DIRECTED BY Vanja Vascarac

HR • 2022 • 8' • short • experimental

Production: Plan 9

• Funded by HAVC

In a violent football game, the human body is a delicate and self-destructive machine.

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DIRECTED BY Mislav Muretić

HR • 2022 • 12’30” • short • fiction • thriller

Production: Teatrum

• Debut film
• Funded by HAVC

The Doctor welcomes her patient Danny, who is struggling with different personalities. This is their 9th session. The Doctor realizes that there are more personalities than originally thought. As the main personalities battle for dominance, Danny regains control and finally breaks down. 

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DIRECTED BY Renata Lučić

HR • 2023 • 70' • feature • documentary

Production: Wolfgang i Dolly

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Slobodan Tomić

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

Production: Zagreb film

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Ante Zlatko Stolica

HR • 2022 • 14' • short • documentary

Production: Restart
World Sales: Restart

• Funded by HAVC

A short documentary essay with elements of horror. Looking back in time, the narrator tries to find a mysterious woman he feared as a boy. Digging through his memories, dreams and forgotten horror movies, he seeks to discover who she was and where she is today.

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DIRECTED BY Ena-Sanan Hdagha

HR • 2023 • 90' • feature • documentary

Production: Maxima film

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Vedrana Pribačić

HR • 2022 • 91' • feature • documentary

Production: Metar60
Co-production: Croatian Radiotelevision (HRT)

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

Twenty-five years after the Croatian War of Independence, the surviving women haven't healed. Still traumatised by their experiences of torture, rape and loss of their loved ones, a group of women go through a three-year therapeutic program. As frictions along the cultural lines escalate, Katica, Ana and Marija share their life stories, confront their traumas, and seek self-acceptance in order to find their inner strength and learn how to embrace the joy of life.

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DIRECTED BY Marina Andree Škop

HR, SK • 2023 • 11' • short • animation • children's film

Production: PomPom
Co-production: Artileria

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

A boy got a blue teddy bear for his fifth birthday. Although he desperately wanted to open the gift, his mom wouldn't let him because bacteria often live on plush toys. When he grew up and became a dad, he decided to do everything to make his son’s dreams come true.

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DIRECTED BY Neven Petričić

HR • 2022 • 4' • short • animation

Production: 3D2D Animatori

• Funded by HAVC

Thick clouds whirl across the sky and cover the moon. Bora blows violently against stone walls.

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DIRECTED BY Ivana Hrelja

HR • 2022 • 68' • feature • documentary

Production: Pulska filmska tvornica / Pula Film Factory

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

Over the span of four years, a film crew follows the proteges inside a psychiatric institution as they strive to regain their lost independence. The documentary process explores the limits of confronted realities – those of the protagonists, the film crew, and the psychiatric system. Their faith, hope, and humanity are not in question but their path to mental healing is.

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DIRECTED BY Pavo Marinković

HR • 2023 • 110' • feature • fiction • drama, comedy

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

• Funded by HAVC

Faruk Šego, a failed Bosnian writer facing deportation from Austria, must prove that he's made a cultural contribution to the Austrian society. His last chance is an off-theatre troupe that can stage a play he wrote as a young man. Faruk's reluctant return to the theatre will force him to realize what's truly important in life. (planned completion: Q4/2022)

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DIRECTED BY Hrvoje Mabić

HR • 2022 • 16’ • short • fiction • drama

Production: Studio dim
Co-production: Interfilm

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

A stranger shows up on a family homestead in the middle of a stormy night. The woman thinks he is a refugee and wants to help him, but her xenophobic husband opposes the idea. Their 10-year-old son finds himself torn between compassion and cruelty. 

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DIRECTED BY Stanka Gjurić

HR • 2022 • 6'18" • short • documentary • mockumentary

Production: samostalna produkcija / self-produced

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

The film examines our relationship to food and our environment through a story about an unusual journey of a loaf of bread.

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DIRECTED BY Josip Žuvan

HR, RS • 2022 • 113' • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Maxima film (HR)
Co-production: Biberche productions (RS)
World Sales: Wide Management

• Debut film
• Funded by HAVC

Nikola and Antonio, two twelve-year-olds, live next door to each other in a suburban neighbourhood with a cobbled road. They have fun shooting carbide and filming it, hoping to score millions of views on Youtube. Their families are in a dispute that goes way back, and they don’t like the boys hanging out. During Christmas time, the fight between the families escalates and starts to ruin the relationship of the two best friends.

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DIRECTED BY Filip Antonio Lizatović

HR • 2022 • 13'4" • short • fiction • drama

Production: Blank
Co-production: Kino klub Split

• Debut film
• Funded by HAVC

A landlady finds herself and her business threatened by her neighbour and his most recent guests.

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DIRECTED BY Ana Bilankov

HR • 2023 • 19’30’’ • short • experimental

Production: Filmska udruga Šuma
World Sales: Vedran Šuvar, obrt za film i usluge

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

The film touches on some historical facts about the largest refugee camp El Shatt in the Sinai desert in Egypt during the WWII, based on materials from Croatian and international archives and interwined with the visuals of this desert non-place now. An attempt to reconstruct a fragmented memory of unknown history about migration in the Mediterranean as a transtemporal filmic journey.

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DIRECTED BY Aida Bukvić

HR, BA • 2022 • 86' • feature • fiction • drama

Co-production: Mustafa Mustafić, Faris Dobrača
Production: Kreativna De Kultura (HR)

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

After the fall of Srebrenica, where he lost his father and two brothers, Dino settled in Zagreb as a refugee. Today, the 22-year-old Dino works as a street cleaner. Dino's life will be changed by the arrival of Dora, his new roommate. They will both soon learn that they share the same painful fate.

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DIRECTED BY Danijel Žeželj

HR • 2022 • 12'25" • short • animation

Production: Zagreb film

• Funded by HAVC

On his daily rounds around the city, Collector records the sounds of urban jungle. Every night he turns these sounds into music. As the cycles grow in intensity, all the cacophony eventually breaks him. 

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DIRECTED BY Boris Bakal

HR • 2023 • 80' • feature • documentary

Production: Bacači sjenki
Co-production: Coatian Radiotelevision (HRT)

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

Some twenty years ago, Boris, a director, actor, and a fan of architecture, notices an old socialist building in Zagreb and falls in love with it. After half of century of neglect, the building is falling apart. Boris decides: he will unite the tenants and help them restore the building. No matter the price or how long it takes.  

