The Masterclass program consists of guest appearances by international documentary filmmakers in Zagreb, professionals from various production areas: direction, production, filming, editing, criticism and the like.
The Masterclass is the final stage of Restart’s extensive educational program, intended for film professionals, participants of Restart’s documentary film school, but also for the wider film-loving public. It consists of an interactive public lecture by a visiting film professional, and sometimes practical advice from Croatian documentary filmmakers on examples of their films they are currently working on or another form of workshop.
List of held Masterclasses:
2025.
Listening to the Archives
director and editor TOMASZ WOLSKI (Poland)
language: English
Blessed Obstacles
director, writer and producer PETER KEREKES (Slovakia)
language: English
Movies that Matter: Take on Film & Impact
festival director, producer and documentarist MARGJE DE KONING (Netherlands)
language: English
2024.
Along the Archives, Against the Archives: Assembling Absences
director, curator and researcher KUMJANA NOVAKOVA (Republic of North Macedonia / Bosnia and Herzegovina)
language: English
2023.
2022.
Profession: Cinematographer
cinematographer and director MARTE VOLD (Norway)
language: English
Soldiers’ testimonies – Two case studies
director AVI MOGRABI (Israel)
language: English
Observational Film
director KAZUHIRO SODA (Japan)
language: English
Directing memories: Political landscapes in documentary film
director RUTH BECKERMANN (Austria)
language: English
2021.
Youth on film: Between reality and fiction
director MARIA SPETH (Germany)
language: German with Croatian subtitles
Directing interventions in documentary film
director MLADEN KOVAČEVIĆ (Serbia)
language: Serbian
What is a film cameraman?
cameramen VANJA ČERNJUL (USA, Croatia)
language: Croatian
Film and political responsibility
director FREDRIK GRETTEN (Sweden)
language: English
2020.
Directing methods in feature films and documentaries
director and screenwriter RADU JUDE (Romania)
language: English
The relationship between fiction and documentary
director and screenwriter SERGEY DVORCEVOY (Russia, Kazakhstan)
language: English
Working with characters in a documentary film
director and screenwriter ALEXANDER NANAU (Romania)
From Oscar-winning “Man on the Wire” to Errol Morris, from Netflix’s “House of Cards” to the HBO series “The Outsider”
cameraman IGOR MARTINOVIĆ (USA, Croatia)
language: Croatian
2019.
From fiction to documentary to fiction
director OGNJEN GLAVONIĆ (Serbia)
language: Serbian
The man and the film
director and author BORIS LEHMAN (Belgium, Switzerland)
Challenges of film editing
video editor MONIKA WILLI (Austria)
Why not? Jean Rouch’s filmmaking
director and lecturer JEAN NOËL CRISTIANI (France)
2018.
How do the Western media see Eastern European cinematography?
film critic JAY WEISSBERG (USA, Italy)
language: English
Case study – the film Ultra
director and athlete BALÁZS SIMONYI (Hungary)
2017.
Rethinking the boundaries between genders in contemporary film
director DANIS TANOVIĆ (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
language: Bosnian
Documentary film – art or reality?
director VITALIJ MANSKI (Russia, Latvia)
Inventing reality
director SERGIO OKSMAN (Spain, Brasil)
DocuMENTAL movies: Peter Kerekes
director PETER KEREKES (Slovakia)
2016.
About the political and historical documentary
director EYAL SIVAN (Israel, France)
language: English
What is documentary filmmaking for me?
director KARPO GODINA (Slovenia)
language: Croatian
Feature film director and documentary film director
director JASMILA ŽBANIĆ (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
language: Bosnian
2015.
Editing without a script
film editor JESPER OSMUND (Denmark)
language: English
Documentary filmmakers among mass murderers
director and screenwritter JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER (USA, Denmark)
language: English
The best possible start
director and screenwritter HEDDY HONIGMANN (Netherlands, Peru)
language: English
The secrets of co-production collaborations – locally and globally in the world of documentary film
producer MARTICHKA BOZHILOVA (Bulgaria)
language: English
2014.
How to successfully combine film and cross media platforms
director and producer ARASH T. RIAHI (Austria, Iran)
language: English
Masterclass: Jørgen Leth
director and screenwritter JØRGEN LETH (Denmark)
languge: English
The art of preparation
cameraman and director CÉSAR CHARLONE (Urugvuay)
language: English
A political film
director and screenwritter HUBERT SAUPER (Austria)
language: English
2013.
How to choose the best story and characters for a documentary film
director and cameraman JOHN APPEL (Netherlands)
Production case study of the documentary film “Sofia last ambulance”
producer SINIŠA JURICIC (Croatia)
Case study: Michal Marczak
director MICHAL MARCZAK (Poland)
Ambassadors Selection – a Powerpoint Show
director and screenwritter MADS BRUGGER (Denmark)
director and screenwritter AVI MOGRABI (Israel)
in collaboration with the WHW
…where documentary meets fiction…
director and cameraman WOJCIECH STARON (Poland)
A docu-mental comedy
director, screenwritter and producer FILIP REMUNDA (Czechia)
2012.
Storytelling in a documentary film – shaping character, identification and film magic
film editor NIELS PAGH ANDERSEN (Denmark)
In conversation with Boris Mitić (BG/ZG) “about nothing”
director, screenwritter and producter MICHAEL GLAWOGGER (Austria)
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To live a sustainable life as a freelance filmmaker
producer MIN-CHUL KIM (South Korea) i film editor MIMA PETROVIC (Serbia)
Complete insight into contemporary documentary film in five drawings and one polemic
director and producer BORIS MITIC (Serbia)
2011.
Creative documentary choices
director and cameraman JOHN APPEL (Netherlands)
The hero in a documentary film or how to choose a protagonist for your documentary
director and screenwritter JERZY SLADKOWSKI (Poland, Sweden)
How to assemble Diana?
director and producer BORIS MITIC (Serbia)
2010.
director and cameraman GEOFFREY SMITH (England)
Everything they won’t teach you at the academy
director BORIS MITIC (Serbia)
2009.
From concept to creation – how to create a documentary worth watching
director MICHAEL MIERENDORF (USA)