Želimir Žilnik Movies

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

Director invites six homeless men to his flat for a few days (surprising his wife). He asks officials and people on the street if someone can help...

The first film in what would ultimately become Zilnik’s famed Kenedi trilogy follows street hustler Kenedi Hasani and his friend as they roam...

One Woman, One Century is a documentary film based on statements, interviews, and reconstructions of real-life events. The life story of Dragica...

The film speaks of student demonstrations in Belgrade, 1969 and of the critical quality, enthusiasm and discipline of this form of protest. It was...

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...

Two young men from Eastern Europe take a pilgrimage to Santiago, Spain. Upon arrival at one of the most northwestern points of Europe, the...

A vast power plant is being built on the Drina River. This river has been famous for hundreds of years old tradition of rafting. In this way timber...

People of different nationalities from Central Europe attempting to reach the West by crossing the controls and “European” rules.

A construction site with foreign workforce – lunch break. A Greek man tries to write a request letter to the German authorities to allow his...

SFRJ is officially a place where everyone have a job and a house. The story follows hard labored workers who can't find a job, who bathe in public...

A Norwegian TV-worker tries to prevent her son, which she has with her former husband, a Serb now living in Jugoslavia, to become a soldier in the...

The protagonists of this docudrama are old farmers who migrated to Banat after the First World War, in 1922. The film is focused on a couple of...

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...

Young seamstress Ivana leaves work in the tailor shops in Novi Pazar and accepts an offer to be a waitress in a private cafe in Gusinje, Montenegrin...

The aged rocker Igor works as a journalist and DJ at the "Radio Student" in Ljubljana. He notices that the janitor Miha works for the police, tapping...

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

At Munich’s central station, after years spent working in factories in several German cities, a worker from Serbia boards a train and heads...

Zilnik's 102 minutes long TV series is about a couple of guys, one good and naive, the other liar and manipulator, trying to make a living the best...

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...