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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 Pavel Koutecký Producer Jarmila Poláková Production company Film & Sociology

Director of photography Stano Slušný Editor Martin Steklý Financial Support - financial support: State Fund for the Support and Development of Czech Cinematography. - Praha-Ďáblice district support and Municipal council of Prague support

Square Ďáblice 1998 - 2004

Náměstí Ďáblice 1998 - 2004, Czech Republic, 2004, 28 min

Director Dainis Klava Production company Vides Filmu Studija Director of photography Dainis Klava

Editor Raimonds Spakovskis IDF Events 2004 East Silver

Squaring The Circle

Lubáns-cína parcentimetriem, Latvia, 2002, 45 min, 16 mm, Nature

Every spring coming to the Lake Lubáns, which is the largest lake in Latvia, is accompanied by floods. The efforts to prevent the floods have been going on since the middle of the 19th century. Today the lake, encircled by dikes, no longer threatens... more

Director Gabriel Szollosy Producer Anna Jancsó Production company Librecine Films

Director of photography Nyika Jancsó Editor Gabriel Szollosy IDF Events 2008 East Silver ...

Stalin City Cantata

Sztálinvárosi kantáta, Hungary, 2007, 39 min, Digi Beta, History, Human Rights, Music

In recent years, a downright onslaught on archives has taken place in Eastern Europe. Nothing is as important as the past, the complex history of a state that wanted to combine intellectualism with art, culture and politics. In this respect, Hungaria... more

Director Kevin McNeer Producer Bart Kuyper Production company Oblomov Films Productions Director of photography Alisher Khamidkhodzhaev ...

Editor Kevin McNeer IDF Events 2010 East Silver WWW www.stalinthoughtofyou.com Sales Mercury Media

Stalin Thought of You

Stalin vspomnil o Vas, Russia, The Netherlands, USA, 2009, 100 min, Digi Beta, Arts and Culture, History, Politics, Society

Boris Efimov’s pen had churned out political cartoons for the Soviet press on just about every world event in the past hundred years. But behind his titanic career, his charm and his wit, is what Efimov calls “a wound that does not heal”: the e... more

Director Kirill Sakharnov Producer Ksenia Sakharnova Production company Kinoindustria

Director of photography Kirill Sakharnov Editor Kirill Sakharnov

Stalin? Why Not

Stalin, pochemu niet?, Russia, 2010, 14 min, DVD, Politics, Society

In 2009, after renovating the underground station Kurskaja in Moscow, also the lines of the Soviet anthem from 1943 regained its old splendour: Through storms the sun of freedom has shined upon us / And the great Lenin has lighted the way / Stalin ha... more

Director Talivaldis Margevics ... Producer Baiba Urbane Production company European Documentary Film Symposiums

Director of photography Olegs Kotovics ... Editor Gunta Ikere

Stand up, Teacher!

Mājskolotājs, Latvia, 2005, 75 min, Beta SP, DV, Social Issues

The film is part of the society integration project "Multicultural education: teacher, pupil, family". They are outcasts of the fate. Society knows very little or nothing about their existence. They have a common name – children with prolonged hea... more

Director Theodora Remundová Producer Jiří Ptáček Production company FAMU - Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague

Director of photography Jakub Šimůnek Editor Zdeněk Marek

Standard

Standard, Czech Republic, 1999, 40 min, 35 mm

Film with music nad dance. About love, alcohol and fights over ownership rights in one family. FAMU, Department of Documentary Film (graduation film)... more

Director Milan Balog Production company Slovak Television Director of photography Perce Oreille

Editor Marek Kráľovský IDF Events 2006 East Silver

Standard Bastard

Standard Bastard, Slovak Republic, 2006, 26 min, Beta SP, Experimental

Hundreds of Heteropteras were left in flats, hotel rooms and churches after the collapse of communism. They have never been banished from there. The sound they make can still be heard, but nobody listens anymore. No body except for one man, who manag... more

Director A. Grigoriev Production company Sverdlovsk Film Studio

IDF Events 2006 East Silver Sales Sverdlovsk Film Studio

Standing at the Edge of Fragile Ice

Standing at the Edge of Fragile Ice, Russia, 2006, 52 min, Beta, Social Issues

Why does a man, it doesn't matter if he's young or old, climb suddenly on a windowsill, flap his arms and begin to fly not upwards, but down? The authors of the film take up this topical problem and consider it from the points of view of medicine, ps... more

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

Director of photography Gašper Šnuderl Editor Petra Berkovičová Raušová

Standing Opposite a Palm

Naproti dlani stojící, Czech Republic, 2003, 14 min, Youth Documentary

A thumb that eventually becomes the site of the Last Judgment.... more

Stanislav Babinský - The Life Is An Uncompromising Boomerang

Director Ľubomír Štecko Production company Slovenská filmová tvorba Bratislava - Koliba

Director of photography Ľubomír Štecko Editor Margita Černáková

Stanislav Babinský - The Life Is An Uncompromising Boomerang

Stanislav Babinský - Život je nekompromisný bumerang, Slovak Republic, 1991, 68 min, 35 mm, Portrait

A feature documentary of the social, political and ethical background of the best-known Slovak affair of the 1980s.... more

Stanislav Škrabec, Father of Slovenian phonetics

Director Matjaž Žbontar Production company VPK - Videoprodukcija Kregar

IDF Events 2006 East Silver Sales VPK - Videoprodukcija Kregar

Stanislav Škrabec, Father of Slovenian phonetics

Stanislav Škrabec, Oce slovenske fonetike, Slovenia, 2006, 52 min, DVD, Portrait

Feature documentary Father Stanislav Škrabec is a portrayal of one of the most significant Slovenian philologist and thinker of the 19th Century.... more

Director Pola Schirin Beck Producer Martina Liebnitz Production company Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen Konrad Wolf Potsdam-Babelsberg Director of photography Juan Sarmiento Grisales

Editor Ulrich Ringer IDF Events 2007 East Silver Sales Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen Konrad Wolf Potsdam-Babelsberg