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- Twenty years after the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the director decides to find the actors from a film he made as a student "titled Haustorce". The winds of war have scattered the boys far away from their hometown. In his search, the director embarks on a journey around the world, hoping to recover the lost pieces of his own past along the way.
- Pero Kvesikis very ill: only twenty percent of his lungs are functional after smoking for most of his life, yet despite his illness Pero embodies, through his passion for life, the optimistic tone of the motto that is the title of the film "while I breathe, I hope"
- A short documentary about Kashikul Vicenza, a 62-year-old postman. It covers a field of 50 villages and hamlets of the picturesque interior of Istria. This documentary was shot before his retirement and talks about this valuable and respected man.
- The clash of two worlds in the present-day Europe. As the indigenous population seeks to defend the status quo against escalating immigration, the newcomers are burdened by their own displacement. Forced to flee their homes, they are trying to adapt to the strange new environment.
- A documentary film about a family secret conceived decades ago on 'an island of broken souls' and a painful past slowly transforming into history.
- With his film Generation '68, the author makes a homage to the generation with which he shares his youthful enthusiasm and the idea about a revolution that will change the world, while being "realistic and demanding the impossible". At the same time he questions the true impact of these changes on social and - probably more important - private level. Having ideas is easy; making them look credible to the generations that follow is somewhat more difficult. By rejecting the ideals of the 1968 as unworkable, the new generations are coming up with some of their own, maybe even more unrealistic ones...
- Milan and Silvana live in Medulin, a small coastal town in Croatia. Milan breeds cows on a nearby island, as many have done before him, but Silvana wants much more than that.
- This is a story about workers at the Uljanik shipyard in Pula whose job is to apply anti-corrosion protection to ship metal parts. Workers on this dangerous and hard job we follow in time of privatization.
- Aircrafts, tanks, bombs, automatic rifles, media and propaganda were the Homeland War weaponry of choice. Nevertheless, the loudest were the songs. Ones used them to describe the nightmares that befell them, others to confirm their political loyalty. The national TV broadcaster considered music an important form of political 'fight', so they commissioned, financed, recorded and intensely broadcasted it. Even twenty years after the end of the Homeland War, its soundtrack still attracts attention and sparks emotions. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, patriotic music played an extremely important role in the political changes occurring in all the former Yugoslavian countries, especially in Croatia. In the first multi-party election after the Second World War, the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) beat the reformed communists with a great help from music, which in 1990 took an active part in boosting the national spirit. The system changed - from a unitary, socialist Yugoslavia to an independent and democratic Croatia - but the structure of music serving political goals remained the same. Open aggression in Croatia in the autumn of 1991 sparked an impulse response from musicians like never before - from fiddlers and tambura players, to pop singers, to dance musicians, to rockers and punkers. The national broadcaster, Croatian Radio Television (HRT), became their most powerful sponsor - it commissioned new patriotic songs, broadcasted the existing ones, organised and funded countless patriotic music festivals and charity concerts, enabled many patriotic music videos to be recorded. Only in the first few, the most intense months of war, several hundred new songs were recorded. Their final number still remains unknown. However, many of them have not survived the war, and the story of them is still unfinished and untold. With appearances by: Zrinko Tutic, Vera Svoboda, Josip Ivankovic, Mladen Kvesic, Davor Gobac, Boytronic, Sandra Kulier, Mario Peso, Borut Separovic, Miroslav Lilic, Ante Perkovic and many others.
- A biographic documentary about a punk-rock icon who surpassed the music and became a symbol of common sense and free thinking.
- Although they live right next to Pula's biggest tourist attraction, the people of Mahala, the city's destitute neighborhood, have been forgotten by everybody.
- The story of a Croatian woman who started working in Amsterdam's Red Light District at the age of 19. Today, she is 37 and has come back home.
- The story of the Croatian writer, journalist and columnist Zeljko Spoljar and his alter-ego Pavle Svirac, who, in turn, writes under the pseudonym - Literary Groupie.
- The film explores the international community and Croatian human rights organizations' accusations of war crimes committed after the wartime Operation Storm. In summer 1995, the Operation Storm resulted in final liberation of the occupied territories in Croatia. Minister Cacic's comment on the burning of Serb houses in Krajina area immediately after the operation triggered uproar among the members of HDZ party. Five years later, some dramatic facts leaked to the public, revealing that - as it seems - not everything had been taking place in accordance with the rules of war.
- Love has probably never been so commercialized and falsely portrayed as today. It became a commodity that everybody can afford. However, very often the real picture is something completely different.This film tells about this different picture.The film "Together" tells about love relationships that encounter difficulties. Those are real difficulties that test not only the relationship but very often also the destinies of the persons involved.
- In the days of the student strike of 1971, a group of film students led by directors Branko Ivanda and Zoran Tadic started to cover the events with their cameras. After the strike was suppressed and the leaders arrested and sentenced, the footage was "filed away" by police. Thirty years after the events, FACTUM recovered a part of the original footage and Branko Ivanda finished the film which portrays the events that marked not only the lives of its participants but also Croatia as a nation.
- This film is an intimate story about a filmmaker searching for her brother gone missing in 1991 during the war in Croatia. In a way, it is a "sequel" to her grandmother's story: her husband was killed in WW II, but all her life long she waited for him to return.
