Upcoming film festivals in Croatia

DIRECTED BY Jakov Sedlar

HR • 2025 • 138' • feature • fiction • war, thriller, drama

Production: 260DAYS d.o.o.
Co-production: Arramis Films, Inc., Croatia film d.o.o.

• Film dealing with social issues

Over 60.000 admissions in Croatian cinemas! "260 Days" is the work of a little man who, through daily work on himself, managed to break through all barriers, open his eyes and realistically view things from all angles, without prejudice or hatred. The key element was to separate the heart from the brain, feelings from reason – which is particularly difficult, especially with a tragedy behind him. A ten-year-old boy finds himself in the wrong place, at the wrong time, together with his six-member family. The wrong place is the occupied area of ​​Eastern Slavonia in the then Yugoslavia, and the wrong time is the time of global politics, i.e. when global players said that it was time for Yugoslavia to split up. As a collateral victim, he is captured for 265 long days, experiences unimaginable suffering every day, dies several times, buries his loved ones and finally sees the light of day again after 6360 hours.  

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DIRECTED BY Marijana Oštrić

HR • 2025 • 6' • short • documentary

Production: Restartova Škola dokumentarnog filma

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

An existentialist-fashion-feminist-mathematical analysis of life at 30.

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DIRECTED BY Ana Škaro

HR • 2025 • 19' • short • fiction • SF

Production: Sveučilište VERN

• Film produced within a film school or a film academy

In the early hours of the 168th iteration of a time loop, deep within an evergreen forest, three friends realize they’ve reached the loop’s final day. Trapped in a remote cabin and surrounded by a barrier concealing an unseen threat, they grapple with a haunting question: does this revelation mean escape is finally possible—or does tomorrow simply not exist for them at all?

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DIRECTED BY Zhanna Agalakova

HR, NL • 2025 • 89' • feature • documentary

Production: LEWA productions
Co-production: Revolver Amsterdam (NL), Giorgio Savona productions (FR)

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

Alice calls her mother’s work propaganda, but Zhanna believes that she is working for the good of her homeland. As a foreign correspondent for Russian TV she covers the major events in the Western countries from the Kremlin’s perspective and she wants to make Alice more Russian. So Zhanna decides to show her the biggest country in the world. Over four summers and one winter, mother and daughter travel across the length and breadth of Putin’s Russia. But as their journey unfolds, Zhanna grapples with her past, her secrets, and her identity as both a journalist and a mother — while the country edges closer to a war. A Little Gray Wolf Will Come is a powerful tale of love, lies, and the loss of homeland.

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DIRECTED BY Rafael Cuclić

HR • 2025 • 4' • short • animation • drama

Production: Akademija likovnih umjetnosti (ALU)
World Sales: Akademija likovnih umjetnosti (ALU)

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

A man and a woman accept each other in spite of their insecurities.

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DIRECTED BY Maja Ležaić

HR • 2025 • 12' • short • experimental • fiction experimental, art-film

Production: Lux film d.o.o.
World Sales: Lux film d.o.o.

• Debut film
• Funded by HAVC

Alice in Wonder tells the story of the Alice in Wonderland syndrome – a condition in which the perception of space, time, and one's own body becomes unstable. Through fragmented images and dissonant sounds of childhood, the film constructs a world where reality constantly slips away, offering no explanations, but instead a sense of wonder and disorientation that accompanies the experience.

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DIRECTED BY Dalibor Barić

HR • 2025 • 112' • feature • animation • SF, psychological thriller, drama

Production: Kaos d.o.o.

• Funded by HAVC

Roman Novotny, once a respected screenwriter, is now a forgotten author who reluctantly accepts a job at the bizarre tourist resort called Simula Peninsula. There, under the leadership of the enigmatic Doctor Doppler, a strange experiment is taking place: a simulated “cinematic” resort where guests play pre-written roles, and the screenwriters—“operators”—create their stories anew every day. At the heart of the fictional drama are Klara and her fiancé, whose relationship is falling apart, and an enigmatic figure wearing a porcelain mask, Persona—the only character fully aware that they are all inside a film.

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DIRECTED BY Filip Antonio Lizatović

HR • 2025 • 19' • short • fiction • drama

Production: Blank Filmski Inkubator
Co-production: Kino klub Split

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

One summer night in Split, Marinko’s life takes an unexpected turn when a seemingly drunk young foreign woman collapses on the street beneath his balcony.

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DIRECTED BY Ivan Grgur

HR • 2025 • 18' • short • documentary

Production: Ustanova Zagreb film
World Sales: Ustanova Zagreb film

• Funded by HAVC

In the quiet, off-season town of Umag, an unexpected sighting of a bear triggers a media storm, splitting the local community between skeptics and true believers. Set against the backdrop of rural life and the rise of social media-fueled hysteria, the film delves into the fragile boundary between truth and illusion. With humor and tension intertwined, this timely story explores how narratives are shaped — and distorted — in an era where facts are fluid and everyone has a platform.

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DIRECTED BY Dora Kvež

HR • 2025 • 3' • short • animation

Production: Sveučilište VERN

• 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
• Funded by HAVC

“Bangs" is a short animated film that follows a young girl as she battles an unstoppable red pimple that becomes a gateway into a surreal world inside her bathroom. Through a series of absurd and humorous events, from eccentric acne treatments to impulsively cutting her bangs, the film explores themes of identity and self-acceptance.

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DIRECTED BY Andreja Miletić

HR • 2025 • 6' • short • animation • black comedy

Production: Akademija likovnih umjetnosti (ALU)
World Sales: Akademija likovnih umjetnosti (ALU)

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

Miranda is preparing for the arrival of her mother. Her preparations are interrupted by a small Beasty that Miranda desperately wants to get away from. Realizing there is no escaping it, she decides to hide the Beasty and hope her mother doesn’t notice it. Miranda will have to face her aggressive mother as well as her own self. 

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DIRECTED BY Ena-Sanan Hdagha

HR, US • 2025 • 92' • feature • documentary

Production: Ena-Sanan Hdagha
Co-production: Jim Kaufman Productions, Embrio Production, Maxima film

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

Every year, thousands of minor refugee children embark on uncertain and risky journeys, searching for safety on their own. To escape military recruitment and death, a fourteen-year-old boy flees from war-torn Aleppo with one goal – to become a support for his family, for whom he is the only hope of salvation. An unaccompanied minor refugee wanders along the dangerous Balkan route from Syria to Germany, seeking sanctuary while facing brutal realities and social injustices, exposing himself to difficult and inhumane conditions. In a Croatian transit camp, Khaled finds protection and support with volunteer Ena-Sanan. Despite adversities, bullying, isolation, cultural hurdles – he persists, driven by a dream of family reunification. On his journey, Khaled faces trials that transform him from a vulnerable boy into a beacon of hope for his family. After a long struggle, they manage to reach Turkey, where they spend several years in suspense and hope, striving to reunite with their eldest son and build a brighter future. As Khaled nears his 18th birthday, legal complexities threaten to derail his mission.  

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DIRECTED BY Luka Mavretić

HR, IT, BG • 2025 • 73' • feature • documentary

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

• Debut film
• Funded by HAVC

Father and son poets embark on a quest to figure out what hides between the lines of their relationship while exploring their bloodline and an old family myth of a possible kinship with the Hollywood legend. Recollecting their past home, which now exists only in old VHS tapes, Luka and Željko take a trip down memory lane, while also setting out on a path to discovering what the future holds for them. As they connect the dots of their family tree, a mash-up of very different characters is introduced, including a book-van librarian, an old farmer, a John Malkovich double from Croatia, and people from all over the world whose last name is Malković. But, digging up one’s family history always carries a certain risk – will father and son lose their relationship while trying to improve it?

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DIRECTED BY Petar Vukičević

HR • 2025 • 18' • short • fiction • drama

Production: Blank_Filmski inkubator
Co-production: Kino klub Split

• Debut film
• Funded by HAVC

After the end of a long-term relationship, Mislav seeks solace with his estranged father, who now lives in a remote village raising fighting bulls. In his attempt to save the bull Garo, Mislav stumbles upon his own redemption.

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DIRECTED BY Laura Pascu

HR • 2026 • 89' • feature • fiction • romance, drama

Production: Blank filmski inkubator

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

Whilst struggling with the challenges of growing up and the mundane, two young artists who fell in love in an abandoned forest house find themselves challenged by the dreams that once brought them together.

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DIRECTED BY Tin Žanić

HR • 2025 • 12' • short • experimental • fiction experimental

Production: Dinaridi Film
World Sales: Dinaridi Film

• Funded by HAVC

An immersive descent into a nightmarish landscape - what fever dreams feel like, not just what they look like. A cinematic adaptation of a night terror: a video collage of vivid imagery, a noxious atmosphere, and disjointed connections stripped of human logic. An apocalyptic fable of a virus from beyond the stars - one that fell from the skies, only to watch us from the earth. It used what we cherished most to dismantle our world. And now we ask: Did we ever deserve anything better?

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DIRECTED BY Željko Rogošić

HR • 2025 • 88' • feature • documentary

Production: Wolfgang & Dolly d.o.o.

• Funded by HAVC

The feature-length documentary BUKOVAC – Light, Roots and Wings follows the arrival of renowned painter Vlaho Bukovac in Zagreb in 1893, in the aftermath of the devastating 1880 earthquake. At the turn of the century, the city was rebuilding and growing into a cultural center, with Bukovac significantly shaping its artistic life. He founded the Society of Croatian Artists, initiated the Zagreb Colorful School, contributed to the construction of the Art Pavilion, and painted three monumental national compositions. Through archival materials, expert testimonies and contemporary parallels, the film connects Bukovac’s work with the identity of Zagreb and Croatia. It focuses on five years in which the artist’s vision and the city’s transformation became inseparably intertwined.

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DIRECTED BY Daniel Kušan

HR • 2025 • 85' • feature • fiction • children's film

Production: Inter film
Co-production: Krug Film, Zillion Film

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

Over 36.000 admissions in Croatian cinemas! A group of children on the Adriatic island of Trs, led by newcomer Karlo, discover a lost African boy, Chiku, at the lighthouse. As they try to help him return home, local boy Bumbar opposes Karlo's unusual pseudo-scientific experiments. During a heated argument, Bumbar hits Karlo, losing the trust of the group. However, he redeems himself by helping to expose a smuggler trafficking children from Africa to the European Union, who tries to take Chiku away from them. The summer adventure concludes with the capture of the smuggler, bringing the group closer together.

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DIRECTED BY Lucija Katarina Šešelj

HR • 2025 • 15' • short • documentary

Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti

• Film dealing with social issues
• Film produced within a film school or a film academy
• Funded by HAVC

A search for the Christmas spirit during the Advent in Zagreb.

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DIRECTED BY Gjorgji Lazov

HR • 2025 • 17' • short • fiction • drama

Production: Scorpion Films
Co-production: Wolfgang&Dolly
World Sales: Scorpion Films

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

Dijana found out the day before Christmas Eve that her mother, Gordana, was looking for a new husband through a newspaper ad. She urgently goes to visit her mother to dissuade her from what seems to be an irrational and immature decision. During the nighttime search for a future husband for her mother, we discover who is truly the immature one in this relationship.

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DIRECTED BY Patrik Radotić

HR • 2025 • 14' • short • fiction • horror, thriller, drama

Production: Full Frame Production

• Debut film

After a turbulent period, Hana seeks peace at her grandmother’s rural home. But strange events and a mysterious presence challenge her stay. Trapped between memory and reality, Hana confronts fears she cannot escape. Circle of the Soul is a psychological horror about confronting inner demons and the haunting pull of the past.

