A Festival of Documentary Film

The sixth edition of the region’s largest international festival of documentary film, ZagrebDox, will present some 140 documentaries in various categories. These films will be shown over an eight-day course: between February 28th and March 7th. The official programme will also feature other attractive contents.

For the sixth year in a row, the region’s largest international festival of documentary film, ZagrebDox, will once again transform the Croatian capital into a centre for contemporary documentary film production. Over the course of eight festival days, from February 28th to March 7th, five screens of the modern Movieplex Centre will feature some 140 documentary films. These films are organized in various categories, such as the “Musical Globe”, “Happy”, and “Controversial Dox” categories, as well as new official programs called “The way of things”, and the latest premiere titles.

The official international and regional competition consists of 65 titles that have been nominated for the main award – the Big Stamp.
Concurrent programs also include two retrospectives: “Contemporary German Dox” - selected by Claas Danielsen, the DOK Leipzig festival director, and “Croatian AutoDox” – an evening dedicated to the recently-deceased Croatian film director: Ante Babaja. Another novelty is the “Y(o)u Nostalgia” program, which will feature twelve episodes of the documentary show, “Department Store”, directed by the famous Serbian director Igor Stoimenov. As with every year, the festival will also feature several titles by students of Zagreb’s Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Another novelty of this year’s edition of the festival is the “Dox Happenings” – projections of documentaries whose creators chose ZagrebDox as the venue for their world premieres. This year’s international competition includes winners from relevant festivals across the globe and, as a result, Zagreb audiences will have an opportunity to view the Chinese documentary “The Last Train Home” about the harsh life of Chinese migrants; the Swiss film “Sound of Insects – Record of a Mummy”, an incredible story about a man who committed suicide by starving himself; and the Polish film “Chemotherapy”. The “Controversial Dox” programme will once again offer an unusual approach to ideologies of hate, while its polar opposite, “Happy Dox”, will feature, among other documentaries, a humorous Australian film: “Rare Chicken Rescue”.