ZagrebDox 2024

When soldiers are killed, they often end up as anonymous numbers in news reports. But behind every number there is a person who leaves behind heartbroken family members. 1489 refers to the anonymous number assigned to Soghomon Vardanyan.

In the Norwegian wilderness, a family seeks a wild free existence but a tragic turn of events shatters their isolation, compelling them to adapt to the demands of contemporary society.

Recasting his newborn son and dog as himself and his childhood pets, a filmmaker confronts his own false memories through a collage of film, digital and video game footage.

Between the Rains is a feature collaboration with the Turkana-Ngaremara community that seeks to understand the experiences of a childhood caught within a traditional culture that is a casualty of climate change.

For the first time ever, the President of Russia, Putin, delivered New Year's greetings on TV, typically filmed at the Kremlin, but this year, he addressed military personnel.

The journey of 26 plundered royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey exhibited in Paris, now being returned to Benin. Diop artistically voices a new generation's demands.

Through candid interviews we follow a group of Danish men and women, all aged 80+. With poignant openness and honesty, they share their thoughts on their life partnerships; lost loves who, one way or another, are no longer with them.

Between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. Filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania invites professional actresses to fill in their absence.

The portrait of a strong 13-year-old gymnast from Ukraine taken at the beginning of the war. She discusses her love for the sport, her cherished family and friends, and the difficulties of leaving one's own country.

A small van traverses war-torn roads, picking up Ukrainians as they abandon their homes at the front. Shuttling them across the battered landscape into exile, the van becomes a fragile refuge, a zone for its passengers' confidences.

An Anangu Yankunytjatjara man escapes the city life to return to country for spiritual healing.

Is it possible to prevent intimacy burnout in monogamous relationships? The love that once existed between my parents has vanished. The query of whether there is a solution to maintain the spark is reminiscent of my own marriage.

A team exploring the Ural mountains finds an extraterrestrial being. Its origins reveal a disturbing mystery about the area.

12-year-old Niki and 11-year old Vika are hiding from the terrifying war at a Kharkiv metro station. Daylight is synonymous with mortal danger, and they are not allowed to leave, living under the constant glow of their neon lights.

A Moroccan woman's search for truth tangles with a web of lies in her family history. As a daughter and filmmaker, she fuses personal and national history as she reflects on the 1981 Bread Riots, drawing out connections to modern Morocco.

After losing her job in Beijing, Beibei, who hates the idea of living the standard life of a typical wife and mother, returns to her hometown to find ways of living for herself, her parents, and her child

Estranged father and son are building a gate in front of their unfinished house while also trying to bridge the generational gap between them.

An audio-visual, trance-like, epic diary that looks at the miracles contained in everyday things and occurrences. Peter Mettler follows and weaves, with his own unique cinematic signature, the flow of rivers and lives that include the magnitude of the passing of his own parents and the questions of where do we all go from here - both on a personal and on a global scale.

1001 Nights tells the story of EMA (85) and MAJA (80), the most loyal viewers and the funniest critics of Turkish soap operas. For the last five years, Ema and Maja have spent every evening together, watching Turkish series in Ema's apartment in the Mediterranean town Split as a way of coping with loneliness. This is a story about a microcosmos that appears where we least expect it, but when we need it the most. It is a story of a friendship that started when everything else ended.

Besi and Rafael travels through Italy for years with their mime and acrobatics act and they receive enthusiastic applause from the audience. But disagreements over money and Rafael's new studies herald the end of the brotherhood.

A dead monk's gaze is hypnotizing the masses, becomes a very profitable brand and is about to be sanctified by the Romanian church.

In a small town in a small country, a local photographer has a big idea: at the turn of the millennium, in order to make a record of his contemporaries, he will photograph as many of them as possible. His Millennium Photography project grows beyond all expectations as hundreds of thousands of people pose for his camera. They are the final generation of analog people, living in small towns on the outskirts of Europe. Perplexed by the rapid acceleration of technological progress, they anticipate the coming of a world they don't understand, and are struggling to preserve their way of living.

Filmed over a period of 20 years, Body is a sensitive and intimate exploration of the extraordinary life and intricate inner world of a woman who fights with her indomitable spirit to resist a series of rare auto-immune diseases.

Documentary western drama about the last days of the hypnotic community of plastic bottle collectors aka bottlemen at one of the biggest unsanitary landfills in the world.

A single woman wants to have children so she decides to co-parent with a gay man.