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- DirectorMila TurajlicStarsStevan PetrovicVeljko DespotovicVelimir 'Bata' ZivojinovicWhen history has a different script from the one in your films, who wouldn't invent a country to fool themselves? The collapsing sets of Tito's Hollywood of the East take us on a journey through the rise and fall of the illusion called Yugoslavia. Exploring the ruins of the forgotten film sets and talking to directors, producers, policemen and Tito's projectionist about the state run film studios and Tito's personal love for cinema and it's stars, 'Cinema Komunisto' uses film clips to go back to the film when 'His story' became the official history.
- DirectorPetar FinciThe documentary focuses on the cases heard by the Tribunal concerning crimes that occurred in the area of Prijedor, in north-west Bosnia, in 1992. Through testimonies of victims, and by reference to documentary material used as evidence in the court proceedings, the film tells the story of the investigation, prosecution, and adjudication of war crimes committed in Prijedor.
- DirectorEsat MusliuStarsThimi FilipiErmira GjataMarieta Ljarja
- DirectorAida BegicStarsZana MarjanovicJasna BeriSadzida SeticPost traumatic life of the Bosnian Muslim widows and daughters after their husbands and fathers were murdered by Bosnian Serb Army. Plot is set in post war eastern Bosnian village near town of Zvornik.
- DirectorMandy JacobsonKarmen JelincicStarsJadranka CigeljNusreta SivacMovie about tortured and humiliated women in concentration camps in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- DirectorJudy JacksonStarsPeter GabrielAbout Canada's role in shaping the International Criminal Court.
- DirectorVinko BresanStarsLeon LucevAlma PricaMirjana KaranovicWhen three soldiers discover a man inside a house they are bombing, they kill him easily, but when a second witness is discovered, she proves to be a bigger challenge and sets in motion a riveting game of cat-and-mouse. Croatian with English subtitles. Winner: Peace Prize and Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Berlin Int'l Film Festival. Official Selection: Karlovy Vary, Jerusalem and Seattle Int'l FFs.
- DirectorDusan MakavejevStarsSusan AnspachErland JosephsonPer OscarssonA bored wealthy housewife on the verge of insanity cuts loose with some lively Yugoslavian immigrants who delight in their bohemian lifestyle.
- DirectorSrdan GolubovicStarsNebojsa GlogovacNatasa NinkovicAnica DobraA couple finds out their son urgently needs an expensive heart surgery. While struggling to find the money, the father is approached by a mysterious man proposing a sinister deal.
- DirectorDarko LungulovStarsDavid ThorntonMirjana KaranovicCyndi LauperIn two interconnected stories, jaded middle-aged New Yorker Robert goes to Serbia to make quick cash by marrying someone for U.S. immigration papers. The plan goes awry when the promised cash never arrives. At the same time, young Serbian immigrant Branko struggles in a never-forgiving New York, desperately trying to bring his girlfriend from Serbia to the USA.
- DirectorAhmed ImamovicStarsMario DrmacTarik FilipovicRade SerbedzijaIn the 1990s the Yugoslavia Federation falls apart in bloody wars. Perpetual student Milan, a Serb from a patriarchal community, and Kenan, a Muslim cellist, are a homosexual couple living in Sarajevo. Their lives, intimate and public, are shaken up by the aggression in Bosnia and Herzegovina, whose devastating consequences unfold in inter-ethnic hatred. Trapped in Sarajevo during the siege of the Serb forces, the lovers manage to flee to Milan's home village and take shelter there, waiting for Milan's father Ljubo to find a way to the Netherlands. Witnessing the brutality of Serb forces and their hatred towards Muslims, Milan desperately improvises: he disguises Kenan as a woman and present him as his wife Milena, a secret discovered by Milan's best friend, Lunja. Milan is drafted into the army and the situation becomes almost unbearable for Kenan. His one companion is Ranka, a waitress in a local café, whose dark secrets terrify most of the villagers around her.
