Returns and A Day on the Drina win ZagrebDox
- The eighth Zagreb International Documentary Film Festival ZagrebDox (Feb 26-Mar 4) wrapped with wins for Polish film Returns and Bosnia's A Day on the Drina
The eighth Zagreb International Documentary Film Festival ZagrebDox (Feb 26-Mar 4) wrapped with wins for Polish film Returns by Krzystof Kadlubowski and Bosnia's A Day on the Drina by Ines Tanović.
The black-and-white, seven-minute film Returns records the arrival of the remains of the Polish president and 96 government officials who died in a plane crash on Apr 10, 2010 on their way to the commemoration of the Katyn massacre in Russia.
The regional winner A Day on the Drina is also a short, 17-minute film about the discovery of 250 skeletons in the lake Perućac, which belong to Bosniaks killed during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Special mentions in the international category were given to Poland's Piotr Bernas for Paparazzi and Latvian-Georgian co-production Ramin by Audrius Stonys. Two Croatian films received special mentions in the regional competition: Bosanoga (An Entirely Accidental Death) by Morana Komljenović and Family Meals by Dana Budisavljević. The latter also won the Audience Award.
Little Stamp for the best film by a director under 35 years of age went to The Will by Christian Sønderby Jepsen (winner of Danish Dox:Award at CPH:DOX 2011), and Shanghai Banzai by Lithuania’s Jurate Samulionyte and Decrescendo by Poland’s Marta Minorowicz won special mentions.
Mexico’s Tatiana Huezo received the Movies That Matter Award for The Tiniest Place (Verdi Award at DOK Leipzig 2011). A special mention went to the German film Bad Weather by Giovanni Giommi.
The newly established My Generation Award was given to Dutch film People I Could Have Been and Maybe Am by Boris Gerrets (NTR IDFA Award 2010).
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