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.
Bogdan Žižić
(2009) Jon Alpert
(2009)
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
film festival
Film festival
A film festival is an organised, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theaters or screening venues, usually in a single locality. More and more often film festivals show part of their films to the public by adding outdoor movie screenings...
established in 2005 and held annually in Zagreb
Zagreb
Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...
, Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
.
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
Retrospective
Retrospective generally means to take a look back at events that already have taken place. For example, the term is used in medicine, describing a look back at a patient's medical history or lifestyle.-Music:...
of well-known authors and various national cinemas
National cinema
Like other film theory or film criticism terms , the term "national cinema" is hard to define, and its meaning is debated by film scholars and critics. National cinema is a term sometimes used in film theory and film criticism to describe the films associated with a specific country...
.
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 StampRubber stampRubber stamping, also called stamping, is a craft in which some type of ink made of dye or pigment is applied to an image or pattern that has been carved, molded, laser engraved or vulcanized, onto a sheet of rubber. The rubber is often mounted onto a more stable object such as a wood, brick or an...
) 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 StampRubber stampRubber stamping, also called stamping, is a craft in which some type of ink made of dye or pigment is applied to an image or pattern that has been carved, molded, laser engraved or vulcanized, onto a sheet of rubber. The rubber is often mounted onto a more stable object such as a wood, brick or an...
) award for best film made by authors who are under 30 years of age, as voted by jury - The T-Com Audience Award for best film overall, as voted by audiences
International competition
| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | The 3 Rooms of Melancholia The 3 Rooms of Melancholia The 3 Rooms of Melancholia is a 2004 Finnish documentary film written, directed and co-produced by Pirjo Honkasalo... |
Melancholian 3 huonetta | Pirjo Honkasalo Pirjo Honkasalo Pirjo Honkasalo is a Finnish film-maker. Although she has written and directed over a dozen films, Honkasalo is also an accomplished cinematographer, film editor, producer and actor. For her work in the film industry, Honkasalo has been recognized by winning 19 major film awards while being... |
 Finland |
| 2006 | Before Flying Back to Earth Before Flying Back to the Earth Before Flying Back to the Earth is the first feature-length documentary film by the Lithuanian film director Arūnas Matelis... |
Prieš parskrendant į žemę | Arūnas Matelis Arunas Matelis Arūnas Matelis is an acclaimed Lithuanian documentary film director. From 1979 till 1983 Arūnas Matelis studied Mathematics at Vilnius University and later in 1989 graduated from the Lithuanian Music Academy. In 1992, he established one of the first independent film production companies in... |
 Lithuania |
| 2007 | Civil Status | Grajdanskoe sostoianie | Alina Rudnitskaya |  Russia |
| 2008 | War/Dance War/Dance War/Dance is a 2007 American documentary film written and directed by Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine and produced by Shine Global's Susan MacLaury, a professor at Kean University, and Albie Hecht... |
Sean Fine Sean Fine Sean Fine is a documentary filmmaker whose War/Dance about child soldiers was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2007.- Biography :... and Andrea Nix Fine |
 United States |
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| 2009 | Lady Kul El Arab Lady Kul El Arab Lady Kul El Arab is a 2008 Israeli documentary directed by Ebtisam Mara'ana which tells the story of Doaa Fares, a Druze model who entered the Miss Israel beauty contest in 2007... |
Ebtisam Mara'ana |  Israel |
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| 2010 | Petition | Zhao Liang |  Mainland China |
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| 2011 | Position Among the Stars Position Among the Stars Position Among the Stars is a 2010 documentary directed by Leonard Retel Helmrich. The documentary released on 17 November 2010 as opening film of IDFA .... |
Stand van de Sterren | Leonard Retel Helmrich Leonard Retel Helmrich Leonard Retel Helmrich is a Dutch cinematographer and film director of Indo descent. He was born the 16th of August 1959 in Tilburg, Netherlands and has lived in Amsterdam since 1982... |
 Netherlands |
Regional competition
| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Images from the Corner | Slike s ugla | Jasmila Žbanić Jasmila Žbanic Jasmila Žbanić is a film director from Bosnia and Herzegovina, and a graduate of Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, department for theater and film directing. She also worked as a puppeteer in the Vermont-based Bread and Puppet Theater and as a clown in a Lee De Long workshop. She is noted for the... |
 Bosnia-HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the... |
| 2006 | Totally Personal | Sasvim lično | Nedžad Begović | Bosnia-Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the... |
