Directing

Vinko Brešan

Born 1964-02-03 · Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia (now Zagreb, Croatia)

Acting credits

The Priest's Children poster
6.5

Don Fabijan is a young priest who comes to serve on an unnamed small island in the Adriatic. In order to help increase birth rate on the island, he decides to pierce condoms before they are sold. He therefore teams up with the newsagent Petar and the pharmacist Marin. After they abolish all forms of birth control on the entire island, the consequences become more and more complicated.

The Priest's Children

2013

Every Time We Part poster
10.0

In Autumn of 1991, a Croatian soldier looses his wife and home to Serbian forces. Panicked, he grabs his daughter and, with nowhere else left to go, they leave for Zagreb, hoping to find shelter there. But, it turns out the streets of the war torn capitol are not much more safe nor pleasant than the village they had to leave behind.

Every Time We Part

1997

How the War Started on My Island poster
6.3

At the beginning of 1991, Yugoslav army did not acknowledge Croatian's independence, and still holding few military barracks in Croatia. Gajski travels to an island to get his son out of the army. Locals have besieged the barracks and organized a festival to try with singing and recitals to get major Aleksa and his soldiers to surrender, but Aleksa has explosives thru the barracks and wants to blow up the island.

How the War Started on My Island

1997

God Forbid a Worse Thing Should Happen poster
7.0

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.

God Forbid a Worse Thing Should Happen

2002

At the Station in Pula poster
10.0

This documentary interviews the singer Djordje Balasevic, his fans and some ex-Yugoslav celebrities before his concert of in Pula Arena on June 6, 2001.

At the Station in Pula

2001

Behind the camera

Marshal Tito's Spirit poster
7.6

Stipan 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. Written by Anonymous

Marshal Tito's Spirit

1999

Marshal Tito's Spirit poster
7.6

Stipan 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. Written by Anonymous

Marshal Tito's Spirit

1999

No artwork available
NR

After a violent car crash, a succsesful musician begins to rethink his life choices and rediscover personal meaning. However, his transformation may not just be exclusively spiritual.

Pictoman

2026

Asparagus Bear poster
NR

The residents of a quiet Mediterranean town are thrown into speculation overdrive with the unusual appearance of a bear in the midst of asparagus season.

Asparagus Bear

2025

No artwork available
NR

Since 2024, on central squares in many towns and cities across Croatia, groups of primarily elderly and middle-aged men calling themselves 'The Knights of the Immaculate Heart of Mary', gather together in communal prayer and advocating for Christian values, the importance of the patriarchy and enforcing limitations of women's rights, treating these squares as their own personal battlefield, upon which women have no place. Through the documentations of the reactions of law enforcement officials, ordinary passerbys and the 'Knights' themselves, as well as the defiant pieces of multimedia artist Arijana Lekić, Holy Defiance creates a vivid, lively, energetic and varied portrait of women's rights in post-war Croatia.

Holy Defiance

2026

Wake Me Up poster
NR

A boy wakes up in the unknown place and starts searching for his home. When he finally finds it, the things are not as they seem to be.

Wake Me Up

2015

Sweet Dreams poster
NR

The coincidental meeting of a house hamster and a pair of squirrels which leads them, like destiny, all the way to their dreams.

Sweet Dreams

2015

The Priest's Children poster
6.5

Don Fabijan is a young priest who comes to serve on an unnamed small island in the Adriatic. In order to help increase birth rate on the island, he decides to pierce condoms before they are sold. He therefore teams up with the newsagent Petar and the pharmacist Marin. After they abolish all forms of birth control on the entire island, the consequences become more and more complicated.

The Priest's Children

2013

The Priest's Children poster
6.5

Don Fabijan is a young priest who comes to serve on an unnamed small island in the Adriatic. In order to help increase birth rate on the island, he decides to pierce condoms before they are sold. He therefore teams up with the newsagent Petar and the pharmacist Marin. After they abolish all forms of birth control on the entire island, the consequences become more and more complicated.

The Priest's Children

2013

The Priest's Children poster
6.5

Don Fabijan is a young priest who comes to serve on an unnamed small island in the Adriatic. In order to help increase birth rate on the island, he decides to pierce condoms before they are sold. He therefore teams up with the newsagent Petar and the pharmacist Marin. After they abolish all forms of birth control on the entire island, the consequences become more and more complicated.