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DIRECTED BY Luka Rukavina

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

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

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Filip Heraković

HR • 2023 • 25' • short • fiction

• 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 Jacqueline van Vugt

HR • 2023 • 106' • feature • documentary

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

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Goran Kulenović

HR, BA, ME • 2023 • 110' • feature • fiction • crime, thriller, drama, comedy

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

• Funded by HAVC

A newly divorced pathologist Fero returns to his childhood island to attend a funeral. Soon, his friend Mungos, now chief of police, draws him into a murder investigation. As Fero and Mungos try to discover which of the islanders killed a Romanian prostitute, the shadow of a serious mistake from their youth looms over them. Meanwhile, Fero renews contact with his unrealised island love Franka, who is now in a relationship with an older writer. (planned completion: Q3/2022)

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DIRECTED BY Nevio Marasović

HR • 2023 • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Švenk

• Funded by HAVC

An old man is sitting in a restaurant, observing other patrons, all of whom represent himself and his family troughout different highlights of his recently expired life.

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DIRECTED BY Damir Markovina

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

Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti (ADU)

• Film dealing with social issues

Deserters are a film about a generation of Bosnian youth from the city of Mostar swept by the devastating war at the brink of their maturity and tough decision to escape from it. Their exile stories from 90's, contained in letters mailed to the director of this film from refugee camps scattered across Europe are confronted with present condition of the city they were forced to leave. A film about missing generation, exile, hard choices, and the answer to the most difficult question of any war: to stay or to run?

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DIRECTED BY Neven Hitrec

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

Production: Jaka produkcija

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Ivan Perić, Alvaro Congosto

HR, US, IT • 2023 • 74' • feature • documentary

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

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Bojan Gagić

HR • 2022 • 20' • short • documentary

Production: Zebra Creative Network

• Debut film
• Funded by HAVC

A series of video portraits showing the relationship between the sound of a child’s heartbeats and the city of Zagreb as a map of “happy places.” 

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DIRECTED BY Karolina Malinowska

HR • 2022 • 15' • short • documentary

Production: Filmaparat

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

Every summer on a distant Croatian island, a parade of young men occupies the village for several days. While they blow the ox horns and strike up rhythm with metal iron bars, we sail with them through hell and dive with them into the sea, only to re-emerge among the living in the parade’s grand finale.  

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DIRECTED BY Morten Tšinakov, Lucija Mrzljak

HR, EE • 2022 • 15'58'' • short • animation

Production: Jadranska animacija – Adriatic Animation (HR)
Co-production: Eesti Joonisfilm (EE)
World Sales: Miyu Distribution

• Funded by HAVC

It’s pouring down with rain at the funeral. There’s a lot of crying, too much wine, several woodpeckers and a couple of dreams that fill in the gaps.

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DIRECTED BY Zdenko Bašić

HR • 2022 • 22' • short • fiction • SF

Production: Švenk

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

An introverted boy loses his ability to speak, so he establishes his own communication with the world through a miniature black hole that forms in a barn behind his house. The hole represents the boy’s feelings and symbolises the transcendent possibility of their weight.

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DIRECTED BY Goran Dukić

HR, MK • 2022 • 86' • feature • fiction • romantic comedy

Production: Švenk (HR)
Co-production: Vertigo Visuals (MK), Antitalent (HR)

• Funded by HAVC

The almighty and all-knowing Jesus Christ, sly auntie Anka, and a curious hog Beba abide in the rolling hills of the Croatian region of Zagorje during the war in the 1990s. Their arsenal: a hunting rifle and a plastic gun. The intricate bittersweet plot is dominated by the drama of first love between pigs in the moment of an air- raid, and the malfunctioning of a hood at a hairdresser’s mid-styling. A wedding, a local church festival, playful songs, Mother of God, cheese, cream and a happy end are included!

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DIRECTED BY Dario Juričić

HR • 2023 • 6' • short • animation

Production: Kinoklub Zagreb (KKZ) / Cinema Club Zagreb

• Funded by HAVC

A father is preparing a lavish anniversary meal for his entire family. (planned completion: Q2/2022)

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DIRECTED BY Maja Zdelar

HR • 2022 • 4' • short • animation

Production: 3d2d Animatori

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

Don’t be angry, my friend! I honour you as much as you have honoured me.

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DIRECTED BY Šimun Šitum

HR • 2022 • 22' • short • fiction • drama

Production: Eclectica

• Funded by HAVC

It’s a sunny spring day in Split. Mario’s granddad died so he’s helping his father Bruno sort out all the unpleasant procedural tasks that one needs to do following the death of a loved one. Bruno wants to preserve the memory of his father in an unusual way, but Mario isn’t fond of his idea. 

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DIRECTED BY Franko Dujmić

HR, ME • 2023 • 70' • feature • documentary

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

• Debut film
• Funded by HAVC

Franko is an editor and an animator. He wants to be a musician, but has no talent. So, he decides to be a DJ. In this film he is searching for one mythical record of Yugoslav funk. On his journey we meet people whose lives revolve around records and their passion is immune to other earthly concerns. (planned completion: Q4/2022)

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DIRECTED BY Dušan Zorić, Matija Gluščević

RS, HR • 2022 • 79' • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Non-Aligned Films (RS)
Co-production: Radio televizija Srbije (RS), Fakultet dramskih umjetnosti u Beogradu (RS), Dinaridi film (HR)

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

In the heat of a summer day, Draginja discovers a dead body that resembles her. In the heat of a summer day, Draginja hires a fake husband to show off in front of her friends. In the cold of a winter night, Draginja roams the streets hoping to recover her lost memory. In three different lives, a middle-aged woman tries to get out of her skin.

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DIRECTED BY Sanja Šantak

HR • 2022 • 10' • short • animation

Production: Filozirka

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

The film deals with loss and our coping mechanisms. It asks whether we really want to be free of frustrations, when they become our primary driving force. We seem to be willing to trade our freedom for this obsession, while everything else passes us by. Is it a question of human character, or does nature simply find its way?

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DIRECTED BY Martina Meštrović

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

Production: Kreativni sindikat

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Radislav Jovanov Gonzo

HR • 2022 • 92' • feature • fiction • drama, comedy

Production: Fade In
Co-production: Propeler film

• Debut film
• Funded by HAVC

Oleg, Febra, Misho, Danko, Zorka and Biba, were inseparable in their early twenties. Free and unencumbered by obligations of adult life. Throughout the years they moved, built new lives and fell out of touch. Now, ten years later, Oleg is dead, reuniting the old friends as they share memories of Oleg, discover long buried secrets and fights, and remember better days.

