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Filip and Livija are son and mother. When, at the urging of Livija's younger boyfriend Roko, they steal the dog of the famous Croatian singer Severina, a long-kept secret of Filip's comes to light, prompting Livija to reconsider the way she raised him.
Franjo's mid-life crisis isn't made any easier by the recent passing of his best friend and a terrible divorce. Being unable to cope with this in a mature way, he slips into alcoholism, trapping himself in an endless loop of his own making.
Vigo lives a life he hates. He spends all day slaving away at a warehouse, having to put up with impossible demands from his higher ups and colleagues he hates. When the workday is finally over, he has to pay the bills, deal with increasing debts and provide a somewhat normal life for his younger sister and his girlfriend, the relationship with which grows more strained and opressive as time goes on. Things change when he meets Marija, a high society college student, with whom he starts a whirlwind romance with, gaining a whole new world of possibilities in the process. But, as time goes on, his facade begins to slip away and Vigo is forced to get into increasingly deeper criminal waters to sustain his image.
Goran's everyday life alternates between taking care of his mother and watching over his two maturing sons. Whilst having a few chaotic moments, its rather cyclical and calm in its own right. However, when his stubborn and eccentric older brother Marijan is forced by circumstances to move in with the already disfunctional family, the chaos they all found themselves in already becomes all the more apparent.
A 30 year old, carefree man who lives off his parents' inheritance is untouched by war that affected most of his friends, but only until one of his friends died. This throws him completely off his routine, and he decides to sell all his belongings and start doing something memorable.
Three loosely connected stories about football fans in Zagreb, Croatia, during the day of the country's biggest derby between Zagreb's GNK Dinamo and Split's NK Hajduk.
Few brief encounters during the working night of lonely taxi driver.
1993. A passenger train from Belgrade to Bar is stopped by paramilitary forces in an ethnic cleansing operation. As they haul off innocent civilians, only one man dares to stand up to them. This is the true story of a man who could not remain silent.
Life Is a Trumpet has a loose jazz musician as the groom, a butcher as his father, and two families of different backgrounds whose members are not as different as one might expect.
It is 1995. The summer when the war operation Storm will take place. Boro, who is going to be forty in a year and a half, with his wife Jasna and son Luka goes to his home village Drinovci, Herzegovina, after seven years. He wants to see his brother who managed to leave Sarajevo with his family. Boro knew that his brother was wounded, but when he sees him after many years, he discovers that the brother will spend the rest of his life in wheel chair. Boro constantly fights with Jasna, and he doesn't speak at all to his father Pako, whom he blames for his mother's death. In two weeks in August 1995, Boro will solve the years long dispute with his father, he will learn to be a better husband and a father.
Maša and her boyfriend Toma decide to visit their friends who own a property on a small Dalmatian island. What starts off as a potentially fun vacation turns into a game of trust when Maša confides to her friend that she's expecting. Things take a turn for the worse when Jagoda's new boyfriend begins actively breaking Maša's boundries by actively coming onto her. Emotionally damaged and afraid to tell anyone her true feelings on the matter, she finds peace in a brief fling with a much younger local.
After spending four years in prison, a drug dealer will do anything to keep custody over his son.
After a massive earthquake hits Zagreb, Žana decides to reinvent her life, creating the persona of Eve. However, how will this affect her mental state, friendships and life as she knows it? Or, much like the city around her, will it have to be built anew?
Besides presenting a history of the Medveščak Zagreb Ice Hockey Club, the film includes recollections of its crucial individuals, past and present, and tries to explain the phenomenon of its popularity, including the unique spirit of Medveščak fans.
