantly been changing, unable to find intense incorporation. Ultimately, the protagonist assumes the identity of Aleph.

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DIRECTED BY Ivana Šoljić

HR • 2024 • 3 • short • animation • animation

Production: Akademija likovnih umjetnosti u Zagrebu

• Debut film
• Film suitable for children up to 12 years old

While driving on a road in the middle of the forest, a man and a girl in a car face a beast that awakens personal urges in each of them. In one, the animalistic, predatory drive without limits, and in the other, the instinctive drive for survival. All this is observed by a seemingly harmless viewer.

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DIRECTED BY Igor Mirković

HR • 2024 • 82' • feature • documentary

Production: Motovun Film Festival

• Funded by HAVC

In a small town in a small country, a local photographer has a big idea: at the turn of the millennium, in order to make a record of his contemporaries, he will photograph as many of them as possible. His Millennium Photography project grows beyond all expectations as hundreds of thousands of people pose for his camera. Following his actions, we become familiar with his subjects: they are the final generation of analog people, living in small towns on the outskirts of Europe. Perplexed by the rapid acceleration of technological progress, they anticipate the coming of a world they don't understand, and are struggling to preserve their way of living.

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DIRECTED BY Ena-Sanan Hdagha

HR • 2023 • 91'30'' • feature • documentary

Production: Maxima film

• Debut film
• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

To avoid military recruitment and killing, the 14-year-old boy Khaled flees Syria across the Balkan route. On his journey, he grows into a determined man with one goal, to be reunited with his family in love and peace, far away from war.  

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DIRECTED BY Monika Mohr

HR • 2024 • 5 • short • animation • animation

Production: Akademija likovnih umjetnosti u Zagrebu

• Debut film
• Film suitable for children up to 12 years old

Behind the scenes is a story that follows two young people who find themselves at a bus station at two in the morning. The young woman, Alisa, is suspicious and does not want to make any contact with the young man, Erik. However, they slowly start a superficial conversation, through which their memories emerge, and we gain insight into their problems.

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DIRECTED BY Luka Mavretić

2024 • 75' • feature • documentary

Production: 4Film (HR)

• Debut film
• Funded by HAVC

A young screenwriter and a poet, obsessed with the art of filmmaking from an early age, reconnects with his father’s side of the family tree by starting an investigation of a family myth of kinship with John Malkovich. That possible distant relation with the famous actor connects this young man with a series of very different characters - an old farmer, a librarian working on the road and a John Malkovich double, into one story.

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DIRECTED BY Laura Pascu

HR • 2025 • 75 • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Blank filmski inkubator

• Debut film
• Film focused on women or directed by a woman

David and Marina's relationship starts out idyllic, as the two fall deeply in love and decide to move in together. Marina is a talented painter finishing her studies, while David is a self-taught guitarist who plays in a band and works at a pancake stand. As their relationship progresses, they face numerous challenges, including a long-distance relationship, doubts about their individual ambitions, and bouts of depression. They also must navigate adult responsibilities such as caring for David's ailing father. They begin to make sacrifices for each other, but as time goes on, the compromises they make start to strain their relationship. One evening, a heated argument breaks out when David finds Marina's paint palette. Years of pent-up emotions culminate in a brutal confrontation, leaving both of them questioning the future of their relationship. The story captures a coming-of-age journey, with youthful and light energy juxtaposed against the claustrophobic feeling that arises as conflicts in the relationship intensify. Through editing, the film contrasts various moments from their past and present, highlighting the challenges and growth they experience together.

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DIRECTED BY Marina Andree Škop

HR • 2023 • 10 • short • animation • animation

Production: PomPom Film

• Film suitable for children up to 12 years old
• Funded by HAVC

The boy got a blue teddy bear for his fifth birthday. Although he desperately wanted to open the gift, his mom wouldn't let him because bacteria often live on plush toys. The boy longed to unwrap teddy bear, fantasizing about playing with it. But one day his younger cousin visited him and took his plush toy away. The boy experienced a disappointment that he will remember for a long time. When he grew up and became a dad, he decided to do everything to make his son’s dreams come true.

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DIRECTED BY Pavo Marinković

HR • 2023 • 103' • feature • fiction • drama, comedy

Production: Telefilm (HR)
Co-production: Nanook Film Vienna (AT), KFU Oktavijan (BA)

• Funded by HAVC

Faruk Šego, a failed Bosnian writer facing deportation from Austria, must prove that he's made a cultural contribution to the Austrian society. His last chance is an off-theatre troupe that can stage a play he wrote as a young man. Faruk's reluctant return to the theatre will force him to realize what's truly important in life.  

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DIRECTED BY Katarina Lukec

HR • 2023 • 37' • mid-length • documentary

Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti (Zagreb)

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Film dealing with social issues
• Film produced within a film school or a film academy

In the karst labyrinths of Dalmatian Hinterland, in the area of Kninska Krajina, everyday life is a reminder of the migrations, both forced and voluntary. Nevertheless, in making their life choices, the protagonists of this documentary were guided by their feeling of home. Even more so, considering that they came from Serbian-majority villages in the Knin area, whose population was exiled after the military operation Storm, and at some point, decided to return home – to the place where they were born and raised.

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DIRECTED BY Željko Rogošić

HR • 2024 • 68' • feature • documentary

Production: Wolfgang i Dolly

• Funded by HAVC

By the end of the 19th century, Zagreb experienced significant cultural advancements, development in arts, culture, and sciences, despite the challenging times under the rigid political rule of Ban Károly Khuen-Héderváry. However, through the contributions of Ban Khuen-Héderváry himself and Dr. Izidor Kršnjavi, Zagreb increasingly approached the cultural and living standards of European capitals. In 1893, the city welcomed the arrival of the great painter and traveler Vlaho Bukovac.

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DIRECTED BY Sunčana Brkulj

HR, DK • 2024 • 8'7'' • short • animation

Production: Jadranska animacija / Adriatic Animation
Co-production: Late Love Production
World Sales: Bonobostudio

• Funded by HAVC

A community of creatures lives happily in a garden, each with their own role to play. Their interconnected tasks create a cycle – and all require water from the fountain. But when a butterfly gets stuck in the fountain and blocks the water from flowing, the creatures become anxious and unsure of their roles. Working together, they find new ways to do their old tasks, using milk instead. Once the new rhythm takes hold, the butterfly flies away and water starts flowing again. With both cycles continuing, the garden now explodes with life, with more colors, sights and sounds than ever before.

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DIRECTED BY Ana Čigon

SI, HR • 2024 • 9 • short • animation • animation

Production: URGH!, RTV Slovenija, Bonobostudio

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Film dealing with social issues

A satire that mirrors Europe's pressing political issues through the daily ups and downs of relationships among neighbouring cats. The film takes place in Catlands, the union of distinct feline territories inhabited by cats of various social statuses. The delicate established status quo is disrupted by newcomers trespassing the lawns of the cats’ united territories. To address this international issue, the most prominent residents devise a cunning plan, one that cannot be executed without harming some innocent victims.

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DIRECTED BY Bruno Anković

HR • 2024 • feature • fiction

Production: Eclectica
Co-production: Spiritus Movens

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

''Celebration'' shows 20 years in the life of Mijo and his family in a poor Croatian village. The non-linear and elliptical plot gradually forms a clear picture that testifies to the eternal cycle of history and the impossibility of a real change in the Balkans.

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DIRECTED BY Ana Bilankov

HR • 2023 • 19' • short • documentaryexperimental

Production: Filmska udruga Šuma

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

The film touches on some historical facts about the largest refugee camp El Shatt in the Sinai desert in Egypt during the WWII, based on materials from Croatian and international archives and interwined 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.

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DIRECTED BY Petra Pavetić Kranjčec

HR • 2024 • 5 • short • animation • animation

Production: Akademija likovnih umjetnosti u Zagrebu

• Debut film
• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Film suitable for children up to 12 years old
• Film produced within a film school or a film academy

Best friends the chicks lived peacefully in the poultry house until one day they decided to split them apart for good...

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DIRECTED BY Stjepko Galović

HR • 2023 • 12 • short • documentary

Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti

• Film produced within a film school or a film academy

Cinema for Free is an autobiography with documentary and fictional parts, dealing with the experience of going to college in your late thirties, the age differences, and shifting perspectives.

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DIRECTED BY Josip Beneta

HR • 2022 • 10'10'' • mid-length • fiction • drama

Production: Blank

• Film dealing with social issues

Two policemen at the end of the night shift find themselves with conflicting motives, which puts them in danger and reveals the dirty side of their relationship as colleagues and friends.

