Das Festival „Zagreb Dox“ verleiht dem Schweizer Regisseur, Filmautor und Produzenten Christian Frei den Honorary Stamp Award für sein Lebenswerk.

Es freut mich für Christian, dass ihm diese verdiente Anerkennung zuteil wird und dass die Filme, an denen wir beide in unterschiedlichen Rollen beteiligt waren, auch heute noch ihr Publikum und weltweit Beachtung finden!

Das Festival schreibt:
Christian Frei is one of the most influential contemporary documentarians whose bold and truthful films – Blame, Sleepless in New York, War Photographer, Space Tourists, and Genesis 2.0 – bring piercing and intimate portraits of people in extreme situations and cover a broad spectrum of topics that weigh on the fate of humanity, such as war, technology and major social changes. His mosaic work is characterised by a subdued persistence and dedicated immersion in “human tectonics” – from love affairs in the New York metropolis, through the trade in mammoth tusks for cloning to space tourism and a meticulous investigation of the causative agent of the COVID-19 virus. In a masterclass whose name paraphrases Ernest Hemingway’s literary credo, Frei will present the key elements that create a documentary that resists the ravages of time and authentically and deeply captures the complex faces and facets of human nature.