Writing

Ognjen Sviličić

Known for

Writing

Credits

31 titles

Known for

Slovenian Girl poster
5.9

Aleksandra is a student from Krško, a small town in Slovenia. She has a plan to conquer the world. Working as a prostitute, her life is heading to where she wants it, but an accidental death has her wrestling with new feelings of fear, loneliness, confusion and responsibility

Slovenian Girl

2009

Father poster
7.6

Nikola’s children are taken away from him after social services decide that he is too poor to provide them with a decent living environment. He sets off on foot to lodge a complaint in Belgrade.

Father

2020

We Will Be the World Champions poster
3.6

The story about the founders of the famous "Yugoslav Basketball School" and the first gold medal at the Championships in Ljubljana in 1970, is based on real events and is dedicated to personalities who have contributed to the emergence and development of basketball in their country.

We Will Be the World Champions

2015

17 poster
5.0

Seventeen-year-old Sara is hiding a secret on a school trip. When the trip spirals out of control and Sara witnesses a classmate’s sexual assault, she and the girl seal a bond that will last forever.

17

2026

Zagreb Cappuccino poster
5.7

Zagreb Cappuccino is the story of two best friends, Petra and Kika. Both women are in their early forties. Petra, in Zagreb, is getting divorced, and Kika arrives from Cologne to console her. Kika, a cosmopolitan party girl, teaches Petra how to carry on with her life without a husband and a family. Over several cups of coffee and nights out we get to know their fears and problems, their solitude, insecurities and inner strength.

Zagreb Cappuccino

2014

The Voice poster
NR

Upon arriving at a Catholic boarding school, the boy feels an antipathy to the religious practices the school imposes. However, students and teachers find the boy rather strange and harass him.

The Voice

2019

Film credits

Behind the camera

Slovenian Girl poster
5.9

Aleksandra is a student from Krško, a small town in Slovenia. She has a plan to conquer the world. Working as a prostitute, her life is heading to where she wants it, but an accidental death has her wrestling with new feelings of fear, loneliness, confusion and responsibility

Slovenian Girl

2009

Father poster
7.6

Nikola’s children are taken away from him after social services decide that he is too poor to provide them with a decent living environment. He sets off on foot to lodge a complaint in Belgrade.

Father

2020

We Will Be the World Champions poster
3.6

The story about the founders of the famous "Yugoslav Basketball School" and the first gold medal at the Championships in Ljubljana in 1970, is based on real events and is dedicated to personalities who have contributed to the emergence and development of basketball in their country.

We Will Be the World Champions

2015

17 poster
5.0

Seventeen-year-old Sara is hiding a secret on a school trip. When the trip spirals out of control and Sara witnesses a classmate’s sexual assault, she and the girl seal a bond that will last forever.

17

2026

Zagreb Cappuccino poster
5.7

Zagreb Cappuccino is the story of two best friends, Petra and Kika. Both women are in their early forties. Petra, in Zagreb, is getting divorced, and Kika arrives from Cologne to console her. Kika, a cosmopolitan party girl, teaches Petra how to carry on with her life without a husband and a family. Over several cups of coffee and nights out we get to know their fears and problems, their solitude, insecurities and inner strength.

Zagreb Cappuccino

2014

The Voice poster
NR

Upon arriving at a Catholic boarding school, the boy feels an antipathy to the religious practices the school imposes. However, students and teachers find the boy rather strange and harass him.

The Voice

2019

The Voice poster
NR

Upon arriving at a Catholic boarding school, the boy feels an antipathy to the religious practices the school imposes. However, students and teachers find the boy rather strange and harass him.

The Voice

2019

Metastases poster
7.3

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.

Metastases

2009

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Maïssa

—

Sorry for Kung Fu poster
6.2

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.

Sorry for Kung Fu

2004

Sorry for Kung Fu poster
6.2

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.

Sorry for Kung Fu

2004

Our Father poster
NR

When Dejan, a drug addict, arrives at a remote monastery commune, he falls under Father Branko's harsh guidance. As Dejan becomes Branko's right-hand man, their bond is tested when the priest's violent methods spiral out of control.

Our Father

2025

What Iva Recorded poster
8.3

For her fourteenth birthday, Iva recieves a small digital camera, which she decides to use to document the occasion, recording a continous string of petty squables that become more absurd and agressive as the day turns into night.

What Iva Recorded

2005

Two Sunny Days poster
5.0

Peter and Martina are a tourist couple on a vacation on the Croatian coast. Both are successful and in their prime. However, the couple is going through a crisis. Both are frustrated and unsatisfied with their lives. They hope this vacation will help save their relationship. They both hope that this, long expected vacation will improve their relationship. They go on a mountain trip, and they get lost. Far from their usual comfort, confronted with the raw nature, they are left with no other option but to face one another...