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DIRECTED BY Filip Zadro

HR • 2023 • 19' • short • fiction

Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti (ADU)

• Film produced within a film school or a film academy
• Funded by HAVC

Cleaning your home with a bad vacuum cleaner is like walking in circles. When you’re done, you’re tired, and you’re still in the same place.

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DIRECTED BY Luka Rukavina

HR • 2023 • 82' • feature • animation • children's film

Production: Diedra
Co-production: Zagreb film
World Sales: Attraction Distribution

• Debut film
• Film suitable for children up to 12 years old
• Funded by HAVC

Ket, a guitar-playing cricket, and his band like to entertain the carefree bugs from the neighbourhood. At Roachella, the fun never ends and winter is just a scary story told by uptight ants and conspiracy theorists. Nearby, a society of ants have dedicated their lives to discipline and work. Music is strictly forbidden. But Antoinette is not the same as other ants. When Ket and Antoinette meet, they quickly grow close. But can the ant save the crickets from the upcoming winter before it's too late?

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DIRECTED BY Filip Heraković

HR • 2024 • 25' • short • fiction • drama

• Funded by HAVC

Marina and her son Borna arrive to an island during the winter. They rent an apartment in an empty tourist neighborhood. Days go by as Marina tries to establish new family routine, while Borna escapes mundane by getting lost in his own world. Davor knocks on their apartment’s door the next day and we realize their true reason for coming to this island – to escape from an abusive father and husband. 

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DIRECTED BY Mário Macedo, Vanja Vascarac

HR, PT • 2023 • short • fiction

Production: Vertigo (HR), Olhar De Ulisses (PT)

• Film dealing with social issues

A group of skaters take refuge in a shopping mall, making it their playground. As they spend time skating the empty hallways, the stillness creeps in. It's a dead end.

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DIRECTED BY Josipa Henizelman

HR • 2023 • 1 • short • documentary

Production: Akademija za umjetnost i kulturu u Osijeku

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Film produced within a film school or a film academy

Passers-by are confused by the attention being focused on a single fleeting moment of beauty.

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DIRECTED BY Marinko Marinikić

HR • 2023 • 12' 55'' • short • documentary • drama

Production: Eclectica

• Debut film
• Funded by HAVC

Scars occur as a result of skin damage, most often due to an injury or inflammatory process. The organism tries to compensate for the resulting damage by growing new connective tissue, and the resulting defect can never be completely removed. Possession is believed to be the condition of a person whose human body is being controlled by demons or evil spirits.

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DIRECTED BY Goran Kulenović

HR, BA, ME • 2023 • 114' • feature • fiction • crime, thriller, drama

Production: Livada produkcija (HR)
Co-production: Produkcija 2006 (BA), Natenane produkcija (ME)

• Funded by HAVC

Newly divorced pathologist Fero returns to the Island of Rab, where he had spent most of his childhood alongside his father. Fero comes for the funeral of his friend’s daughter, but soon, the chief of police, his friend Mungos, involves him in the murder investigation of a Romanian prostitute. While they are trying to find the killer, the shadow of a big mistake from their youth looms over them. Because of ghosts from the past, Fero is forced to take up the investigation by himself.  

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DIRECTED BY Bruna Ercegovac

HR • 2024 • 8 • short • animation • animation

Production: Akademija likovnih umjetnosti u Zagrebu

• Debut film
• Film suitable for children up to 12 years old
• Film produced within a film school or a film academy

With uncharted dreams in tow, the Young Sailor and his Roommate are the only newcomers aboard a ship with an old, already established crew. They are slowly acclimating to the new way of life and peculiarities of their fellow crew members when, suddenly, one day the Roommate falls overboard. The stormy sea almost immediately swallows him, and no one from the crew attempts to help. The Young Sailor is left alone, forced to drag him out of the water.Yet this endeavor proves to be futile, as the cruel sea returns that very same night to reclaim what she believes rightfully belongs to her.The Young Sailor is left alone and isolated, shunned by the crew for the act of saving someone. But the journey is not yet over, and there are only so many places to be on a single ship.

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DIRECTED BY Damir Markovina

HR • 2022 • 45'18'' • mid-length • documentary

Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti (ADU)

• Film dealing with social issues

Deserters are a film about a generation of Bosnian youth from the city of Mostar swept by the devastating war at the brink of 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 generation, exile, hard choices, and the answer to the most difficult question of any war: to stay or to run?

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DIRECTED BY Neven Hitrec

HR • 2023 • 95' • feature • fiction • children's film

Production: Jaka produkcija

• Film suitable for children up to 12 years old
• Funded by HAVC

This is a story about Paulina P. – a strong, emotional and witty protagonist of this movie and her life in which we follow her adventures in class and at home, as well as all the problems she successfully overcomes during a school year. The movie is based on Paulina's diary, and she talks about her friendship, love and family-related problems from a critical perspective and through comic situations. The plot of the movie itself is set in the real world, with a touch of "magic".

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DIRECTED BY Ivan Perić, Alvaro Congosto

HR, US, IT • 2024 • 74' • feature • documentary

Production: Dream Division Production (HR)
Co-production: Handful Films LLC (US), Doc Service SRL (IT)

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Funded by HAVC

Marija finds out her great-aunt Gea Koenig has passed away. Gea used to be a professional photographer who lived in Westbeth, a historic building in New York as the biggest artists’ community in the world. We follow Marija as she uncovers the stories of Westbeth and Gea’s adventurous life. Influenced by Gea’s life story, Marija decides to take a different path in her life.

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DIRECTED BY Ivana Volda i Thomas Volda

HR, US • 2024 • 5 • short • animation • animation

Production: TEDEd
World Sales: TEDEd

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Film suitable for children up to 12 years old

In fighting climate change, few solutions are discussed more than planting lots and lots of trees. Carolyn Beans explores strategies to successfully re-green the planet.

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DIRECTED BY Marko Gutić Mižimakov

HR • 2024 • 17 • short • experimental

Production: QueerANarchive

• Debut film

Taking Samuel Delany’s 1984 SciFi novel ‘Stars In My Pocket Like Grains of Sand’ as a point of departure, in a joint effort with other artists we’ve labored a work which is at once a dance, fantasy, and a queer road film. Its protagonists, animated by the weirdening landscape of the Dalmatian Hinterland and enraptured by the sound of the conch shell, partake in the melding tradition of Dragon Hunting. An exploration in somatics, media translation, mimicry, and the sensuous, Dragon Hunt is a result of mutual transformability exercised between fellow artist friends, the landscape, different machine learning algorithms and filmmaking procedures. 

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DIRECTED BY Ema Bilaver, Sara Škrlec

HR • 2023 • 14 • short • experimental • fiction experimental

Production: Akademija likovnih umjetnosti

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Film produced within a film school or a film academy

eksp111000anim111111.mp4 is a short experimental film that thematises dreams and nightmares in a surrealist manner. The film is based on the poetry created by the two directors, making it seem like a string of lyrical motifs open to interpretation and giving the impression of poetic images arranged in sequences. 

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DIRECTED BY Ivan Ramljak

HR, RS • 2023 • 96' • feature • documentary • art-film

Production: KOMPOT
Co-production: Kino klub Split (HR), Horopter (RS)

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

Hundreds of frozen and starved people floating on boats in the middle of the Mediterranean 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 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 after the war. This is a story about them.

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DIRECTED BY Lukas Nola

HR, XK, MK • 2023 • 120' • feature • fiction • erotic, thriller, drama

Production: Kinorama (HR)
Co-production: Skopje Film Studio (MK), Buka Production (XK)

• Funded by HAVC

Miro spends the night with a sex worker for the first time in his life and later finds her dead in his hotel room. He covers up the unfortunate accident with the help of two hotel employees, who suddenly start to play a major role in his life that will never be the same. 

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DIRECTED BY Ivan Grgur

HR • 2023 • 5'55'' • short • documentary • psychological, drama, comedy

Production: Eclectica

• Film with LGBTQ characters of motifs

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. 

