Balkan Cinema

Directed by Ognjen Sviličić.
82 minutes; released 2007.
Ibro takes his son Armin from their small Bosnian village to Croatia to audition for a German film about the Balkan conflict. In Serbo-Croatian with English and German subtitles.

Directed by Veljko Bulajić.
165 minutes; released 1969.
Yugoslav partisans trick the Germany army in 1942 by building a bridge across the River Neretva. In Serbo-Croatian.

Directed by Veljko Bulajić.
78 minutes; released 1965.
Yugoslav partisans trick the Germany army in 1942 by building a bridge across the River Neretva. In Serbo-Croatian.

Directed by Emir Kusturica.
140 minutes; released 1988.
A young gypsy with magic powers is forced to work with a band of itinerant thieves and beggars in Italy. In Serbo-Croatian with English subtitles.

Directed by Eduart Makri.
228 minutes; released 2011.
The Collection contains the movies of Makri, made while he was living and working in Albania. Includes The Pirates' Cave (75 min.; 1990), Hot autumn '41 (40 min.; 1985), Into Another world (38 min.; 1999) and Hope (75 min.; 1988). In Albanian with English subtitles.

Directed by Pjer Žalica.
105 minutes; released 2003.
A comic story about Bosnia turned upside down as it prepares for a visit by President Cinton, two years after the civil war. In Bosnian/Serbo-Croatian with English subtitles.

Directed by Jasmila Žbanić.
90 minutes; released 2006.
A touching film about a single mother who lives with her 12-year-old daughter Sara in the Grbavica district of Sarajevo, a neighborhood once used as an internment camp during the Yugoslav wars. Questions arise about Sara's father, said to have died as a war hero. In Serbo-Croatian with English subtitles.

Directed by Živojin Pavlović.
80 minutes; released 1967.
A worker is laid off from his factory job and takes off to wander in a country suffering from economic woes. In Serbo-Croatian with optional Slovenian subtitles.

Directed by Srdan Golubović.
102 minutes; released 2007.
The Trap is a film about an ordinary man who is forced to choose between the life and death of his own child. It is a story about the moral dilemma of the protagonist, who can only save the life of his son by accepting to become a killer. In Serbo-Croatian with English subtitles.

Directed by Slobodan Šijan.
83 minutes; released 1980.
In April 1941 a diverse group of Yugoslavian travellers board a bus going to Belgrade and have a series of mis-adventures. In Serbo-Croatian.

Directed by Srdjan Dragojević.
125 minutes; released 1996.
Two boyhood friends, one a Muslim, the other a Serb, find themselves on opposing sides in the war in Bosnia. In Serbo-Croatian with English subtitles.

Directed by Dušan Makavejev.
68 minutes; released 1967.
A young telephone operator falls in love with Ahmed, a rat catcher, and lives with him until she is seduced by a younger and obviously more glamorous postman. But Ahmed becomes jealous and accidentally kills her. In Serbo-Croatian with English subtitles.

Directed by Aleksandar Petrović.
90 minutes; released 1972.
A writer is imprisoned in 1925 Moscow. Based on the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov. In Italian, with optional English subtitles.

Directed by Dušan Makavejev.
79 minutes; released 1968.
Documentary about Dragoljub Aleksic, a Serbian athlete and movie enthusiast who made a feature film during the Nazi occupation of Belgrade. In Serbo-Croatian with optional English subtitles in the 2009 edition.

Directed by Danis Tanović.
97 minutes; released 2001.
Set during the height of the Bosnian War in 1993, a group of Bosnian soldiers are advancing on Serb territory under the cover of a foggy night... In Serbo-Croatian and English with optional subtitles in English, French or Spanish.

Directed by Lordan Zafranović.
116 minutes; released 1978.
Three close friends - a Croat, an Italian, and a Jew - take different sides when Dubrovnik is invaded in 1941. In Serbo-Croatian with sequences in Russian, Italian, and German.

Directed by Emir Kusturica.
135 minutes; released 1985.
A six-year-old boy tells his version of why daddy couldn't stay with his family in post-WWII Yugoslavia. In reality, the child's father has gone to prison for romancing the lover of a high-ranking party member, but the boy thinks papa's away working. In Serbo-Croatian with English subtitles.

Directed by Milcho Manchevski.
113 minutes; released 1994.
The lives of an orthodox Christian monk, a British photo agent, and a native Macedonian war photographer cross to paint a portrait of ethnic and religious hatred. In Macedonian, English and Albanian with optional English subtitles.

Directed by Damjan Kozole.
84 minutes; released 2003.
A former speedway champ inducts his young, inexperienced assistant into the squalid world of the illegal immigrant trade. In Slovenian with English subtitles.

Directed by Emir Kusturica.
105 minutes; released 1981.
A sixteen-year-old boy growing up Sarajevo in the 1960s is attracted by the world of small-time crime until he meets a lovely cabaret girl. In Serbo-Croatian with optional English subtitles

Directed by Aleksandar Petrović.
80 minutes; released 1967.
A married Roma man falls in love and elopes with a young woman, resulting in suffering for both of them. In Serbo-Croatian.

Directed by Aida Begić.
139 minutes; released 2008.
Includes two short films by Begić: Pro smrtno iskustvo = Première expérience de mort (26 min.; 2001) and Sjever je poludio = Le nord est devenu fou (18 min.; 2003). In Bosnian with French subtitles.

Directed by Emir Kusturica.
88 minutes; released 2001.
Film about a kind of music that describes the manic, mad, dramatic world of the Balkans. Autobiographical semi-documentary of Kusturica's the No Smoking Orchestra unza-punk band. In Serbo-Croatian with optional English or Chinese subtitles

Directed by Vinko Brešan.
88 minutes; released 2003.
A collection of interrelated stories, all centering on ethnic conflicts and moral ambiguities in a small Balkan town. In Croatian with optional English subtitles.

Directed by Dušan Makavejev.
85 minutes; released 1971.
This documentary-fiction film begins as an investigation into the life and work of controversial psychologist and philosopher Wilhelm Reich and then explodes into a free-form narrative of a beautiful young Slavic girl's sexual liberation. In English and Serbo-Croatian with optional English subtitles.