Igor Bezinović’s “Fiume o morte!” won two more festival awards last week. At the 16th Makedox Film Festival, which took place in Skopje, North Macedonia from August 22nd to August 28th, it won the Young Onion Award as the best film in the “Newcomers” competition. The jury, consisting of Macedonian director Vardan Tozija, journalist and film critic Truls Lie, and Mara Prohaska Marković, festival director of the Beldocs festival, explained the award in these words: „Makedox is a festival devoted to creativity in documentary film. Tonight, we honor a work that embodies that spirit — a film that dares to play, to provoke, to laugh in the face of darkness. Through humor and entertainment, it confronts the frightening return of fascism, exposing the toxic credo: “if you’re not with us, you’re against us.” The filmmaker breathes life into old photographs with modern tools like AI, reviving memories and emotions from the past. Characters and narrators change playfully, the local community joins in with authenticity, and the entire story unfolds through a prism of satire. It is inventive, bold and alive. The Young Onion Award goes to Fiume o Morte!“. The second award that the film won was the Award for best documentary film at the 19th Vukovar Film Festival, which took place in Vukovar from August 27th to August 30th. The documentary competition jury that awarded the film was composed of director and screenwriter Domagoj Burić, journalist and film critic Jelena Ružić, and the champion of the Croatian National Theatre of Osijek Petra Blašković.
