First Week of August / Prvi tjedan u kolovozu
feature fiction film

Anticipated length: 90′
Writer and Director: Filip Mojzeš
Producers: Tamara Babun & Matija Drniković / WOLFGANG & DOLLY
Co-financed by: Croatian Audiovisual Centre
Development: MIDPOINT Feature Launch 2021-2022 / HAVC – Project Development Support 2021 / Screenwriting Workshop “Split Script” 2021 Mentor: Razvan Radulescu / Screenwriting Program “Branko Bauer” 2020 Mentor: Jelena Paljan / Zagreb Film Festival 2019 – Screenwriting Workshop “My First Script” Mentors: Pjer Žalica, Antonio Nuić / HAVC – Script Development Support 2018

An idyllic island vacation takes a tumultuous turn when a mother’s sudden physical outburst towards her 10-year-old son exposes hidden tensions and lingering conflicts within the family. A picturesque Mediterranean setting becomes a backdrop for the family to confront long-standing personal issues.

Buše
short fiction film

Anticipated length: 12′
Writer and Director: Dalija Dozet
Producers: Tamara Babun & Matija Drniković / WOLFGANG & DOLLY
Co-financed by: Croatian Audiovisual Centre

During the traditional Baranja carnival parade, 15-year-old Marta has only one thing on her mind: how to get closer to Karlo, her crush. As adolescent fear, desire, and shame intermingle, and the masked party at the local hall reaches its peak, their hot-and-cold game, thanks to Marta, will take an unexpected turn.

Third Shift / Treća smjena
feature fiction film

Anticipated length: 90′
Writer and Director: Ana Opačić
Co-writer: Slobodan Trajkovski
Producer: Slobodan Trajkovski / PEAK PRODUCTION
Coproducers: Tamara Babun Zovko & Matija Drniković / WOLFGANG & DOLLY
Co-financed by: North Macedonia Film Agency, Croatian Audiovisual Centre

Milan, an aging music professor, is forced to undergo rehabilitation after suffering a nervous breakdown. Accompanied by his wife, Tatjana, he travels to a picturesque town on Lake Prespa, where he spent his childhood.

Through the visual narration provided by the Prespa landscape, the atmosphere is enriched by the life stories of the town’s intriguing inhabitants, who remain stuck in a nostalgic past. However, the sudden arrival of Maša, his daughter from his first marriage, adds even more tension to the situation.

Another Film About the War, Father and Home / Još jedan film o ratu, ocu i domu
documentary

Anticipated length: 80′
Writer and director: Damir Markovina
DOP: Tomislav Krnić
Producer: Tamara Babun / WOLFGANG & DOLLY LLC
Co-producer: Damir Markovina / Osoba D
Executive producer: Matija Drniković / WOLFGANG & DOLLY LLC
Co-financed by: Croatian Audiovisual Centre

THE FIGHTER is a film about the final sum of a moral life and repercussions of consistent political choices on one’s family, safety and social position. The author’s father Roko Markovina is living his retirement days restoring old boats on an island. From this point in his life we go back in time and revisit Roko’s role in politics during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina where he relentlessly advocated for peace and against nationalism. He survived several assassinations attempts and his whole family had to leave the country as both war and political refugees. Through archive materials we find out about his political activity and position. Through the newly filmed material we understand what the consequences of his activity are on him and the life path his family members were thrown in and if there are any regrets on his part. Damir Markovina, the director of the film, will participate in front of the camera as an active character and the challenging father-son relationship will play a significant role in how the story reveals itself to the audience.

Stepo / Stepo
Documentary Film

Anticipated length: 90′
Director and Screenwriter: Tyler Neal Gates
Producer: Gates Media Solution International and Evil Ideas
Co-Producer: WOLFGANG & DOLLY LLC
Co-financed by: Film Centre of Montenegro, Sekretarijat za kulturu, Opština Kotor, Croatian Audiovisual Centre

This is the story of a father and son who left their homeland in search of a better life, built a brighter future, and left their mark on history. Marko Stijepović from Risno secretly traveled to America during the Austro-Hungarian occupation of the Boka Kotorska Bay, never suspecting the impact he would have on the fate of that country. He became Mike Stepovich, a gold prospector on the Klondike River in Alaska, saving many lives and earning the nickname “Wise Mike.”

Parenthood / Roditeljstvo

Anticipated length: 120′
Writer and director: Katarina Zrinka Matijević
DOP: Tomislav Krnić & Vjeran Hrpka
Producers: Tamara Babun & Matija Drniković / WOLFGANG & DOLLY LLC
Co-financed by: Croatian Audiovisual Centre
Expected completion date: May 2023

Following the saying “helping your child find the right path will make you lose your own”, the director uses a film camera to record moments of happiness, wonder, love, but also challenges, insecurities, fears, and burdens of parenthood. In painfully honest and humorous interviews with parents, she engages in an exchange of experiences on various parenting methods; with a couple awaiting their first child, she remembers the birth of her own daughter; and through observation of children playing and mimicking their parents’ relationships, she offers an extensive film study of parenthood.

