Želimir Žilnik Movies

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 frustrated and unemployed architect experiences flashbacks of his youth and 1968 protests while the life passes by. Unable to adapt and to accept...

Through the conversation with Yugoslav film authors and excerpts from their films, this documentary film tells a story of a film phenomenon and...

Belgrade in 2041 is a deserted city that looks like a dump yard. A few old men try to bring up a group of young girls in the old, traditional way of...

Inspired by Karl Marx's "Das Kapital", three men and a girl named Jugoslava decide to wake up the conscience within the working class and peasants....

SFRJ is officially a place where everyone have a job and a house. The story follows hard labored workers who can't find a job, who bathe in public...

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...

Young seamstress Ivana leaves work in the tailor shops in Novi Pazar and accepts an offer to be a waitress in a private cafe in Gusinje, Montenegrin...

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

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...

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

The first film in what would ultimately become Zilnik’s famed Kenedi trilogy follows street hustler Kenedi Hasani and his friend as they roam...

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...

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

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

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

Memories and commentaries of non-professional actors combined with excerpts from films in which they participated as "protagonists," mixed with...

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

In SFRJ, the state officially takes care of all it's citizens. Every child is a good little pioneer. However, in reality no one (especially not the...

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...