This year's ZagrebDox international documentary film festival will take place between February 24 and March 3 at Cineplexx cinema, featuring more than 180 recent and awarded documentaries from about 30 countries, organisers said earlier this week.
The festival's traditional recipe is "something for everyone," from blockbuster documentaries to small alternative films, festival director Nenad Puhovski told reporters in Zagreb, adding that more than 1,800 films have been submitted.
Among the 20 films in international competition is "the most controversial film of the decade," US director Joshua Oppengeimer's "The Act of Killing" which re-enacts with real killers the genocide against the Chinese in Indonesia in the 1960s; Manuel von Stuerler's Swiss documentary "Winter Nomads", which won the award of the European Film Academy; Jeff Orlowski's "Chasing Ice", which has won 23 awards, and Tinatin Gurchian's Georgian film "The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear", which won the best direction award at Sundance this year.
ZagrebDox will show several premieres by Croatian authors as well as biographic, musical, and controversial documentaries, and a series of retrospectives.
The Masters of Dox programme will feature Eugene Jarecki's "The House I Live In", about the US war on drugs, winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival.
More than 26,000 people visited ZagrebDox last year.
