DIRECTED BY Renata Lučić

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

Production: More Magnets
World Sales: Agencia Freak

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

Lela and Vid are sister and brother growing up in a toxic family environment filled with violence and emotional weight. Together against the world of adults, they stay inseparable until New Year’s Eve brings everything crashing down.

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DIRECTED BY Anđelo Jurkas

HR • 2026 • 75' • feature • documentary

Production: DOP Produkcija

• Film suitable for children up to 12 years old
• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

Zagreb actor Marko Cindrić decided to run a 64 km section from the Church of St. Anthony of Padua in Zagreb on Sv. Duh to the Monastery of St. Anthony of Padua in Sisak in the spring of 2024 around Easter week as part of a humanitarian campaign, during which he will animate the public in order to raise enough funds for those in need. The documentary follows the entire process and its realization by questioning the inner motivation to the realization of the venture itself. The film is an intimate story about the humanitarian venture of Zagreb actor Marko Cindrić, who decided to run 69 km to raise the conscience and awareness of society for those in need and to act concretely in a society insensitive to the powerless.

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DIRECTED BY Kruno Trninić

HR • 2026 • 27' • mid-length • fiction • psychological drama

Production: ATL MEDIA

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

Just weeks before their graduation, a tight-knit group of high school seniors—six best friends and fans of Apollon chewing gum—disintegrates following a tragedy.

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DIRECTED BY Marina Musulin

HR • 2026 • 15' • short • documentary

Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti (ADU)

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

At the heart of Rijeka’s fish market is Irena — a fierce, hardworking single mother. Her day begins before dawn, balancing family and market life. Surrounded by a strong collective of women who refuse to stay silent, the film reveals their daily struggles, resilience, and deep bonds of care.

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DIRECTED BY Petar Vukičević

HR • 2026 • 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 Stanka Gjurić

HR • 2026 • 6' • short • experimental • biography

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman

'Between Returns' is an intimate film diary and meditation on presence, absence and the spaces in between. By recording her own intimate moments in front of the camera, the author slows down time and transforms everyday gestures into a place of contemplation. In a world without dialogue and with a non-linear structure, the familiar becomes strange, and silence speaks. The film creates a reflexive insight into the reality of subjective experience, combining a documentary approach with experimental visual expression.

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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 Marija Ana Turčić

HR • 2026 • 4' • short • animation • animation

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 critical problem arises within a complicated bio-mechanical system that promopts the robot in charge of its maintenance to find unconventional solutions.

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DIRECTED BY Anton Mezulić

HR, FR • 2026 • feature • documentary

Production: Restart (HR)
Co-production: Cinéphage Productions (FR), Hrvatska radiotelevizija (HR)

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

In the central Croatian town of Vojnić, 30 years after the war, everything is still divided by nationality, Serbian and Croatian. There are two churches, bars, cultural societies, graveyards, and paradoxically, for such a small town, two football teams, important identity symbols for both nations. But only one stadium. A young football player, Nikola, born to a Serbian father and a Croatian mother belongs to a generation that didn't live through the 1990s conflict. He is trying to find a way to liberate himself from the remnants of war burdened by the ossified family traditions, nationalism, and petty interests of the elders. In a town without too many options for a future, football seems like a false solution; leaving could break family ties forever. 'Cordon' follows the coming of age of a young man at a crossroads of manhood in the godforsaken town without perspective, which confirms its existence through weekend football games, quirky dark humor, and gossip in front of the local liquor store. The process of reconciliation is too slow. The young generation looks towards the West, outraged by their parents, who still live on parallel tracks created by their tribal leaders.

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DIRECTED BY Marcela Stamać

HR • 2026 • 22' • short • documentary

Production: Autorski studio - fotografija, film, video

• Film suitable for children up to 12 years old

The documentary film "The Croatian Postage Stamp" is the final part of a trilogy dedicated to the world of philately, following the films The Philatelist and The European Postage Stamp. The film follows the development of the Croatian postage stamp from the independence of the Republic of Croatia in 1991 to 2026, revealing how small formats of postage stamps have become a kind of visual record of a society and time over the decades. Through archival materials and interviews with prominent Croatian designers Boris Ljubičić, Alenka Lalić and Dean Roksandić, the film explores the creative processes of stamp creation and their contribution to shaping the national visual identity. From the first state-building motifs to contemporary cultural and social themes, postage stamps bear witness to the changes that have marked contemporary Croatian history.

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DIRECTED BY Julia Stura

HR • 2026 • 7' • short • animation • animation

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

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

Doglady is a short animated film that explores the relationship between a woman-dog and her desires, subconscious, and imagination. Aspects of her psyche, daydreams, and fantasies are depicted as vast spaces contained within her tote bag. Through magical interactions with these objects, the woman-dog unravels her inner self and delves deep within.

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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 two groups and their messages: men gathered in prayer and protesters who consider the intentions of those praying socially dangerous. Comments on social media reflect broader public opinion, further deepening the conflict. The film captures the dynamics of the city square, from the quiet of early morning to the culmination of tension, allowing viewers to become participants in the events and draw their own conclusions.

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DIRECTED BY Stanka Gjurić

HR • 2026 • 1' • short • experimental

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman

Between the inner and outer worlds remain only echoes that bind memory, dream, perception, and time.

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DIRECTED BY Maja Čule

HR • 2026 • 76' • feature • fictionexperimental • drama

Production: Kreativni sindikat

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

The plot follows Neda (Nora Vorfi) who, after arriving in New York, faces a search for stability and connection while simultaneously maintaining a strained, online-mediated relationship with her father (Milivoj Beader) back in Croatia. During a late-night internet session, she encounters the queer cyber-feminist collective “Electronic Witches,” which was active in Zagreb during the 1990s. Their existence soon turns into an obsession, and her search moves from virtual space into the physical world.

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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 Dora Pejić Bach

HR • 2026 • 12' • short • animation • animation

Production: Jaka Produkcija
Co-production: Invida

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

Every Tuesday and Friday is a short animated film about unusual beliefs, curses, women, and witches. The themes are explored through a dialogue between a younger and an older woman, Ona and Zorja. After her own experience with curses and witches, Ona goes to visit the older woman, Zorja, who knows much more about such things than the other villagers. As their conversation progresses, the stories become increasingly strange, the boundary between reality and fiction blurs, and it becomes clear that both women are far more connected to the world of witchcraft and magic than it initially seemed.

