Branko Ištvančić

A young boy is found delirious and frostbitten on a bridge in a small village nearby the Croatian-Hungarian border, claiming that he's had a supernatural encounter with a creature from local folklore in the nearby swamp. This incident splits the community in two; the superstitious civilians and the rational police officers and hunters who believe that the so-called "Ghost of the Swamp" is actually a poacher responsible for the recent local shortage of deer population. Witht the adults trapped in a seemingly unending stalemate, two tourists from Zagreb, Miron and Melita, alongside their best friend Liptus, decide to investigate the claims of the supernatural on their own.

Post-war Croatia, the late 1990s. After the conclusion of the war, the Croatian goverment offers the Serbian civilian refugees, a chance to return to their former homes, which have been serving as temporary residence for Bosnian Croats, who had to flee their homecountry due to the escalating Croat-Bosniak conflict. In the midst of ethnic tensions and unersolved conflicts, a police sergeant named Filip is assigned to investigate the disappearence of an elderly Serb from one of these villages.

The main protagonist, Dara, lives with her husband, Rade Mitrović, in the vicinity of Obrovac, an area of typical Croatian rocky ground. They are the last authentic people of the area. He carves in the old-fashioned way, while she takes her flock of sheep and goats to graze in a pasture at the time when there is possibility of her flock being attacked by hungry wolves. She is very skilled in leading the flock, her dogs, in a special way. By the dog's behavior she knows that wolves are approaching and it enables her to save the flock, which is far from an easy task. This film follows the main protagonist's efforts to track down a lost sheep. She does this with careful investigation of all the relevant tracks of the lost sheep and despite sacrificing the time to do her household chores. This poetical documentary about eternal fight between good and wrong makes human existence uniquely miraculous.

It depicts the daily lives of people whose job is to chase away cormorants that eat fish from a fish farm near Donji Miholjac, Croatia. Cormorants are protected by law and their nesting grounds are located across the border, in Hungary, which gives the protagonists’ efforts a Sisyphean, absurd.

During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Branko Ištvančić almost died and was put into a medically enduced coma that saved his life, but cost him many of his memories and even his identity. Through interviews with specialists who originally brought him back, friends and family members, personal writings, childhood photos and newly recovered home video materials, he ventures on a poetic and personal journey to regain control over his life and reconstruct his identity.

Nine short films are connected into one whole, and they describe life in Croatia's capital of Zagreb.

A young boy is found delirious and frostbitten on a bridge in a small village nearby the Croatian-Hungarian border, claiming that he's had a supernatural encounter with a creature from local folklore in the nearby swamp. This incident splits the community in two; the superstitious civilians and the rational police officers and hunters who believe that the so-called "Ghost of the Swamp" is actually a poacher responsible for the recent local shortage of deer population. Witht the adults trapped in a seemingly unending stalemate, two tourists from Zagreb, Miron and Melita, alongside their best friend Liptus, decide to investigate the claims of the supernatural on their own.

Post-war Croatia, the late 1990s. After the conclusion of the war, the Croatian goverment offers the Serbian civilian refugees, a chance to return to their former homes, which have been serving as temporary residence for Bosnian Croats, who had to flee their homecountry due to the escalating Croat-Bosniak conflict. In the midst of ethnic tensions and unersolved conflicts, a police sergeant named Filip is assigned to investigate the disappearence of an elderly Serb from one of these villages.

The main protagonist, Dara, lives with her husband, Rade Mitrović, in the vicinity of Obrovac, an area of typical Croatian rocky ground. They are the last authentic people of the area. He carves in the old-fashioned way, while she takes her flock of sheep and goats to graze in a pasture at the time when there is possibility of her flock being attacked by hungry wolves. She is very skilled in leading the flock, her dogs, in a special way. By the dog's behavior she knows that wolves are approaching and it enables her to save the flock, which is far from an easy task. This film follows the main protagonist's efforts to track down a lost sheep. She does this with careful investigation of all the relevant tracks of the lost sheep and despite sacrificing the time to do her household chores. This poetical documentary about eternal fight between good and wrong makes human existence uniquely miraculous.

It depicts the daily lives of people whose job is to chase away cormorants that eat fish from a fish farm near Donji Miholjac, Croatia. Cormorants are protected by law and their nesting grounds are located across the border, in Hungary, which gives the protagonists’ efforts a Sisyphean, absurd.

During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Branko Ištvančić almost died and was put into a medically enduced coma that saved his life, but cost him many of his memories and even his identity. Through interviews with specialists who originally brought him back, friends and family members, personal writings, childhood photos and newly recovered home video materials, he ventures on a poetic and personal journey to regain control over his life and reconstruct his identity.

During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Branko Ištvančić almost died and was put into a medically enduced coma that saved his life, but cost him many of his memories and even his identity. Through interviews with specialists who originally brought him back, friends and family members, personal writings, childhood photos and newly recovered home video materials, he ventures on a poetic and personal journey to regain control over his life and reconstruct his identity.

Nine short films are connected into one whole, and they describe life in Croatia's capital of Zagreb.

Shocking, intimate and moving documentary "Sve je bio dobar san" ("It Was All Just a Good Dream: the Frenchman from Vukovar") examines the events from the time of the war in Croatia and the arrival of the young French volunteer Jean-Michel Nicolier in Croatia.

Shocking, intimate and moving documentary "Sve je bio dobar san" ("It Was All Just a Good Dream: the Frenchman from Vukovar") examines the events from the time of the war in Croatia and the arrival of the young French volunteer Jean-Michel Nicolier in Croatia.