Mirela Brekalo

Tina (28) lives in what appears to be an idyllic marriage in town on the Adriatic coast. She is a housewife who takes care of their six-year-old daughter, while her husband Frane (32) provides for the family. Their relationship begins to change when Tina expresses her desire to complete the college education she had to abandon due to pregnancy. Despite initially consenting and supporting her, Frane starts showing disapproval, initially through minor acts of sabotage. Over time, conflicts become more frequent, and arguments turn increasingly violent.

"Long Dark Night" follows the life of the fictional character Iva Kolar: his experiences as a Croatian University student, his role as a Partisan fighting Hitler's troops during W.W. II, his involvement in his nation's post-war government, and his eventual downfall.

After the death of her father, young scientist Ana struggles with an identity crisis, being the last member of a once large family. The changes inside her are suddenly reflected in reality – loneliness, crisis, emigration – and her scientific research on mystical symbols and human traces left in stone are mysteriously intertwined with her life.

Arriving on an island, a young woman embarks on a journey to discover her identity and place in the world. Her experiences on the island unravel a tapestry of past events, bringing hidden truths to light. As the situation grows increasingly complex, she is driven towards a profound reconciliation and acceptance, starting with herself and gradually encompassing those around her.

The film is a high-concept project with five stories exploring the themes of motherhood and pregnancy, directed by women filmmakers from five former Yugoslav republics. “Croatian Story” follows an anguished painter who must decide whether or not to keep one of her unborn twins, diagnosed with Down syndrome. “Serbian Story” finds an expectant mother in the same emergency room with a charming killer. “Bosnia-Herzegovina Story” centers on a financially strapped Sarajevo family whose son?s lover is pregnant. “Macedonian Story” unfolds in a clinic where a drug addict struggles to keep her baby, and “Slovenian Story” ends the omnibus on a humorous note with a nun who finds her own way to immaculate conception.

Nena recently started working as a school assistant to seven-year-old Dejan who has learning disabilities. It's one of the first Nena's grown-up jobs, and Dejan is a tough cookie so every day is a new challenge for the two of them. Apart from that, Nena also has to struggle with the rigid school system around them. Things look pretty bleak until one day a fluffy white friend comes to visit.

A big family reunion at the weekend cottage around traditional food preparation "kotlovina" (pig on a spit and lots of drinking) with quaintly amusing and earnest situations revealing what is stronger: ties of blood and background or culture and the way of living.

Life Is a Trumpet has a loose jazz musician as the groom, a butcher as his father, and two families of different backgrounds whose members are not as different as one might expect.

A godforsaken mountain village is the only home that a young football player, a miser peasant and an obese girl have. This isolated part of the country finds itself in the middle of the referendum regarding Croatia's decision of joining the EU. Our characters couldn't care less - they are absorbed in their problems. The young football player who accidentally killed his mother doesn't want to join a rich foreign football team and is willing to risk his father's love because of it. The lonely obese girl is so desperate for a friend and for a lover that she will end up seeking both in the pig-sty. The miser peasant will find out that the real misery is in loneliness.

The Trampoline is not a romantic love story - it is a film about a powerful and sometimes double-edged love, and the darker side of a mother-daughter bond that has been stretched to breaking point.

Years ago, Toma recieved widespread acclaim for saving the Croatian president from a stroke via his supernatural powers. Years later, he arrives on a small Adriatic island, intending to build the headquarters of his would-be healing organization, which he names The Temple of Pure Love. Toma uses this opportunity to scam the locals out of their money and sleep with as many women as possible, but, when his son Ante falls in love with one of these women, a local baker named Ana, the generational conflict begins to create a strong disconnect between the two.

The thematic framework of the anthology feature film DEEP CUTS is violence in all of its forms: as a destruction of intimacy, family, integrity, trust.

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

Two mismatched families forced to share a home navigate a whirlwind of comedic misunderstandings, generational clashes, and everyday domestic chaos as Boris, Ana, her sister, and their loud extended clan struggle to adapt to life under one roof.

The romance between two young people from vastly different backgrounds sets off a chain of family conflicts, secrets, betrayals, and ambitions that intertwine three seemingly incompatible families.

The series follows the capture of the inserted Ustashas during Operation Guardian in 1947-1948.

After a military operation of limited operation, six Croatian soldiers (Prka, Sikira, Nervoza, Gradski, Delon and Pape) remained behind the enemy lines for 10 days before being cut off from the enemy lines. Soldiers have not known each other all their lives and have been brought together by war. People of different profiles meet.

While expecting their child, a student couple announce to their parents that they will marry. Both sets of parents are against it, but when the proposal takes place, the things take unexpected turn.