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DIRECTED BY Tara Klepac

HR • 2026 • 4' • short • animation

Production: Akadedmija likovnih umjetnosti
World Sales: Akadedmija likovnih umjetnosti

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

A little worm is looking through the window and sees a plane dropping a bomb on the city. His seemingly small action sets off a domino effect of chaotic and comical situations which save the city making him an unexpected and unknown hero.

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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, 247HUB, Spotlight Production, Slovačka televizija i radio

• 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 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 Bartul Marušić

HR, US • 2026 • 100' • feature • documentary • docufiction

Co-production: Kinoklub Zagreb

• Film dealing with social issues

A general and personal (exp.) documentary about a less researched, but currently increasingly common topic in cases of murder and divorce - "revenge filicide"; in Croatia and worldwide with testimonies. And about love, psychology, forgiveness and analogous family or social problems.

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DIRECTED BY Ana Trobec, Mirela Džafić, Mirna Unuk

HR • 2026 • 29' • short • fictiondocumentary • docufiction

Production: SOS - Centar za nenasilje i ljudska prava, Filmaktiv

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

A docudrama follows three women through different stages of emotional abuse in intimate relationships. They are the ones living their lives — until he sits in the driver’s seat and slowly takes control. Through their testimonies and the car metaphor, the film explores mechanisms of psychological violence — control, manipulation, isolation, gaslighting, and the loss of self. The film focuses on what often goes unrecognized as abuse: words, gestures, and patterns of behavior that occur behind closed doors and gradually become normalized. Through three parallel stories, the film creates space for recognition, empathy, and conversation, aiming to raise awareness about emotional abuse and to show that help and a way out do exist.

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DIRECTED BY Dea Jagić

HR • 2026 • 6' • short • animation

Production: Kreativni sindikat (HR)
World Sales: Bonobostudio

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

In a world without water, four beings embark on a mystical journey, invoking new life.

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DIRECTED BY Tatjana Božić

HR, DE, NL • 2026 • 80' • feature • documentary

Production: LEWA Productions
Co-production: HBO, Doppelplusultra Filmproduktion, Spacedust Productions

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

The film follows Tatjana, a somewhat lonely Croatian-born director and single mother who has lived all over Europe before ending up in Amsterdam. Fifteen years later, her teenage son is ashamed of his strange mother with a terrible Slavic accent, who lacks Dutch restraint. But it’s an old problem: Tatjana has always felt like a foreigner everywhere. Determined to finally find the golden grail of belonging, she visits friends and relatives scattered across Europe and asks them how it’s done. Along the way, she encounters different fates and attempts to fit in, until she finally confronts the cause of her non-belonging.  

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DIRECTED BY Ivan Perić

HR • 2026 • 71' • feature • fictiondocumentary • docufiction, comedy

Production: Propeler Film (HR)

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

In a small tourist town, heavy traffic congestion dominates every summer. The Split–Omiš express road, intended to solve the problem, has been under construction for 50 years. When a local semi-submarine operator decides to make a film about the bypass construction, he encounters a group of eccentric locals: the guru Vice, the English artist Frigsteen, and his Mechanical Chicken. Vice believes the traffic jams are deliberately fabricated to justify drilling a tunnel through the mountain in order to reach Nikola Tesla’s oscillator.

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DIRECTED BY Silvio Mirošničenko

HR • 2026 • 63' • feature • documentary

Production: BOND SQUAD Production

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

Guardians of the City’s Soul is a documentary film about the artists of Zadar gathered around writer Tomislav Marijan Bilosnić and the Independent Platoon of Artists during the Homeland War. Faced with the trauma of destruction, loss, and constant uncertainty, they preserved not only the space of culture, but also the inner strength of their community through theatre performances, literary evenings, art exhibitions, and photography. Their work transcended artistic expression and became a testament to resistance, to the human need for beauty, and to the effort to preserve meaning, identity, and dignity in a time of violence. At the same time, the film highlights their important documentary role, as they photographed and filmed some of the key wartime devastation in the Zadar area, leaving behind a lasting record of the city’s resilience and the endurance of its people.

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DIRECTED BY Luka Vucić

HR • 2026 • 12' • short • animation • animation

Production: Kinoteka
World Sales: Bear With Me Distribution

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

After a painful breakup, Brko tries to move on while Heart mourns in the passenger seat. A red scarf - an heirloom of the recently ended relationship - ignites a fierce struggle for control of the steering wheel. Through chaos, collision, and memories of lost love, they confront their grief and learn how to move forward together.

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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 Vid Begić

HR • 2026 • 90' • feature • documentary

Production: Udruga za razvoj kulture “Točka kulture”

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

After the devastating earthquake in Petrinja, the dedicated leaders of a youth NGO enter a labyrinthine battle with bureaucracy, determined to rebuild their ruined hometown and restore it to what it once was as swiftly as possible. Pressure, manipulation, and political games become part of their daily reality, while serious failures of the democratic system expose complex social issues that have been buried for the past thirty years.

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DIRECTED BY Neven Hitrec

HR • 2026 • 62' • feature • documentary

Production: Zagrebačka filmska radionica
Co-production: Zagreb Film, Jaka Produkcija

• Funded by HAVC

"I, Mighty Velebit" is an emotional film tribute to a space that is both raw and beautiful. A place where Nature and Human touch each other in a distinct way. By interweaving the intimate and the monumental, the poetic and the epic, this film builds an unexpected atmosphere and metaphysical experience of the Velebit mountain and life on it. This is not just a love letter to a special mountain. This is a film about all the exceptional spaces that change us while we are in them, about spaces of transcendent power and primordial energy that reach back to the beginnings of time and space. About spaces that reduce us to our human measure.

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DIRECTED BY Slađana Lučić

HR, BA • 2026 • 75' • feature • documentary • biography

Production: Wolfgang&Dolly
Co-production: DocCooltura
World Sales: Wolfgang&Dolly

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

Ajna, Alen and Lejla were born after their mothers were raped in the war. Ajna was kept by her mother, while Alen and Lejla were adopted. They grew up and lived differently and learned the truth about their origins in different ways. They are bound by an inner feeling incomprehensible to everyone else. All three have turned to the effort to make the world a better place and in this they have found common ground with each other. Alen is the father of two children and is considering how to explain his own origins to them. Ajna, who discovered the truth about herself at the age of 15, speaks publicly about stigma through art. Lejla, who grew up in Great Britain, returns to Bosnia and Herzegovina to explore her roots and her relationship with her biological mother. Their stories intertwine through the fight for the legal status of war victims, very personal searches and public appearances, while the film explores identity, trauma and the possibility of community and belonging through archives and an observational approach.

