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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.
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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.
Elephant Soldiers
Director Inna Sahakyan Producer Vardan Hovhannisyan Production company Bars Media Director of photography Vahagn Ter-Hakobyan
Editor Tigran Baghinyan WWW http://vimeo.com/33771289 Financial Support BBC, YLE, Tribeca Film Institute Documentary Fund

Elephant Soldiers

Armenia, 72 min, HD, Current Affairs, Nature
8:00 pm: As Max watches 20 dots moving slowly across his computer screen, he notices that one is still. It represents Robinson, a 20-year-old elephant that Max has fitted with a GPS collar. Robinson hasn’t moved for the last 3 hours. 11:00 pm: Robins...  more
The End of Light
Director Aleš Suk ... Producer Željka Suková Production company Udruga Ukus Director of photography Aleš Suk
Editor Ana Jurić IDF Events 2012 East European Forum WWW www.ukus.tv Financial Support HAVC - Croatian audiovisual centre ...

The End of Light

Kraj svjetla, Croatia, 70 min, DCP, Experimental, Mockumentary, Social Issues
The screenplay for “The End of Light“ is inspired by the motives from “ Road to the end of the Road (literally “A way to the end of the way) “ - a poem by Josip Sever, which employs abstract terms to talk about the importance of the path as a goal. T...  more
English Teacher
Director Vano Arsenishvili ... Producer Vano Arsenishvili ... Production company Artefact Production Director of photography Vano Arsenishvili
Editor Vano Arsenishvili ... IDF Events 2013 East Silver / Prague edition ... Financial Support Broadcasting channel PIK (in Place) ...

English Teacher

Inglisuris mascavlebeli, Georgia, 2012, 56 min, 70 min, DCP, Anthropology, Social Issues, Society
Young, enthusiastic “English teacher” arrives to Georgia to be part of a “linguistic revolution” in the country. He is one of thousand English speakers sent all over Georgia under the Georgian president’s initiative to teach English every school chil...  more
Epopeja
Director Karel Čtveráček Producer Alice Tabery Production company Cinepoint s.r.o.
Director of photography Antonín Chundela Editor Lucie Haladová Financial Support Czech Film Fund

Epopeja

Czech Republic, 57 min, HD, Anthropology, History, Travel
EPOPEJA is a documentary exploring the world (especially the Slavic one); it is a testimony about the process of forming new opinions, new communities and even of new mythologies. It attempts to approach an extraordinary spiritual artefact that enclo...  more
Escape from Somalia
Director David Čálek Producer Jeffrey Brown ... Production company U.F.O. Pictures ... Director of photography David Čálek
Editor Kateřina Krutská Vrbová IDF Events 2012 Catalogue of Upcoming Czech Documentary Films ... WWW escapefromsomalia.com Financial Support Czech State Fund for the Support and Development of Czech Cinematography

Escape from Somalia

Útěk ze Somálska, Czech Republic, 90 min, 50 min, DCP, HD, Anthropology, Creative, Current Affairs, Environmental, Human Rights, Politics, Social Issues
The Somali Sea, once among the richest fisheries in the world, has been turning into a ”dead” sea in the last 15 years, due to a rampant, massive fishing by multinational fishing cartels. The film reveals the difficult plight of Somali pirates, mostl...  more
Escaping Riga
Director Davis Simanis Producer Līga Gaisa Production company Mistrus Media
Director of photography Andrejs Rudzats Editor Andra Lejniece IDF Events 2010 East European Forum ...

Escaping Riga

Dzimis Rīgā, Latvia, 75 min, HD, Arts and Culture, History
Escaping Riga is a cinematic journey, a docu-fiction trying to find answers to the question how the history of the 20th century has influenced people from the same place to lose their childhood illusions of comfort and become totally disillusioned. T...  more
Eugenic Minds
Director Pavel Štingl Producer Jiří Konečný Production company K2 ... Director of photography Míra Janek
Editor Tonička Janková IDF Events 2012 Catalogue of Upcoming Czech Documentary Films ... Financial Support Media Desk ...

Eugenic Minds

Eugéniové, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, 80 min, HD, Animated, Anthropology, Archive, Creative, Society
Eugenics was once considered more groundbreaking than the invention of the wheel. It was supposed to save mankind from serious genetic loads. After World War II, the term almost disappeared from the world’s dictionaries. Science was misused by crimin...  more
Everyday Rebellion
Director Arash T. Riahi ... Producer Kilian Krug ... Production company Golden Girls Filmproduktion & Filmservices GmbH ...
IDF Events 2013 East Doc Platform WWW http://www.everydayrebellion.c...

