“ Fiume o morte! ,” directed by Igor Bezinović, was awarded the FIPRESCI Documentary Grand Prix Thursday during the opening ceremony of the 23rd Millennium Docs Against Gravity , the second-largest documentary film festival in Europe. The award honors the best documentary film of the past year, selected by a jury of members of FIPRESCI, the International Federation of Film Critics. A screening of the film, followed by a Q&A with the director, will take place at the festival on Saturday, hosted by Paola Casella, an Italian film critic and vice president of FIPRESCI. Popular on Variety The film was shot in 2019, 100 years after the fascist occupation of Fiume in 1919 by Gabriele D’Annunzio. Bezinović teamed up with 300 residents to create a subversive, punk-style reenactment that “dismantles nationalist myths and exposes the spectacle of political performativity,” the festival said.…