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On 9 January 1944, fascists came to the Istrian village Bokordići. They burnt houses and killed adult villagers. The surviving inhabitants, who were children at the time, recollect the tragic night and reconstruct the story that is seven decades old through their narrations.
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A day in Krnjaloža, Croatia, harvesting and distilling lavender.
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Colonel Nenad Babić died in the Croatian War of Independence in 1995. Twenty years later, his nephew, Tin Bačun, makes a film documenting his uncle’s death. The film’s subject matter was provoked by the system. How does the author's family react?
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One man band is a musician who plays multiple instruments at the same time, using his hands, feet, limbs and electrical tools. Today there are only about fifteen of them in the world, and Cile is one of them. Ten years ago Cile started playing various instruments and built a carrier which holds many instruments and enables him to move along streets. Although he was told he was tone-deaf at musi...
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Movie "Land Parcel 81/5" is filmed by Renate Lučić and Maja Bošković. This movie tells a story of Renatas grandmother Eva. Eva is trying to repair the house damaged in the recent flood. Renata and here grandmother are trying to find answers why the house is not jet build.
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Dum spiro spero is a Latin saying meaning ‘while I breathe, I hope’. Until this day it has remained the motto of those who refuse to quit until the very last breath. Intertwining daily life, books and death, the author speaks about losing strength and the strength to cope with the loss. Everybody dies the moment they are born, which is the greatest reason to understand the values of life and en...
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Portraits and encounters is a TV Zagreb documentary series created in the period from 1960 to 1971. With its original direction and poetic language the series portrays the life and work of the most distinguished Croatian painters, poets avant-gardists in the Croatian cultural millieu. 55 years after the series started, we will reconstruct some episodes. Author of the screenplays Irena Vrkljan m...
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“A Two Way Mirror” is the author’s personal quest for inner peace, taking place in the Croatian region of Lika, the remote land of her ancestors. There are many tunnels in Lika, and after each dark tunnel, filled with secrets, fear, darkness - all shown in organic, experimental images - a new season of the year awakens. The images of land, the people observed, a well of sounds heard and the gui...
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Tomislav P. (42) is a co-owner in a residential high-rise in Zagreb. Motivated by accidentally attending the co-op meeting, his experiences there, and the ‘war’ on the building’s notice board between the two candidates running for the tenants representative, he decides to delve a little deeper into the building relations, common resources and their expenditure. However, the parliament election...
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A few years ago Marica was convicted for assaulting her daughter-in-law with a knife. After 2 years and 7 months spent in prison, Marica returns to her son Đuro in Novi Perkovci.
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„Cabbage“ is an intimate film about a morning spent with a friend who is receiving chemotherapy treatments, until the story takes an unusual, culinary turn.
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The movie depicts a mother and daughter who, following the inherited family pattern, are forced to live together again. Seemingly everyday life routines are followed by conversations. There is less sadness and more inherited strength that helps them push each other forward in life.
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Young actors, a premiere in New York, cooperation with the well known director on a challenging theater show. Inexperienced film crew follows a preparation for a premiere that lasted for a several months, but simultaneously experiences production 'confusions' so they are turned to protagonists as well. Both teams, a film and a theater crew will experience pressures and expectations at the start...
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The Right to Work: The Way We Left it is a film about workers of factory Uzor, the textile plant they worked in and their lives once they lost the last battle against the privatization of their company.
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"Sanja" is a portrait documentary that unveils the inner world of dreams and doubts of a designer. By intertwining the motifs of her life, the woods and the sea, through a blurred lens the rational world becomes a visualization of Sanja’s own inner world. The realities of her workshop appear as an antithesis to that personal universe. Her voice-over highlights the visualization of her...
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"Free" is following a group of people with intellectual disabilities that are locked away in Croatian institutions and their path to freedom. When they leave from the institutions they start to change in front of our eyes. We are observing these people as they are trying to fulfill their dreams – but this time from their perspective.
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"The Thin Line" explores cause and effect of war rape, through the story of two former Italian soldiers, involved in acts of violence against civilians, during a peacekeeping mission; and the story of a woman, rape survivor and victim of violence in Bosnia, who rejects the silence of an entire community and tries to obtain justice, compensating the fragility of the law system, at her...
