Mira Banjac

A young man grows up in Sarajevo in the 1960s, under the shadow of his good, but ailing father, and... (imdb)

Ilija Cvorovic is called by the secret police to routinely answer questions about his neighbour, businessman who had returned from the West. After that talk, Cvorovic is convinced that his neighbour represents the greatest threat to national security and begins his own surveillance operation against the innocent man. (imdb)

Grown up in an atmosphere of failed marriage of his parents, a young man wants to go his way throughout life. School he finished doesn't give him the opportunity to find a job, so he accepts the position of a beach guard in winter period... (imdb)

In Beograd, mid-1990s, 20 people's paths crisscross one night in rage and theater... (imdb)

For the young man who lives in Serbian province town, the maturing coincides with the turbulent political events of the year 1968. (imdb)

Five scenarios in which people have trouble distinguishing truth from illusions. Each segment reflects the motto of Voltaire's Candide: "Optimism is insisting everything is good, when everything is bad." (imdb)

Sveto mesto (A Holy Place, 1990) is based on a literary classic, Nikolai Gogol's 1835 short story, 'Viy'. However, Kadijevic uses it only as a starting point for his own explorations into the dark side of eroticism. Gogol's story deals with Toma, a reluctant theology student who is forced to read the Psalms over an (un)dead girl for three nights in a row. (imdb)

It seems that the period of 15 years out of school benches is enough to recapitulate life, to see where one is. So, school friends Bane Bumblebee, his wife Biljka, Goca, Uske and Boca Combe decide to celebrate the arrival from abroad of their friend Miki Rubirosis. A wild night was planned to be in a restaurant rented only for them, to remember their youth from the sixties (kg)

In the mountains of Montenegro people have lived by strict and Draconian laws for centuries, almost untouched by modern civilization. However, a young couple are going to seek their fortune on the more liberal coast and there they find jobs in the nudist colony. Hundreds of naked bodies and atmosphere of joie d'vivre make the husband and wife question their rigid way of life. (imdb)

The American pension of Grandpa Đurađ is paid to his widow Neđa and is the only source of income for he Paripović family. When Neđa suddenly dies, their very existence is threatened and the head of the family devises a cunning plan. (sedamdesetidvadana.com)

A microbiologist is trying the figure out the source of a bad odor that is spreading across New Belgrade blocks, having thought that it may be in a direct relation with a rampant suicide rate. (imdb)

Misha Brankov is a retired music professor. One morning he receives a letter requesting him to contact the Jewish Museum in Belgrade. At the museum, he learns that during some excavations on the sewers at the city's Old Fairgrounds, an iron box was found, in this same place where during the Second World War an infamous concentration camp was set up for Serbian Jews and Gypsies. The contents of the box will change the professor's life... (iksv.org)

'Honeymoons' shows us that the distance between Eastern and Western Europe is more than a question of kilometers. The films follows two couples, one is Albania, one in Serbia, who in the midst of wedding celebrations decide to leave their respective countries to realize their dreams in Western Europe. They soon find themselves trapped between their countries' past and their future lives together. (Written by Human Rights Watch Film Festival (imdb)

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. (imdb)

Three different love stories, set in three consecutive decades, in two neighbouring Balkan villages burdened with a long history of inter-ethnic hatred: this is a film about the dangers - and the enduring strength - of forbidden love.

The action takes place in 1943 and today, and a Partisan school in Srem is in the center of action. A young journalist gets appointed to shoot a film report about the participants in the Liberation War from this area. In Srem village she meets common, simple people. She discovers that a free territory and a Partisan school was there. She also finds out that everybody acted as one.

Allegory as absurd black comedy about the Yugoslav conflict. (Letterboxd)

This movie describes the violent break-up of former Yugoslavia from the Serbian point of view, using the story of an ethnically mixed couple in the war-torn city of Vukovar as metaphor. (imdb)

April 1992. Members of a large family strewn around the former Yugoslavia gather around the death bed of their elderly matriarch. She is not well, but the forecast of a family doctor that her death is a matter of minutes away proves incorrect, so the waiting stretches out for days. Relatives start bickering, playing tricks and arguing over the inheritance to be left by the old woman, especially over her large family house in Sarajevo.

Dealing open-heartedly with his customers, car mechanic Zivota goes through many adventures. Some are funny, some are sad, some reveal beauty and others human misery. In the end he gets tangled up himself, and not without bitterness he tries to change his ways, trying to become like his competitor across the street who has adapted to modern times: strictly business But, people who come to him need him just the way he is. (imdb)