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DIRECTED BY Filip Heraković

HR, FR • 2025 • 25' • short • fiction • drama

Production: Plafon
Co-production: Wolfgang & Dolly, Rikiki Films
World Sales: Plafon

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• 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 Vida Skerk

HR • 2025 • 9' • short • fiction • drama

Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti
World Sales: Akademija dramske umjetnosti

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

A woman recalls a childhood memory of the first signs of her grandmother's Alzheimer's, yet as the narrative unfolds, it becomes evident that all the members of her family share a fear of forgetting the past -not only their personal past, but the historical, wider kind, as well.

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DIRECTED BY Georgi M. Unkovski

MK, CZ, HR, RS • 2025 • 97' • feature • fiction

Production: Cinema Futura (MK)
Co-production: Sektor Film (MK), Alter Vision (CZ), Analog Vision (CZ), Backroom Production (RS), Baš Čelik Film House (RS), 365 Films (HR)

• Debut film
• Funded by HAVC

Ahmet, a 15-year-old boy from a remote Yuruk village in North Macedonia, finds refuge in music while navigating his father’s expectations, a conservative community, and his first experience with love — a girl already promised to someone else.

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DIRECTED BY Ivana Šoljić

HR • 2025 • 5' • short • animation • black comedy

Production: Akademija likovnih umjetnosti (ALU)
World Sales: Akademija likovnih umjetnosti (ALU)

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

Young doe Jela arrives at a café for a date with her boyfriend. He texts to say he'll be late. As the wait stretches on, Jela grows increasingly nervous and loses her patience. The waiter, unsure how to react to her frustration, also starts feeling the tension. What was meant to be a romantic meeting turns into a tragicomic situation.

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DIRECTED BY Alan Stanković

HR • 2026 • 65 • feature • documentary

Production: Studio Devet d.o.o.
Co-production: Event Film

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman

A decent and beautiful girl raised and born in Senegal. She has clear wishes about her future. She was a good student and speaks 7 languages, 5 of which she learned on her own. She grew up without a father and only occasionally saw her mother. The care of Fatima was taken over by a strict but righteous grandmother who brought her to Dakar as a two-year-old girl to prevent the little girl's genital mutilation. Fatima's uncle wanted her to marry an unknown man as a third woman. There was no way she could agree to be one of the three, so she took matters into her own hands and earned the title of rebel in her family.  

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DIRECTED BY Daniel Pavlić

HR, BA • 2026 • 70' • feature • documentary

Production: Udruga za audiovizualno stvaralaštvo Artizana
Co-production: Novi film d.o.o.

• Funded by HAVC

The film "DUST IN THE SHOWCASE" follows the author of the film, who goes to Amsterdam in search of a better existence. There, his journey turns into an unplanned but necessary search for his own father. Through the meeting of a lost father and son, this eternal motif opens the space for a broader conversation about broken family relationships, transgenerational traumas, war, love, alcoholism, sexuality, life with AIDS... And finally, the challenges of building personal lives within various social transitions. The film takes on the symbolic meaning of dusting off a showcase filled with figurine

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DIRECTED BY Bruno Pavić

HR • 2026 • 70' • feature • documentary

Production: IMBER FILM

• Film dealing with social issues

Public rosary prayer in Zagreb’s main city square has become one of the focal points of social tensions in Croatia. This observational documentary film juxtaposes, through editing, portraits of two groups and their messages: men gathered in prayer and protesters who consider the rosary participants’ intentions socially dangerous. Social media comments reflect broader public opinion, deepening the conflict. The film captures the dynamics of the city square, from early-morning idyll to a culmination of tension, allowing the viewer to become a participant in the events and draw their own conclusions.

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DIRECTED BY Zvonimir Jurić

HR • 2025 • 16' • short • fiction • drama

Production: Castor Multimedia

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

After losing her child and husband in an unexplained accident, a grieving woman moves in with her father and begins giving away the remnants of her former life. But when a family shows up eager to buy her old house, their arrival stirs something she isn’t ready to face. Early Spring is a poignant tale of loss, memory, and the struggle to let go.

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DIRECTED BY Vlatka Vorkapić

HR • 2026 • 65 • feature • documentary

Production: FADE IN

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman

A documentary fairy tale with elements of a horror film.  Imbued with the eternity of platinum, combining the extract of golden caviar, fresh wild beech buds and Snow Cladonia, with the extract of the flower of the mysterious Australian plant known as the Kangaroo Paw, in synergy with the extract of dwarf cedar, which, despite the eternal ice in the void and rocky expanses of the taiga, grows by one centimeter each month… Like some magical elixir from a fairy tale, these inscriptions from various cosmetic packaging sound. There are a number of helpers from the youth and beauty industry – beauticians, perfumery saleswomen, promoters of cosmetic preparations, personal trainers, plastic surgeons… These are all people who make money from our discontent, on provoking our self-questioning and at the end on our self-loathing. In today’s narcissistic culture, old age becomes undesirable and old people almost invisible. We live in a paradox – we want to live longer and at the same time we do not want to grow old. The story that begins with our faces in the mirror closes with the reverse of our desire for youth.

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DIRECTED BY Lana Barić

HR, RS • 2026 • 90 • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Propeler Film (HR)
Co-production: Baš Čelik (RS), Focus Media (HR)

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

After an earthquake, Žana seizes the opportunity to fake her identity and start a new life.

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DIRECTED BY Marina Andree Škop, Vanda Raýmanová

HR, SK, LV, SI • 2026 • 80' • feature • fiction • comedy

Production: PomPom Film, Objectif
Co-production: Senca Studio, Air Productions

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

When ten-year-old Alice's parents mysteriously vanish one day, she turns to a spirited group of young detectives for help. Their mission becomes more challenging when her brother Milan must join their investigation. He can't be left alone, and wherever Alice goes, he goes too. Milan sees and experiences the world differently, and what starts as a complication soon becomes their greatest strength. The children discover creative and heartwarming ways to connect with Milan, and his unique perspective proves invaluable to their detective work. Together, this unlikely team embarks on an extraordinary adventure, unraveling clues and solving a mystery bigger than they ever imagined. Through friendship, understanding, and courage, they not only crack the case but also discover something even more precious: the power of acceptance, the magic of true teamwork, and bonds that will last a lifetime.

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DIRECTED BY Dora Klanac

HR • 2025 • 5' • short • animation • children's film

Production: Akademija likovnih umjetnosti (ALU)
World Sales: Akademija likovnih umjetnosti (ALU)

• 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
• Funded by HAVC

The film chronicles the making and growing up of Špiro, as well as how his world within the pot comes across new spices, and him subsequently new experiences. Some spices leave a sweet aftertaste, some a bitter one, but each one leaves a mark on Špiro and his internal world. Will Špiro let new experiences control him or will he learn to adjust them to his tastes?

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DIRECTED BY Jozo Schmuch

HR • 2025 • 21' • short • documentary

Production: Antitalent d.o.o.

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

Each year, 40,000 eighth-graders visit the Vukovar Memorial Centre dedicated to the Croatian War of Independence. The goal is to broaden their knowledge about the war and the prolonged siege of Vukovar in 1991, a town that suffered the most during the Serbian occupation. Twenty-nine years after the end of the war and the dissolution of Yugoslavia, a class of students from Istria visits Vukovar.

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DIRECTED BY Matej Merlić

HR • 2025 • 15' • short • documentaryexperimental • experimental documentary

Production: Castor Multimedia

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

Since the middle of the 19th century, the Uljanik shipyard has been the center of life in the Croatian city of Pula. Now, after more than 160 years, the shipyard from which hundreds of ships have set sail is sinking towards the bottom. The place still preserves the scars and traces of time – they are impossible to conceal. Giant abandoned spaces filled with machines hide the stories of people’s destinies under its heavy layers of metal.“Fields of Steel" radiates that emotion and allows Uljanik to tell its own story.

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DIRECTED BY Igor Bezinović

HR, SI, IT • 2025 • 112' • feature • documentary • art-film

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

• Funded by HAVC

Croatian official submission for Academy Awards 2026! Winner for Best Documentary at European Film Academy 2026! 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 Jelena Milunović

RS, HR, DE • 2025 • 7' • short • animation • animation

Production: Set Sail Films d.o.o. (RS)
Co-production: Jadranska animacija (HR), Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf (DE)
World Sales: Set Sail Films d.o.o.

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

The daughter gradually realizes her father is suffering from mental illness. Rejected by society, he lives alone in a dark apartment, drifting like a balloon. She tries to find a way back to him and help him return to the ground.

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DIRECTED BY Petra Pavetić Kranjčec

HR • 2025 • 7' • short • animation • romantic drama

Production: Akademija likovnih umjetnosti (ALU)
World Sales: Akademija likovnih umjetnosti (ALU)

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

In 1963, Peter met the most beautiful girl he had ever seen during a summer holiday in Croatia. In the months following their first encounter, he struggles with writing her a letter. After finally overcoming his fear, he sends her the first letter. 

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DIRECTED BY Tonći Gaćina

HR • 2025 • 20' • short • documentary

Production: KOMPOT (HR)
Co-production: Melocoton Films (FR)

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

"Goats!" is a short observational documentary that depicts the lives of goats that roam freely in the wilds of the Croatian offshore island of Unije. After the collapse of a local livestock project, several hundred of these animals were left on the island, with which the islanders are now unable to cope. How will we deal with this seemingly feral nature?  

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DIRECTED BY Hana Jušić

HR, IT, RO, GE, FR, SI • 2025 • 137' • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Kinorama
Co-production: Nightswim, Micro Film, Horsefly Films, Maneki Films, Perfo Production, ERT S.A.
World Sales: New Europe Film Sales

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

A Chilean woman Teresa comes into a firmly structured and isolated mountain community of Croatian shepherds in the early 20th century, claiming to be the widow of their émigré brother. Her arrival heavily changes the dynamics between the members of the community and brings unrest, but Teresa also brings freedom. 

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DIRECTED BY Izidor Bistrović

HR • 2025 • 17' • short • documentary

Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti, Zagreb
Co-production: Petnaesta umjetnost d.o.o. za filmsku i TV produkciju

• Film dealing with social issues
• Film produced within a film school or a film academy

At the beginning of the new tourist season on the Adriatic, a family of six goes to a beach in Savudrija. Seven years ago, their father drowned on this beach. For the children, now aged 15 to 28, and their mother, this is the first time since that event that they have all gone to the sea together. The film's author, the eldest son, documents this moment without the presence of a film crew, allowing intimate conversations about collective trauma and personal ways of coping with loss to unfold in the family environment.

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DIRECTED BY Dubravko Kastrapeli

HR • 2025 • 7' • short • animation • drama

Production: Luma Film
World Sales: Luma Film

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

The grandson enjoys fishing with his dear grandfather, who is full of old stories. In the winter, they build model ships, talk and laugh, until one day...

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DIRECTED BY Ivan Ramljak

HR • 2025 • 24 • short • documentaryexperimental • experimental documentary

Production: Kreativni sindikat

• Funded by HAVC

On a paradise island, not everything is as perfect as it seems. A found footage crime film, made out of photographs discovered in a deserted police station, peers behind the warm sunshine and colourful attractions of one of the most popular tourist destinations in Croatia. Spanning decades, and two political systems, the crime scene photographs acquire their own syntax, telling a story of a society and its pathologies.