| 2007 | Europe Next Door | Evropa preko plota | Želimir Žilnik Želimir Žilnik Želimir Žilnik is a Serbian film director. He is noted for his socially engaging style and criticism of censorship that was commonplace during the Yugoslav communist era... |
 Serbia |
| 2008 | Weddings and Diapers | Darsmat dhe pampersat | Casey Cooper Johnson, and Antoneta Kastrati Cooper Johnson |
United States Republic of Kosovo |
| 2009 | The Caviar Connection | Kavijar konekšn | Dragan Nikolić | Serbia |
| 2010 | Totò | Peter Schreiner |  Austria |
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| 2011 | Trials, Tribulations and Sustainable Growth of a Cock | Život, priključenija i održivi razvoj jednog kokota | Vladimir Perović |  Kingdom of Montenegro |
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 | Astrid Bussink Astrid Bussink Astrid Bussink is a Dutch filmmaker. Her debut film is the documentary Angelmakers.She studied fine art at the Academy of fine Arts, AKI, Enschede in the Netherlands and her Master in film at the Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland.During this Master she shot her award winning documentary 'The... |
Netherlands |
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| 2007 | Grandmothers of Revolution | Babice revolucije | Petra Seliškar |  Slovenia |
| 2008 | Audience of One Audience of One (film) Audience of One is an award-winning 2007 documentary directed by Michael Jacobs that was premiered on 9 March 2007 at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas.-Overview:... |
Michael Jacobs | United States |
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| 2009 | On the Way to School | Orhan Eskikoy and Ozgür Dogan |  Turkey |
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| 2010 | Chasm | Otchłań | Wojciech Kasperski |  Poland |
| 2011 | Charcoal Burners | Smolarze | Piotr Zlotorowicz | Poland |
Audience Award
| Year | Film | Director |
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(Direkt (40) Bez tate) Children of the Decree (Das Experiment 770 - Gebären auf Befehl) |
 Nebojša Slijepčević Florin Iepan |
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Blue Blood (film) Blue Blood is a documentary film that was released in UK cinemas in 2007 and showed on BBC2's Storyville in 2008. The film follows the paths of five students from Oxford University as they try to make it onto the Oxford University Amateur Boxing Club Varsity squad... |
 Stevan Riley |
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| Marc Isaacs |
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The English Surgeon (film) The English Surgeon is a film, which premiered at the London Film Festival on 1 October 2007.-Synopsis:The English Surgeon is shot in a Ukrainian hospital full of desperate patients and makeshift equipment, but it is ultimately not a medical film—it is about a man, Henry Marsh, and his partnership... |
 Geoffrey Smith |
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(Ljudi s mliječnog puta) The Destiny of Line 13 (Sudbina broja 13) |
Miroslav Mikuljan Irena Škorić |
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Lifetime Achievement Award
- (The Lifetime Achievement Award (Počasni pečat) was introduced at the 2009 edition, for outstanding contribution to documentary filmmaking)
Bogdan Žižić
Bogdan Žižić
Bogdan Žižić is a Croatian film director and screenwriter. Žižić is regarded as one of the most prolific Croatian directors of short documentary films, and is also known for several critically acclaimed feature films made in the 1970s.Žižić had graduated from the University of Zagreb Faculty of...
(2009) Jon Alpert
Jon Alpert
Jon Alpert is an American journalist and documentary filmmaker, known for his use of a cinéma vérité approach in his films. A native of Port Chester, New York, Alpert is a 1970 graduate of Colgate University, and has a black belt in karate....
(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 |
|---|---|---|---|
Sports and Music theme program |
Mark Morgan |
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The Devil Came on Horseback The Devil Came on Horseback is a documentary film by Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg illustrating the continuing Darfur Conflict in Sudan. Based on the book by former U.S. Marine Captain Brian Steidle and his experiences while working for the African Union, the film version had its premiere at film... & Audience of One Audience of One (film) Audience of One is an award-winning 2007 documentary directed by Michael Jacobs that was premiered on 9 March 2007 at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas.-Overview:... |
Ricki Stern & Anne Sundberg Michael Jacobs |
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Amnesty International Amnesty International is an international non-governmental organisation whose stated mission is "to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights, and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated."Following a publication of Peter Benenson's... Award |
Marc Isaacs |
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Burma VJ Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country is a 2008 documentary film directed by Anders Østergaard. It follows the September 2007 uprisings against the military regime in Burma. Some of it was filmed on hand-held cameras, and the footage was smuggled out of the country... (Burma VJ: Reporter i et lukket land) |
 Anders Østergaard |
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