Mate Gulin

After the death of her father, young scientist Ana struggles with an identity crisis, being the last member of a once large family. The changes inside her are suddenly reflected in reality – loneliness, crisis, emigration – and her scientific research on mystical symbols and human traces left in stone are mysteriously intertwined with her life.

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.

Marko and Ankica never got over the death of their only child, Ante, in the war. When their neighbour Stipe suggests renting their son’s room to tourists, Marko feels insulted but Ankica manages to talk him into it. Renting rooms is easy money, especially for retired people, but having an unknown man sleeping in his son’s bed troubles Marko.

멀지 않은 미래, 크로아티아의 어느 시골 마을. 선택받은 자들과 부적합한 자들로 나뉜 채 마을은 술렁이고 주민들은 하나둘 고향을 떠난다. 마티야와 이카도 땅을 팔고 도시로 이주할 준비를 하지만, 부부에게는 아직 풀지 못한 숙제가 있다. 실종된 막내아들에 대한 기억을 아직 떠나보내지 못한 것. 도시에서 온 ‘그들’이 부부의 땅을 구매하고 이들의 삶에 서서히 침투하면서, 부부와 두 아이 사이에는 또 다른 긴장이 감돌고 급기야 갈등은 분열로 폭발하기에 이른다.

After several miscarriages, Tereza's gynecologist, in an attempt to cheer her up, jokes she should try to conceive with a different partner. This remark shakes up her monotonous life and steers it in a new direction.

A story about suicidal general, a minister in the Croatian government who voluntarily locks himself inside a prison cell, and 4 pensioners, who steal the coffin with the remains of the late Croatian president.

Siniša Mesjak, an arrogant and ambitious politician on the rise, finds himself in the middle of a scandal. To hide him from the public, the president appoints him as the commissioner of Croatian government on the furthest settled island Trečić, where he is tasked with the organization of local elections. The previous seven commissioners haven't succeeded.

A fairy tale set in the bucolic countryside of Central Europe at the turn of the 20th century. Anka, an orphan girl, bravely sets off in the pursuit of a home, facing the hardships of life, and ultimately finds her place with the help of a magical world and its mysterious creatures.

20 years ago, Vesna moved her family to Zagreb, away from the events that almost destroyed their lives. However, an unexpected call will bring back the memory of a secret that she has been trying to hide all these years.

국제 구호기구 소속의 맘브루(베니치오 델 토로)는 발칸 반도에 위치한 어느 한 마을의 우물 속에 있는 시체 인양 작업을 하던 중 밧줄이 끊어지는 사태를 맞고 만다. 마을에는 여분의 밧줄이 없는 상황에서, 맘브루는 그의 동료 B(팀 로빈스)와 소피(멜라니 티에리)에게 도움을 요청한다. 그렇지만 도착한 B와 소피 역시 방법이 없기는 매 한가지고, 그때부터 구조대원들의 밧줄 찾기 대모험이 시작된다. 인근마을 위주로 밧줄을 찾는 B와 통역관 다미르(페자 스투칸)과 달리 UN 주둔군 기지를 찾아가 도움을 요청하려던 소피와 맘브루는 UN기지를 찾아가던중 길에서 괴롭힘을 당하는 소년 니콜라(엘다 레지도빅)를 구조하게된다. 도착한 UN 기지에서는 원론적인 답변만을 듣게되는 맘브루는 그곳에서 자신의 전 연인 카티야(올가 쿠릴렌코)를 만나게된다. 이제 여섯 명으로 늘어나버린 구조대원들은 밧줄을 구하기 위해 세상에서 가장한 완벽한 날을 보내게 된다.

The third part of "Zagreb Stories" franchise that connects short films about Zagreb into one whole. The plot of six short stories takes place during public holidays.

Ankica is the proud owner of a legitimate massage salon, which she runs with her best friend Ljilja. She dreams of keeping her out-of-work husband and adult daughter in comfort while helping Ljilja pay for her son's recurring rehab programs. But in reality, Ankica’s debts are mounting, and she refuses to add happy endings (sexual favors) at the salon to increase revenues. When a loan shark threatens to take her apartment if she does not repay her debt, in desperation, she turns to crime.

Keka is a virtuoso housewife who suffers because of the lethargy of her marriage with Baja, a concerned railway worker. To make things even worse, Keka is being seriously courted by Ilija, a handyman who is so clumsy that he produces apocalypse wherever he shows up. After Baja finally becomes aware of Ilija's intentions and after the two of them demolish Keka's home as a result of their clumsy showdowns, Keka decides to leave both of them and to go on a trip to the only place where she felt some happiness - to a small coastal village where she and Baja went on their honeymoon... However, things start to complicate because Keka falls under the scrutiny of Lujo, an untypical lonely fisherman-flirter. Baja and Ilija decide to go on a trip, to embark on the biggest adventure in their lives and to prove their love to Keka...

Father and son review the problems in their communication that have been accumulating in years. The son cannot get rid of fears that his life is being a true copy of his father's projections of his future, so he shoots a video letter with his amateur camera in which he tries to make his father look bad and present the evidences that would indicate how he became a much better person than him.

The movie takes place in the early 18th century on the borders between Bosnia and Dalmatia, the crossroad between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice. It deals with issues relating to the region's native Croats as they struggle between to live between two empires and two faiths: Catholicism and Islam.

This story about two maternal half-brothers, a Croat and a Serb. Although they never met, and both lose their loved ones in ethnic clashes, there is a bond between them. Filmed in 1988, it prophetically forsees the war that would engulf former Yugoslavia three years later.

A comedy of everyday life problems of a "temporary" teacher who leads a very "temporary" life. For ten years, he temporarily lives with his married sister in a cramped, one-room apartment in which, his brother's-in-law sister also temporarily lives. He has a diploma, but not a steady job. He's a school teacher for a definite period of time with a "temporary" status. At the mean time, a boy who lives alone with his mother goes to the same school. He wants to have a father by his own choice, not his mother's. It seems that the teacher suits most of the boy's idea of a father. And the boy gains what he always wants.

Though the problem of Marija's pregnancy may be solved, her relationship with Boba causes a rift between the Pavlović and Todorović families.