Winners of the 12th Zagreb Film Festival
Golden Pram for Best Croatian Film in Checkers program went to Sonja Tarokić's On Shaky Ground, and a Special Mention went to Tin Žanić for his Manjača. Special Mention of the jury in the documentary category went to Tiha K. Gudac for her film Naked Island.
The awards of the 12th ZFF were given at Saturday award-presentation ceremony in cinema Europa.
Feature Film Jury, composed of producer Čedomir Kolar, film director Konstantin Bojanov and director of photography and filmmaker César Charlone, gave Golden Pram for Best Feature Film to Blind Dates by Levan Koguashvili, because of "its simplicity, originality, reliance on excellent scriptwriting, moving performance by the actors and humanity of all the characters".
Special Mention for Feature Film went to Difret by Zeresenay Berhane Mehari and Of Horses And Men by Benedikt Erlingsson.
Golden Pram for Best Short Film went to Andrei Creţulescu for his film Kowalski.
In the opinion of the jury composed of film theoretician Alice Bardan, director Željka Suková and director and producer Petra Seliškar, Best Documentary Film of the 12th Zagreb Film Festival is Karpotrotter by Matjaž Ivanišin.
Special Mention of the jury in the same category went to Tiha K. Gudac for her film Naked Island.
Golden Pram for Best Croatian Film in Checkers program went to Sonja Tarokić's On Shaky Ground. Special Mention went to Tin Žanić for his Manjača. The members of the jury in this category were: Aki Isoyama, Program Coordinator of Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia, Giulia Iannello, Project Manager of Magma Film Festival and Ivan Sikavica, film director.
HT Audience Award for Best Feature Film went to No One's Child, directed by Vuk Ršumović.
More than 150 films were shown in 12 ZFF programs at six venues. The festival saw more guests than ever before – more than one hundred of them. Industry – the festival's side program intended for film professionals – also included more activities than ever before. The festival has already had around 30,000 visitors.
General sponsor of the festival is Hrvatski Telekom. The festival is also financially supported by the Office for Culture of the City of Zagreb, Croatian Audiovisual Center and Creative Europe – MEDIA Sub-program.
Cover photos: jury of the 12. ZFF; On Shaky Ground; Naked island; Manjača