Vlaho Bukovac: Zagreb Days / Vlaho Bukovac: Zagrebački dani
Documentary Film

Anticipated length: 70′
Director and Screenwriter: Željko Rogošić
Co-financed by: Croatian Audiovisual Centre

In the late 19th century, Zagreb saw significant cultural advancements and the development of arts, culture, and science. This progress was not only due to the difficulties of the times but also thanks to the contributions of Ban Hedervary and Dr. Izidor Kršnjavi, bringing the city closer to the cultural and lifestyle standards of European metropolises. In 1893, the renowned painter and traveler Vlaho Bukovac arrives in the city…

Sasha / Saša
short fiction film

Anticipated length: 15-30′
Director and Screenwriter: Petra Belc Krnjaić
Co-financed by: Croatian Audiovisual Centre

Shot on Super 8mm film, this film captures a fragment of the director’s daughter’s upbringing and the first years of motherhood. Temporarily shifting from film theory to film practice, the director uses the form of a video essay to explore the female experience in the first person. She remains fascinated by the power of the image in communicating liminal and emotionally intense experiences, but this time, she aims to blur the boundary between the objectivity of science and the subjectivity of everyday life.

In Another World / Na drugom svijetu
short fiction film

Anticipated length: 20′
Director and Screenwriter: Tamara Babun
Co-financed by: HAVC – Croatian Audivisual Centre

Maša arrives from the big city to look for Miro in a remote village. The reason is serious, and revealed later. Instead of Miro, Maša encounters Živka, who informs her that he won’t be back for several days. As they wait, carrying out everyday tasks brings the women closer.

Zanki / Zanki
documentary

Original title: Gnjurac
Anticipated length: 70′ i 52′
Writer and Director: Marcella Zanki
Producer: Tamara Babun, Matija Drniković / WOLFGANG & DOLLY LLC
Co-financed by: Croatian Audiovisual Centre

The author of the film returns to her family’s island to fully develop her relationship with her father, who devoted his life to the depths of the sea. Painting a portrait of her father with a film, the author tries to find the answer to whether it is necessary to go so far (and deep) from civilization in order to live to the fullest, or can we learn to breathe on land as well.

Little Places of My Heart / Malena mjesta srca moga
Documentary TV Series 

Anticipated length: 8 x 26 min
Writer and Director: Ines Pletikos
Producers: Tamara Babun / WOLFGANG & DOLLY
Co-financed by: Croatian Audiovisual Centre

In the documentary-entertainment series ‘Little Places of My Heart’, we bring you stories about people who have enriched the soul of the cities they live in through their actions, enthusiasm, and love, and with which they are inseparably connected.
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Homo Ludens – Virtuoso of Freedom / Homo Ludens – Virtuoz sloboda
Documentary Film

Anticipated length: 80′
Writer and Director: Ines Pletikos
Producers: Tamara Babun / WOLFGANG & DOLLY
Co-financed by: Croatian Audiovisual Centre

Predrag Lucić is one of the initiators and founders of the weekly magazine Feral Tribune, initiator and editor of the FT Library, author and performer of the Melodies of Flash and Storm, a theater director who staged plays in Belgrade, Split, and Tuzla, a playwright whose texts have been performed in Sarajevo, Split, Rijeka, Pula, Koper, and Trieste, and the recipient of the Judita Award at the 63rd Split Summer Festival in 2017 for the drama “Aziz or the Wedding that Saved the West”. DUJE is a road movie in which we take viewers on an adventure through his fantastic world.

Seagull Mark’s Adventures / Pustolovine Galeba Marka
Animated TV Series

Original title: Pustolovine Galeba Marka
Anticipated length: 10 x 6′
Picture Book Author: Martina Markov
Director: Luka Rukavina
Screenwriter: Nikolina Bogdanović
Co-financed by: Croatian Audiovisual Centre

Lost Trace / Izgubljeni trag
Drama TV Series

Anticipated length: 6×45′
Series Creator: Aleksandar Arsovski
Screenwriters: Nikolina Bogdanović and Maja Sviben
Director: Filip Heraković
Genre: Drama
Co-financed by: Croatian Audiovisual Centre

The series follows the story of inspector Borna, social worker Milena, and NGO worker Danijel who are looking for parents of a six-year-old girl found in a small park, with the police suspecting her origin being from the Middle East. Simultaneously, all three confront personal challenges. The girl’s father, Bajro, an illegal migrant, conceals his identity. Jan, Milena’s son, leaves home. Danijel and his family face difficulties in finding an apartment. The series unveils dark secrets, intertwining the fates of the characters.