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DIRECTED BY David Lovrić

HR • 2022 • 10'46" • short • animation

Production: Jadranska animacija / Adriatic Animation

• Debut film
• Funded by HAVC

In a barren land there is a lone greenhouse with four inhabitants. From a nearby lake a mysterious man emerges and goes on a motorbike hunt for living souls. A girl from the greenhouse, the only one uncaptured, follows the soul hunter into a hidden realm of hallways and ruins. When she finally reaches her enemy's secret lair, she realizes that it was all part of an alchemical ceremony that she herself has to bring to its conclusion.

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DIRECTED BY Boris Poljak

HR • 2023 • 24' • short • documentaryexperimental

Production: Hrvatski filmski savez

• Funded by HAVC

The term "Horror Vacui", the fear of empty space, is used as a metaphor of the fear of the uncertain future that causes feelings of anxiety and loneliness. With its one take sequences and free-associative editing style this meditative film sends out warning of the growing hyper-militarization of the world we live in, and what it causes to the human psyche. Due to the space and time of the events taking place in film being blurred, it can all happen everywhere at any time, in this globalized world.

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DIRECTED BY Ivan Faktor

HR • 2022 • 102' • feature • experimental

Production: Mitropa

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Simon Bogojević Narath

HR, SI, IT, XK, BA • 2022 • 95' • feature • fiction • historical, drama

Production: Kinorama (HR)
Co-production: Forum Ljubljana (SI), La Sarraz Pictures (IT), Buka Production (XK), SCCA/Pro.ba (BA)

• Debut film
• Funded by HAVC

In 37 BC, a young Illyrian Volsus joins a Roman unit and sets off on a perilous journey into one of the darkest regions of the Empire. The seemingly simple task of tax collection will turn into a tense encounter with the seemingly conquered Illyrian tribes.

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DIRECTED BY Igor Grubić

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

Production: Kreativni sindikat
World Sales: Bonobostudio

• Funded by HAVC

Animals from Eastern Europe for the Italian food/meat industry used to be transported to the towns along the state border in Northeast Italy. From those conveyor-belt spaces of death, only one animal managed to come in and out alive.    

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DIRECTED BY Josip Lukić, Klara Šovagović

HR • 2022 • 28'50" • short • fiction • drama, comedy

Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti (Zagreb)

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

The end of 2021 is approaching in the Croatian capital. Karlo (33) lives in his mother’s apartment in the centre, works from home and occasionally hangs out with friends.

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DIRECTED BY Luka Matić

HR • 2022 • 9’25” • short • experimental

Production: Kadromat

• Funded by HAVC

A visual contemplation of our relationship with nature told in a flickering flow of archival footage. Images from popular films and cartoons intertwine with the brutal destruction of nature, haunted by colonization and the sixth extinction. The transience of the images on screen and the fragility of cinematic material reflect our own fragility, as well as that of the Anthropocene world haunted by the threat of extinction.

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DIRECTED BY Nina Violić

HR • 2022 • 76' • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Spiritus movens
Co-production: Terminal 3, MP filmska produkcija, Zagreb film, Propeler Film, Antitalent
World Sales: Endorphin Film Sales

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

The last moments of fun, tenderness, and absurdity before the break-up of a family. While the parents are caught up in mutual resentments and blame-shifting, their six-year-old son creates his own world through play. Everyone has their own truth, whose will you believe?

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DIRECTED BY René Gallo

HR • 2022 • 9' • short • fiction • drama

Production: Antitalent

• Funded by HAVC

A boy who is insecure about his appearance spends the morning with his parents on an empty beach. His enjoyment is soon interrupted by the arrival of other kids, when he is faced with his biggest fear.

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DIRECTED BY Jelena Oroz

HR • 2022 • 12'17" • short • animation • children's film

Production: Bonobostudio
World Sales: Bonobostudio

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

A group of forest animals set out on the adventure of learning to write. A squirrel, a tiger, a hedgehog and an elephant will write many wrong letters and scrambled words, and in the end, learn the importance of togetherness, perseverance and knowledge.

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DIRECTED BY Stanka Gjurić

HR • 2022 • 4’42” • short • fiction • fantasy

Production: self-produced

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman

About the unbreakable connection with our childhood, and the relationship with our inner child.

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DIRECTED BY Filip Peruzović

HR, FR • 2022 • 21' • short • fiction • drama

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

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Morana Ikić Komljenović

HR • 2022 • 58' • short • documentary

Production: Fade In
Co-production: Zagreb film
World Sales: Little Red Dot

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

They say art is inseparable from life. Likewise, they say that life is – love. Are we all shaped by the relationships we choose? Are we conditioned by the men and women we fall in love with? A story about Croatian conceptual artist Vlasta Delimar, her art, and artistic experience, told from the perspective of her emotional and romantic relationships with men.

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DIRECTED BY Mario Macedo

HR, PT • 2022 • 17' • short • fiction • children's film, drama

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

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

A city boy is spending his school vacation at his grandparents' farm. He is bored, so his grandfather teaches him to use a BB gun. This leads to a strange incident that teaches him a valuable lesson. (planned completion: Q4/2022)

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DIRECTED BY David Lušičić

HR • 2022 • 70' • feature • documentary

Production: Greta Creative Network

• Debut film
• Funded by HAVC

A Croatian sailor was arrested in South Africa for smuggling 230 kg of cocaine on a cargo ship, the biggest drug bust made by South African authorities. In prison, they called him Mlungu – The White King, convinced he was a mafia boss. The film offers an authentic insight into his life in prison and his efforts to adapt to the normal life following his release and return to his hometown. There he faces a dilemma, whether to settle down or play the role of „the king“ once more.

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DIRECTED BY Petra Belc

HR • 2022 • 11’06” • short • experimental

Production: Plan 9

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

Sixteen friends from different parts of the world got an analogue camera, two black and white films, and three keywords. In the photographs they took, one former couple discovered fragments of their own story.

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DIRECTED BY Zornitsa Sophia

BG, DE, HR • 2023 • 117' • feature • fiction • drama

Production: MQ Pictures (BG)
Co-production: Ostlicht Filmproduktion (DE), Focus Media (HR)

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

Elena is an inspired, workaholic theater director, who loses her ability to have children at the age of 32. She faces a choice between conceiving in vitro with her charismatic fifty-year-old husband and mentor Leon, and adapting her life-transforming theater program for orphans in Kenya. Finding her own way, Elena will redefine the word "mother". Inspired by a true story. (planned completion: Q2/2022)

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DIRECTED BY Ana Horvat

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

Production: Kreativni sindikat

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Nebojša Slijepčević

HR, RS • 2022 • 16'30'' • short • fiction • drama

Production: Paradoks
Co-production: Marija Stojnić PR Bilboke

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

The villages near the Croatian border with Bosnia are mostly deserted, abandoned by the authorities, and forgotten by the world. The last few inhabitants live in extreme poverty and are left to fend for themselves against frequent attacks of wild beasts. The film is based on an actual event.

