The Lunchbox wins Zagreb
- Ritesh Batra's festival hit The Lunchbox won the Golden Pram for best feature film at Zagreb Film Festival (October 20-27)
Indian director Ritesh Batra's crowdpleaser The Lunchbox [+see also:
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Croatian director Nevio Marasovic received a special mention for Vis-à-Vis [+see also:
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The same jury decided on the short film competition, where Romania's Tudor Cristian Jurgiu received the main award and €1,000 for In the Fishbowl. A special mention went to Iceland's Gudmundur Arnar Gudmunsson for Whale Valley.
In the documentary competition, the jury comprised of Croatian director Saša Ban, Bosnian producer Sead Kreševljaković and German director-producer-musician-DJ Timo Novotny chose Andy Wolff's The Captain and His Pirate (Germany-Belgium), which also received €1,000. Serbia's Željko Mirković got a special mention for The Second Meeting.
The Checkers programme, which screened a selection of short films by Croatian directors without a feature film under their belt, saw Ivan Sikavica win the main prize and €1,300 for It's Like This Isn't You and Darija Blažević get a special mention for Shame on You. Hana Jušić, the last year's winner of Checkers, Alexandra Schmidt, programmer of Dresden Short Film Festival, and Jožko Rutar, producer and manager of Slovenian Film Center served on the jury.
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