- The protagonist attempts to re-establish a normal post-war life, searching for family photographs lost in the war on the territory of former Yugoslavia.
- A group of boys that live in a children's home and is often prone to delinquent behaviour gets a chance to make a movie - completely theirs from the idea to the realisation. Bad guys from the outer space are sent to destroy the planet Earth. There is only one way that weirdoes can stop them....
- Behind the Looking Glass is a self-portrait made by combining a series of film clips dating back from 1965 to the present-day (showing how other people perceive the author) and introspectively made video footage of the author, made over the past decade. The film is a collage and a dialogue; it confronts the author's life and those of twenty or so characters that she played in her career.
- Children of Transition is a coming-of-age story about David, Natalija, Lana and Marta. After an excellent performance before the scouts of FC Barcelona, eight-year-old David, called 'Messi from Slavonski Brod' by the media, cannot wait to be invited to La Masia. This inexistent piece of paper is the basis of David's dreams, but also of the dreams of his entire family of five. Eleven-year-old Natalija comes from a modest background, does not have a smartphone and other trendy things. Because of that she is bullied by her classmates and is forced to change school. Six-year-old Lana spends her days changing clothes, putting on make-up, dancing and playing games on her cell phone. A teenage life defined by bullying at school and on social networks became unbearable for fifteen-year-old Marta... What do a happy childhood and healthy growing up look like? Are they possible in a society which has not yet reached its own maturity? This is a film about the environment we create for our common future.
- Dubica is a documentary film about Hrvatska Dubica, a village on the river Una, on the border of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. This place never recovered from the destruction in the 1990s Croatian War of Independence.
- The story about the wartime destruction of historic monuments and human lives in Mostar, Croatia told through two young citizens of different ethnic groups who want to live in a united, not divided a town.
- The unresolved 1991 murder of the young Sisak girl Ljubica Solar inspired the director to tell a story about the young generation he himself belongs to. The lives of these people were to a large degree affected by the war and they are facing the eternal small-town dilemma: to go or to stay? By telling a story about a dead girl and her mother - who has an idea who the murderers of her daughter might be but gets no help from anyone - Devic also tells a story about Sisak's dark side. I Have Nothing Nice to Say to You is a documentary film noir about a city that the war has made even darker than it would normally be. Owing to the unusual blend of a socially relevant subject and a highly aestheticized auteur style, one critic called this film "Croatian documentary (anti)Twin Peaks"!
- Cheese and Cream is a film-essay about Zagreb's milkmaids and deep crises of political will and national identity in the period between 2002 to 2006. Milkmaids, one of the symbols of Zagreb, have become an endangered species due to the economic turmoil of a society in transition. On top of it all, they may become extinct soon because their way of production and sales does not meet European standards. Can milkmaids and cottage cheese join the European Union and how? Who are they, anyway? Should they survive and why? Who can help them and how?
- Pescenica is an old industrial suburb of Zagreb. As a satirical depiction of Croatia's recent politics, it has been declared independent republic. What's it like there today? Over a year, the film crew was combing streets, avenues, parks and backyards, focusing on the lives of four Pescenica inhabitants: its self-proclaimed president, a teacher in a Roma school, a cleaning lady in a film distribution company and a young stage director. All that in order to portray Pescenopolis, the film's protagonist that floats between mud and clouds.
- The story about the privatization of Zagreb Tobacco Factory (TDZ), moving its facilities to Istria and occupation of its Zagreb plant by its workers in 2006 is a rare example of a direct workers' action against the privatization that has, to a large extent, pauperized the cream of the former state - its working class. Four years after the events - this film preserves a fragment of Croatia's transition period. It was made in fond memory of the forty-odd workers for whom the fight against the untouchable economic and political elite was the only acceptable option.
- In less than ten minutes, in his sharp, critical and pungent way, Trbuljak deals with some of the most important problems of modern world: its internal structure, (un)fairness and relation to the ideals of the French Revolution that all of us still invoke, even only declaratively. The film consists of several scenes, shot in various cities and on various continents, always showing the same: garbage containers and people digging out food scraps from them. Container covers slide open and closed and each of them hides one of the three words of the well-known triptych: Liberté, égalité, fraternité. History has witnessed various combinations of these words; sometimes they would be combined with other words, sometimes some of them were dropped. However, the liberté, égalité, fraternité sequence is the one that has persisted. We will find it in the motto of French state, on French Euro coins and in the first article of the United Nations General Declaration of Human Rights. The question the author is making is: Has the time come to replace these words with some other words or has the time come to change ourselves maybe?
- This film depicts the issue of white plague (depopulation) on the example of a village in Slavonia, becoming symptomatic of the current conditions in the country.
- The film, made in the comic-esthetics itself, deals with the life and work of Edvin Biukovic - Eddy, one of the most acclaimed Croatian comic-strip artists. Although he drew Star Wars episodes in the U.S., in Croatia he was almost anonymous. He died in his early thirties. Eddy's Gone is also a story about the comic-strip culture in Croatia
- A film on "ordinary people" of five different nationalities who all live in a single house in the Croatian coastal town of Rovinj.
- A look at the present-day Karlobag, a Dalmatian coastal town with small population, many trucks and strong wind.