Zagreb Film Festival

Summary

Zagreb Film Festival (ZFF) is an annual film festival held since 2003 in Zagreb, Croatia. Focusing on promoting young and upcoming filmmaker, the festival is widely considered to be one of the most important and influential cultural events in Croatia.[1][2][3][4] It also regularly features several international programmes for the filmmaker's first or second films made.[5]

Zagreb Film Festival
LocationZagreb, Croatia
Founded2003
LanguageInternational
Websitewww.zagrebfilmfestival.com

Each festival edition usually features three international competition programs (for feature films, short films, and documentary films), and one short film competition program for Croatian filmmakers. In addition, the festival often hosts non-competitive screenings, such as selections of children's films or screenings of debut works made by established film directors.

Since 2006 the festival's main award is called Golden Pram. From 2003 to 2005 the main award was called Golden Bib.

Awards edit

 
Golden Pram award

Prizes are awarded in the following categories:

  • The Zlatna kolica (Golden Pram) (called Golden Bib until 2005) award is given in the following categories:
    • Best Feature Film in the international selection
    • Best Short Film in the international selection
    • Best Documentary Film in the international selection
    • Best Short Film by a Croatian author (introduced in 2005)
  • The VIP Audience Award for best film overall, as voted by audience (introduced in 2005)

Award winners edit

Best Feature Film edit

Year English title Original title Director(s) Country
2003 The Return Vozvrashcheniye Andrey Zvyagintsev   Russia
2004 Blind Shaft Mang jing Li Yang   China
2005 L'Iceberg Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon,
and Bruno Romy
  Belgium
2006 The Lives of Others Das Leben der Anderen Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck   Germany
2007 The Banishment Izgnanie Andrey Zvyagintsev   Russia
2008 Rumba Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon,
and Bruno Romy
  Belgium
2009 I Killed My Mother J'ai tué ma mère Xavier Dolan   Canada
2010 The Robber Der Räuber Benjamin Heisenberg   Germany
2011 Michael Markus Schleinzer   Austria
2012 Everybody in Our Family Toată lumea din familia noastră Radu Jude   Romania
2013 The Lunchbox Dabba Ritesh Batra   India
2014 Blind Dates Shemtkhveviti paemnebi Levan Koguashvili   Georgia
2015 Son of Saul Saul Fia László Nemes   Hungary
2016 Clash Eshtebak Mohamed Diab   Egypt
2017 Men Don’t Cry Muškarci ne plaču Alen Drljević   Bosnia and Herzegovina
2018 The Load Teret Ognjen Glavonić   Serbia

Best Documentary Film edit

Year English title Original title Director(s) Country
2003 Son's Job Jade D'Cruz   United Kingdom
2004 Checkpoint Machssomim Yoav Shamir   Israel
2005 First on the Moon Pervye na Lune Aleksey Fedorchenko   Russia
2006 I, Soldier Köken Ergun   Turkey
2007 The Alpha Diaries Shalom Pluga Aleph Yaniv Berman   Israel
2008 The Red Race Gan Chao   China
2009 La vida loca Christian Poveda   France
2010 Me, My Gipsy Family and Woody Allen Io, la mia famiglia rom e Woody Allen Laura Halilovic   Italy
2011 At the Edge of Russia Koniec Rosji Michal Marczak   Poland
2012 Slaughter Nick for President Rob Stewart   Canada
2013 The Captain and His Pirate Andy Wolff   Germany
2014 Karpotrotter Karpopotnik Matjaž Ivanišin   Slovenia

The Golden Pram for Best Croatian Film edit

Year Title Director
2012 Terarij Hana Jušić
2013 Ko da to nisi ti Ivan Sikavica
2014 Tlo pod nogama Sonja Tarokić
2015 Zvjerka Daina Oniunas-Pusić
2016 Mliječni zub Saša Ban
2017 Čistačica Matija Vukšić
2018 Bila soba Mladen Stanić
2019 Druker Rino Barbir
2020 U šumi Sara Grgurić
2021

External links edit

  • Official website  
  • Zagreb Film Festival's channel on YouTube

References edit

  1. ^ "Najveći žanrovski filmski festival u regiji: Službeno zatvoren 10. Fantastic Zagreb Film Festival". 19 July 2020.
  2. ^ ZFF: Filmom Agnes Varda počinje posebno izdanje programa Moj prvi film - Objavio Zagreb.info - 12. studenoga 2019.
  3. ^ "ZFF – Pogledaj.to".
  4. ^ "Dan LUX filma s projekcijama triju finallista na ZFF-u".
  5. ^ "Tko su pobjednici 12. ZFF-a?".