Two Raging Grannies will open 11th ZagrebDox

The official festival opening ceremony takes place on Sunday, 22 February at 8pm, Cineplexx Kaptol Centre, with the screening of the Norwegian-Danish-Italian film Two Raging Grannies by Håvard Bustnes, about two 90-year-olds from Seattle who, worried about the current state of the world economy and their grandchildren’s uncertain future, embark on a mission against the idea of economic growth. Shirley and Hinda take to cities and towns across the US to seek answers to the burning question on everyone’s mind: How do we get out of this economic mess? Two Rading Grannies demonstrate that it is never – ever – too late to get out and make a difference.

Acclaimed Croatian director Vinko Brešan is this year’s international jury chairman. Next to him, the jury consists of director Ágnes Sós, whose film Stream of Love last year won a special mention in the regional competition, and editor and producer at Ventana-Film, Hans Robert Eisenhauer. Regional competition films will be judged by the producer and distributer from the German production company MA.JA.DE Heino Deckert, then Marius Iacob, the director who won a special mention for 24 Buckets, 7 Mice, 18 Years at ZagrebDox 2013, and writer Ivana Simić Bodrožić.

The young jury decides on the best film by a filmmaker up to 35 years of age, and it consists of Carlo Zoratti, the director of Special Need, which won last year’s Small Stamp, director Hrvoje Mabić, whose 4th Monkey also won an award last year – a special mention in the Movies That Matter category, and film critic Jelena Pašić. The film that best promotes human rights (Movies That Matter) will be judged by director Vitaly Mansky, director and artist Tamara Erde, who is presenting her own work in the documentary This Is My Country (Teen Dox), and political scientist Ana Matan. The best film of a subject close to young people is judged by a jury of students from the Private Art High School in Zagreb.