Praise to the Hand

Short fiction film about a practical joke played on an unsuspecting victim, on a summer day in Split.

The manager of an export-import company meets a young girl who claims that her parents have been taken their house away after WW2. After finding out this to be true, he offers to marry her which she accepts. However, it turns out that the house needs thorough restoration. Since his salary is not enough to cover its massive expenses, he puts his honesty on test.

After a hard day's work in the factory a woman spends her evening at home, lonely and full of desire.

Survivors of the Jasenovac WW2 Concentration Camp gather to commemorate the first memorial service and the unveilment of the flower monument.

A Croatian guest worker who worked in Germany for many years, builds a house and a workshop for his 20 year old son back in their country of origin. However the son plans to marry his German girlfriend, and doesn't even think of returning to their land.

Encouraged by the stories of guest workers who pay visit to their homeland, a young man Filip finds himself on a central station in Frankfurt on the Main, Germany. While looking for his old friend Mate who would help him to get around in new environment, Filip experiences one trouble after another until he finally finds Mate lethally wounded.

Zoran is a graduate student of psychology and she gets a motorcycle as a present from his father. Being an unskilled driver, he stumbles upon a girl Biba and she breaks her leg. To prevent a possible lawsuit, he visits her in the hospital. They continue to see each other, and soon fall in love. Biba is a girl from suburban shanty, while Zoran comes from a well-to-do family, and his parents refuse to accept the girl. Young couple gets married and lives temporarily in Biba's home, where they drove out Biba's brother, a petty criminal. While looking for a new apartment, the marriage breaks down. Zoran shines at his exam with thesis on "People from socially broken families", while Biba gives birth to their child in the hospital.

A young female student of music finds herself in a Dalmatian town in order to practice organo playing in the local church, and there she falls in love with a timid young man who helps her with it.

Film is based on imaginary correspondence between Dragutin Trumbetaš and genius painter Van Gogh by pictures-letters in which Trumbetaš identified with a famous, unhappy and misunderstood artist. Film is a story of two artist, two faiths, but also a visual story on Trumbetaš' Turopolje and Posavina on one hand, and Van Gogh's Netherlands, Provence and Ille de France on the other.