Save the Date: the 22nd ZagrebDox Film Festival Starts This Sunday

The 22nd edition of the ZagrebDox International Documentary Film Festival commences this Sunday and runs until 26 April 2026 at the Kaptol Boutique Cinema. This year’s lineup comprises a total of 112 documentary films across 16 programs. Alongside its extensive film selection, the festival continues to strengthen its industry and educational components through the ZagrebDox Pro and DoXXL programs, fostering international collaboration, professional networking and the visibility of developing projects.

15.04.2026.

Stories That Fill Theaters, Fascinate Audiences, and Win Festivals

The Musical Globe, Happy Dox, Festival Hits, Teen Dox, and Green Dox: from music-driven stories and festival favorites to witty portraits, coming-of-age themes, and urgent climate narratives.

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09.04.2026.

Community, Generational Tensions, Memory, and Social Change

The Regional Competition presents eighteen films rooted in smaller communities, where private and collective worlds intersect. Its themes include the disappearance and reshaping of rural spaces, relationships between people, landscape, and animals, economic and social pressures, generational tensions, memory, loss, and social change reflected in intimate lives.

09.04.2026.

Watching and Reading the World

A total of 112 carefully curated films within sixteen programs open up a space for encounters between different experiences of reality.

08.04.2026.

Slowly and Steadily Towards Spellbinding Stories: This Year’s Slow Pitch Projects

After last year's successful edition, the Slow Pitch Program returns with the same core idea: shifting the focus away from the competition and towards filmmakers, as well and their developing stories.

31.03.2026.

Transgressive Topics and Audio Dox

The festival's Controversial Dox i Audio Dox programs affirm the 22nd ZagrebDox Documentary Film Festival as a unique platform for discussing pressing subjects, cultivating complex thought, and innovating the formal frameworks of documentary filmmaking.

31.03.2026.

Charting the Terrain of Reality

In its Biographical Dox and State of Affairs Program, the 22nd ZagrebDox Film Festival charts the layered and often contradictory realities of today’s world.