16/11/2020 - Ivan Ikić’s bold film has won the main award at Zagreb, the Golden Pram, while Danilo Šerbedžija’s Tereza37 scooped the Audience Award

The winning film of the 18^th Zagreb Film Festival, which took place online from 8-15 November, is Oasis [+see also:
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Golden Prams were also given out in the two shorts competitions, the international and the national one, titled Checkers. In the international competition, the winner was Naïla Guiguet’s Dustin, also awarded with the sum of €1,000, again provided by Addiko Bank, while Mariane Saffon’s short Between You and Milagros was awarded a Special Mention. In the Checkers competition, the winning film was Forest, directed by Sara Grgurić, which also won the 10,000 HRK (circa €1,300) prize granted by the Croatian Association of Film Directors, while Sanja Milardović’s I’m Not Telling You Anything, Just Sayin’ was awarded a Special Mention. Both of the categories were judged by the same jury, consisting of last year’s winners, filmmakers Rino Barbir from Croatia and Stefan Đorđević from Serbia, as well as Montenegrin producer Ivan Đurović.

This year, the online audience judged the films in the Together Again competition, dedicated to filmmakers whose movies competed in previous editions of the festival. The Golden Bicycle Award stayed in Croatia and was claimed by Danilo Šerbedžija and his film Tereza37 [+see also:
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Here is the full list of the award winners:

Golden Pram
Oasis [+see also:
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Golden Pram for Best International Short Film
Dustin - Naïla Guiguet (France)
Special Mention
Between You and Milagros – Mariane Saffon (Colombia/USA)

Golden Pram in the Checkers Programme
Forest – Sara Grgurić (Croatia)
Special Mention
I’m Not Telling You Anything, Just Sayin’ - Sanja Milardović (Croatia)

Audience Award in the Together Again Competition
Tereza37 [+see also:
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KinoKino Festival

Jury Prize – Best Children’s Film
H Is for Happiness – John Sheedy (Australia)
Special Mention
Jackie and Oopjen – Annemarie van de Mond (Netherlands)

Children’s Jury Prize
Oskar & Lili, Where Nobody Knows Us – Arash T Riahi (Austria)

Industy Youth! Section

Best Pitch
Gift – Isidora Ratković (Bosnia and Herzegovina)