Želimir Žilnik is a Serbian film director and one of the major figures of the Yugoslav Black Wave. He is noted for his socially engaging style and criticism of censorship that was commonplace during the Yugoslav communist era. Subsequently, following the abolition of communist one-party system, he was an outspoken critic of Slobodan Milošević-led regime in Serbia.
2025Alpe-Adria Underground!Movieas Himself
2025Eighty PlusMovieDirector · Writer · Co-Producer
2024Warm FilmMovieas Himself
2022As OneMovieas Želimir Žilnik
2021ŽŽŽ: Journal About Želimir ŽilnikMovieas Himself
2020Cinetracts '20MovieDirector
2018The Most Beautiful Country in the WorldMovieWriter · Director
2018Ideal 68Movieas Himself
2018Among the People: Life & ActingMovieWriter · Director
2015MartinacMovieas Himself
2015Logbook_SerbistanMovieWriter · Director
2014Our Man in GabonMovieWriter · Director
2013Pirika on FilmMovieWriter · Director
2011One Woman – One CenturyMovieDirector · Writer2009The Old School of CapitalismMovieDirector · Writer
2007What Do Those Lunatics Want?Movieas Himself
2007Kenedi Is Getting MarriedMovieDirector · Writer
2007Censored without CensorshipMovieas Himself
2006Danube Soap OperaMovieWriter · Director2005Kenedi, Lost and FoundMovieDirector · Writer
2005Europe Next DoorMovieDirector · Writer
2003Kenedi Goes Back HomeMovieDirector · Writer
2002EXIT in the MorningMovieDirector · Writer
2000Fortress EuropeMovieDirector
2000Cosmo GirlsMovieDirector · Writer
1998WanderlustMovieDirector · Writer
1997For EllaMovieDirector · Writer
1996Throwing Off the Yolks of BondageMovieDirector · Writer
1995Marble AssMovieDirector · Writer
1994Tito Among the Serbs for the Second TimeMovieDirector · Writer
1993Where Gods Are DeadMovieWriter
1993Silo Danube, VukovarMovieDirector · Writer
1990Black and WhiteMovieDirector · Writer
1989OldtimerMovieDirector · Writer
1988Brooklyn - GusinjeMovieDirector · Writer1988The Way Steel Was TemperedMovieWriter · Director
1987Hot PaychecksMovieDirector · Writer
1986Pretty Women Walking Through the CityMovieDirector · Writer1986Good Morning, BelgradeMovieDirector · Writer
1985Taiwan CanastaMovieas Građevinski inspektor 21983Second GenerationMovieDirector · Writer
1982Dragoljub and BogdanMovieWriter · Director
1981Vera and ErzikaMovieDirector · Writer
1980The Illness and Recovery of Buda BrakusMovieDirector · Writer
1978Market PeopleMovieDirector · Writer
1976Paradise. An Imperialist TragicomedyMovieDirector · Writer
1975House OrdersMovieDirector · Writer
1975Under the Protection of the StateMovieDirector · Writer
1975FarewellMovieDirector · Writer
1975InventoryMovieDirector · Writer
1975Public ExecutionMovieDirector · Writer
1975I Do Not Know What That Should MeanMovieDirector · Writer
1974RequestMovieDirector · Writer
1971Early WorksMovieDirector · Writer
1971Black FilmMovieas Himself · Director · Writer
1968The UnemployedMovieDirector · Writer
1968Little PioneersMovieDirector · Writer
1967Newsreel – Showing the Life of Village YouthMovieDirector · Writer