Slobodan Šijan

The career of the famous production designer Miljen Kljaković – Kreka and reveals all the beauty and importance of film scenography.

This feature-length documentary about Professor Jože Dolmark shows the protagonist as a man of many insights, interests and talents; as an art historian, an authority on literature and the history of cinema and photography, a film critic, cineaste, screenwriter, actor, and above all an extraordinary teacher and professor, and in a new light: intimately, through anecdotes and his world view, as befits a man of his greatness. Jože Dolmark is a brilliant intellectual, an eloquent speaker, and an astute observer of Slovenian culture, cinema, and life at large.

Sitting in a bar, Petar Lard decides to ring up his former sweetheart.

Anything can happen when a watch stops and a movie cuts.

The plot of this film can be viewed from a two different levels. The first is universal and deals with the psychological theme of need for competition in the group, highlighting the need for the victory, which in life usually does not depend on the true virtues of the winner, so the result is usually tragicomic. The story talks about the choice of the most noble work. Selected participants arrive at the guesthouse on the border between Croatia and Serbia to prepare for the final act of the competition and the jury's decision. Seven competitors have a rather narrow view of the world. Even when the big events, such as ethnic conflicts in this part of the Balkans, the contestants insist to proceed the competition and to choose the hero of heroes, even though the very idea of competition has become anachronistic under the pressure of current events (the anger of the local Serbian population of the newly established Croatian authorities).

Through the conversation with Yugoslav film authors and excerpts from their films, this documentary film tells a story of a film phenomenon and censorship, and its focus is, in fact, a painful epoch of Yugoslav film called “a Black Wave”, which was the most important and artistically strongest period of Yugoslav film industry, created in the sixties and buried in the early seventies by means of ideological and political decisions. The film tells a great “thriller” story of the ideological madness which characterised the totalitarian psychology having left multiple consequences felt up to our very days. It stresses similarities between totalitarian regimes defending their taboos on the example of the persecution of the most important Yugoslav film authors. Those film authors have, however, made world careers and inspired many later authors. The film is the beginning of a debt pay-off to the most significant Yugoslav film authors.

Two idle clerks who do senseless office job of punching cards, and who are not particularly fond of each other, decide to play the game "come up with the most stupid line possible" in order to break the boredom. Then they call random people over the phone and tell this line. Harmless game of theirs creates general confusion among people, which leads to anti-terrorist intervention, police interrogation, loss of state credit and the change of government. The two, of course, know nothing about the series of comic and incredible events that follow without stop.

A wealthy American on the quest for a perfect brandy runs afoul of petty criminal monks and falls in love with an impostor.

Para que una ciudad llegue a la categoría de metrópoli depende de su crónica de sucesos. Exhibicionistas en cementerios, mirones en parques, ladrones de bancos, conductores temerarios, violadores, asesinos, todo esto ya lo había en Belgrado, pero faltaba el rey de los criminales para que la ciudad se pudiese catalogar de metrópoli, el estrangulador. Así se narra la historia del primer estrangulador de Belgrado, Pera Mitic, un vendedor de claveles de 48 años, dominado y maltratado por su madre. Del inspector que quiere darle caza y de Spiridon, un joven cantante de rock, que siente una especial conexión con el estrangulador, al cual dedica una canción que se convierte en éxito.

Para que una ciudad llegue a la categoría de metrópoli depende de su crónica de sucesos. Exhibicionistas en cementerios, mirones en parques, ladrones de bancos, conductores temerarios, violadores, asesinos, todo esto ya lo había en Belgrado, pero faltaba el rey de los criminales para que la ciudad se pudiese catalogar de metrópoli, el estrangulador. Así se narra la historia del primer estrangulador de Belgrado, Pera Mitic, un vendedor de claveles de 48 años, dominado y maltratado por su madre. Del inspector que quiere darle caza y de Spiridon, un joven cantante de rock, que siente una especial conexión con el estrangulador, al cual dedica una canción que se convierte en éxito.

The film follows a life of a homeless, but very well read, Marxist who is coping with Che's death and wishes to live a life of revolutions and workers' uprisings. He is a hypochondriac, bitter at the world, and blaming his old capitalist boss for his life's misery.

The film follows a life of a homeless, but very well read, Marxist who is coping with Che's death and wishes to live a life of revolutions and workers' uprisings. He is a hypochondriac, bitter at the world, and blaming his old capitalist boss for his life's misery.

The Topalović family has been in the burial business for generations. When the 150-year-old Pantelija dies, five generations of his heirs start to fight for the inheritance.

La película, una comedia negra tan absurda como irreverente, ambientada en 1941, narra las peripecias de un grupo de pasajeros de un autobús que hace su camino desde el interior hasta Belgrado, durante el inicio de la II Guerra Mundial.

The vagrants of a 15-year-old school dropout who's torn between jobs that do not suit him, and dreams of having music career.

A provincial family looks forward to their new, cosy flat in the city blocks.

Old man Vidoje is a passionate bowler, has a dog and likes to hunt. However due to his declining health, his family starts depriving him of everything. In the end, Vidoje is left only with the TV, empty room and window to the street.

6 communists will try to escape Buchenwald concentration camp at any price.

Slobodan Šijan captures his own self-portrait with a camera, and then "glues" it to shots of a cemetery with a double exposure.