DIRECTED BY Rea Rajčić

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

Production: Eclectica

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Vanja Vascarac

HR • 2022 • 8' • short • experimental

Production: Plan 9

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Anđelo Jurkas

HR • 2022 • 75' • feature • fiction • romantic drama, drama

Production: DOP Produkcija
Co-production: Broadcast

• Funded by HAVC

Sunday, 15 July 2018, 5 p.m. The eyes of the world are turned to the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, the World Cup finale between France and Croatia. At the same time, a married couple silently gets into a car in Zagreb and sets off on the old road towards Rijeka. While the football drama of the year is taking place, two people are fighting for the life they have known so far. However, nothing is as it seems.

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DIRECTED BY Vedran Ružić

HR • 2022 • 25' • short • documentary

Production: samostalna produkcija / self-produced

• Debut film

The film follows the director’s family who are forced to move out of their home after many years of uncertainty, due to the construction of a new freeway lane. The same fate befell several neighbouring families. As years go by, the trauma of existential uncertainty and being ignored by the authorities passes on to younger generations, who are left without their land and are made to live with noise.

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DIRECTED BY Mislav Muretić

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

Production: Teatrum

• Debut film
• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Trifun Sitnikovski

MK, HR • 2023 • 21' • short • fiction • romance, drama

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

• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Renata Lučić

HR • 2023 • 70' • feature • documentary

Production: Wolfgang i Dolly

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Slobodan Tomić

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

Production: Zagreb film

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Ante Zlatko Stolica

HR • 2022 • 14' • short • documentary

Production: Restart
World Sales: Restart

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Eva Marija Jurešić

HR • 2022 • 11' • short • documentary

Production: Restart – Škola dokumentarnog filma

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

Beetroot soup is a Polish specialty that my dad’s new girlfriend is bringing to our Christmas lunch. But beetroot soup is also her – the odd one out in a traditional setting. I record the lunch and everything leading to it, where comments about recipes and spices serve as a way to avoid all other questions, except for my grandmother’s “Are you full?”.

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DIRECTED BY Ena-Sanan Hdagha

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

Production: Maxima film

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Vedrana Pribačić

HR • 2022 • 91' • feature • documentary

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

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Marina Andree Škop

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

Production: PomPom
Co-production: Artileria

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

A boy got a blue teddy bear for his fifth birthday. Although he desperately wanted to open the gift, his mom wouldn't let him because bacteria often live on plush toys. 

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DIRECTED BY Matej Matijević

HR • 2022 • 20' • short • fiction • mystery, horror

Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti (Zagreb)

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

Branimir is an anxious young man who works as a theatre ticket taker. When he witnesses an act he should not have seen, he nervously starts to grind his teeth. Suddenly and bloodily, something stirs in him and Branimir frantically tries to push it back.

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DIRECTED BY Stanka Gjurić

HR • 2022 • 8'23'' • short • documentary

Production: samostalna produkcija / self-produced

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman

Two small children consume healthy food: fruits and vegetables.

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DIRECTED BY Maja Miloš

HR • 2022 • 12' • short • documentary

Production: Restart – Škola dokumentarnog filma

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

Ana is employed as the only housekeeper in a hospice - an institution for housing patients in the final stages of a terminal illness. However, her role goes beyond her workplace. In addition to keeping the hospice immaculately clean and tidy, she develops a relationship with the dying patients before, but continues after their death.

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DIRECTED BY Neven Petričić

HR • 2022 • 4' • short • animation

Production: 3D2D Animatori

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Ivana Hrelja

HR • 2022 • 68' • feature • documentary

Production: Pulska filmska tvornica / Pula Film Factory

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Pavo Marinković

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

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

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Hrvoje Mabić

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

Production: Studio dim
Co-production: Interfilm

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Stanka Gjurić

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

Production: samostalna produkcija / self-produced

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Josip Žuvan

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

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

• Debut film
• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Filip Antonio Lizatović

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

Production: Blank
Co-production: Kino klub Split

• Debut film
• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Ana Bilankov

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

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

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Aida Bukvić

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

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

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Jakov Nola

HR • 2022 • 30' • short • fiction • drama

Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti (Zagreb)

• Film produced within a film school or a film academy

Mihael visits his grandmother Hana in a nursing home. He is nervous and in a hurry, because he has several more errands to run and needs to get home in time for Christmas Eve, which he will be spending with his girlfriend and their families.