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DIRECTED BY Timon Leder

SI, HR • 2026 • 9' • short • animation • animation, children's film

Production: Dagiba
Co-production: Radiotelevizija Slovenija, Jaka produkcija, ZVVIKS, INVIDA

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

During a morning walk a hedgehog finds a beautiful red apple. He takes it to his dwelling and starts to rearrange his home. Meanwhile a squirrel finds the apple and takes it as her own. The two friends start to fight about who the apple actually belongs to. They ask the other woodland creatures to advise them on the situation. After being disappointed over the rabbit's indecisiveness and the bear's greed, the two decide to ask the wood's wisest resident, the owl. She soon realises the apple is one of discord in which a bit of evil lives. She takes care to exorcise it but this means there is not much apple left. But the squirrel and the hedgehog are left happy, that their friendship survived the test.

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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 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 Nikola Pavošević

HR • 2026 • 7' • short • animation • animation

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

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

The film follows a girl searching for her missing brother. The Sea itself speaks to her through the sea organs and teaches her its language. The longer the Sea and the girl talk, the more the sea lures her deeper into its depths, until eventually she herself becomes part of the sea.

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DIRECTED BY Mate Ugrin

HR • 2026 • 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 Iva Kraljević

HR • 2026 • 17' • short • documentaryexperimental

Production: Kreativni sindikat
World Sales: Bonobostudio

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

A journey through personal imagery and broken poetry, tracing grief, complicity, and presence in a world coming apart.

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DIRECTED BY Sabina Mikelić

HR, NL • 2026 • 45' • mid-length • documentary

Production: Restart (HR)
Co-production: Dziga (NL)

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

Women from all over the world have arrived in the Netherlands in search of a better life. The film's director is one of them. She is deeply convinced that she no longer belongs anywhere, neither in her homeland of Croatia nor in the country she has moved to. In the film, we meet women of different origins, races, professions and ages, who share a common place, a place in which they are searching for their place. Guided by the strength of these women and their worldviews, this film becomes a polyphony of their stories: with their different voices they compose a song; the song and the melody of the film.

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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 Ivona Juka

HR • 2026 • 80' • feature • documentary

Production: 4Film

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

Through the love story of Camila and Stine, their harmonious marriage, and their beloved family, an authentic way in which happiness can look is revealed.

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DIRECTED BY Dalija Dozet

HR • 2026 • 14' • 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 Davor Žmegač

HR • 2026 • 88' • feature • documentary

Production: Udruga Filmaktiv

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

The film adopts a mosaic structure to follow the candidates in their private lives and in the intense preparations for studying acting, during the months leading up to the entrance exams at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. At the same time, it observes the reactions of those closest to them, revealing the emotional and social context in which this decision takes shape. Through intimate fragments of everyday life, the film raises a series of questions about the acting profession, its value and challenges, as well as about the public perception of this vocation and the broader social climate that shapes such perceptions.

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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)
World Sales: Dinaridi Film

• 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 his hometown to take care of his mother, who is suffering from a schizoaffective disorder. Their bond is strong, deep, and gentle, but pathological above all else. As her condition worsens, Jakov desperately tries to avoid her hospitalization, seeking help within the family but encountering distance and misunderstanding. Jakov's unbreakable connection to his mother prevents him from maturing and gaining control of his own life, leading him to his breaking point.

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DIRECTED BY Vanja Juranić

HR • 2026 • feature • fiction • drama, comedy

Production: Antitalent
Co-production: ABHO film

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

Mom, Dad, and I is a touching and witty story about a Zagreb family shaken by the mother’s serious diagnosis. The daughter, Daša, returns from abroad, putting her career and carefully arranged life on hold, convinced she has come to “save the day.” But instead of the quiet tragedy she expected, the apartment where she grew up becomes the stage for a clash of generations, temperaments, and life philosophies, and Daša soon realizes that her parents are anything but the fragile figures of her own projections. As she accompanies her mother through the uncertainty of treatment and her father through his familiar—if somewhat comical—silences, she observes them for the first time through the eyes of an adult woman. In her attempt to take the helm of the family, Daša becomes entangled in a series of absurd, touching, and humorous situations that reveal just how stubborn family roles can be, and how elastic relationships become when driven by love.

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DIRECTED BY Filip Dizdar

HR, RS, BA • 2027 • feature • fiction • comedy

Production: Kompas Production
Co-production: Luxar Media, The Comedian, KOFILM Beograd, UG Artum Mostar, Wolfang & Dolly

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

After the death of grandma Kate, her estranged family gathers in an old Istrian villa to divide the inheritance. The conflict between the sisters, Domenica and Grazia and their family members is further complicated by the arrival of a young Italian- Giovanni, who claims to have been Nona's lover and claims the estate. Isolated in the mansion, the family members are forced to face suppressed emotions and secrets.

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DIRECTED BY Marina Aničić Spremo

HR • 2026 • 68' • feature • documentary

Production: Factum

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

With the independence of the Republic of Croatia, a period of rapid privatization and intensive construction began—one that continues to this day. Zagreb’s urban landscape is increasingly shaped by investors’ interests, while the identity of its neighborhoods and the quality of life of residents are under threat. "Not for Sale" follows people confronting uncontrolled development in the capital. As familiar neighborhoods disappear and living conditions deteriorate, the film focuses on families who have refused investors’ offers and chosen to remain in their homes, revealing the human cost of urban transformation. 

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DIRECTED BY Nina Klarić

HR • 2027 • 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 Moreno Bogdan

HR • 2026 • 70' • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Blank_ filmski inkubator

• Debut film
• Film dealing with social issues

Vigo is a young warehouse worker who spends his days at a job he dislikes, listening to his colleagues' petty schemes, while outside of work he scrambles to pay off debts, takes care of his younger sister, and maintains an increasingly difficult relationship with his single mother. When he meets Marija, a student from a privileged family, they begin a relationship that momentarily opens up a life beyond his reach. However, as problems mount and the illusion shatters, Vigo turns more and more to lies and theft. What begins as a means of getting by gradually grows into a pattern of exploitation from which he can no longer escape.

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DIRECTED BY Andrej Rehak

HR • 2027 • 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 Luka Galešić

HR • 2026 • 13' • short • fiction • drama

Production: UO Cobra Chicks Zagreb
World Sales: Radiator IP Sales

• Funded by HAVC

Twenty-two-year-old Iva lives with her mother, Davorka, in a cramped apartment where there is little room to breathe—physically or emotionally. Crude, stubborn, and fiercely overprotective, Davorka's love is expressed through constant control, while Iva silently longs for independence. Their claustrophobic coexistence reveals a painful mutual dependence: Iva cannot break free from her mother's grip, and Davorka cannot imagine a life without her daughter. Iva struggles with debilitating panic attacks that Davorka dismisses as something a single Valium can fix. Desperate to regain control over her body and mind, Iva clings to running, exercise, and carefully constructed rituals. But her mother continually intrudes, unable to recognize the invisible battle her daughter is fighting.