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DIRECTED BY Martina Marasović

HR • 2022 • 22'34'' • short • fiction • drama

Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti (ADU)

• Film produced within a film school or a film academy

The film ollows the wedding of Karla, a religious girl who is marrying love of her life – Nikola. Karla and Nikola were in premarital purity and as the celebration progresses and the first wedding night approaches, Karla becomes more and more scared and nervous. 

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DIRECTED BY Mario Kovač

HR • 2022 • 95' • feature • documentary

Production: Interfilm

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Velimir Rodić

HR • 2022 • 40' • short • documentary

Production: Fade In

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

Fear, listlessness, inertness, and resignation in all citizens. The polluters poison them, but they also feed them. A story about the city of fear and apathy, where the only reliable and regular events that follow each other rhythmically and relentlessly are the funerals. (planned completion: Q2/2022)

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DIRECTED BY Mila Turajlić

RS, FR, HR, ME, QA • 2022 • 94' • feature • documentary

Production: Poppy Pictures (RS), Survivance (FR)
Co-production: Restart (HR), Kino (ME)
World Sales: Poppy Pictures

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

An archival road trip with Stevan Labudović, a cameraman to Yugoslav President Tito and the cinematic eye of the Algerian revolution. The film explores the role of cinema in Third World liberation struggles and reconstructs the birth of the Non-Aligned Movement.

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DIRECTED BY Alessio Bozzer

HR, IT • 2022 • 74' • feature • documentary

Production: Antitalent (HR)
Co-production: Videoest (IT), Hrvatska radiotelevizija (HR)

• Funded by HAVC

This is a story about a small community living in a small town in the region of Istria. This community lives inside of a cinema, where everyone speaks the same language – the language of emotions and mutual understanding. After World War II, an Italian community managed to settle down in the town of Buje, where Leonardo Acuavita built a cinema that kept the social life of the town alive.

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DIRECTED BY Goran Ribarić

HR • 2022 • 24’09” • short • documentary

Production: Lux film

• Film dealing with social issues

A war story told from the perspective of soldiers, using only authentic footage from the battlefield. The intention is to create an immersive experience of the nameless soldiers fighting the enemy while confronting the cold mountain.

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DIRECTED BY Dalija Dozet

HR • 2023 • 15' • short • fiction

Production: Wolfgang i Dolly d.o.o.

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Vanja Juranić

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

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

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

When Tina (28) decides to continue the studies she interrupted to have a child, her husband responds with sabotage and violence. Trying to stand up for herself, she crosses a line and commits a murder.  

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DIRECTED BY Ivica Šuto

HR • 2022 • 20' • short • documentary

Production: U svom filmu

• Funded by HAVC

Osijek has long been the cultural centre of eastern Croatia, even in war time. But the city seems to have lost its culture along the way. What happened to that pre-war vibe and the people who used to be the pillars of Osijek’s cultural scene? The film explores this loss of identity as seen by the man who was always part of it, and is still trying to be.

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DIRECTED BY Aleš Suk

HR • 2023 • 20' • short • documentary

Production: Udruga Ukus

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Lovro Čepelak

HR • 2022 • 11’43” • short • experimental

Production: Kinoklub Zagreb

• Funded by HAVC

Parallactic finds its standard movie sequence in a new space and a different time frame. We can say that the film has changed the dimension within its structure. The link between what are now two film structures is visible in a visual conglomerate within a new film space.

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DIRECTED BY Filip Heraković

HR, PT • 2022 • 90' • feature • fiction • drama, comedy

Production: Wolfgang i Dolly (HR)
Co-production: 119 Marvila Studios (PT)

• Debut film
• Funded by HAVC

Josip is a football player recovering at a health spa from a knee injury seriously threatening his career. Between sessions with his self-absorbed physiotherapist and visits  from his soon to be ex-girlfriend and former best friend, he starts to realise that he needs to rediscover himself. To be happy with who he is, he first must get out of his own skin. So, when he stumbles onto a sales conference at the spa and gets mistaken for someone else, he embraces his new identity and explores life from a new perspective on a quest to find his true self. But as he steps out of his own mind, many lines begin to blur.

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DIRECTED BY Nikica Zdunić

HR • 2022 • 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! (planned completion: Q1/2022)

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DIRECTED BY Davor Sanvincenti

HR • 2022 • 22' • short • experimental

Production: Petikat
World Sales: Bonobostudio

• Funded by HAVC

An audiovisual essay that advocates imagination through a travelogue of constructed and anonymous landscapes. A note about the future that speaks about loss, exploration, presence, vigilance, responsibility, struggle and freedom.

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DIRECTED BY Matija Pisačić

HR • 2022 • 12’30” • short • animation

Production: UO 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 Bruno Tolić

HR, RS • 2022 • 8' • short • animation

Production: Otompotom (HR)

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

A normal day in the life of an ordinary super rich family sheltered from the decaying and unknown city, their place of business but not their home. A technical error in the ever present video surveillance system starts distorting and interrupting the image signal. Everything turns to chaos, resulting in a hallucinogenic chase around the forbidden city of the poor where menacing figures lurk in the shadows and on the rooftops.

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DIRECTED BY Branko Farac

HR • 2022 • 7' • short • animation

Production: Zagreb film

• Funded by HAVC

Defragmentation of the past. A painter, a mother, and a child make up the nucleus of the family - the loss of the mother leads to the desintegration of memory, which transforms into signs, ritually stuck in the infinity.

