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- DirectorVinko BresanStarsDrazen KuhnLinda BegonjaIlija IvezicStipan is a policeman who comes to small Adriatic island off the Croatian coast in order to investigate reported strange phenomena that had frightened the whole population. At first, nobody wants to co-operate with him, but he finally finds that the island is being allegedly haunted by the ghost of Josip Broz Tito, Communist leader of former Yugoslavia. For Luka, the mayor, this is the opportunity to turn entire island into Tito-themed amusement park. Tito's WW2 veterans, on the other hand, don't believe in ghosts; for them, the apparition is actually Tito himself, who had returned in order to lead them into a new revolution which would restore Communism.
- DirectorHrvoje HribarStarsZrinka CvitesicLeon LucevIvo GregurevicA young widow, an aging widower-returnee, and a priest from a bankrupt parish are struggling to come to terms with the post-war environment, complete with its prejudices, illusions, and unpleasant mentality. What follows is a romantic comedy set in rough landscape, about a woman who falls in love with a local priest. He is not blind to her love, but is unable to choose between the church and her, until the circumstances force him to make his choice.
- DirectorVinko BresanStarsKresimir MikicNiksa ButijerMarija SkaricicA young priest gets an idea to pierce condoms before they are sold in order to increase the birth rate of his island.
- DirectorDalibor MatanicStarsDora PolicIvan BrkicMilan StrljicAfter being repeatedly denied her requests for a vacation by her sexist boss, a young woman finally explodes.
- DirectorAntun VrdoljakStarsGoran VisnjicMustafa NadarevicIvo GregurevicThe film follows the life of fictional character Iva Kolar, including his experience as a Croatian university student, his role as a partisan fighting German troops, and his involvement in his nation's post-WW2 government.
- DirectorSrdan GolubovicStarsAleksandar BercekDejan CukicLeon LucevThe impact of a selfless deed of benevolence and heroism right in the middle of the raging Bosnian war inextricably intertwines the lives of five people who are still affected by its consequences, over a decade later.
- DirectorDejan ZecevicStarsNikola KojoDragan Petrovic-PeleBogdan DiklicA man awakens from a two-month-long coma with total amnesia and sets out to discover the truth about his identity.
- DirectorSrdan GolubovicStarsVuk KosticSrdjan 'Zika' TodorovicPaulina ManovIgor Gordic was an Olympic Champion in shooting, but now he is a junkie without money and in debts to mafia. Sasa is his younger brother and he is getting ready for the next World Championship. Pressured by hard life in Serbia in the aftermath of the war and disheartened by apparent utter lack of justice and structure in the society, being at an everyday mercy of the mafia, Sasa decides to take justice in his own hands and puts his sharpshooting in practice on the streets of Belgrade, though the toll such action takes on one's psyche and conscience becomes apparent all too soon.
- 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.
- DirectorSrdjan DragojevicStarsNikola KojoMilena PavlovicBranka KaticAngel and the devil fight for the soul of a Belgrade playboy who made a young girl pregnant.
- DirectorVinko BresanStarsVlatko DulicLjubomir KerekesIvan BrkicAlthough being one of the first movies to take humoristic approach towards violent break-up of Yugoslavia, this motion picture is partly based on real events that took place in September of 1991. Few months after Croatia seceded from Yugoslavia, Federal military installations are still present with previously recruited Croatian boys trapped inside. One such installation is a garrison on a small Dalmatian island, commanded by Major Aleksa Milosavljevic. Besieged by local militia, Major Aleksa threatens to blow up ammunition depots with half an island in case of any hostile action. During the stalemate, art historian Blaz Gajski comes from Zagreb in order to rescue his son from the barracks.
- DirectorGoran KulenovicStarsIvan HercegIvan DjuricicIvan GlowatzkyThe main character Struja (Stream) is an unyielding rock musician in a demo-band called When Dirty Harry Met Dirty Sally. Struja would do anything to gather money to record the album as long as it doesn't involve giving up his rock musician beliefs. However, playing pop songs at weddings seems to be the only way out, and the rest of the bend - Struja's best friend and keyboard player Mario (Ivan Duricic), Deni, a handsome singer and bass player (Ivan Glowatzky) and Zlajfa, an indifferent drummer (Hrvoje Keckes) - are trying to persuade Struja to make a compromise. At the beginning he is very firm and reluctant to give in, but when Anja, the girl he left, announces that she is pregnant with his baby, Struja suddenly realizes that there are bigger issues in life than playing at wedding.
- DirectorBranko IstvancicZvonimir JuricMatija KlukovicStarsIvan KomusarSasa MaglaicMijo TakacNine short films are connected into one whole, and they describe life in Croatia's capital of Zagreb.