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DIRECTED BY Mate Ugrin

HR • 2026 • 110' • feature • fiction

Production: Umjetnička organizacija Kadromat (HR)
Co-production: In the Cut (FR), Fünferfilm (DE), Nanslafu Films (RS)
World Sales: Cercamon

• Debut film

Rio, a quiet young man from a village in central Istria, makes a living working in a hotel resort on the coast, committing occasional petty thefts. He clashes with his grandmother on how to best take care of his grandfather, who suffers from dementia. One evening, Andrea, a seasonal beauty salon worker in the same resort, notices Rio stealing and suggests joining forces to steal from her wealthy customers.

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DIRECTED BY Branko Farac

HR • 2026 • 9' • short • animation

Production: Zagreb film (HR)

• Funded by HAVC

A car accident redirects a musician's life towards introspection, leading him towards a new awareness of himself and the formation of a grotesque universal body of signs.  

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DIRECTED BY Matija Pisačić

HR • 2026 • 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 Ema Bilaver

HR • 2026 • 5' • short • animation • animation

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

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

After the death of his mother, the main character remains alone at his childhood home. He tries to settle into the peace and quiet, but notices he’s not all that alone; the decrepit home has begun to grow a living form, mold, revealing itself as a returning form of the mother. The moldy mother follows her son’s every move, manipulating and stalking him. The son, realizing the cycle is repeating again, feels he too is no longer flesh and blood. 

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DIRECTED BY Dino Krpan, Boris Kolar

HR • 2026 • 7' • short • animation • educational

Production: Profesor Baltazar d.o.o.
World Sales: Profesor Baltazar d.o.o.

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

During work on the town square, the excavator Hektor comes across some unusual stones and, encouraged by Baltazar’s advice, begins studying history and archaeology. Through careful excavation, he discovers an ancient palace beneath the town hall, and the townspeople join him in digging. Professor Baltazar then comes up with a solution and creates a two-level square, bringing the past and present together, while Hektor becomes an honorary citizen of Balthazartown.

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DIRECTED BY Mladen Ivanović

HR, ME, BG • 2026 • feature • documentary

Production: Restart (HR), Artikulacija Film (ME)
Co-production: Portokal (BG), Radio Televizija Crne Gore – RTCG (ME), Hrvatska radiotelevizija (HR)

• Funded by HAVC

The unresolved murder of Krsto Djurovic, a Montenegrin rear admiral of Yugoslav People’s Army who refused to attack Croatian City of Dubrovnik in 1990’s war, opens the story of elusive justice in 21st century Balkans and shows what happens when humanity (čojstvo) prevails to heroism (junaštvo).

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DIRECTED BY Jelena Bosanac, Tanja Brzaković

HR, RS • 2026 • 61' • feature • documentary

Production: Restart (HR)
Co-production: Talas Film (RS)

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

The Jablan tavern existed in the 1980s and was located in a small village, Jugovo Polje, in Croatia, SFRY. Jablan was a symbol of “brotherhood and equality” for its owners, guests, musicians, and waiters. It was a place where people of different generations and education gathered – from workers and peasants to doctors, even music and sports stars of the ‘80s, it was a place where nationality and religious affiliation played no role. Nevertheless, the first shooting between Serbs and Croats took place in Jablan, which heralded the war in Croatia and ended Jablan’s carefree days. The film protagonists reconstruct the events, from the day the tavern was created, to its destruction, witnessing how a place of love and joy became an object of hatred and destruction within a few months.

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DIRECTED BY Stanka Gjurić

HR • 2026 • 2' • short • documentary

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman

A quiet observation of nature and human intervention, where life persists despite our attempts to alter its course. The film reflects on the unexpected ways in which nature continues to emerge, endure, and reveal itself. 

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DIRECTED BY Ana Horvat

HR • 2026 • 6' • short • animation • political satire, comedy

Production: Umjetnička organizacija Anima
World Sales: Umjetnička organizacija Anima

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

In 1980-es Yugoslavia, a school show is going on. While songs and recitacions are being performed, one pionir girl notices an unknown man in the audience... acting strangely.

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DIRECTED BY Karla Jelić

HR • 2026 • 16' • short • documentary

Production: Ustanova Zagreb film
World Sales: Ustanova Zagreb film

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

On the first Saturday of every month, on the main squares of Croatian cities, hundreds of men kneel and pray together. In their prayers, they advocate for re-traditionalization, patriarchy, and the restriction of women's freedoms. The participants call themselves "The Knights of the Immaculate Heart of Mary." Although they pray in a public space, they treat it as if it were private. They fence off the squares with sacred markers and block the passage of citizens. Within the enclosed area, women are not permitted to enter, even if they themselves wish to pray. Multimedia artist Arijana Lekić Fridrih (41) travels to a different city on each first Saturday and, during the prayer, performs her feminist piece, "Silent Mass." The prayer participants have tried in various ways to prevent her performances. Initially, they ignored Ariana, but over time, their reactions have grown increasingly aggressive

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DIRECTED BY Zvonimir Jurić

HR, RS • 2026 • 80' • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Kinorama (HR)
Co-production: Forum Ljubljana (SI), Atalanta (RS)

• Funded by HAVC

Sisters Anica and Irena, who brings her children with her, come to visit their Father, who lives on the island with their brother Ivan, a silent eccentric, who would hardly be able to take care of their Father in the future. Their visit is this time further motivated – Father had arranged the sale of the family land. Two sisters, two children and two adult men who cannot take care of themselves, cramped in a family home that has seen better times, will be forced to reflect on their relationships, and some of them will make sacrifices in order for the family to survive.

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DIRECTED BY Masimo Paris

HR • 2026 • 17' • short • documentary

• Film produced within a film school or a film academy

This 17-minute film presents an intimate portrait of Špiro Dmitrović, a man whom many Pula residents simply recognize from seeing him around town. Špiro is a familiar face in our city—a community figure who actively follows numerous cultural, social, and sporting events. Yet, what many do not know is that Špiro is also a man whose life was shaped by mining. A workplace accident ended his career in the mines; today, he is a retiree and an avid collector of mining-related artifacts. He creates various artistic works inspired by mining, often showcasing them at numerous exhibitions. Through his creative work, Špiro seeks to preserve the memory of his own life and of a profession that has all but vanished in Istria.  

