Mira Banjac

This is a warm human story set between the two world wars in Leskovac, where a real miracle happens with an unusual set of circumstances and builds the history of that small place where great people live...

A comedy about divorce, Balkan style. Marko and Jelena are separating from their spouses so that they can get married. When they do, they realize that they made a mistake, so they meet secretly with their former companions.

For the young man who lives in Serbian province town, the maturing coincides with the turbulent political events of the year 1968.

In the opening stages of the Bosnian War, a small group of Serbian soldiers are trapped in a tunnel by a Muslim force.

Dealing with his customers with open heart, a car mechanic named Života goes through many adventures. Some are funny, some are sad, some reveal beauty and other human misery. In the end he gets tangled up himself, and not without bitterness he tries to change his ways, to become like his rival across the street which has adapted to modern times: strictly business. But, people who come to him need him just the way he is.

In the mountains of Montenegro people have lived by strict and Draconian laws for centuries, almost untouched by modern civilization. However, a young couple are going to seek their fortune on the more liberal coast and there they find jobs in the nudist colony. Hundreds of naked bodies and atmosphere of joie d'vivre make the husband and wife question their rigid way of life.

A 1980 Serbo-Croatian language short film directed by Dimitrije Jovanovic, starring Ljiljana Krstic, Branislav Jerinić and Radmila Andrić.

Mladen (44) Belgrade born, is a timeshare salesman at Montenegrin Holiday resort. He is having an affair with his colleague, Sonja (40), who is married to Metod (50) the chief sales manager who learns about his wife's infidelity. He assigns Mladen the toughest client - Omer, a Bosnian war veteran, who doesn't try to hide his aversion to Mladen. Everything becomes hopeless when Omer's three year old son Svendy falls over the edge of the hotel terrace and ends up in a hospital. Grim mood that prevails among the potential buyers is about to ruin the sales. Sonja and Metod blackmail Mladen to continue the sales at the hospital while Omer and his wife are waiting for their son's operation.

Growing up in 1960s Sarajevo, a young man comes of age under the shadow of his good, but ailing father, but is attracted by the world of small-time criminals. He's hired to hide a young prostitute, whom he falls in love with.

A community nurse Ema comes to work in a small village in the lowlands as a replacement, where she discovers the diary that her antecedent left behind, thus finding out more about the ill children she cured and the secrets of this sleepy settlement.

20 peoples paths crisscross one night in violent mid-'90s Belgrade.

A comedy in four acts by Branislav Nusic adapted for TV audience. First published in 1906, it tells about small town mentality.

A mother and her son live in the country. She has gone mad and the son has fallen mute as a result of the violence to which they had been exposed in the war.

The staff of elementary school prepare the retirement party for their cleaning woman. The complicated relations within the school will emerge to the surface on the same night.

Milica lives with her aging grandmother in the Serbian countryside. When Milica’s uncle arrives, he delivers the surprising news that they are departing for Germany and in order to cross the border, Milica must pretend to be his son. However, Milica is very resistant to the idea of leaving her grandmother.

Comedy about the life of a modern village family and many neighbors of theirs, dealing with Serbian mentality at the turn of the XXI century. Based on TV series of the same title.

Three different love stories, set in three consecutive decades, in two neighbouring Balkan villages burdened with a long history of inter-ethnic hatred: this is a film about the dangers – and the enduring strength – of forbidden love.

A story about acquaintance arranged via matrimonial ads in the newspapers. At the same time, it is a story about an attempt to marry and tragicomic ballad about the unusual end of a relationship that arose between the warehouseman Nidza and the potential bride Rada.

The action takes place in 1943 and today, and a Partisan school in Srem is in the center of action. A young journalist gets appointed to shoot a film report about the participants in the Liberation War from this area. In Srem village she meets common, simple people. She discovers that a free territory and a Partisan school was there. She also finds out that everybody acted as one. Deply going through all of those events, young reporter grows mature, identifying herself with the revolution participants.

Convinced that his subtenant is a spy and an enemy of the state, Ilija Čvorović falls into deep paranoia which leads to an absurd and destructive chain of events.