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DIRECTED BY Iva Ćurković Spajić

HR • 2025 • 14' • short • experimental • experimental documentary

Production: Blank

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman

On an island where the fiddle never stops, soldiers dance in spirals, and an ancient carnival blurs the lines of reality — two friends search for meaning between celebration and screen.

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DIRECTED BY Igor Jelinović

HR, RS • 2026 • 97' • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Eclectica
Co-production: Baš Čelik

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

Tonina, a caring and self-confident accountant, runs her company together with her husband and daughter and pulls all the strings for the family logistics. Along with all her obligations, Tonina is taking care of her demented and bedridden mother. Her younger sister Tajana and her family have a much more easygoing and less ambitious approach to life. The two sisters clash when Tonina secretly buys out a part of their island family house from their cousin Željka, even though the sisters had agreed to buy it together. One year later, Tonina and Tajana try to reconcile for their mother’s birthday, but tensions resurface.

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DIRECTED BY Marko Meštrović

HR • 2025 • 9' • short • animation • animation

Production: Kreativni sindikat
World Sales: Bonobostudio

• Funded by HAVC

Through the opening between reality and subtle poetic forms, surreal scenes and thrilling paradoxes reveal endless loops of existence. 

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DIRECTED BY Nikola Ležaić

RS, HR • 2025 • 114' • feature • fiction • road movie, biography

Production: PR QČE, Nukleus film
Co-production: premierStudio BG

• Funded by HAVC

Nikola (34) is a film director stuck in advertising. He finds out from his parents about the possibility to finally return the remains of his late grandmother, who escaped from Croatia during the war and died in Serbia in the early 2000s, back home. Nikola goes on that journey with his father, Mirko(74), and learns a lesson about parenthood, family, and memories that are sometimes not real.

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DIRECTED BY Nikola Duper

HR • 2025 • 53' • mid-length • documentary

• Film dealing with social issues

The locals of the island of Ilovik are fighting against the illegal construction project of the Mrtvaška port, which threatened to disrupt their daily lives and force them to move out. By uncovering the documents and illegalities behind the project, they are exposing the deep connection between local, county and state structures in implementing harmful “projects”. Their fight is becoming an example of resistance and defense of the values, environment and future of small communities. The documentary tells the story of the determined struggle of the residents of the island of Ilovik against the illegal project to build the Mrtvaška port, which threatened to completely disrupt their daily lives, access to school, a doctor and basic needs, and would ultimately lead to the emigration of the entire island. Mrtvaška Bay, the only safe connection of the residents of Ilovik with Lošinj and the administrative center, was the key to the survival of the community, and the planned two-year closure and construction of a waterfront too high for their boats to dock would mean the physical cutting off of the island. During almost two years of struggle, the residents have collected a wealth of documents that expose illegal actions in the preparation and implementation of the project, as well as a network of cooperation between different political levels — from the state to the local — with the intention of forcibly implementing the project. The experience of the residents of Ilovik testifies not only to the courage of a small community, but also to the need to oppose “apparent projects” that destroy the environment, landscape and values ​​of Croatian society.  

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DIRECTED BY Nikolina Žabčić

HR • 2025 • 7' • short • animation • animation, drama

Production: Zagreb film (HR)

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

"Hungry Heart" is a short animated film that addresses the issue of eating disorders. The film follows a young girl in her adolescence who realizes that the problem lies in her other ‘half’ – the reflection in the mirror. Going through different emotional states, the girl searches for a way to resist her negative thoughts towards herself. Her struggle is an example of how we are often our own worst enemies, but also that perseverance and courage are key in solving the problems in front of us.

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DIRECTED BY Zvonimir Munivrana

HR • 2025 • 99 • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Studio Corvus d.o.o.
Co-production: Peglanje Snova d.o.o.
World Sales: The Open Reel

• Film dealing with social issues

Franka turnes twenty and moves out from her parents’ home. She goes to an inherited apartment, where she runs into illegal occupant Ante. Franka lets poor but appealing stranger to stay for a few days which turn into a romance. She starts working in a restaurant where she befriends Stela – a street-smart girl that likes Franka in a sexual manner, and involves her into sale of illegal potency pills. One day Ante learns the truth behind his father’s death, and turns onto a dark side of his night job. Soon Franka is unable to get rid of Ante and in trouble with side job she started with Stela.

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DIRECTED BY Justina Matov

HR • 2025 • 76' • feature • documentary

Production: Factum

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

A young filmmaker returns home and starts a search for her father, whom she knew only two month and whom no one ever talked about, although he was a famous musician, once even the gituarist of the legendary Parni valjak band. While she is trying to fill the gaps her father left behind, unsolved family issues emerge and she finds out she is pregnant. I'll Find You is a film about a journey, about seeking and finding, but primarily about the loves found and the loves for which it is too late.

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DIRECTED BY Tamara Babun Zovko

HR • 2026 • 19' • short • fiction • drama

Production: Wolfgang&Dolly
World Sales: Wolfgang&Dolly

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

Maša hikes to an isolated mountain village to find Milorad, her husband's estranged half-brother. Instead she meets Živka, who claims he’ll return in a few days and invites her to stay. What should be a brief visit stretches into several days in a world far removed from Maša’s own, she helps with chores, learns local routines, and becomes immersed in Živka’s quiet, rural life. All the while, Goran, Maša’s husband, appears only as a distant voice in recordings and phone calls. Only when Milorad finally returns does the purpose of her journey become clear. Maša brings him straight to a hospital’s hematology unit for HLA typing: his stem cells are urgently needed to help save his half-brother Goran. Maša finally goes to see her husband.

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DIRECTED BY Karla Mesek

HR • 2025 • 7' • short • documentary

Production: Restartova Škola dokumentarnog filma

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

In the same space, one form of exploitation of natural resources has been replaced by another. The film follows the course of the Zrmanja River from the hydroelectric power plant to its mouth, recording the coexistence of nature and industry in an area on the brink of an ecological disaster.

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DIRECTED BY Karla Perica, Paola Crc, Antonija Žaja

HR • 2025 • 5' • short • experimental

Production: Kino klub Zagreb

• Film produced within a film school or a film academy

A short hybrid experimental documentary essay film that explores the accumulation of dust in the home, treating it poetically as a constant reminder of one’s own beginning and end.

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DIRECTED BY Rino Barbir

HR • 2025 • 29' • short • fiction • drama

Production: Blank_filmski inkubator

• Funded by HAVC

Andro returns to his hometown for a summer holiday, reconnecting with two old friends—Toni, now a father, and Franko, still clinging to his youth—he finds himself caught between different versions of adulthood. Together, they navigate friendship, uncertainty, and the quiet fear of growing up.

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DIRECTED BY Tea Bošnjak

HR • 2025 • 4' • short • animation • children's film

Production: Akademija likovnih umjetnosti (ALU)
World Sales: Akademija likovnih umjetnosti (ALU)

• 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
• Funded by HAVC

A depiction of the harmonious flora and fauna in the mountainous area of Ivanščica through the point of view of the animals living there. Everyday peace and quiet is disrupted when the construction of a quarry begins in the middle of their home. 

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DIRECTED BY Žiga Virc

SI, HR • 2025 • 15' • short • fiction • drama

Production: Studio Virc
Co-production: Nukleus film
World Sales: Radiator Filmsales

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

11-year-old Roma girl Milena is waging a rebellion against wedding cakes and bloodstained sheets. Her sister dreams of marriage as a ticket to freedom, and Milena tries to prove to her that fate - kismet - does not exist.

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DIRECTED BY Ivan Mokrović

HR • 2025 • 18' • short • fictiondocumentary • docufiction

Production: Format XYZ, Super studio 35

• Funded by HAVC

An old butcher knife, a tool of traditional pig slaughter, narrates the final day of a pig’s life in a rural Croatian winter countryside, weaving a darkly poetic reflection on mortality, tradition, and the inescapable cycles of existence.

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DIRECTED BY Lucija Katarina Šešelj

HR • 2025 • 21' • short • fiction • coming of age, drama

Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti

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

Marina leaves for the countryside with her tiring parents to visit family friends they haven’t seen in a while. What she thought would be a boring afternoon turns out to be an eye-opening adventure after she reunites with her childhood friend.

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DIRECTED BY Ivan Ožegović

HR • 2026 • 24' • short • documentary

• Debut film

KUNG FU – TRADITION OF THE MODERN AGE is a personal documentary following the author’s return to Hong Kong and his inner journey through martial arts. Through images of the city’s fast pace, social contrasts, training spaces, temples, and everyday rituals, the film explores the relationship between modern life and traditional values. At its core, the film reflects on learning, silence, perseverance, and the author’s relationship with his teacher, presenting martial arts as a path of personal and spiritual growth rather than merely a physical discipline.

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DIRECTED BY Mate Ugrin

HR • 2025 • 20' • short • fiction • drama

Production: Umjetnička organizacija Kadromat
World Sales: Umjetnička organizacija Kadromat

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

Set during the winter in the Istrian inland, the film follows the daily routine and shifting relationship of a young woman and her hunter father during a critical time.

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DIRECTED BY Jelena Novaković

HR • 2025 • 54' • mid-length • documentary

Production: Restartova Škola dokumentarnog filma
Co-production: Zagreb film (HR), HRT

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

The life story and artistic career of Borivoj Dovniković Bordo were shaped by historical shifts in epochal socio-political systems. These shifts, from the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the Independent State of Croatia, socialist Yugoslavia, to the Republic of Croatia, are clearly discernible in the work of this world-renowned animator, whom film critics have called the Advocate of the Common Man. Through autobiographical testimonies and reinterpretations of his works, the author’s life is brought into direct connection with his ingeniously lavish artistic achievements, comics, animated films and caricatures, with a special emphasis on the timeless animation etude about his notable piece Learning to Walk. In constant conflict with socio-political precepts and natural laws, Bordo speaks about the freedom of creativity and seeks an answer to the eternal question; is there a systematic environment in which we really and truly walk or do we walk lamely, as his universal hero does.

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DIRECTED BY Daria Blažević

HR, FR • 2025 • 10' • short • fiction • black comedy

Production: Umjetnička organizacija Kadromat
Co-production: In the Cut
World Sales: Umjetnička organizacija Kadromat

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

Three girls spend a lazy summer day in their neighborhood, trying to forget an encounter with a local pervert.

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DIRECTED BY Tibor Đurđev

HR • 2025 • 15' • short • documentary

Production: Restartova Škola dokumentarnog filma

• Debut film
• Film produced within a film school or a film academy

Language is like memory. If unused, it slowly fades away. Stockholm is not like Zagreb, but it is like any capital city. I was there when it happened, without getting the chance to say thank you for everything. The book is excellent: each chapter feels like an Andersson tableau: a self-contained unit in which, over time, one begins to notice the carefully layered tragicomic aspects of human life.

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DIRECTED BY Sanjin Stanić

HR • 2025 • 52' • mid-length • documentary • sports

Production: Filmerija d.o.o.

• Funded by HAVC

The film chronicles the adventure of Slobodan Dado Velikić, the first sailor from Rijeka to cross the Atlantic solo. Dado takes on one of the world's most challenging single-handed races – the Minitransat, a grueling 4,500-mile journey across open ocean from Europe to America. His tiny 6.5-meter boat, Sisa II, becomes his home, his universe, and his only refuge between sky and endless sea. The camera serves as his ship's log, capturing a life stripped down to its essence: wind, waves, exhaustion, and the inevitable confrontation with oneself.

