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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 Ihor Chayka Producer Ihor Chayka Production company Time Production Studio

Director of photography Uriy Djachenko Editor Vadim Storozhev IDF Events 2007 East Silver

Freedom of "jeans"? Ukrainian Context…

Freedom of "jeans"? Ukrainian Context…, Ukraine, 2006, 10 min, HD, Entertainment, Personal View

"Everything is for sale!": this was a slogan concluding the election campaign-2006 for the most of the media outlets in Ukraine. The number of stories which have been ordered (so called "jeans stories") in newspapers and on the air of TV channels, an... more

Director Kai-Mai Olbri Producer Kai-Mai Olbri Production company Kaarna

Director of photography Kullar Viimne Editor Erik Norkroos IDF Events 2009 East Silver

Freedom Starts from Within

Vabadus algab seest, Estonia, 2009, 50 min, Beta, Arts and Culture, Portrait

Film's central theme is freedom - human and above all artist's freedom: artistic, spiritual and physical, observed retroactively by the author herself. This sincere and confessional biography examines the author's complicated and versatile artistic n... more

Director Kristina Vlachová Producer Eva Ferenčíková Production company Ústav pamäti národa - Nation's Memory Institute Director of photography Itmar Hadav ...

Editor Jiří Mikula IDF Events 2006 East Silver WWW http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/iv...

Freedom's Road

Cesty naděje, Czech Republic, 2005, 29 min, DV, Human Rights, Politics

In the production of the Slovak Nation's Memory Institute, Czech documentary filmmaker Kristina Vlachová made a medium-length film for the documentary series Crimes of Nazism and Communism, describing fates of hundreds of Jews from the Slovak town o... more

Director Adam Palenta Producer Ewa Jastrzębska Production company Polish Filmmakers' Association Munk Studio Director of photography Adam Palenta

Editor Adam Palenta IDF Events 2012 East Silver Sales Krakow Film Foundation

Freestyle Life

Zycie stylem dowolnym, Poland, 2012, 10 min, Digi Beta, Adventure and Sports, Portrait

Freestyle life is a story of the art of putting up a fight when the game involves the most competitive rivals - ourselves. Resistance to determinism leads towards stubborn challenges with oneselves, resulting in consecutive duels. A TV screen surface... more

Director Alexander Binder ... Production company AB Film Director of photography Alexander Binder ...

Editor Karin Hammer IDF Events 2005 East Silver

Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently Asked Questions, Austria, 2005, 84 min, Digi Beta, Human Rights, Politics, Society

What does a Slovenian Corinthian do when he realizes he has mistakenly opened up and gone through a package meant for Jorg Haider's daughter? In addition to this situation, which actually occurred to Stefan Hafner, this "documentary about Corinthia" ... more

Director Nataliya Nazarova Production company Centre of National Film

Director of photography Vladimir Tjutikov IDF Events 2005 East Silver

Frida na fone Frida

Frida na fone Frida, Russia, 2005, 39 min, Beta SP, Arts and Culture, Portrait

A portrait of Frida Kahlo, the painter, against the backdrop of simmering Mexico of her time. A portrait of Frida, the woman in the company of outstanding personalities - Diego Rivera, Leon Trotsky, Tina Modotti, Andre Breton. The inner dispute of th... more

Director Pavel Marek

Production company Czech TV

Friday Club

Pátečníci, Czech Republic, 2002, 28 min, Beta SP

A circle of friends formed by four old people: an artist, a sculptor and a pair of doctors.... more

Director Šimon Ondruš Producer Šimon Ondruš Production company FTF VŠMU - Film and Television Faculty ...

Director of photography Štefan Bučka Editor Michal Kondrla

Friend*ship

Slovak Republic, 2010, 26 min, DV, Youth Documentary

Documentary road-movie interviews not only about the actual situation in Balkan region.... more

Director Zemira Alajbegovic Pecovnik Producer Zemira Alajbegovic Pecovnik Production company RTV Slovenija Director of photography Marko Mrak

Editor Jaka Kovacic IDF Events 2007 East Silver Sales RTV Slovenija

Friends From Far Away

Prijateli of dalec, Ghana, Slovenia, 2006, 38 min, 35 mm, Beta SP, DVD, Arts and Culture

Marko Peljhan's Invisible Territory is a documentary on multi media artist Marko Peljhan and his project Makrolab, mobile artistic and scientific laboratory that travels around the world. It was based in Scotland, Australia, Slovenia, USA, … Now pr... more

Director Milan Růžička Producer Robert Fuksa Production company Czech TV

Director of photography Vladimír Plicka Editor Petr Sladký WWW http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/iv...

Friends Through Life and Death

Přátelství na život a na smrt, Czech Republic, 2003, 58 min, Digi Beta

The story of American aviators, shot down in an airfight on December 17, 1944 at the village of Troubky in Moravia. the second pilot Edmund A. Kasold, jr. and navigator Thomas W. Qualman survived and tried to escape. With the help of the fearless loc... more

Director Joris Ivens ... Production company Mosfilm International

Editor A. Kulganek ...

Friendship Triumphs

Freundschaft siegt, Russia, 1951, 90 min, 35 mm, History, Politics, Reportage

Film about the third 'Weltfestspiele der Jugend und Studenten für den Frieden' in East Berlin, 1951. West Germany is represented as a degenerate country which has been occupied by the Americans and is still inclined to fascism. We see the constructi... more

Director Marek Tichý Production company FAMU - Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague ...

Director of photography Marek Tichý Editor Tereza Bruknerová

A Frog´s Life

Žabař, Czech Republic, 1999, 18 min, Portrait, Youth Documentary

A film about paleontologist Zdeněk Vlastimil Špinar. - Department of documentary film, FAMU - 5th year, graduation film.... more

Director Dan Wlodarczyk Production company Czech TV

Director of photography Alexander Šurkala Editor Petr Turyna

From A to A and Backwards

Od A k A a zase zpět, Czech Republic, 1994, 50 min, Society

About the teenagers of today who have aliking in the anarchist movement and about the young sprayers.... more

Director Edgar Baghdasaryan Producer Mesrop Aramian Production company VEM Director of photography Rouben Gasparyan

Editor Artak Dokholyan IDF Events 2010 East Silver WWW www.fromararattozion.com Financial Support Private donors. See http://fromararattozion.com/en/credits.htm for a full list.