Želimir Žilnik Movies

A trans couple from 1990s Belgrade beholds their profession as a pacifistic mission, curbing the urges of rapists, gamblers and horny young men...

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...

Tito, lifelong president of Yugoslavia, is coming from his grave to once again talk to Serbs and to check what has changed since he was gone.

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

Illegal immigrants and asylum seekers in Serbia, placed in asylum centers after their dramatic journeys from war-torn and poverty-stricken areas of...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

Momčilo Radunović, an experienced entrepreneur and businessman remained in Gabon after the break-up of Yugoslavia. In the film, he evokes...

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...

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