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Thursday morning, Jerusalem. Nira goes to work. Ahmad in London does the same, Ralf in Cologne and a priest in Prague too. Matija, Croat, goes to work as well. Ok, he doesn't, but he acts as if he does. Ahmad is taking his routine red bus journey. Out-of-breath young man comes in and interrupts it. Schoolteacher Nira is also interrupted - her pupil jumps out and performs a love rap song he wrote for her. The priest in Prague doesn't feel like singing today, he is in the mood for (over)sleeping instead. Someone falls asleep, someone else - Ralf - falls in love. All five mentioned above are listening to the top-news about the disappearance of bees. And trying their best, each one of them in his or her own 'hive': Zagreb, Jerusalem, London, Cologne, Prague...

Benign demon deeply disappointed with his life in hell and drunkard father one day decides to leave his home.

Pig, in the countryside, gets slaughtered by two butchers. After he wakes up in his room, in his bed, he realizes that it was just a dream. On his way to work, Pig notices the butcher from his dream, who starts haunting him.

"Dancing on the Grave" shows an unusual family. The characters are at the mercy of each other. Lucana (25) competes with her brother Stjepko (30) to win their mother's affection. Lucana has no chance of winning because she cannot change what's between her legs.

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

In the distant future, survivors in special groups on a post-apocalyptic, epidemic-ravaged Earth are tasked with finding signs of life, but are forced to leave after The Technology Unit discovered two dead bodies in a bath.

A look at the life on the Mediterranean borders of Europe, where tourists try to relax while "illegal" immigrants struggle for a chance of a better life. Breaking out of a strictly confined tourist zone, two Swiss children experience quickly that reality here has very little to do with the posh life in their camping site. A storm hits the shore and washes away almost all distinctions between the rich and the poor.

Through life each person needs to deal with certain obligations and responsibilities. While most people only feel discomfort, others experience anxiety over performing even the simplest tasks wrongly.

A short opera inspired by Aesop's fable The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle.

A story that follows two young people who find themselves at a bus station at 2 o'clock in the morning. The young woman Alisa is suspicious and unwilling to engage with the young man, Erik. Slowly, they start a superficial conversation, through which their memories emerge, offering us an insight into their problems.

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.

I wake up from a dream with an intense feeling that stays with me all morning and through the day. In the process of waking up, I recall situations, dialogues, and emotions from the dream, occasionally struggling to distinguish dreams from reality. The animated film represents one such dream that I wrote down. The dream follows a girl who possesses the ability to transform from human into an animal form, a cat. On her journey, she suffers a witch's curse and intense emotions of anger, sadness, and rage which impact her transformations.

On his travels, Malik accidentally feeds an insatiable puddle.

While driving down a forest road, a man and a woman in a car confront a beast that triggers basic instincts in both of them. In one an immense animalistic, predatory instinct, and in the other a boundless survival instinct. All of this takes place under the watchful eye of an unusual, seemingly harmless observer.

A young man experiences other people’s lives and emotions. Unable to find his own self, he visits a psychiatrist who immediately diagnoses the problem. It can be resolved in ten steps, with the help of a cassette player. As the metronome sounds the start of the treatment, the patient is launched deep into his own subconscious.

In a peaceful, impenetrable forest, a mother and son live harmoniously until one day a mysterious snake enters their lives and disrupts their peace. The snake transforms into a beautiful maiden and seduces the foolish son, who loses all sense for her. The mother heads into the forest in search of the forest god Stribor to plead to him for help. However, when she finally finds him, things take an unexpected turn, and the mother must gather all her courage and strength to save her son. This merry interpretation of Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić's story plays with tradition and reshapes the original tale with a dark, yet humorous twist.

A man and a woman, as the two protagonists of the story, meet in a cold and colorless world and come together through sporadic encounters that very quickly turn into a lovely dance of color.

Klobučar's world was destroyed in a catastrophic event. There is desolation where once was his home. Where once life thrived, there are only remains in the now empty, misty valleys. In his loneliness, Klobučar creates his 'imaginary friend' from old socks. He chances upon Kondukter, whose worldview will be completely challenged by Klobučar. A misunderstanding involving a shiny sock that once belonged to the Kondukter's daughter will confront them with the trauma of the catastrophe that changed their lives.

Exhausted by her monotonous everyday routine, young Tufna decides to end her life. As she prepares the noose in her room, the world around her turns distorted and strange.

We follow Emma, a young painter with a desire to create, through the process of facing her feelings of frustration, hopelessness, inspiration, excitement and, finally, pleasure. In the process, she dives into her imagination, a place she wishes to reach with her art.