Želimir Žilnik Movies

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...

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

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

Momčilo Radunović, an experienced entrepreneur and businessman remained in Gabon after the break-up of Yugoslavia. In the film, he evokes...

The clash of two worlds in the present-day Europe. As the indigenous population seeks to defend the status quo against escalating immigration, the...

After his participation in filming of “Kenedi Goes Back Home," Kenedi Hasani decided to illegally go to EU countries where his father, mother,...

In Vukovar, during the Croatian War of Independence, after the devastation of the town, hundreds of tons of wheat have leaked out of a destroyed...

Story follows a weekend in a village where young adults after a hard working week let there steam off in taverns eating, drinking, singing, breaking...

Fifteen-year-old Pavle Hromiš, obeying the will of his parents, leaves Germany and goes to live in Yugoslavia with his grandmother. He has...

This film collage is based on Heinrich Heine’s poem "Lorelei". Traditional German postcards were used with images of the siren on the Rhine who...

The elderly inhabitants of a village in Vojvodina look back on the war and the partisan battles. The film also examines how collective memories and...

Druga linija aka The Other Line is a product of many years of research of neo-avant-garde cultural and art scene in Novi Sad, Serbia (late 60s and...

Kenedi is in a huge debt after building a house for his family. He finds himself searching for any kind of work to support himself, for as little as...

An aging highlander from the village of Kremna, on Tara mountain, heads for Belgrade accompanied by a ninety-three year old war veteran. He wants to...

This documentary film essay analyses controversial police procedures in Germany in autumn 1974, when in a number of the police interventions suspects...

Vera and Erzika have worked at Trudbenik textile factory in Pancevo since they were 13. Now that they are almost retired they face numerous problems...

Traditional Hungarian songs sung by talented amateurs from Vojvodina villages. Each of the seven ballads has been shot in the atmosphere of the song...

At Munich’s central station, after years spent working in factories in several German cities, a worker from Serbia boards a train and heads...

Illegal immigrants and asylum seekers in Serbia, placed in asylum centers after their dramatic journeys from war-torn and poverty-stricken areas of...

The film was shot in an old, decrepit building where dozens of guest-workers' families live. The owner, a local influential politician, has avoided...