Filip Šovagović

For the first time in his life, Miro (40) spends the night with a prostitute someone sent to him in a hotel after a business.

A story about a forbidden love set in a village threatened by swollen rivers. Upon his return home for his father’s funeral, Slaven revives his relationship with his childhood friend, a young sportsman named Marko, his teenage love, and the reason his father kicked him out of the house. Now tempted to reunite, they need to make peace with their own decisions and struggle against the family restraints.

An aspiring journalist in Communist Yugoslavia, sets out on a journey to investigate a brutal murder in rural countryside.

After their mother's funeral, estranged siblings Nikola and Saša spend three days in their childhood home, clearing out their mother's belongings and preparing the house for sale. Trying to postpone the inevitable, they also try to clean up their relationship. Failing to communicate as adults, they regress into childhood…

Anica (60) resists her ongoing chemotherapy while perceiving her daughter’s care as an assault on her dignity. Vlatko (60) is an alcoholic and a loner, completely written off by his work colleagues. Filled with mutual contempt, Anica and Vlatko separated long ago and seemingly no longer communicate. On their drawn-out paths toward oblivion, they search for an ally who will hear their desperate cry for the will to live.

A film about peripheral theatre called Bagatella.

Famous inspector Martin looses his secret package in a strange plane accident over a small meadow. In his quest, he encounters many colorful characters.

Life Is a Trumpet has a loose jazz musician as the groom, a butcher as his father, and two families of different backgrounds whose members are not as different as one might expect.

Siniša Mesjak, an arrogant and ambitious politician on the rise, finds himself in the middle of a scandal. To hide him from the public, the president appoints him as the commissioner of Croatian government on the furthest settled island Trečić, where he is tasked with the organization of local elections. The previous seven commissioners haven't succeeded.

One film made by 15 directors, Each one, after seeing the last minute of the previous one.

Two soldiers from opposite sides get stuck between the front lines in the same trench. The UN is asked to free them and both sides agree on a ceasefire, but will they stick to it?

The destiny unites two homeless men in the S.O.S. canteen. A failed actor and lost poet begin telling each other the key events from their lives. After an extraordinary twist we become aware that the two men are popular and will participate in a film experiment on the Moon.

A young woman hires two hitmen to kill her deceased husband's illegitimate son in order to secure her inheritance.

When Petar's marriage and family life fall apart due to his innability to separate professional and personal life, he decides to take a journey of self-discovery and takes on a job of driving a van full of humanitarian aid from Zagreb to Dubrovnik, meeting two people who will change his life forever.

Crne Vode, Western Bosnia, 1993. Whilst being cornered on all sides by Serbian and Bosniak forces, a small squad of Croatian soldiers stars experiancing strange phenomena in the form of spectral apparitions from the past, not realizing that, fifty years prior, a squadron of the Croatian pro-nazi milita had an equally mysterious experiance on the same spot.

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.

Sasa is an unsuccessful writer who works as a restaurant critic. His life starts to change when he meets and falls in love with Ines who works in a private sports center. However, things get complicated when he writes a bad review for the restaurant owned by a well-connected man. To get his life in order, Sasa has to face up to all of his character flaws.

In a fictional dystopian country where both the police and the politicians are controlled by a shadowy criminal organization, a famous writer, joined by the leader of an underground resistance movement, embarks on an investigation into the murder of his best friend, who was killed under suspicous circumstances.

After Antun reports his abusive PTSD ridden war veteran father to the police for the attempted murder of his mother, his life slowly turns into a living nightmare.

When two enemy sides exchange the captives in the middle of a minefield, a nameless man without identity and memory, subsequently named Jakov, leaves the column unnoticed and wanders around, wishing to minimize other people's sufferings. On his dangerous journey, he meets Lucija, a female soldier who runs an orphanage, a commander who got back from the Foreign Legion and runs a defense line from a discotechque, flies an old biplane into battle and meets a Serbian general who keeps Croatian POWs in an old factory.

A painter comes to the hospital for scanning, believed he has cancer. He carries a gun to shot himself just in case if it proves that he's right. When the results turn out to be negative, he's perplexed because it's actually life that is rigorous, and should he use his weapon anyway.

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.

A young woman joins forces with a bouncer and dives into the seedy underworld of Zagreb's brothels and night clubs in order to find her sister's killers.

Melita is a young, perky and plumpy pastry shop worker who spends her evenings avoiding social gatherings, watching Latin American telenovelas, putting up with the constant romantic rendez vous of her roommate Višnja and fantasizing about, one day, being in a happy relationship with a mysterious and exotic stranger. What she doesn't realize, however, is that she has a secret admirer, the pastry shop's delivery driver Janko.

After a brother and sister learn that their parents are getting divorced, they decide to take a road trip to stop them.

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.

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.

Eastern Croatian front, December 1991. Famed violinist Ivan Lesjak, his best friend and their travelling band perform for the exhausted soldiers on the frontlines. During one of these private concerts, the camp they're staying in is bombareded by Serbian forces. In the midst of the chaos, Ivan's best friend looses and arm and dies from his injuries soon after. Traumtized by what he saw, Ivan decides to leave the country and keep his parents company in their viennese apartment, however, the lights and crowds of the metropolis further increase his anxiety, until he meets Marina, another Croatian refugee who came to work in Austria as a nurse.

A 1996 Croatian language drama film directed by Eduard Galić, starring Vlasta Knezović, Ivo Gregurevic and Edo Perocevic.

