How Steel Was Tempered
Synopsis:
A father takes his son on a trip to an abandoned factory where he once worked. A seemingly small symbolic act turns into a moment of catharsis and introspection, re-establishing the relationship between the father and son.
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A grandiose transoceanic cruise ship sailing the seas.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Tragicomedy
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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
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Who am I, what is my real nature? If my real nature puts no one in jeopardy, what is stopping me from living a life that is full, perhaps the only one I’ll get?
- Drama
- Experimental
- Abstract
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One day my granny dyed her wedding dress black. She wanted to be buried in it.
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What is this force that defies gravity, a force so powerful that drives plants to reach up and imbues us with the strength to sail against the current? If we let go to its upward motion, it carries us to a wonderful ease. Raise your sail and catch the leeway…
- Drama
- Abstract
- Experimental
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Just a regular cock fight.
- Comedy
- Experimental
- Musical
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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
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The cycling season is nearing its grand finale. During the final race, the two men in the lead are competing for more than the Grand Trophy; they are fighting for the affection of a lady and fulfilment of their erotic fantasies. Meanwhile, the small port town prepares for the arrival of a large ocean liner and its dashing captain. Inspired by the art of Vasko Lipovac, Veljko Popović created an animated short marked by unique aesthetics. Painted in vivid colours of summer and with a dash of the erotic, its is a comedy that captures the spirit of a small Mediterranean town.
- Drama
- Comedy
- Romance
- Abstract
- Experimental
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I am one. One of many. One of everyone yet the only one. What is it that I am looking for, that always seems out of reach?
- Abstract
- Experimental
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Astronaut of Featherweight is a dark vision of the hypercapitalist transhuman society in which a body is a commodity and money means immortality. From out-of-space spa-colonies to labour plantations, everyone is trying hard to preserve their bodies.
- Sci-Fi
- Experimental
- Abstract
- Drama
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Here There gives graphic form to memory’s malleable, straying lines. It begins as a traveler’s sketchbook, drawn in Croatia in the summer of 2014, but details soon fade away into abstract impressions on the edges of memory. This film is a reduction to the essence, a condensed feeling of one place and time.
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Moving through a world filled with scanners and surveillance algorithms, while frivolously using different social networks, online forms and credit cards, the man of today loses his privacy voluntarily. A decent citizen has nothing to hide, only criminals do.
- Drama
- Sci-Fi
- Experimental