Zagreb Film Festival
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| Location | Zagreb, Croatia |
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| Founded | 2003 |
| Language | International |
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Zagreb Film Festival is an annual film festival held since 2003 in Zagreb, Croatia. The festival focuses on promoting young and upcoming filmmakers and regularly features several international programmes for their first or second films made.
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
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
Best Feature Film
| 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 | .svg.png){kind=small} 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 |
Best Documentary Film
| 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 |
