ZagrebDox

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ZagrebDox is an international documentary film festival established in 2005 and held annually in Zagreb, Croatia.

It is the biggest festival of its kind in South East Europe and its goals are to showcase documentary films from the region as well as to provide a meeting place for authors from all over the world, to offer quality documentary features to local audiences and to help promote documentary film as one of the basic film genres. Apart from screenings, the festival usually organizes workshops, presentations and pitching forums designed to help aspiring film authors in developing their projects. In addition to the official competition program (which is divided into a regional and an international category), the festival often features retrospectives of well-known authors and various national cinemas.

The festival is organized by a Zagreb-based film production company called Factum, and is usually held in February. The 2008 edition featured 140 films from 30 countries and attracted an audience of around 20,000 people.

Awards

Prizes are awarded in the following categories:

• The Veliki pečat (Big Stamp) international award for best film in international competition, as voted by jury
• The Veliki pečat regional award for best film in regional competition, as voted by a jury
• The Mali pečat (Small Stamp) award for best film made by authors who are under 35 years of age, as voted by jury
• The T-Com Audience Award for best film overall, as voted by audiences

Award winners

International competition

Year	English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
2005	The 3 Rooms of Melancholia	Melancholian 3 huonetta	Pirjo Honkasalo	Finland, Denmark, Germany, Sweden
2006	Before Flying Back to Earth	Prieš parskrendant į žemę	Arūnas Matelis	Lithuania, Germany
2007	Civil Status	Grajdanskoe sostoianie	Alina Rudnitskaya	Russia
2008	War/Dance	N/A	Sean Fine and Andrea Nix	United States
2009	Lady Kul El Arab	ליידי כל אל ערב	Ebtisam Mara’ana	Israel
2010	Petition		Zhao Liang	China, Switzerland, United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Finland
2011	Position Among the Stars	Stand van de Sterren	Leonard Retel Helmrich	Netherlands, Indonesia
2012	Returns	Powroty	Krzysztof Kadlubowski	Poland
2013	Kudzu Vine	N/A	Josh Gibson	United States
2014	The Last Station	La Última Estación	Cristian Soto and Catalina Vergara	Chile
2015	Virunga	N/A	Orlando von Einsiedel	United Kingdom, Congo

Regional competition

Year	English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
2005	Images from the Corner	Slike sa ugla	Jasmila Žbanić	Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany
2006	Totally Personal	Sasvim lično	Nedžad Begović	Bosnia and Herzegovina
2007	Europe Next Door	Evropa preko plota	Želimir Žilnik	Serbia and Montenegro
2008	Weddings and Diapers	Darsmat dhe pampersat	Casey Cooper Johnson and Antoneta Kastrati	Kosovo
2009	The Caviar Connection	Kavijar konekšn	Dragan Nikolić	Serbia
2010	Totò	N/A	Peter Schreiner	Austria
2011	Trials, Tribulations & Sustainable Growth of a Cock	Život, priključenija i održivi razvoj jednog kokota	Vladimir Perović	Montenegro
2012	A Day on the Drina	Jedan dan na Drini	Ines Tanović	Bosnia and Herzegovina
2013	Tzvetanka	N/A	Youlian Tabakov	Bulgaria, Sweden
2014	Sacro GRA	N/A	Gianfranco Rosi	Italy, France
2015	Cain's Children	Káin gyermekei	Marcell Gerö	Hungary, France

Best Young Director

Year	English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
2005	Life in Peace	Mirnaya zhizn	Antoine Cattin and Pavel Kostomarov	Switzerland, Russia
2006	The Angelmakers	N/A	Astrid Bussink	Hungary, Netherlands, United Kingdom
2007	Grandmothers of Revolution	Babice revolucije	Petra Seliškar	Macedonia, Netherlands, Cuba, Slovenia
2008	Audience of One	N/A	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	N/A	Carlo Zoratti	Germany, Italy, France, Austria
2015	Another Hungary – The Life of a Village – Fragments	Másik Magyarország - Töredékek egy falu hétköznapjaiból	Dénes Nagy	Hungary

Audience Award

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	N/A	Stevan Riley	United Kingdom
2008	All White in Barking	N/A	Marc Isaacs	United Kingdom
2009	The English Surgeon	N/A	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	N/A	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

Lifetime Achievement Award

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

• Bogdan Žižić (2009)
• Jon Alpert (2009)

Special awards

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	Mark Morgan
2008	International Critics' Jury Award	The Devil Came on Horseback & Audience of One	Ricki Stern & Anne Sundberg Michael Jacobs
2008	Amnesty International Award	All White in Barking	Marc Isaacs
2009	Movies That Matter Award	Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country (Burma VJ: Reporter i et lukket land)	Anders Østergaard
2012	Movies That Matter Award	The Tinniest Place	Tatiana Huezo
2013	Movies That Matter Award	The Act of Killing	Joshua Oppenheimer
2014	Movies That Matter Award	Pipeline (Truba)	Vitaly Mansky
2015	Movies That Matter Award	Rich Hill	Andrew Droz Palermo & Tracy Droz Tragos

External links

• ZagrebDox official website
• ZagrebDox at MySpace
• Factum production company official website