Želimir Žilnik Movies

In Žilnik’s hilarious and sneakily charming docu-fiction, post-socialist restitution returns his childhood home to Serbian jazz musician...

One Woman, One Century is a documentary film based on statements, interviews, and reconstructions of real-life events. The life story of Dragica...

In buildings where foreign workers lived in Germany, there were strict rules of conduct, defined by the house rules and supervised by the building...

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

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

People of different nationalities from Central Europe attempting to reach the West by crossing the controls and “European” rules.

A mixture of documentary and fiction examines the new god of Capitalism offered to the Serbs with the ending of state socialism. We look at a number...

Director invites six homeless men to his flat for a few days (surprising his wife). He asks officials and people on the street if someone can help...

A construction site with foreign workforce – lunch break. A Greek man tries to write a request letter to the German authorities to allow his...

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

Filmed in 1968, "Little Pioneers" examines the gap between socialist rhetoric and social reality by focusing on children excluded from state...

Two young actors are exploring the topic of representation of LGBTI people through the history of Yugoslav cinema and social circumstances that have...

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

Road movie documentary through half a century of filmography by Želimir Žilnik. But also a journey through the history of Yugoslavia, a...

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

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...

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

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...

A series of portraits of women from different fields of work who give us their views of the relationship between men and women – a Chinese...