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DIRECTED BY Zvonimir Jurić

HR, RS • 2026 • 90 • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Kinorama
Co-production: Atalanta

• Funded by HAVC

It’s winter on a small island where one family during one weekend will finally resolve all their difficult relationships including selling the family legacy and other important decisions…

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DIRECTED BY Antonio Nuić

HR, TR • 2026 • 90 • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Propeler Film
Co-production: Moses Film (TR), Livada produkcija (HR), PaliGasi (HR)

• Funded by HAVC

'Looping' is a film about a man lost in space and time. Franjo, the main character, goes through a series of unfortunate events: a midlife crisis leads to the end of his marriage, and shortly after the divorce, his best friend passes away. All of this is exacerbated by his unacknowledged alcoholism, which causes Franjo to lose touch with reality and live in a loop. He roams deserted streets at night, always starting from a bar and eventually returning to the same one.

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DIRECTED BY Dominik Čičak

HR • 2025 • 27' • short • fiction • comedy

Production: Sveučilište VERN

• Film produced within a film school or a film academy

At the end of the 19th century, a young man named Poncho travels with his donkey Maga through the wilderness of northern Croatia, carrying goods he intends to sell at the fair. On a forest road, he comes across a cart stuck in the mud and two strangers, Štef and Luj, who lost their horses after a night storm. Despite his hesitation, he helps them pull the cart out, setting off a chain of events that will change the course of his destiny.

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DIRECTED BY Hani Domazet

HR • 2025 • 22 • short • fiction • drama

Production: BAM Produkcija

• Funded by HAVC

A narcissist mother and all the damage she leaves behind.

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DIRECTED BY Stanka Gjurić

HR • 2025 • 15' • short • documentary

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman

"Masked Cloud" is documentary that follows the talented, famous Croatian guitarist Srđan Bulat, during the summer, the challenging year of 2021, when the measures against the COVID-19 pandemic were at their peak.  Srđan's last name, which means "cloud," becomes a symbol of the times we live in, where masks have become a daily reality. Srđan uses his music as a means of connection and expression. The film follows his performances, revealing how art can break through barriers, even in the most difficult times. Through Srđan's eyes and the sounds of his guitar, viewers will experience the power of music that unites people, provides hope and brings joy, despite physical obstacles and social distance.

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DIRECTED BY Dalija Dozet

HR • 2025 • 17 • short • fiction • drama

Production: Wolfgang&Dolly

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

The traditional Baranja Carnival procession is held every year in February. On this occasion, the locals dress up as "lipe" (good spirits) and "ružne buše" (ugly masks). The "lipe" wear traditional Šokac folk costumes, hiding their faces beneath veils or lace, while the "ružne" wear animal pelts and horned wooden masks. The custom of chasing winter out of the village is traditionally followed by both the young and the old. So does Marta, a 15-year old girl on the brink of adolescence and sexual maturation. For the carnival, even those who don't come to the village so often arrive. So does Karlo, Marta's childhood friend. Their reunion will awaken forgotten childhood crushes, and every subsequent moment between them will suddenly turn into an unpredictable game of confusing hot and cold adolescent signals.

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DIRECTED BY Josip Lukić

HR, RS, XK • 2026 • 85 • feature • fiction • black comedy, drama

Production: Dinaridi Film
Co-production: Non Aligned Films (Serbia), Mobius (Kosovo)

• Debut film
• Funded by HAVC

Jakov belongs to a generation of millennials who can't secure a steady life for themselves during an omnipresent crisis. He suddenly returns to the hometown to take care of his mother who’s suffering from a schizoaffective disorder. Their bond is strong, deep and gentle, but pathological above all else. Jakov’s unbreakable connection to his mother prevents him from maturing and gaining control of his own life and in turn leads him to his own breaking point. 

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DIRECTED BY Dalija Dozet

HR • 2025 • 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 Antonija Šitum Jakovčević

HR • 2025 • 10' • short • documentary

Production: Blank
Co-production: Kino Klub Split

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman

The film follows the daily life of the director’s grandfather, with a screenplay drawn from his autobiographical writings. Beyond a documentary portrait of a man quietly approaching the end of his life and struggling with the loss of his wife, it also captures an ethnographic snapshot of a community and its fading traditions. At its core, the film raises intimate questions: Who am I in relation to my family’s legacy? What do I resist? And, in the end, what remains?

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DIRECTED BY Jasna Safić

HR • 2025 • 17' • short • fiction • drama

Production: Blank_filmski inkubator
World Sales: Ninova films distribution

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

Selma takes her nephew Dino on a hike in the hopes of separating him from computers and video games. As they confront their inner nature, waves of poetry will emerge between them.

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DIRECTED BY Dinko Kumanović

HR • 2025 • 6' • short • animation • animation

Production: Zagreb film (HR)

• Film suitable for children up to 12 years old

The painter is always stopped by a butterfly before making his first brushstroke. Even global disasters seem to be part of his artistic misfortune. And when he finally succeeds, his success vanishes like the flutter of butterfly wings. Can the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil really cause a tornado in Texas? The butterfly is there—but the effect is not.

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DIRECTED BY Jelena Lopatić, Juraj Bačić

HR • 2025 • 20' • short • fiction

Production: Sveučilište u Rijeci, Akademija primijenjenih umjetnosti
Co-production: Filmerija, Filmaktiv

• Film dealing with social issues
• Film produced within a film school or a film academy

"It's Not Funny" is a student short film produced by the Academy of Applied Arts in Rijeka, where fifty students did everything - script, filming, editing, directing, costumes, set design, music and graphics. The film depicts a world without mobile phones, where everyone has a clown for entertainment, and explores the issues of clowns' free will and their power to influence the position of themselves and the people they entertain.  

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DIRECTED BY Ada Nela Peharda

HR • 2025 • 5' • short • animation • comedy

Production: Akademija likovnih umjetnosti (ALU)
World Sales: Akademija likovnih umjetnosti (ALU)

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

Two mice on a bookshelf engage in a passionate discussion on the purpose of books – one of them is an intellectual and is advocating for the spiritual and intellectual merits of literature, while the other, a glutton, sees books as nothing other than a tasty snack.

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DIRECTED BY Sunčica Ana Veldić

HR • 2025 • 60' • feature • documentary

Production: 3d2dAnimatori

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

The filmmaker and protagonist of the film, Sunčica, is a vet on a journey across the Croatian coast and its islands where she neuters stray cats with a team of activists and another vet. She is convinced she is helping the animals until she is confronted with arguments of an animal right activist who claims that castrators like her, in addition to immediate mutilation, are doing long-term damage to cats and to the ecosystem in general. Sunčica begins to question the ethics of her work, especially as she faces a surgical procedure on her own body. 

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DIRECTED BY Dejan Aćimović

HR, RS • 2025 • 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 Nina Klarić

HR • 2025 • 8' • short • animation • drama

Production: Zagreb film (HR)

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

The film 'Ornithology' is a reflection on isolation, alienation and the feeling of hopelessness from the circle of learned behavior. It thematizes the dysfunctional relationship towards animals, oneself and others as a reflection of one's own inner state and the normalization of such a relationship as an attempt to escape from suffering or boredom.

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DIRECTED BY Andrej Rehak

HR • 2025 • 5' • short • animation • drama

Production: Zagreb film (HR)

• Funded by HAVC

We witness a fragment of self-similar cyclical processes of entry, consumption, and outgrowth of worlds bounded by shells.  

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DIRECTED BY Sara Grgurić

HR, DE • 2026 • 23' • short • fictionexperimental • fiction experimental, thriller, drama

Production: fiasco studio, DimDim productions
Co-production: UO FILM (HR), a group therapy film (DE)

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

PANIC!!! is a hybrid of experimental and narrative cinema, unfolding in one continuous take. Following nine characters through shifting points of view, the film traces the physical and emotional dimensions of panic as the group of strangers connected by a stolen car remain unaware that something is stirring their shared subconscious. Shot with a 360° camera, the film builds its narrative and rhythm by shifting between vantage points, turning inner unrest into a cinematic experience.

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DIRECTED BY Ivan Ramljak

HR • 2025 • 100' • feature • documentary

Production: Factum

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

Pula Film Festival 2025 - Winner!  In 1991, on the outskirts of Tenja, Josip Reihl Kir - the chief of the Osijek Police Department, a man dedicated to negotiations and avoding war - was assassinated. Peacemaker is a story about the last few months of his life, in the dawn of the bloodthirsty Croatian-Serbian war, which Kir had been trying hard to prevent, told through the statements of a few witnesses and archive materials from the era. Still today, after over 30 years, many elements of that assassination remain unclear and the possible contractors - still unknown. Filmmaker Ivan Ramljak is one of the most significant Croatian documentarians, recognisable for his particular approach to historic issues.

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DIRECTED BY Bartul Marušić

HR, BA, US • 2025 • 64' • feature • fictiondocumentary • docufiction

Production: Pozitiv produkcija
Co-production: Zona Talents, Kinoklub Zagreb, Samostalna produkcija B.M.

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman

A hybrid documentary movie that analyzes the topics of marriage, assisted suicide, internet, laws and the philosophy of an absolute self-determination.

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DIRECTED BY David Gašo

HR • 2025 • 19' • short • fiction • comedy-drama

Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti u Zagrebu
Co-production: Little Red Dot, Izvan fokusa, Antitalent, Sunny Shorts Film Market

• Film with LGBTQ characters of motifs
• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

A weekend in the city park is meant for recreational activities.

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DIRECTED BY Mate Ugrina

HR • 2026 • feature • fiction

Production: Umjetnička organizacija Kadromat (HR)
Co-production: In the Cut (FR), Fünferfilm (DE)

• Debut film

The film "Petty Thieves" follows Rio, a quiet and withdrawn boy from central Istria who lives from seasonal jobs in tourism and small thefts in tourist resorts on the coast. His everyday routine is interrupted by seasonal worker Andrea, who becomes his partner in crime.  

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DIRECTED BY Nikica Zdunić

HR • 2024 • 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 Kruno Trninić

HR • 2025 • 23' • short • fiction • action, drama

Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti
Co-production: Strani Film
World Sales: Akademija dramske umjetnosti

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

Having found out about corruption among the school administration, three seniors and a freshman break into their high school to obtain evidence of wrongdoing.

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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 Bela Bračko - Milešević

HR • 2025 • 14' • short • documentary

Production: Blank_filmski inkubator

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

The generational transmission of the family gathering tradition leads to the collapse of its foundations and the creation of layers of a new tradition. This film is about one such gathering. More precisely, it's about the members of the author's family and relatives who find time and invest funds to meet every year in the summertime in the house of their ancestors in the village of Požari in Žumberak, willing to convey the family tradition that began at the beginning of the 20th century, from generation to generation.

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DIRECTED BY Tadija Tadić

HR • 2025 • 18' • short • documentary

Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti

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

Nika, a young influencer managed by her mother, is growing up in the spotlight. Through both their perspectives, the film explores their unconventional relationship as Nika navigates the uncertain path from adolescence to adulthood, driven by her desire for fame.

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DIRECTED BY Niko Radas

HR • 2025 • 8 • short • animation • animation

Production: Hrvatska udruga digitalnih umjetnika
Co-production: Zagreb film
World Sales: Hrvatska udruga digitalnih umjetnika

• Funded by HAVC

Leaving their human hosts, mental disorders take on anthropomorphic forms and find new refuges.

