Mario Knezović

In an urban war zone where everything that moves is a target, Paul tries to live, love and inform.

A story about a forbidden love set in a village threatened by swollen rivers. Upon his return home for his father’s funeral, Slaven revives his relationship with his childhood friend, a young sportsman named Marko, his teenage love, and the reason his father kicked him out of the house. Now tempted to reunite, they need to make peace with their own decisions and struggle against the family restraints.

A family that fled war-stricken Bosnia 30 years ago lives on a farm in Croatia. As a storm rages outside, they find a stranger hiding in their barn. The woman is convinced that he is a refugee and wants to help him, but her xenophobic husband opposes the idea. Their 10-year-old son finds himself torn between the kindness of a good Samaritan and cruelty.

Epifani döneminde Makedonya’da takvimler Ocak ayının 19’unu gösterdiğinde görkemli bir tören düzenlenir. Törene katılan erkekler, rahip tarafından suya atılan haçı çıkarmak için birbirleri ile yarışır. Haçı bulmayı başaran kişinin ise bir yıl boyunca kutsandığına, revah ve servete kavuşacağına inanılmaktadır. 31 yaşındaki tarih uzmanı Petrunija, başarısız bir iş görüşmesinden dönerken Epifani törenine denk gelir. Törene katılan genç kadın, kendisini bir anda suyun içine atılan haçı çıkarırken bulur. Haçı yakalamayı başaran Petrunija, sudan çıkınca etrafındaki erkeklerin saldırısına uğrar. Erkekler, Petrunija’nın kadın olduğu için ritüele katılmaya hakkı olmadığını, bu yüzden haçı geri vermesi gerektiğini düşünür. Ancak, Petrunija’nın haçı geri vermeye niyeti yoktur.

Akıl sağlığı sorunlarının aile bağlarını nasıl etkilediğine dair hassas bir keşif niteliği taşıyan Güvenli Bir Yer, samimi, gerilimli, yürek burkan bir film; yönetmen Lerotić’in kendi hayatından esinlendiği otobiyografik bir aile dramı. Damir’in ailesinin hayatı birden ve kökten değişir çünkü Damir, intihar girişiminde bulunmuştur. Annesiyle kardeşi 24 saat boyunca onu, hem kendisinden hem de düşmanca buldukları sistemden korumaya çalışacaktır.

As a present for her 6th birthday, Selma gets a live chicken. When she realises the animal is going to be killed to feed the family, she decides to save it and set it free, unaware of the high stakes such action will lead to.

Maks is a brilliant lawyer who has been serving for years one of Croatia’s most powerful and ruthless businessmen, who made his fortune in the aftermath of the Balkan War. Maks’ latest service has been to have his client declared innocent of the murder of two of his workers for acting in self-defense. But the sudden appearance of a former girlfriend triggers a crisis of conscience in Maks, leading him to confront his employer and risk his life by uncovering a dense network of corruption at the highest level involving all branches of the State.

A low-level criminal, leading a double life as a cleaner, finds himself trapped between a dangerous arms dealer and the town's chief of police.

Slobodan meets his father Nenad for the first time in twenty-five years to discuss signing over the deed of the house, which Nenad wants to leave him. Their relationship has been strained ever since Nenad left Croatia during the war in the nineties.

December 2023. To spread holiday cheer, a theatre company is touring small towns of post-war Bosnia with a play about Santa Claus. While children are enchanted by the play, the appearance of Santa Claus rekindles old disputes among the adults.

An idealistic ham radio operator is trapped in a besieged town and struggles to survive the madness around him.

Balkanlar'da yeni bir dönemin başladığı günlerde geçen, romantik olduğu kadar trajik bir aşk öyküsü anlatıyor. Hersek'in güneyinde küçük bir köy, savaş henüz sona ermiş. Yıllar süren komünist rejimden sonra, yeni bir demokratik hükümet başa geçmiş. Yıllarca sürgünde kalan Divko Buntic, eski ailesi de dahil hesaplarını kapatıp intikamını almak üzere memleketine döner. Yanında yeni ve genç karısı, kara bir kedi, koca bir Mercedes ve tonla para vardır. Başta parayla her şey çözülür gibi görünse de sonrasında hayat ipleri eline alır. Savaş kapıya dayanır, hayatı alt üst olur derken Divko son bir atakla talihini yenmeye çalışır.

A teen raised in the Netherlands by her single mother travels to their native Bosnia to visit the father who left them, as he’s been admitted to a rural hospital. Joined by her cousin and his best friend, they hit the road.

Ilija is a member of the Croatian Defence Council (HVO) somewhere in Central Bosnia in late 1993. One morning, after a routine mine laying campaign, he learns his younger brother Goran was killed far beyond enemy lines, together with eight other soldiers. Through a friend from the secret service, he finds out the mission was an unofficial one and that Goran and the others were acting as mercenaries. Ilija begins to expose a network of illegal activity involving not only the military, but high-ranking officials. As the investigation becomes more dangerous, his original intention to find out the truth slowly turns into a pathological mission of vengeance.

Stigme deals with the universal subject of ideological stigmatization. The film is set in western Herzegovina, in the turbulent period after the Second World War. It talks about the devastation in a traditional environment left by ideological confrontations, which culminates during a tobacco journey. The main character of the film is Dragan, the son of an ex-Yugoslav security-intelligence organization officer Mile (who ends up in prison). Dragan is forced to go on a tobacco journey with a group of tobacco smugglers, believing that none of the smugglers know his true identity.

In 1994, a young family of Bosnian refugees find themselves in a little Dutch village after receiving their residence permit. Absurd situations occur as they attempt to turn this new world into their home.

In order to recover the body of her son lost during the war in Bosnia, a grieving, but strong-willed Muslim woman, Halima, must track down her estranged niece, who we find carries a mysterious connection to him.

In a dystopian future, Matja and his family face an unresolved tragedy. Despite losing his faith and struggling to find his true self, the dawn breaks over the valley, revealing that the only way to deal with trauma and evil is to face them head-on.

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.

Lucana (25) competes with her brother Stjepko (30) to win their mother's affection. Lucana has no chance of winning because she cannot change what's between her legs.

Sonja Kljun is a young, ambitious detective, eager to prove that her refined intuition is right - the alleged suicide in peaceful Subotica hides far more serious secrets than it seems at first glance. Sonja's moving to Subotica will trigger an avalanche of events that will reveal deeply buried secrets related to the mysterious organization, but also to Sonja's past. Refined intuition is not unique to Sonja, but also to her ten-year-old daughter, whose unusual dreams related to her mother's job are beginning to come true.

After discovering a dead body in the National Museum, Inspector Edib and Mido are called to the crime scene. But the disappearance of the body and the hidden motives of the Museum lead them to a web of corruption and international crime.