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DIRECTED BY Jadran Boban

HR, RS • 2024 • 70' • feature • documentary

Production: Hulahop
Co-production: Rezon inkubator

• Funded by HAVC

The film depicts the lives of people in the Ravni kotari and Bukovica regions, just twenty kilometers away from popular tourist destinations on the coast. Houses in this area are in ruins, fields are overgrown with weeds, and many roads are impassable. There are no cafes, community centers, stores, or bus stops. In such a socially isolated area, wolves have appeared, lurking the herds and causing damage. Among the local population, there is no doubt - the Croatian government, in an agreement with Brussels, is intentionally importing wolves by helicopter to disperse the local population and build new wind farms and stone quarries.

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DIRECTED BY Dario Juričić

HR • 2023 • 6' • short • animation

Production: Kinoklub Zagreb (KKZ) / Cinema Club Zagreb

• Funded by HAVC

A father is preparing a lavish anniversary meal for his entire family.  

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DIRECTED BY Ivana Marinić Kragić

HR, RO, RS • 2024 • 18 • short • fiction

Production: Udruga Marinis Media
Co-production: Set Sail Films d.o.o., Anchor Films

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Funded by HAVC

Journalist Nika is releasing her report on a young man Roko who is being harassed by the drug dealers as well as ignored by the police. Her article triggers a killing spree in the downtown Split.

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DIRECTED BY Igor Bezinović

HR, SI, IT • 2024 • 80' • feature • documentary • art-film

Production: Restart
Co-production: Nosorogi (SI), Videomante (IT)

• Funded by HAVC

Citizens of Rijeka which Italians call Fiume, retell, reconstruct and reinterpret the bizarre story about the 16-month occupation of their city in 1919 by the Italian poet, a dandy and preacher of war Gabriele D’Annunzio.

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DIRECTED BY Franko Dujmić

HR, ME • 2024 • 87' • feature • documentary • drama, comedy

Production: Wolfgang i Dolly (HR)
Co-production: Videa Productions (ME)

• Funded by HAVC

A reluctant vinyl collector Franko finds himself on an adventure across former Yugoslavia to find the only vinyl record missing from his collection -  the “Ulica Jorgovana / Zlatokosa” single, one of the finest examples of Yugoslav funk.  Along the way, he meets a variety of colorful characters whom he interviews to get a glimpse into the crate-digging mania.

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DIRECTED BY Nevio Marasović

HR • 2023 • 72' • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Švenk d.o.o.

• Funded by HAVC

Sitting in a restaurant representing the waiting room to the other world, a tired old man watches the patrons who represent him and his immediate family during the important moments of his life. Moments that have impacted him and the family, and have turned him into a man he was at the end of his life. The old man is forced to look these events in an objective way, observe them from the sidelines, as the judge and jury of a tragic life filled with regret, bitterness, and bad decisions. At a certain point, it becomes clear that the old man has actually died and is watching his own life.

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DIRECTED BY Luka Galešić

HR • 2024 • 18 • short • fiction • family, drama

Production: Digital Cinema Environment

• Funded by HAVC

Toni spends his days taking care of his younger brother, Duje, and his seriously ill father, Darko. He performs his new tasks silently, aware that without him, the community would not function, but also with a firm hand. He embodies a mixture of maternal, paternal, and older brother figures, even though he is still in his formative years. He selflessly dedicates himself to the service of others, keeping all the worries, fears, and reactions of his relatives to this new life situation buried inside him. One situation will force him to release all his frustrations and finally face his emotions.

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DIRECTED BY Silvio Mirošničenko

BA, HR • 2023 • 91 • feature • documentary

Production: Točka Kulture, Scena

• Croatian Minority Co-production

Grandpa Guru presents in an eclectic documentary style the continuity of the work of the band Kultur Shock with special emphasis on the interesting life, music and art of their singer and frontman Srđan Gino Jevđević. We follow Gino's spiritual journey in search of his own identity and place in the world, after leaving Sarajevo during the war and arriving in Seattle, USA, where he meets Krist Novoselic from the Nirvana and Jello Biafra from the punk band Dead Kennedys, who persuade him to continue playing music. Gino is haunted by the question of belonging and the feeling of being torn between life in America, Sarajevo and his mother and family. This is a story of transformation in times of hardship, escaping to the end of the world and a forever haunting demon.

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DIRECTED BY Filip Peruzović

HR • 2024 • 90' • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Dinaridi film
Co-production: Rikikiki Films

• Funded by HAVC

After the death of their mother, a middle-aged brother and sister who haven’t seen each other in years spend three days cleaning up their family home – as well as their relationship. Slowly, they start acting like children again.

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DIRECTED BY Martina Meštrović

HR • 2023 • 8'45'' • short • animation • drama

Production: Kreativni sindikat

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Funded by HAVC

One day my granny dyed her wedding dress black. She wanted to be buried in it.

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DIRECTED BY Boris Poljak

HR • 2023 • 24' • short • documentaryexperimental

Production: Hrvatski filmski savez

• Funded by HAVC

The term "Horror Vacui", the fear of empty space, 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 psyche. Due to the space and time of the events taking place in film being blurred, it can all happen everywhere at any time, in this globalized world.

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DIRECTED BY Andrej Korovljev

HR • 2023 • 95' • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Kinematograf

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

It is 1995. Mahir is a 38-year-old refugee from Bosnia, with unknown history, living in the hotel Pula, modified into a refugee centre. His days are monotonous and empty, and his history is unknown. A spark of life comes when Una, a young girl from Pula, is drawn to him. Until the past catches up with him.

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DIRECTED BY Goran Stolevski

MK, HR, RS, PL, XK • 2023 • 107' • feature • fiction • drama

Production: List Production (MK), Madants (PL), Kinorama (HR), Sense Production (RS), Industria Film (XK)
Co-production: Film i Väst (SE), Common Ground Pictures (SE), Causeway Films (AU)
World Sales: New Europe Film Sales

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Film with LGBTQ characters of motifs
• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

A story exploring the universal truths of family, both the ones we’re born into and the ones we find for ourselves. Dita never wanted to be a mother, but circumstances force her to raise her girlfriend’s two daughters, tiny troublemaker Mia and rebellious teen Vanesa. A battle of wills ensues as the three continue to butt heads and become an unlikely family that has to fight to stay together.

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DIRECTED BY Ivan Faktor

HR • 2024 • 102' • feature • experimental

Production: Mitropa

• Funded by HAVC

A poeticized study on film tape about the imagery of analogue film and the uniqueness of the view created by the eye of the camera.  

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DIRECTED BY Ana Hušman

HR • 2024 • 23'29'' • short • experimental

Production: Studio Pangolin
World Sales: Bonobostudio

• Funded by HAVC

Through the voice of Little Jela, the film tells the story of the events that marked a generation and shaped the future of the landscape of Lika, a neglected and sparsely populated region of Croatia. The living conditions impacted on the personal lives of the people who lived there, their solitude, relationships, opportunities, apprehensions and hopes. Little Jela embodies several members of my own family which is predominantly composed of women – mothers, grandmothers, sisters and aunts.

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DIRECTED BY Martina Marasović

HR • 2023 • 22' • short • fiction • drama

Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti (Zagreb)

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Film produced within a film school or a film academy

Teenager MARE is trying to find a way to express herself and restrain her sexuality, which breaks through her every action.

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DIRECTED BY Igor Grubić

HR • 2023 • 14'40'' • short • experimental

Production: Kreativni sindikat
World Sales: Bonobostudio

• Funded by HAVC

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.    

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DIRECTED BY Luka Galešić

HR • 2023 • 15' • short • fiction • drama

Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti (ADU)

• Film produced within a film school or a film academy

A film about an all-male family and how they find their way around time and space. To them, the tasks of everyday life are not at all simple.

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DIRECTED BY Luka Karlo Kauzlarić

HR • 2023 • 8 • short • documentary

Production: Filmaktiv

• Film dealing with social issues

The Kantrida Stadium lived out its days of glory in the 20th century, while one moment that will remain imprinted on the memory of the residents of Rijeka is the historic match played in 1999. A match that is perhaps best forgotten.

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DIRECTED BY Sara Horvatić

HR • 2023 • short • fiction

Production: Sveučilište VERN' / VERN' University

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Film produced within a film school or a film academy
• Funded by HAVC

'Šutim' follows a photography student Barbara in the preparation of an independent photo exhibition. Awaiting her first solo exhibition, invisible problems become more and more visible and her fear-induced reactions result in change. The film breaks all the boundaries of Barbara's intimacy.

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DIRECTED BY Marko Bičanić

HR • 2023 • 18' • short • fiction

Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti (ADU)
Co-production: Blank_filmski inkubator

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Film produced within a film school or a film academy

Bruna can't stand the Christmas season, but her girlfriend, Lea, makes it bearable. As Lea changes her mind about their plans to celebrate New Year’s Eve together, doubt seeps in and the winter turns colder.