Everyday Rebellion

Austria, 2013, 90 min, HD, Current Affairs, Human Rights, Politics, Social Issues, Society
Everyday Rebellion is an impressionistic documentary essay as well as a web platform about non-violent forms of protest and civil disobedience in the 21st century. A project about methods of resistance supported by technology, seen not only through t...  more
Everything Is Possible
Director Lidia Duda Producer Aleksandra Derewienko ... Production company Eureka Media Director of photography Kacper Lisowski
Editor Agnieszka Bojanowska IDF Events 2010 East European Forum Financial Support Polish Film Institute ...

Everything Is Possible

Wszystko jest możliwe, Poland, 52 min, Digi Beta, Portrait
A cottage with a small garden at the edge of the village. Windows decorated with geraniums. The two elderly dwellers, Teresa and Jan, couldn't be more different. She starts her mornings with a heart-pumping exercise routine, and keeps busy all day. H...  more
Ewa
Director Grzegorz Pacek ... Producer Monika Braid Production company Wytwórnia Filmów ...
Director of photography Bogumil Godfrejów IDF Events 2011 East European Forum ...

Ewa

United Kingdom, 60 min, 80 min, HD, Human Rights, Politics, Social Issues
The film tells the story of Ewa Jasiewicz, born in 1978, a British journalist and human rights activist of Polish origin. She graduated from Goldsmith College in anthropology, presently she concentrates on social work and free-lance journalism. She w...  more
Exchange Kesaj Tchave
Director Rozálie Kohoutová Producer Vladimír Lhoták Production company Fresh Films ... Director of photography Lukáš Hyksa
Editor Evženie Brabcová IDF Events 2012 Ex Oriente Film WWW www.freshfilms.cz

Exchange Kesaj Tchave

Czech Republic, 70 min, DCP, Music, Social Issues, Youth Documentary
The film tells the story of two teenage girls Jenica and Perla who are friends but live 1500 km apart. They met thanks to the Kesaj Tchave dance organization that brings together Roma children from Eastern Slovakia and children from Romanian Roma fam...  more
Expedition Moloko
Director Daniela Rusnoková Producer Federika Homolková
Production company LEON Productions ... IDF Events 2006 East European Forum ...

Expedition Moloko

Slovak Republic, Creative
Humorous globalization story about civilization pressure and tradition values. Mongolian shepherd come to stay with Slovakian shepherd in order to learn how to make cheese ... Two world cultures and traditions meet each other. ...  more
Faceless
Director Nikita Sutyrin Producer Katherine Menshova Production company Moviement ... Director of photography Dmitry Shebaldin
Editor Ivan Gaev WWW vimeo.com/user2563883/videos Financial Support National Endowment for Democracy (NED) - 20 000 $ - confirmed Ministry of Culture of Russian Federation - 25 000 $ - pending

Faceless

БЕЗ ЛИЦА, Russia, 52 min, Digi Beta, Docu drama, Human Rights, Social Issues, Society
Russia survives the neo-nazism revelry. The characters of the film are anti-fascist, who resist to neo-nazism on the streets. They defend universal positive values and are approved by some Russian artists, journalists, intellectuals. But why do th...  more
Faith that Can Build Castles (Sometimes)
Director Dominika Švecová Producer Jan Čulík
Production company Scottish Documentary Institute Director of photography Adam Barnett ...

Faith that Can Build Castles (Sometimes)

Czech Republic, United Kingdom, 30 min, Digi Beta, DV, DVD, HD, Current Affairs, History, Religion, Society
My film is about a group of old nuns living in a huge castle in a small village in the Czech Republic. They have survived Nazism, they have survived communism. Will they survive capitalism? They are facing a big problem. They are facing extinction - ...  more
Family Business
Director Christiane Büchner Producer Tobias Büchner ... Production company Büchner Filmproduktion GbR ...
IDF Events 2010 East European Forum ... Sales Autlook Filmsales

Family Business

Family Business, Germany, 90 min, 35 mm, Social Issues
The film shows the life of two families, brought together by an emergency. In a German family, grandma becomes a nursing case. Somewhere in Eastern Europe, a mother leaves her family in order to help the German. A film about the economies of families...  more

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