Lovrinci, Eastern Croatia, 1991. Kuzma Glavan, a middle-aged carpenter struggling to provide for his sickly mother, starts a relationship with the much younger Ana Šokčević, a teacher at the village school. The parents of both parties object to this relationship, however, they persist and soon their whirlwind romance results in marriage. However, their seemingly idyllic family life is thwarted when the ethnic conflicts between Croats and Serbs in the area start growing violent.

The Croatian coast, 1914. Europe is in shambles and fear of the brewing military conflict of The Great War is slowly eating away at all facets of society. Fearing mobilization that had already cost the lives of many of his friends and aquaintances, a young man decides to flee to the United States and join many of his fellow townspeople in a recently established worker's colony in New York. However, upon arrival, he realizes that the only way to survive is for him to get involved with organized crime.

After returning from the Eastern Front to their small Croatian village as veterans of the First World War, Jovan Stanisavljević (nicknamed Čaruga) and his comrade known only as Mali join forces with the gang led by a local bandit and communist revolutionary Boža The Red. After Boža is brutally murdered by law enforcement officials, Čaruga takes over as the gang's leader, turning them into a bloodthirsty troop that won't take no for an answer.

Old woman was taken by her son to live in the big city. She finds adapting difficult and longs for return home.

Janko's life seemed to be in order. He had a great job and was in a steady relationship with his comissioner's daughter, whom he decided to leave after he falls for a pickopocket named Nana. However, even that relationship can't seem to fullfill his desires, so he starts a steamy affair with Marta Štajner, the widow of wealthy wartime-era crime lord Dragutin Karl Štajner. Wanting to impress his new fling, Janko decides to abuse his position as a police officer and starts getting further into criminal territory, but, he quickly gets in way over his head.

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.

After spending 13 years in prison, forty-year-old Đuka Begović returns to his ancestral home in Slavonia. He makes a promise to his mother that he will begin a new and honest life. He finds new meaning in taking care of his daughter Smilja. He tries to chase away destructive thoughts that threaten to overwhelm him by throwing himself into hard work. However, everything around him reminds him of his past and his family's tragic destiny. His family was wealthy at the beginning of the twentieth century, but was destroyed by the capitalist powers that took over the villages and broke the traditional family cooperatives.

February 1908. Unhappy with the education provided to him in Munich, Croatian artist Josip Račić moves to Paris, where he finds accomodation in a rather cheap hotel. There he meets the cabaret singer Mary and a slew of other strange individuals, creating a palette of experiances that he then transforms into unique paintings.

In the midst of the rising political tensions of the former Yugoslavia, a young man stumbles across evidence that might prove that his grandfather, who had been labled as an enemy of the state and sentenced to a prison camp, was actually been innocent all along.

In 15th century Croatia, a young farmhand named Mor patiently awaits the coming of spring, not only because of his love for nature, but also because Šu, the daughter of his master that he's been in love since their childhood, will finally return home after a long journey across Europe. However, soon after her arrival, he's informed that Šu had been forced into an arranged marriage with a young nobleman named Arno. Pained by grief, Mor begins to close himself off from the world, however, his curse begins to slowly transform him into something else.

The story begins in a small rural village in Ladimirevci, Eastern Croatia in 1943, where a land owner Sima is helping the Partisan Movement and the official Ustasha regime in order to save the life of his son Beneš, who is enlisted in the German army. Sima doesn't want to let his son fight for the wrong side any more, and doesn't want to give him to the Partisans either, so he hides him in his attic for the time being. The story is interwoven with episodes of Sima trying to muster a beautiful stallion - Sokol - who only answers to his son Beneš and clearly doesn't like his old man.

Two young bright university graduates start a brilliant career of gangsters.

Three prisoners, Combe from Rijeka, Menso from Bosnia, and Bogart from Belgrade, escape from prison. Their final destination is the city of their dreams - Hamburg. They temporarily part ways and agree to meet at the train station in Zagreb. First, each of them goes to his hometown. From there on, we follow three separate stories. In the first, Combe, in the shady harbor district of Rijeka, tries to get back at his former crime partner, Mrvi, who turned him in to the police. In the second story, we witness Mensa's relationship with his wife Riza and their children in a small Bosnian village. The third story depicts Bogart's love affair with a young teacher in a Belgrade suburb. Afterwards, at the train station in Zagreb, Bogart finds out from the newspaper that the police caught his friends. At the last minute, he changes the original plan.

In this politically charged drama, the turbulent times just following Marshal Tito's rejection of ties to Moscow comes to life. Interestingly, even in the first few years after the Yugoslavian leader's death, the subject matter of this film was considered too hot to handle, and the director had to appeal to the courts for permission to shoot it. In the story, Martin is a schoolboy with a sense of the absurd and a willingness to use ridicule to amuse himself and his classmates. He has an uncle who is high up in the nation's bureaucracy who protects him and his grandfather now that his father has died. His grandfather is too stubborn to give his farm to the local farming collective, and Martin himself is in hot water with the principal for making fun of his girlfriend, one of the students at the high school. However, as long as the uncle is able to protect them, they remain out of hot water.

Franjo's mid-life crisis isn't made any easier by the recent passing of his best friend and a terrible divorce. Being unable to cope with this in a mature way, he slips into alcoholism, trapping himself in an endless loop of his own making.

Goran's everyday life alternates between taking care of his mother and watching over his two maturing sons. Whilst having a few chaotic moments, its rather cyclical and calm in its own right. However, when his stubborn and eccentric older brother Marijan is forced by circumstances to move in with the already disfunctional family, the chaos they all found themselves in already becomes all the more apparent.

Daša, a succsesful entrepeneur, returns to Croatia to take care of her dying mother after years of working abroad, learning to value her family and take the wheel as the new head of the household.