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DIRECTED BY Danis Tanović

HR, BA, RS, SI, RO • 2024 • feature • fiction

Production: Propeler Film
Co-production: Obala Art Centar (BH), Baš Čelik (RS), Tramal Films (SL), Tanguay Productions (RO)

• Croatian Minority Co-production

The story of a young woman who, in search of her roots on a small island, experiences an unexpected romance in late summer, which evolves into a tale of acceptance, forgiveness, and love towards others, towards the island, and most importantly, towards herself.

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DIRECTED BY Stella Vlasnović

HR • 2023 • 4 • short • experimental • fiction experimental

Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti u Zagrebu

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Film produced within a film school or a film academy

We watch the scenes from a construction site unfold frame by frame. At first observational, but then other familiar elements start to appear.

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DIRECTED BY Nikica Marović

HR • 2024 • 60 • feature • documentary

Production: Factum

• Debut film

So far, Željko Špoljar has published collections of stories "Teškoće pri gutanju", "Moj brat Felix Krull", and "Welcome to Croatia" in co-authorship with Kristijan Vujičić, for which he received the Kiklop award in 2006. Thanks to the novel "Gumeni galeb", Špoljar won the Matica Hrvatska Osijek contest for the best unpublished prose text in 2007. In 2014, he published the novel "Štakorbar" (Drago Gervais Literary Award), while in 2020 he published his last novel - "Petokoronaš". On the other hand, Pavle Svirac published the novels: "Literary Groupie", "Strovaljivanje", and "Kako biti hipster". Svirac has also been a columnist (“Nacional”) for several years, famous for the series of literary records "Šta se čita na jarunskoj nudističkoj plaži" and "Interlibdžija diary", while his Književna Groupie Facebook page currently has over 13,000 followers. The film follows Željko's relationship with Svirac as a personality, his relationship with his ex-wife Maja Hrgović (who until recently worked as a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, and since then as a taxi driver in Split) as well as his relationships with his daughter Nora, family, society, culture, publishing houses and the editor-in-chief of “Nacional”. Through all this, Špoljar/Svirac not only talks about domestic social dilemmas, problems, and conflicts, but also about himself as one of the most interesting phenomena of the contemporary Croatian cultural scene, in the context of local history, not so rare, "misfit" protagonists.

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DIRECTED BY Filip Peruzović

HR, FR • 2023 • 19' • short • fiction • drama

Production: Umjetnička organizacija Plafon (HR)
Co-production: Rikiki (FR)

• Funded by HAVC

Goran is walking his dog when a building collapses and almost kills him. But there is no time to reflect on the metaphysical aspects of this event, because he has to go to a children's birthday party with his family. It is very loud, chaotic, and unbearable. He walks away from the party in search of something. What is it? And will he find it?

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DIRECTED BY Mario Macedo

HR, PT • 2024 • 17' • short • fiction • children's film, drama

Production: Plan 9 (HR)
Co-production: Olhar de Ulisses (PT)

• Film suitable for children up to 12 years old
• Funded by HAVC

A city boy is spending his school vacation at his grandparents' farm. He is bored, so his grandfather teaches him to use a BB gun. This leads to a strange incident that teaches him a valuable lesson.  

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DIRECTED BY Ana Horvat

HR • 2023 • 10'34'' • short • animation • children's film

Production: Kreativni sindikat

• Film suitable for children up to 12 years old
• Funded by HAVC

An extremely untalented bunny Darko takes singing lessons from Zvonko the cricket. Their lessons are a total failure. Both the teacher and the pupil are devastated. Željko the hedgehog brings a new perspective to the problem, turning Darko's flaws into advantages.

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DIRECTED BY Dalija Dozet

HR • 2024 • 60' • feature • documentary • essay

Production: Hulahop

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Funded by HAVC

My Dad's Lessons is a film essay that explores the relationship between the director and her late father. Father left hundreds of hours of recorded material - from family footage, recordings of the city of Osijek from the 1980s until his death, to footage from their travels around the world. Watching all these recordings created during his lifetime, director Dalija attempts to delve into and re-understand their relationship, expressing to her father everything she hasn't said until now.

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DIRECTED BY Mario Kovač

HR • 2024 • 95' • feature • documentary

Production: Interfilm

• Funded by HAVC

We held a fake audition for an erotic movie to see what kind of people would show up in Croatia, a conservative Catholic country. After hiring a motley crew of actors, weirdos, and misfits, we proceeded to make a “making of” film of a fake erotic comedy Orgazmotron, with a hilarious and politically provocative storyline.

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DIRECTED BY Dalija Dozet

HR • 2024 • 15' • short • fiction

Production: Wolfgang i Dolly d.o.o.

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

Maša's idle daily routines, caring for her sick mother Milica and random waves of creativity, are interrupted by the sudden news of the death of an unknown man.

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DIRECTED BY Dejan Aćimović

HR, RS • 2024 • feature • documentary • educational, sports, biography

Production: DA Film
Co-production: Hrvatska radiotelevizija (HRT)

• Funded by HAVC

Only One is on the Top is a film about Ratko Rudić, one of the best coaches in the world of all time. In the 110-minute film, 110 of the greatest men who ever appeared in water polo talk about him.

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DIRECTED BY Vanja Juranić

HR, RS • 2023 • 73' • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Maxima film (HR)
Co-production: Biberche productions (RS)

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Funded by HAVC

Tina (28) lives in what appears to be an idyllic marriage in town on the Adriatic coast. She is a housewife who takes care of their six-year-old daughter, while her husband Frane (32) provides for the family. Their relationship begins to change when Tina expresses her desire to complete the college education she had to abandon due to pregnancy. Despite initially consenting and supporting her, Frane starts showing disapproval, initially through minor acts of sabotage. Over time, conflicts become more frequent, and arguments turn increasingly violent.

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DIRECTED BY Silvestar Kolbas

HR • 2024 • 93 • feature • documentary

Production: Factum

• Debut film

Silvestar has for some time been the oldest Kolbas in his family. His parents are dead; his father died before the war, his mother a few years back. He is 68. He had a younger brother, who died from the consequences of the war. This is his second marriage. He has three children: Jakov, from his first marriage; Eva, from his second marriage, conceived in vitro; Ante, adopted from an orphanage when he was 8. Some of the questions the director asks in this film are: How the children affect the feelings and opinions, as well as the relationship between himself and his wife? How does he affect each child? What is his relationship with a particular child, and does he give them all equal amounts of love? Do children change him? Does each of them do it differently? How do the children see him and his wife and how do they see their attitude to themselves?

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DIRECTED BY Aleš Suk

HR • 2024 • 20' • short • documentary

Production: Udruga Ukus

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

An allegorical ballad about the only inhabitant of a remote island in the northern Adriatic whose fate was marked by merciless nature. Pictures of an almost vanished world, a lace poem about the vanity of existence... quietly hermit.

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DIRECTED BY Ivan Faktor

HR • 2024 • 22' • short • documentary

Production: Sve gore i gore

• Funded by HAVC

Ivan Faktor decided to visualize his state with Parkinson's disease with a mobile phone camera. After 50 years of filmmaking, his passion for art and life persists. He is filming himself, his wife, the yard, the street, the studio, and the light attractions in his house. Faktor records everydaylife but disrupts the daily structure by intervening, in reality, using light or optical obstacles like his trembling fingers. Through interventions in documentary situations, he creates a surprising inner world of an artist imprisoned in space.

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DIRECTED BY Andrej Rehak

HR • 2023 • 8'8'' • short • animation • art-film, drama

Production: Zagreb film

• Funded by HAVC

A property of chaos is the emergence of pattern. Independent of scale. Paradeigma is the sample of the pattern. We witness a grounded figure which, due to the fear of free fall and discomfort from the rain, cloed itself in an enchanted square that it can no longer leave. Protagonist manifestation is a repeating sample of a self-similar pattern.

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DIRECTED BY Dina Uglešić

HR • 2023 • 17' • short • fiction

Production: Sveučilište VERN’
Co-production: PomPom Film

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Film produced within a film school or a film academy
• Funded by HAVC

Teenager Domagoj lets a prison fugitive into his apartment who pretends to be a Latin tutor. Not interested in learning, the boy asks him to leave, but he insists on staying. When the fugitive's true identity is revealed, the two confess to each other under the pressure of fear and adrenaline, revealing the burdens of their lives.

