Over the Limit opens ZagrebDox
- The 14th edition of the Balkan region's biggest documentary event will present 125 films across 14 sections
The 14th edition of the ZagrebDox International Documentary Film Festival (25 February-4 March) opened last night with a gala screening of Marta Prus' IDFA title Over the Limit [+see also:
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The film is among the 21 titles in the International Competition, which also includes documentary-circuit favourites such as Rati Oneli's City of the Sun [+see also:
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The Regional Competition consists of 17 films, including Mila Turajlić's IDFA winner The Other Side of Everything [+see also:
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interview: Boris Mitić
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In addition to the two main competition sections, the winners of which will receive Big Stamp Awards, juries will also give out a Movies That Matter Award and a Small Stamp for the best director under 35 years of age, plus a jury consisting of high-school students will decide on the winner of the Teen Dox section. One novelty is the FIPRESCI Award, which will for the first time be given to a film from the International Competition. All of the information on the juries can be found here.
The newly introduced In Focus: New Europe Programme sidebar will look at common problems in the “post-communist” societies of Eastern, Central and Southeast Europe, as well as the position of Croatia today and how it compares to Poland, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria and Romania, through films such as Jessica Gorter's IDFA entry The Red Soul [+see also:
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The traditional sidebars include sections such as Biography Dox, Musical Globe, Happy Dox, Controversial Dox, Masters of Dox, State of Affairs and ADU Dox (films from the Zagreb Academy of Dramatic Arts).
The great, multi-hyphenate French filmmaker Claire Simon, who works in both fiction and documentary, will enjoy a retrospective, and Croatian cinematographer and documentary director Boris Poljak will have an overview of his recent work as part of his Author's Night. Finally, one of Croatia's most prominent production companies, Restart, will present the films from its School of Documentary Film. These three events will be accompanied by extended talks with the filmmakers under the ZagrebDoXXL banner.
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