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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 Alena Krejčová Producer Zdeněk Krejčí

Director of photography Alena Krejčová

The Love Fairy

Bludička lásky, Czech Republic, 2011, 14 min, DVD, Arts and Culture, History

A feature documentary film on the relationship of Czech poet Karel Hynek Mácha (16. 11. 1810 – 6. 11. 1836) to a girl named Lori.... more

The Loves of a Brunette/Lásky jedné tmavovlásky

Director Linda Vorlíčková Producer Linda Vorlíčková Production company Tomas Bata University in Zlin - The Faculty of Multimedia Communications

Director of photography Linda Vorlíčková Editor Linda Vorlíčková

The Loves of a Brunette/Lásky jedné tmavovlásky

The Loves of a Brunette/Lásky jedné tmavovlásky, Czech Republic, 2006, 8 min, DV

The documentary presents the story of a Japanese girl's love life, currently living in Australia. Department of animation and audiovisual arts of the Faculty of Multimedia Communications, Tomáš Baťa University - 2nd year (semestral work)... more

Director Martin Skyba Producer Karel Dvořák ... Production company Czech TV

Director of photography Josef Nekvasil Editor Josef Cuker ... Financial Support - finnancial support of State Fund of CZ for Support and Development of Czech Cinematography (1999) - support of Czech Freedom Fighters´ Association

The Magazine Entitled "Home"

Časopis jménem DOMOV, Czech Republic, 2000, 28 min

The story of a magazine which then fourteen-year-old Martin Glas and Petr Seidemann (now Pedro Seidemann, living since 1948 in Venezuela) published in the Terezin ghetto. It is the first time the magazine has been made public in over fifty-five years... more

Director Matěj Bajgar ... Producer Jan Skalík Director of photography Jan Skalík

WWW www.nalezeninaztracenem.cz Sales

The Man Who Cut Trees

Nalezeni na ztraceném, Czech Republic, 2012, 41 min, DVD, Environmental, Human Rights, Nature, Personal View, Philosophy, Politics, Social Issues, Society

In July and August 2011 the management of National park Šumava illegaly cut 32 hectars in protected forest region Na Ztraceném. Once there were partridges, three-todes and primeval forest, now it looks there like a parking space. Hundreds of people... more

Director Vít Klusák Production company FAMU - Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague

Director of photography Jakub Halousek Editor Kateřina Jeřábková

The Motherland and Burian

Vlast a Burian, Czech Republic, 2002, 28 min, Creative

Tragic dimensions of humour - the Vlasta Burian Society organized the transportation of Vlasta Burian's and his wife's remains from the Vinohrady cemetery to Vyšehrad.... more

Director Jaroslav Kratochvíl Producer Pavla Kubečková

Director of photography Prokop Souček Editor Darina Moravčíková

The Munich Agreement

Mnichovský diktát, Czech Republic, 2009, 7 min, Digi Beta, Youth Documentary

A film anecdote and poem reacting to the EU’s plan to create a common history textbook for all seventeen EU countries. Let's Write a New History! – Department of documentary film, FAMU – 3rd year (film joke/film poem).... more

Director Filip Remunda Production company Hypermarket Film

Director of photography Martin Matiášek Editor Matouš Outrata

The Never Filmed Film

Nikdy nenatočený film, Czech Republic, 2008, 20 min

A trailer for a planned documentary "My boss is a Jewish carpenter" was made by Czech director Filip Remunda for a New Yorker producer who planned to use it for finding resources for a film about car racers. The story was supposed to be an allegory o... more

Director Táňa Krejzová Production company Studio FAMU

Director of photography Lukáš Marek Editor Martin Mynarič

The New Exhibit

Nový exponát, Czech Republic, 2010, 8 min, 16 mm, Youth Documentary

Museum of ATB and its loyal nursers.... more

The North Pole Through the Eyes of a UFO

Director Petr Horký Producer Petr Horký

Director of photography Petr Horký Editor Petr Svoboda

The North Pole Through the Eyes of a UFO

Severní pól očima ufona, Czech Republic, 2009, 20 min

This documentary film is about the farthest Czech expedition to the North Pole that Petr Horký and Miroslav Jakeš undertook. The film also takes a look at how today's "Polar tourism" has developed and changed and what kind of people undertake an e... more

Director Oliver Malina Morgenstern Production company Global Entertainment & Media s. r. o. Director of photography Oliver Malina Morgenstern

Editor Štěpán Nepraš Financial Support Městská část Praha 8

The Palaverers of Libeň

Pábitelé z Libně, Czech Republic, 2011, 78 min, Personal View

Let the palaverers of Prague’s Libeň lead you and enter the stories of writers Eduard Štorch (10. 4. 1878 – 25. 6. 1956), Vojtěch Rakous (8. 12. 1862 – 8. 8. 1935), Bohumil Hrabal (28. 3. 1914 – 3. 2. 1997) and Libeň poet Karel Hlaváček... more

The Past and Present of Germans from Hořice

Director Zdeněk Flídr Producer Karel Dvořák ... Production company ZF Film ...

Director of photography Martin Štelbaský Editor Miloš Málek Sales BR - Bayerischer Rundfunk

The Past and Present of Germans from Hořice

Hořičtí Němci, včera a dnes, Czech Republic, 2002, 58 min, DV

This documentary film shows the specific life tragedies of Germans from Hořice in the context of the creation and development of Hořice Easter Games and Their message today. For the Nazis, the people of Hořice Germans were "unacceptable", because ... more

Director Jüri Müür ...

Director of photography Nikolai Šarubin ...

The Ploughman’s Fatigue

Künnimehe väsimus, Estonia, 1982, 35 mm, Environmental

This documentary is a critical analysis of the severe negative consequences of the centrally planned agricultural policy. A policy which imposes a new technology without taking into account the specific needs and conditions of the farming-land in Est... more

Director Kateřina Mikulcová Production company FAMU - Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague Director of photography Dalibor Fencl ...

Editor Lenka Hojková IDF Events 2005 Czech Documentary 1989 - 2004 ...

The Portrait

Portrét, Czech Republic, 2003, 14 min, DV, Anthropology, Portrait

A documentary film with animated sequences about ethnographer Pavlína Brzáková. Travelling can expand horizons but also build a wall around the traveller. A film about unique experience.... more

The Rachov Region in the Transcarpathian Ukraine

Director Tomáš Hodan Producer Damián Kaušitz Production company Czech TV ...

Director of photography Filip Šturmankin Editor Tomáš Kábele ... Financial Support - financial contribution: State Fund for the Support and Development of Czech Cinematography (2003)