Nika Burđelez

Life Is a Trumpet has a loose jazz musician as the groom, a butcher as his father, and two families of different backgrounds whose members are not as different as one might expect.

Le jeune prête Fabijan arrive dans une petite île croate pour reprendre les rênes de la paroisse. Préoccupé par le taux de natalité médiocre, il met en oeuvre un plan pour inverser la tendance : en complicité avec le vendeur du kiosque local, Petar, très religieux, il se met à percer tous les préservatifs vendus par ce dernier. A ce plan s'associe le pharmacien Marin, qui remplace les pilules contraceptives par des vitamines. Très vite, mariages et naissances se multiplient, un phénomène qui amène vite sur l'île une foule de visiteurs étrangers qui n'arrivent pas à concevoir...

Matea is a twelve-year-old whiner who hopes her birthday party will make her more popular at school. Nera is a girl at a crossroads in life. An incident in front of a shopping mall could give her a new perspective on things. Miran is a new husband, son-in-law, and a father-to-be who is simply trying to move his things to a new apartment with the help of neighbors who start giving him a hard time. Three neighbors on the verge of a breakdown on a winter's night.