Želimir Žilnik Movies

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...

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

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...

Belgrade in 2041 is a deserted city that looks like a dump yard. A few old men try to bring up a group of young girls in the old, traditional way of...

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...

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....

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

A teenager arrives from Germany to his grandparents in Novi Sad. He can't adjust to Yugoslavian schools, system or slow way of life, so he asks his...

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

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...

Fifteen-year-old Pavle Hromiš, obeying the will of his parents, leaves Germany and goes to live in Yugoslavia with his grandmother. He has...

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...

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

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

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...