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DIRECTED BY Nebojša Slijepčević

HR • 2025 • 27' • short • documentary

Production: UO Paradoks

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

Two groups of citizens clash over the redesign of a children's playground. Is this a struggle for territorial control or ideological supremacy? Who are the true locals, and who are the foreign agents?

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DIRECTED BY Maja Miloš

RS, HR, SI, NL, IT, ME • 2025 • 119 • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Filmska kuća Baš Čelik (RS), Spok Productions/Vertigo (SI), Propeler film (HR), Nightswim (IT), Volya Films (NL)
Co-production: Quadrifolium films (Crna Gora)

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

„Rift in the Ice“ is a modern Cinderella that follows Marija, an ice skater who lives with her father on the outskirts of Belgrade. Crushed by grief because her mother died, Marija can’t express her flaming sexuality. Her father gets close to a woman who moves in with her two daughters. Marija supports Her father but realizes she can’t trust her stepmother... 

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DIRECTED BY Nathalie Cunjak

HR • 2025 • 3' • short • animation • children's film

Production: Akademija likovnih umjetnosti (ALU)
World Sales: Akademija likovnih umjetnosti (ALU)

• 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
• Funded by HAVC

A young bell ringer starts on a path through a snow-covered forest towards a nearby village. What awaits him is a congregation and a traditional procession, a rite to dispel the evil forces, banish winter and summon spring. On the way there he is struck with fear as he faces the embodiment of evil and winter. He hears a bell ring out in the cold silence, which gives him the courage to overcome these challenges. 

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DIRECTED BY Ivana Marinić Kragić

HR, RO, RS • 2025 • 17' • 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 Lucía Aimara Borjas

HR • 2025 • 8' • short • animation • animation

Production: Zagreb film (HR)

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman

Inja, an eight-year-old girl, is bullied by her friend at school and returns home sadly while it is pouring with rain. But an incredible adventure awaits her on the way there. In the middle of the city, on board his huge sailing ship, the legendary explorer Marco Polo suddenly appears. He brings a special gift for Inja — a magnificent Asian tiger that he discovered on one of his journeys. This mysterious companion soon becomes her faithful ally. As reality and fantasy intertwine, Inja discovers that the world around her is much more magical than she ever imagined.  

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DIRECTED BY Čejen Černić Čanak

HR, LT, SI • 2025 • 88' • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Kinorama
Co-production: Tremora (Litva), Perfo Production (Slovenija)

• Film with LGBTQ characters of motifs

A story about a forbidden love, set in a village threatened by the swollen rivers. Upon his return home for his father's funeral, Slaven revives relationship with his childhood friend, a young sportsman Marko, his teenage love and the reason his father kicked him out of the house.

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DIRECTED BY Sara Gurdulić

HR • 2025 • 9' • short • documentary

Production: Restartova Škola dokumentarnog filma

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

Sea of Tranquility is a short documentary based on archival materials that follow the rise of interest in space missions in various regions of Yugoslavia. Following the path of the first lunar mission, Apollo 11, in 1969, the story of a factory in Croatia that produced batteries and lights unfolds, raising questions about women’s labor and tranquility as a concept of privilege. Who, other than the astronauts who landed at the location Mare Tranquilitatis, had the privilege of contemplating and enjoying the silence?

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DIRECTED BY Jozo Schmuch

HR • 2025 • 20' • short • fiction • drama

Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti

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

Presumed dead in the Croatian War of Independence, Luka reunites with his elderly mother, untouched by the passage of time.

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DIRECTED BY Karla Jelić

HR • 2025 • 16' • short • documentary

Production: Ustanova Zagreb film
World Sales: Ustanova Zagreb film

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

Every first Saturday of the month, hundreds of men kneel and pray together in city squares across Croatia — calling for patriarchy and the restriction of women's freedoms. During these public prayers, multimedia artist Arijana Lekić Fridrih (41) stages a silent feminist performance titled Silent Mass. By observing the reactions of the praying men, passersby, politicians, police, and the media to Arijana’s act of resistance, the film offers a striking portrait of where women’s rights stand in Croatia today.

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DIRECTED BY Jakov Benčić

HR • 2025 • 12' • short • fiction • comedy

Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti

• Film produced within a film school or a film academy

When controversial actress Alisa walks into a working-class café, construction worker Fabio pretends to be a journalist to get to know her better.

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DIRECTED BY Bepo Novaković

HR • 2025 • 10' • short • documentary

Production: Restartova Škola dokumentarnog filma

• Debut film
• Film produced within a film school or a film academy

A group of friends tries to realize their dream of a skatepark in a small coastal town.

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DIRECTED BY Eduard Galić

HR • 2025 • 78' • feature • documentary

Production: Umjetnička organizacija MissArt

• Film dealing with social issues

Over 20.000 admissions in Croatian cinemas! "Sokol" is a documentary about Velimir Djerek Sokol - a warrior from Vukovar and the Imotska Krajina region whose story has become a symbol of courage and endurance. Through exclusive footage, honest confessions and never-before-seen details, the film presents a powerful portrait of a man who never stopped.  

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DIRECTED BY Ante Marin

HR • 2025 • 81' • feature • fiction • thriller, black comedy, drama

Production: Peglanje snova, MissArt, Format XYZ
Co-production: Filmski centar Skopje, Interfilm, Zillion film

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

The feature-length film "Južina" aims to explore and present the uniqueness of the Split identity, promoting local stories, dialect, customs and humor. The goal is to preserve the richness of local culture, conveying it to a wider audience and encouraging understanding and respect for regional diversity within the broader social community. The project is dedicated to engaging and promoting local talents, including actors, screenwriters, artists, and behind-the-scenes workers. By providing opportunities for expression and professional development, the film seeks to empower the local creative industry, stimulate employment, and enable talents to contribute to the regional and national film landscape. "Južina" aims to bring a fresh approach to storytelling by using dark humor and a mosaic structure to explore complex themes such as family relationships, social norms, and personal challenges. With an innovative approach to storytelling, the film strives to push the boundaries of traditional narrative forms and encourage discussion and introspection among the audience. Through humorous yet insightful depictions of everyday situations, the film seeks to spark dialogue on a broader range of social issues, including family dynamics, mental health, intergenerational relationships, and social justice. Through laughter and entertainment, "Južina" aims to raise awareness and inspire reflection on important topics.

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DIRECTED BY Angela Stipić

HR • 2025 • 13' • short • documentary

Production: Restartova Škola dokumentarnog filma

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

Skimming is the process of coating the entire surface of walls and ceilings with a special skimming compound, whose purpose is to create a very fine final layer as a base for painting (whitewashing) the wall. Skimming must be done in two passes, that is, in two layers.

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DIRECTED BY Marta Margetić

HR • 2025 • 4' • short • animation • drama

Production: Akademija likovnih umjetnosti (ALU)
World Sales: Akademija likovnih umjetnosti (ALU)

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

A drawing girl starts feeling a sharp pain in her back and tries to abate it by stretching. Despite her best efforts, the pain doesn’t wane and her frustration starts growing. Her movements become grotesque and more brutal, and her body grows more and more tense. When the pain still doesn’t stop, the girl suffers an emotional breakdown. Utterly broken, she sits back down at the table.

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DIRECTED BY Sara Grgurić

HR • 2026 • 16' • short • fiction • drama

Production: fiasco studio, HEJ!

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

Dora’s quiet longing to belong unravels into despair when her younger sister Nika is unexpectedly invited to join her boyfriend and his friends at Rijeka’s Carnival.

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DIRECTED BY Bruna Bajić

HR • 2025 • 61' • feature • documentary

Production: Wolfgang&Dolly

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

Who would I be if I weren’t who I am? The strength of the mind and the ability to see the direction of one’s own purpose and to persist in realizing our full potential are the central themes of this documentary film, which forces the concept of physical paralysis to bow before the power of human spirit, will, and vision. Dino Sinovčić is a Croatian national paraswimming and wheelchair basketball athlete. He was born with arthrogryposis, a condition that caused his disability. Upbringing, willpower, effort, and investment in personal development led this young man from Split to professional sports and numerous medals, despite difficult medical forecasts. It all started in a children's swimming pool, and by 2009 Dino had won a European bronze medal, continuing on his path toward gold in the 100m backstroke. He set his sights on the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, postponed to 2021, where he won a bronze medal in September. At the 2024 Paralympic Games, he carried the Croatian flag and won another medal. Stop Me If You Can is a film dedicated to the extraordinary strength of the human being. It follows the obstacles, psychological challenges, and personal dilemmas faced by Dino, his parents, and the professionals who support his mental and physical health, all in his pursuit of becoming the best version of himself — personally, physically, and athletically.

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DIRECTED BY Krešimir Pernek

HR • 2025 • 14' • short • animation • SF, drama

Production: Zagreb film (HR)

• Funded by HAVC

The film “Strive” is about the tunnel vision of life, focused mainly on our fears, worries, shortcomings, dissatisfactions, insecurities. Often, powerless in the face of our weaknesses, we tend to delude ourselves, at least temporarily, with superficial and fleeting pleasures and relationships.

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DIRECTED BY Mile Ostović

HR • 2025 • 97' • feature • fiction • drama

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

Josip, a war veteran of immense kindness and a big heart, converted to faith and rescued from a war camp, spends sleepless nights driving a taxi. The city's nightlife attracts various clients to his taxi, and among them we meet Lena, a single mother who survives as a night lady; Matija, the owner of a real estate agency who tries in every way to help Lena; Jakov, the owner of a failed folk club who wants to restore family peace, and two neighborhood delinquents whose robbery of a betting shop sets off a series of events.  

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DIRECTED BY Dražen Šivak

HR • 2026 • 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 Andrija Tomić

HR • 2026 • short • fiction • drama

Production: Kino klub Split

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

The film opens with a disturbing home video from the mid-1990s. We see Mate (31), a middle-aged man, forcing his young son, Zvone, to jump off a high pier into the sea, despite his wife Vesna's protests. The film fast-forwards to the present day, where Zvone, now an adult, is struggling to care for his aging and increasingly demented father, Mate, and his young son, Duje. Haunted by his traumatic childhood, Zvone finds himself trapped in a cycle of caregiving and guilt. When Mate goes missing, Zvone is forced to confront the unresolved trauma of his past. As he searches for his father, he realizes that the trauma of his childhood continues to shape his present. The film explores themes of family, trauma, and the enduring effects of violence. Through the lens of Zvone's story, we see how the past can continue to haunt us, and how the bonds of family can be both a source of strength and a cause of great pain.

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DIRECTED BY Dinko Kadi

HR • 2025 • 53' • feature • documentary

World Sales: Direcut Productions

• Debut film
• Film dealing with social issues

Ottoman forces led by Bosnian Beylerbey Hasan-pasha Predojevic attacked the Sisak fortress in 1593. Habsburg coalition forces came to relieve the siege and battle commenced on June 22th 1593. The battle ended in utter Ottoman defeat and ended a century-long "small war" that tore apart the Croatian and Slavonian kingdoms, now under the rule of Habsburg and the Holy Roman Empire.

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DIRECTED BY Damir Šuša

HR • 2025 • 9' • short • animation • animation

Production: Zagreb film (HR)

• Film produced within a film school or a film academy

How the Croatian space forces were sent to the newly discovered planet New Paradise as part of the space exploration program...

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DIRECTED BY Paula Petković

HR • 2025 • 6' • short • animation • horror

Production: Akademija likovnih umjetnosti (ALU)
World Sales: Akademija likovnih umjetnosti (ALU)

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

A demon is pursuing an internet-addicted boy. Wanting to scare him, he resorts to every horror cliché, but none of them seem effective. As his tricks remain unnoticed, the question arises of who the victim in the situation truly is. 

