Croatia

by Davor Medurečan, Davor Međurečan

The story of a man who is wishing for a feeling of freedom. A man is in a dungeon and as the only way out into freedom he sees artistic expression, dancing, acting and painting, but when he stops, the artist finds himself in the dungeon again, til one day a girl knocks on his door. We realise it is his daughter who wants to walk with him, and that the man is not in a real dungeon, but an ordinary room. He takes the daughter’s hand and they step out into the sunny nature, free and happy. His daughter saved him from his personal dungeon.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Abstract

by Franko Dujmić

How happy would you be to live the end of the world? And also to be celebrating your birthday that very day, or paying a visit to your mother, or maybe going on a date with your crush? This is what A Forest Fairy Tale actually is – a tale of luck. The luck of a few animals depicted through short sketches portraying the last day of the world. And, naturally, a blazing asteroid rushing toward the Earth is the best reason for deep contemplations and self-analyses of one’s own life. If all this sounds depressing, fear not! After all, no one cries in this film (except maybe the author).

• Tragicomedy
• Experimental
• Comedy
• Drama

by Martina Meštrović, Tanja Vujasinović

Through a feminist lens, the authors are paying tribute to their teacher, one of the most important Croatian sculptors, Marija Ujević Galetović. In a combination of images and animation, Marija’s revitalised female sculptures convey their author’s life story and views.

• Documentary
• Experimental
• Making of

by Lucija Oroz

Fear is part of our identity, it is our everyday life and we experience it in different ways. We grow up with it, and over time we overcome or suppress it. However, it is always present, transforms itself into something else, follows our steps, and enters our dreams. It is said that fear has big eyes, they grow where we meet the unknown and then, to some aspects of reality, such as time, we give unrealistic proportions. Only when the fear is overcome, the eyes shrink and the picture becomes clearer.

• Drama
• Abstract
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Petra Balekić

A faded memory of a book that was once very close to me.

by Danijel Žeželj

Everything is grey. The sun has not risen for years. A legend circles the city: paint the sun a thousand times and it will rise again.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Vuk Jevremović

Three masters of football… They can perform wonders during the match and score impossible goals… but what happens in their heads when they are about to take penalty kicks?

by Paula Konjušić

A young man experiences other people’s lives and emotions. Unable to find his own self, he visits a psychiatrist who immediately diagnoses the problem. It can be resolved in ten steps, with the help of a cassette player. As the metronome sounds the start of the treatment, the patient is launched deep into his own subconscious.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Tragicomedy