Ognjen Svilicic

Ibro takes his son Armin from their small Bosnian village to Croatia to audition for a German film about the Balkan conflict. (imdb)

Eliciting images of cancer, this drama explores the illnesses that plague modern Croatia. Four young junkies in Zagreb maturing in the wake of war reflect the petty hatreds, violence, prejudices and mood hanging over the country like a disease that spreads with no cure in sight. (Pusan International Film Festival)

During the winter, a group of Chinese is transported to the Sava river area and waiting to be smuggled to Croatia and onwards to the West. Due to the overburdened boat and the panic among the passengers, the skiff overturns as Mirko is ferrying them to the Croatian side. Consequently, only Mirko and a Chinese woman survive while all others drown in the accident. Mirko decides to hide the woman and gradually his life begins to change under her influence despite the linguistic barrier. (kinokultura.com)

Mirjana is returning to Croatia from Germany where she spent some time as a refugee. She is pregnant. Now, Mirjana is coming back to her family in a remote and devastated village. Her family is trying to move on with their lives after the war. They rebuild their house and they are trying to find a new husband for their pregnant daughter. Being patriarchal and devoted to their tradition they believe a woman needs to have a husband and a child has to have a father. (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)

One night, a high-profile attorney is found on the pavement along a main road through Ljubljana. He is barely conscious, lying in a pool of blood, and covered in dog bites. Doctors at the medical center fight to keep him alive while his wife, in shock, confronts her deepest fears. During the course of this night she will break every moral standard she has stood up for in her life. (imdb)

A small town in Serbia. Nikola, day laborer and father of two, is ordered to give up his children to social services after poverty and hunger drive his wife to commit a desperate act. Until he can provide adequate conditions for their upbringing, the children will be placed in foster care. Despite Nikola's best efforts and several appeals, the head of the social services center refuses to return his children and his situation seems hopeless. But when Nikola discovers the local administration may