Vedran Mlikota

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.

A trama é composta de três histórias sobre a relação entre pais e filhas. Dora (Helena Beljan) é uma menina negligenciada que sonha em ser treinadora de futebol, mas, de repente, seu pai fora da lei aparece em sua vida e os dois desenvolvem uma estreita relação. Ives (Lana Baric) é uma diretora de ópera que cuida do seu pai com alzheimer, com a iminência de perdê-lo, ela começa a perder o chão. Nataša (Natasa Dorcic), uma produtora bem sucedida, estã grávida e as coisas estão dando errado, fazendo com que ela decida confrontar seu pai.

Em uma pitoresca vila na Dalmácia, há mais funerais do que nascimentos. Fabian (Kresimir Mikic) é um jovem padre indicado para ser o novo pároco desse lugar. Ao ouvir a confissão de um dos fiéis, ele descobre que a baixa natalidade é culpa da alta venda de preservativos. Horrorizado e querendo modificar essa situação, ele tem uma brilhante e drástica ideia: perfurar todas as camisinhas antes que elas sejam vendidas. Para isso, se junta ao jornaleiro Petar (Niksa Butijer) e ao farmacêutico Marin (Marija Skaricic). Só que o "milagroso" "boom" de bebês causa consequências inesperadas.

The mailmen, Šime, is one of the favorite people of a small town, on an island in the middle of the sea. Šime is very intelligent and the locals have high regards for him because he is unusually well versed in all the events and destinies in the small town. He knows the weather forecast, what winds will blow, what the sermon on the Sunday mass will be. For all the locals Šime is an untouchable genius. However, unlike the locals, the viewers soon find out that the Sime's ingenuity is based on his reading of the mail. Fascinated by other people's destinies, Šime has perfected a way for opening letters and keeping complete records on the people living on the island. He keeps a precise track of who gets what kinds of letters, and that gives him insight into discrete and private affairs of people. One day a beautiful woman named Dea moves into town, and all the men try and court her...

On the same day several interrelated characters try to change their own lives and, in the process, change the lives of others.

Ante and Dusko are two Dream Team players. Besides being a Croat and a Serb who fought on opposite sides in the war, both used to be volleyball players. Today, they live normal lives, one in a remote craggy region, the other in Banja Luka. There is little chance of them ever meeting again. The International War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague has indicted Colonel Skoko, a hero to some, a criminal to the others. The two main witnesses to his defense, Mato and Joso, have disappeared without a trace. Skoko's sponsor from the intelligence circles, Antisa, wants to find two men resembling Mato and Joso, to impersonate them before the Hague investigators, and hopefully bring down the indictments. Naturally, the two men he finds are none other than our heroes, Ante and Dusko.

A story involving a group of traveling actors who perform at an experimental prison where the thieves have first class comforts provided to them by a reformist warden. Ironically the troupe performs a play named The State Thief, a play about thieves for thieves.

Mirjana is returning to Croatia from Germany where she spent some time as a refugee. She is pregnant. Now, when the war in Croatia is over and her visa expired, Mirjana is coming back to her family in a remote and devastated village. Her family is trying to move on with their lives after the war. They rebuild their house and they are trying to find a new husband for their pregnant daughter. Being patriarchal and devoted to their tradition they believe a woman needs to have a husband and a child has to have a father. Of course, the child and the father have to be of the same nationality. Problems start when Mirjana gives a birth to a boy with Asian features. The family and the neighbors are shocked. Mirjana¡¦s rigid father refuses to accept a grandchild of a different nationality, not to mention the one of a different race! Mirjana and her son are forced to leave. She returns only when her father falls seriously ill and requests to see his grandson before he dies.

Decorrendo entre as atrocidades da guerra dos Balcãs, Testemunhas é recontado, ao estilo de Rashomon, do ponto de vista de várias personagens, acrescentando novas informações sobre a complexidade da guerra e da humanidade. Começando dentro de uma casa rústica com uma mulher em preto (Mirjana Karanovic) em pé ao lado do caixão do marido, Testemunhas entrelaça as histórias de uma pequena cidade a confrontar-se com o ódio étnico e profundas ambiguidades morais.

Two young hicks from Dalmatian hinterland are coming to Split in order to spend the night and pick local girls. In the meantime, Ive Dumanic, a brewery worker, has just lost his job after accidentally mixing beer with tonic.

In the Autumn of 1991 Croatia is fighting for independence and the capital Zagreb is plagued by air raid alerts and blackouts. Hela Martinic is a reporter, who returns to her home town from Australia, called by her old friend Vera Kralj. Soon after arrival, she is told her friend was killed in a traffic accident. At the funeral she meets some people who Vera was involved in some sinister activities and she begins her own investigation.

After several unsuccessful attempts to enroll in acting studies, the young high school teacher Matej decides to seek help from the famous drama actor Gabrijelo, who is also a regular professor at the academy. An unusual connection develops between the two of them, which gradually grows into a merciless rivalry. Matej is determined to become an actor and allows Gabriel, who is an imagined greatness and a crook, to insult and humiliate him in acting classes. Through the skillful interweaving of the comic and the dramatic, the emotional and the tense, and through numerous unexpected twists and turns, young Matej will finally get adequate satisfaction...