All the imperfections of a young democracy are looming like a black cloud over the mandate of the president of the Fishermen’s Association Štuka. Problems are piling up, solutions are delayed, and the democratic majority is silent. Gathered around a barbecue with some wine, the members are trying to pinpoint the problems and change the […]

Five years after they last gathered, a birthday celebration brings together an estranged Croatian middle-class family. Over a series of breakfasts and lunches, long-buried family secrets rise to the surface as they try to talk about the things that really matter to them. Over the course of the film, the family tackles their feelings about […]

The savage beating and subsequent death of Zagreb high-school senior student Luka Ritz (18) in 2008 shocked the Croatian public, as did the months-long search for the juvenile perpetrators of the crime. The incident also sparked an unprecedented civil campaign in Croatia against the escalation of youth violence. The Cloud is an intimate story of […]