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DIRECTED BY Marko Plejić

HR • 2025 • 15' • short • documentary

Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti
World Sales: Akademija dramske umjetnosti

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

The weight of being a woman. An intimate glimpse into the daily struggle of Vesna, a baker and mother of five who singlehandedly carries the weight of her entire family until she finally reaches her tipping point.

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DIRECTED BY Pavo Marinković

HR, ME • 2025 • 17' • short • fiction • war drama

Production: UO Mitropa
Co-production: Tiny Sofa, Film Rental d.o.o.

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

War. In a recently captured village, an officer takes up residence in an abandoned house. Next to the house stands the former owner's cow, left behind, apparently unable to be taken along. While the new resident indulges in the appropriated belongings, the cow becomes a witness to his actions.

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DIRECTED BY Ivan Perić, Álvaro Congosto

HR • 2025 • 68' • feature • documentary • historical, biography, drama

Production: Kazimir, Odjel za vizije
World Sales: Antidote Sales

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

Gabrijela travels to New York to collect the belongings of her late great-aunt Gea Koenig — a photographer who lived in the legendary Westbeth Artists Housing complex. Through Gea's  photographs and personal belongings, Gabrijela uncovers different layers of her life, as well as the world of the older artists living in Westbeth. The Dying of the Light is an intimate exploration of the passage of time, the power of art, and the fragility of human existence.

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DIRECTED BY Jadran Boban

HR, RS • 2025 • 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 Filip Mojzeš

HR • 2026 • 90' • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Wolfgang&Dolly

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

An upper-middle-class couple, Zoran and Ivana, navigate life together, with Ivana—a public-facing journalist—carrying a mysterious, impenetrable inner world shaped by deep psychological trauma. After Ivana unexpectedly and violently attacks their son David (10) – a shocking outburst that marks only the beginning of her son’s increasingly unpredictable behavior – the incident begins to overshadow the family’s fragile image of stability. The cracks in David and Ivana’s relationship deepen, subtly metastasizing into their connection with their four-member neighbors’ family. In a frantic attempt to reclaim a sense of “normality,” Ivana struggles to navigate the conflicting demands of motherhood, marriage, and public visibility. Caught between the person she was and the one she is becoming, Ivana fights to seize control of her life, even as the world around her slips into an uneasy, sun-soaked chaos.

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DIRECTED BY Jelena Ratko

HR • 2025 • 16' • short • documentary

Production: Blank_filmski inkubator

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

The story of Marica and Janoš is a tender chronicle of a generation, of love, working life and a vanishing landscape. The big city was her dream, an ordinary life her destiny. What remains are memories. 

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DIRECTED BY Ana Sabolić

HR • 2026 • 60' • feature • documentary • drama

Production: Focus Media

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

Set against the breathtaking landscapes of Croatia, The Last Glass of Wine is a powerful and deeply personal documentary that explores the delicate balance between beauty and struggle. It exposes the hidden emotional and psychological battles beneath an idyllic exterior. Through a distinctly Eastern European lens—rich with pathos, dark humour, and carefully crafted artistic choices—the film reveals how a long-cherished tradition can spiral into a destructive addiction. At its core lies the story of an alcoholic within the nuclear family, framed by the filmmaker’s loss of her father. This intimate narrative expands into a broader socio-economic and cultural investigation, probing the question: how does one navigate an inheritance that is both a source of immense pride and deep pain? The Last Glass of Wine interweaves personal memory with regional and generational trauma, constructing a complex, multi-dimensional story that is honest, original, and courageous. It is a testament to the power of personal filmmaking and a moving reflection on resilience, identity, grief, love and hope.

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DIRECTED BY Irena Škorić

HR • 2025 • 12 • short • animation

Production: Artizana film
World Sales: Kaos

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

This is a film about a refugee boy and how he experiences key values of a contemporary democratic society; multiculturalism, tolerance and human equality, irrespective of one’s religion, nationality or country of belonging. 

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DIRECTED BY Jure Pavlović

HR, IT, SI, RS • 2025 • 85' • feature • documentary • drama

Production: Sekvenca d.o.o., Set Sails Film, Articolture, Tramal Film, HRT, Wake Up Film
World Sales: Goodfellas

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

"The Lost Dream Team" tells the story of the last Yugoslav basketball team and their quest for a gold medal at the 1991 European Championship amid political turmoil and impending war. It serves as a psychological study of the players, the trials of their camaraderie, and the extraordinary experience of belonging to a unique team in sports history—the only team to win gold, stand on the podium, and watch their flag rise for the glory of a country that ceased to exist three days earlier.

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DIRECTED BY Zoran Pribičević

HR • 2026 • 22' • short • fiction • drama

Production: ZIA produkcija

• Film dealing with social issues

Sanja, Darko and 7-year-old Mara are living in a perfect domestic bliss, until one small incident brings their lives crashing down. As each new day becomes an uncertainty, time is ticking away in their last desperate attempt to save it all... Darko races against time and hopelessness.

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DIRECTED BY Damir Čučić

HR • 2025 • 24 • short • experimental • drama

Production: Sve gore i gore
World Sales: Sve gore i gore

• Funded by HAVC

During the Covid pandemic, the director exchanged video content with about fifty friends via social networks. He used this archive of over 3500 videos as found footage. Generating those video images to look like a retro video game, the film portrays the world in a state of despair.

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DIRECTED BY Tomislav Žaja

HR • 2025 • 27' • short • documentary • historical

Production: T-Film d.o.o.

• Film dealing with social issues

How and why do historical figures become key to our memories of the past? How do specific places become sites of post-imperial memory? And how are former empires personified through objects and material culture? Analyzing the Habsburg and Ottoman Empires, Dr. Jeremy Walton will look at how collective memories are created through persons, places, and things (and how these memories determine our present and future). The empires of the past are remarkably present today. Former imperial capitals bask in faded imperial glory. Imperial nostalgia is a magnet for tourism and a model for political reform. The documentary Revenant explores the legacies of the Habsburg and Ottoman Empires and their impact on current culture and politics. Drawing on the expertise of scholars and impressions of everyday observers, Revenant reveals both the dizzying variety and dramatic continuity of yesterday’s empires today.

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DIRECTED BY Neven Hitrec

HR, SI, RS • 2025 • 80' • feature • fiction • children's film, comedy

Production: Jaka produkcija
Co-production: Invida, Living pictures, Baboon production

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

Over 70.000 admissions in Croatian cinemas! It's been a while since the last movie about Paulina P. and our heroine is now already eleven yearsold! Although the adults keep telling her that this is the "best part of her life", it doesn't seem likethat at all to Paulina. In the fifth grade, she will have to face professor Mirković, a strict andindomitable geography teacher, as well as Marta from the class 5D, Paulina's first bully. As if thatwere not enough, she will soon discover that her dear grandmother Ljerka suffers from an unusualand incurable disease. Fighting the troubles that life brings, Paulina will once again use herstrongest weapon, charm and vivid imagination, but also learn a valuable lesson-that life is notonly about winning.

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DIRECTED BY Petra Balekić

HR • 2025 • 8' • short • animation

Production: Jaka produkcija
World Sales: Jaka produkcija

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

In this experimental animated film, a woman explores the layers of her own body and inner world. Through a symbolic depiction of separation and reconnection with herself, the film examines the dynamics of roughness and tenderness in self-perception. An intimate journey that delves into the complexity of self-acceptance and inner harmony.

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DIRECTED BY Srđan Kovačević

HR, SI, RS • 2025 • 88' • feature • documentary

Production: FADE IN
Co-production: URGH!, Teorija na Delu, Blok

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

In the heart of Ljubljana, the Workers' Advocacy Office (Delavska svetovalnica) stands as a beacon of hope for society’s most vulnerable: working men and women, the unemployed, the disabled, pensioners, and migrants. Far surpassing the traditional boundaries of union work, this extraordinary organization fosters solidarity, champions justice, and envisions a more equitable future for the working class.

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DIRECTED BY Vida Žagar

HR • 2025 • 82' • feature • documentary

Production: Sveučilište VERN'

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

The World's Best Film Professor tells an incredible story of a professor who has shaped generations of filmmakers for over 40 years. From membership in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts to friendship with Steven Spielberg, his enviable career has been covered in numerous newspaper articles in Croatia. When he reveals to his students that he is battling leukemia, they spread the humanitarian campaign for his treatment to the public. As the line between film and reality blurs, traces of a collective and willing silence, which upheld for decades this character of the beloved professor, gradually come to light.

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DIRECTED BY Renata Poljak

HR • 2025 • 15' • short • documentaryexperimental • experimental documentary

Production: REA association

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

The idea for the film arose from a speculative question: Can we heal the sea, help it, or at least play music for it—to make it feel better? Our beliefs and convictions have been shaped by stories, which, over the years and centuries, have been subject to change and speculation. In old Slavic mythology, the sea god was not seen as a bearer of good energy. With the mythical voice of Amira Medunjanin, combined with a contemporary live composition by Alen and Nenad Sinkauz and a newly written song by Monika Herceg, we create a new myth that seeks to shift the narrative. A 12-year-old boy, Vanja, has been catching and studying plankton for the past two years. He owns a professional plankton net and conducts scientific research under a microscope, studying both known and unknown species of tiny, almost invisible sea inhabitants. His research has already contributed to new scientific discoveries.

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DIRECTED BY Srđan Kovačević

HR, RS, SI • 2025 • feature • documentary

Production: FADE IN
Co-production: Marta Popivoda (Teorija na delu/Srbija), Viva Videnović (URGH!/Slovenija)

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

Former electrician, social worker, and union activist unite for a seemingly impossible mission. In contemporary Europe, fueled by cheap labor, migrant workers in pursuit of a better life endure harsh working conditions, overtime hours, face employer coercion, and sacrifice their own dignity. Laura Orel, Goran Lukić, and Goran Zrnić, through their organization Delavska savetovalnica - Workers' Counseling Office, emerge as the sole refuge and allies. Whether they hail from the Balkans, Africa, or Asia, workers turn to this extraordinary organization daily, seeking help—deceived, hungry, without earned wages, and with no hope for a better tomorrow. This is a narrative exposing the darker side of modern Europe while genuinely exploring creative forms of union activism, along with the possibilities and limitations of such endeavors. The story of Delavska is one of selfless solidarity, a beacon that remains achievable against all odds. 

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DIRECTED BY Isaac Knights-Washbourn

UK, HR • 2025 • 86' • feature • documentary

Production: Varda Pictures Ltd
Co-production: Petnaesta umjetnost d.o.o.

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

At the end of a secluded Edinburgh street is a four-story building housing formerly homeless men, many of whom have struggled with addiction. Unlike most organisations, this place provides permanent housing where the men can drink inside their flats and live as they choose. On the top floor, Billy and Ronnie's friendship falters due to jealousy. Stevie battles vodka withdrawals before rehab, while Gerry and Donald lead opposing lives on the first floor - Donald relapses as Gerry celebrates two years of sobriety. Starting at the surface level of alcoholism in an observational style, the men then challenge this label, revealing the human stories beneath. Billy and Ronnie's violence, Stevie’s rehab, Donald’s guilt, and Gerry’s redemption. Confronting these deeper emotional bonds, the men offer a profound exploration of their lives beyond the label of "alcoholic". The intertwined lives of these men reveal the complexity of addiction and how they are trying to move through it by unravelling past traumas.

