Once Upon a Time in Serbia

Road movie documentary through half a century of filmography by Želimir Žilnik. But also a journey through the history of Yugoslavia, a country that no longer exists. With the specific style of docudrama that he built over the years, Zilnik managed to stay engaged and brave, but above all free, by making low-budget films for decades. We follow the efforts of his team to finish the film "Freedom or Comics", which was seized by censorship 50 years ago, and which was recently accidentally found. The story of an uninterrupted struggle for disenfranchised social and minority groups who are constantly the main heroes of Žilnik's films.

The search for truth of the 16 families of technicians killed in the April 23rd, 1999, NATO bombing of the Radio Television Serbia building.

Documentary about the crimes committed by Dušan Boljević who killed more than 50 of his Hungarian and Croat neighbors in the village of Bilje in Croatia during the reign of the so-called Republika Srpska Krajina. The story follows the trial for the slaying of 16 people.

While expecting the imminent end of their lives, an old couple leaves their large and beautiful home to a young married couple – their doctors, who live in a single room apartment with their two children. As the olds are getting stronger by the day, one of the four decides to “take care” of that.

Documentary by Janko Baljak.

A three-part anthology film. 1) AMSTERDAM: Jovke and his two friends try to make some quick cash before going off to army. At the same time, he tries to establish communication both with his catatonic father and the girl he likes. 2) TIE REQUIRED: While drudging at the docks with two inseparable friends of his, Neša is waiting for a waiter's job at the bar where his mother works. After not being allowed to a birthday party, the trio decides to look for fun somewhere else. 3) ABSOLUTE PITCH: An unemployed paleonthologist spends his nights sewing dresses for his beloved one. When she sets off to countryside for work and doesn't call back, he becomes suspicious and decides to solve this sudden departure on his own. The movie was nominated for a Student Academy Award in 1991.

Made in the form of an extended news report and narrated by journalist Dina Čolić-Anđelković, the film presents a snapshot of the chaotic Belgrade criminal underworld in the early 1990s which sprung up against the backdrop of Yugoslav wars. The film is composed of fragments from interviews with individuals directly involved with criminal activities either through perpetrating them or through trying to stop them.

Trade in drugs in Serbia (Balkan). Thirteen young people we spoke to, who are serving their sentences for this crime, are telling a story about the entrance into that vicious circle, and about how difficult is to find the way out of it.

In the year 2000, few workers spend their days on a mining site in silent desperation, planing a strike and lamenting over their lives and bleak future. A shop-girl who's husband just left her is also in the center of attention.

This film represents an effort to create a truthful story about everything that happened in Vukovar (Croatia) during the spring, summer and fall of 1991, as well as what happened before this time, shortly after the tragic event of 1991, and what the historical, societal and emotional consequences are, after years of pain, suffering and disappointment.

This film analyses in detail what the main cause for the collapse of the reforms; it speaks out about the “curse of the reformers” who are doomed to end up between a rock and a hard place caused by tensions in the society, political pressure, weak institutions…