Želimir Žilnik Movies

Villagers of Kovilj grow cattle on the Danube islands. Marko, an owner of ten horses, around twenty cows and other cattle is a good friend with a...

The elderly inhabitants of a village in Vojvodina look back on the war and the partisan battles. The film also examines how collective memories and...

Zelimir Zilnik has always been discussing the communist's regime taboos , with his early documentaries , but especially with his film about the...

An aging highlander from the village of Kremna, on Tara mountain, heads for Belgrade accompanied by a ninety-three year old war veteran. He wants to...

Memories and commentaries of non-professional actors combined with excerpts from films in which they participated as "protagonists," mixed with...

Pirika travels to Berlin to visit her daughter Dobrila and her grandchildren, whom she's never seen. Dobrila, a lesbian, avoids her mother, however,...

In the center of this docudrama are the events and tensions of the shooting of a feature film about Belgrade in the future. The director sets up...

In Vukovar, during the Croatian War of Independence, after the devastation of the town, hundreds of tons of wheat have leaked out of a destroyed...

After decades of work in Italy and Germany, Giuseppe is retired and returns to his family home in Istria. He is lonely and his mother advises him to...

The film portraits a writer-amateur Bora Joksimović, a heating maintenance mechanic in the Zrenjanin theatre. Unhappy with the shows he sees in...

At Roko Babičković’s farm, in the vicinity of the Hungarian border, Anica is hired. The newly established Schengen border has stopped...

Druga linija aka The Other Line is a product of many years of research of neo-avant-garde cultural and art scene in Novi Sad, Serbia (late 60s and...

A carnival is in town. Workers start to build the stalls and tents. Players practice their act. Roma, peasants and grifters put up their own boots....

Vera and Erzika have worked at Trudbenik textile factory in Pancevo since they were 13. Now that they are almost retired they face numerous problems...

Documentary about the life and work of Ivan Martinac (1938-2005), avant-garde & experimentalist filmmaker from Split, Croatia.

This film collage is based on Heinrich Heine’s poem "Lorelei". Traditional German postcards were used with images of the siren on the Rhine who...

This documentary film essay analyses controversial police procedures in Germany in autumn 1974, when in a number of the police interventions suspects...

On June 3, 1968, student protests began in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the first major conflict with the then communist...

"Fitzgerald" is Jovica's nickname among his friends. One day Jovica, a film projectionist from the childhood of Zilnik, an old jazz pianist and one...

Reuben, an African student at Novi Sad University, returns from his visit to his parents.