Prikazuju kratkometražni film.

In Croatian, the subject pronoun is often omitted because the verb ending already shows who the subject is.

• prikazujem = I show / am showing
• prikazuješ = you show
• prikazuje = he/she/it shows
• prikazujemo = we show
• prikazujete = you (plural/formal) show
• prikazuju = they show / are showing

So Prikazuju kratkometražni film already means They are showing a short film or They show a short film, even without oni.

You can add oni for emphasis, but it is usually unnecessary:

• Oni prikazuju kratkometražni film.

Prikazuju is the 3rd person plural present tense form of the verb prikazivati.

It can mean:

• they show
• they are showing
• they are screening
• they are presenting

The exact English translation depends on context. In a cinema or festival context, prikazuju often means they are screening.

Croatian present tense often covers both the simple present and the present continuous in English.

So:

• Prikazuju film. can mean They show a film or They are showing a film.

English forces you to choose between those two more often than Croatian does. Croatian usually leaves that distinction to context.

Because the adjective must match the noun in gender, number, and case.

The noun film is:

• masculine
• singular
• here in the accusative case

For many masculine inanimate nouns, the accusative singular looks the same as the nominative singular.

So:

• nominative: kratkometražni film
• accusative: kratkometražni film

The form kratkometražan is the basic dictionary-style masculine nominative form of the adjective, but when placed before film, it normally appears as kratkometražni.

Yes. Film is the direct object of the verb prikazuju, so it is in the accusative case.

The verb answers the question:

• What are they showing?
• Kratkometražni film.

Since film is a masculine inanimate noun, its accusative singular is the same as its nominative singular:

• nominative: film
• accusative: film

That is why there is no visible change in the noun itself.

Film is a masculine inanimate noun in Croatian. That matters because masculine nouns behave differently depending on whether they are animate or inanimate.

For masculine nouns:

• animate nouns usually have accusative = genitive
• inanimate nouns usually have accusative = nominative

So:

• vidim čovjeka = I see a man (čovjek is animate)
• gledam film = I watch a film (film is inanimate)

Since film is inanimate, it keeps the same form in the accusative.

It is an adjective, describing film.

kratkometražni means short-length or more naturally short in the sense of short film.

So:

• kratkometražni film = short film

Croatian often uses a more formally descriptive adjective here, while English usually just says short film.

Yes, kratkometražni film is a standard and natural way to say short film, especially in formal, cultural, or film-related contexts.

You may also hear:

• kratki film

Both can mean short film, but:

• kratkometražni film sounds more technical or official
• kratki film sounds simpler and more everyday

The form in the sentence is prikazuju, but the usual dictionary form you would look up is the infinitive:

• prikazivati = to show, to present, to screen

This is an imperfective verb.

There is also a related perfective verb:

• prikazati = to show, to present, to screen (completed action)

This imperfective/perfective pair is very common in Croatian.

In Croatian, verbs often come in aspect pairs:

• imperfective: focuses on the process, repetition, duration, or general action
• perfective: focuses on a completed whole action

Here:

• prikazivati = imperfective
• prikazati = perfective

Because the sentence uses prikazuju from prikazivati, it suggests an ongoing or general action:

• They are showing a short film
• They show a short film

You normally do not use perfective present forms for ordinary present-time ongoing actions.

Yes. Croatian word order is more flexible than English because case endings and verb forms carry a lot of grammatical information.

These are all possible, depending on emphasis:

• Prikazuju kratkometražni film.
• Kratkometražni film prikazuju.
• Oni prikazuju kratkometražni film.

The most neutral version here is the original:

• Prikazuju kratkometražni film.

Changing the order usually changes focus or emphasis, not the basic meaning.

A rough pronunciation is:

• pri-ka-zu-yu

More carefully:

• pri as in priest without the final st
• ka as in car but shorter
• zu as in zoo
• ju like yu in you

The letter j in Croatian is pronounced like English y in yes.

So prikazuju sounds roughly like:

• pree-kah-ZOO-yoo

The letter ž is pronounced like the s in measure or the g in beige.

A rough breakdown:

• krat-ko-me-tra-žni

Approximate pronunciation:

• KRAHT-ko-meh-TRAH-zhnee

So the ž sound is zh:

• ž = zh

This is different from:

• z = ordinary z
• š = sh
• č/ć = kinds of ch sounds

Not by itself, at least not clearly.

Kratkometražni film here is a bare noun phrase, so it most naturally means:

• a short film
• short film(s) in a general sense, depending on context

If you specifically want the short film, Croatian often relies on context, word order, or extra wording rather than a definite article, because Croatian has no articles like a or the.

So Croatian does not mark definiteness the same way English does.

Because Croatian has no articles.

English distinguishes:

• a short film
• the short film

Croatian usually does not make that distinction with a separate word. Instead, speakers understand it from:

• context
• word order
• emphasis
• previous mention in the conversation

So kratkometražni film could be understood in different ways depending on the situation, even though English would often force a choice.

Yes, sometimes Croatian uses a 3rd person plural verb with an unspecified subject, similar to English they in sentences like:

• They say...
• They are showing...

So depending on context, Prikazuju kratkometražni film could mean:

• a specific group of people are showing it
• an institution, cinema, or festival is showing it
• people in general are showing it somewhere

Context tells you who they are.