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DIRECTED BY Andrej Korovljev

HR • 2023 • 110' • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Kinematograf

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

The year is 1995. Mahir (38) is a refugee from Bosnia who has been living in Croatia for several years, at a hotel named Pula, the same as the city. His days are monotonous and empty, his past unknown. One warm summer night, on a beach near the hotel, Mahir sees Una for the first time. The unexpected encounter with the 17-year-old girl will bring him hope. Until the past catches up with him. (planned completion: Q3/2022)

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DIRECTED BY Igor Juran

HR • 2022 • 15’ • short • experimental

Production: Adriatic Art Media Film

• Funded by HAVC

In today’s information age, when physical travel is no longer necessary, a search is undertaken to find the washedup whale Albrecht Dürer once looked for on the beaches of Zeeland. Quest to North is a film about filmmaking, and this self-realisation transforms it into a cargo cult system of sorts. It is a recurring journey

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DIRECTED BY Vladislav Knežević

HR • 2022 • 15'27'' • short • experimental • art-film

Production: Zagreb film

• Funded by HAVC

Analog photographs,chemical processes and digital micro-animation establish an interspace between the photographic and cinematic, the static and the moved. The form as a shape of energy transforms the view. Every moment for itself and simultaneously, eternity. The outer space and the constellations, the coldness, the doubt and the movement, chance and an attempt of conscious break.

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DIRECTED BY Ivana Bošnjak, Thomas Johnson

HR • 2022 • 8' • short • animation

Production: Kreativni sindikat

• Funded by HAVC

A waitress goes about her daily routine serving coffee whilst having thoughts of escaping her reality. A costumer is constantly recording and listening back to the surrounding sounds of the café and is completely fixated by this task. Apathy is a condition that leads consciousness into stagnation, but do either of them realise that they are themselves examples of this condition? 

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DIRECTED BY Sandra Sterle

HR • 2022 • 20' • short • experimental

Production: Kinematograf
Co-production: Kazimir Association

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Juraj Lerotić

HR • 2022 • 104' • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Pipser
Co-production: Zelena zraka
World Sales: Cercamon

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

A traumatic event – a sudden suicide attempt – opens a gap in the everyday life of a family of three. Their lives change fundamentally, as if they've been pulled into a war invisible to everyone else. The plot is limited to the most acute, a short period of time and a situation that boils down to the most important thing – to save a loved one. The film was based on the personal experience of the director, who also plays the leading role.

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DIRECTED BY Darko Masnec

HR • 2022 • 8'50" • short • animation

Production: Studio u šumi
World Sales: Bonobostudio

• Debut film
• Funded by HAVC

An astronaut in love orbits around the sun absorbing its energy. But the sun is too big, causing their connection to break, and the astronaut must continue on his own. As he tries to return to his source of energy, he realizes there are others like him. What started out as a game, slowly turns into a love triangle. Shapes change, but their needs remain the same.

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DIRECTED BY Dario Lonjak

HR • 2022 • 92'53" • feature • fiction • action, comedy

Production: Alka film

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

Caught up in the excitement of the 2018 World Cup and the triumph of the Croatian national team, Zolja, Jasmin and Mali rob a gas station to get the money for a trip to Moscow for the finals. The robbery goes wrong and during the escape they end up in Bosnia, where they wander into a training camp for terrorists.

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DIRECTED BY Silvio Mirošničenko

HR, IT • 2022 • 80' • feature • documentary

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

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

In the magical daytime and night-time atmosphere of the Mediterranean, we follow a dynamic human community and exciting characters, witnessing important life moments closely connected with the 12-kilometer coastal promenade along the sea, which they consider their home. (planned completion: Q2/2022)

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DIRECTED BY Jasna Nanut

HR • 2023 • 110' • feature • fiction • drama, comedy

Production: 15 Art / Petnaesta umjetnost

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

Nino has everything – a wife, two children and a mistress. For three years he has been telling the mistress his marriage was dead and that he would tell his wife the truth as soon as the children grew up a bit. But his marriage is still pretty much alive, so the mistress starts pressuring him. (planned completion: Q4 / 2022)

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DIRECTED BY Ljubo Josip Lasić

HR • 2022 • 30' • short • documentary

Production: Manevar
Co-production: Croatian Radiotelevision (HRT) / Hrvatska radiotelevizija

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

A candid portrait of Croatian war veterans dealing with the effects of PTSD 30 years after the war.

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DIRECTED BY David Gašo

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

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

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Stanka Gjurić

HR • 2022 • 37' • short • fiction • drama

Production: self-produced

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman

The film consists of six separate stories in which interconnected characters experience their life struggles and tragedies. (planned completion: Q4/2022)

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DIRECTED BY Eduard Galić

HR • 2022 • 105' • feature • fiction • war drama

Production: Missart
Co-production: Embrio Production
World Sales: Media Move

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

A film about a young woman trying to find out how a man from her past disappeared never to be found during the Croatian War of Independence. It was a war that stunned Europe and the world. This is a story about a search for identity and truth in a place where the truth is hidden and doesn’t want to be found.

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DIRECTED BY Damir Čučić

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

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

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Tea Vidović Dalipi

HR, IT, XK • 2023 • 90' • feature • documentary

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

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Lana Barić

HR • 2022 • 14’41” • short • fiction • drama

Production: Zagreb film

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

Željka is a 40-year-old woman, living a quiet life in an isolated village. An unexpected visit will take her back to the past, shaking up her daily routine. 

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DIRECTED BY Stanka Gjurić

HR • 2022 • 7'2" • short • fiction • thriller, drama

Production: self-produced

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman

After arriving home from a trip, a young man expects his mother, a prophetess, to bring him his dog, which he left in her care during that time.

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DIRECTED BY Karla Lulić

HR, RO, ES • 2022 • 23' • short • fiction • comedy

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

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

Based on the true story of a woman convinced that another woman had cast a spell on her and her baby. Ines, a young widow, returns to her village, where she used to work at a hairdressing salon. She asks for her old job back. Surprised by the unexpected arrival and exhausted by her newborn, the salon owner Roza starts to descend into paranoia, losing her head, or rather, her hair. (planned completion: Q1/2022)

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DIRECTED BY Tvrtko Karačić

HR, BA • 2022 • 5' • short • animation

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

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Dražen Šivak

HR • 2022 • 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 Dan Oki

HR • 2022 • 27' • short • experimental

Production: Kazimir Association

• Funded by HAVC

A personal experience of telepresence is captured and performed into essay film. The film is made up of various situations featuring mobile phones in Tokyo, smart phones in Seoul, director’s address book, as well as a series of fragmented reenactments with historical artists like Nam June Paik and Sophie Call, who have anticipated the telepresence realities of today.

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DIRECTED BY Jakov Nola

HR • 2022 • 8' • short • fiction • drama

Production: Zagreb film

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Goran Dević

HR • 2022 • 68' • feature • documentary

Production: 15 Art / Petnaesta umjetnost
Co-production: Kinoljetka

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

The film follows a week in the life of a building that was once the centre of a workers' town erected in former Yugoslavia. Going about their daily lives, the residents of the apartment building observe a colorful mural being painted on its gray facade. As people who have spent their entire lives there gradually leave due to old age or financial difficulties, some unexpected new tenants arrive at the building.

