"Manja" is a poetic horror-documentary about discrimination - told from the perspective of the abuser who is also the author of the film. The film begins as a horror movie in which the author deals with his childhood demons. In the second part the story changes focus towards discrimination and intolerance. That turn is followed by another - in the first part the au...
The famous Italian poet D'Annunzio entered the city of Fiume (Rijeka in Croatian) in 1919 proclaiming it his own micro-nation state, followed by several hundred Italian renegade soldiers. What followed was a short, but very distinctive period in which Fiume became possibly the most important place in the world - and a refuge for world's free thinkers and artists, where unchecked...
2022, feature documentary, director: Viktor Portel
Frame Films (CZ) in co-production with Restart (HR), Czech TV (CZ) & Post Bellum (CZ)
Vladimír Dzuro, is the only Czech investigator to have worked for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. His task was to collect evidence against war criminals and perpetrators of ethnic cleansing. His two biggest cases were the Ovcara massacre, linked to then-Vukovar Mayor Slavko Dokmanovic, and ethnic cleansing in northwestern Bosnia. Together with Dzuro, we ...
2022, feature documentary film, director: Peter Kerekes
A simple, yet effective method to change your destiny by taking a trip on the day of your birthday.
2022, a feature documentary, director: Tea Vidović Dalipi
Restart (HR) in co-production with STEfilm (IT) & Möbius (XS)
Bride in Search of Happiness is a participative-observational documentary about a just married Croatian-Roma couple, Tea and Mirsad, and their attempt at a life together, suspended between expectations from families and communities in culturally irreconcilable backgrounds that do not accept diversities.
Mirsad comes from an extremely traditional Ashkali (Roma) family from...
2021, short experimental documentary, director: Sabina Mikelic
Women from all over the world have arrived in the Netherlands in search of a better life. The filmmaker is one of them. She is deeply convinced that she no longer belongs anywhere, neither to her homeland in Croatia, nor to the country to which she moved. Guided by a desire for a sense of belonging, she enrolls in a Dutch course where she meets Sannimari, a girl from Finland. Through compani...
2021, documentary feature, director: Mila Turajlić
Dribbling Pictures (RS) and Survivance (FR) in co-production with Kino (ME) & Restart (HR)
An archival road trip with Stevan Labudovic, cameraman to Yugoslav President Tito and cinematic eye of the Algerian revolution, investigating the role of cinema in the liberation struggles of the Third World and reconstructing the birth of the Non-Aligned Movement.
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