# ZagrebDox

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

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.

## Awards

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
### International competition

| Year | International title | Director(s) | Nationality |
| 002005 (1st) | The 3 Rooms of Melancholia | Pirjo Honkasalo | FIN |
| 002006 (2nd) | Before Flying Back to Earth | Arūnas Matelis | LTU |
| 002007 (3rd) | Civil Status | Alina Rudnitskaya | RUS |
| 002008 (4th) | War/Dance | Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine | USA |
| 002009 (5th) | Lady Kul El Arab | Ebtisam Mara’ana | ISR |
| 002010 (6th) | Petition | Zhao Liang | CHN |
| 002011 (7th) | Position Among the Stars | Leonard Retel Helmrich | NED |
| 002012 (8th) | Returns | Krzysztof Kadlubowski | POL |
| 002013 (9th) | Kudzu Vine | Josh Gibson | USA |
| 002014 (10th) | The Last Station | Cristian Soto and Catalina Vergara | CHI |
| 002015 (11th) | Virunga | Orlando von Einsiedel | GBR |
| 002016 (12th) | Poet on a Business Trip | Ju Anqi | CHN |
| 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

| Year | International title | Director(s) | Nationality |
| 002005 (1st) | Images from the Corner | Jasmila Žbanić | BIH |
| 002006 (2nd) | Totally Personal | Nedžad Begović | BIH |
| 002007 (3rd) | Europe Next Door | Želimir Žilnik | SRB |
| 002008 (4th) | Weddings and Diapers | Casey Cooper Johnson and Antoneta Kastrati | KOS |
| 002009 (5th) | The Caviar Connection | Dragan Nikolić | SRB |
| 002010 (6th) | Totó | Peter Schreiner | AUT |
| 002011 (7th) | Trials, Tribulations & Sustainable Growth of a Cock | Vladimir Perović | MNE |
| 002012 (8th) | A Day on the Drina | Ines Tanović | BIH |
| 002013 (9th) | Tzvetanka | Youlian Tabakov | BUL |
| 002014 (10th) | Sacro GRA | Gianfranco Rosi | ITA |
| 002015 (11th) | Cain's Children | Marcell Gerö | HUN |
| 002016 (12th) | 4.7 | Đuro Gavran | CRO |
| 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

| 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

| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
| 2005 | Direkt (40) Without Dad | Direkt (40) Bez tate | Nebojša Slijepčević | Croatia |
| 2005 | Children of the Decree | Das Experiment 770 - Gebären auf Befehl | Razvan Georgescu and Florin Iepan | Romania, Germany |
| 2006 | Wasn't awarded | Wasn't awarded | Wasn't awarded | 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 |
| 2010 | The Destiny of Line 13 | Sudbina broja 13 | Irena Škorić | Croatia |
| 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

    (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 |