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DIRECTED BY Sara Alavanić

HR • 2023 • 14' • short • documentary

Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti (ADU)

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Film produced within a film school or a film academy

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.

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DIRECTED BY Nikica Zdunić

HR • 2023 • 20'2" • short • fiction • coming of age, drama

Production: Izvan fokusa

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Funded by HAVC

Tia and Bruna are spending the summer of 2007 together. Tia's parents are gone, so they’ll be alone in the house. They’ll lie on the beach, eat figs and drink milk from the carton, listen to X's (bad) mix CD, hang out with some guys they’ll forget by the next summer, sing, dance, dress badly, get drunk and embarrassed at least once, and joke around all the time… It’ll be great!  

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DIRECTED BY Matija Pisačić

HR • 2024 • 12’30” • short • animation • art-film, fantasy

Production: Umjetnička organizacija ANIMA

• Funded by HAVC

A solitary man lives in a dilapidated house in a desert. He is a stonemason who carves portraits of the dead onto their tombstones. The portraits are ordered by machines on behalf of a small community of people living in an industrial city. The dead models start haunting the man’s dreams.

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DIRECTED BY Dora Fodor

HR • 2023 • 9 • short • documentary

Production: Restartova Škola dokumentarnog filma

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman

In an intimate interview with the protagonist, the author examines in detail the stages of her rare and long-term chronic disorder. The author wants to find out whether we can develop a sense of empathy or whether this gets thwarted by a sense of bewilderment and lack of understanding.

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DIRECTED BY Antonia Begušić

HR • 2023 • 11'15'' • short • animation • political satire, satire

Production: Zagreb film

• Debut film
• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Funded by HAVC

…” - Well, Adeimantus, has our state now grown to its full size?  - Perhaps. - Then, where in it shall we find justice or injustice? If they have come in with one of the elements we have been considering, can you say with which one?  - I have no idea, Socrates; unless it be somewhere in peoples dealings with one another. “ (Republic, Plato)

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DIRECTED BY Sandra Sterle

HR • 2024 • 20' • short • experimental

Production: Kinematograf
Co-production: Kazimir Association

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Funded by HAVC

In a surreal narrative intertwining fiction and facts, the film shows the relationship between the author and her late grandfather, seeking to present a private life through political events, historical and family documents, and photographs. (planned completion: Q3/2022)

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DIRECTED BY Domien Huyghe

BE, NL, HR • 2023 • 98' • feature • fiction

Production: A Private View (BE)
Co-production: Nukleus film (HR), Viking Film (NL)
World Sales: Level K

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Croatian Minority Co-production

Ostend 2021. Lena (12) wins a sailing competition at sea. She is congratulated by her father. Father and daughter are thick as thieves. One night, Jacky’s fishing boat crashes. Lena’s mother Christine, brother Jules and sister Fran are deeply affected. The cause of the accident is unknown but people whisper that it was Jacky’s fault. He should not have set sail in such heavy weather. At the ash scattering at sea, the funeral boat is hit by wave. Lena sees a huge shadow slide out from under the boat. She thinks they were hit by a large animal but no one believes her. No one saw the shadow.

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DIRECTED BY Silvio Mirošničenko

HR, IT • 2023 • 75' • feature • documentary

Production: 4 Film (HR)
Co-production: Tesla Production (IT)

• Funded by HAVC

The 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 promenade is made up of unusual events and manifestations, as well as various gatherings on a twelve-kilometer route along the sea.

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DIRECTED BY Jasna Nanut

HR • 2023 • 88' • feature • fiction • drama, comedy

Production: 15 Art / Petnaesta umjetnost

• Debut film
• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Funded by HAVC

Nino Radman has too many women and too little time. He is a walking disaster of a man. Trying to admit to his wife that he has fallen in love with another woman, he seeks help of an “expert”, but his advice creates even more chaos in Nino’s life. Living in fear of his own wife, he becomes paranoid, and turns into a ticking bomb that might explode any minute. Will he triumph or fail, reveals this comedy of unexpected twists, with only one thing being bigger than Nino’s problems – his pressure

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DIRECTED BY Elvis Lenić

HR • 2023 • 65' • mid-length • documentary

Production: Kinematograf

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

After more than 160 years of existence and numerous magnificent ships that sailed from its facility, the Pula shipyard “Uljanik” became a graveyard of abandoned workshops, steel wrecks and unmovable cranes. In this post-apocalypse landscape, which today is inhabited by loud seagulls, half-starved cats and crayfish, we are caught up with the emotional testimonies of former workers. This film pays homage to all of the families whose members were linked to this shipyard for generations.

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DIRECTED BY David Gašo

HR • 2023 • 25'30'' • short • fiction • comedy

Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti (ADU)
Co-production: Antitalent, Izvan fokusa, Drugi plan

• Funded by HAVC

An early summer evening begins with a game, while one kid counts to three thousand, the others hide in a row of suburban gardens. During that time, a young father spends the rest of his day with someone else’s child, an old man awaits a call that will change his life and the future of a year-long friendship becomes uncertain. The game ends when mosquitoes start rising from the grass. 

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DIRECTED BY Stanka Gjurić

HR • 2023 • 27'41'' • short • fiction • satire, omnibus, drama

Production: self-produced

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman

The film consists of six separate stories in which interconnected characters experience their life struggles and tragedies.  

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DIRECTED BY Damir Čučić

HR • 2023 • 72' • feature • fictionexperimental • fiction experimental

Production: Hrvatski filmski savez (HFS) / Croatian Film Association

• Funded by HAVC

The film portrays the characters of Oleg and Marta, using variant repetition, a process whereby a single event is shown twice in a slightly altered form. Oleg is a visual arts student addicted to drugs and Marta is a librarian addicted to many things. The two mirroring protagonists go about their adventures, shown in the alternating scenes of sex, neighbourhood walks, promises, inebriation, and death.

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DIRECTED BY Tea Vidović Dalipi

HR, IT, XK • 2023 • 75' • feature • documentary • psychological, family

Production: Restart (HR)
Co-production: STEfilm (IT), Möbius (XK)

• Debut film
• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

Snajka is a participative-observational documentary about a just married Croatian-Roma couple, Tea and Mirsad, their daughter Frida and their attempt at a life together, suspended between expectations from families and communities in culturally irreconcilable backgrounds that do not accept diversity.

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DIRECTED BY Danilo Šerbedžija

HR, RS, SI • 2024 • feature • fiction • biography, family, drama

Production: Kinoteka
Co-production: Living Pictures (RS), Zavod December (SI)

• Funded by HAVC

The story of Dražen Petrović focuses less on the already-known sports successes and more on the personal side of Dražen's life and his unique character. The script problematizes the relationship between Dražen and basketball, which was his greatest passion and a kind of personal religion. His one true love, but also his curse.

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DIRECTED BY Martin Babić

HR • 2022 • 3 • short • animation

Production: Warp Media
World Sales: Warp Media

• Debut film
• Film suitable for children up to 12 years old

A whimsical exploration of human society evolution takes centre stage in this synopsis, as authors deftly navigate contemporary worldview dichotomies through a hypothetical encounter with an advanced extraterrestrial civilization. This encounter yields a profound message: every social phenomenon is integral to the journey toward collective expediency. Slaven Petric, whose philosophical thesis underpins the animated film "Space Snails," posits that concerns and fears regarding current events are ultimately inconsequential in the grand tapestry of existence. The film serves as a symbolic conduit for Earthlings, transmitting the significance of understanding environmental interactions among all living beings. Through this understanding, humanity not only cultivates compassion but also unlocks a method ensuring perpetual creation, irrespective of the source—biological, artificial, or extraterrestrial intelligence.

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DIRECTED BY Karla Lulić

HR, RO, ES • 2023 • 23'45'' • short • fiction • comedy

Production: Dobar film (HR)
Co-production: Avanpost (RO), Mailuki films (ES)
World Sales: Mailuki films

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Funded by HAVC

Based on the true story of a woman convinced that another woman had cast a spell on her and her baby. Ines, a young widow, returns to her village, where she used to work at a hairdressing salon. She asks for her old job back. Surprised by the unexpected arrival and exhausted by her newborn, the salon owner Roza starts to descend into paranoia, losing her head, or rather, her hair.  