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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 Aldo Tardozzi

HR, NL, BA, RS • 2026 • 96' • feature • fiction • horror

Production: Živa produkcija
Co-production: De Productie, CinePlanet, Deblokada

• Funded by HAVC

An ambitious biologist, while exploring the ways of prolonging human life, gets involved in the search of a missing child. The investigation facts get mixed up with local legends of Striguni – supernatural beings that kidnap the children.

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DIRECTED BY Krešimir Pernek

HR • 2026 • 19' • short • animation • SF, drama

Production: Zagreb film (HR)

• Funded by HAVC

In a society living in box car apartments, encircled with darkness and polluted with neon lights and scaffolding, glowing eyes creatures take on a journey to free themselves from their personal demons. They must leave their dark habitats and venture into even darker corridors, tunnels and underground passages of their worlds in search of relief. Along the way they will be constantly tested by their demons, trying to derail them from their path. Not knowing the way forward, the creatures are relying on their instincts not to get lost in the darkness. In the belly of the underground, there lies the great stone gates, guarding the portal to never ending isles of glittering Shopping Mall and streams of glowing liquid to quench their thirst under the colorful lights of Night Club. Not knowing what lies beyond the shining portal, they venture forth into the unknown to find out if what they want is what they really need.

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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 Martin Babić

HR • 2026 • 15' • short • animation • animation

Production: Jaka produkcija

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

After the Battle of Nikopol and the disastrous defeat of the crusader army led by the Croatian-Hungarian King Sigismund of Luxemburg, the opposition Croatian nobility took advantage of the situation to support another, more favorable king - Ladislav of Naples. However, Sigismund of Luxemburg survived the defeat at Nikopol and during his escape to Hungary, in an attempt to consolidate his power in Croatia, he convened a council in Križevci. The biggest slaughter of the Croatian nobility will take place at that assembly.

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DIRECTED BY Irena Jukić Pranjić

HR • 2026 • 11' • short • animation • art-film

Production: Umjetnička organizacija Anima
World Sales: Umjetnička organizacija Anima

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

The narrator begins keeping a dream journal. After presenting several vivid nightmares, she turns to dreams that take place in the cemetery beside which she grew up. Comparing her own dreaming with collective imaginings of the afterlife, the author delves into the depths of the human subconscious and, there—at the very source of human spirituality—discovers parallels between dreams and the medium of film, which is likewise woven from fantasies and illusions through which we experience things that do not exist in our reality.

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DIRECTED BY Arsen Anton Ostojić

HR, CZ, SK • 2026 • 97' • feature • animation • animation, SF, children's film

Production: Alkay Animation Prague s.r.o. (CZ), Filmosaurus Rex d.o.o. (HR)
Co-production: BFilm, s.r.o. (SK)
World Sales: Sola Media GmbH

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

After her father got a job in a factory that manufactures robotic animals on a newly settled Crystal Planet , 11-year old Rea accidentally discovers a cute cub of an unusual and unknown animal which lives in underground caves that ended up on the surface of the planet by set of unusual circumstances.  Together with her new neighbour, a 11-year od boy Andy, she tries to save the cub from the greedy factory owner who wants to turn it into a robotic animal.

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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 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 Dorotea Radušić, Mislav Rotim

HR • 2026 • 9' • short • animation

Production: Jaka produkcija

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

We follow a group of marine animals that face the consequences of human waste. On the way to a clean sea, they learn about the importance of recycling and how important it is environmental responsibility for the future of their sea.

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DIRECTED BY Marta Vede

HR • 2026 • 31' • short • documentary

Production: GlasnaTišina Productions

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman

The film explores Pula's alternative scene, past and present, through the stories of the people who created it and the locations that shaped it, comparing a time when numerous clubs were the center of young people's lives with today's increasingly quiet Pula, where those spaces have disappeared, and new generations are left without a place for alternative expression. The film explores the reasons behind this disappearance, from changes in musical tastes to different going-out habits.

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DIRECTED BY Sunčana Brkulj

HR • 2026 • 8' • short • animation

Production: Jaka produkcija

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

The marionettes are putting on their usual evening show. The old man pulls the strings. The play goes according to plan – the princess finds herself in trouble, but the brave prince defends her from the enraged dragon. But after the curtain comes down, the marionettes play differently, according to their own rules. Marionette theater is a story about the roles we are assigned.

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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 Dean Hamer

HR • 2026 • 7' • short • animation • animation

Production: Luma film
World Sales: Luma film

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

A race begins to finally prove who is faster, the Tortoise or the Hare. Both set off confident of victory, but halfway through they fall into a deep, dark pit. The Hare tries to climb the muddy walls, while the Tortoise digs for a way out, but to no avail. They realise that only by joining forces can they escape the pit. The initial hostility turns into friendship when, through joint efforts, they manage to find a way out.

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DIRECTED BY Željka Rinčić

HR • 2026 • 70' • feature • experimental • romance

Production: UKUS

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

The world is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace, all small children already have an old man inside them, all infants death, all dying eternal life... “Dear uncie, I'm still waiting for you to get off the ship. I finally read the books you gave me 30 years ago. I cut out some of their parts and made a soap opera instead of you.” To my close uncles; Igor Violić and Antonije Buntić, based on true events.

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DIRECTED BY Nevio Marasović

HR • 2026 • 98' • feature • fiction • crime, comedy

Production: Kinorama
Co-production: Portobisso

• Funded by HAVC

In this festive Christmas crime comedy set in the fictional mountain town of Great Beaver, biologist Marta Bearhart — a dedicated member of the Bear Intervention Team (yes, it really exists) — teams up with the well-meaning yet awkward police officer Bolf to solve a local mystery. The situation becomes more complicated as she must navigate her handsome ex-husband Mauro and his hot-headed brother Mišel.

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DIRECTED BY Isaac Knights-Washbourn

UK, HR • 2026 • 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 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 • 2027 • 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 Dario Juričan

HR • 2026 • 70' • feature • documentary • docufiction

Production: Hrvatski centar za istraživačko novinarstvo i slobodu medija (HRCIN)
Co-production: Blank_filmski inkubator

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

As sirens and explosions echo, Ukrainian beauty and tattoo salons transform into places where, through routine, laughter, and irony, a desire for beauty and a new normalcy is nurtured.