- DirectorRadislav Jovanov GonzoSara HribarIvan SikavicaStarsAleksandra StojakovicSinisa PopovicDijana VidusinA sequel to omnibus "Zagreb Stories" tells about love and families in present-day Zagreb.
- DirectorRadislav Jovanov GonzoPetar OreskovicIvan SalajStarsFilip KrizanBorko PericIvana StarcevicA third part of "Zagreb Stories" franchise that connects short films about Zagreb into one whole. The plot of six short stories takes place during public holidays.
- DirectorDalibor MatanicStarsTihana LazovicGoran MarkovicNives IvankovicThree different love stories, set in three consecutive decades, in two neighbouring Balkan villages burdened with a long history of inter-ethnic hatred: this is a film about the dangers - and the enduring strength - of forbidden love.
- DirectorKristijan MilicStarsFilip SovagovicVelibor TopicSlaven KnezovicIn 1943, group of Croatian soldiers overtake a strategically important point in western Bosnia with a goal to destroy a group of communist partisans. On the way they met some supernatural phenomena, and the action itself went very badly because the partisans ambushed them. The main character Martin inherits silver cigarette case from a dying soldier. This act connects to the story in 1993 when we meet Martins grandson Tomo. He is one of six soldiers of the Croatian army who have come to the same place in Bosnia to meet the same phenomena and similar fate.
- DirectorDanis TanovicStarsBranko DjuricRene BitorajacFilip SovagovicBosnia and Herzegovina during 1993 at the time of the heaviest fighting between the two warring sides. Two soldiers from opposing sides in the conflict, Nino and Ciki, become trapped in no man's land, whilst a third soldier becomes a living booby trap.
- DirectorKristijan MilicStarsGoran BogdanAlan KaticMarko CindricIn the autumn of 1991, a small group of Croatian soldiers go on patrol in an improvised armored vehicle. Soon after that they would get ambushed and their vehicle would get destroyed, in that situation they were forced to hide in a nearby house. Whilst stationed in that house they would get attacked by rebel Serbs, Serbian Special Forces and the JNA (Yugoslav People's Army, also reffered to as Yugoslavian National Army). Their resistance to the attackers would last 24 hours whilst their fellow combatants would attempt to try and get them out of there. The movie and story is based on true events which happened during the Croatian War of Independence.
- DirectorIvona JukaStarsHelena BeljanLana BaricNatasa DorcicThree daughters battle for acceptance, redemption and new opportunities.
- 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.
- DirectorDalibor MatanicStarsJudita FrankovicIva MihalicIgor KovacA girl talks her boyfriend and her sister into traveling to the Lika backwoods. Their father, who abandoned the family years ago, lives there. Having found out that he is ill, this is the daughter's last chance to have a talk with her father about everything that happened in the past. In the isolated horizons of Lika, the once deeply hidden dark family secrets start being revealed...
- DirectorNevio MarasovicStarsFranjo DijakNatasa Janjic MedancicJanko Popovic VolaricGoran just wants to drive his taxi and take care of his blind wife Lina. But people close to him have their own agendas and dreams which threaten his carefree existence. In the idyllic surroundings of snow-covered Gorski Kotar, the fiery personalities of the highlanders surface and collide.
- DirectorRajko GrlicStarsNebojsa GlogovacDejan AcimovicKsenija MarinkovicA gay Croatian professor confronts his own xenophobia after agreeing to help his Serbian neighbor prepare for a citizenship exam, while the neighbor's wife cares for the professor's elderly homophobic invalid father.
- DirectorIvan-Goran VitezStarsKristijan JaicStjepan PericTena Jeic GajskiThis comedy of the absurd is set in the Nazi puppet Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during World War II. The hero, Ljiljan is a young peasant poet who joins the Partisan movement just before it falls apart, abandoned by its leader Tito. The last remaining hope for resisting Nazism is to assassinate Hitler. Ljiljan's task is to write a song that will allow his Partisan band to infiltrate the inner sanctum of the SS - by entering an SS talent show. If they win the competition, they will be invited to perform before Hitler and the NDH's high command. This is a satirical coming-of-age tale with a difference, capturing the craziness, comedy and horror of war in the Balkans.
- DirectorZrinko OgrestaStarsKsenija MarinkovicLazar RistovskiTihana Lazovic20 years ago, Vesna moved her family to Zagreb, away from the events that almost destroyed their lives. However, an unexpected call will bring back the memory of a secret that she has been trying to hide all these years.
- DirectorDalibor MatanicStarsMarija SkaricicJanko Popovic VolaricKresimir MikicAn abused wife leaves her husband, takes her child away and goes to live in a car.
- DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicLazar RistovskiMirjana JokovicTwo underground black marketeers, Marko and Blacky, sell weapons to the Communist resistance in wartime Belgrade, living the good life along the way.
- DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsDavor DujmovicBora TodorovicLjubica AdzovicIn this luminous tale set in the area around Sarajevo and in Italy, Perhan, an engaging young Romany (gypsy) with telekinetic powers, is seduced by the quick-cash world of petty crime, which threatens to destroy him and those he loves.
- DirectorIgor SeregiStarsRene BitorajacMatija KacanMarko CindricSeries of events leading to football fans war on the streets of Belgrade.
- 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.
- DirectorMilos RadovicStarsLazar RistovskiPetar KoracPavle EricStatistics show that during their career every railroad engineer working unintentionally kills 15 to 20 people. This is a story about the innocent mass murderers and their lives.
- DirectorKristijan MilicStarsMarinko PrgaKristijan TopolovecRobert RoklicerThree policemen guard a witness repentant in an abandoned warehouse. Their job is to watch him until the morning when the morning shift will take over, but the witness persuades them that "those who are coming" intend to kill not only him, but all four of them. Their paranoia grows when they find out the witness is familiar with some details from their black pasts which are known only by their close accomplices. They punish each of his stories from the past by beating him up. When the morning comes, the policemen are drunk and confused, and the witness is all covered in blood.
- DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsMoreno De BartoliPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicMirjana KaranovicA family is deeply affected by the father's extramarital affairs and the turbulent consequences of the Tito-Stalin split.
- DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsDavor DujmovicBora TodorovicLjubica AdzovicIn this luminous tale set in the area around Sarajevo and in Italy, Perhan, an engaging young Romany (gypsy) with telekinetic powers, is seduced by the quick-cash world of petty crime, which threatens to destroy him and those he loves.
- DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsSlavko StimacNatasa TapuskovicVesna TrivalicWhat could be better for the village than a scenic railway to bring in the tourists? What could be worse for tourism than war? Luka builds the railway and shuts his eyes to war. Then Luka's wife runs off with a musician and his son is called up to the army. Luka's life is a war zone. Then he meets Sabaha..
- DirectorAdemir KenovicStarsMustafa NadarevicAlmedin LeletaAlmir PodgoricaAn alcoholic Bosnian poet sends his wife and daughter away from Sarajevo so they can avoid the troubles there. However, he is soon descended upon by a pair of orphaned brothers. The brothers have escaped a massacre in their own village and have come to the Bosnian capital in search of a long lost Aunt. The poet befriends the boys and together they try to survive the horror of the siege of Sarajevo.
- DirectorSrdjan DragojevicStarsDragan BjelogrlicNikola KojoDragan MaksimovicDuring the war in Bosnia, two childhood friends eventually become enemies, as the tragic and devastating circumstances of the war put them on the opposite sides and expose the most gruesome and cruel aspects of the human nature.
- DirectorGorcin StojanovicStarsBranka KaticNebojsa GlogovacAna SofrenovicMen, women, and war. Jelena Panic is a young woman in Belgrade in the early 1990s, during Serbia's war with Croatia; she's making a book of her grandmother's diaries from the end of World War II. She takes up with Bogden, a young soldier recovering from war wounds. He helps her with her grandmother's story, a tragic triangle involving her effete and well-educated husband and an uneducated major, a Chekist who has, perhaps, the power to save a political prisoner who is the grandmother's friend. As Jelena wonders which man was her grandfather (the Chekist or the husband), Bogden recovers from his wounds and must decide whether to return to the front. Jelena pleads; duty calls.
- DirectorLukas NolaStarsIvo GregurevicBarbara NolaGoran GrgicDetermined to find her sister's killers, Ida Palamar decides to become a prostitute in an elite Zagreb brothel where the murder probably took place. The brothel is run by Vuk, violent and drug-crazed arms smuggler, protected by the police. Ida's only ally in her quest is a young bouncer.
- DirectorOgnjen GlavonicStarsLeon LucevNovak BilbijaBranko PerisicVlada works as a truck driver during the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999. Tasked with transporting a mysterious load from Kosovo to Belgrade, he drives through unfamiliar territory, trying to make his way in a country scarred by the war. He knows that once the job is over, he will need to return home and face the consequences of his actions.
- DirectorDalibor MatanicStarsOlga PakalovicNina ViolicKresimir MikicA lesbian couple rents an apartment in a seemingly normal building which happens to be populated with all kinds of freaks. Initially kind but unaware of their secret, a landlady tries to introduce one of them to his son, but after spying on them through the keyhole, the Pandora's box of hatred and violence has been opened.
- DirectorTomislav RadicStarsAnja Sovagovic-DespotIvo GregurevicBoris SvrtanIva is a girl who receives a small digital video camera for her fourteenth birthday. Delighted by her new toy, the girl immediately starts taping everything around her, recording a series of events surrounding her birthday celebration on her first tape. These ninety minutes form the film What Iva Recorded on October 21st, 2003.