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They existed and lived in the usual everyday… but they/you are watched by something, arranging its figurines… so some unknown force decides to solve things and take matters into its hands… so they go… lines… and the Unknown Force solves the Thing… and you are a tiny little man ant… in the game
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In Croatia, football has never been just football, especially after the Croatian national team won the third place at the World Cup 1998 in France. Since then, under the motto of „bread and games“, football matches and the matches of other top teams are being used to divert attention from the difficult economic situation, to get everyday-politics points, to create the illusion of a strong natio...
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Every summer towns and cities on the Croatian coast double their population through the influx of tourists from all over the world. Nowadays, tourism is the most important industry, and in Croatia it often seems to be the only one. Numerous events and facilities appear, at times seemingly out of nowhere, throughout the Adriatic with the aim of enriching our professed tourist offer. Tourism! tra...
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The film follows a couple of young boys in the Saharian refugee camp „February 27“ located in the bleak desert area of southwestern Algiers. One by one, they ran away from the occupied part of Western Sahara. Music is their only weapon in the everlasting struggle for freedom and independence of their own country – Western Sahara.
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The project «Forever» is a documentary-experimental short film that lasts 15 minutes. It is about the passing of life and the longevity of the life's greatest values. Documented recordings of the protagonist, R.J. (88), around whose life story the non-linear narrative is bulit, are used in the film. The passing of life is shown through the simbolic use of water as the main driver of the story t...
Programme by Restart
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The film is about love and hate, coming of age and acceptance. Đuro is a Croatian punk boy who carries in his heart the wounds of a past which have marked him with an irrational hatred of everything unrelated to his country. Through rebellion and provocation, his punk world-view and way of life grow blemished with loathing and rage. Through a combination of circumstances, his world is shaken up...
Programme by Restart
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A poetic documentary about the lost film culture in the small villages on the Croatian islands during the second half of the last century. Six witnesses of the time are remembering their favorite films and events related to their viewing and screening experiences, which marked their lives.
Programme by Restart
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"United Front of Opportunists" follows the candidacy of the eponymous political party in Croatian parliamentary elections, 2011. It is represented by political sciences students whose main political goal was a parody of entire democratic election process present in Croatia today. The documentary follows 14 candidates and the way they manage on the political field.
Programme by Restart
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There are eight underaged girls living together in the last house of a small village in Slavonia, trying to change their lives around with some help from the caretakers. The girls are growing up together, they take care of the household and manage the estate. Every week they get a visit from a professional drummer Branko Trajkov Trak who teaches them the art of drumming. But a newcomer, 14 year...
Programme by Restart
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The boys say they play hard, but that this is the only way to play. Football is a weekly ritual, and everybody is welcome - acquaintances, work colleges, friends of friends, just to complete two teams of five. The film follows the aftermath of an event in which „hard“ didn't mean the same thing for all the players on the field. Passion for winning, exhaustion, a group that does not know each ot...
Programme by Restart
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"Dragon Woman" is a story about three girls who struggled with anorexia and bulimia for years. In the process of searching for themselves they went through a difficult experience of eating disorders. This is also a story about one girl who felt guilty for many years because she didn't help her sister when she needed it the most. This is a story about sadness, disappointment, but also...
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, Villa Antonio
Claustra is a documentary about forgotten archaeological heritage from the period of late antiquity. Although it is as important as the Wall of Hadrian or Danube Limes, this largest Roman building and military system from the second half of 3rd and 4th century located in today's Croatia and Slovenia is still unknown to many. This documentary takes us through parts of Claustra in Croatia and Slo...
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, Villa Antonio
Some sixty years ago, a man went missing for four years. He returned back a changed man carrying along a painful secret. He later built his family’s life around this unspoken secret. Talking about the past was forbidden in the family. It was his granddaughter, also the director of this film, who first started asking questions, wanting to find out what lay hidden beneath her grandfather’s scar-c...
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, Villa Antonio
"Working Men's Culture" is a series that leads the audience to the journey into small communities in which work and culture intertwine in a very specific way. First episode of the series takes us to Sali on Dugi Otok, where we find out more about the importance of fishing for the area, how it inspired rock bands and how it became a part of Tovareća Mužika (Donkey Music), element of pr...
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, Villa Antonio
Documentary about Mani Gotovac offers views of the professional and private life of our most famous women theatrologist and first female general manager in the history of Croatian theatre. The film brings interviews with people from the local cultural and public life, archival materials from theatres in which Mani Gotovac worked (&TD Theatre, Croatian National Theatre Split and Croatian Nat...
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