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Marina Aničić Spremo's Not For Sale and Subjektivna by Anja Koprivšek defend the colors of Factum at this year's ZagrebDox.
Factumentaries bring together films with a strong authorial stance and sharp social focus. Here, documentary functions as intervention – into public space, political debate and collective conscience. These films refuse passive observation and demand engagement. They address injustice, manipulation, abuse of power, but also resistance and solidarity. Approaches vary – investigative, essayistic or personal – yet intention is always clear. This section reminds us that documentary is not only art, but public responsibility. Many films do work institutions fail to do: collecting evidence, preserving memory, opening files. Factumentaries confront the consequences of long-term neglect. The programme is demanding but necessary. Indifference is rarely possible – and that is precisely its strength.
Starting with the independence, a phase marked by rapid privatization and massive construction began in the Republic of Croatia, which continues to this day. The complete usurpation of urban space and the extinguishing of the identity of Zagreb's neighborhoods is caused by favouring the investor instead of the population. Not For Sale by Marina Aničić Spremo is a story about people who are directly confronted with unorganized and expansive construction in the Croatian metropolis. Their neighborhood, as they knew it, is disappearing, and their quality of life is drastically decreasing. The film follows the families who did not agree to the investors' offers and remained in their homes.
The starting point of Anja Koprivšek's POV is a commisioned format: the director is tasked with making a film about last year’s edition of ZagrebDox, without it turning into a standard festival chronicle. Instead of an objective overview of events and films, she needs to make a film from her own point of view - to make something personal. But is a revamped festival chronicle really a place where personality can shine through? The film follows her attempt to showcase the traces the festival has left on her - through films she has seen, accidental encounters, floating thoughts. In a flurry of social anxiety, entertainment and general unpredictability, we get an idea of what it is like to experience a documentary film festival, and what stays with us when it is all over.
Both films have their world premieres at this year's ZagrebDox.