ZagrebDox invites you to participate: join the participative platform ZagrebDoXXL!

17.02.2015.

For the festival audience looking for additional content or wishing to hear more from the filmmakers and relevant personalities, ZagrebDox has this year prepared a new programme section, ZagrebDoXXL, consisting of four events.

In order for the audience to get through the festival offer of 150 finest and most interesting world documentaries, ZagrebDox has, as always, categorised them in different groups: official competition, official programme, special programme and retrospectives, and these categories include a total of 16 different sections. Wanting to offer something more to the viewers, this year the festival launches ZagrebDoXXL, a participative documentary platform to encompass different topics and filmmaker better.

ZagrebDoXXL begins with an encounter with one of the best contemporary documentarians, whose films Salma (2013), Pink Saris (2010), Rough Aunties (2008), Sisters in Law (2005) and Gaea Girls (2000) screened at previous ZagrebDox editions. The event Meet Kim Longinotto includes a screening of two of her latest works: Dreamcatcher, which earned her the best director award recently at Sundance Film Festival, and Love Is All: 100 Years of Love and Courtship. After Dreamcatcher on Tuesday, 24 February, a moderated Q&A with the author takes place.

On Wednesday, 25 February, the screening of the French-Swiss IDFA-award-winning film Of Men and War, directed by Laurent Bécue-Renard, is scheduled. Filmed over a five-year period, mainly during group therapies at a Californian clinic for the treatment of war veterans, this documentary testifies to terrible mental consequences left on the American veterans by the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. The screening will be accompanies by a discussion about war
traumas, pride, fear, guilt and remorse, named Does the War Ever End?.

On Thursday, 26 February, after the screening of the controversial German documentary Tito’s Murder Squads – investigating the assassinations of Croatian exiles in Germany, with a special focus on the murder of Stjepan Đureković and trial to Josip Perković and Zdravko Mustač – ZagrebDoXXL event Is Udba Our Destiny? prepares a comprehensive discussion with the directors, Philipp Grüll and Frank Hoffman and other relevant participants.

Vinko Brešan Author’s Night includes the documentary ‘mish-mash’ of the most successful Croatian director, including short documentaries Our Stock Exchange (1987) and Corridor (1994), and the feature-length Radio 101’s Independence Day (2007). A Q&A with Vinko Brešan is scheduled for Friday, 27 February.