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ZagrebDox International Documentary Film Festival
ZagrebDox 2008 masthead
LocationZagreb, Croatia
Founded2005
AwardsVeliki pečat
Mali pečat
No. of films104 (2019)[1]
LanguageInternational
Websitewww.zagrebdox.net

ZagrebDox is an international documentary film festival launched in 2005 which takes place in Croatia's capital Zagreb every year. The festival showcases creative documentary features from around the world, and also includes workshops for prospective filmmakers which help them develop their projects.

History

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The week-long festival, usually held in the spring, traditionally has an international and a regional competition category. The regional program includes films from Croatia, or from other countries in Southeast Europe (Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Slovenia, Serbia).

ZagrebDox also involves non-competitive screenings, such as retrospectives of works of particular filmmakers, or films dealing with a common subject or genre.

The festival is organized by a Zagreb-based film production company called Factum. As of 2019, the festival had featured more than 2,000 films over the previous 14 years, which were seen by approximately 290,000 moviegoers.[1]

Awards

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The following are the main prizes given at the festival:

  • Big Stamp (Croatian: Veliki pečat): The festival's main prize, given to both the best film screened in international competition, and to the best film in the regional competitive selection
  • Small Stamp (Mali pečat) for the best documentary film made by a young filmmaker under 35 years of age
  • FIPRESCI Award for best film in regional competition, as selected by a jury of professional film critics accredited by FIPRESCI
  • Audience Award for the best film as voted by festival audiences

The festival occasionally includes special awards for their promotion of human rights or for highlighting topics deemed important and relevant, and also gives out lifetime achievement prizes to international filmmakers for outstanding accomplishments in the field of documentary filmmaking.

Winners

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International competition

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Year International title Director(s) Nationality Ref
002005 (1st) The 3 Rooms of Melancholia Pirjo Honkasalo  FIN [2]
002006 (2nd) Before Flying Back to Earth Arūnas Matelis  LTU [3]
002007 (3rd) Civil Status Alina Rudnitskaya  RUS [4]
002008 (4th) War/Dance Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine  USA [5]
002009 (5th) Lady Kul El Arab Ebtisam Mara’ana  ISR [6]
002010 (6th) Petition Zhao Liang  CHN [7]
002011 (7th) Position Among the Stars Leonard Retel Helmrich  NED [8]
002012 (8th) Returns Krzysztof Kadlubowski  POL [9]
002013 (9th) Kudzu Vine Josh Gibson  USA [10]
002014 (10th) The Last Station Cristian Soto and Catalina Vergara  CHI [11]
002015 (11th) Virunga Orlando von Einsiedel  GBR [12]
002016 (12th) Poet on a Business Trip Ju Anqi  CHN [13]
002017 (13th) The Dazzling Light of Sunset Salomé Jashi  GEO
002018 (14th) Of Fathers and Sons Talal Derki  SYR
002019 (15th) Up the Mountain Zhang Yang  CHN
002020 (16th) Froth Ilya Povolotsky  RUS
002021 (17th) Downstream to Kinshasa Dieudo Hamadi  DRC
002022 (18th) Sabaya Hogir Hirori  SWE
002023 (19th) Manifesto Angie Vinchito  RUS
002024 (20th) Four Daughters Kaouther Ben Hania  TUN

Regional competition

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Year International title Director(s) Nationality Ref
002005 (1st) Images from the Corner Jasmila Žbanić  BIH [2]
002006 (2nd) Totally Personal Nedžad Begović  BIH [3]
002007 (3rd) Europe Next Door Želimir Žilnik  SRB [4]
002008 (4th) Weddings and Diapers Casey Cooper Johnson and Antoneta Kastrati  KOS [5]
002009 (5th) The Caviar Connection Dragan Nikolić  SRB [6]
002010 (6th) Totó Peter Schreiner  AUT [7]
002011 (7th) Trials, Tribulations & Sustainable Growth of a Cock Vladimir Perović  MNE [8]
002012 (8th) A Day on the Drina Ines Tanović  BIH [9]
002013 (9th) Tzvetanka Youlian Tabakov  BUL [10]
002014 (10th) Sacro GRA Gianfranco Rosi  ITA [11]
002015 (11th) Cain's Children Marcell Gerö  HUN [12]
002016 (12th) 4.7 Đuro Gavran  CRO [13]
002017 (13th) Depth Two Ognjen Glavonić  SRB
002018 (14th) The Other Side of Everything Mila Turajlić  SRB
002019 (15th) Una primavera Valentina Primavera  ITA
002020 (16th) Acasa, My Home Radu Ciorniciuc  ROM
002021 (17th) My Uncle Tudor Olga Lucovnicova  MLD
002022 (18th) Dida Nikola Ilić and Corina Schwingruber Ilić  SRB
002023 (19th) Matter Out of Place Nikolaus Geyrhalter  AUT
002024 (20th) KIX Dávid Mikulán and Bálint Révész  HUN

