Vera Zima

The story of Jasna, a Croatian ex-pat who, due to her mother Anka's declining health, is forced to return to a place she has been avoiding most of her life - her home. The two haven't been in touch for years, but the proximity of death forces them to confront the ghosts of their past. It is also a portrait of life in a typical small town in the midst of Mediterranean hinterland. Plunging into the anxieties of the community, MATER subtly uncovers class, status, and gender issues that shape Anka's and Jasna's personalities - their stubbornness, strength, and tragic flaws.

At the beginning of the war in Croatia, Vjera refuses to leave the ruins of her home on the front line . Her husband flees town while their son goes to battlefield. Working as an interpreter she starts her path of self-discovery.

Alvin signed a book deal for a book depicting love in modern age based on his own experiences. But he did not count on the fact that return to those experiences hurts.

"Long Dark Night" follows the life of the fictional character Iva Kolar: his experiences as a Croatian University student, his role as a Partisan fighting Hitler's troops during W.W. II, his involvement in his nation's post-war government, and his eventual downfall.

The story of four petty criminals in Zagreb, a city recently coming off of the horrors of the Croatian War of Independance, reflects the petty hatreds, violence, prejudices and mood hanging over the country like a disease that spreads with no cure in sight.

After years of working abroad, Mirjana returns to her small conservative village in the Dalmatian Hinterland, with her parents welcoming her with open arms. However, their demeanor quickly changes once she confesses to being pregnant and not knowing who the father is. Fearing the societal stigma this might impose on both her and them, they decide to find Mirjana a local husband, however, no choice seems to suit both parties.

The adventures of a small town Croatian family during the 1960s. The decade will leave eternal marks on all of their members, but most of the story focuses on the youngest one, a boy, Frula, who discovers the love and fashion of the time.

Wanting to leave a good impression for his daughter's visit, a homeless war veteran devises a plan to break into a well-known criminal's old apartment and claim it as his own. But, when his plans are thwarted, his daughter becomes an unsuspecting target.

Ante is a village fella who arrives in Zagreb to study at the faculty of forestry.

After being repeatedly denied her requests for a vacation by her sexist boss, a young woman finally explodes and takes her daughter for a break at the seaside.

It deals with unexpected romance between a salesgirl and a police inspector.

Mostar, socialist Bosnia, sometime during the early 1970s. Young Goran grows up in a mixed family whose everday life is marked by ethnic, political and religous conflicts, from which he tries to distract himself by reading comic books and watching basketball on his TV. However, after his mother finds out about his father's many affairs, she decides to divorce him, seemingly jumpstarting a series of unfortunate events.

The microcosmic world of a street market on the outskirts of Zagreb: traders, thieves, prostitutes, self-appointed security guards and other lost souls, each with their own unique ideas, passion or mania. We follow the tragicomic, mutually intertwined mini dramas of each character, as they fight to save the marketplace itself, when city planners threaten to raze it to the ground and replace it with a skyscraper.

Eastern Croatian front, sometime during the 1990s. A group of civilian refugees from Vukovar try to establish a somewhat normal life in a camp established on the train station in Sokolovica. One of them is Vinko, a disabled man whose psyche is slowly decaying with paranoia, PTSD and physical pain. After he learns that his wife Jelka had befriended Klaus, a young and handsome German voulonteer, his mind begins to spiral further into darkness.

Based on novel by M. Cihlar Nehajev, this TV drama testifies the position of intellectuals before the First World War. It raises several questions: what is the price of intellectual work, what’s the position of inteligentsia in the Croatian province, and what’s their role in the political movements.

Zagreb, 1945. The communist partisans emerge victorious in the Balkan branch of the the conflicts that made up The Second World War. With vengeance in their hearts, they force the remaining soldiers of the Axis Power-adjacent ustaše and the Croatian Home Guard and force them in a march towards the Bleiburg field in Austria, leaving them without food or water and in a constant cycle of walking for days on end.