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DIRECTED BY Danijel Žeželj

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

Production: Zagreb film

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Josip Beneta

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

Production: Blank

• Film dealing with social issues

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

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DIRECTED BY Luka Rukavina

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

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

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Filip Heraković

HR • 2023 • 25' • short • fiction • drama

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Jacqueline van Vugt

HR • 2023 • 106' • feature • documentary

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

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Ana Šiškov

HR • 2022 • 19'16'' • short • fiction • drama, comedy

Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti (Zagreb)

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

Lučana, her mother Cvita and brother Stjepko are preparing the house of their recently deceased grandmother for the season. Cvita, the mater familias, sits at the top of the hierarchy in the household. After Cvita, comes Stjepko, because he is a man. Lučana vies for her mother’s love by pulling little pranks on her brother Stjepko. Yet, her efforts are futile because Lučana unfortunately cannot change what she has between her legs.

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DIRECTED BY Goran Kulenović

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

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

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Damir Markovina

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

Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti (ADU)

• Film dealing with social issues

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

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DIRECTED BY Neven Hitrec

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

Production: Jaka produkcija

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Vlasta Delimar

HR • 2022 • 27' • short • documentary

Production: Studio Render

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman

A culmination of the project 40 Years of Vlasta Delimar’s Artistic Love. The video is conceived as a collage, containing photographs and video clips (documents of the performance) of written and spoken sentences of the artist’s own thoughts and attitudes, made from the beginning of 1978 all the way to 2021.

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DIRECTED BY Ivan Perić, Alvaro Congosto

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

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

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Bojan Gagić

HR • 2022 • 20' • short • documentary

Production: Greta Creative Network

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

The film shows the relationship between the inner and outer worlds of visually impaired children by connecting the sound of their own heartbeat with the environment in which they live as a chosen “happy place”.

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DIRECTED BY Karolina Malinowska

HR • 2022 • 15' • short • documentary

Production: Filmaparat

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Morten Tšinakov, Lucija Mrzljak

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

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

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Zdenko Bašić

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

Production: Švenk

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Ivan Ramljak

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

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

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

Hundreds of frozen and starved people floating on boats in the middle of the Mediterranean fleeing from the war... Familiar scenes that we are used seeing in recent times. But the year is 1944, and the refugees are traveling from Europe to Africa. After Italian capitulation, and before the arrival of German army, 28 000 Dalmatian Croats left their home villages and towns to live for two years under the tents in the middle of Egyptian desert, in a kind of a communist model village that was formed to show the Allies how the new Yugoslavia will look like after the war. This is a story about them.

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DIRECTED BY Lukas Nola

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

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

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Goran Dukić

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

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

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Dario Juričić

HR • 2023 • 6' • short • animation

Production: Kinoklub Zagreb (KKZ) / Cinema Club Zagreb

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Bojan Radanović

HR • 2022 • 22'15'' • short • fiction • drama

Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti (ADU)

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

After getting fired from the Croatian police in the summer of 1991, Nenad decides to leave Croatia under an onslaught of threats because of his ethnicity. He also leaves his family behind, believing that the separation is temporary.

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DIRECTED BY David Kumpare

HR • 2022 • 9' • short • documentary

Production: Filmaktiv

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

Music Conservatory, numerous nights out and vineyards. Flora is just like flora, she gradually grows her true self.

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DIRECTED BY Maja Zdelar

HR • 2022 • 4' • short • animation

Production: 3d2d Animatori

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Kevin Mainenti

HR • 2022 • 25' • short • documentary

Production: VERN'

• Film produced within a film school or a film academy

A married wrestling couple tries to organize a match against each other for their children. But their son is too worried to participate so they have to convince him to do his part before the match starts.

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DIRECTED BY Šimun Šitum

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

Production: Eclectica

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Franko Dujmić

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

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

• Debut film
• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Lucija Brkić

HR • 2022 • 6'6'' • short • documentary

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

What form does trauma take when it is compressed into its own room and the sounds around us? By fragmenting intimacy and experience, trying to take control of emotions is not always successful. What then happens to fear, when the danger has “passed”?

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DIRECTED BY Sara Alavanić

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

Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti (Zagreb)

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman

In the dead of night, a phone call reveals a friendship has one-sidedly turned into something more. The morning after, introspection and escapism follow.

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DIRECTED BY Nevio Marasović

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

Production: Švenk d.o.o.

