Ivan Zelić
Filmography
Roko
2025
17:03
Nika is a young journalist who gets her first big story in the most widely read daily newspaper – an article about Roko, a young man being blackmailed by drug dealers for his brother’s debts, while institutions turn a blind eye. The editor asks for a follow-up, but Roko refuses to cooperate. After the story […]
Do Not Trace, Draw!
2020
20:21
The Pioneer City was the product of both political and societal necessity — and it built and was built with the idea that education has to leave the confines of the ‘school’ and enter the city, i.e. everyday life, and thus produce the ‘new’ human for the new socialist society. When in 1947 groups of […]
Srbenka
2018
71:49
In the winter of 1991, twelve-year-old Serbian girl Aleksandra Zec was killed. Despite being known to the public, the perpetrators were never sentenced for the crime. A quarter of a century later, theatre director Oliver Frljić is making a play about the Zec case. The process brings to the surface hidden traumas, turning the rehearsals […]
Days of Madness
2018
73:23
Days of Madness portrays an incredible odyssey of two mentally diverse and unjustly rejected people who are learning to accept their difference, faced with the blindness of the society that branded them as hopeless, and the health system that turned them into addicts.
The Place From Where I Write You Letters
2018
9:26
In the 1950s the authors`s grandaunt moves with her husband from Yugoslavia to West Germany. The photographs she sends to her sisters document their new life in the West.
A Room for Living
2018
30:00
The film problematizes the space of the living room and the events that may have occurred there. These possible events, based on memory or on suppositions, have been recreated through sound – documentary footage, studio recordings and background noise – and they occur in real space and more or less realistic copies of a certain […]
Mom, Why Are You Crying…
2017
20:44
Vladimira, a single mother, desperately tries to control and balance everything. However, after 17 years her body is tired.
Eight Ways to Stop Feeling Lonely
2016
21:38
Luka Kosmat, a 33-year-old amateur ornithologist, showcases his daily routine, revealing how to lead a more fulfilling, beautiful and, ultimately, a more meaningful life. This existential slapstick uses comic tableaus to take us from the mundane banality of everyday life to sublime reveries behind it.
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
2015
25:38
All the imperfections of a young democracy are looming like a black cloud over the mandate of the president of the Fishermen’s Association Štuka. Problems are piling up, solutions are delayed, and the democratic majority is silent. Gathered around a barbecue with some wine, the members are trying to pinpoint the problems and change the […]
I Like That Super Most the Best
2015
42:50
A portrait of two sisters. Mia is cheerful and open. She has Down syndrome, doesn’t care about fashion and loves people. Eva filmed their relationship during a period of ten years in an effort to get closer to her sister and to reconcile their differences.
In the Center of Time
2015
9:40
A film experiment that examines the complexity of the phenomenon of condensed time in opposition to man and his real-life environment.
The End/Land
2015
10:12
Made as part of the project that marked the 50th anniversary of the Genre ff (geff) and inspired by its edition ‘Anti-film and New Tendencies in Cinema’, this work uses a computer software for landscape design to explore the concept of anti-film in contemporary context.
Poets in Person – Srećko Kramp
2014
16:01
The life story of Srećko Kramp, a fictional Croatian poet who desperately wants to become a painter, but settles for poetry after gaining some recognition. He ends his life as a well-known cultural icon who, despite all this, never lives up to his own expectations.
