The Balkans in Focus
10 films
Bark (Lavež)
dir. Branislav Milatović
fab2023
A man carries his son across a snow-covered wasteland in Montenegro. The boy is injured, and his father desperately tries to get him to safety, battling the freezing cold and his own limitations. A stark, hypnotic tale about parental love, which provides one with the strength to achieve the impossible.
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Blum - Masters of Their Own Destiny (Blum - Gospodari svoje budućnosti)
dir. Jasmila Žbanić
dok2025
Who was the man who, in post-war Sarajevo, created one of the most unique enterprises of his era? This documentary tells the story of Emerik Blum – a Holocaust survivor, visionary and architect of a bold economic experiment in which employees actively shaped the company’s development.
Read moreFin People (Plavutarji)
dir. Veronika Hozjan
anim2026
When the city suddenly begins to sink, its residents must make a quick choice of whether to flee or… grow fins. An elderly cobbler clings desperately to his old life, but his wife is becoming increasingly fascinated by the underwater world. A perverse, allegorical animation about change that not everyone is willing to keep up with.
Read moreFiume o Morte! (Fiume o morte!)
dir. Igor Bezinović
dok2025
In 1919, the Italian poet Gabriele D’Annunzio, together with a band of rebels, briefly seized control of the city of Fiume (today’s Rijeka). Over 100 years later, the locals revisit this story and re-enact events that resemble the theatre of the absurd rather than a chapter in European history.
Read moreHouse with a Voice
dir. Kristine Nrecaj, Birthe Templin
dok2024
For some women in Albania, freedom came when they became men. The burrnesha tradition granted them rights and privileges unavailable to women in a patriarchal society. Six female protagonists explain why they stepped into the roles of male representatives of their families.
Read moreShallow Ground (Rahlo)
dir. Jozo Schmuch
fab2025
When a son visits his now elderly mother after many years, the past and the present collide, as do two seemingly incompatible images: the country of a bygone era, engulfed in a tragic, fratricidal Balkan war, and modern-day Croatia, striving to build normal day-to-day existence.
Read moreTarik
dir. Adem Tutic
fab2025
This slow-paced narrative confronts us with Tarik’s disorientation as he navigates a toxic environment – caught between religious and ethnic prejudice, violent models of masculinity, and parents who are strangers to one another.
Read moreThe Lost Dream Team (Izgubljeni tim iz snova)
dir. Jure Pavlović
dok2025
A story of a legendary team torn apart by politics at the moment of triumph. In 1991, the Yugoslav national basketball team travelled to Rome to defend their European Champions’ title. At the same time, their country ceased to exist.
Read moreThe Mountain Won't Move
dir. Petra Seliskar
dok2025
High up in the mountains of Macedonia, five brothers grow up among a flock of sheep and shepherding dogs, far away from the world and the hustle of daily life. Living in harmony with nature, they spend their days working with animals. In this repetitive daily routine, the boys’ thoughts with increasing clarity keep drifting away to the world beyond the mountains.
Read moreUpon Sunrise (Kad svane)
dir. Stefan Ivancic
fab2025
Maria is raising her young son on her own. The burden of supporting the family seems to be more than she can bear, and quiet desperation pushes her to carry out a plan that is as peculiar as it is desperate: she begins selling eggs and milk from the supermarket as natural products, ‘straight from the farmer’.
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