Želimir Žilnik Movies

Villagers of Kovilj grow cattle on the Danube islands. Marko, an owner of ten horses, around twenty cows and other cattle is a good friend with a...

Tito, lifelong president of Yugoslavia, is coming from his grave to once again talk to Serbs and to check what has changed since he was gone.

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...

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

Zelimir Zilnik has always been discussing the communist's regime taboos , with his early documentaries , but especially with his film about the...

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

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

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

After decades of work in Italy and Germany, Giuseppe is retired and returns to his family home in Istria. He is lonely and his mother advises him to...

A carnival is in town. Workers start to build the stalls and tents. Players practice their act. Roma, peasants and grifters put up their own boots....

In the first years of the EXIT music festival in Novi Sad, Serbia, for many, it was a trip to a "wonderland", after a decade of isolation,...

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

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

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

"Fitzgerald" is Jovica's nickname among his friends. One day Jovica, a film projectionist from the childhood of Zilnik, an old jazz pianist and one...

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

Two young men from Eastern Europe take a pilgrimage to Santiago, Spain. Upon arrival at one of the most northwestern points of Europe, the...

Zilnik's 102 minutes long TV series is about a couple of guys, one good and naive, the other liar and manipulator, trying to make a living the best...

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