IDFA 2007
November 22 - December 2
The projects detailed below will be presented at this year's Docs for Sale - Europe's largest market for creative documentaries. The 12th Docs for Sale will take place November 23 - December 2, 2007. For over eleven years, Docs for Sale has been attracting sales agents, TV stations, distributors, and festival programmers. It runs parallel to IDFA and the FORUM and stimulates the sales and distribution of new and exciting creative documentaries all over the world.
The participation of Czech filmmakers at IDFA was made possible by a generous agreement with Adriek van Nieuwenhuyzen, Head of IDFA Industry Office, who attended this year's East European Forum as a tutor and selected the winner of the inaugural IDFA Award.
For the five filmmakers, IDF provides a three-night accommodation, festival accreditation (€40), and Docs for Sale accreditation (€220).
Download more about the Czech projects at Docs for Sale here...
More information about the projects will be provided to guests of the DOC'ing TOGETHER Party (Nov 26, 18:00).
PEACE WITH SEALS
Czech Republic, 2007
Director: Miloslav Novák
Producer: Miloslav Novák, 12 Monkeys
The feature-length documentary tells two stories teaching a lesson about human nature. The animal world meets with that of humans. The beaches of the Mediterranean Sea - formerly full of sea lions - are now full of people who go on hunting tours. What is the domestication of animals, and what is the domestication of people?
INDUSTRIAL ELEGY
Czech Republic, 2007
Director: Daniela Gébová
Producer: Renata Vlčková
A visually poetic documentary about people living in the mining colonies in Ostrava that are gradually being shut down. As this world slowly disappears, we also lose the local traditional values, unique experiences and important memories of remarkable people who live very tough lives.
VORGA - A PATH OF TWO BANKS
Czech Republic, 2007
Director: Zdeněk Bričkovský
Producer: Zdeněk Bričkovský
A documentary film about a dream, tundra and a nomadic nation of European Nenets. Vorga is the Nenets' sacred trail, which the herdsmen have used for centuries to move their herds across the tundra, all the way to the Barents Sea shore.
HOME
Czech Republic, 2007
Director: Margareta Hrůza
Producer: Pavel Strnad, Negativ Films
The movie is an emotional journey recording the disintegration of the director's family. It offers glimpses of her childhood in Norway, her exile in the USA, and her "return" to the Czech Republic. Scenes of lonely characters set in different landscapes intercut with tragicomic meetings of family members who live their separate lives in various countries. The author is searching for answers to find out where her true home really is, searching in Prague, Oslo and Los Angeles.
LOW-LEVEL FLIGHT
Czech Republic, 2006
Director: Jan Šikl
Producer: Štoll Martin, Pragafilm
Low-level Flight is a story from the 1960s and 70s, following the relationship of Táňa and Václav, a fighter pilot in the Czechoslovak army. Táňa was captivated by Václav. He was an attractive, very determined and ambitious man. She accepted his career in the Czechoslovak army and often travelled with him during his study stays in the USSR. The relationship grew cold due to Václav's alcoholism and the marriage was over. Soon after, Václav's fighter pilot career ended by his tragic death.
A TOWN CALLED HERMITAGE
Czech Republic, 2007
Director: Ondřej Provazník, Martin Dušek
Producer: Alexandar Furtula
Boredom in the Czech Republic - geography of an end - the observer's position:
persons and types of people. Most original inhabitants were moved away from this small town located close to the German border for their German origin. The documentary presents Czech borderland and the stories of people living their own private lives, often unwilling to step out into the world at large.