Best Young Director

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Year English title Original title Director(s) Country
2005 Life in Peace Mirnaya zhizn Antoine Cattin and Pavel Kostomarov Switzerland, Russia
2006 The Angelmakers Astrid Bussink Hungary, Netherlands, United Kingdom
2007 Grandmothers of Revolution Babice revolucije Petra Seliškar Macedonia, Netherlands, Cuba, Slovenia
2008 Audience of One Michael Jacobs United States
2009 On the Way to School İki Dil Bir Bavul Ozgür Dogan and Orhan Eskikoy Turkey
2010 Chasm Otchłań Wojciech Kasperski Poland
2011 Charcoal Burners Smolarze Piotr Zlotorowicz Poland
2012 The Will Testamentet Christian Sønderby Jepsen Denmark
2013 Turn Off the Lights Lumea in patratele Ivana Mladenović Romania
2014 The Special Need Carlo Zoratti Germany, Italy, France, Austria
2015 Another Hungary – The Life of a Village – Fragments Másik Magyarország - Töredékek egy falu hétköznapjaiból Dénes Nagy Hungary
2016 Above and Below Nicolas Steiner Switzerland, Germany, United States
2017 Depth Two Dubina dva Ognjen Glavonić Serbia
2018 Over the Limit Marta Prus Poland, Germany, Finland
2019 Still Recording Lissa ammetsajjel Saeed Al Batal, Ghiath Ayoub France, Germany, Lebanon, Qatar, Syria

Audience Award

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Year English title Original title Director(s) Country
2005 Direkt (40) Without Dad Direkt (40) Bez tate Nebojša Slijepčević Croatia
Children of the Decree Das Experiment 770 - Gebären auf Befehl Razvan Georgescu and Florin Iepan Romania, Germany
2006 Wasn't awarded
2007 Blue Blood Stevan Riley United Kingdom
2008 All White in Barking Marc Isaacs United Kingdom
2009 The English Surgeon Geoffrey Smith United Kingdom
2010 People from the Milky Way Ljudi s mliječnog puta Miroslav Mikuljan Croatia
The Destiny of Line 13 Sudbina broja 13 Irena Škorić
2011 Waste Land Lucy Walker Brazil, United Kingdom
2012 Family Meals Nije ti život pjesma Havaja Dana Budisavljević Croatia
2013 Gangster of Love Gangster te voli Nebojša Slijepčević Croatia, Germany, Romania
2014 Dear Lastan! Dragi Lastane! Irena Škorić Croatia
2015 I Like That Super Most Best Lijepo mi je s tobom, znaš Eva Kraljević Croatia
2016 Twilight of a Life Ad ktze ha'zrikha Sylvain Biegeleisen Belgium, Israel
2017 The Eagle Huntress Otto Bell United Kingdom, Mongolia, United States
2018 The Other Side of Everything Druga strana svega Mila Turajlić Serbia, France, Qatar
2019 Neighbors Susjedi Tomislav Žaja Croatia

Lifetime Achievement Award

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(The Lifetime Achievement Award (Počasni pečat) was introduced at the 2009 edition, for outstanding contribution to documentary filmmaking)

Special awards

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Apart from the regular categories, the festival sometimes awards special prizes, often related to themes of a particular festival edition.

Year Award Film Director
2006
Best film in the
Sports and Music theme program
The Human Hambone
United States Mark Morgan
2008
International Critics' Jury Award
United States Ricki Stern &
United States Anne Sundberg

United States Michael Jacobs
2008
United Kingdom Marc Isaacs
2009
Movies That Matter Award
Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country
(Burma VJ: Reporter i et lukket land)
Denmark Anders Østergaard
2012
Movies That Matter Award
The Tinniest Place
Mexico Tatiana Huezo
2013
Movies That Matter Award
Denmark Joshua Oppenheimer
2014
Movies That Matter Award
Pipeline
(Truba)
Russia Vitaly Mansky
2015
Movies That Matter Award
United States Andrew Droz Palermo &
United States Tracy Droz Tragos

References

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  1. ^ a b "ZagrebDox donosi više od stotinu filmova i niz novih programa".
  2. ^ a b "1st ZagrebDox Awards". ZagrebDox.net. ZagrebDox. 5 July 2014. Retrieved 3 September 2024.
  3. ^ a b "2nd ZagrebDox Awards". ZagrebDox.net. ZagrebDox. 5 July 2014. Retrieved 3 September 2024.
  4. ^ a b "3rd ZagrebDox Awards". ZagrebDox.net. ZagrebDox. 5 July 2014. Retrieved 3 September 2024.
  5. ^ a b "4th ZagrebDox Awards Presented". ZagrebDox.net. ZagrebDox. 6 July 2014. Retrieved 3 September 2024.
  6. ^ a b "5th ZagrebDox Awards Presented". ZagrebDox.net. ZagrebDox. 6 July 2014. Retrieved 3 September 2024.
  7. ^ a b "6th ZagrebDox Juries and Awards". ZagrebDox.net. ZagrebDox. 5 July 2014. Retrieved 3 September 2024.
  8. ^ a b "'Position Among the Stars' and 'Trials, Tribulations & Sustainable Growth of a Cock' Win Big Stamps at This Year's ZagrebDox". ZagrebDox.net. ZagrebDox. 5 March 2011. Retrieved 3 September 2024.
  9. ^ a b "'Returns' and 'A Day on the Drina' win Big Stamps of 8th ZagrebDox!". ZagrebDox.net. ZagrebDox. 3 March 2012. Retrieved 3 September 2024.
  10. ^ a b "9th ZagrebDox Closed with the Official Award Ceremony". ZagrebDox.net. ZagrebDox. 3 March 2013. Retrieved 3 September 2024.
  11. ^ a b "10th ZagrebDox Winners Announced!". ZagrebDox.net. ZagrebDox. 1 March 2014. Retrieved 3 September 2024.
  12. ^ a b "11th ZagrebDox winners announced". ZagrebDox.net. ZagrebDox. 28 February 2015. Retrieved 3 September 2024.
  13. ^ a b "12th ZagrebDox Winners Announced". ZagrebDox.net. ZagrebDox. 27 February 2016. Retrieved 3 September 2024.