Martin Semenčić

Martin Semenčić

Filmography

Soft Creatures

Soft Creatures

2021

18:42

Nena recently started working as a school assistant to seven-year-old Dejan, who has a learning disability. It’s one of Nena’s first grown-up jobs and Dejan is a tough cookie, so every moment presents a new challenge for both of them. Things look pretty bleak until a fluffy white friend comes to visit.

Anti-Waste

Anti-Waste

2020

18:06

Summer in Zagreb. The air is thick and concrete is hot. Somebody’s car is on fire. Somebody’s head got kicked in. Somebody got their mobile stolen. Will the troublesome adolescent break the vicious cycle of violence he might or might not have started himself?

Space Is Not Enough

Space Is Not Enough

2019

20:18

Eternalistic view of personal memories. There is no past, no present, no future. Everything happened at the same time.

Mater

Mater

2019

97:18

Jasna, a Croatian ex-pat, returns to her hometown to take care of her dying mother. But even when lying bedridden, her mother’s immobile body still radiates daunting authority over those who surround her. As days go by, Jasna gets tangled in the web of grudges that she was desperately trying to escape. Will she finally […]

Days of Madness

Days of Madness

2018

73:23

Days of Madness portrays an incredible odyssey of two mentally diverse and unjustly rejected people who are learning to accept their difference, faced with the blindness of the society that branded them as hopeless, and the health system that turned them into addicts.

A Brief Excursion

A Brief Excursion

2017

75:09

Stola has been spending his summer in the sweltering haze of festival parties. But one day, he runs into Roko, an old acquaintance, who is on a mission to discover medieval frescoes at a nearby monastery. Roko convinces Stola and a random group of partygoers to join him in his search. However, when their bus […]

White Trash

White Trash

2017

11:39

A dystopian scene of a landfill on a foggy winter morning, disrupted by gulls and some humans going about their business.

Nonna

Nonna

2017

15:06

Grandma lives alone and for days she refuses to get out of bed. The camera is the only constant observer of her everyday life.

The Cleaning Lady

The Cleaning Lady

2017

11:14

A teenager returns home one night completely beside himself. Unable to hide his mental state from his mother, he admits to killing a local priest. His mother, a cleaning lady at the rectory, has a plan to save him.

The Beast

The Beast

2016

14:31

A rashly accepted job at a construction site in the seaside apartment village turns into complication for a backhoe loader operator from the hinterland who, in order to retain fatherly authority and get the legal, but dirty demolition work done, needs to remove an unwanted witness.

You Dreamt That You Where Happy

You Dreamt That You Where Happy

2015

21:08

Blanka flees her rented apartment because of unpaid bills, and goes about her routine. She participates in a humiliating casting, kisses a boy she does not love, and visits her alienated parents. She meets an older man who takes her to his luxurious home. In the bedroom, she notices a gun on the window sill.

No Wolf Has a House

No Wolf Has a House

2015

24:17

Sandra is an overly sensitive young woman who, when under pressure, has trouble with deciphering the line between reality and her twisted fantasies. During her husband’s birthday party, she has to spend a day with his family. Their barely concealed hostility is making her gradually lose her mind.

Boo-boo Boo hoo hoo

Boo-boo Boo hoo hoo

2015

10:50

Just like any other 13-year-old, Antun is irritated by his younger brother.

Manjaca

Manjaca

2014

22:40

Manjaca is a film about a young man who decides to take his life into his own hands for the first time. Trying to distance himself from his old life, he takes the plunge and moves in with his grandfather.

K18

K18

2014

13:54

The camera follows a stream in the forest. The whole time, we hear a recital that sounds like music. At the end of the film, the camera finds a dead entity. The film ends with a vibrating rectangle of light in a dark forest, and is based on a question by American artist Paul Thek: […]

On shaky ground

On shaky ground

2013

28:59

On Shaky Ground is a short film that deals with the issue of a breaking family, after the father falls into a serious depression because of the financial moves he had previously kept secret.

I’m a Self-Made Woman

I’m a Self-Made Woman

2012

27:00

Željka’s younger sister Silvija begs her to let her spend the night, because their mom has just read her shameless blog and she doesn’t want to go back home. The next morning, Željka takes Silvija and her best friend Danica to a TV studio where she works as a make-up artist. While getting ready to […]

Komba

Komba

2011

14:23

Miha is woken up by his mobile phone. It is his mother, reminding him of his duties. He lies to her… Everyone has their habits. It seems that Miha’s habit is constant repetition. Miha spends his time with Edo. They are not friends, they just have the same interests. After today they will have nothing […]

Chill

Chill

2011

10:24

A girl visits her ex-boyfriend in search of their lost intimacy.

The Celts

The Celts

2011

25:20

Every weekend The Celts football fans escape their washed-up small-town blues by cheering for a team from a nearby village. Although their hometown boasts a successful team that competes in Croatia’s national league, these passionate football fans give their hearts, and their support, to a village team that plays in regional leagues. Over the course […]

Non-Recyclable

Non-Recyclable

2009

16:41

Fragments of the wishes, attitudes and views of the three bottle collectors in Zagreb. We collect bottles and impressions on the daily collecting route. Three people of different fate on the streets of Zagreb gather bottles. They collect them for different reasons and look at it differently. While they do, they talk about their everyday […]

2021Soft Creatures - Editing, Sound Design

2020Anti-Waste - Sound Design

2019Space Is Not Enough - Sound mix

2019Mater - Sound Design

2018Days of Madness - Sound

2017A Brief Excursion - Sound Designer

2017White Trash - Sound Design

2017Nonna - Producer, Editing

2017The Cleaning Lady - Sound Design

2016The Beast - Sound mix

2015You Dreamt That You Where Happy - Editing, Sound mix

2015No Wolf Has a House - Sound Design

2015Boo-boo Boo hoo hoo - Sound Design

2014Manjaca - Sound Design

2014K18 - Sound mix, Music

2013On shaky ground - Editing

2012I’m a Self-Made Woman - Editing

2011Komba - Sound Design

2011Chill - Editing

2011The Celts - Editing

2009Non-Recyclable - Editing