Nenad Puhovski

Love has probably never been so commercialized and falsely portrayed as today. It became a commodity that everybody can afford. However, very often the real picture is something completely different.This film tells about this different picture.The film "Together" tells about love relationships that encounter difficulties. Those are real difficulties that test not only the relationship but very often also the destinies of the persons involved.

Planes, tanks, bombs, assault rifles, media and propaganda – they were all weapons used in the Homeland War. However, it was the songs that were were louder than everything else. Some used them to describe the nightmare around them, others manifested their political loyalty. The national television and radio considered songs an important means of political “struggle”, so they commissioned, financed, recorded and aired them intensively. Even some twenty years after these events, the wartime soundtrack still draws attention and triggers emotions.

How do the children affect the feelings and opinions, as well as the relationship between Silvestar and his wife? How does he affect each child? Do children change him? Does each of them do it differently?

We begin with a fragmented portrait of Činča, between the stories she tells and the thoughts of those surrounding her. In The Head, a girl is confronted with the possibility of dying. Intermezzo focusses on the moments of abstraction amid the hustle and bustle of a city. In Our Stock Exchange, unemployed people seek work. Second Floor, Basement shows us a hospital where only two floors separate birth and death.

An intimate story about the author's search for her brother who went missing in action during war in Croatia in 1991. In a way, the film is a follow-up of the author's grandmother whose husband was killed in World War II. For the rest of her life the grandmother was awaiting his return. The Boy Who Rushed won numerous national and international awards, including the annual Vladimir Nazor Award for Film. It was shown at more than twenty international festivals. In 2001, it was Croatian candidate for Oscar for Best Documentary Film. The Boy Who Rushed is one of the best and most awarded Croatian documentaries in the past two decades.

Well-known Croatian author Pero Kvesić, who has been struggling with a severe lung disease, documents his death from his own point of view. Recording his everyday struggle, the picture resembles a peculiar blog filled with self-irony and witty comments about life and death. Although the world around continues to shrink, the hero and the director in one does not cease to fill it with sense.

Combining the style of a documentary essay and stop motion animation, and inspired by the short story "Palle Alone in the World", Puhovski shows the fantastic, but also terrifying world of Miroslav Šutej's "mobiles". In that world where there are no people, "mobiles" move independently and have their own life, parallel to the life of people, who, due to the different dimensions they live in compared to "mobiles", simply do not notice them.

The plot depicts lives of several young people from Zagreb from the perspective of a girl carrying a “god of the play” doll.