Dijana Mlađenović

Woods that Sing

Visually engaging segments are combined with the testimonies of four female partisans.

Ship

After more than 160 years of existence and numerous magnificent ships that sailed from its facility, the Pula shipyard "Uljanik" became a graveyard of abandoned workshops, steel wrecks and unmovable cranes. In this post-apocalypse landscape, which today is inhabited by loud seagulls, half-starved cats and crayfish, we are caught up with the emotional testimonies of former workers..

Hotel Pula

It is 1995. Mahir is a 38-year-old refugee from Bosnia, with unknown history, living in the hotel Pula, modified into a refugee centre. His days are monotonous and empty, and his history is unknown. A spark of life comes when Una, a young girl from Pula, is drawn to him. Until the past catches up with him.

Meat

Istrian traditions, singing, culinary delights. All that in the time-honoured ritual of pig slaughter or prašćina. What is the importance of meat today and can we give up its utilitarian rudimentarity in the face of political, ecological, nutritionist, and other contemporary trends?

When Pigs Come

Dragoslava has four TV sets, three grandchildren, two best friends, and a husband with whom she fights over a remote control. She keeps her private archive of memories of all major events in recent political history of five countries in which she has lived, without ever moving from her apartment. She is a trained poll monitor, passionate about her right to be in the minority, but more and more desperate as another early election approach.

Cherries

Family tensions are slowly eroding what should have been a carefree summer for the young boy Jakov. A series of events ending in tragedy will incite his emotional revolt against the grown ups, but also his sense of guilt.

How We Entered Europe - The SexA Case

Twenty years before Croatia’s EU accession, immediately before the war in former Yugoslavia, the first colony of cultural refugees from Zagreb arrived in Amsterdam. The film reconstructs the life stories of the members of the cult dark noise band SexA.