Croatian cinema gained international attention through its animated shorts, with the Zagreb School of Animation becoming a globally recognised movement from the 1950s onwards. More recently, features like Number 55 have drawn notice for their unflinching look at wartime history. See what Macca made of the films below.
Rating: 3.0★
There is a particular kind of coming-of-age film that uses landscape as emotional shorthand, and Murina is very much in that tradition. Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović's debut feature is set almost entirely on and around a small Croatian island in the Adriatic, a place of sunlit water
Genre Animation
★★½ — Manivald (2017)
Genre War
★★ — Number 55 (2014)
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