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Dušan Zorić, Matija Gluščević

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

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

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Petra Mrša

2022 • 20' • short • documentary

Production: samostalna produkcija / self-produced

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

After books, comics, music and movies, video games have joined the mass media formats that influence today’s youth during their coming-of-age. In Health 90, six gamers reveal what needs and desires they satisfy through video games. Describing the world they would like to live in, the protagonists reveal the influence of video games on shaping their ideas and desires in the physical world.

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DIRECTED BY Sanja Šantak

HR • 2022 • 10' • short • animation

Production: Filozirka

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Martina Meštrović

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

Production: Kreativni sindikat

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Radislav Jovanov Gonzo

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

Production: Fade In
Co-production: Propeler film

• Debut film
• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY David Lovrić

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

Production: Jadranska animacija / Adriatic Animation

• Debut film
• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Boris Poljak

HR • 2023 • 24' • short • documentaryexperimental

Production: Hrvatski filmski savez

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Andrej Korovljev

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

Production: Kinematograf

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Goran Stolevski

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

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Ivan Faktor

HR • 2022 • 102' • feature • experimental

Production: Mitropa

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Simon Bogojević Narath

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

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

• Debut film
• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Ana Klepo

HR • 2022 • 23' • short • documentary

Production: Filmaktiv

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

Waking up again to a sticky blue morning and seeing things through the prism of change as well as expecting a better “tomorrow”. A coming-of-age film about finding yourself in a sea of spent styles and routine parties.

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DIRECTED BY Igor Grubić

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

Production: Kreativni sindikat
World Sales: Bonobostudio

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Josip Lukić, Klara Šovagović

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

Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti (Zagreb)

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Luka Matić

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

Production: Kadromat

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Nina Violić

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

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

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

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

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DIRECTED BY René Gallo

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

Production: Antitalent

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Michele Bulešić

HR • 2022 • 12' • short • documentary

Production: Restart – Škola dokumentarnog filma

• Funded by HAVC

An emotional confession, born in an intimate atmosphere and an even more intimate moment, provides a portrait of the author’s friend.

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DIRECTED BY Marko Bičanić

HR • 2023 • 18' • short • fiction

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

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Jelena Oroz

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

Production: Bonobostudio
World Sales: Bonobostudio

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Stanka Gjurić

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

Production: self-produced

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman

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

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DIRECTED BY Andrija Tomić

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

Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti (Zagreb)
Co-production: Delort, Kino klub Split

• Film produced within a film school or a film academy

Three friends meet up after a long time to watch a football game featuring their local team Hajduk Split. As the match progresses it becomes evident that things will never be the same as before.

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DIRECTED BY Filip Peruzović

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

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

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Morana Ikić Komljenović

HR • 2022 • 58' • short • documentary

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

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Mario Macedo

HR, PT • 2023 • 17' • short • fiction • children's film, drama

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

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

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

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DIRECTED BY David Lušičić

HR • 2022 • 70' • feature • documentary

Production: Greta Creative Network

• Debut film
• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Petra Belc

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

Production: Plan 9

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Zornitsa Sophia

BG, DE, HR • 2022 • 117' • feature • fiction • drama

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

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

Elena is an inspired theater director who loses her ability to have children at the age of 32. Trying therapies to get pregnant, Elena develops a successful life transforming theater program for orphans. She is invited to do the same in Kenya, where the number of orphans is massive at the same time, when Leon proposes to her to start ‘in vitro’ with donated egg cells. Elena has to choose between her dream of having a child of her own and helping thousands of orphans to start dreaming. Finding her own way, Elena will redefine the word “mother”. Inspired by a true story.  

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DIRECTED BY Ana Horvat

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

Production: Kreativni sindikat

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Nebojša Slijepčević

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

Production: Paradoks
Co-production: Marija Stojnić PR Bilboke

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Martina Marasović

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

Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti (ADU)

• Film produced within a film school or a film academy

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

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DIRECTED BY Mario Kovač

HR • 2022 • 95' • feature • documentary

Production: Interfilm

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Velimir Rodić

HR • 2022 • 40' • short • documentary

Production: Fade In

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Vida Skerk

HR • 2022 • 22'43'' • short • fiction

Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti (Zagreb)

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

Through a sequence of dreams and nightmares, Dunja, a young student, questions her decision to move to a bigger city and regrets leaving behind the safety of her hometown where she could always count on the support of her close friend, Sara.