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DIRECTED BY Eva Vidan

HR, US • 2025 • 15' • short • fiction

Production: Columbia University
Co-production: Kino Klub Split

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

A shy, 14-year-old Deni struggles to find acceptance as her domestic life and friendships collide. 

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DIRECTED BY Jozo Patljak

HR, BA • 2025 • 95' • feature • documentary • historical

Production: Alka film
World Sales: Alka film

• Film dealing with social issues

In the area of Bosanska Posavina, the clashes during World War II actually began only in 1943, the most interesting case being the town of Odžak, which, due to unfavorable terrain, could not be captured for a long time. The extremely difficult conflict did not come to an end until May 25, 1945. Because of the death of a large number of men, the demographic picture of the area changed, leaving mostly women with small children. The film addresses innocent suffering without establishing anyone’s guilt, which continued even after the war due to the payment of reparations.

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DIRECTED BY Biljana Tutorov, Petar Glomazić

RS, FR, ME, SI, HR • 2026 • 103' • feature • documentary

Production: Wake Up Films (Srbija), Ardor Films (Crna Gora), Les Films de l'Oeil Sauvage (Francuska), Cvinger (Slovenija)
Co-production: Kinematograf (Hrvatska)

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

In the remote highlands of Montenegro, a shepherd mother and daughter proudly defend their ancestral mountain from the threat of becoming a NATO military training ground, stirring memories of the violence that shattered their family.

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DIRECTED BY Slobodan Tomić

HR • 2025 • 11' • short • animation • animation, drama

Production: Zagreb film (HR)

• Funded by HAVC

The atmosphere of the film is post-apocalyptic. A panorama of a destroyed city. A house emerges from the ruins. A man enters the house and observes people lying on beds. They are spinning in their sleep. The dreams are filled with images of general chaos, fighting, robbery and murder. Towards the end of the dream, a man falls into an abyss. As he falls, a tree slowly emerges from his body. The people wake up and tell each other their dreams. They realize that they had the same dream.  

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DIRECTED BY Lidija Špegar

HR • 2025 • 68' • feature • documentary

Production: Factum

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

This is a film about music in a very specific context, about funeral music, dominated by grief, reaching its climax in the moments of saying goodbye to the deceased. Music plays an important role in facing grief and it is almost impossible to imagine saying goodbye to our loved ones without it. Following musicians across Croatia, the film depicts the diversity of funeral practices and the accompanying music genres. These genres have changed through time, making it possible to even compile, as this film does, entire top lists.

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DIRECTED BY Danijel Žeželj

HR • 2025 • 9' • short • animation • animation

Production: Zagreb film

• Funded by HAVC

In a war torn city where a deadly hockey game played by children is a popular distraction, teenage girl Vanja is trying to survive and save her friendship with a boy hockey player Vanja.

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DIRECTED BY Amila Šarić

HR • 2025 • 3' • short • animation

Production: Akademija likovnih umjetnosti Zagreb

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

Old Vincent is once again working a shift at the call center. Irritated by the constant ringing of the phone, he decides to tear his own ear off in a fit of rage.

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DIRECTED BY Željko Rogošić

HR • 2025 • 87' • feature • documentary

Production: Wolfgang i Dolly

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

At the end of the 19th century, Zagreb, with significant cultural advancements, the development of art, culture and science, during the challenging times of the rigid political rule of Ban Kuen Hedervary, but also thanks to the contributions of the same Ban and Dr. Izidor Kršnjavi, increasingly aligned with the cultural and living standards of European metropolises. In 1893, the great painter and traveler Vlaho Bukovac arrived in the city. The thematic framework of the documentary film VLAHO BUKOVAC: ZAGREB DAYS revolves around the parallel rhythm of the mutual (co)relationship and development of Bukovac and Zagreb. Zagreb successfully recovers and rebuilds from the devastating Great Earthquake of November 1880 (with comparable documentary records from the 2020 earthquake). Bukovac makes an indispensable contribution to shaping the artistic and cultural life of Zagreb at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries: he founded the Society of Croatian Artists, created the new "Colorful Zagreb School," contributed to the construction of the Art Pavilion, and painted three large patriotic paintings with national themes: "Gundulić's Dream" (University Library), "The Croatian National Renaissance" (curtain of the Croatian National Theater, which opened in 1895), and "Dubravka" (Dubrovnik), commissioned by Izidor Kršnjavi. The great painter arrived in Zagreb after the Great Earthquake, at a time when the city was shocked, ruined, and receptive to visionary ideas and progress. After they both received all they could from each other, Bukovac moved on. Today, Zagreb finds itself in a very similar moment. Whether a new visionary will come to the city this time, we will soon find out.

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DIRECTED BY Senad Šahmanović

HR, MN, RS • 2025 • 71' • feature • documentary

Production: Sekvenca d.o.o.
Co-production: Set Sail Films d.o.o., Ustanova Zagreb film, Hrvatska radiotelevizija, Pro Logic d.o.o.

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

The rise and fall of filmmaker Dušan Vukotić—the only Yugoslav Oscar-winner and one of the founding members of the Zagreb School of Animation— uncannily mirrors the tragic fate of his multi-ethnic country. Through the recollections of his wife, friends, and colleagues, we explore the animated and human world of a visionary genius—a free mind creating art in a country slowly disintegrating due to political and religious tensions.

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DIRECTED BY Damir Markovina

HR • 2026 • 70' • feature • documentary • historical

Production: Wolfgang&Dolly

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

Roko was a socialist MP in the Parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War. He is now an old man living on an island with his wife, Zina. When the war broke out, as a loved and prominent politician, Roko felt strongly that it was his moral obligation to lead by example and stay with his family in Mostar, even though it was under attack. They were soon exiled from the city by nationalists of their own nation, who accused Roko of treason and occupied his home. It took seven years after the war to get it back. They never returned. Roko’s choices caused a rift between him and his two sons, who visit regularly despite disagreeing with their father about almost everything. They question him constantly about his views and decisions, especially regarding the history of societies born amid the breakdown of Yugoslavia. They consider him selfish for his position as an idealistic dreamer. But, Roko’s firm loyalty to the idea of a united Bosnia and Herzegovina, his strong anti-nationalistic values, and his sense of justice see him cast his parliamentary vote against the unjust Dayton Agreement, making him at once a mythical figure of the Bosnian left and a pariah as far as the ruling nationalist structures are concerned. 

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DIRECTED BY Nina Damjanović

HR • 2025 • 19' • short • fiction • romantic drama

Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti
Co-production: Izvan fokusa d.o.o.
World Sales: Akademija dramske umjetnosti

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

Luna and Nela (20) go on a seaside trip to celebrate their first anniversary. Instead of a blissful summer holiday, their relationship faces challenges - fears, jealousy, and disagreements that expose both the fragility and the complexity of their love.

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DIRECTED BY Branko Ištvančić

HR • 2026 • 62 • feature • documentary

Production: Udruga za audiovizualno stvaralaštvo Artizana

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

This historical-biographical movie based on the war themes in Dubrovnik and deal with an interesting phenomenon, but through an intimate presentation by Niksa Kuselj. The dramaturgical structure is intended as a story with three lines (chronological reconstruction, war diary and memories of Niksa Kuselj and the future of Niksa's daughter). The approach to the topic is extremely responsible because it does not place the events of the war in the context of the antagonism of the opposing parties, but in the context of growing up in a challenging times, of solidarity and hope for a better future.

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DIRECTED BY Karla Crnčević

HR • 2022 • 11 • short • experimental • fiction experimental

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

My father used a camera just once in his lifetime. After 30 years he ask me to digitize the VHS material he filmed. I was wondering what he remembers.

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DIRECTED BY Sonja Tarokić

HR, SI, ME • 2026 • 26' • short • fiction • drama

Production: Eclectica
Co-production: Manjana, DOK produkcija, Baš čelik

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

Anica (60) is resisting her ongoing chemotherapy, while perceiving her Daughter’s care as an assault on her dignity. Vlatko (60) is an alcoholic and a loner, completely written off by his work colleagues. Filled with mutual contempt, Anica and Vlatko separated long ago and seemingly no longer communicate. On their drawn-out paths toward oblivion, they are searching for an ally who will hear their desperate cry for the will to live.

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DIRECTED BY Karla Crnčević, Bojan Mrđenović

HR • 2025 • 20' • short • documentary

Production: Ustanova Zagreb film
World Sales: Ustanova Zagreb film

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

Winter Is Coming takes us into the world of Dubrovnik’s tour guides who lead Game of Thrones–themed walking tours. In a city once famed for its rich and complex history, historical narratives are now layered with and altered by fictional ones, as the ancient town transforms into a backdrop for cinematic fantasy. Like actors on set, the guides step into their roles with focus and precision — performers who know that summer is their stage, and that winter is coming.

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DIRECTED BY Ivan Salaj

HR • 2025 • 112' • feature • fiction • black comedy, drama

Production: Plavi mjesec

• Funded by HAVC

Robert (39), a writer, journalist, and alcoholic suffering from war-induced PTSD, manages to sleep with four women; get fired as a journalist and hired as a screenwriter; suffer burns and contract sexually transmitted diseases; become both a father and a godfather; get into fights and instigate two others; cause his friend to lose his job—and much worse... all in just four drunken days. Based on the novel, short stories, and poems by Croatian writer Robert Roklicer, the film—through dark humor and self-irony—explores PTSD, alcoholism, and a Croatian society devastated by war and the economic transition of the early 2000s.

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DIRECTED BY Karla Jelić

HR • 2025 • 29' • short • documentary

Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti

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

Vida Skerk was supposed to be the future of Croatian cinema until she decided to continue her studies in London due to sexual harassment by a professor at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. Through Vida's story the film shows how the Croatian film community treats victims of sexual violence.

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DIRECTED BY Eduard Galić, Istvan Filakovity

HR • 2026 • feature • fiction • comedy

Production: Missart, Format XYZ

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

Zagreb, Sunday, 13 May 1990 just hours before the legendary Dinamo v. Red Star match that would never be played. Kizo, Filip, Buba and their graduating - senior cousin Tomo try to round up the neighbourhood crew of Bad Blue Boys, but a chain of bizarre mishaps keeps stalling them. Dejo’s father Vojo, a JNA captain holed up in his flat awaiting a “nuclear attack,” refuses to let his son out; the legendary BBB leader Krpa ends up in custody for “urinating on a monument”; and the police led by the self-important Chief Močibob—chase the wrong people and plant the hapless cadet Dinko among the fans on a so-called “secret mission”. Meanwhile a train from Belgrade delivers the Delije, headed by the brutal Markan. 

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DIRECTED BY George Peter Barbari

LB, FR, HR • 2026 • 20' • short • fiction • drama

Production: Bittersweet Pictures
Co-production: Georges Films (FR), Vertigo Media (HR)

• Film with LGBTQ characters of motifs
• Croatian Minority Co-production

In a small Beirut studio, the Person prepares for an afternoon client. A buzz breaks the quiet. The Client, a woman in her thirties with a streak of white hair, steps in cautiously. They speak lightly, skimming the surface of conversation. It’s her first time, she says. The Person trying to put her at ease. They draw closer, but the Client abruptly pulls back. She doesn’t want to be touched, only to watch. After a brief hesitation, the Person agrees. What follows is part performance, part unspoken confession. The Client watches, tense, breath tight. Is the Client really here for the performance — or for something she’s not ready to face?

