Movies: Ante Babaja

A beautiful but ailing girl is married to a harsh man who doesn't care for her. Only after she dies does he realize that he actually loves her....

Short Croatian documentary by Ante Babaja that centers around the everyday lives of elderly Yugoslav women....

After writing a book about life after death, a cardiologist experiences a heart attack while jogging, exactly the same thing he wrote about in his book. After that, he meets beautiful and mysterious woman....

A tribute to the human body....

Not everyone sleeps at night in Zagreb. An exploration of various night-time jobs....

In an island town, a professor pensioned before his time, together with his wife, takes care of the hundred year old Maddona Makantuna, a dispossessed land owner....

The funeral in his native village evokes the main character's reminiscences from the childhood, but the bygone time exist only in his memories....

The adaptation of Hans Cristian Andersen's tale filmed on a white background. It is also the first Croatian movie in color....

A short documentary film that follows and describes the city of Rijeka through one day - its port, shipyard, fish market, streets, bridges, parks, houses and the old town of Trsat....

A meditative essay....

A man and a woman quarrel in the street. Others take sides, and a brawl begins. The police finally intervene and justice is carried out in a manner befitting this stylised, slap-stick satire. - MIFF...

The local postal service makes a mistake delivering a small figurative sculpture to a miller and a miller stone to a museum. The museum curator, not aware of the mistake, starts celebrating this abstract shape, influencing even the local artists to i...

Short Croatian documentary from the former Yugoslavia by Ante Babaja that captures the different faces in a waiting room....

A study of activity surrounding a changing room by a place of swimming....

A tale of two brothers from babies to adulthood told without words. One brother is upstaged by the other from the crib onward. Eventually the tables are turned....

With the film Good Morning Ante Babaja took one last look in the bloodthirsty jaws also known as Time – with eyes wide open. Until then he did not spare his characters death and transience, and when the time came he directed a childishly inquisitive ...