Slaven Knezović

The Wrath of God (2025)

Ilija is a member of the Croatian Defence Council (HVO) somewhere in Central Bosnia in late 1993. One morning, after a routine mine laying campaign, he learns his younger brother Goran was killed far beyond enemy lines, together with eight other soldiers. ...

The Glory of Emptiness (2022)

What can connect a searcher, a neighborhood girl, an artist, five books, five dead and dogs around town. ...

Savages (2022)

Zolja, Jasmin and Mali set out to rob a gas station in order to get money for a trip to the World Cup finals. Fleeing the police, they cross the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina and wander into a terrorist camp in the woods. ...

Heavens Above (2021)

Three stories about the impact of three God's miracles in the medieval sense that happen to the film's heroes living in a post-communist society that, after half a century of atheism, re-learns about Christianity. ...

Once We Were Good for You (2021)

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. ...

What a Country! (2018)

A story about suicidal general, a minister in the Croatian government who voluntarily locks himself inside a prison cell, and 4 pensioners, who steal the coffin with the remains of the late Croatian president. ...

Happy End: Stupid and Stupider 3 (2018)

A female story from male perspective about two losers who invented an effective self-help method under the slogan "Love to the Sky, Fuck to the Stars", and find themselves in the whirlwind of sex, politics, religion, the media, the devastating power of the ...

Der Kroatien-Krimi: Mord auf Vis (2018)

A Thousand (2015)

A young man by the name of Atif Kurtovic goes into a mine for the first time in his life to become a miner and to continue exactly where his now retired grandfather had left off. However, his fate is soon completely changed when he is picked as the face fo ...

The Enchanting Porkers (2015)

The movie "Swineherds" is a satirical anti-musical which deals with the phenomena of the media sensationalism that trivializes even the most serious and the most painful subjects. The movie depicts the phenomenon of media manipulation, mass hysteria, thirs ...

The Bridge at the End of the World (2014)

The war has ended. Villages of Bosnian Croats have been destroyed, and they are living in the homes of the Croatian Serbs. An old man, a Bosnian Croat, disappears. A policeman Filip, himself living in a Serbian home, investigates the case uninterestedly. T ...

Number 55 (2014)

In the autumn of 1991, a small group of Croatian soldiers go on patrol in an improvised armored vehicle. Soon after that they would get ambushed and their vehicle would get destroyed, in that situation they were forced to hide in a nearby house. Whilst sta ...

A Stranger (2013)

When Slavko's old friend Djulaga dies, Slavko feels obliged to go to the funeral. But in his hometown of Mostar, in Bosnia & Herzegovina, this simple social obligation has the potential to get him into all kinds of trouble: with his neighbors or even w ...

I Love YU (2013)

This movie embraces the world of imagination, reality and memory with emotion. People, things, scenes and images make love B- flat which happens before, now and always. ...

Flower Square (2013)

An obscure actor is hired by the police to get a confession out of a dying mafioso. ...

Halima's Path (2012)

In order to recover the body of her son lost during the war in Bosnia, a grieving, but strong-willed Muslim woman, Halima, must track down her estranged niece, who we find carries a mysterious connection to him. ...

The Vegetarian Cannibal (2012)

Danko Babic is an ambitious and amoral gynaecologist at Croatia's leading fertility clinic. When his colleague Bantic is appointed as head of the clinic, Babic starts a secret war to overthrow his rival. Distracted by his ruthless campaign he makes series ...

Step by Step (2011)

At the beginning of the war in Croatia, Vjera refuses to leave the ruins of her home on the front line . Her husband flees town while their son goes to battlefield. Working as an interpreter she starts her path of self-discovery. ...

Cirkus Columbia (2010)

Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1991. After the fall of the communists, Divko Buntić, who has lived in exile in Germany for the past twenty years, returns to the village where he grew up, intent on reclaiming ownership of his family home, driving a swanky Mercede ...

Zagreb Stories (2009)

Nine short films are connected into one whole, and they describe life in Croatia's capital of Zagreb. ...

Remember Vukovar (2008)

During the early stages of the Croatian War of Independance the Serbian paramilitary forces, assisted heavily by the People's Army of Yugoslavia, manage to make their way into the small town of Vukovar, which quickly becomes a no man's land. However, despi ...

No One's Son (2008)

Ivan is a 36-year old ex-rock singer and a disillusioned war veteran who lost both legs in the recent Croatian Homeland War. His father, Izidor, was a well-known political prisoner in the former Yugoslavia, and is now standing as an independent candidate f ...

The Living and the Dead (2007)

In 1943, group of Croatian soldiers overtake a strategically important point in western Bosnia with a goal to destroy a group of communist partisans. On the way they met some supernatural phenomena, and the action itself went very badly because the partisa ...

The Ghost in the Swamp (2006)

After Liptus arrives in a small village from the city, he calls his best friends, Miron and Melita, on winter holidays in Kopacevo. That same night, while they are all sleeping cozily, from their deep sleep Miron and Melita are woken by the disturbing soun ...

Witnesses (2003)

Set amid the atrocities of war in the Balkans, Witnesses is retold, Rashomon-style, from various characters' viewpoints, adding new information about the complexity of war and humanity. Beginning inside a rustic house with a woman in black (Mirjana Karanov ...

Remake (2003)

This film follows father Ahmed and son Tarik Karaga during WWII and the Siege of Sarajevo. ...

Ante Returns Home (2001)

Ante is a village fella who arrives in Zagreb to study at the faculty of forestry. ...

The Old Oak Blues (2000)

On the eve of Yugoslav war in 1991, English ecologist Henry comes to the city of Osijek in order to save the world's oldest oak. After many dangerous and funny adventures, they finally arrive to nearby village where the oak is located. ...

The Thread of Life (2000)

The bleakness of young individuals' life during transitional 1990s Croatia. ...

Red Dust (1999)

Wistful croquis of the neigborhood in western Zagreb at the beggining of the '90's. ...

Niť života (1990)

The Wrath of God (2025)

Ilija is a member of the Croatian Defence Council (HVO) somewhere in Central Bosnia in late 1993. One morning, after a routine mine laying campaign, he learns his younger brother Goran was killed far beyond enemy lines, together with eight other soldiers. ...

My Mother's Swedish Heart (2022)

In the summer of 1993, a group of Bosnian refugees flee to Sweden due to the war in Bosnia. The Swedish Red Cross places refugees in a pavilion for migrants. Among them is the middle-aged married couple, Dervish and Adem. Dervish meets the Swede Ingrid in ...