US film director Oliver Stone received the Wild Dreamer life achievement award of the Subversive Film Festival in Zagreb on Sunday evening. The award was presented by Croatian Culture Minister Andrea Zlatar Violic at a ceremony at Europa Cinema.
The festival opened on May 4 and showed about 50 documentary and feature films, including Stone's ten-part television documentary The Untold History of the United States.
The Wild Dreamer award for best documentary film went to Italian director Daniele Vicari for his La Nave Dolce or The Sweet Ship, a drama about the Vlora ship that entered the Italian port of Bari in 1991 with 20,000 Albanian refugees aboard.
The Land of Hope by Japanese director Shion Sono, a story about a family whose father refuses to evacuate his sick wife from a radiation affected area, won the the best feature award.
French filmmaker Sylvain George's Vers Madrid or The Burning Bright!, which documents demonstrations of the 15-M grassroots protest movement in Spain, was voted the best documentary film by the audience.
The award-giving ceremony was followed by a panel discussion where Stone and British-Pakistani philosopher and historian Tariq Ali analysed current international affairs, criticising contemporary capitalism and US policies.
