Paško Vukasović

Once We Were Good for You

25 years from the Homeland war, Croatia is far from ideal of the veterans, now disgruntled men silenced with pensions. A few war veterans are brought back together by an idea of Museum of Homeland Thanksgiving in Paromlin building in Zagreb city center.

Alone

Twenty-two-year-old Lana lives alone in an apartment in Zagreb. One day, an allegedly unknown man broke into her apartment. After a police insight, Lana remains living in an apartment with a broken front door and in anticipation of her father’s arrival.

It's Not Cold for Mosquitoes

The end of the year 2021 is approaching in the Croatian capital. Thirty-three-year-old Karlo lives in his mother's apartment in the city centre, works remotely, and occasionally hangs out with his friends.

Traces

After the death of her father, young scientist Ana struggles with an identity crisis, being the last member of a once large family. The changes inside her are suddenly reflected in reality – loneliness, crisis, emigration – and her scientific research on mystical symbols and human traces left in stone are mysteriously intertwined with her life.

Escort

For the first time in his life, Miro (40) spends the night with a prostitute someone sent to him in a hotel after a business.

My Nikola

The religious Karla marries the love of her life, Nikola. As the celebrations advance and the first wedding night approaches, Karla becomes more and more anxious. Then she gets a very unusual idea.

White Room

Two brothers are renovating the apartment that they have inherited from their recently deceased mother. By working together, they will finally face the traumatic past that has been troubling their relationship throughout the years.

Sweet Simona

Sex chat-line operators realize that their messages could destroy the life of an unknown client who fell in love with an imaginary woman.

Quit Staring at My Plate

Marijana's life revolves around her family, whether she likes it or not. They live on top of one another in a tiny apartment, driving one another crazy. Then her controlling father has a stroke and is left completely bedridden, and Marijana takes his place as head of the clan. Soon, she is working two jobs to keep everything afloat, while her mother and disabled brother do their best to scupper the ship. Driven to the edge, Marijana finds comfort in seedy sex with random strangers; and this taste of freedom leaves her wanting more. But now that she has finally found freedom, what's she meant to do with it?

Happy Endings

Ankica is the proud owner of a legitimate massage salon, which she runs with her best friend Ljilja. She dreams of keeping her out-of-work husband and adult daughter in comfort while helping Ljilja pay for her son's recurring rehab programs. But in reality, Ankica’s debts are mounting, and she refuses to add happy endings (sexual favors) at the salon to increase revenues. When a loan shark threatens to take her apartment if she does not repay her debt, in desperation, she turns to crime.

Kid

After spending four years in prison, a drug dealer will do anything to keep custody over his son.

These Are the Rules

After their son has been beaten up in the street, parents find their world of false security collapsing and have to re-examine their lives and question everything into what they believed.

Elephant's Graveyard

Zvonimir is in a hurry; Branka, however, is not – she would prefer to stay home. Zvonimir is persistent – although at times it seems that he too is unsure of what to do. They both know that they will have no way to return once they depart.

Summer Fruits

Summer fruits are refreshing but high temperatures can make them go bad.

White Christmas

City park – an ideal place to relax.

Volare

The true story of Andrea and Franco Antonello, a father and autistic son who traveled by motorbike for three months between the United States and South America.

Sultriness

Roza is looking for a new roommate. Karmen is looking for refuge.

Yoghurt, Juice, Cigarettes

Sara is a young mother who has several weeks of hospitalization left, slow routines and everyday struggles ahead of her, and the film follows her long day in the psychiatric yard.

Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day

Four close friends, Lovro (21), Nenad (20), Stevan (22), and Ivan (20), fought against the Ustashas and Nazis by joining the partisans in WWII. Sixteen years later, they became renowned filmmakers. In 1957, in Communist Yugoslavia, their sexual orientation raises suspicion, and a communist party loyalist named Emir (52) is assigned to sabotage their careers and lives. The pursuit of freedom becomes a fight for survival for the artists, while Emir's beliefs are challenged.

Carpe diem!

Gracija, employee of a call centre for a healthy food restaurant, finds herself in a hotel full of eccentric and bizzare characters who question her existence, meanings of life and time and what does it even mean to be a member of society.

South Wind

As an intense southern wind rattles Split, the lives of tenants in a four-story building collide in a darkly comedic chain of misunderstandings, schemes, and chaos where even heroes remain villains in the eyes of their neighbors.

Mom's Alive Today

Jakov returns to hometown in order to take care of his mother whose suffering from a schizoaffective disorder, however, this intense new element in his life will slowly start to make his own psyche crack.

Five Days at the Sea

Maša and her boyfriend decide to visit their friends who own a property on a small Dalmatian island. What starts off as a potentially fun vacation turns into a game of trust when Maša confides to her friend that she's expecting, with this sudden revelation testing the boundries of everyone's comfort zone.

The Pack

Andrija, a fire department captain, is in a commited relationship with Marija, however, he cannot stop himself from thinking about Petra, one of Marija's best friends. After he's finished with a dangerous job he speaks to both of them, deciding to finally determine the future of their relationship that's burning down much like the trees he's trying to save.

It’s Fine, I’m Fine, Everything’s Fine

Andro comes to his hometown for a summer vacation and meets two friends from his youth — Toni has become a father, Franko is stuck in his old ways, while Andro drifts somewhere in between.

The Grand Finale Is Still Going

After a chainsaw is stolen from his ill father, Toni must face the harsh truths and fears regarding his father's physical and mental state.

Anno Domini

After a tourist faints in front of his home, Marinko's life is changed forever as he's forced to face his loneleyness.

America

Three men decide to rob a wealthy manor, however, the situation gradually begins to turn against them.

The Master Butcher

After his return from World War I, there is no more work for Fidelis in his parents' butcher shop in Swabia, Germany. To make a better life for himself and Eva, the former fiancée of a friend who fell in battle, he emigrates to Argus, a town in North Dakota, in the United States. The artist Delphine, in whom Eva will find a friend, also moves there. To relieve Eva's homesickness, Fidelis founds a singing club.

The Lambkin

A young girl, Janica, arrives in a small town and gets a waitressing job at a restaurant run by the Miočić family. Although the family accept her at first, they inexplicably start changing their behaviour which causes a sense of unease and growing paranoia.