A mixture of documentary and fiction examines the new god of Capitalism offered to the Serbs with the ending of state socialism. We look at a number of strikes in Belgrade during the late 2000s and these introduce us to several characters playing themselves. Employees dressed in American football...
Kenedi is in a huge debt after building a house for his family. He finds himself searching for any kind of work to support himself, for as little as 10 EUR per day, a scarce amount to help him relief his debt. Ultimately, Kenedi decides to look for money in sex business. Initially offering his...
Illegal immigrants and asylum seekers in Serbia, placed in asylum centers after their dramatic journeys from war-torn and poverty-stricken areas of North Africa, Near and Middle East go through a period of adaptation to life and social circumstances in Serbia. In most cases, however, their goal is...
The first film in what would ultimately become Zilnik’s famed Kenedi trilogy follows street hustler Kenedi Hasani and his friend as they roam the streets of Serbia seeking Kenedi’s parents. Kenedi Goes Back Home is Zilnik’s account of the Roma people who were forced to flee from the war in...
A transvestite couple from 1990s Belgrade beholds their profession as a pacifistic mission, curbing the urges of rapists, gamblers and horny young men during turbulent periods in war-torn country.
A documentary "Small and big", written and directed by Želimir Gvardiol made in a road-movie form, shows an important documentary subject - the consequences of the Nato bombing in Serbia. Stories of several people throughout the movie bring this movie a different level of authenticity and its...
Documentary about three characters, creative people who can not fit into their community-suburban settlement near Belgrade, looking for the inner place to live and work…
A futuristic fairy tale about balance in nature. The girl has a hobby of collecting insects. One night a romantic visitor shows up. By engaging in a harmless romance, in which a twist occurs, the girl experiences a fatal fate.
After decades of work in Italy and Germany, Giuseppe is retired and returns to his family home in Istria. He is lonely and his mother advises him to get married. She hands him over his father’s uniform from the Austro-Hungarian army. Giuseppe sets off on a quest to find a wife in the...
One Woman, One Century is a documentary film based on statements, interviews, and reconstructions of real-life events. The life story of Dragica Srzentić casts light on a number of events and people relevant to Yugoslav history before and after the Second World War. The film’s look at the...
Contemporary urban melodrama about three young couples who experience emotional crises and turning points in their relationships due to the circumstances in which they find themselves. The earthquake connects three stories in the same city in a cathartic way.
Memories and commentaries of non-professional actors combined with excerpts from films in which they participated as "protagonists," mixed with footage made of crews working on the sets of Zilnik's films.
Between 2013 and 2023, Slovenian Cinematheque preserved and digitized 179 short films created on a tiny stretch of land between the Alps and the Adriatic Sea in the period of socialism (1945-1991), but mostly outside the prevailing state production. Today, we belatedly recognize these films as...