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DIRECTED BY Damir Markovina

HR • 2026 • 75' • feature • documentary • historical, family

Production: Wolfgang&Dolly
Co-production: Osoba D, Al Jazeera Balkans

• 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 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 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 • 2026 • 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 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 Miroslav Terzić

RS, IT, LU, BG, HR • 2026 • 90' • 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 Nicola Sorcinelli

IT, RS, HR • 2026 • 85' • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Nightswim & Wildside
Co-production: This and That Production, Antitalent
World Sales: M-Appeal

• Debut film
• Croatian Minority Co-production

Music in Afghanistan has been banned, and so a conductor and his son, a tuba player, set out in search of a new beginning along the Balkan route. During this seemingly endless journey, their paths will cross with that of an Italian doctor. A meeting that will change the lives of the two refugees and the young woman forever.

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DIRECTED BY Milena Vitman

MK, HR • 2026 • 18' • short • fiction • drama

Production: DNF FILMS
Co-production: Woodz production d.o.o.
Co-production: Woodz production d.o.o.

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

Once a confident and ambitious pilot, Maria now battles the emotional aftermath of a traumatic birth, the sudden transformation of her body, a complete lack of support from her partner, and the constant demands of her newborn. Isolated in a society that expects her to feel joy, she instead faces postnatal depression and crushing guilt for not feeling what she’s “supposed” to feel.. In a surprising act of defiance against fear and despair, she chooses the least expected path: to have another child.

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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), Robot 22 (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 Srđan Šarenac

BA, ME, HR, RS • 2026 • 80' • feature • documentary • historical

Production: Novi Film
Co-production: Metar60, Evil Ideas, Bibi Films

• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

"Cinema Under Siege" is a feature documentary about how citizens of Sarajevo, during the 1993 siege, used cinema and the first film festival in Sarajevo as acts of cultural resistance and survival.

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DIRECTED BY Veronika Hozjan

SI, HR • 2026 • 10' • short • animation • animation

Production: Dagiba, URGH !
Co-production: Kinoteka, RTV Slovenija, NuFrame

• 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 city is flooding. People flee or adapt to the new reality-by plunging into the water and miraculously growing fins. An old shoemaker struggles to carry on his way of life-fishing from the flooded streets the fin people’s discarded shoes. His wife, who suffers in silence watching her husband’s refusal to change, is slowly being seduced by the “siren song” of the fin people’s carefree attitude. As the waters rise, a decision must be made. Will they follow the others? Is there another way?

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DIRECTED BY Daniel Damm

HR • 2027 • 4' • short • animation • family, comedy

Production: Damm it

• Film with LGBTQ characters of motifs
• Film suitable for children up to 12 years old
• Film dealing with social issues
• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

Two men, Glob and Wilson, meet in a park. Wilson notices that Glob has the ability to manifest objects from his thoughts and tries to persuade him to create a huge pile of money, but Wilson ends up completely consumed by his own greed.

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DIRECTED BY Pavle Vučković

RS, ME, MN, HR, UK • 2026 • 110' • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Plan 9, Film District and ORWO
Co-production: Cinnerent, Art&Popcorn, Black Cat Production, Telefilm, Parangal film
World Sales: ORWO Distribution

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

Mirjana, a cynical and emotionally detached police detective with a rigid demeanor, arrives in a quaint, yet mysterious small town to unravel the puzzling disappearance of Adela. Adela, an adventurous young woman, had come to this secluded place to explore the local customs and write about it on her internet blog about witchcraft and magic. As Mirjana delves deeper into the investigation, she encounters a series of frustrating obstacles. The trail of evidence she hopes to follow leads her into the labyrinth of local superstitions and whispered rumors. Each conversation with the townspeople leaves her with an unsettling feeling that they are concealing the truth about Adela. Determined to uncover the truth, Mirjana follows Adela's steps. Her relentless pursuit takes her into the heart of the surrounding forest, where she begins to uncover hints of a mythological being. As she investigates more she realises that her investigation is slowly transforming into a spiritual and emotional journey. The deeper she ventures, the more she senses that the mythological being holds answers to both Adela’s fate and Mirjana´s suppressed feelings

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DIRECTED BY Jakob Krese

SI, DE, IT, HR • 2026 • feature • documentary

Production: Potem (SI)
Co-production: Majmum Films (DE), Zero Stress Production (IT), Restart (HR)

• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

“About the End of the World” tells the personal story of a Yugoslav family during half a century of European history, a period marked by upheavals, hope, destruction and new beginnings. My grandmother, fought as a partisan against fascism and for the revolution in the former Yugoslavia. My mother, rebelled against that revolution and saw her country disappear in flames. Her son, me, I’m making a film about them, about a country that no longer exists and about the hope that sustains us.

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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 Tanja Brzaković

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

Production: Talas Film
Co-production: 4film

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

After a heart attack, Jovan, a retired architect of Serbian origin who spent most of his life in Germany, refuses to give into his daughter's pressure to spend the rest of his life in a nursing home. With his grandson Nikola, who has Asperger's syndrome and is living without social contacts, he travels to his homeland, a village in Serbia, to sell the family land, but becomes a part of a local population rebellion against the construction mafia that threatens to destroy everything that is left of his homeland.

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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 Valeria Cozzarini

SI, IT, HR, BG • 2026 • 11' • short • animation • drama

Production: Arsmedia
Co-production: RTV Slovenija, Altreforme, Solaria film, NuFrame, 001, Tuna Film – E, Samsara, PREMIERstudio Plus
World Sales: ARSMEDIA d.o.o.

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

Julka is a Slovenian-speaking eight-year-old girl who has two friends, Danilo and Marko, with whom she is inseparable. Their lives change drastically when the fascist regime bans the use of local and minority languages and begins a period of persecution and oppression. One day, a teacher hears Julka speaking Slovene in class, so he punishes her and uses violence to enforce his excessive nationalism. The story for the screenplay is based on a short story by the writer Boris Pahor, The Butterfly on the Hook.