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DIRECTED BY Dario Lonjak

HR • 2022 • 22' • short • fiction • thriller

Production: Pulsar produkcija

• Funded by HAVC

Stanko is an unusual young man, obsessed with weather forecast. One day, he kidnaps a weather presenter and traps her in his basement.

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DIRECTED BY Lea Vidaković

HR • 2023 • short • animation • drama

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

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Silvestar Kolbas

HR • 2022 • 15'12" • short • documentaryexperimental

Production: Silvestar Kolbas audiovizualna djelatnost

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

Black-and-white photographs of the closed Fotokemika factory were taken on photographic negatives that were once produced there. This film essay on photography shows the passage of time through the aging of the photographic material itself. The story tackles the negative aspects of transition against the backdrop of a collapsed industry and its workers.

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DIRECTED BY Filip Filković Philatz

HR • 2022 • 52' • short • documentary

Production: Kreativni sindikat

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

The Flag deals with various dimensions of contemporary Croatian identity, examining related history, visual sociology, design, vexillology and the collective awareness of the understanding and meaning of the common identity of contemporary Croats.

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DIRECTED BY Arsen Oremović

HR • 2022 • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Izazov 365

• Debut film
• Funded by HAVC

Taxi driver Andrija sells his brother's house in the country and invites him to move in with him and his wife Vesna to their flat in Zagreb. Their not-so-harmonious everyday life gets even more disrupted by the cruel reality of post-war Croatia.

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DIRECTED BY Vlatka Vorkapić

HR, RS • 2023 • 100' • feature • fiction

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

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Viktor Portel

CZ, HR • 2022 • 75' • feature • documentary

Production: Frame Films (CZ)
Co-production: Restart (HR), Česká televize / Czech Television (CZ), Al Jazeera Balkans
World Sales: filmdelights

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

Twenty-five years after the disintegration of Yugoslavia, the Hague investigator Vladimír Dzuro visits the sites of his two biggest cases, Ovčara and Trnova massacres. The film offers an insight into the lives of the people who have remained, their memories, and their thoughts on „the Hague justice“ and what it means for them.

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DIRECTED BY Mirela Ivanković Bielen

HR • 2022 • 5'56" • short • animation • children's film

Production: Luma film

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

There is a special place under the sun for each of us. To get to that place, we have to dare and embark on a journey. It can be long, exciting, dangerous… but it certainly brings us to our special place.

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DIRECTED BY Lana Kosovac

HR • 2022 • 52'54" • mid-length • documentary

Production: Castor Multimedia za Hrvatsku radioteleviziju (HRT)

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

An intriguing history of Yugoslav nuclear program that proposed to build an atomic bomb and 16 nuclear facilities on Yugoslav soil. Only one project came to fruition, the nuclear power plant in Krško, Slovenia.

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DIRECTED BY Tomislav Krnić

HR • 2022 • 40' • short • documentary

Production: Wolfgang i Dolly

• Funded by HAVC

Nine perfect strangers of different nationalities, ages, religions, interests, and desires come together on the pilgrimage on the way of St. James in Spain. They begin their journeys in different countries and cross distances of almost 800 km over three snow-covered mountains to arrive to Santiago de Compostela in the spring.

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DIRECTED BY Ines Pletikos

HR • 2022 • 98' • feature • documentary

Production: Interfilm

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

The Pygmalion effect is a psychological phenomenon that enables people to realize their full potential, based on the expectations of others. This method was used by Ante Kostelić, father and trainer of Janica and Ivica Kostelić, making them Olympic and world champions. This film offers a unique view into the story of a sport aficionado who still considers himself an outsider.

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DIRECTED BY Manuel Šumberac

HR, CH • 2022 • 13'30" • short • animation

Production: Kinorama (HR)
Co-production: Schick Productions (CH)

• Debut film
• Funded by HAVC

A shift in the routine inevitably disrupts the harmony between Io and the Sphere, causing the irreversible destruction of their coexistence by creating a new, seemingly different, reality that will set new rules, a new routine.

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DIRECTED BY Andrija Mardešić, David Kapac

HR, RS • 2022 • 104' • feature • fiction • thriller, black comedy, drama

Production: Eclectica (HR)
Co-production: SENSE Production (RS)
World Sales: Bendita Film Sales

• Debut film
• Funded by HAVC

The film appears to be set in the late 1980s Yugoslavia, as a family welcomes their beloved uncle, who has returned home from Germany for the holidays. The reunited family enjoys the Christmas lunch until a smartphone starts ringing. It’s a sign that it is not the 1980s, it’s not quite Christmas time either, and it is not just the served turkey that can be cut with a knife – the tension can too.

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DIRECTED BY Zlatko Krilić

HR • 2022 • 20' • short • documentary

Production: Manevar

• Funded by HAVC

Built in 1955, the Tijat is the oldest passenger ship in the Adriatic. The film is conceived as a portrait of the Tijat as shown through the rich vistas it provides and the melodies it creates and that surround it.

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DIRECTED BY Nika Pećarina

HR • 2022 • 30' • short • experimental

Production: K-zona

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

The film reflects on the nature and narratives of clay extraction by tracing out the relation of landscape and object, the transformation of matter, the half-body of color, and a potter’s genealogy of the senses.   

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DIRECTED BY Dubravka Turić

HR, LT, RS • 2022 • 98' • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Kinorama (HR)
Co-production: Tremora (LT), Corona (RS)

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

As the last member of a once large family, young scientist Ana (Marija Škaričić) experiences an identity crisis. She buries herself in work, while her anthropological research increasingly intertwines with her sense of loss. In a series of coincidences, symbols and traces in stone become her guide out of the trauma.

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DIRECTED BY Igor Bojan Vilagoš

HR • 2022 • 8' • short • animation

Production: Zagreb film

• Funded by HAVC

A minimalist stylistically depicted world consisting of three high-tech civilizations descends into conflict. This conflict escalates to an all-out war which results in destruction of all three civilizations. The war ends and all three civilizations are destroyed. 

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DIRECTED BY Bianca Dagostin, Toni Juričić

HR • 2022 • 19' • short • documentary

Production: Level 52

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

The film follows girls who work on restoring old buildings, a demanding job that is stereotypically known as a “men’s job”. As they restore the authentic appearance of the edifices, the film reveals the restaurateurs’ true beauty – their passion that unravels the gender stereotypes. (planned completion: Q2/2022)

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DIRECTED BY Tvrtko Karačić

HR • 2022 • 14’30" • short • animation

Production: Panda Monk

• Funded by HAVC

On the outskirts of a city, on an unusual hill, lives the Scientist who is searching for the Living Dancing Stars. When they appear, the Scientist and his two pigeon friends fly a rocket into space to meet them. Near the finish line they encounter problems and the Scientist must decide if he will follow his dream or return to Earth safely.

