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Zagreb Film

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  • Butterflies

    1988 Adults 10 min

    by Krešimir Zimonić

    In this typically wild ride by Kresimir Zimonic, a lonesome girl at the seashore unexpectedly learns something about herse

    • Drama
    • Romance
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • The Game

    1987 16+ 10 min

    by Krešimir Zimonić

    The cup-final. Who will be the winner? A fierce struggle has been developed for each inch of the opponent’s terrain. Fans are impatient and require a clear victory of their team.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
    • Action
    • Sci-Fi
  • The Album

    1983 16+ 11 min

    by Krešimir Zimonić

    As the film opens a young girl is thumbing through a family photograph album. Her childhood memories are brought to life, static pictures begin to move. Memory is transformed into a metaphoric story about the past finally turning into dreams of the future.

    • Drama
    • Romance
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Obsession

    1983 Adults 8 min

    by Aleksandar Marks, Vladimir Jutriša

    A free association of Poe’s theme. In Poe’s work, all evil comes from and inside of a man. Marks went the opposite way. Here, the cat is the personification of evil, which provokes human aggression with its aggression. This – actually fictitious – animal causes in man hatred and the desire to kill.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Way to Your Neighbour

    1982 16+ 2 min

    by Nedeljko Dragić

    This short animation is the author’s cynical reaction to the contemporary international political situation.

    • Comedy
    • Experimental
  • The Day I Stopped Smoking

    1982 16+ 10 min

    by Nedeljko Dragić

    The title of the film is merely a dull excuse to tell a story about loneliness, alienation, fear, and anxiety of the modern man.

    • Comedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • One Day Of Life

    1982 Adults 10 min

    by Borivoj Dovniković Bordo

    A lonely factory worker lives a monotonous life until he meets a friend who persuades him to drown himself in alcohol…

    • Comedy
    • Experimental
    • Abstract
  • Skyscrapper

    1981 Adults 10 min

    by Joško Marušić

    A day in the life of a tower block of flats, where the two main vertical channels of communication are the lift and the drain.

    • Comedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • The House Of The Plague

    1980 Adults 11 min

    by Zlatko Pavlinić

    On its quest of death and terror, plague approaches a small village. The village knows nothing and lives its normal life…

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Little Tom Thumb

    1980 16+ 11 min

    by Milan Blažeković

    This is a story based on the fairy tale about little Thumbelina. In our case, little Palčić becomes a symbol of a “small” man who works diligently, while others, the “big” ones, derive material benefit from it. At the end of the story, a good fairy appears and as a reward for his diligence, turns him into a great man. The misfortune was that it happened at the wrong time and in the wrong place. He was cruelly punished, because society needs these “little” people, and it gives them wide opportunities for work and only for work.

    • Tragicomedy
    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
  • Fisheye

    1980 Adults 9 min

    by Joško Marušić

    A metaphor of how the normal order of things sometimes goes awry, one night the fish take over.

    • Drama
    • Tragedy
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Dream Doll

    1980 Adults 12 min

    by Zlatko Grgić, Bob Godfrey

    A man establishes an emotional relationship with a blow-up doll.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Fantasy
    • Romance
    • Experimental
  • The Undertaker

    1979 Adults 10 min

    by Aleksandar Marks, Vladimir Jutriša

    A phantasmagoric story about an undertaker and his wife who live alone because everyone avoids them. The undertaker cannot break human prejudices and superstitions, and in desperation he invites his former customers, the dead, to be his guests and to banish loneliness from him and his wife.

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental
  • Satiemania

    1978 Adults 14 min

    by Zdenko Gašparović

    The fauna of the megalopolis, the jungle of the supermarket, the bedlam of brothels and bars, the effect of the bars in the fog, the swaying ears of corn, the swaying of men hanging from the gallows, the ripple of water – seen by the eye of the animator…

    • Drama
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Perpetuo

    1978 16+ 3 min

    by Joško Marušić

    People will never fail, even in hopeless situations — thanks to man. Man does not bring a universal solution, but at least he makes it possible for everything to be repeated and for civilization to last.

    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Learning to Walk

    1978 7+ 8 min

    by Borivoj Dovniković Bordo

    This is the story of Svojislav who was accustomed to walking the way he was taught by his mother. However his four friends each try to teach him their style of walking convinced that theirs is the best way. Svojislav has a hard time getting away from his “redeemers” but having done so, he continues walking the way he always has.

    • Comedy
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Inside and Out

    1978 16+ 2 min

    by Joško Marušić

    A man constructs wooden wings enabling him to fly, but he is bounded by the giant wire cage encircling both the fliers and non-fliers.

    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Dinner

    1978 Adults 8 min

    by Zlatko Bourek

    The man behind the table is driving. With anxiety, memories from his childhood, from the war, his parents in the ghetto for the Jews and all the possible forms of aggression that reached him came flooding back to him, until the day he sat down at the table to answer…

    • Drama
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Nightmare

    1976 Adults 10 min

    by Aleksandar Marks, Vladimir Jutriša

    An alienated and lonely man goes to take a rest and dreams about the same torment and feeling of inability to bear the burdens of life that torment him even when he is awake. He dreams of his ups and downs, as well as fears which turned into symbols that also came from the rigid everyday reality.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Happiness

    1976 Adults 13 min

    by Zlatko Pavlinić

    This is the story of a poor fisherman, who wanted and was looking for happiness. A quiet family life, filled with the love and care of a woman, was not enough for happiness. Happiness is luxury, wealth… thought the fisherman.

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative