International documentary film festival
March 30 - April 6, 2025
Kaptol Boutique Cinema, Zagreb

List of Awarded Films

2024

Big Stamp – International Competition
Four Daughters, Kaouther Ben Hania, France / Saudi Arabia / Germany / Tunis / Cyprus

Special Mention – International Competition
A New Kind of Wilderness, Silje Evensmo Jacobsen, Norway

Big Stamp – Regional Competition
KIX, Dávid Mikulán & Bálint Révész, Hungary / France / Croatia

Special Mention – Regional Competition
Silence of Reason, Kumjana Novakova, Republic of North Macedonia / Bosnia and Herzegovina

Small Stamp – Best Short Film In Competition Programme
In Transit, Lucija Brkić, Croatia

Special Mention – Best Short Film In Competition Programme
Boy, Vladimir Loginov, Estonia

Small Stamp – Best Film by a young author of up to 35 years of age
KIX, Dávid Mikulán & Bálint Révész, Hungary / France / Croatia

Special Mention – Best Film by a young author of up to 35 years of age
Grand Prize, Anja Koprivšek, Croatia

Movies That Matter Award
Dahomey, Mati Diop, France / Senegal / Benin

Special Mention - Movies That Matter
Total Trust, Jialing Zhang, Germany/ Netherlands

Teen Dox Award
Sister of Mine, Mariusz Rusiński, Poland

Special Mention - Teen Dox
Boyz, Sylvain Cruiziat, Germany

Honorary Big Stamp
Werner Herzog

FIPRESCI Award
KIX, Dávid Mikulán & Bálint Révész, Hungary / France / Croatia

Aviteh Audience Award
No Other Land, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham & Rachel Szor, Palestine / Norway


20
23

Big Stamp – International Competition
Manifesto, Angie Vinchito, Russia

Special Mention – International Competition
Alis, Clare Weiskopf, Nicolás van Hemelryck, Colombia / Romania / Chile
Neighbour Abdi, Douwe Dijkstra, Netherlands

Big Stamp – Regional Competition
Matter Out of Place, Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Austria

Special Mention – Regional Competition
Scenes With My Father, Biserka Šuran, Nizozemska / Hrvatska
Between Revolutions, Vlad Petri, Romania / Croatia / Qatar / Iran

Small Stamp – Best Short Film In Competition Programme
Horror Vacui, Boris Poljak, Croatia

Special Mention – Best Short Film In Competition Programme
Haulout, Evgenia Arbugaeva, Maxim Arbugaev, Great Britain
Neighbour Abdi, Douwe Dijkstra, Netherlands

Small Stamp – Best Film by a young author of up to 35 years of age
Scenes With My Father, Biserka Šuran, Netherlands / Croatia

Special Mention – Best Film by a young author of up to 35 years of age
Dream’s Gate, Negin Ahmadi, Iran / France / Norway
Wild Wounded Animals, Jakob Pagel Andersen, Denmark

Movies That Matter Award
Manifesto, Angie Vinchito, Russia

Special Mention - Movies That Matter
Deserters, Damir Markovina, Croatia

Teen Dox Award
Hardly Working, Total Refusal, Austria

Special Mention - Teen Dox
Tolyatti Adrift, Laura Sisteró, Spain / France

Honorary Big Stamp
In viaggio, Gianfranco Rosi, Italy

FIPRESCI Award
Paying A Visit To Fortuna, Mátyás Kálmán, Hungary / Croatia

HP Audience Award
Crows are White, Ahsen Nadeem, USA / Japan / Ireland

 

2022

Big Stamp – International Competition
Sabaya
, Hogir Hirori, Sweden

Big Stamp – Regional Competition
Dida
, Corina Schwingruber Ilić & Nikola Ilić, Switzerland / Serbia

Little Stamp – Best Young Director
Children of the Mist
, Diễm Hà Lệ, Vietnam

Movies That Matter Award
A House Made of Splinters
, Simon Lereng Wilmont, Finland / Denmark / Ukraine / Sweden

Teen Dox Award
Yaren and the Sun
, Renate Raman & Joren Slaets, Belgium

My Generation Award
Marx Can Wait
, Marco Bellocchio, Italy

FIPRESCI Award
The Bubble
, Valerie Blankenbyl, Switzerland / Austria

ZABA Audience Award
Bigger Than Trauma
, Vedrana Pribačić & Mirta Puhlovski, Croatia

 

2021

Big Stamp – International Competition
Downstream to Kinshasa
, Dieudo Hamadi, France / Belgium / The Democratic Republic of the Congo

Big Stamp – Regional Competition
My Uncle Tudor
, Olga Lucovnicova, Hungary / Belgium / Portugal

Little Stamp – Best Young Director
The Game
, Roman Hodel, Switzerland

Movies That Matter Award
The Earth is Blue as an Orange
, Irina Cilik, Ukraine / Lithuania

Teen Dox Award
Desert Dogs
, Samuel Morris, Switzerland

My Generation Award
The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation
, Avi Mograbi,  Finland / France / Germany / Israel

FIPRESCI Award
The Wire
, Tiha K. Gudac, Lithuania / Croatia / Slovenia / Belgium / Norway

HT Audience Award
Love Around the World
, Anđela Rostuhar, Davor Rostuhar, Germany / Croatia

 

2020

Big Stamp – International Competition
Froth
, Ilya Povolotskiy, Russia / Qatar

Big Stamp – Regional Competition
Acasa, My Home
, Radu Ciorniciuc, Finland / Germany / Romania

Little Stamp – Best Young Director
Acasa, My Home
, Radu Ciorniciuc, Finland / Germany / Romania

Movies That Matter Award
Advocate
, Rachel Leah Jones, Phillipe Bellaïche, Switzerland / Canada / Israel

My Generation Award
Citizen K
, Alex Gibney, Great Britain / USA

FIPRESCI Award
Acasa, My Home, Radu Ciorniciuc, Finland / Germany / Romania

HT Audience Award
Nun of Your Business
, Ivana Marinić Kragić, Croatia / Serbia

 

2019

Big Stamp – International Competition
Up the Mountain
, Yang Zhang, China

Big Stamp – Regional Competition
Una Primavera
, Valentina Primavera, Germany / Austria / Italy

Little Stamp – Best Young Director
Still Recording
, Saeed Al Batal, Ghiath Ayoub, France / Germany / Lebanon / Qatar / Syrian Arab Republic

Movies That Matter Award
Easy Lessons
, Dorrotya Zurbó, Hungary

Teen Dox Award
Science Fair
, Cristina Constantini, Darren Foster, USA

My Generation Award
To Be Continued
, Ivars Seleckis, Latvia

FIPRESCI Award
Stories of the Half-Light
, Luca Magi, Italy

HT Audience Award
Neighbors
, Tomislav Žaja, Croatia

 

2018

Big Stamp – International Competition
Of Fathers and Sons
, Talal Derki, Germany

Big Stamp – Regional Competition
The Other Side of Everything
, Mila Turajlić, Serbia / France / Qatar

Little Stamp – Best Young Director
Over the Limit
, Marta Prus, Poland / Germany / Finland

Movies That Matter Award
Of Fathers and Sons
, Talal Derki, Germany

Teen Dox Award
Beauty
, Kristina Kuzhakhmetova, Russia

My Generation Award
Human Flow
, Ai Weiwei, Germany / USA

FIPRESCI Award
The Other Side of Everything
, Mila Turajlić, Serbia / France / Qatar

HT Audience Award
The Other Side of Everything
, Mila Turajlić, Serbia / France / Qatar

 

2017

Big Stamp – International Competition
The Dazzling Light Of Sunset
, Salomé Jashi, Georgia, Germany

Big Stamp – Regional Competition
Depth Two
, Ognjen Glavonić, Serbia, France

Little Stamp – Best Young Director
Depth Two
, Ognjen Glavonić, Serbia, France

Movies That Matter Award
Holy God
, Vladlena Sandu, Russia

Teen Dox Award
Starless Dreams
, Mehrdad Oskouei, Iran

My Generation Award
Déjà vu
, Jon Bang Carlsen, Denmark

HT Audience Award
The Eagle Huntress
, Otto Bell, USA

 

2016

Big Stamp – International Competition
Poet on a Bussines Trip
, Ju Anqi, China

Big Stamp – Regional Competition
4.7
, Đuro Gavran, Croatia

Little Stamp – Best Young Director
Above and Below
, Nicholas Steiner, Switzerland / Germany

Movies That Matter Award
My Aleppo
, Melissa Langer, USA

Teen Dox Award
Landfill Harmonic
, Brad Allgood, Graham Townsley, USA / Paraguay / Brasil / Norway

My Generation Award
Don Juan
, Jerzy Sladkowski, Sweden / Finland

HT Audience Award
Twilight of a Life
, Sylvain Biegeleisen, Belgium / Israel

 

2015

Big Stamp – International Competition
Virunga
, Orlando von Einsiedel, UK

Big Stamp – Regional Competition
Cain's Cildren
, Marcell Gerö, Hungary / France

Little Stamp – Best Young Director
Another Hungary – the Life of a Village – Fragments
, Dénes Nagy, Hungary

Movies That Matter Award
Rich Hill
, Tracy Droz Dragos, Andrew Droz Palermo, USA

Teen Dox Award
Maidentrip
, Jillian Schlesinger, USA

My Generation Award
Dreamcatcher
, Kim Longinotto, UK

HT Audience Award
I Like That Super Most the Best
, Eva Kraljević, Croatia

 

2014

Big Stamp – International Competition
The Last Station
, Cristian Soto & Catalina Vergara, Chile

Big Stamp – Regional Competition
Sacro Gra
, Gianfranco Rosi, Italy

Little Stamp – Best Young Director
The Special Need
, Carlo Zoratti, Germany / Italy / Austria