Mother Revolution / Majka revolucija
fiction

Anticipated length: 80′
Writers: Nikolina Bogdanović, Damir Čučić, Slaven Zečević
Director: Damir Čučić
DOP: Boris Poljak
Producer: Tamara Babun / WOLFGANG & DOLLY LLC

Co-financed by: Croatian Audiovisual Centre, Creative Europe – MEDIA

In a dystopian future, three women decide to take on the struggle to fight for a better tomorrow for their society.

Stop Me if You Can / Zaustavi me ako možeš
documentary

Anticipated length: 90′
Writer and director: Bruna Bajić
Producers: Tamara Babun / WOLFGANG & DOLLY LLC
Co-financed by: Croatian Audiovisual Centre

Stop Me if You Can is a documentary devoted to the incredible power and strength of human beings and the awakening to the realisation that we should quit letting life happen to us and start becoming people who happen to life. The film follows the obstacles and dilemmas of the Paralympic swimmer Dino Sinovčić as he works towards becoming the best version of himself in all senses.

Pinna Wants to Live / Pinna hoće živjeti
Documentary Film

Anticipated length: TBD
Directors and Screenwriters: Tamara Babun and Tomislav Bader
Co-financed by: Croatian Audiovisual Centre

Scientists and divers from different institutions are working on saving penn shelves in the Adriatic. The film PINNA WANTS TO LIVE will unveil their motivations, inspirations, fears, and hopes, as well as the delicate existence of the sea world.

Curious Ana / Znatiželjna Ana
Children’s television series

Anticipated length: 26 x 26′
Author and showrunner: Aleksandar Arsovski
Writers: Aleksandar Arsovski, Veno Mušinović, Marija Androić, Ninoslav Mevelj, Matej Sudarić i Vida Zelić
Producers: Tamara Babun, Matija Drniković, Aleksandar Arsovski / WOLFGANG & DOLLY LLC

Twelve-year-old Ana got the idea to transform her father’s unused garage into a small laboratory where she and her best friend Peter can launch their own show. Eva, Ana’s doll, is also joining their team.

Get a Grip, Roberta / Roberta, saberi se
Drama-Comedy TV Series

Anticipated length: 13×26′
Series Creators: Lana Kosovac and Amanda Prenkaj
Director: Lana Kosovac
Co-financed by: Croatian Audiovisual Centre

Thirty-year-old Roberta, simultaneously ambitious and fearful, strives to succeed in the acting industry while navigating complex family and romantic relationships that sometimes spiral out of her control.

Women.hr / Žene.hr
fiction

Anticipated length: 110′
Writer and director: Katarina Zrinka Matijević
Producers: Tamara Babun & Matija Drniković / WOLFGANG & DOLLY LLC
Co-financed by: Croatian Audiovisual Centre, REACT Development Fund

Jelena Zrinski was proclaimed the bravest woman in Europe, but she died exiled in Asia Minor. Ivana Brlić Mažuranić is the most translated children’s books author in the world, who took her own life by hanging herself in a Zagreb sanatorium. Nasta Rojc is a painter whose paintings call for a revision of the start date of the European avant-garde. But during her lifetime, she was never appreciated by her professional environment and, due to her sexual orientation and uninhibited personality, she was excluded from public life. The destinies of the three heroines are intertwined in the imagined world between life and death through a series of events, both tragic and comic, as they search for their greatest loves – a son, a doctor and a wife – and find their true selves.

Night Waves / Noćni valovi
fiction
Anticipated length: 90′
Writer and Director: Filip Heraković
Producer: Tamara Babun, Matija Drniković / WOLFGANG & DOLLY LLC
Co-financed by: Croatian Audiovisual Centre

Danijel, a young Uber driver in a touristic city, becomes preoccupied with the fate of a young Danish tourist who vanishes without a trace after he cancels her ride.

Levant / Levant
fiction

Writer and director: Una Radić
Producers: Tamara Babun & Matija Drniković / WOLFGANG & DOLLY LLC
Co-financed by: Croatian Audiovisual Centre, Creative Europe – MEDIA

The Window Across The Street / Prozor preko puta
fiction

Anticipated length: 90′
Writer and director: Katarina Zrinka Matijević
Producers: Tamara Babun & Matija Drniković / WOLFGANG & DOLLY LLC
Co-financed by: Croatian Audiovisual Centre

Sanja, a high-profile bank manager, realizes her bank organized a scheme to purposefully deceive clients and decides to do something about it. She spends nights copying documents in an office overlooking the window of the journalist, Ilko, who will turn out to be her voice to the public.

The Mystery Of Fisheye / Tajna ribljeg oka
fiction

Anticipated length: 90′
Writer: Hrvoje Kovačević
Producer: Tamara Babun, Matija Drniković / WOLFGANG & DOLLY LLC
Co-financed by: Croatian Audiovisual Centre

Domagoj, a boy with vivid imagination who is rarely taken seriously by anyone, finds himself right in the middle of a great adventure because of a family painting that was supposedly painted by the famous Vincent van Gogh.