School / Academy
There is only fleeting pleasure on Earth. When it comes to lasting happiness, I doubt anyone knows it. The island is a place of constant colors, sounds, horizons, smells. The person merges with the island and the island grows in him and thus the continuity of mutual fulfillment is born.
On the cruise that he was supposed to take his annual break from life, Jadran experienced a tragic shipwreck during which he lost consciousness. Wake up in the middle of the ocean, all alone.
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).
A faded memory of a book that was once very close to me.
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.
Three little wolves, two brothers and a sister, spend a late afternoon together.
The film explores the moment between living and not living, the moment of ceasing to be. There He reveals His true self.
Arcadian Fever is a short film portraying the life cycle of an alien parasite species. The film follows the parasites’ last day on the planet they occupied, their migration and the invasion of another planet. There is also a love story.
A short film by Antonija Begušić.
An anthropomorphic figure with an elephant’s head stands in front of a mirror. As we sink deeper and deeper into layers of a strange organism that resembles a nervous system and a plant at the same time, the character reacts in a violent way.
Two people living alone on an isolated island. He does fishing and brings the catch to the house, and She does household chores. Finili su Mare bali illustrates mechanical and rooted reactions to life events – everyday and miraculous.
A watchmaker’s apprentice realizes that the perfect clockwork can be made only if he sacrifices himself completely.
Through the thick darkness of the tunnel faint monotonous walls vibrate. In the dark distance a ray of light suddenly blinked and a moment later a strong energy burst flies rapidly in front of camera and exists the frame. We enter into abstract and utterly unknown world. Sleepy, almost frosty landscape is echoed by a tower packed with spindle black silhouette rising in front of horizon. Ritual contractions and the buckling choreography of its body invokes white deity from the other realm to perform ritual of transmutation. With a purpose of re-establishing the initial state of profound stillness ritual comes to its end.
A benign demon, deeply disappointed with his life in hell and his alcoholic father, decides one day to leave his home…
A day in the life of an average man in a below average country.
The fight between the squirrel and the big poster placed in front of her house that blocks the sun.
Communication is lacking. This can be felt, just like the things that can never be truly spoken. But lack does not mean a black hole, it is a space that fills itself.
Music chairs. And wardrobes.
A young, innocent country girl comes to the big city to look for work. There she meets a charming businessman and their lives intertwine.
Don’t be afraid. All the traps you see are set for the fox and by the fox while the fox wasn’t looking.