A pharmacist travels from the island to the usual medical treatment at hospital in Zagreb. He's followed by low-ranked regime official whose conduct reveals all the misery that arises between people living in totalitarian systems.

Zagreb, Yugoslavia in 1890. A group of high-school students run away on an adventure that ends in scandal. The ringleader, Gusta, is expelled from school and sent to stay with his uncle in rural Turopolje. Here, a totally new world opens up to him, where the internal tragedies of the people are played out against the castle of Brezovica and a small town of wooden-framed houses. People end up in this idyllic exile because of some previous "sin" and try then to make the best of their lives there. But memories of the outside world impinge on their happiness.

During the early days of the Croatian War of Independance, Hela Martinić sought shelter as a refugee in Australia. However, after learning about the mysterious circumstances surrounding the recent activities of her old friend Vera Kralj, she decides to return to Zagreb and try and solve the case for herself, as everyone else is too busy wondering about their safety and other wartime anxieties. However, upon further investigation, she discovers that Vera is now involved in the workings of a secret separatist organization, that steals organs from wounded Croatian veterans.

Musicologist and professor Kosor wakes up in a hospital. He has survived a serious car accident. In a bed next to his lies the amiable economist Gajski, whose wife Melita regularly visits him. This unusually beautiful woman is the first person that Kosor sees after he gains consciousness and is completely enchanted by her. Kosor becomes obsessed by Melita’s physical beauty and her trustworthy character and begins a risky game of writing and sending her anonymous love letters…

A married couple of intellectuals, who have reached their third age, are not ready to get involved and accept the cruel rules that life imposes on them...

A 1988 Serbo-Croatian language drama film written and directed by Eduard Galić, starring Miljenko Brlecic, Željko Duvnjak and Špiro Guberina.

Deals with the father-son conflict in a farming family. The two never see eye to eye especially over the way the farm is run. The boy opts for a different way of life and also falls in love with a dumb girl to the horror of his family.

Melkior Tresic is one of many intellectuals in 1941 Zagreb who is helplessly waiting for the encroaching war.

After a twenty-year absence, psychiatrist returns to his hometown, where a meeting with old acquaintances and a former love will lead him to a life-threatening situation.

A young family from the province moves into the ground floor of a quiet building in Zagreb and with their lifestyle and behavior disrupts the idyllic atmosphere that reigned in that neighborhood until then. All attempts by the natives to bring them into order are unsuccessful, so they hatch a conspiracy. But their revenge will have serious consequences...

Television adaptation of the play "The Ballad of Petrica Kerempuh", based on the famous collection of Kajkavian songs by Miroslav Krleža.

In order to save her marriage, Marija tries to erase from memory the trauma that she's been haunted by ever since youth. The shock she had suffered killed all the love she felt for Dinko. When she meets him again, now that he has become a hopeless drunkard, she feels lost even more.

Based on the memoirs of Irena Vrkljan. Through reminiscences of Mala and her sisters, we meet her family and her contemporary intellectual elite.

After serving the prison time, a man turns for help to his friend who is in a high position. But the friendship that once bound them becomes a burden for the high-positioned man.

After Italian capitulation in WW2, German forces are rushing to take control of the Dalmatian coast, forcing thousands of people to take refuge. One partisan boat, filled with refugees, tries to reach a safe area, but because of a storm it must stop near a small island. While the crew tries to repair it, a German gunboat comes from nearby.

A wife comes to a construction site to find her husband, who does not want to see her. She finds a job there and makes a male friend. Tragedy is in the air due to his jealousy, instigated by the ridicule of his co-workers.

The first story is about the wife and the daughter of a sailor, and various ties that connect him to the people in his homeland. The second story takes place on a ship that has just been delivered to the cutting room where the old sailor and his faithful dog are.

Stressful life of a journalist in the former Yugoslavia.

A story about life adversities of an old emigrant who returns from America to his native village.