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DIRECTED BY Vuk Bogdanović

RS, HR • 2026 • 20' • short • fiction • drama

Production: ETM Production
Co-production: 4film

• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

An aging musician and tavern owner, Almir (67), reflects on his beginnings as a violinist after, during an audition for musicians for a private bachelor party celebrating the nephew of a controversial businessman, he selects a young boy as the violinist. It will turn out that the boy is precisely the one who saves the situation when, over the course of the night, the celebration spirals out of control. Almir, an old man nearing the end of his life, realizes how much some things have changed during his lifetime — and how, unfortunately, some things have remained the same…

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DIRECTED BY Sibel Guvenc

CA, IR, HR • 2026 • 90' • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Kybele Films
Co-production: Anita Juka, David Collins
Co-production: 4film, Samson Films

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

In the mountains of Artvin, Turkey, in a charming town surrounded by wildflower meadows, flowing streams and rural homes, eleven-year-old Loya — a true child of nature — helps her fortune-teller grandmother read coffee grounds to reveal villagers’ futures. Through these playful rituals, Loya dreams about her own future, imagining the life she hopes to build. But in her harsh reality, her idyllic home is threatened by a Canadian gold mining company whose operations risk contaminating the land and underground water. When Loya’s father dies in a landslide caused by deforestation, her world collapses. Soon after, she is diagnosed with cancer. Desperate, her mother Havva reaches out to Richard — Loya’s biological father. Shocked, Loya learns not only that the man she believed was her father was not, but that Richard runs the very mining operation responsible for destroying her family’s land and killing the man who raised her. As her health deteriorates, Loya feels increasingly alone, realizing that both her mother and grandmother have hidden the truth. Facing death, she becomes determined to save her land before it is too late. She mobilizes her classmates to protest against the mining company and stands in front of the machines in defiance. After her death, devastated by the loss of the daughter he had just discovered, Richard resigns and exposes hidden reports to stop the company’s operations. He could not save his daughter’s life — but can he save her land?

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DIRECTED BY Tamara Kotevska

MK, HR, RS, TR, ME, GR • 2026 • 100' • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Video Studio Petkovski
Co-production: Nukleus film, asterisk*, Cine Planet, Zeynofilm i Filmoskopija

• Film dealing with social issues
• Croatian Minority Co-production

In a sleepy Macedonian village, Temelko, a stubborn old farmer with a shotgun and distrust of modernity, faces the Intrusion or chinese capital and the New sllk Road project. The conflict turns familial when his daughter Petra, an engineer, urges him to sell the land for construction. Petra returns to the village with her daughter Jana, but tensions rise as Temelko refuses to compromise. An unexpected ally arrives in the form of influencer llaya, who crash-lands on Temelko's field, films his resistance, and turns him into a viral folk hero. As they uncover the corporation's destructive plans-including highway construction, toxic waste, and hundreds of dead birds-the family realizes the fight is not only for land but for nature and the future. In the climactic showdown, villagers, family, and activists stop the machines, saving the field, while Temelko's spirit watches over a new flock-not of birds, but of justice.

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DIRECTED BY Damjan Radovanović

RS, HR • 2026 • 15' • short • fiction • drama

Production: Karantin film (RS)
Co-production: Propeler film (HR)

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

Iskra (30) suddenly changes the plans of her busy workday and heads to her family apartment in a small town. Instead of isolating herself to gather her thoughts, she ends up spending an exciting day with Ema (25). Although they haven’t seen each other since childhood, Ema becomes the first person Iskra confides in about her pregnancy.

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DIRECTED BY Tamara Todorović

RS, FR, SI, HR • 2026 • 16' • short • fiction • family, drama

Production: Naked (RS)
Co-production: Bocalupo Films (FR), Manjana (SLO), Dinaridi Film (HR)
World Sales: Naked (RS)

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

Katarina is called to her daughter’s friend’s home to confront the consequences of a seemingly innocent game that has spiraled out of control.

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DIRECTED BY Endre Lund Eriksen, Isak Gjertsen

NO, HR • 2026 • 20' • short • animation • family

Production: Fabelfjord
Co-production: Damm it
World Sales: Fabelfjord

• Film with LGBTQ characters of motifs
• Film suitable for children up to 12 years old
• Film dealing with social issues
• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

Nora (10) is preparing to flee when a major flood threatens her village. Her father fills his boat with animals but refuses to let her bring her best friend – Billy the beetle. He believes insects are pests that spread disease and death. Nora therefore decides to save Billy and all the other insects herself, using her own small boat: Nora’s Ark.

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DIRECTED BY Biljana Tutorov

RS, FR, SE, HR, SI • 2026 • 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 Elena Čemerska

MK, HR, SI • 2026 • 78' • feature • documentary

Production: Cinema Futura (MK), Minimal Collective (MK)
Co-production: Restart (HR), Potem (SI), RTV Slovenia

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

'Ruins' follows the filmmaker’s return to North Macedonia, where she begins the process of restoring a modernist monument created by her late father. Once conceived as a symbol of collective freedom, the memorial site now stands in a state of decay within a shifting political and social landscape. As she navigates the practical and institutional challenges of its reconstruction, the process becomes inseparable from her own experience of loss, marked by the absence of three close family members. Through archival materials, personal recollections, and the monument’s present-day condition, the film explores how private grief intersects with the quiet fading of a once shared social idealism that defined an era. What begins as an effort to preserve a legacy gradually becomes a reflection on what can or cannot be restored.

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DIRECTED BY Dina Duma

MK, BE, SI, HR • 2026 • 79' • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Sisters and Brother Mitevski (MK), Entre Chien et Loup (BE), Vertigo Ljubljana (SI), Terminal 3 (HR)
Co-production: Beside Productions, VOO, BE TV & Orange Belgium, RTV Slovenia
World Sales: Kinology (FR)

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

When poverty shakes her family, Adela finds herself torn between her passion for skating and the pressure of a conservative environment. She tries to find a way to save her older sister, still a minor, from a fate that is becoming almost inevitable: an arranged marriage.  

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DIRECTED BY Filip Dučić

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

Production: Warsaw Film School
Co-production: Umjetnička akademija u Splitu

• Film dealing with social issues
• Film produced within a film school or a film academy
• Croatian Minority Co-production

Emir, a 36-year-old single father, has until the end of the day to submit his work-visa renewal. If he fails, he and his nine-year-old son Gabriel will be sent back to Bosnia. The day begins chaotically, at the tax office, Emir parks illegally, cuts the line, and is thrown out. They’re questioned by officers, miss an ID photo, and arrive late at the immigration appointment, where the file can’t be processed. With nothing left, they go to the sea. Gabriel watches his father closely, observing the rotting state in which they are, with the seaside paradise around them in antithesis to their state of mind.

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DIRECTED BY Tyler Neal Gates

US, MN, HR • 2026 • 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 Domagoj Mazuran, Zoran Lisinac

US, HR • 2026 • 104' • feature • fiction • adventure, SF, action

Production: Garden of Titans LLC
Co-production: Fig Production Group, Chups Norg,
World Sales: VMI

• Debut film
• Film suitable for children up to 12 years old
• Film dealing with social issues
• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

Three centuries after the Great Flood, the world has shattered into scattered islands, forever threatened by a vast, unending Storm. The Islanders’ only hope for safety lies within the fortified city-state of Argos - a sanctuary that can be reached only by surviving a series of deadly trials known as Storm Riding. Yet a defiant few believe that true salvation lies not within Argos, but beyond the Storm itself. Storm Rider: The Legend of Hammerhead follows the daring journey of two young island rebels who defy their fate. Determined to break through the wall of the eternal Storm, they venture into the forbidden unknown and uncover the truth about their world’s origins - a secret carefully guarded for centuries by the immortal rulers of Argos, the mysterious Founders.