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DIRECTED BY Sara Alavanić

2024 • 22'8'' • short • fiction • drama

Production: Akademija dramskih umjetnosti (ADU)

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Film dealing with social issues
• Film produced within a film school or a film academy

Fleka doesn’t leave his apartment building. He hangs out with neighbors and sometimes he skateboards. Since his mother ended up in a mental hospital, his only family is his best friend Sejo. Sometimes he wastes time with a mentally challenged neighbor that adopted a pig in his apartment. Soon he realizes that he's his only friend.

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DIRECTED BY Ana Despot

HR • 2024 • 7 • short • animation • animation

Production: Akademija likovnih umjetnosti u Zagrebu

• Debut film
• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Film suitable for children up to 12 years old
• Film produced within a film school or a film academy

In a peaceful, but mysterious forest, a mother and a son live in harmony, until a strange serpent sneaks up on them, disturbing their peace. The serpent turns into a beautiful maiden and seduces the dim-witted son. Mother then goes into the forest to search for Stribor, a forest god, and ask him for help. However, when she finds him, things start to develop in an unexpected way and mother must gather all her courage and strength to save her son. This lighthearted interpretation of the story of Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić plays with tradition and gives the original story a dark, but comical twist.

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DIRECTED BY Igor Mirković

HR • 2024 • 91'38'' • feature • fiction • thriller, drama

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Funded by HAVC

It is a story in which everyone lies to everyone else. Zeleni works for a Croatian sex-chat company and lures men on the Internet under the false identity of Sweet Simona. Somewhere in Austria lives mysterious Bobo, who writes to Simona obsessively and get caught in her net; he wants a real relationship. Simona gives him hope, but always avoids a date. When Bobo starts planning his life with Simona, the sex-chat line operators realize that their correspondence has gone too far because it is ruining the stranger's life. But it turns out Bobo hasn’t been on the level with them either…

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DIRECTED BY Tvrtko Karačić

HR, BA • 2023 • 5' • short • animation

Production: Zagreb film (HR)
Co-production: Kadar (BA)

• Funded by HAVC

The film follows the inhabitants of a small village, who are mutually connected by a series of gears and wheels. This perfectly coordinated mechanism is observed by a young man whose wheel is malfunctioning...

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DIRECTED BY Dražen Šivak

HR • 2024 • 65' • feature • documentary

Production: Metar60, everything works

• Debut film
• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

The first documentary filmed inside a Satori retreat, witnessing one of the most intense experiences of self-inquiry and meditation. The participants of this retreat comply with the rules of complete isolation – from the outside world, other people, physical contact or communication outside of the exercises. No watches or mirrors are allowed. What's left?

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DIRECTED BY Jakov Nola

HR • 2023 • 7'45'' • short • fiction • family, drama

Production: Zagreb film

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

A father and daughter are driving to his parents’ house, an argument during their ride escalates to domestic violence.

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DIRECTED BY Lea Vidaković

HR • 2023 • short • animation • drama

Production: Adriatic Animation
Co-production: Vivement Lundi! (FR), Biberche (RS)

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Funded by HAVC

As Austro-Hungary teeters on collapse, Andras and his daughter are taken aback by the visit from Andras' unpredictable brother, Zoltan, who comes accompanied by his large family.

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DIRECTED BY Vlatka Vorkapić

HR, RS • 2023 • 115' • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Interfilm (HR)
Co-production: Zillion film (RS)

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Funded by HAVC

A village in the 1960s. Marko chooses young Janja as a day laborer for sunflower harvesting. Marko, his wife Ana and their handsome only son Ivo are an exemplary rural family. Mark's sudden offer to Janja to marry his son will seem like the realization of all her dreams. But, after the wedding, the fairy tale ends and the story of the ugly truth begins.

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DIRECTED BY Petar Kvesić

HR • 2023 • 88' • feature • documentary • historical, biography

Production: Factum

• Funded by HAVC

In a period deemed today as particularly 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 Slobodan Praljak, and over the course of years it was inhabited and frequented by a large number of artists. Many of them later scattered across the world. As the last in the series of tenants, Pero Kvesić, in conversation with some of these people, tried to grasp why this place had always attracted so many diverse and outstanding creative talents.

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DIRECTED BY Marko Jukić

HR • 2023 • 23' • short • fiction • drama

Production: Antitalent

• Funded by HAVC

Andrija leads a group of firefighters on the site, but fire is not his biggest concern.

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DIRECTED BY Andrea Slaviček

HR, ES • 2023 • 14'40'' • short • fiction

Production: Antitalent
Co-production: Fractal 7 (ES), Udruga Blank (HR)
World Sales: LIGHTS ON

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Funded by HAVC

Between school trouble, mean girl drama, catchy lyrics, and a mysterious blue car, teenage Lena, sometimes distracted or interrupted, tells us the real story behind The Big Fight. But what isn’t she telling us?

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DIRECTED BY Filip Gašparović Melis

HR • 2024 • 4 • short • animation • animation

Production: Uprise d.o.o.

• Film suitable for children up to 12 years old

When a paper dragon escapes from his little friends, cow Moo, bear Bee and rabbit Doo have no idea that in searching for it they'll discover a secret garden. What lies behind the closed doors? 

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DIRECTED BY Josipa Henizelman

HR • 2023 • 5 • short • experimental • fiction experimental

Production: Kinoklub Zagreb
Co-production: Blank Filmski Inkubator

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman

Changes. Everything is always changing.

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DIRECTED BY Mario Šulina

HR • 2023 • 90' • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Slavonija Nova

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Funded by HAVC

The film "The Woman with the Rubber Gloves" is a contemporary social drama about an individual and a system in whose introspection he is invisible and silent, so, listening only to the loud majority made up of different characters, it bypasses, forgets, and does not notice him. At the centre is the school cleaner Mirna, who, while in her collective people strike for an increase in their material rights, patiently and devotedly makes the days of teachers-strikers easier by making them coffee and performing other everyday activities related to her workplace. Outside the school corridors, she is the wife of a husband with a violent nature and a heavy hand who sometimes can 'seal' a few marks on Mirna's face. She is also a mother whose children go abroad in search of a better life, as well as the daughter of a seriously ill immobile old woman.  In her life, the lives of many are mirrored. They will recognize themselves in their struggle with the system of injustice or the injustice of the system, to which all Mirnas are invisible.  And Mirna does not go through life 'in gloves'. The film was inspired by the great strike of education workers in Croatia in 2019.

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DIRECTED BY Kristijan Milić

HR, BA • 2024 • 110' • feature • fiction • war drama

Production: Eurofilm
Co-production: Oktavijan

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

Vengeance is mine, I will repay.

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DIRECTED BY Ana Perić, Ines Čižmešija, Ana Marija Kovačević, Ivana Biki, Josipa Jakobović, Dorija Lilion, Zoe Špehar

HR • 2023 • 8 • short • animation • animation

Production: Akademija za umjetnost i kulturu u Osijeku

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Film produced within a film school or a film academy

No one knows when the yellow minute will come knocking on their door, but maybe it’s not just one, maybe there are more.

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DIRECTED BY David Gašo

HR • 2023 • 10' • short • documentary

Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti u Zagrebu

• Film produced within a film school or a film academy

A short talk on having sex in the woods. A portrait of an anonymous exhibitionist who guides the director through a public sex forest located in the middle of a city park.

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DIRECTED BY Nevio Marasović

HR • 2024 • 71' • feature • fiction • romantic drama

Production: Šlager film

• Funded by HAVC

A famous film director in midlife crisis invites his fatal ex-girlfriend to a lake hotel to help him write a script based on their relationship.

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DIRECTED BY Zarja Menart

SI, HR • 2024 • 8 • short • animation • animation

Production: Finta Film, Adriatic Animation, RTV Slovenia

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman

A wise birdwoman sends three birds to guide a girl into the dark unknown landscapes of her inner world.

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DIRECTED BY Irena Antin

HR • 2023 • 1 • short • documentary

Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti u Zagrebu

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Film produced within a film school or a film academy

Through hidden observation of other people, their bodies and comportment in space, the narrator shares the experience of her own body and tries to find peace in her relationship with herself.

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DIRECTED BY Morana Marija Vulić

HR • 2024 • 10 • short • animation • animation

Production: Akademija likovnih umjetnosti u Zagrebu

• Debut film
• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Film suitable for children up to 12 years old
• Film produced within a film school or a film academy

The Shoemaker's world had been destroyed by a deadly catastrophe. What was once his home had now become a shell of life that once occupied the empty, foggy valleys. Lonely Shoemaker spends his days creating his “Imaginary friend” out of socks he finds around his tower. During one of his ventures, he meets the Conductor, whose vision of the world will completely oppose the Shoemaker’s. During an unlucky misunderstanding when it comes to a shiny sock that once belonged to the Conductor’s daughter, both characters will be forced to face the trauma of the catastrophe that changed their lives.

