We were the first to show a gay film in Croatia, we released Baljko's film about Vukovar at ZGDOX, where we had police security. But above all, the important feeling is that there are no forbidden topics and something that should not be talked about. A whole generation of young filmmakers grew up with a sense of freedom they didn’t have before, which we gave them as a production, and there was new technology and a way of distribution. Before that, we had different kinds of documentaries, at times even quite directed documentaries. It’s all part of one, I won’t say project, but some kind of attempt to improve the place of documentary film as something very important in cinematography. In the last 25 years, I have found four things: Faktum, the documentary workshop of the Imaginary Academy in Grožnjan, ZAGREGDOX and finally the master's degree in documentary film at the academy. We have filled in the picture provided by the news media, which has a completely different task. We started with an autobiographical statement, and returned Croatian documentaries to issues concerning neglected groups… As for the festival, we also tried to extract some things that are less known and that are not talked about by major televisions and systems. We were among the first here to start communicating some topics and re-examining the events of the war. We have shown those things that others generally did not, especially as far as Faktum is concerned in the early years. It was like that in Croatia when it comes to Faktum, it is like that in the world when it comes to ZGDOX. We never pretended that what we say is the only and absolute truth, but we talked about people going through some situations and horrors. Speaking about opening up topics dealing with the past through film, Puhovski says: " We started as Faktum 25 years ago, as ZGDOX 18 years ago and we always tried to say what seemed to us to be human truth. So this year we have several films dealing with the topic of Ukraine, showcasing something that has been happening there for the last eight years. From its inception, ZGDOX has been a festival that insisted on authorial creative documentaries rather than journalistic, reporting and classic industry as the BBC or National Geographic do. Our job is to interpret things and present them from a personal perspective. "We documentarians are not an information medium. We also talked about the documentary form as a medium that has done significant work in our region and its contribution to the "dealing with the past" topic as well as the new wave of directors. Puhovski spoke about the festival, the end of the pandemic, the beginning of the war in Ukraine and all other turbulences affecting documentaries. Last week we talked with Nenad Puhovski, film director, founder and CEO of Faktum and director of the ZGDOX festival (which had its 18th edition this year).
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