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DIRECTED BY Miloš Jaćimović

RS, HR, ME • 2026 • 95' • feature • documentary

Production: Film House Baš Čelik (RS)
Co-production: Zagreb Film Festival (HR), Meander Film (ME)

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

SUNSET is a feature-length documentary set in the Institute for Physical Therapy “Dr. Simo Milošević” in Montenegro. The film observes daily cycles of physical therapies, structured through repetitive movement and ritualized labor. Guests from different backgrounds arrive seeking therapy, relief, or managed recovery, forming a temporary community composed by shared routines and bodily proximity. Situated in the Balkans, the institute functions as a threshold between disparate worlds, histories, and social realities. Within the hotel’s iconic, if dated, modernist architecture, group therapeutic practices unfold in measured, regimented rhythms, mirrored by the steady, procedural work of the staff. Multiple days are compressed into a single temporal arc, allowing duration and continuity to emerge through repetition. Vast interiors hold group activity at scale, while smaller treatment rooms draw attention to isolated bodies in moments of intimate care. Moving quietly between collective and private spaces, the film examines how repetition, architecture, and physical intimacy give form to a transient community organized around care, endurance, and time.

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DIRECTED BY Igor Šterk, Irena Šterk

SI, IT, HR • 2026 • 98' • feature • fiction • comedy

Production: Studio Virc (Slovenija)
Co-production: Intramovies (Italija), Nukleus Film (Hrvatska) A.A.C. Productions (Slovenija)

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

Truffles, the riches of the underworld, have clouded the minds of the villagers of an Istrian village. When a master truffle hunter catches the biggest specimen in the world, the frenzy of greed bursts. A story of obsession, and two young people who love each other and of everyone else who doesn’t.

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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 Dragana Jurišić

IE, HR • 2026 • 90' • feature • documentary

Production: Invisible Thread Films (IE)
Co-production: Restart (HR)

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

In search of cult hero Hari Džekson, a film director of Westerns from former Yugoslavia before the war, artist and photographer Dragana Jurišić retraces his mythical story, and decides to reenact one of his films using the local population as actors from both sides of the ethnic divide. Returning to the home which she fled, she follows a ghost through a country that has long since disappeared.

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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 Elena Walf

DE, HR • 2026 • 6' • short • animation • animation, children's film

Production: Studio FILM BILDER GmbH
Co-production: MINYA Film and Animation (HR), ZDF (DE)
World Sales: Meta Media Entertainment Ltd

• 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

The hen is supposed to lay eggs, just like the other chickens. But the swallows in the air have awakened a completely different longing in her: she wants to fly!

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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 Predrag Ličina

RS, HR • 2026 • 95' • feature • fiction • SF, comedy

Production: Stiglitz Productions (RS)
Co-production: Terminal 3 (HR)

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

During a snowy February night in Zagreb in 1983, an unknown man suddenly appears in the apartment of Zorka Vasiljević, a school professor, claiming he has arrived by time machine from the future. His astonishing predictions and disturbing stories about what is yet to come gradually blur the line between the real and the impossible. As she tries to determine whether it is madness, deception, or truth, Zorka is confronted with the idea that the fate of humanity depends on her decisions.

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DIRECTED BY Burak Çevik

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

Production: Fol Films (UK)
Co-production: Vertigo Media (HR), Robot 22 (HR), Maya Film (UK)

• 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 Andreas Kyriakou

CY, HR • 2026 • 90' • feature • documentary • action

Production: Tetraktys Films
Co-production: Robot 22

• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

"Tracking: The Cyprus Tigers" is a feature-length documentary exploring the unexpected routes through which Hong Kong martial arts cinema travelled into Europe during the VHS era of the 1980s and 1990s. Anchored by two films shot thousands of kilometers apart, yet linked by the same cinematic bloodstream, the documentary traces a forgotten map of cultural exchange. At one end is "The Cyprus Tigers", a cult action film shot in Cyprus that stands as a curious local echo of Hong Kong’s kinetic style. At the other is "Armor of God", globe-trotting adventure largely shot in Zagreb and Croatia and infamous for Jackie Chan’s near-fatal stunt that reshaped safety practices in action cinema. Together, these films become lenses through which the documentary examines how Hong Kong filmmaking techniques, stunt philosophies, and genre instincts infiltrated European production spaces, often informally and without acknowledgment. Through rare archival material and interviews with key figures from Hong Kong cinema - including Sammo Hung, Simon Yam and close collaborators of Jackie Chan - the film reconstructs an era when video stores replaced cinemas as cultural gateways and action films became vehicles of underground influence. More than a cult-film investigation, "Tracking: The Cyprus Tigers" documentary charts the migration of genre cinema itself, revealing how stories, peoples, and ideas moved across borders long before globalization had a name.

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DIRECTED BY Martin Turk

SI, IT, HR • 2026 • 92' • feature • fiction • psychological drama, drama

Production: Bela Film
Co-production: Incipit Film, Cobra Chicks Zagreb

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

A sudden return to her remote hometown and confrontation with ancient local traditions will set Nadia (40), a successful Italian lawyer, on a journey to re-examine her identity and position within her estranged Slovenian family and the village community.

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DIRECTED BY Miloš Tomić

RS, HR • 2026 • 7' • short • animation • animation

Production: Set Sail films
Co-production: Luma Film
World Sales: Set Sail films

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

“Wild” is a juicy, colorful roller coaster ride through a landscape of ordinary objects that undergo metamorphoses and burst into bloom before our eyes. Beneath its gripping narrative lies the story of an unusual and passionate friendship between a young girl and three wild creatures.

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DIRECTED BY Filip Grujić, Aleksa Borković

RS, HR • 2026 • 87' • feature • documentary • road movie

Production: Naked
Co-production: Restart

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

During one summer, three people born in the 90-ies in Serbia go on a trip to America – driving a “Yugo” from New York to Los Angeles. The film follows their journey through 23 federal states and over 10,000 kilometers traveled, all in order to tell us the story of the export of a small socialist car to the competitive Reagan America in the 80-ies. 33 years after the last “Yugo” was imported to America, the authors of the film go on the adventure of a lifetime, fulfilling the last “bucket list” of the “Yugo”.

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