Dragan Despot

Through both personal and political conflicts, the film tells the story of emperor Diocletian's rise to power and his complicated place in ancient Rome's court politics.

Tomislav the First of the Croatian Trpimirović dynasty is a figure shrouded in mystery. Was he really Croatia's first king? Was his army as powerful, feared and strong in numbers as Byzantine sources from the time claim? How did he manage to unite continental Croatia and the coastal cities in Dalmatia? How big was his kingdom? And which parts of his story are fact and which are fiction?

Feature documentary film on the phenomenon of Uskoks of Senj, legendary corsairs and anti-Osman soldiers from 16th and 17th century.

Ilija is a member of the Croatian Defence Council (HVO) somewhere in Central Bosnia in late 1993. One morning, after a routine mine laying campaign, he learns his younger brother Goran was killed far beyond enemy lines, together with eight other soldiers. Through a friend from the secret service, he finds out the mission was an unofficial one and that Goran and the others were acting as mercenaries. Ilija begins to expose a network of illegal activity involving not only the military, but high-ranking officials. As the investigation becomes more dangerous, his original intention to find out the truth slowly turns into a pathological mission of vengeance.

Drama set in a small provincial town in post-war Croatia about 20 locals who try to understand why one of their neighbors killed himself.

This comedy of the absurd is set in the Nazi puppet Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during World War II. The hero, Ljiljan is a young peasant poet who joins the Partisan movement just before it falls apart, abandoned by its leader Tito. The last remaining hope for resisting Nazism is to assassinate Hitler. Ljiljan’s task is to write a song that will allow his Partisan band to infiltrate the inner sanctum of the SS – by entering an SS talent show. If they win the competition, they will be invited to perform before Hitler and the NDH’s high command. This is a satirical coming-of-age tale with a difference, capturing the craziness, comedy and horror of war in the Balkans.

A film about peripheral theatre called Bagatella.

Two childhood friends face adulthood in different ways. Life is still a game for them – girls, football, parties. But the choices they make will determine the course of their lives and put their friendship to the test. In the Balkans, every generation has their own reasons to leave. This is a story about a generation caught in the transition from socialism to capitalism, marked by a brutal war.

An obscure actor is hired by the police to get a confession out of a dying mafioso.

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.

After a series of unfortunate events, TV subscription collector Pero falls into a deep emotional crisis from which he cannot escape. His only goal is - spiritual peace and, if possible - revenge, deciding to blackmail the denizens of the small village of Pušća Bistra, seeing them as the sole culprits for his misfortune.

In the mid-18th century, the modern day border between Bosnia and Croatia, wasn't just a border between two countries. It was a border between two political powers,The Venetian Republic and the Ottoman Empire, and their respective religions, Christianity and Islam. But, in the midst of that passionate conflict between the East and the West, a romance blossoms between Ivan Revač, a young Croatian assasin working for a local aristocrat, and Leyla, the daughter of an Ottoman bey.

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.

Approximately a month prior to the death of the first Croatian president and in the wake of parliamentary elections in December 1999, Juraj Fran Krsto Križanić, a diplomat from the Croatian embassy in Paris is reported as missing. The case is taken over by special agent Gawain Skok, a PTSD-ridden war veteran, who believes that case might take away some of his trauma. However, over the course of the investigation, Skok starts recieving strange e-mails, seemingly sent to him from Križanić's account, which relate his disappearence to the recent murder of a young woman.

In the mid-1950s, an unnamed convict succsesfully manages to escape from the Goli Otok prison island, seeking shelter in a monastery on the nearby island of Rab and striking a kinship with one of the nuns in it. A few days later, an agent of the Yugoslav State Security Service arrives on the island, desperate to find the man's whereabouts. The nuns and the monks face a decision of their lifetime. Are they going to turn the wounded man they know nothing about to the authorities, or will they continue concealing him and risk their lives in the process?

Based on Krleza’s essay written in 1935 which warned about the rise of fascism and Nazism in pre-WWII Europe.

A trigger-happy police sergeant begins suspecting that his wife is having an affair, sending him into a fit of rampant fit of rage, jealousy and paranoia.

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

Ivan, a young Croatian autonomist whose brother left the country due to political persecution, falls in love with Marina, the duaghter of a staunch communist police chief. Their forbidden whirlwind romance takes place against the backdrop of early 1980s Zagreb's everchanging sociopolitical background following the death of Yugoslavia's president Josip Broz Tito.

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

Despite the ongoing WW2, most of the people were just minding their own business. But everything changes when police arrests the group of youths under suspicion of being resistance sympathizers. Outraged townsfolk organize the siege of police station.