Two Sunny Days

2010

Two Sunny Days poster
5.0

Peter and Martina are a tourist couple on a vacation on the Croatian coast. Both are successful and in their prime. However, the couple is going through a crisis. Both are frustrated and unsatisfied with their lives. They hope this vacation will help save their relationship. They both hope that this, long expected vacation will improve their relationship. They go on a mountain trip, and they get lost. Far from their usual comfort, confronted with the raw nature, they are left with no other option but to face one another...

Two Sunny Days

2010

Ante Returns Home poster
10.0

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

Ante Returns Home

2001

Ante Returns Home poster
10.0

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

Ante Returns Home

2001

These Are the Rules poster
5.2

After their son has been beaten up in the street, parents find their world of false security collapsing and have to re-examine their lives and question everything into what they believed.

These Are the Rules

2014

These Are the Rules poster
5.2

After their son has been beaten up in the street, parents find their world of false security collapsing and have to re-examine their lives and question everything into what they believed.

These Are the Rules

2014

I Wish I Were a Shark poster
5.6

Two young men from a village in the Dalmatian Hinterland come to Split in search of a good time, but, the whole city seems to be in shambles, with the residents progressively growing more and more insane.

I Wish I Were a Shark

1999

I Wish I Were a Shark poster
5.6

Two young men from a village in the Dalmatian Hinterland come to Split in search of a good time, but, the whole city seems to be in shambles, with the residents progressively growing more and more insane.

I Wish I Were a Shark

1999

Back to the Family poster
7.0

Upon hearing her beloved grandmother is dying, a young woman returns to rural Lithuania, where she must confront a past she’s tried to forget. Sharunas Bartas unflinchingly examines family fractures, capturing unspoken tensions and simmering resentments within a rural household isolated by geography and emotional distance.

Back to the Family

2025

Nightlife poster
5.8

The lives of a wealthy married couple radically change in an instant. While the husband is in critical condition after an accident that occurred under strange circumstances, the wife tries to understand the situation and to salvage what she can… In this constricted, small-scale drama by a renowned Slovenian filmmaker, Pia Zemljič excels in the role of the resourceful wife.

Nightlife

2015

Armin poster
7.0

Kind-hearted, but slightly possesive, Ibro, takes his quiet, epileptic son Amir on a journey from their small, backwards Bosnian village to Zagreb, so that the latter can partake in an audition for the role in a big-budget drama about the role of the German UNPROFOR soldiers during the events of The Bosnian War. Ibro's overprotectiveness and constant praise start annoying Amir, putting their relationship and the latter's ptoential future acting career on the line.

Armin

2007

Armin poster
7.0

Kind-hearted, but slightly possesive, Ibro, takes his quiet, epileptic son Amir on a journey from their small, backwards Bosnian village to Zagreb, so that the latter can partake in an audition for the role in a big-budget drama about the role of the German UNPROFOR soldiers during the events of The Bosnian War. Ibro's overprotectiveness and constant praise start annoying Amir, putting their relationship and the latter's ptoential future acting career on the line.

Armin

2007

The Melon Route poster
6.4

During an illegal immigrant smuggling operation on the Croatian-Bosnian border, war veteran and smuggler Mirko saves a seemingly nameless Chinese woman from drowning, bringing her into his home to help her recover. Over time, their relationship becomes closer and more personal and makes Mirko the target of Spider and Seki, two ruthless crime lords who run the human trafficking operations in the area.

The Melon Route

2006

The Miroslav Holding Co. poster
6.0

Miroslav, the owner of a failing copy store, decides to get rich, starting up a delivery firm for party alcohol supplies. Things seem to be going well until his partner, a music store owner named Frog, fixes him up with a continous supply chain ran by a con man named Šušnjar.

The Miroslav Holding Co.

2001

No artwork available
NR

Morana, a manager of a small coastal restaurant, enjoys her intense sexual relationship with a Serbian waiter. However, things take a drastic turn for the worst when she falls in love with the restaurant's owner.

Sauna

—

No artwork available
NR

Morana, a manager of a small coastal restaurant, enjoys her intense sexual relationship with a Serbian waiter. However, things take a drastic turn for the worst when she falls in love with the restaurant's owner.

Sauna

—

Half-Sister poster
8.5

Half-sisters from a small coastal town who were never that close are forced by circumstance to share a flat in Ljubljana.

Half-Sister

2019