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DIRECTED BY Marko Turčinov

HR • 2022 • 11'33'' • short • fiction • drama

Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti (Zagreb)

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

Two male friends and a girl go on a night out. After leaving the club, the trio spends time on the embankment, where the rivalry between the two male friends begins. The whole night is filled with crazy games that friends play to pass the time. The last challenge becomes too great, revealing the weakest link in the team.

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DIRECTED BY Silvija Bumbak

HR • 2022 • 13' • short • documentary

Production: Filmaktiv

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman

By immersing herself in thoughts, with sharpened senses at night, the author becomes an observer of hidden night scenes and the secret life of other nonsleepers.

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DIRECTED BY Mila Turajlić

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

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

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Alessio Bozzer

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

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

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Goran Ribarić

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

Production: Lux film

• Film dealing with social issues

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

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DIRECTED BY Dalija Dozet

HR • 2023 • 15' • short • fiction

Production: Wolfgang i Dolly d.o.o.

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Bogdan Tankosić

HR • 2022 • 19'55'' • short • fiction • drama

Production: VERN'

• Film produced within a film school or a film academy

At the beginning of the lockdown and one week after the Zagreb earthquake, group of film school students attend the first online lecture. Along with four young students, there is a retired Ms. Mira. The young colleagues do not hide their impatience until Mira helps a young couple, Katarina and Stipe, who are in trouble with the landlord because of a destroyed apartment.

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DIRECTED BY Vanja Juranić

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

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

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Ivica Šuto

HR • 2022 • 20' • short • documentary

Production: U svom filmu

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Aleš Suk

HR • 2023 • 20' • short • documentary

Production: Udruga Ukus

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Andrej Rehak

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

Production: Zagreb film

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Lovro Čepelak

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

Production: Kinoklub Zagreb

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Dina Uglešić

HR • 2023 • 17' • short • fiction

Production: Sveučilište VERN’
Co-production: PomPom Film

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Filip Heraković

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

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

• Debut film
• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Sara Alavanić

HR • 2023 • 14' • short • documentary

Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti (ADU)

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

30-year-old Pero goes from garage to garage and tries to go drifting. Even with his mom, he has nothing else to talk about. Pero spends his days trying to live his dream - fry tires.

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DIRECTED BY Nikica Zdunić

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

Production: Izvan fokusa

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Davor Sanvincenti

HR • 2022 • 22' • short • experimental

Production: Petikat
World Sales: Bonobostudio

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Eva Vidan

HR • 2022 • 14' • short • fiction

Production: Sveučilište Columbia, Solentia Productions
Co-production: Kino Klub Split

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

Through the eyes of a girl who lives with her grandmother and great-grandmother on an island, we follow family conflicts and arguments over inheritance and land.

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DIRECTED BY Matija Pisačić

HR • 2023 • 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 Bruno Tolić

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

Production: Otompotom (HR)

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Neža Knez

HR • 2022 • 14' • short • documentary

Production: Restart – Škola dokumentarnog filma

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

What does it mean to learn, to cope with the new and the strange, to listen and articulate? What does an amateur performance tell us, and how does it shape expressions that disappear with professionalization? The film examines the boundaries between documentary, feature and experimental elements that are intertwined both mutually, as well as in the relationships in front of and behind the camera – the relationship between the cameraman and the camera, the cameraman and the filmed, the filmed and the cameraman.

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DIRECTED BY Branko Farac

HR • 2022 • 7' • short • animation • psychological, drama

Production: Zagreb film

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Igor Juran

HR • 2022 • 15’ • short • experimental

Production: Adriatic Art Media Film

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Vladislav Knežević

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

Production: Zagreb film

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Ivana Bošnjak, Thomas Johnson

HR • 2022 • 8' • short • animation

Production: Kreativni sindikat

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Antonia Begušić

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

Production: Zagreb film

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Sandra Sterle

HR • 2022 • 20' • short • experimental

Production: Kinematograf
Co-production: Kazimir Association

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

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

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DIRECTED BY David Petrović

HR • 2022 • 100' • feature • fiction • comedy

Production: Ri Teatar

• Debut film

In the late 1970s in Rijeka, an amateur rock band is formed, but it doesn’t go smoothly. The keyboardist Denis is going through a rough patch caused by trauma. His sister Miranda places an ad for band auditions, making Denis realise he needs to move on. The newly-formed band grows closer and makes progress. But the lead singer Željko begins to express his dissatisfaction with the fact that Denis is leading the band.