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DIRECTED BY Goran Dević

HR • 2023 • 88' • feature • fictiondocumentary • docufiction

Production: Petnaesta umjetnost

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

Željko je šef sindikata Tvornice vlakova Gredelj. Njegov zamjenik Mladen počinio je samoubojstvo nakon velikih javnih prosvjeda i unutarsindikalnih sukoba. Željko je rastrzan između krivnje koju osjeća zbog Mladenove smrti i očekivanja radnika da povedu štrajk koji bi trebao osujetiti planove vlade.  

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DIRECTED BY Sunčica Fradelić

HR • 2022 • 15' • short • experimental

Production: Kino klub Split (KKS)

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

Briefly depicted fragments from the characters' lives, through summer and winter, as each of them suffers a loss. A cinematic meditation on inevitable changes.

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DIRECTED BY Damir Radić

HR • 2021 • 80' • feature • documentaryexperimental

Production: Blank

• Funded by HAVC

An observational film arranged as a series of accidentally caught street scenes shot through the window of an apartment. The author places the viewer in the position of an everyday voyeur, a position sometimes awkward but very attractive, a position in which it is difficult to refuse to participate.

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DIRECTED BY Lucija Bužančić

HR • 2022 • 9'15'' • short • animation

Production: Zagreb film

• Funded by HAVC

Something grew out of the cracks and walls and occupied all the empty spaces in a little Mediterranean city. This short film is about the gentrification of a place that has recently become a real archeological site thanks to severe turistification.

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DIRECTED BY Rino Barbir

HR • 2022 • 15' • short • fiction • drama

Production: Kino klub Split (KKS)

• Funded by HAVC

Zof struggles with jealousy that leads him into psychotic states, fantasizing about revenge and violent behaviour. When his girlfriend leaves him, he spends all his time with his dog Lota, a female Stafford. After losing the dog, Zof decides to take revenge. (planned completion: Q2/2022)

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DIRECTED BY Dino Topolnjak

HR • 2022 • 44' • short • documentary

Production: Focus Media

• Debut film
• Funded by HAVC

Zoran Zorčec Zoza graduated in agronomy at the age of fifty, ten days after surviving a stroke. He sells eggs and apples on the market and receives social assistance. He recites the poem ‘Letter to Mother’ by Sergei Yesenin without pausing

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DIRECTED BY Slobodan Maksimović

SI, LU, SK, HR • 2022 • 86' • feature • fiction • Christmas movie, adventure, children's film

Production: Senca Studio (SI)
Co-production: Wady Films (LU), Objectif, Studio dim (HR), RTV SLO (SI), RTVS Slovačka Radiotelevizija (SK)

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

A boy who has nothing and a girl who seems to have everything embark on an adventure following a fake Santa in the middle of the night. That night, all of their Christmas wishes come true, but not quite the way they expected.

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DIRECTED BY Dušan Kovačević

RS, HR • 2022 • 104' • feature • fiction • black comedy

Production: Art & Popcorn (RS), Terminal 3 (HR)
Co-production: Contrast Studios (RS), Cinnamon Film (RS)
World Sales: Soul Food Films

• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

The story follows piano professor Milan five years after his best friend, pop star Ranko White, disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Milan decides to solve the mystery and finally discover what happened to White. Failing to get support and understanding from his family and friends, Milan develops a friendship with a stray dog.

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DIRECTED BY Emin Alper

TR, FR, DE, NL, GR, HR • 2022 • 130' • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Liman Film (TR)
Co-production: 4 film (HR), Ay Yapım (TR), Zola Yapim (TR), Gloria Films (FR), Match Factory Productions (DE), Circle Films (NL), Horsefly Films (GR)
World Sales: The Match Factory

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

Emre, a young and dedicated prosecutor, is newly appointed to a small town that's been hit by a water crisis and political scandals,.After the initial welcome, he experiences an increasing number of tense interactions and is reluctantly dragged into local politics. When Emre forms a bond with the owner of the local newspaper, pressure escalates under heated rumours.

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DIRECTED BY Maksym Nakonechnyi

UA, CZ, HR, SE • 2022 • 107' • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Tabor Production (UA)
Co-production: 4 film (HR), MasterFilm (CZ), Sisyfos Film Production (SE)
World Sales: Wild Bunch

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

Lilia returns home to her family and fellow soldiers after spending months as a POW. As a Ukrainian aerial reconnaissance expert, she was always on the lookout through the drones she operated. Now, as a civilian and wife, she struggles to look to the future. The pain and trauma from her time in captivity continue to resurface in dreamlike ways, making her unable to forget and move on. A harsh and surreal tale about a warrior who refuses to be a victim.

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DIRECTED BY Sara Božanić

SI, PT, HR, BA • 2022 • 17'28" • short • animation • children's film

Production: Institut za transmedisjki dizajn (SI)
Co-production: Minya - Film & Animation (HR), Aeon (BA)

• Debut film
• Film focused on women or directed by a woman
• Film suitable for children up to 12 years old
• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

Cinda Real, a story about a girl who is mocked for having only one leg and for wanting to go to a dance “only to dance”.  

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DIRECTED BY Tom Van Avermae

BE, HR • 2022 • 20' • short • fiction • drama

Production: Bulletproof Cupid (BE)
Co-production: Nukleus (HR)

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

In the heart of a busy metropolis, Paula, a lonely street artist entertains people as a live statue. She yearns for Agata, a stone sculpture she is in love with and near which she performs every day. Paula leads a double life – the character of her statue is a popular online persona, the complete opposite to her real, lonely life.

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DIRECTED BY Radivoje Andrić

RS, HR, BG, SK • 2022 • 89' • feature • fiction • coming of age, family

Production: Sense Production (RS)
Co-production: Kinorama (HR), Art Fest (BG), Silverart (SK), Doli Media Studio (BG)
World Sales: Pluto Film

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

A seemingly boring vacation with two old ladies turns into a life changing experience for 12-year-old Sofia as she kisses a boy, reunites with her estranged family, and faces mortality on an idyllic island in the Mediterranean.

