"No Offence" awarded at Beldocs Industry Days
26.5.2025.
ZagrebDox's Slow Pitch was their first encounter with the real industry - at the very next such encounter, the young filmmakers won two awards!
With their presentation (or pitch) at the 18th Beldocs Industry Days, director Lucija Marčec and producer Ida Barac confirmed what we have known for some time: they are talented, capable documentarians who, even though they are sitting in student benches, can easily compete for professional awards. This year, Marčec participated in ZagrebDox's Slow Pitch with the project No Offence. It is a feature-length documentary that focuses on Međimurje, the smallest and northernmost Croatian county, where a specific combination of coexistence takes place. Croats, Roma and Nepalese live completely separately, but their unresolved conflicts create an unbroken circle of discrimination.
The inspired pitch they held at the recently concluded 18th Beldocs (Belgrade, 21–25 May) brought them two awards: the Ji.hlava New Visions Market Award and the Forgrade Award. The film No Offence is therefore traveling to Ji.hlava this fall, and our Slow Pitch is marking its first concrete international successes!