- DirectorJasmila ZbanicStarsZrinka CvitesicLeon LucevErmin BravoFrom Bosnia and Herzegovina: Amar finds a new job working with a community of Muslims. This affects his relationship with his girlfriend Luna as his beliefs begin to change.
- DirectorStefan ArsenijevicStarsAnica DobraVuk KosticMilena DravicAn unsatisfied woman in her late 30s dreams about stealing the big cash and leaving the country. She meets a petty criminal ten years her junior who has the thing for her, and she asks herself is he the only true love of her life.
- DirectorJovan B. TodorovicStarsBojan BoskovicDusan KovacevicObservational film giving an inside view of one of the largest music festival in Europe, which began as a political act against Milosevic's regime over Serbia, and remains a "state of exit" for the hundreds of thousands of young people who gather there every year
- DirectorSteve YorkStarsShahla ArastehZoran DjindjicRobert HelveyA student group called Otpor! ("Resistance!" in Serbian) forms part of the nonviolent opposition movement that toppled the regime of Slobodan Milosevic.
- DirectorIvan ZivkovicStarsGoran SusljikNebojsa GlogovacVojin CetkovicUnsuccessful radio host Rasa has a small party in his alcoholic father's run-down apartment, and one of his guests is his neighbor Ivan who takes antipsychotics.
- DirectorMarko PopovicSrdjan MitrovicStory about Holocaust in Serbia
- DirectorHrvoje HribarStarsZrinka CvitesicLeon LucevIvo GregurevicAfter her husband's death in Germany, a young widow in rural Croatia falls in love with a troubled priest, who must choose between her love and saving his church.
- DirectorGoran MarkovicStarsDimitrije VojnovLazar RistovskiPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicA 10-year-old boy goes through variety of silly situations and confusions during the peak of Marshal Tito's cult of personality in 1950's Yugoslavia.
- DirectorRajko GrlicStarsToni GojanovicSergej TrifunovicEmir HadzihafizbegovicA small border post on the Yugoslav-Albanian border in the spring of 1987. Frustrated and always drunk, lieutenant Pasic feels a strange pain in his groins. He seeks help from the only doctor among the soldiers, Sinisa, who diagnoses a sexually transmitted disease. Not wishing his wife to know about it and trying to find excuses not to go home, he declares a state of emergency, claiming that the Albanian army is preparing an attack against Yugoslavia. A joke transforms into war hysteria: soldiers dig trenches, Pasic grows wilder as the days go by, Sinisa embarks on a dangerous liaison, and his best friend Ljuba decides to leave the army. The situation slowly runs out of control...
- DirectorSzabolcs TolnaiStarsNebojsa DugalicSlobodan CusticJasna ZalicaA story of a Jewish-Hungarian-Serbian family. The plot is centered about trying of an adult son to reconstruct his childhood dream of and memories. Looms, but a sunken world, the central European town with its figures, the way to experiencing deep and see a sensitive boy, his father, who by their fears that penetrate to the bone and the final humiliation of acting madness escapes and becomes a lonely, pathetic buffoon in the drama of life.
- DirectorMilutin PetrovicStarsBoris MilivojevicDjordje AndjelicVanja GovorkoIn 1999, during the NATO bombing in Serbia, a young television editor (Boris Milivojevic) in an underground shelter - turned mental institution is having a psychiatric exploration through which he reflects his story...
- DirectorGoran MarkovicStarsTihomir StanicJelena DjokicDragan NikolicYear 1993, the bleakest time of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A group of actors from Belgrade, utterly unaware of what they're setting themselves up for, embark on a search for quick earnings - on a "tour" around the Serbian Krajina. However, there they are thrust into the heart of war and begin to wander from war front to war front, from one army to the next.
- DirectorStevan FilipovicStarsNikola RakocevicViktor SavicBojana NovakovicLife is sometimes rude game: one mistake can buy you ticket to hell.