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The Balkans in Focus
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Fin People
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.
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Bark
Branislav Milatović
fic2023
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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Upon Sunrise
Stefan Ivancic
fic2025
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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Tarik
Adem Tutic
fic2025
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.
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Shallow Ground
Jozo Schmuch
fic2025
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.
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