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James and Em Foster are enjoying an all-inclusive beach vacation in the fictional island of La Tolqa, when a fatal accident exposes the resort's perverse subculture of hedonistic tourism, reckless violence and surreal horrors.

Tidepools is the story of two young boys who form an unlikely friendship during wartime, despite the opposing forces that surround them. Pasha, a refuge who has been sent to live with his aunt in a charming seaside village, and Misha, the son of an influential family from the opposite camp. As war looms on the horizon, their friendship-precious yet fragile-is severely tested by rising nationalism and loyalty to their families and homeland. Tidepools is a poignant narrative exploring childhood and the devastating effects of war through the perspectives of two families and their sons.

Emre, a young prosecutor newly appointed to the small town of Yaniklar, finds himself being pulled into a political conflict during his first criminal investigation.

The world has been ravaged by a pandemic. Alone and outside the safety of the forest, Marko faces a shattered world shrouded in silence and danger.

Returning home from the front line after being held captive for two months, soldier Lilia (29 y.o.) discovers that she is pregnant after being raped by her warden. Will she manage to survive this trauma and save the child in a society that is not ready to accept either of them?

The film is a high-concept project with five stories exploring the themes of motherhood and pregnancy, directed by women filmmakers from five former Yugoslav republics. "Croatian Story" follows an anguished painter who must decide whether or not to keep one of her unborn twins, diagnosed with Down syndrome. "Serbian Story" finds an expectant mother in the same emergency room with a charming killer. "Bosnia-Herzegovina Story" centers on a financially strapped Sarajevo family whose son's lover is pregnant. "Macedonian Story" unfolds in a clinic where a drug addict struggles to keep her baby, and "Slovenian Story" ends the omnibus on a humorous note with a nun who finds her own way to immaculate conception.

Three daughters battle for acceptance, redemption and new opportunities.

Four close friends are renowned filmmakers in Yugoslavia in the 1950s, but their sexual orientation raises suspicion. A communist party loyalist is sent to sabotage their lives, turning their pursuit of freedom into a battle for survival.

Aleksandra, a Slovenian student and part-time sex worker in Ljubljana, grapples with guilt and inner turmoil after an unintended fatality, questioning her life's trajectory.

Follows three father-daughter relationships in the present; a girl Dora and her drug-dealing father, a soap-opera director medically caring for her father and the producer of the same soap-opera who cannot face her father.

Hannah and Sam are young, have a house, a lovely daughter, Anja, and well paid work. However, their comfortable family routine is thrown into emotional turmoil. When Hannah realizes Sam has an affair with a young female colleague, she packs her suitcase and returns to her mother. She reunites with her ex-flame Leo, from her student years hoping it will help her to move on, but discovers that Leo is a philanderer. Hannah makes a hard choice.

In Lepoglava, one of the most notorious penitentiaries in Europe, many regimes have trained their strictness by imposing the brutal methods of the so-called prison rehabilitation. Lepoglava is still the central Croatian penitentiary, in which several prisoners have decided to take up Shakespeare. This is the story about those of them who would today, were Shakespeare alive, be the heroes of his plays.

A war veteran with post-traumatic disorders talks about his practical inability to start a normal life after his fighting and killing experience. This 35-year-old married man with three children, who joined the Croatian army in the very beginning of the war and saw various Yugoslavian battlefields from his perspective of a sniper, is unemployed today and tries to adapt to his surroundings while still feeling the closest to his former, now similarly dispossessed co-fighters.

A woman who, after the death of her son, loses the lust for life, gets fat and becomes "Mrs Before" in the newspaper ads for reducing diets. Her story is told by a friar, whose brethren find the woman nude in his room.