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www.DOKweb.net is a portal dedicated to East European documentary film. The news section provides up-to-date information on upcoming and just completed films, interviews with filmmakers and other documentary professionals, in-depth articles exploring the state of documentary filmmaking in various parts of the region, as well as insightful texts on current trends, funding, etc. The portal also boasts the largest published databases of completed and upcoming documentary films from Eastern Europe, an industry directory, as well as trailers and original video content. www.DOKweb.net is IDF´s key online project that provides comprehensive details on all IDF´s activities and links them with general information service.

Institute of Documentary Film’s Activities

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Founded in 2001, the INSTITUTE OF DOCUMENTARY FILM (IDF) is a non-profit training and networking centre based in Prague, Czech Republic, focused on the support of East European documentary films and their wider promotion. Our activities support filmmakers through all stages of completion – development, funding, production, post-production, and distribution. We aim at individual filmmakers (tailored consultations), groups of carefully selected professionals with projects or films (Ex Oriente Film, East European Forum, East Silver, Doc Launch, etc.), broader professional community (East Doc Platform), as well as the general public (portal www.DOKweb.net). We closely work with key int. festivals, broadcasters, distributors, sales agents, markets, or training initiatives and serve as the GATEWAY TO EAST EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY FILM.

Director Andrea Majstorovičová Production company Czech TV

Director of photography Josef Nekvasil Editor Ľuba Ďurkovičová

Seventeen Months of Dagmar Havlová

Sedmnáct měsíců Dagmar Havlové, Czech Republic, 1998, 50 min, Portrait

A document about the former actress, now first Lady of the Czech Republic - wife of the President of the CR, Dagmar Havlová. ... more

Director Václav Borovička Production company Originální videojournal Director of photography Stano Slušný

Editor Miloslav Liška Financial Support - specific grant: Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic

Shadows of the Cruel Faces

Stíny krutých tváří, Czech Republic, 1993, 32 min, History

A story of the one village near Benešov serves as an example of liquidation of the farmer class in the fifties. The farmers were driven awayfrom their farmsteads and today their children give an account of their destinies.... more

Director Silvia Málová Producer Silvia Málová Production company FAMU - Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague

Director of photography Darko Stulić Editor Petra Berkovičová Raušová

The Shakespearean Actress

Shakespearovská herečka, Czech Republic, 2004, 25 min

Film is a fictionalized documentary about Marilyn Monroe.... more

Director Břetislav Rychlík Producer Jan Lederer ... Production company Plum Production ... Director of photography Jiří Kovář ...

Editor Tonička Janková IDF Events 2006 Panel and Catalogue of Upcoming Czech Documentary Films Financial Support -support of the Jihomoravský region

Shaking the Bones

Zatřást kostmi, Czech Republic, 2007, 58 min

The film focuses on the way of a human being towards his dream. It shows a unique performance of a multiple world champion in riding the historic high bike, Josef Zimovčák. Last year he covered the track of the Tour de France. After a fall, he succes... more

Director Pavel Bezouška Producer Petr Morávek Production company Czech TV

Director of photography Petr Štulíř Editor Jiří Siegler IDF Events 2010 Catalogue of Upcoming Czech Documentary Films

The Shamans Are Leaving

Šamani odcházejí, Czech Republic, 2010, 57 min, 16 mm, Beta, DVD, Environmental, Philosophy, Religion

The white civilization has resigned from the coexistence with nature as well as the experience that follows from it. One of the few to sustain the tradition are South American shamans. The film is a probe to the shaman soul, providing an insight into... more

Director Otakáro Maria Schmidt Producer Martin Müller ... Production company Palacký University Olomouc

Director of photography Jiří Strnad Editor Attila Kovács ... WWW http://www.upol.cz/zpravy/aktu...

She Dances with Olomouc

Ona tančí s Olomoucí, Czech Republic, 2008, 28 min

Director Vladimír Chrenovský Producer Vladimír Chrenovský ... Production company The World Circle Foundation

Director of photography Vladimír Chrenovský Editor Vladimír Chrenovský

SHIMANBEY

ŠIMANBEJ, Czech Republic, 2005, 24 min, Arts and Culture

A documentary of an exhibition by Czech painter Otto Placht that took place during a painting installation in the Prague Nová síň gallery in January 2005. It consists of cuts in the Peruvian Amazon.... more

Director Martin Řezníček Producer Martin Řezníček Production company DOCUfilm Praha ... Director of photography Martin Řezníček

Editor Miloš Málek IDF Events 2009 Panel and Catalogue of Upcoming Czech Documentary Films Financial Support Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic

Shitcredit

Šitkredit, Czech Republic, 2010, 57 min, Digi Beta, Creative, Current Affairs

You take out a loan and then have to pay several times over the loaned sum or you lose your house for a few thousand or you find yourself in debt for the rest of your life. Chang the rapper talks about "Shitcredit". Taking a glimpse into the workings... more

Director Olga Strusková Producer Anna Kotěšovcová

Production company Ars Humana Praha ... Director of photography Jan Fišer

Shizuoka 07 - On One Boat

Shizuoka 07 – Na jedné lodi, Czech Republic, 2008, 57 min

Disabled people have to face many complications in their lives. They can show their talents in special competitions - one of them were Abilympics in Shizuoka, Japan in 2007.... more

Director Lubor Dohnal Production company Krátký Film Praha ...

Director of photography Ivan Marek Editor Miloslav Liška

The Short Life of Helmut Hirsch

O krátkém životě Helmuta Hirsche, Czech Republic, Germany, 1997, 90 min

A documentary film about the student Helmut Hirsch who was executed in 1937 in Berlin for allegedly planning the assassination of Adolf Hitler.... more

Director Martin Hanzlíček Producer Jarmila Poláková Production company Film & Sociology ... Director of photography Richard Krivda

Editor David Vojta IDF Events 2009 East Silver ... WWW http://www.kratkadlouhacesta.c... Sales Newface Films and Animation

Short Long Journey

Krátká dlouhá cesta, Czech Republic, 2009, 82 min, Digi Beta, DVD, History, Personal View

" About people, not only about Jews, about the evil in us, not only about the holocaust,about the present not only about the past" In April 1945 Vojtech Gál was murdered on the way from Sachsenhausen to Schwerin. In April 2008 his son walked the same... more

Director Václav Borovička Production company Originální videojournal Director of photography Zbyněk Olmer

Editor David Šrám Financial Support - special grant: Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic

Should the Nation Survive

Aby národ přežil, Czech Republic, 1993, 59 min, History

A documentary about different forms of collaboration of our nation during the Second World War. Historian comment on the unique archive films and reflect on the consequences resulting from that collaboration on the fundamental moralities of the natio... more

Director Aleksandar Manić Producer Anna Becková ... Production company Cabiria ... Director of photography Dominik Miškovský

Editor Ivana Davidová ... IDF Events 2007 East European Stand at Sunny Side of the Doc ... WWW http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/iv... Financial Support - financial contribution (2000 ...