Best Croatian animation movies

Life is difficult in the corner, in the angle where all edges meet. Everything is geometrically relative when laws of perspective and gravity start playing tricks on you.

It’s pouring rain at the funeral. There’s a lot of crying, too much wine, several woodpeckers and a couple of dreams that fill in the gaps.

A young woman’s connection with the life force of nature. Using her taxidermy talents to “return” the animals to their natural habitat. But the true search for answers begins when she finds a roll of undeveloped film in each of the animals that she treats.

Moving through a world filled with scanners and surveillance algorithms, while frivolously using different social networks, online forms and credit cards, the man of today gives away his privacy voluntarily. A decent citizen has nothing to hide. Only criminals do.

In a lush and lively forest lives a hedgehog. He is at once admired, respected and envied by the other animals. However, Hedgehog’s unwavering devotion to his home annoys and mystifies a quartet of insatiable beasts: a cunning fox, an angry wolf, a gluttonous bear and a muddy boar. Together, the haughty brutes march off towards Hedgehog’s home to see just what is so precious about this “castle, shiny and huge.” What they find amazes them and sparks a tense and prickly standoff.

The story of a hidden war, a war between generations, war in which always children lose. Through a dramatic and picturesque tale, we discover two legends intertwining - a legend of a father and a son, and of a young girl Srna who is profoundly affected by the harshness of the world and decides to take a walk beneath the rainbow to transform into a boy. The film's message is intended for all parents: Talk to your children before it is too late.

Fed up with the harsh treatment his master has given him, a brave little mouse (and later his dog, Brewster) sets off on an adventure.

Martin tried to fight the system, and now he's on the run. Sara is a conceptual artist. Together they join the revolutionary commune in the countryside. The police are on their trail. Inspector Ambroz knows the right questions are more important than the answers. Because maybe none of this is true.

Singing skeletons dream about breaking free from their geometric formation and taking a swim in the great, big, blue sea.

As years and years go by, a tiny civilization makes its way upwards.

'The Room' is a one-take first-person short animated horror film portraying a woman shut in her room and hiding from a creature.

While transitioning from male gender to female, Matia struggles with finding a sincere intimate relationship with a heterosexual male.

Which image is real - the one staring at us from the mirror or the one standing in front of it? In hallways filled with illusions, a simulacrum behind the looking glass, he is trying to find out if he is looking at a stranger or a hidden part of himself.

A story about the adventures of a young ice bird and the difficulties of starting an independent life.

A grandiose transoceanic cruise liner sails the seas.

The cycling season is nearing its grand finale. During the final race, the two men in the lead are competing for more than the Grand Trophy; they are fighting for the affection of a lady and fulfilment of their erotic fantasies. Meanwhile, the small port town prepares for the arrival of a large ocean liner and its dashing captain. Inspired by the art of Vasko Lipovac, Veljko Popović collaborated with his Lemonade3d Studio to create an animated short marked by unique aesthetics. Painted in vivid colours of summer and with a dash of the erotic, it is a comedy that captures the spirit of a small Mediterranean town.

A badger is lying motionless on a local road. A police patrol approaches the body in the dark. They soon realise that the animal is not dead; the badger is dead drunk! When the police attempt to drag the creature off the road, he wakes up and things take a strange turn.

A young man experiences other people’s lives and emotions. Unable to find his own self, he visits a psychiatrist who immediately diagnoses the problem. It can be resolved in ten steps, with the help of a cassette player. As the metronome sounds the start of the treatment, the patient is launched deep into his own subconscious.

Everything that is alive is hungry; seed is hungry for light, bird is hungry for flight, man is hungry for the touch of another. The seed of longing grows into what feeds us.

After a day spent outside the apartment, the young woman is relieved to return to it. However, there are many things to be done here as well, prepare a meal, do laundry, entertain herself with television and the Internet. What is conceptually self-care and rest, is in facet a series of jobs that involve the use of machines. The small intimate space is gradually filled with the noise of these machines. The situation is absurd and exhausting.

Are we truly free? Are our desires truly our own or merely imposed products of the society we live in? The question this film is asking is this: are we slaves to the culture and society we were born in or is there a way to escape after all?

The wise bird wife sends three birds to guide the girl through the unknown dark landscapes of her inner world.

Two main characters, Cricket and Antoinette, represent two separate worlds, the world of noise, chaos and creativity on the one side, and the world of work, order and discipline on the other. As they fall in love, in spite of obvious differences, they manage to create harmony.

A short story about three completely different beings - a cat, an old woman, and a bird. Or maybe not so different after all? While the viewer follows the cat character, it becomes clearer that one's actions can alter not only one's behavior...

While the battle rages around an emptied city, one citizen battles loneliness through a variety of daily rituals.

A few survivors huddle together in the post-apocalyptic paradise of the Dome. There, they continue to worry about inflation, interior furnishing and the hordes of mutant frog-people at the gates.

An animated film inspired by the legend of Pozoj, a creature believed to be sleeping under the town of Čakovec. It is dangerous to upset or wake up the creature, as earthquakes and other disasters can occur.