The Priest's Children

2013

Hidden Talent poster
NR

It will take a lot more than a lack of talent to stop an ambitious kitten’s dream of joining in the songs of Feline City.

Hidden Talent

2014

Past Is Growing poster
NR

The past, the present, a change of perception. What is it that keeps us from going forward and why does the past keep pulling us back? When do we realize that our perception of things has shifted? Everyone goes through that process. What differs is how we experience and deal with it.

Past Is Growing

2018

No artwork available
NR

A simple story that takes on the meaning of the search for identity and illustrates its formatting.

Snail the Painter

2018

No artwork available
NR

In the far flung future, several humanoid creatures live in a city constructed from the remenants of civilizations of generations past. However, plagued by internal struggles and fears, a group of them decides to leave the mortal world behind and venture out into a mystical underworld only spoken about in hushed whispers, belieiving that it might geniunely be the source of their salvation.

Strive

2026

Our Problems poster
NR

Our Problems is a short animated film about the importance of everyday pleasures, difficulties and issues from the protagonist's point of view, and their relative immateriality compared to the WHOLE UNIVERSE. The greatest problem in the world is the greatest only in this world and no matter how big and important we think it is, the rest of the universe is oblivious of it.

Our Problems

2017

It Will Not End poster
6.7

Djuro is a Romany, he has a large, happy family, and earns a living appearing in Serbian porn films. And it's through his sarcastic perspective that we follow the story of the Croatian war veteran Martin. He falls in love with a beautiful girl who plays Little Red Riding Hood in a porn version of the fairy tale. She is also a prostitute. To be with her, Martin has to buy her from her pimp. A tragicomic story of love in a world where it seems all human values are put up for sale or destined for cynical destruction

It Will Not End

2008

It Will Not End poster
6.7

Djuro is a Romany, he has a large, happy family, and earns a living appearing in Serbian porn films. And it's through his sarcastic perspective that we follow the story of the Croatian war veteran Martin. He falls in love with a beautiful girl who plays Little Red Riding Hood in a porn version of the fairy tale. She is also a prostitute. To be with her, Martin has to buy her from her pimp. A tragicomic story of love in a world where it seems all human values are put up for sale or destined for cynical destruction

It Will Not End

2008

No artwork available
NR

A biopic centered on the life of one of the most recognizable and iconic Croatian musicians of all time, Mišo Kovač. Plot details TBA.

Misho

How the War Started on My Island poster
6.3

At the beginning of 1991, Yugoslav army did not acknowledge Croatian's independence, and still holding few military barracks in Croatia. Gajski travels to an island to get his son out of the army. Locals have besieged the barracks and organized a festival to try with singing and recitals to get major Aleksa and his soldiers to surrender, but Aleksa has explosives thru the barracks and wants to blow up the island.

How the War Started on My Island

1997

How the War Started on My Island poster
6.3

At the beginning of 1991, Yugoslav army did not acknowledge Croatian's independence, and still holding few military barracks in Croatia. Gajski travels to an island to get his son out of the army. Locals have besieged the barracks and organized a festival to try with singing and recitals to get major Aleksa and his soldiers to surrender, but Aleksa has explosives thru the barracks and wants to blow up the island.

How the War Started on My Island

1997

From Under Which Rock Did They Crawl Out poster
NR

Striking black-and-white animation traces the expansion of creatures from land, sea, and air. A film premiering at Klik Animated Film Festival.

From Under Which Rock Did They Crawl Out

2018

Hedgehog Spikiney poster
4.0

Spikiney is a hardworking and selfless hedgehog who runs a soup kitchen for his community. One winter night the food vanishes, endangering their existence.

Hedgehog Spikiney

2020

Dry Season Fruits poster
NR

A satirical view on human weaknesses and deviations, glimpsed through the prism of a couple’s marital crisis. The film also serves as a commentary on current issues concerning endangered fauna, climate change, and racism.

Dry Season Fruits

2021

The Stranger in My Head poster
6.0

Every person we know, love and live with carries a stranger in their head. And they know we do too.

The Stranger in My Head

2017