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Modest teacher of pedagogy Vesna becomes an accidental media star when, in an intoxicated state, she agrees to give a speech at a student protest in which her son also participates.
While state authorities chase down supplies of increasingly rare Covid vaccinations, the queues of those waiting for them stretch endlessly along streets. Those queuing comprise a microcosm of the populace – a tapestry of personalities that range from stern gatekeepers to elderly women deliberating over vaccine preferences. As it moves from the bustling queues to the hushed interiors of vaccination centres, Pavilion 6 shifts from patients to the nurses and other members of staff.
The apartment complex constructed for the workers of the Sisak Ironworks recieves a new image. After standing as a passionate symbol of workers' rights for several decades, it now becomes a home for Middle Eastern refugees, whilst the building's former inhabitants see no future in Croatia and decide to join their children in other European countries. As the years go by and natural and societal changes in the area bring forth new challenges, the building itself becomes a lively portrait of Croatia in the roaring 2020s.
After his marriage starts failing and his wife Pierette becomes abusive, a depressed middle aged man named Johann decides to release his frustrations onto his newly arrived Croatian intern Buga.
Early in the new tourist season in the Adriatic, a family of six go to the beach in Savudrija, where their father drowned seven years ago.
Too afraid to confess to his wife that he fell for another woman, a middle-aged man turns into a ticking bomb that might explode right into his face.
Zeljko is the labour union leader at Gredelj Train Factory. His deputy, Mladen, has committed suicide after massive public protests and inter-union clashes. Zeljko is torn between the guilt he feels over Mladen’s death and workers’ expectations that he will lead a strike that should thwart a plan by the government, acting on the EU’s behest, to declare the factory bankrupt. WHAT’S TO BE DONE? is structured in three acts. The first act uses observational documentary footage; the second, footage filmed a decade later; while the third is fiction.
Noah is an experienced sapper who earned his nickname for his love for animals. On the front line, he rescues and trains abandoned dogs. However, a sudden attack by superior Russian forces puts him in a difficult moral dilemma – the lives of the dogs he saved and trained in explosive detection or the lives of the military unit, which consists solely of inexperienced recruits.