Movies That Matter Award
Pipeline
, Vitaly Mansky, Russia / Czech Republic / Germany

Teen Dox Award
With Open Eyes
, Erik Bafving, Sweden

Phone Dox Award
Living With Leviathan
, Şirin Bahar Demirel, Turkey

My Generation Award
Father and Son on a Journey
, Marcel Łoziński, Poland

HT Audience Award
Dear Lastan
, Irena Škorić, Croatia

 

2013

Big Stamp – International Competition
Kudzu Vine
, Josh Gibson, USA

Big Stamp – Regional Competition
Tzvetanka
, Youlian Tabakov, Bulgaria / Sweden

Little Stamp – Best Young Director
Turn Off the Lights
, Ivana Mladenović, Romania

Movies That Matter Award
The Act of Killing
, Joshua Oppenheimer, Denmark / Norway / UK

Teen Dox Award
Little World
, Marcel Barrena, Spain

Phone Dox Award
Deadline/Lifeline
, Tomislav Jelinčić, Croatia

My Generation Award
Private Universe
, Helena Třeštíková, Czech Republic

HT Audience Award
Gangster of Love
, Nebojša Slijepčević, Croatia

 

2012

Big Stamp – International Competition
Returns
, Krzysztof Kadlubowski, Poland

Big Stamp – Regional Competition
A Day on the Drina
, Ines Tanović, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Little Stamp – Best Young Director
The Will
, Christian Sønderby Jepsen, Denmark

Movies That Matter Award
The Tiniest Place,
 Tatiane Huezo, Mexico

My Generation Award
People I Could Have Been and Maybe Am
, Boris Gerrets, Netherlands

HT Audience Award
Family Meals
, Dana Budisavljević, Croatia

 

2011

Big Stamp – International Competition
Position Among the Stars
, Leonard Retel Helmrich, Netherlands

Big Stamp – Regional Competition
Trials, Tribulations and Sustainable Growth of a Cock
, Vladimir Perović, Montenegro

Little Stamp – Best Young Director
Charcoal Burners
, Piotr Zlotorowicz, Poland

T-com Audience Award
Waste Land
, Lucy Walker, SAD

 

2010

Big Stamp – International Competition
Petition
, Zhao Liang, China

Big Stamp – Regional Competition
Totò
, Peter Schreiner, Austria

Little Stamp – Best Young Director
Chasm
, Wojciech Kasperski, Poland

T-Com Audience Award
People from the Milky Way
, Miroslav Mikuljan, Croatia
The Destiny of Line 13
, Irena Škorić, Croatia

 

2009

Big Stamp – International Competition
Lady Kul el Arab
, Ibtisam Salh Mara'ana, Israel

Big Stamp – Regional Competition
The Caviar Connection
, Dragan Nikolić, Serbia

Little Stamp – Best Young Director
On the Way to School, Orhan Eskikoy & Ozgür Dogan, Turkey

T-Com Audience Award
The English Surgeon
, Geoffrey Smith, UK

Movies That Matter Award
Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country
, Anders Østergaard, Denmark

 

2008

Big Stamp – International Competition
War / Dance
, Sean Fine & Andrea Nix Fine, USA

Big Stamp – Regional Competition
Weddings and Diapers
, Casey Cooper Johnson & Antoneta Kastrati Cooper Johnson, USA / Kosovo

Little Stamp – Best Young Director
Audience of One
, Michael Jacobs, USA

T-Com Audience Award
All White in Barking
, Marc Isaacs, UK

International Critics' Jury Award
The Devil Came on a Horseback
, Anne Sundberg i Ricki Stern, USA
Audience of One
, Michael Jacobs, USA

Amnesty International Award
All White in Barking
, Marc Isaacs, UK

 

2007

Big Stamp – International Competition
Civil Status
, Alina Rudnitskaya, Russia

Big Stamp – Regional Competition
Europe Next Door
, Želimir Žilnik, Serbia

Little Stamp – Best Young Director
The Grandomthers of Revolution
, Petra Seliškar, Slovenia

T-Com Audience Award
Blue Blood
, Stevan Riley, UK

 

2006

Big Stamp – International Competition
Before Flying Back to Earth
, Arūnas Matelis, Litva

Big Stamp – Regional Competition
Totally Personal
, Nedžad Begović, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Little Stamp – Best Young Director
The Angelmakers
, Astrid Bussink, Great Britain / Netherlands / Hungary

T-Com Audience Award
Wasn't awarded

Best Film in Sport and Music Programme
The Human Hambone
, Mark Morgan, USA

 

2005

Big Stamp – International Competition
The 3 Rooms of Melancholia
, Pirjo Honkasalo, Finland

Big Stamp – Regional Competition
Images from the Corner
, Jasmila Žbanić, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Little Stamp – Best Young Director
Life in Peace
, Antoine Cattin & Pavel Kostomarov, Switzerland / Russia

T-Com Audience Award
Direkt (40) Without Dad
, Nebojša Slijepčević, Croatia
Children of the Decree
, Florin Iepan, Romania

 

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