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Dramatic events unfold in Croatia and Ukraine. The first girl drowned, the second one died from a drug overdose. The main suspect in these deaths, however, soon turns out to be innocent - and dead too. While detective Vladimir and reporter Stribor struggle to solve these murders in Croatia, the niece of Olga, an Ukrainian philanthropist, goes missing in Kyiv.
Lack of money, inability to find a permanent job, living with parents or roommates, unsettled love relationships — this is how the life of most young people in Serbia could be described. Through the four friends' struggle with the life challenges, the series also tries to evoke the spirit of Belgrade today: it talks about those who live in it, those who leave it, but also those who return to it.
Someone shoots at Serbian tycoon Vladan Simonovic. This makes Vladan initiate a private investigation that will open up "Pandora's box" with respect to his past and will lead to conflicts linked with the future of his mighty company.
The last independent newsroom in the country is taken over by a construction magnate for the reasons that have nothing to do with love or respect for journalism.
Follow the intertwining stories of four strangers who are bound together by a violent event.
After money that was being saved for a man's funeral mysteriously vanishes, chaotic disarray begins growing within a family's ranks, turning the once peaceful and mournful family members into an angry mob driven by emotions, whilst decades old relationships and patriarchal structures begin to show their cracks, the deceased man's widow decides to stand up for herself and find a new place for each of them among the newfound chaos.
Teresa, a mother from the Lazio suburbs, finds herself making an extreme gesture to defend her family from an unscrupulous loan shark. After serving her prison sentence, she must face the return to everyday life.
Origolab, an internationally renowned genetical engineering company, establishes a new headquarters within the walls of a small medieval town in Istria and Boris, an ambitous up and coming biologist, gets a position in it. However, he discovers a terrifying secret: whilst Origolab might be on the verge of a scientific breakthrough with discovering eternal life, they have been kidnapping local children to achieve this, putting him before a moral dilemma. Should he try to save the most recent kidnapping victim? Or will he bend under the promise of the scientific discovery of a century?
A businessman and an engineer arrive in a small town to restore an abandoned factory and manufacture a discontinued turbine for a mysterious client.
Don Fabijan is a young priest who comes to serve on an unnamed small island in the Adriatic. In order to help increase birth rate on the island, he decides to pierce condoms before they are sold. He therefore teams up with the newsagent Petar and the pharmacist Marin. After they abolish all forms of birth control on the entire island, the consequences become more and more complicated.
Three different love stories, set in three consecutive decades, in two neighbouring Balkan villages burdened with a long history of inter-ethnic hatred: this is a film about the dangers – and the enduring strength – of forbidden love.
There are reasons for loving you less and paths that always lead back to you.
Croatia, seven years after bankruptcy. There is a fight going on in the world - water has become more precious than oil. In order to get hold of it, the powerful are ready to start wars, conquer, destroy, and even plant a zombie-virus. Mico, a bon viveur from Zagreb, whose daily routine includes massage parlours, restaurants and cinemas, where he watches a movie series featuring his favorite actress Franka Anic, is caught completely off guard by the zombie-epidemics. Nevertheless, he boldly embarks on an Odyssey accompanied by his movie heroine, with one highly unattainable, goal: to survive.
When a school trip leaves a group of teenagers stranded far from home, the recent suicide of a classmate begins to expose the fractures, loyalties and secrets holding them together.
After a chainsaw is stolen from his ill father, Toni must face the harsh truths and fears regarding his father's physical and mental state.
On a winter’s day, Nena gathers her family to celebrate her birthday. Il paradiso del pavone is a small journey into the intimacy and authenticity of human beings: a film about an extended family in which everyone talks but no one really listens. Until an unexpected event forces the family members to look into each other’s eyes and reveal themselves for what they really are.
Two girls meeting at a porn audition, getting infatuated by one another and going through a journey in one day and one night followed by one dominant male figure, whose face we never see, but who plays as the force that separates them. It is a film about friendship and a metaphor for power and dominance that gets in the way of woman who could connect more strongly otherwise. Other than carrying that message, the movie has dark humor, a flashy and at moments uncomfortable atmosphere and a distinctive East European girl aesthetic.
Sitting in a restaurant representing the waiting room to the other world, a tired old man watches the patrons who represent him and his immediate family during the important moments of his life. Moments that have impacted him and the family, and have turned him into a man he was at the end of his life. The old man is forced to look these events in an objective way, observe them from the sidelines, as the judge and jury of a tragic life filled with regret, bitterness, and bad decisions. At a certain point, it becomes clear that the old man has actually died and is watching his own life.
Two days before the wedding, Dragana decides that she will not marry the weak and predictable Momo. His headstrong father Leso strikes a deal with her – to act as the bride just for the day. But instead of saving the family’s honor, it only starts a traumatic farce for everyone involved.
Having escaped from Afghanistan when still a child, Ismail now lives in Europe with his brother Hassan. After several disturbing phone calls, Ismail will have to face the destiny of his family, counting the cost of the senselessness of war and the history of his people, the Hazaras.