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DIRECTED BY Amila Šarić

HR • 2024 • 3 • short • animation • animation

Production: Akademija likovnih umjetnosti u Zagrebu

• Debut film
• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Film suitable for children up to 12 years old
• Film produced within a film school or a film academy

Exhausted from the boring everyday life, a girl named Tufna decided to end her life. As she prepares a rope to hang herself in her room, the world around her becomes twisted and strange.

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DIRECTED BY Paško Vukasović

HR, BA • 2023 • 23' • short • fiction • drama

Production: SABMARINE
Co-production: Imaginarium (BA)

• Debut film
• Funded by HAVC

Emotionally estranged father and son don’t know how to take care of a sick and immobile mother, so they bring in a caregiver, Sabina, who moves into their family home.

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DIRECTED BY Sara Jurinčić

HR • 2023 • short • documentaryexperimental

Production: Studio Nomad, Restart (Restart laboratorij)

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Funded by HAVC

This experimental documentary takes us on a journey into a world without men. Animation and reality mixes, as the author questions: “How does it feel to have a family tree consisting only of women? What do our ancestress’ whisper from their silent portraits?”

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DIRECTED BY Boris Bakal

HR • 2023 • 90' • feature • documentary • drama

Production: Multimedijalna umjetnička organizacija Bacači sjenki
Co-production: Hrvatska radiotelevizija (HRT)

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

A film about the struggle to restore an architectural masterpiece by restoring the community of co-owners, revealing, layer by layer, all social relations, misunderstandings, conflicts, antagonisms, prejudices and hopes. The story of the building becomes the tale of planetary human misunderstanding.

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DIRECTED BY Goran Dević

HR • 2023 • 88' • feature • documentary • mockumentary, drama

Production: Petnaesta umjetnost

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

Željko is the head of the union at the Gredelj railway car factory. His deputy Mladen committed suicide after the large public protests and clashes within the union. Željko is torn between the guilt he feels because of Mladen’s death and the expectation between the workers to lead a strike. 

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DIRECTED BY Ana Buljan

HR • 2023 • 18 • short • experimental • fiction experimental

Production: Kreativni sindikat

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman

This video/film is an experiment in constructing a visual language based on the superimposition of images/feelings shot in the Atacama desert in the winter/Chilean summer.

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DIRECTED BY Rúnar Rúnarsson

IS, NL, HR, FR • 2024 • 90´ • feature • fiction

Production: Compass Films
Co-production: Halibut, Revolver, MP Film, Eaux de Vives/Jour2Fete
World Sales: The Party Film Sales

• Croatian Minority Co-production

On a long summer's day in Reykjavik, the life of Una, a young art student, is turned upside down. From one sunset to another, when laughing turns into crying and beauty coexists with sorrow.

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DIRECTED BY Eugen Bilankov

HR • 2024 • 5 • short • animation • animation

Production: Akademija likovnih umjetnosti u Zagrebu

• Debut film
• Film suitable for children up to 12 years old

A movie about a breakup. The narrative develops through the author’s conversations with his long-time partner, and follows the contemplation of the end of a nine-year romantic relationship. The sound design of the film is constructed using documentary techniques, while animation illustrates the psychological and emotional spaces of these 'breakup' conversations. To depict the randomness of subconscious thoughts and emotional states, the author experiments with visuals that incorporate elements of the surreal, making the connections between frames associative. The film reflects on the dual purpose of the artistic endeavor: compressing and archiving a portion of personal history in the medium of film and using it as a form of therapeutic self-exploration and experimentation.

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DIRECTED BY Ivan Salaj

HR • 2024 • 112' • feature • fiction • black comedy, drama

Production: Plavi mjesec

• Funded by HAVC

Writer and journalist Robert (39), managed to sleep with the widow Anita, her minor daughter Megi, student Irena and his best friend's wife Ines, get fired as a journalist and a job as a screenwriter, cause two fights, earn KO, hepatitis B, crabs and second-degree burns on the genitals, becoming a father and godfather, causing Anita's dismissal, and pushing a good friend in to a suicide... All this in just four drunken days.

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DIRECTED BY Matea Kovač

HR • 2023 • 5' • short • animation • art-film

Production: Zagreb film

• Debut film
• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Film with LGBTQ characters of motifs
• Funded by HAVC

An empty paper depicts a struggle between artistic composition and decomposition as the voice of the narrator-protagonist reminisces about her tumultuous relationship with a former girlfriend. 

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DIRECTED BY Josip Lukić

HR • 2024 • 26 • short • fiction

Production: Sabmarine
World Sales: Sabmarine

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

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DIRECTED BY Vladimir Tagić

RS, ME, HR, BG • 2024 • feature • fiction

Production: Sende Production (RS)
Co-production: Adriatic Western (ME), Eclectica (HR), Contrast Films (BG)

• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

Zoran’s awkward and almost pointless life, including a pothead roommate, an unavailable ex-girlfriend and a job on reality tv, turns upside-down when his estranged and intolerable father is diagnosed with terminal illness and he is committed to help him through his final weeks.

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DIRECTED BY Eylem Kaftan

TR, HR • 2023 • 81' • feature • documentary

Production: CAF Film (TR)

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Film dealing with social issues
• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

Two young women are joined by their shared experience of being abused. Their unexpected meeting forms a strong bond which gives them both the strength to take on their abusers in court and to help other young women to seek justice.

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DIRECTED BY Vlad Petri

RO, HR, QA, IR • 2023 • 68 • feature • documentary

Production: Activ Docs (RO)
Co-production: Restart (HR)
World Sales: CAT&Docs

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Film dealing with social issues
• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

In 1970s Bucharest, iranian student Zahra meets a student Maria while studying at university. As political turmoil brews in Iran, Zahra is forced to return home, leaving Maria behind. Over the next decade, they maintain their connection through a series of letters, chronicling their struggles as women fighting for a voice and their respective countries moving in divergent directions. Despite the distance and obstacles, their longing for each other remains strong.

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DIRECTED BY Anja Resman

SI, HR • 2024 • 9 • short • animation • animation

Production: SPOK (SI)
Co-production: ZVVIKS (SI), Antitalent (HR), Sveučilište Nova Gorica (SI)

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman

A young man is cleaning his father’s apartment who recently passed away. He is forced to relive traumatic memories of growing up and losing his soul.

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DIRECTED BY Petra Pavetić Kranjčec

HR • 2023 • 4 • short • animation • animation

Production: Akademija likovnih umjetnosti

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Film produced within a film school or a film academy
• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

A story about a romanticised vision of a relationship, differing expectations, deception, breakup, and, ultimately, personal growth as a result of the experience.

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DIRECTED BY Petra Seliškar

SI, MK, HR • 2023 • 80' • feature • documentary

Production: Petra Pan Film Production (SI)
Co-production: Wolfgang i Dolly (HR), PPFP (MK)

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

The Body is a poetic story about one woman’s struggle to overcome an incredibly rare autoimmune disease; a glimpse into her life as she lives with a DNA chain full of mistakes almost impossible to fix.

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DIRECTED BY Jacqueline van Vugt

HR • 2023 • 106' • feature • fiction

Production: Revolver Film (NL)
Co-production: Nukleus Film (HR), A Private View (BE)
World Sales: Fortissimo Films

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Film dealing with social issues
• Film produced within a film school or a film academy
• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

A penetrating and realistic drama which threads the universal feelings of fear, hope and loss in a tense and dramatic two-hour ferry crossing between Morocco and Spain.

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DIRECTED BY Ahmed Imamović

BA, HR • 2023 • 94' • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Comprex (BA)
Co-production: Radio and Television of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BHRTV), BH Telecom, Lijeni Film (HR), WCFM Istanbul

• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

After being diagnosed with terminal cancer, a successful gynecologist who has spent his entire life caring for no one but himself is forced to face the consequences of his actions, including the failed abortion of his latest patient, during a dark-humoured process of organising his own funeral.

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DIRECTED BY Radu Jude

RO, LU, FR, HR • 2023 • 163' • feature • fiction

Production: 4 Proof Film
Co-production: Paul Thiltges Distributions, Les Films d’Ici, Kinorama, microFILM

• Film dealing with social issues
• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

Starting from the true story of planning and shooting a much-debated film about occupational safety, the film analyzes the relationships of the individual and multinational companies of the new Romanian capitalism. A story about economics and cinematography.