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DIRECTED BY Dane Komljen

RS, HR, BA, DE, NL • 2025 • 100 • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Dart Film (Srbija)
Co-production: Pipser (Hrvatska), SeriousFilm (Nizozemska), Mak Film, Marletti (Bosna i Hercegovina), Flaneur Films (Njemačka)

• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

Branko obsessively trails his brother through neon-lit Belgrade nights, trying to fathom his unusual behavior. On this path, Branko realizes that he is the strange one, an observer, an apparition. Branko keeps walking and leaves the city behind, crossing landscapes and borders on his way to a very special place where everyone and everything has a story to share.

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DIRECTED BY Miroslav Terzić

RS, IT, LU, BG, HR • 2026 • feature • fiction • drama

Production: This and That Productions (RS), Hit and Run Productions (RS)
Co-production: Nightswim (IT), Paul Thiltges Distributions (LX), Invictus (BG), Kinorama (HR)

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

The students of VIII2 go on a graduation trip a few weeks after the suicide of Andrija, their classmate. Due to a storm and a bus breakdown, the group is forced to spend the night in a mountain hotel. Isolation, lack of Internet and range, and a seemingly ordinary class meeting, confront the children and teachers with the real truth about Andrija's death and the fact that no one is innocent. The evil continues and grows, and the children find a new victim of violence, Coca, Andrija's best friend.

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DIRECTED BY Jan Cvitkovič

SI, HR, DE • 2026 • 90 • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Staragara (SI)
Co-production: Propeler Film (HR), Independent Partners Film (DE), Solsticij (SI)

• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

A drunkard, a madman, and a drug addict fail to win the "Olympics" at a psychiatric hospital. After an argument with the chief physician, they flee in disappointment. They run out of pills and take over a pharmacy, where each experiences their own moment of enlightenment.

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DIRECTED BY Matija Gluščević, Dušan Zorić

RS, HR • 2025 • 15' • short • fiction • drama

Production: Naked (RS)
Co-production: Dinaridi film (HR)

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

Sneža (63), a gentle general practitioner approaching retirement, has secret sadomasochistic relationships with various men. When her son, Momir, uncovers her secret, Sneža gets the chance to become completely free.

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DIRECTED BY Jelica Jerinić

RS, HR • 2026 • 16' • short • fiction

Production: This and That Productions
Co-production: Eclectica d.o.o.

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

Mirna and her father take the bus from their village to the city of Niš for her to participate in the national mathematics competition. It is a big day: winning an award could gain her a place at a prestigious school and pave the way to a better future.

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DIRECTED BY Stevan Filipović

RS, HR • 2025 • 125' • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Hypnopolis
Co-production: Nukleus film
World Sales: Taramount

• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

Former classmates were planned to participate in reality show, but on the road to location were attacked by a group of terrorists and left in the wilderness in a completely unknown and mysterious area.

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DIRECTED BY Goran Stanković

RS, HR, IT, MK, ME, BA • 2025 • 89' • feature • fiction • drama

Production: This and That Productions
Co-production: Nightswim, PomPom Film, Dream Factory, Kino Produkcija, Novi Film
World Sales: Splitscreen

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

Dejan (32) is taken by his mother Violeta (67) to a monastery commune, to be treated for his drug addiction. The place is led by a charismatic priest Branko (56) who has absolute authority over the small community counting around thirty addicts. Branko appoints Mionica (33) as Dejan’s guardian, a sensitive soul, earnest and trustworthy. With his support Dejan needs to move towards healing. He is assigned to carry wood, wash feces and clean waste while fighting a strong post-abstinence crisis. He has no time to think, just to fight. The commune functions as a wholesome unit, but when rules are broken, the punishment is cruel. Branko, the priest, sees potential in Dejan giving him more responsibilities and investing more time and trust in him. Dejan begins to find meaning in this new position of power and begins to preach to others, making it seem like he is completely healed. When a disturbing clip made by a former addict showing the priest beating his patients with a shovel, goes viral, the existence of the center is called into question. One evening Mionica, Dejan’s former guardian, returns to the center under the influence of drugs, breaking the commune’s biggest rule. Dejan, now Branko’s right hand, must decide whether to protect his friend or remain loyal to the priest and punish him.

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DIRECTED BY Elena Walf

DE, HR • 2025 • 6' • short • animation • animation

Production: Studio FILM BILDER
Co-production: Minya film i animacija
World Sales: Sara Cooper, Meta Media

• Film suitable for children up to 12 years old
• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

The hedgehog is just about to go into hibernation when he notices that one of his spines is missing. It’s stuck in Lena's dog's bottom, of all places. Getting it back won't be easy...

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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 Dino Mustafić

BA, HR, RS, MN • 2025 • 99' • feature • fiction • comedy

Production: Panglas
Co-production: Monte Royal Pictures int., Cineplanet Hrvatska, Krug film, Natenane Productions, Realstage

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

After years of abuse and humiliation, a group of residents at the “Pavilion” retirement home decide to stage an armed rebellion. Armed with illegal weapons, they take over the facility, hold the staff hostage, and confront the authorities. Their desperate struggle quickly turns into a media and political spectacle, as old age becomes their advantage—they have nothing to lose and are ready to go all the way. Inside the “Pavilion,” a new order emerges, driven by revenge and accumulated rage, making negotiations with the rebels impossible.

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DIRECTED BY Tyler Neal Gates

US, MN, HR • 2025 • 90 • feature • documentary

Production: Gates Media Solution International, Evil Ideas
Co-production: Wolfgang&Dolly

• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

This is the story of a father and son who left their homeland in search of a better life, built a brighter future, and left their mark on history. Marko Stijepović from Risno secretly traveled to America during the Austro-Hungarian occupation of the Boka Kotorska Bay, never suspecting the impact he would have on the fate of that country. He became Mike Stepovich, a gold prospector on the Klondike River in Alaska, saving many lives and earning the nickname “Wise Mike.”

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DIRECTED BY Thanasis Neofotistos

GR, CY, MK, HR, RS, US • 2026 • 111' • feature • fiction • comedy-drama

Production: Argonauts S.A., Atalante Production, Yannis Economides Films Ltd., Sektor Film, Studio Corvus, Sense Production, Luna Film, Cold Iron Pictures, Astrakan Film AB, Willa

• Debut film
• Film with LGBTQ characters of motifs
• Film dealing with social issues
• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

High up on the Greek mountains, there is a remote village whose residents strongly believe in myths and superstitions. PETER is a teenager, who has grown up in this suffocating environment with his strict grandmother and overprotective mother, who have forced him to wear a protective mask over his eyes since the day he was born. Peter suffers from an “eye disease” and he is gradually losing his sight. Before he goes completely blind, he and his best friend Aemon will travel away from home and go to the place they desire the most: to see the view up from the top of the recently built wind turbine. Through this adventure, Peter will come of age but also realize the painful truth about his eyesight and the lies he has endured. Shockingly, to complete his journey, he will have to sacrifice his own eyes.

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DIRECTED BY Darko Štante

SI, GR, HR, IT, MK • 2026 • 90 • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Staragara (SL)
Co-production: Graal (GR) Propeler Film (HR), Staragara (IT), Kaval Film (MK)

• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

A detective encounters his long-lost, violent brother, sparking a chain of events that unravels their lives. As he endeavors to help his brother, the consequences of his actions reverberate, shaking their existence to the core.

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DIRECTED BY Bogdan Mureșanu

RO, HR, FR • 2025 • 25' • short • animation • animation

Production: Kinotopia LLC
Co-production: Promenons-nous dans les bois / Studio EJTlabo, Minya Film and Animation, Chainsaw Europe.
World Sales: Mailuki Films (festivalska distribucija), Premium Films (TV prodaja)

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

Sulina, 1910. It is the inauguration of the first electric power station in this Romanian port city. In the jubilation of a modern and cosmopolitan crowd, Ilarion, a prestidigitator from another time, tries to play his last card.

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DIRECTED BY Andrey Ilievski Volkashin

MK, BG, HR • 2026 • 103' • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Veda Film Productions
Co-production: Screening Emotions, Studio Corvus

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

In rural North Macedonia, Dora, a repressed doctor, sees her carefully controlled life unravel when caring for a wounded woman awakens her to first love.

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DIRECTED BY Burak Çevik

TR, DE, HR • 2026 • 22' • short • fiction • drama

Production: Fol Films
Co-production: Vertigo Media

• Croatian Minority Co-production

Late at night, two lab assistants analyse an unknown substance. A coffee break turns into a fortune-telling session, shifting their gaze from science to intuition. They imagine a space where rational inquiry and foresight coexist.

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DIRECTED BY Olmo Omerzu

CZ, SI, PL, SK, HR, FR • 2025 • 90' • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Endorfilm (Češka)
Co-production: Cvinger Film (Slovenija), Lava Films (Poljska), Lonely Production (Češka), Češka televizija (Češka), Punkchart Films (Slovačka), Kinorama (Hrvatska), Melocoton Films (Francuska), RTV Slovenija (Slovenija)
World Sales: Cercamon

• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

David takes his two children on holiday to the Adriatic Sea, hoping to hold their fractured bilingual family together. His 17-year-old daughter, Klára, struggling with an eating disorder, falls in love with a local boy, Denis. When he is accused of murder, David rushes the children back home. Klára’s condition spirals, landing her in hospital. The only thing uniting her parents is their need to save her. And desperate times call for desperate measures.

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DIRECTED BY Stefan Ivančić

RS, ES, HR, SI • 2025 • 14' • short • fiction • drama

Production: Non-Aligned Films
Co-production: Volta Producción, Staragara, Antitalent
World Sales: Lights On

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

After losing her job, a single mother engages in petty scams in an attempt to provide for her six-year-old son.

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DIRECTED BY Filip Jembrih

SI, HR • 2025 • 19' • short • fiction • drama

Production: PERFO Production (SI)
Co-production: Terminal 3 (HR), Remkora (SI)

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

After ten years in Slovenia, Vera returns with her son Jan to her rural Croatian hometown. There, she is confronted by old family tensions, especially with her devout mother, Marija. Their strained relationship worsens when Marija insists Jan be baptized before Vera’s father's funeral, highlighting the deep divide between their beliefs.

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DIRECTED BY Marko Naberšnik

SI, HR, RS, ME, MK, IT • 2025 • 144' • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Perfo Film (Slovenija)
Co-production: Biberche Productions (Srbija), Quasar Productions (Italija), Kinorama (Hrvatska), Protos Film (Crna Gora), Crna Machka (Sjeverna Makedonija)

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

The life of young Bronja, growing up in the '80s, changes when her mother dies of cancer. After a childhood marked by this loss, her life is again interrupted by tragic events, which she overcomes with optimism.

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DIRECTED BY Stefan Đorđević

HR, RS, SI • 2025 • 100 • feature • fiction

Production: Non-Aligned Films
Co-production: Restart, Zavod SPOK

• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

Stefan (34) hits a dog with his car and, overcome with guilt, decides to take it with him to the lake, where he went to finish a film about his mother, who recently passed away.

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DIRECTED BY Ivan Salatić

ME, IT, FR, HR, RS • 2025 • 93' • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Meander Film (CG)
Co-production: Nightswim (IT), Bocalupo Films (FR), Dinaridi Film (HR), Non-Aligned Films (SRB)

• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

In 19th-century Montenegro, a dying poet-ruler named Morlak journeys to Italy in search of a cure, leaving his homeland behind. As his condition worsens, his devoted servant Djuko, torn between duty and longing, faces the growing shadow of his master’s fate, battling jealousy, homesickness, and an unshakable sense of doom.

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