"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.
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...
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.
Benign demon deeply disappointed with his life in hell and drunkard father one day decides to leave his home.
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.
As years and years go by, a tiny civilization makes its way upwards.
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.
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.
Best friends chicks lived a quiet life in the henhouse all until one day they decided to separate them.
Through sightseeing of the city of Zagreb with a foreigner, Ema confronts the good and bad things of her city. Through her and the tourist's eyes, we get to know the city like any other, the desire for always something better and the feeling of home.
Communication is lacking. This can be felt, just like the things that can never be truly spoken. But lack does not mean a black hole, it is a space that fills itself.
A small raccoon is happily decorating his den. Without any worries, he goes to sleep. The next day a lumberjack suddenly appears and destroys the den that the raccoon loves so much.
Stinky is born from a flower in the middle of The Dark Forest. He explores it, growing in the process. When faced with the responsibility of caring for another creature, he comes to terms with the fact that there is more to the forest than just fun and whimsy.
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.
A young sailor steps onto a ship for the first time. He and his roommate are the only newcomers in the established ship crew. Their daily routine is interrupted when his roommate falls into the sea. With no one else coming to help, the young sailor manages to rescue his roommate on his own. In the night, the roommate begins to suffocate grotesquely, and, despite all the young sailor's efforts, he dies.
Singing skeletons dream about breaking free from their geometric formation and taking a swim in the great, big, blue sea.
A fish is in a therapy session with a psychiatrist, complaining about its problems, but the psychiatrist is not taking it seriously and is making fun of it instead.
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.
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.
