ZagrebDox

ZagrebDox International Documentary Film Festival

ZagrebDox 2008 masthead
Location	Zagreb, Croatia
Founded	2005
Awards	Veliki pečat Mali pečat
No. of films	104 (2019)[1]
Language	International
Website	www.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.

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]

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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