Lučana, her mother Cvita and brother Stjepko are preparing the house of their recently deceased grandmother for the season. Cvita, the mater familias, sits at the top of the hierarchy in the household. After Cvita, comes Stjepko, because he is a man. Lučana vies for her mother’s love by pulling little pranks on her brother […]

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

As a present for her 6th birthday, Selma gets a live chicken. When she realises the creature is going to be killed to feed the family she decides to set it free, unaware of the dangerous consequences this will lead to… It is Sarajevo, 1993.

The film follows one winter in the life of Spomenko Bagarić on the island of Zlarin. Spomenko has been living and working on the island of Zlarin since 1986, and he is one of the few people who live and work there throughout the entire year. Engaged in a specific occupation, detached from power centers, […]