The ZagrebDox International Documentary Film Festival has unveiled the full line-up for its 18^th edition, which will run from 3-10 April in its usual location of the Kaptol Cinema in Zagreb. The major documentary event will this year host 86 documentaries across 11 film sections. A total of 35 movies will be participating in the two official competitions – International and Regional – in an effort to win the festival’s Big Stamp Award, while up-and-coming directors under 35 years of age will also be eligible for the Small Stamp Award. This year’s festival programme was presented by festival director and main programmer Nenad Puhovski and producer Hrvoje Pukšec.

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Puhovski mentioned during the presentation: “We are entering adulthood happy and proud to be one of the few festivals that have shown films exclusively in cinemas in these past few, challenging years. With a selection of the best recent films, ZagrebDox continues to open up space, and provide an opportunity to explore and understand the world around us, in all its fullness, through the film medium, meetings at the cinema, conversations and the sharing of emotions.”

The ZagrebDox International Competition is made up of 18 documentaries that touch on various focal points on the geopolitical map of the world. The feature-length titles are: 107 Mothers [+lire aussi :
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interview : Peter Kerekes
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interview : Tomasz Wolski
fiche film] by Tomasz Wolski (Poland), A House Made of Splinters [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Simon Lereng Wilmont (Denmark/Ukraine/Sweden), A Night of Knowing Nothing [+lire aussi :
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interview : Payal Kapadia
fiche film] by Payal Kapadia (India/France), Ascension by Jessica Kingdon (USA), The Balcony Movie [+lire aussi :
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interview : Paweł Łoziński
fiche film] by Paweł Łoziński (Poland), Children of the Misty by Diễm Hà Lệ (Vietnam), Imad's Childhood [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Zahavi Sanjavi (Sweden/Latvia/Iraq), Julia&I [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Nina Hobert (Sweden/Denmark), Les Enfants terribles [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Ahmet Necdet Çupur (France/Germany/Turkey), My Old School [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Jono McLeod (UK), Sabaya [+lire aussi :
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interview : Hogir Hirori
fiche film] by Hogir Hirori (Sweden), The Story of Looking [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Mark Cousins (UK) and the pandemic portmanteau film The Year of the Everlasting Storm.

There are also 17 titles that are included in the Regional Competition of ZagrebDox, seven of which are Croatian productions or co-productions of various lengths. In detail, the feature-length films include Bigger Than Trauma [+lire aussi :
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interview : Vedrana Pribačić, Mirta Pu…
fiche film] by Vedrana Pribačić (Croatia), Brotherhood [+lire aussi :
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interview : Francesco Montagner
fiche film] by Francesco Montagner (Italy/Czech Republic), The Bubble [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Valerie Blankenbyl (Switzerland/Austria), The Building [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Goran Dević (Croatia), The Cars We Drove into Capitalism [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Georgi Bogdanov and Boris Missirkov (Bulgaria/Croatia/Czech Republic/Denmark/Germany), Dida [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Corina Schwingruber Ilić and Nikola Ilić (Switzerland/Serbia), Divas [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Máté Kőrösi (Hungary), Four Seasons in a Day [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Annabel Verbeke (Lithuania/Croatia/Belgium/Norway), Mlungu - The White King by David Lušičić (Croatia), Mother Lode [+lire aussi :
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interview : Matteo Tortone
fiche film] by Matteo Tortone (France/Italy/Switzerland), Reconciliation [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Marija Zidar (Slovenia/Serbia/Montenegro/Kosovo), Roots [+lire aussi :
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interview : Tea Lukač
fiche film] by Tea Lukač (Serbia), Soldat Ahmet [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Jannis Lenz (Austria) and You Are Ceaușescu to Me [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Sebastian Mihailescu (Romania).

As always, ZagrebDox will offer more sections than just its competitive ones, and this year, the sidebars include Masters of Dox, Controversial Dox and State of Affairs, along with the Road Dox section curated by Vladan Petković and the Points of View strand curated by Jelena Pašić. Serbian director Želimir Žilnik will have a retrospective dedicated to his films made in Germany in the mid-1970s, while the “author’s evening” belongs to director Katarina Zrinka Matijević, president of this year’s international jury, with a selection of films curated by Diana Nenadić.