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DIRECTED BY Gergő Somogyvári

HU, RO, HR • 2023 • 82' • feature • documentary

Production: New Retina Productions (HU)
Co-production: Avanpost (RO), Campfilm (HU), Restart (HR)
World Sales: Journeyman Films

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Film with LGBTQ characters of motifs
• Film dealing with social issues
• Croatian Minority Co-production

On the outskirts of Budapest, in the heart of the woods, hides a ramshackle little hut where two social outcasts have formed the unlikeliest of bonds. Fanni, a 19-year-old transgender teen, and Laci, a 60-year-old homeless man, support each other in a makeshift family as father and daughter through hardship and change. On the margins of Hungarian society life is tough, but it is their own. 

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DIRECTED BY Sonja Prosenc

SI, HR, RS, IT, NO • 2024 • 122 • feature • fiction • drama, comedy

Production: MONOO
Co-production: Incipit film SRL, Incitus Film, Wolfgang & Dolly, Living Pictures
World Sales: MONOO

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Croatian Minority Co-production

A car is engulfed in flames on the side of the road. Amid the chaos and fear, another car passes by-gleaming, untouched by the struggles unfolding beside it, carrying a family that seems perfect and not stopping to help. Who are these people who choose not to stop? “Family Therapy” revolves around a Slovenian ‘nouveau riche’ family living in a glass house, exuding detached superiority. This setting serves as a satirical backdrop for a humorous reimagining of the premise from Pasolini’s “Teorema”: a young stranger arrives at the family’s household, disrupting the delicate balance of the family’s dynamics and revealing a world of chaos and the family’s dysfunctional relationships hidden beneath the surface. Olivia’s smothering overprotectiveness towards her teenage daughter, Agata; Aleksander’s escapism fueled by dreams of family space travel; and the secret concealed beneath Agata’s wig. The film doesn’t just question the actions of those who don’t stop to help; it also probes the reasons behind their choices. Are they afraid of confronting their own vulnerabilities, or is it a learned indifference, a symptom of a broader societal ailment?

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DIRECTED BY Ivan Marinović

ME, RS, CZ, HR, MK, SI • 2024 • 96' • feature • fiction • drama, comedy

Production: Adriatic Western (ME)
Co-production: Along Vision (CZ), Kinorama (HR), Sense Production (RS), Krug Film (MK), Spok Film (SI), RTCH (ME)

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

Dragana gives up marrying Momo two days before the date. His dangerously stubborn father forces the disastrous wedding into happening.

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DIRECTED BY Brandon Cronenberg

CA, HR, HU • 2023 • 118' • feature • fiction

Production: Film Forge (CA), Elevation Pictures (CA)
Co-production: 4film (HR), Hero Squared (HU)
World Sales: NEON

• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

James and Em Foster are enjoying an all-inclusive beach vacation in the fictional island of La Tolqa, when a fatal accident exposes the resort's perverse subculture of hedonistic tourism, reckless violence and surreal horrors. 

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DIRECTED BY Bálint Révész, Dávid Mikulán

HU, FR, HR • 2024 • 92' • feature • documentary

Production: Elf pictures (HU)
Co-production: Cinephage (FR), ARTE France, HBO Europe, Eclectica (HR)

• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

KIX is a 12-year odyssey following Sanyi's journey from a rowdy street kid in Budapest to a disillusioned young adult. Fueled by an unlikely friendship with filmmakers Dávid and Bálint, the film captures the evolution of Sanyi's life marked by family struggles, school issues, and the weight of surrogate fatherhood to his newborn sister. As Sanyi faces the challenges of adolescence, the filmmakers shift from active participants to observers in his life tumults; these culminate in a tragic turn of events forcing him to confront the responsibilities of adulthood.

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DIRECTED BY Vladimir Perišić

FR, RS, LU, HR • 2023 • 98' • feature • fiction

Production: KinoElektron (FR), Easy Riders Films (FR), Trilema (RS)
Co-production: Red Lion (LU), Kinorama (HR), ARTE France Cinéma (FR), Cosmodigital (FR)
World Sales: Memento International

• Film dealing with social issues
• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

Serbia, 1996. During the student demonstrations against the Milosevic regime, 15-year-old Stefan has to go through the hardest revolution of all. He has to confront his beloved mother, spokesperson and accomplice of the corrupted government that his friends are rising against.

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DIRECTED BY Vardan Tozija

MK, HR, XK, GR, FR • 2023 • 99' • feature • fiction • coming of age, fantasy

Production: Focus Pocus Films (MK)
Co-production: 4 Film (HR), In My Country (XK), 2:35 (GR), Les Contes Modernes (FR)
World Sales: OneTwoThree Media

• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

The world has been ravaged by a pandemic. Alone and outside the safety of the forest, Marko faces a shattered world shrouded in silence and danger.

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DIRECTED BY Janez Burger

SI, HR, MK, IT • 2023 • 82' • feature • fiction • psychological, crime, drama

Production: Staragara (SI)
Co-production: Propeler Film (HR), Kaval Film (MK), Transmedia Production (IT), RTV Slovenija

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Film dealing with social issues
• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

The film follows Lara, a paramedic intern who helps bring a young man into hospital, after he was brutally beaten and the event live-streamed on Facebook. Although he is in a coma, Lara starts to receive video clips from his FB profile, showing unidentified persons watching him get beaten. She reports this to a detective, who starts an investigation. All the observers appearing in the video clips will turn into a nightmare in her own life, and soon she realises that she too is an accomplice in this horrible event.

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DIRECTED BY Biljana Tutorov

RS, FR, SE, HR, SI • 2024 • 90' • feature • documentary

Production: Wake Up Films (RS), Mille et Une (FR)
Co-production: Factum (HR), Cvinger Film (SI), Slovenian Television (SI), Swedish Television (SE)

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

The film offers extraordinary insight into the intimacy of the creative process. Darko Rundek, iconic ex-Yugoslav poet and musician, has lived in Paris for the past 25 years, where he sings about man’s eternal quest for meaning alongside his Cargo Orchestra composed of immigrants.

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DIRECTED BY Srđan Šarenac

RS, BA, HR • 2024 • 80' • feature • documentary

Production: Novi Film (RS)
Co-production: Udruženje Novi Film (BA), Provid (HR)

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Film dealing with social issues
• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

The film follows four female inmates of a Brazilian prison as they enter the prison beauty contest, which helps them restore their self-confidence and feel like free women.  

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DIRECTED BY Senad Šahmanović

ME, AL, BA, HR, XK • 2023 • 88' • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Cut-Up (ME)
Co-production: On Film Production (AL), Dokument (BA), Alliance de Production Cinématographique (FR), Sekvenca (HR), Buka Production (XK)

• Debut film
• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

After 20 years abroad, Nathalie, an American lawyer, comes back to the Balkans to execute the last wishes of her client. The unusual inheritance case slowly becomes an inquiry about Nathalie’s own past and herself.

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DIRECTED BY Tin Vodopivec

SI, HR • 2023 • 93 • feature • fiction • romance, comedy

Production: Sparks and Juice Production
Co-production: K A O S

• Debut film
• Croatian Minority Co-production

The career of event organiser Kaja is jeopardised when world-renowned marketing guru Ace Majstorovski misses a flight for an important conference. Amidst organisational chaos, Kaja encounters Ace’s “double” at the hotel and persuades him to take his place. Something Sweet is a comedy with many twists and turns and a sweet dose of romance that will make you fall in love with it.

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DIRECTED BY Kosta Đorđević

RS, HR • 2023 • 93 • feature • fiction • comedy

Production: Kinematografska kuća d.o.o. (RS)
Co-production: Marinis Media (HR)

• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

An angsty teen organizes his grandma's funeral upon realizing that it could be a way to win his crush's heart.

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DIRECTED BY Mladen Đorđević

RS, BG, GR, ME, HR, RO • 2023 • 127' • feature • fiction • horror, drama

Production: Sense Production (RS), Banda (RS)
Co-production: Agitprop (BG), Homemade Films (GR), Adriatic Western (ME), Kinorama (HR), Tangaj Production (RO), Cinnamon Film (RS)

• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

After losing their loved ones, jobs, and dignity to a tragic factory fire and corrupt privatization, a group of ex-workers seeks solace and hope in the supernatural.

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