AJB DOC Award Goes to 'Pavilion 6'

AJB DOC Award with cash prize od 2000 Euro was given to a project “Pavillion 6” by the director Goran Dević and producer Hrvoje Osvadić.

As part of the 29th Sarajevo Film Festival, Docu Rough Cut Boutique, a regional platform dedicated to documentary projects in the advanced phase of the editing process was held and Al Jazeera Balkans Documentary Film Festival/ AJB DOC Award winner was selected.

Out of five projects presented at this years’s Rough Cut Boutique program, Al Jazeera Balkans Documentary Film Festival/ AJB DOC Award with cash prize od 2000 Euro was given to a project “Pavillion 6” by director Goran Dević and producer Hrvoje Osvadić.

“We have decided to give AJB DOC cash award to the project which Director has unique, funny and witty way of storytelling! AJBDOC cash award goes to project Pavilion 6, Director Goran Dević, Producer Hrvoje Osvadić. Congratulations and well done!”, said Lejla Dedić, Al Jazeera Balkans Program Producer and AJB DOC Programmer

Dedić also thanked to the Cine Link Industry program team for their dedicated work and program on behalf of the Al Jazeera Balkans and AJB DOC Film Festival.

Observational documentary

Dević’s observational documentary Pavillion 6 follows individuals from the most important organizational sectors such as security guards, administrators, doctors, epidemiologists, nurses and emergency workers. 

The film pays equal attention to the citizens who came to be vaccinated, regardless of whether they came to the vaccination “in pairs” or started communicating with complete strangers with whom they were united by a common term of vaccination. In the chaos that accompanies the film, all of the painful points of post-transition Croatia emerge, from the completely ruined trust in knowledge, science and institutions of the system to the eternal need of the “little man” to fight for something “out of turn” or “through a connection”. 

The ultimate ambition of this observational film is to raise the question of whether we still exist as a society or have we become a group of disoriented individuals whose only current consolation may be that the current problem they face is not endemic, local but something that has befallen the world.