ZagrebDox Winners 2025

Best International Film:
Mr. Nobody against Putin (Denmark, Czech Republic) (PHOTO)
Directed by David Borenstein, Pasha Talankin
Produced by made in copenhagen
Coproduced by PINK in association with BBC Storyville, DR, ZDF/ARTE
Supported by the Danish Film Institute, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, FilmFyn, Fritt Ord, the Czech Film Fund, Hermod Lannungs Fond, NRK, SVT, RTS RadioTélévision Suisse, VPRO

Special Mention International Film:
Mistress Dispeller (China, USA)
Directed by Elizabeth Lo

Best Regional Film:
My Dad’s Lessons / Lekcije mog tate (Croatia)
Directed by Dalija Dozet
Produced by Hulahop
Supported by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre

Special Mention Regional Film:
At the Door of the House Who Will Come Knocking / Ko će pokucati na vrata mog doma (Serbia, BiH)
Directed by Maja Novaković
Produced by Kinorasad
Supported by Film Center Serbia

Best Short Film:
Who Loves the Sun (Canada)
Directed by Arshia Shakiba

Special Mention Short Film:
The Other Side of the Mountain (USA, China)
Directed by Yumeng He

Best Film of an Author under 35:
Wind Has No Tail (Russia)
Directed by Ivan Vlasov, Nikita Stashkevich

Special Mention for an Author under 35:
Eyes of Gaza (Qatar)
Directed by Mahmoud Atassi

Movies That Matter Award:
Sudan, Remember Us (France, Tunisia, Qatar)
Directed by Hind Meddeb

Movies That Matter Special Mention:
Trans Memoria (Sweden, France)
Directed by Victoria Verseau

FIPRESCI Award:
Night of the Coyotes (Germany, Austria)
Directed by Clara Trischler

Teen Dox Award:
Lessons of Happiness (Ukraine)
Directed by Oleksii Yeroshenko

Teen Dox Special Mention:
Where the Kids Have No Name (the Netherlands, Bangladesh)
Directed by Jamillah van der Hulst

Audience Award for the Best Regional Film:
Woman of God / Duhovnica (Slovenia)
Directed by Maja Prettner
Produced by Studio Virc
Supported by the Slovenian Film Centre

Audience Award for the Best International Film:
Home Game / Na domaćem terenu (the Netherlands)
Directed by Lidija Zelović
ZagrebDox PRO Winners:

Al Jazeera Balkans Cash Award (1,500 EUR):
Loud Silence (Italy)
Impronta Film One-Year Consultancy Award:
Lost in Tehran, Lost in Japan from Iran, and In the Winds of the Icy Fields (Estonia)

Rab Film Festival Residency Award:
Entr’actes (Ukraine)
Where People and Storks Nest (Bulgaria)
Produced by Izograph

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Tue Steen Müller
Tue Steen Müller

Müller, Tue Steen
Documentary Consultant and Critic, DENMARK

Worked with documentary films for more than 20 years at the Danish Film Board, as press officer, festival representative and film consultant/commissioner. Co-founder of Balticum Film and TV Festival, Filmkontakt Nord, Documentary of the EU and EDN (European Documentary Network).
Awards: 2004 the Danish Roos Prize for his contribution to the Danish and European documentary culture. 2006 an award for promoting Portuguese documentaries. 2014 he received the EDN Award “for an outstanding contribution to the development of the European documentary culture”. 2016 The Cross of the Knight of the Order for Merits to Lithuania. 2019 a Big Stamp at the 15th edition of ZagrebDox. 2021 receipt of the highest state decoration, Order of the Three Stars, Fourth Class, for the significant contribution to the development and promotion of Latvian documentary cinema outside Latvia. In 2022 he received an honorary award at DocsBarcelona’s 25th edition having served as organizer and programmer since the start of the festival.
From 1996 until 2005 he was the first director of EDN (European Documentary Network). From 2006 a freelance consultant and teacher in workshops like Ex Oriente, DocsBarcelona, Archidoc, Documentary Campus, Storydoc, Baltic Sea Forum, Black Sea DocStories, Caucadoc, CinéDOC Tbilisi, Docudays Kiev, Dealing With the Past Sarajevo FF as well as programme consultant for the festivals Magnificent7 in Belgrade, DOCSBarcelona, Verzio Budapest, Message2Man in St. Petersburg and DOKLeipzig. Teaches at the Zelig Documentary School in Bolzano Italy.

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