Croatian Doc Fans Await Start of 11th Festival

The 11th festival of documentary movies, ZagrebDox, starts in the Croatian capital on Sunday.

Already a February tradition in Croatia, the festival will bring around 150 old and new documentaries from a worldwide selection, divided into 16 different themes over eight days.

The wide selection of programmes - from biographies and music to "Happy dox", "Controversial dox", "Teen dox" and others - will bring something for audiences of different age groups and interests.

The festival will be staged in five cinema halls, with ticket prices ranging between two and three euro.

The French documentary "Of Men and War", which won a prize at Cannes in 2014, will be one of the stars of the festival. It focuses on US war veterans returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan with post-traumatic stress disorder.

The Oscar nominee "Virunga", by Orlando von Einsiedel, brings the story of the brave struggle to preserve a national park in Congo, confronted by multinational corporations and rebel paramilitaries.

"Shipwreck", a Dutch film directed by Morgan Knibbe, highlights the tragic story of 360, mostly Eritrean, refugees who drowned near the Italian island of Lampedusa on the way to Europe.

Within the Controversial dox section, attention will no doubt focus on the German documentary "Tito's Death Squads", which focuses on the assassinations committed by the Communist-era secret Yugoslav police in Germany over some 30 years.

Biography dox includes a joint German-Austrian-Israeli production, "The Decent One", which focuses on the leading Nazi Heinrich Himmler, through numerous documents and photos.

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