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DIRECTED BY Juraj Lerotić

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

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

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Darko Masnec

HR • 2022 • 8'50" • short • animation

Production: Studio u šumi
World Sales: Bonobostudio

• Debut film
• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Dario Lonjak

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

Production: Alka film

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Domien Huyghe

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

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

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Silvio Mirošničenko

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

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

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Jasna Nanut

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

Production: 15 Art / Petnaesta umjetnost

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Ljubo Josip Lasić

HR • 2022 • 30' • short • documentary

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

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Elvis Lenić

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

Production: Kinematograf

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY David Gašo

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

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

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Ante Storić

HR • 2022 • 17'46'' • short • fiction • drama

Production: Suteren film

• Funded by HAVC

A middle-aged writer tries to write a short story for a literary competition. Going through the creative process, he talks to his family members, friends, and acquaintances.

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DIRECTED BY Stanka Gjurić

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

Production: self-produced

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman

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

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DIRECTED BY Eduard Galić

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

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

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Damir Čučić

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

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

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Tea Vidović Dalipi

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

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

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Lana Barić

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

Production: Zagreb film

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Stanka Gjurić

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

Production: self-produced

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman

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

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DIRECTED BY Tin Mihaljević

2022 • 10'37'' • short • fiction • comedy

Production: VERN'

• Film produced within a film school or a film academy

Bewildering world of an exhausted sound mixer on the verge of dream and reality.

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DIRECTED BY Karla Lulić

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

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

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Sara Alavanić

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

Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti (Zagreb)

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

Vida is killing time with her friend Mia in an abandoned hall where they find a stray dog. Vida brings them both home. Dad and grandma are home, but mom is gone. Dad is sad.

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DIRECTED BY Tvrtko Karačić

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

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

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Dražen Šivak

HR • 2023 • 65' • feature • documentary

Production: Metar60, everything works

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Dan Oki

HR • 2022 • 27' • short • experimental

Production: Kazimir Association

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Jakov Nola

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

Production: Zagreb film

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Goran Dević

HR • 2022 • 68' • feature • documentary

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

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Dario Lonjak

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

Production: Pulsar produkcija

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Lea Vidaković

HR • 2023 • short • animation • drama

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

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Silvestar Kolbas

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

Production: Silvestar Kolbas audiovizualna djelatnost

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Filip Filković Philatz

HR • 2022 • 52' • short • documentary

Production: Kreativni sindikat

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Arsen Oremović

HR • 2022 • feature • fiction • drama

Production: Izazov 365

• Debut film
• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Vlatka Vorkapić

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

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

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Viktor Portel

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

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

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

Vladimír Dzuro, is the only Czech investigator to have worked for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. His task was to collect evidence against war criminals and perpetrators of ethnic cleansing. A quarter of a century later, together with Dzuro, we embark on a tour of the sites of his investigations, meeting with surviving witnesses of the ethnically motivated crimes. What do the Balkans look like today, 25 years after the violent conflicts? And most importantly, has the ‘Hague justice’ brought any meaning or resolution to those who went through the worst?

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DIRECTED BY Mirela Ivanković Bielen

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

Production: Luma film

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Nina Sorić

HR • 2022 • 20' • short • documentary

Production: Filmaktiv

• Film focused on women or directed by a woman

The film follows the relationship between a mother and daughter (the director) as they clear the way to the sea, which has overgrown with thick macchia.

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DIRECTED BY Lana Kosovac

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

Production: Castor Multimedia za Hrvatsku radioteleviziju (HRT)

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Tomislav Krnić

HR • 2022 • 41'20'' • short • documentary

Production: Wolfgang i Dolly

• Funded by HAVC

Nine strangers of different nationalities, age, religious confessions, interests and desires meet on the Way of St. James. They went on this 800-kilometre-long journey in winter, to cross three mountains and arrive at their destination in spring. They expected it to be a lonely and a physically challenging journey and that solitude might teach them something about life. What they discovered was that neither the snow-clad mountains, nor sunny valleys, nor swift, icy creeks were the way. They have reached the same conclusion – the people are the Way.

