Tomislav Simović

With fast changing visuals and moods, an artist presents his family's twentieth-century story.

A light signal from a side train station stops a night train. The railway worker knocks on wheels to make sure the axles are faultless. All the passengers are asleep, they react to the knocking, but they don’t wake up. Only the passengers in the most expensive part of the train loudly protest and demand that the worker should be chased away. Their wish comes true.

A yellowish black and white photo of a city square from the late 19th century. At one point everything in it comes alive – people at café tables, women in windows, passers-by. They all become part of a lively street scene.

A fishing village falls prey to a nightmare revenge from the sea. Award-winning Yugoslavian animated short film.

On a clearing in a large forest, grandfather Vjest and his three grandsons live in harmony, keeping ablaze the hearth where Svarožić, the protector of the house lives. However, their shrewd enemy the Witch abodes in the swamp...

Souvenirs, memories, nostalgia, alienation, the ephermal quality of life ...these are the subjects of this animated diary. The film is not made in the usual way (screenplay, storyboard) and was born at the moment when the author sat at his desk and began animating.

Two gentlemen are having an argument. How heavy is their disagreement?

A horse becomes a man.

Short animated film.

All until yesterday, three birds didn’t even think of taking a look around, but today they heard some voices for the first time and decided to do something meaningful…

All until yesterday, three birds didn’t even think of taking a look around, but today they heard some voices for the first time and decided to do something meaningful…

Experimental animation/live-action short by Dušan Vukotić

A man is smoking. Something itches him and he scratches it. Then this repeats elsewhere. He starts to scratch himself harder and harder and at different places. Everywhere, from his sleeves, coat, trouser legs, small people start to fall out, and the man can no longer crush them.

The film consists of several short stories. Between them, always the same leitmotif appears – a short joke with a different ending. The stories are always about absurd and ridiculous situations depicting the relationship between a man and birds.

Still in the delivery room, he started singing his song. And on he went his entire life. The song is not ugly, the voice is not unpleasant, but everything is constantly the same. He is trying to blend in, but it always ends in disapproval, kicking out, beating, harsh reaction. Nevertheless, he didn’t give up.

This film is based on the so-called comedy of the absurd. The unusual animalism of the figures and their distinctive animation and sound treatment promise that the film will be acceptable to children. Probably even adults will not be indifferent to this variety of fabrications.

One lonely person wanders an absurd world searching for happiness.

A group of children discover the new continent of the world, uninhabited by adults. Soon, many other children are joining them in that new paradise, leaving their parents and other adults baffled on all remaining continents.

A wall blocks the path of two people. One man submits, while the other refuses to admit defeat.

Segment "Duga ulica" (A Long Street): A young man named Boris and a girl, Vera, live in the same neighborhood. They meet one night when she loses her key. Boris invites her to spend the night at his place; Segment "Čekati" (To Wait): Married students, Ivan and Sonja, live in an old woman's apartment. She is sick and the couple hopes that she will die soon, so that they may inherit her apartment; Segment "Poslije predstave" (After the Play): A husband and a wife lose the key to their apartment and have to spend the night in a hotel. The experience is wonderful and renews their feelings for each other, if only for a night.

A girl attempts to reach red apples from a tree. Aliens land on Earth and the girl offers them the fruits.

An imaginative advertising film about Podravka and its soup concentrates, told through the perspective of a rooster. The first part of the film is dedicated to the rooster's life and Podravian motifs, and the second one to the Podravka factory.

In this child's game, a live-action boy and girl draw characters and compete who is better. The girl draws a flower and the boy draws a car that runs it over. Then a drawn lion chases a drawn girl, until it all becomes frightfully serious.

Simple story about the man who goes to the beach and uses inflatable objects for all of his needs.