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DIRECTED BY Brandon Cronenberg

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

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

• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Milcho Manchevski

MK, DK, NL, HR • 2022 • 106' • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Banana Film in association with Scala Productions (MK)
Co-production: Meta Film (DK), N279 Entertainment (NL), Jaako dobra produkcija u suradnji s Nukleus Filmom (HR), Macedonian Radio Television (MRT), Baba Film (MK)
World Sales: LevelK

• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

Two couples go down the rabbit hole of unconventional erotic relationships, respectable at the beginning, happy at the end. Underneath its exploration of the eternal search for love, the film tackles darker social issues – surrogate parenting, infidelity, woman’s role in family and society, human trafficking, sexual freedom…

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DIRECTED BY Isabella Rinaldi

BE, HR, LT, NO • 2022 • 52' • feature • documentary

Production: Off World (BE)
Co-production: Kinoteka (HR), In Script (LT), Relation04 Media (NO)
World Sales: 3Boxmedia

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

On the border between Serbia and Croatia, a region still burdened by the ramifications of the bloody Yugoslav war, there is a pile of sand in the Danube that someone wants to turn into a new nation. In 2015, the micronation of Liberland was founded by a Czech politician who claims to have planted his flag in a no man's land. As the first president of Liberland, he is trying to shape his country. Is he driven by idealism or is he pursuing other, non-altruistic goals?

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DIRECTED BY Vardan Tozija

MK, HR, XK, GR, FR • 2023 • 110' • feature • fiction • coming of age, fantasy

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

• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

Left without his protective father, eight-year-old Marko embarks on the quest to find his mother in a dangerous, dystopian world. (planned completion: Q2/2022)

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DIRECTED BY Pjer Žalica

BA, HR, MK, RS, ME • 2022 • 110' • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Udruženje FORUM (BA)
Co-production: Propeler film (HR), Sisters and Brother Mitevski Production (MK), Backroom Production i Baš Čelik Film House (RS), ABA Film (ME)

• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

After ten years in Germany, Armin returns to Bosnia. He just got married and wants to surprise his father Fuda. But Fuda is nowhere to be found. The neighbours say he was arrested, but no one knows why. The newspapers say he is suspected of a war crime. Armin wants to learn the truth, while the neighbourhood wants to celebrate May Labor Day.

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DIRECTED BY Darijan Pejovski

MK, HR • 2022 • 100' • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Skopje Film Studio (MK)
Co-production: Maxima Film (HR)

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

A small-town woman, who is infertile, becomes obsessed with her friend’s newborn son. Her obsession is so strong that she developes a phantom pregnancy.

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DIRECTED BY Timon Leder

SI, HR • 2022 • 8'30" • short • animation

Production: Invida (SI)
Co-production: Jaka produkcija (HR), Dagiba (SI)

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

Two mice find a roll of cheese in an abandoned cottage. The ambitious mouse sneaks in and gets trapped. Greedy enough, it cannot help eating the cheese from the inside out until it collapses. Outside, his starving friend is attacked by a hungry cat. The greedy mouse is now faced with a decision: to save himself or help a friend in need?

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DIRECTED BY Biljana Tutorov

RS, FR, SE, HR, SI • 2022 • 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 Mátyás Kálmán

HU, HR • 2022 • 80' • feature • documentary

Production: Colloc (HU)
Co-production: Peglanje snova (HR)

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

A contemporary fable about the pursuit of happiness. A middle-aged couple, Anikó and Laci, used to be extremely poor, but their life was stable and loving. Then in 2013, everything changed. They won the lottery and could finally start living their dream life. For Laci, this meant the “privilege of not doing”, while for Anikó it meant the “power of doing.” On the way to happiness, their relationship has changed.  

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DIRECTED BY Srđan Šarenac

RS, BA, HR • 2022 • 80' • feature • documentary

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

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

The film follows four female inmates of a Brazilian prison as they enter the prison beauty contest, which helps them restore their self-confidence and feel like free women. (planned completion: Q2/2022)

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DIRECTED BY Dominik Mencej

SI, HR, RS, IT, BA • 2022 • 107' • feature • fiction • road movie, drama

Production: Staragara (SI)
Co-production: Antitalent (HR), Sense production (RS), Transmedia (IT), Novi Film (BA), Nuframe (SI)

• Debut film
• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

Slovenia, 1999. Two friends from a small village decide to transform their mopeds into choppers and embark on a journey in search of freedom and love. They are accompanied by a young woman with a mysterious past and an old biker who has seen the world in search of freedom but still hasn’t found it. Driven by mad impulses and trying to escape the traps of conservative social molds, they start believing and understanding things previously unimaginable to them.

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DIRECTED BY Teona Strugar Mitevska

MK, BE, SI, DK, HR, BA • 2022 • 85' • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Sisters and Brother Mitevski (MK)
Co-production: Entre chien et loup (BE), Vertigo (SI), Frau Film (DK), Terminal 3 (HR), scca/PRO.BA (BA), Belga Productions (BE)
World Sales: Pyramide International

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

Asja, a 40-year-old single woman, lives in Sarajevo. In order to meet new people, she ends up spending her Saturday at a speed dating event. She’s matched with Zoran, a 43-year-old banker. However, Zoran is not looking for love but forgiveness.

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DIRECTED BY Ivan Gergolet

SI, IT, HR • 2022 • 112' • feature • fiction • thriller, drama

Production: Staragara (SI)
Co-production: Transmedia production (IT), Propeler Film (HR)

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

Angela meets the man responsible for her husband’s death. Deciding to become his caregiver to punish him, she falls into the emotional labyrinth that separates lies from truth. When the executioner becomes a victim of himself, revenge can turn into forgiveness and a new beginning can be possible.

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DIRECTED BY Anna Shishova

FI, HR, NO • 2022 • 92' • feature • documentary

Production: IV Films (FI)
Co-production: Nukleus film (HR), Piraya Film (NO)
World Sales: Autlook Filmsales

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

Anya (17) was an ordinary teenager who dreamed of making life in Russia better. In March 2018, she was arrested and incarcerated on fabricated charges of extremism. Three years later, her mother continues her desperate fight to prove her daughter’s innocence.

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DIRECTED BY Marko Šantić

SI, HR, RS • 2022 • 90' • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Vertigo Ljubljana (SI)
Co-production: Jaka produkcija (HR), Living Picture (RS)

• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

After waking up in a hospital with a memory loss, Rok returns to his industrial hometown, realizing he has forgotten why he got away in the first place. Facing his past and his conflict-driven group of friends, the remaining question is what it will take to get his brother away from this same group. (planned completion: Q2/2022)

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