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DIRECTED BY Ines Pletikos

HR • 2022 • 98' • feature • documentary

Production: Interfilm

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Andrea Slaviček

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

Production: Antitalent (HR)
Co-production: Fractal (ESP), Blank (HR)

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Manuel Šumberac

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

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

• Debut film
• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Andrija Mardešić, David Kapac

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

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

• Debut film
• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY David Gašo

HR • 2023 • 10' • short • documentary

Production: Akademija dramske umjetnosti u Zagrebu

• Film produced within a film school or a film academy

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

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DIRECTED BY Zlatko Krilić

HR • 2022 • 20' • short • documentary

Production: Manevar

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Nika Pećarina

HR • 2022 • 30' • short • experimental

Production: K-zona

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Dubravka Turić

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

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

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Igor Bojan Vilagoš

HR • 2022 • 8' • short • animation

Production: Zagreb film

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Bianca Dagostin, Toni Juričić

HR • 2022 • 19' • short • documentary

Production: Level 52

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Tvrtko Karačić

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

Production: Panda Monk

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Sara Jurinčić

HR • 2023 • short • documentary

Production: Studio Nomad, Restart (Restart laboratorij)

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Boris Bakal

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

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

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Silvija Bumbak

HR • 2022 • 8' • short • documentary

Production: Filmaktiv

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

Hotel Opatija was built in 1888. From the time of Austro-Hungary until today, it has changed, expanded and continued its existence through several countries. Now, the hotel is closed for guests, with only one remaining employee – Ivanka. The large, once pompous spaces are now empty and neglected, while their walls seem to dread the future of the building, a quiet place of private stories, personal memories and attachments.

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DIRECTED BY Goran Dević

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

Production: Petnaesta umjetnost

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Sunčica Fradelić

HR • 2022 • 15' • short • experimental

Production: Kino klub Split (KKS)

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Damir Radić

HR • 2021 • 80' • feature • documentaryexperimental

Production: Blank

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Mario Papić

HR • 2022 • 49' • mid-length • documentary

Production: Renko za HRT / Renko for Croatian Radiotelevision

• Film dealing with social issues

The project Wish For is the most valuable project funded by the European Social Fund in Croatia, and is implemented throughout the country. The project’s goal is to strengthen and improve the work potential of hard-to-employ women and to encourage social inclusion and increase the life quality of its users – the old and infirm. During one year, we follow Natalija and the people she takes care of.

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DIRECTED BY Matea Kovač

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

Production: Zagreb film

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Josip Lukić

HR • 26 • short • fiction

Production: Sabmarine
World Sales: Sabmarine

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

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DIRECTED BY Lucija Bužančić

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

Production: Zagreb film

• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Rino Barbir

HR • 2022 • 16' • short • fiction • drama

Production: Kino klub Split (KKS)

• Film dealing with social issues
• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Dino Topolnjak

HR • 2022 • 44' • short • documentary

Production: Focus Media

• Debut film
• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Toma Zidić

HR, PT • 2022 • 77' • feature • documentary

Production: MiratecArts (PT)
Co-production: MedVid Produkcija (HR), Antitalent (HR), Kinoklub Zagreb (HR)

• Croatian Minority Co-production

Close your eyes and feel your body. It feels like meditation. The story is very simple — in the Portuguese archipelago in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, through our conflicted relationship with the environment, arises the spiritual exploration of our inner Universe. The journey intensifies with the constant movement pushing us to win back nature’s trust.

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DIRECTED BY Slobodan Maksimović

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

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

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Dušan Kovačević

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

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

• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Vlad Petri

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

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

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Emin Alper

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

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

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Maksym Nakonechnyi

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

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

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Sara Božanić

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

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

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Radu Jude

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

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

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Tom Van Avermae

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

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

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Radivoje Andrić

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

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

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Brandon Cronenberg

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

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

• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Milcho Manchevski

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

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

• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Isabella Rinaldi

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

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

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Vladimir Perišić

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

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

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Vardan Tozija

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

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

• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Pjer Žalica

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

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

• Croatian Minority Co-production
• Funded by HAVC

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

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DIRECTED BY Darijan Pejovski

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

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

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Timon Leder

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

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

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Biljana Tutorov

RS, FR, SE, HR, SI • 2023 • 90' • feature • documentary

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

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Mátyás Kálmán

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

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

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

Anikó and Laci are a middle-aged couple from Hungary that won the lottery in 2013. Once hitting the jackpot, they dove into a life that they felt was luxurious. On their way to realising material happiness, their relationship has changed. This contemporary fable underlines the quest for happiness.

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DIRECTED BY Srđan Šarenac

RS, BA, HR • 2023 • 80' • feature • documentary

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

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

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

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DIRECTED BY Dominik Mencej

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

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

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

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

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