Mate Matišić

Antonio and Nikola are inseparable friends who live across the road from each other, and share a love of pyrotechnics and mobile phones. Their families have been in dispute for years over an easily resolvable problem: the water that flows from the top house to the bottom house. The boys’ friendship, as they are about to enter puberty, is put to the test at Christmas time when their families uncover much more dangerous secrets and interests, and the water just carries the hate of the adults to the children. Debut film.

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.

Esta é a história do maquinista Ilija, que atropela acidentalmente várias pessoas durante o serviço na ferrovia - inclusive sua linda namorada. Um dia, Ilija vê Sima, um menino que deseja cometer suicídio na estrada de ferro, e o salva. Assim, Sima se torna seu filho adotivo. No início, Ilija é contra seu desejo de também se tornar um maquinista por causa de suas próprias experiências ruins, mas então ele muda de ideia quando vê que Sima está determinado. Mais tarde, porém, o jovem fica deprimido porque não atropela ninguém e está em constante estado de pavor. Ilija está pronto para sacrificar sua própria vida para curar a melancolia de Sima. Felizmente, o rapaz atropela outro homem - Ljuba, o Maníaco - em vez de Ilija, e consegue enfim se libertar desse problema.

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.

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.

An obscure actor is hired by the police to get a confession out of a dying mafioso.

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.

In order to recover the body of her son lost during the war in Bosnia, a grieving, but strong-willed Muslim woman, Halima, must track down her estranged niece, who we find carries a mysterious connection to him.

Djuro is a Romany, he has a large, happy family, and earns a living appearing in Serbian porn films. And it's through his sarcastic perspective that we follow the story of the Croatian war veteran Martin. He falls in love with a beautiful girl who plays Little Red Riding Hood in a porn version of the fairy tale. She is also a prostitute. To be with her, Martin has to buy her from her pimp. A tragicomic story of love in a world where it seems all human values are put up for sale or destined for cynical destruction

Djuro is a Romany, he has a large, happy family, and earns a living appearing in Serbian porn films. And it's through his sarcastic perspective that we follow the story of the Croatian war veteran Martin. He falls in love with a beautiful girl who plays Little Red Riding Hood in a porn version of the fairy tale. She is also a prostitute. To be with her, Martin has to buy her from her pimp. A tragicomic story of love in a world where it seems all human values are put up for sale or destined for cynical destruction

Ivan is a 36-year old ex-rock singer and a disillusioned war veteran who lost both legs in the recent Croatian Homeland War. His father, Izidor, was a well-known political prisoner in the former Yugoslavia, and is now standing as an independent candidate for the Croatian Parliament. Then a face from the past re-appears: an impoverished Serbian refugee called Simo, who has recently returned to the town. As an ex-communist official, Simo imprisoned Izidor decades ago. He knows certain facts about Izidor that could destroy his reputation and wreck his political campaign. Simo demands money, in return for his silence and he also has a secret rendezvous with Ivan's mother, Ana. Soon a long-buried secret surfaces once more - with huge repercussions for Ivan. He starts to provoke hard-line Croatians by singing Serbian nationalistic songs, daring them to kill him.

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.

The film is set over the course of a New Year's Eve night in the Croatian port city of Split, where it follows three parallel plots. The first plot line features a small-time drug dealer Nike (Marinko Prga) and a young widow Marija (Nives Ivankovic); the second plot line deals with a drug addict called Maja (Marija Skaricic) who decides to have sex with an US Navy sailor called Franky (Coolio) in exchange for some heroin; the third one shows a young couple, Luka and Andela (Vicko Bilandzic and Ivana Roscic) who spend the night desperately looking for a place to celebrate the New Year by having their first sexual experience. The plots are connected through Dino Dvornik's concert, where all of them pass through at some point, and through the omnipresent fireworks that dot the night sky over the course of the film.

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.

Iva e Maria, um par de lésbicas jovens, aluga uma agradável habitação numa área menos boa área de Zagreb, Croácia. Mas, infelizmente, incluído na renda estão os vizinhos, vizinhos do inferno. A curiosa senhoria, os nacionalistas que escorraçam estrangeiros, um homem velho que vive com a sua esposa morta e um homem que espanca a mulher regularmente são apenas uma parte do bairro. Quando um dos vizinhos se apaixona por Iva, a situação agrava-se - com o resultado de três pessoas mortas no final.

A young man flees to the United States searching for the American dream.

After the breaking of mass movements in 1971., the student Ilija Baric must leave the country because of his political beliefs, and his father Luka lost a job and goes to work to Germany. After Titos death in 1980. there is a new political motion, but repression is still strong. That feels even decennial John, the brother of Ilija, who is in love with Marina, the daughter of the Head of the police and Communist Andrew.

In this politically charged drama, the turbulent times just following Marshal Tito's rejection of ties to Moscow comes to life. Interestingly, even in the first few years after the Yugoslavian leader's death, the subject matter of this film was considered too hot to handle, and the director had to appeal to the courts for permission to shoot it. In the story, Martin is a schoolboy with a sense of the absurd and a willingness to use ridicule to amuse himself and his classmates. He has an uncle who is high up in the nation's bureaucracy who protects him and his grandfather now that his father has died. His grandfather is too stubborn to give his farm to the local farming collective, and Martin himself is in hot water with the principal for making fun of his girlfriend, one of the students at the high school. However, as long as the uncle is able to protect them, they remain out of hot water.