This WW2 epic was one of the last movies of that kind made in former Yugoslavia. It tells the true story of great transport of Partizans from Vojvodina to Bosnia in 1943.

April 1992. Members of a large family strewn around the former Yugoslavia gather around the death bed of their elderly matriarch. She is not well, but the forecast of a family doctor that her death is a matter of minutes away proves incorrect, so the waiting stretches out for days. Relatives start bickering, playing tricks and arguing over the inheritance to be left by the old woman, especially over her large family house in Sarajevo. Despite her deteriorating health, Grandma happily joins the fray. It appears as if that might be what is keeping her alive. Family feuds and intrigues directed against one of the sisters are more important to the family than the clear, terrifying signs of an approaching cataclysm. When the scheming is finally revealed, it is too late. A war has begun in Sarajevo.

In the Serbian drama "White, White World", the characters sing, but never dance. Formulated as a modern day Greek tragedy set in the decrepit eastern mining town of Bor, the movie follows a close group of alienated locals through misguided love affairs and other brash misdeeds. But the songs feature no choreography or other stylish methods of breaking the harsh, downtrodden tableaux.

A story about partly miserable lives of middle aged men and unfulfilled dreams of youth.

Two babies, Aleksa and Luka are switched at the hospital accidentally. Thirty years later, Aleksa is a rich and successful businessman while Luka is poor and barely gets by. When the nurse who switched the two of them tells them what she had done, their lives change completely.

Vruć vetar is one of the most popular Yugoslav TV miniseries that aired in 1980. The show and movie cut from scenes of the show were popular in neighboring countries-also very popular in Czechoslovakia. Its main theme became very popular and enjoying a bit of a cult status. The story follows Shurda, a man in his 30s, who comes from a small town to Belgrade to get rich. However, as no job is good enough for him, he tries his luck in Germany, but this venture proves to be the same, so he returns to his native Yugoslavia.

The story is about funny experiences of an illiterate and corrupted politician named Srećko Šojić, played by Milan Lane Gutović.

It follows the two lead characters, Svaba and Ekser, as they try to make a living on the streets of Belgrade through the life of petty crime. Making matters worse is the fact that Shvaba owes a lot of money to a local big-shot criminal. And just when things seem lost for the two men, Shvaba's mother inherits a house in Baranda - a village near Belgrade no one's ever heard of. As Shvaba and Ekser happily rush to Baranda, hoping to sell the house and solve all their problems, the villagers are equally happy to see them, thinking that two businessmen from Belgrade are finally taking an interest in their village...

The series "Advokado" follows the ups and downs of the main character Brane and his faithful companion Beli. At the center of the plot are their friendly and family relations as they try to find the meaning and peace in life.

The adventures of Paja and Jare, the two honest and good-natured truck drivers and partners in business. They meet various people while on the road, which mostly turns out bad for them, but at the end it's their friendship that saves the day.

Dealing with his customers with an open heart a car mechanic named Života goes through many adventures. Some are funny, some are sad, some reveal the beauty and other human misery. (Six episodes in total)

The comic adventures of a Montenegrin family that live in an isolated village high in the mountains, eternally waiting for their son to come back from his studies in Munich.

TV series made as an extended version of an eponymous feature film. A quintet of small-time crooks that works under disguise of a musical band become the supporters of Partisan resistance movement in WW2. Being forced to escape to another part of the occupied territory, they hide in "Marlene Saloon" forgetting that the bordellos of the kind are an ideal place for espionage during the war. They get more problems than peace and rest and the tragicomedy starts.

The action of this family play-documentary mini-series of four episodes is located in Niksic. The characters are middle class, intellectuals, unrealized and charming antians, parents and those who try to exercise as parents. Each episode is dedicated to one of the main characters, three women and one man. One of the main characters is Ana (42), a biochemist and single mother. Ana diagnosed her breast cancer himself.

A story about three teenagers rejected by their parents, who leave their reform school for a wild weekend. 11 episodes in total.

A village hospital employs pretty female doctor. Now even those who do not need any medical help start coming, just to see their beautiful and young doctor.