Synopsis:

In the Zagreb quarter of Trnje, old houses are being torn down to make room for concrete giants. The owner of a house on the list for demolition has a tenant obsessed with crime statistics, and his hobby is accurately calculating the possibility of the occurrence of new criminal deeds. His premonitions come true. Soon, he discovers an anomaly in the rhythm of crime and foresees his own death. It is a landmark film for the Croatian cinema of the eighties that became a cult hit. The film has engl...

b/w, 35 mm, 89'

PROJECTION:

Tuesday 30.09.2003 AT 17:00

Synopsis:

Valent, a worker, witnesses a crime. At the same time, he gets his hands on a large amount of money that would solve many of his family’s problems; they often cannot afford a decent meal. The film was screened at the 1986 Pula film festival, and many considered it that year's best.

color, 87 min

PROJECTION:

Tuesday 07.10.2003 AT 17:00

Synopsis:

It is a story about an individual battle for justice. It revolves around an unjustly convicted man released from prison, who kidnaps the judge and the public prosecutor and takes them away to an isolated house far from the city... The film has all the traits of Tadić's handwriting, follows the principles set down in Ritam zločina (like all his eighties films), and is particularly esteemed by film lovers.

color, 104 min

PROJECTION:

Tuesday 21.10.2003 AT 17:00

Synopsis:

A story about a series of intriguing deaths that shook a small town near Zagreb (Samobor)... This was Tadić’s last film made in the eighties, and it established him as one of the most interesting and most fruitful authors of the 1980s.  

color, 100'

PROJECTION:

Tuesday 28.10.2003 AT 17:00

Synopsis:

Radovan Orlak Orao fell off a skyscraper on the day when four of his old friends waited for him to celebrate his birthday. They had been friends since childhood, but now at middle age they see each other only occasionally. Faced with the fact that they actually knew very little about their friend’s recent life, they start meeting more regularly and try to find out the circumstances that led to Orao’s suicide or possibly even murder…

color, 35 mm, 85 min

PROJECTION:

Tuesday 04.11.2003 AT 17:00

Synopsis:

A young couple, after a long time of waiting, moves in their new apartment. From the very beginning, odd things start to happen - there are weird unknown people around the building and during the night someone tries to break into their apartment. The young couple gets scared. Soon they receive a large amount of money from an unknown sender. This is the second feature film by Zoran Tadić, characterized by an increased dose of mystery on the verge of horror.

color, 35 mm, 81 min

PROJECTION:

Monday 10.11.2003 AT 19:00

Synopsis:

Film takes place in the late fall of 1991 and early 1992 in a warlike atmosphere of blackouts and alerts. This dull and almost ominous milieu is inhabited by strange characters entangled in an intriguing story of human organ trafficking (extracted from recently-killed soldiers on the battlefield)… The film is an homage to one of the most famous films of all time, The Third Man by Carol Reed. Post-war Vienna is replaced by Zagreb at the time of domestic war. Faces, situations, plot, a...

Super 16mm Kodak, b/w, 103 min

PROJECTION:

Tuesday 11.11.2003 AT 17:00

Synopsis:

In a new suburban community, a stray dog aspires to become a housedog. However, it is a long road towards the fulfillment of his wish because not all the tenants of the building feel the same about pets. Little Jura eagerly wants Floki, and through a series of adventures reveals different characters of his grown-up neighbors. Eventually, he fulfills his wish and keeps the dog…

digital, color, age: 6+, 88 min

PROJECTION:

Tuesday 18.11.2003 AT 17:00