Great contemporary movies from former Yugoslavia
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- DirectorRok BicekStarsIgor SamoborNatasa Barbara GracnerTjasa ZeleznikRelations between the students and the new teacher of German are extremely tense. When one female student commits suicide, her schoolmates blame the teacher for her death. An awareness that things are not quite so black and white comes too late... (based on true events)
- DirectorRadivoje AndricStarsKlara HrvanovicOlga OdanovicSnjezana SinovcicA family story as seen through a girl's eyes. It explores that particularly interesting moment of life when childhood is at its end and new, exciting times begin.
- DirectorAlen DrljevicStarsBoris IsakovicLeon LucevEmir HadzihafizbegovicBosnia and Herzegovina, fifteen years after the war. A group of middle-aged Yugoslav War veterans gather in a remote mountain hotel for an extended group-therapy session that unravels the complexities of their pasts.
- DirectorZiga VircStarsSlavoj ZizekJosip Broz TitoJohn F. KennedyExplores the myth of the secret multi-billion-dollar deal behind America's purchase of Yugoslavia's clandestine space program in the early 1960s.
- DirectorSrdjan DragojevicStarsDusan PekicMilan MaricDragan BjelogrlicThis film follows two Belgrade youths on their rise to gangster legends in a decaying society.
- DirectorSrdan GolubovicStarsVuk KosticSrdjan 'Zika' TodorovicPaulina ManovIgor Gordic was an Olympic Champion in shooting, but now he is a junkie without money and in debts to mafia. Sasa is his younger brother and he is getting ready for the next World Championship. Pressured by hard life in Serbia in the aftermath of the war and disheartened by apparent utter lack of justice and structure in the society, being at an everyday mercy of the mafia, Sasa decides to take justice in his own hands and puts his sharpshooting in practice on the streets of Belgrade, though the toll such action takes on one's psyche and conscience becomes apparent all too soon.
- DirectorMiha HocevarStarsAnja BratinaMatej DruznikDavid FurlanFive young men, each without a job, spend most of their time together at a local bar seeing how much beer they can drink without paying. Occasionally outside events intrude on their easy-going lifestyle, such as searching for a missing car, and the appearance of an attractive young hairdresser and her friend.
- DirectorBoris MalagurskiStarsRade AleksicJames BissettJohn BosnitchThe Weight of Chains is a Canadian documentary film that takes a critical look at the role that the US, NATO and the EU played in the tragic breakup of a once peaceful and prosperous European state - Yugoslavia. The film, bursting with rare stock footage never before seen by Western audiences, is a creative first-hand look at why the West intervened in the Yugoslav conflict, with an impressive roster of interviews with academics, diplomats, media personalities and ordinary citizens of the former Yugoslav republics. This film also presents positive stories from the Yugoslav wars - people helping each other regardless of their ethnic background, stories of bravery and self-sacrifice.
- DirectorMiha HocevarStarsJurij ZrnecTadej Koren SmidJure KreftFilm is talking about scouts who spend their free time in nature. Aleks is camping near Soca river together with his friends. The scouting leader is taking everything too serious which causes a lot of problems. And boys are a lot more interested in girls than camp. The movie was filmed in ideal Triglav National Park in Slovenia.
- DirectorAndrej KosakStarsDavor JanjicZijah SokolovicNina IvanicYugoslavia before Tito's death. A young guy born to a mixed marriage (Slovenian - Bosnian) trying to find himself and fit in society, falls in love with Slovenian woman.