I Wish I Were a Shark

Ante is a village fella who arrives in Zagreb to study at the faculty of forestry.

A widower from Split arrives in Zagreb for a medical checkup and disrupts his son’s family everyday.

Half-sisters from a small coastal town who were never that close are forced by circumstance to share a flat in Ljubljana.

For her fourteenth birthday, Iva recieves a small digital camera, which she decides to use to document the occasion, recording a continous string of petty squables that become more absurd and agressive as the day turns into night.

Nikola’s children are taken away from him after social services decide that he is too poor to provide them with a decent living environment. He sets off on foot to lodge a complaint in Belgrade.

The story of four petty criminals in Zagreb, a city recently coming off of the horrors of the Croatian War of Independance, reflects the petty hatreds, violence, prejudices and mood hanging over the country like a disease that spreads with no cure in sight.

Upon hearing her beloved grandmother is dying, a young woman returns to rural Lithuania, where she must confront a past she’s tried to forget. Sharunas Bartas unflinchingly examines family fractures, capturing unspoken tensions and simmering resentments within a rural household isolated by geography and emotional distance.

Kind-hearted, but slightly possesive, Ibro, takes his quiet, epileptic son Amir on a journey from their small, backwards Bosnian village to Zagreb, so that the latter can partake in an audition for the role in a big-budget drama about the role of the German UNPROFOR soldiers during the events of The Bosnian War. Ibro's overprotectiveness and constant praise start annoying Amir, putting their relationship and the latter's ptoential future acting career on the line.

In 1958, during the Cold War, two scientists, two worlds, and two ideologies faced a race for survival at the Vinca Scientific Institute near Belgrade.

During an illegal immigrant smuggling operation on the Croatian-Bosnian border, war veteran and smuggler Mirko saves a seemingly nameless Chinese woman from drowning, bringing her into his home to help her recover. Over time, their relationship becomes closer and more personal and makes Mirko the target of Spider and Seki, two ruthless crime lords who run the human trafficking operations in the area.

After years of working abroad, Mirjana returns to her small conservative village in the Dalmatian Hinterland, with her parents welcoming her with open arms. However, their demeanor quickly changes once she confesses to being pregnant and not knowing who the father is. Fearing the societal stigma this might impose on both her and them, they decide to find Mirjana a local husband, however, no choice seems to suit both parties.

Miroslav, the owner of a failing copy store, decides to get rich, starting up a delivery firm for party alcohol supplies. Things seem to be going well until his partner, a music store owner named Frog, fixes him up with a continous supply chain ran by a con man named Šušnjar.

Aleksandra is a student from Krško, a small town in Slovenia. She has a plan to conquer the world. Working as a prostitute, her life is heading to where she wants it, but an accidental death has her wrestling with new feelings of fear, loneliness, confusion and responsibility

The lives of a wealthy married couple radically change in an instant. While the husband is in critical condition after an accident that occurred under strange circumstances, the wife tries to understand the situation and to salvage what she can… In this constricted, small-scale drama by a renowned Slovenian filmmaker, Pia Zemljič excels in the role of the resourceful wife.

Zagreb Cappuccino is the story of two best friends, Petra and Kika. Both women are in their early forties. Petra, in Zagreb, is getting divorced, and Kika arrives from Cologne to console her. Kika, a cosmopolitan party girl, teaches Petra how to carry on with her life without a husband and a family. Over several cups of coffee and nights out we get to know their fears and problems, their solitude, insecurities and inner strength.

After their son has been beaten up in the street, parents find their world of false security collapsing and have to re-examine their lives and question everything into what they believed.