Goran Dević
The film follows the tenants of a building in Sisak’s industrial suburb of Željezara during a period in which a large mural of a Croatian street artist appears on one side of the building. All the political changes the area has experienced have shaped the tenants of the building itself.
The film is followed by Croatian anti-EU activist Marko Franišković who tried to run for the election in his radical political program. What is happening to him on this path is questioned by the proclaimed principle of parliamentary democracy. Documentary-judicial horror.
Following the river flowing through the centre of Sisak, the film creates a portrait of a former industrial city. The river today is a space for leisure and relaxation. However, when we examine the people that live and spend time there, the social conflicts of the transition break out onto the surface. The river reveals the remains of past that were left in the water.
Erna and Dževad are the owners of a pub in the vicinity of a steel mill, a complex that used to be one of the largest of its kind in Eastern Europe. Taking place one week before the pub’s official closedown, the film follows a series of conversations between visitors and frequent guests, who discuss the ways of reaching Germany – a new utopia of former socialist workers.
Two Furnaces for Udarnik Josip Trojko follows the disassembling of the famous Siemens-Martin furnace, which once stood at the heart of the huge Yugoslavian iron industry. As we watch the old making way for the new, we hear off-camera archive recordings of political speeches, full of enthusiasm and ideological optimism, from the period when the old furnace was in operation.
The film follows a rather peculiar workshop held in Zagreb for foreigners with deep pockets. The aim of the workshop is to teach participants a very basic skill – how to seduce a woman in order to get her to bed.
War. A city under the siege. The truce has been recently signed, and the squad known as the 'Blacks', who used to do the dirty jobs, needs to be disbanded. Ivo, the squad commander who has lost three of his soldiers, prepares the action to retrieve their dead bodies from the forest and, despite the ceasefire, blow up the dam, thus causing a great damage to the enemy: The survived members of the squad, tortured by their personal doubts and guilt, move into action. On the battlefield, they find the enemy they are searching for is in the place they least expect - inside themselves.
Every year in May, convoys of buses from Croatian cities go to two locations. Do they find what they are looking for?
A film that has the outer structure of the noir trilera, deals with a war crime committed in the center of the city, and actually portrays a community that will have to deal with what has been done in her name. War, night, female movie.
In the native city of the film's author, crows have been breeding which residents treat as temporary and unwanted guests...
Like many other transitional countries, Croatia became rather conservative. In it's own, funny way, this film is investigating the area of autoeroticism.