Constant struggle of good versus evil, saving the World and cute grandmas in trouble, ability of an individual to change the outcome of the entire planet - that’s an important chunk of film industry. Serial production market is becoming bigger and hungrier. This market has produced Incredible Gunnar – a fearless pilot who saves the day, every day! What if somebody came up with an idea to use Gunnar indefinitely? Is the world a safer place for it, or maybe just the opposite?

Psychedelic realms where voyeuristic psychic vampirism and cropped images of consumerist dissociation create a haunting alternate reality.

Easygoing Teddy is a playful little bear who doesn’t really care about forest rules. One day, he saves a bee in trouble, striking a friendship that will change his life.

Daily life of an old lady living all alone in a village in abandoned Zagorje. All houses are on sale and everyone is gone.

Distracted by the forest's beauties on her way to Grandma, the Little Red Riding Hood loses the food basket. Having observed this, the Wolf retrieves the basket, delivers it to Grandma and the two have a good laugh about the event.

One day, my granny dyed her wedding dress black. She wanted to be buried in it.

A short opera inspired by Aesop's fable The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle.

What is this force that defies gravity, a force so powerful that drives plants to reach up and imbues us with the strength to sail against the current? If we let go to its upward motion, it carries us to a wonderful ease. Raise your sail and catch the leeway...

Santa Claus has had a very long day....

Benign demon deeply disappointed with his life in hell and drunkard father one day decides to leave his home.

Jerky but smiling characters from this short film will take the audience through this animated pageant inspired by a book by Thomas Hobbes called 'The Leviathan', written in 1651.

Filmed on 16mm film, this visual expression is rooted in its archival materials and backed up by the poem by Hans Magnus Enzensberger. It speaks of the forgotten people, their lives and their deeds. These two Archives have been found on the flea market in Zagreb. One is of a famous architect and the other one is of a famous composer. This film ponders on this occurrence, on the vanishing of and forgetfulness of humans.

Three masters of football. They can perform wonders during the match and score impossible goals – but what happens in their heads when they are about to take penalty kicks?

An astronaut in love orbits around the sun absorbing its energy. But the sun is too big, causing their connection to break, and the astronaut must continue on his own. As he tries to return to his source of energy, he realizes there are others like him. What started out as a game, slowly turns into a love triangle. Shapes change, but their needs remain the same.

Pig, in the countryside, gets slaughtered by two butchers. After he wakes up in his room, in his bed, he realizes that it was just a dream. On his way to work, Pig notices the butcher from his dream, who starts haunting him.

‘Mass in A minor’ is the first computer animated film made in Croatia.

In/Dividu questions the integrity and stability of things by disassembling them to basic elements and researching their origin. An experimental research of deconstruction and dislocation of matter.

The filmmaker observes large piles on the streets of her city during bulky refuse collection day, while passersby inquire as to what she's doing.

In a dead and void dystopian world, there is a place where no one exists anymore, and everyone is just their own hallucination on the verge of disappearing.

A man is being followed through deserted streets by an invisible figure.

Astronaut of Featherweight is a dark vision of the hypercapitalist transhuman society in which body is a commodity and money is immortality. From space spa colonies to alien plantations, everybody is forced to take care of their bodies.

A group of forest animals set out on the adventure of learning to write. A squirrel, a tiger, a hedgehog and an elephant will write many wrong letters and scrambled words, and in the end, learn the importance of togetherness, perseverance and knowledge.

Defragmentation of the past. A painter, mother and child comprise a family nucleus. The loss of the mother leads to the dissolution of memory, and memories become signs, ritually trapped in infinity. The artist’s artificial space makes him clash with the surroundings.

Stinky is born from a flower in the middle of The Dark Forest. He explores it, growing in the process. When faced with the responsibility of caring for another creature, he comes to terms with the fact that there is more to the forest than just fun and whimsy.

An animated film made as a by-product of COVID during a ten-day isolation.

Short animation.

Something grew out of the cracks and walls and occupied all the empty spaces in a little Mediterranean city.

A trailer for cinema manifestation.

This film was conceived back in the eighties, just like the Slovenian band Lačni Franc's song. After numerous changes, it was completed in 1992. At the second edition of the Croatian Film Days, it won the award for Best Animated Film. Dražen Žarković, Josip Zanki, Miroslav Zubović, Magda Dulčić, Ninoslav Kunc collaborated on the film.

The film follows a group of kids who seek acceptance and validation as they desperately try to navigate the world of social media. They are not cool and they can’t attract followers, and because of this they are marginalized and bullied. Seeking to escape this reality they use a technique of lucid dreaming to open the door of Dreamworld! It’s a world hidden in a special corner of dreams, inhabited by fantastic, magical, and strange creatures. A place where they can become heroes, celebrated, liked and accepted! But not everything is as it seems, as their escape from reality has a price.

In live action, an old man feelds a flour mill. Two seeds are then transformed into animated lovers who dance their last waltz.

A psychedelic love story.

A story that follows two young people who find themselves at a bus station at 2 o'clock in the morning. The young woman Alisa is suspicious and unwilling to engage with the young man, Erik. Slowly, they start a superficial conversation, through which their memories emerge, offering us an insight into their problems.