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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 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 constructio... 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.

From Ararat to Zion

Z Araratu na Zion, Armenia, 2010, 71 min, Digi Beta, History, Religion

The colorful mosaic of Christian pilgrimages to the Holy Land has been shaped over two thousand years. Pilgrims have brought their stories with them, and left their memories with the land.Here the documentary filmmakers have given us a view of some e... more

Director Timur Boškailo Producer Esad Boškailo

Director of photography Timur Boškailo

From Auschwitz To Dretelj

Od Aušvica do Dretelja, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 60 min, DVD

Psychiatrist Esad Boškailo and journalist Mugdim Karabeg, two survivors of concentration Camp Dretelj, enjoy a day on Lake Pleasant Arizona, and discuss their horrific memories and experiences from their months at the camp. Their discussion about psy... more

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

Editor Jakub Voves

From Bohemia to St Helen´s

Z Čech do Svaté Heleny, Czech Republic, 1998, 13 min, Youth Documentary

A trip arranged by a Brno-based travel agency to visit our compatriots in Romania. - Department of documentary film, FAMU - 1. ročník.... more

Director Jana Boršková Producer Čestmír Kopecký Production company První veřejnoprávní Director of photography Jana Boršková

Editor Ivana Davidová IDF Events 2011 Catalogue of Upcoming Czech Documentary Films ... WWW www.odvisnidovisni.cz Financial Support State Fund for the Support and Development of Czech Cinematography

From Cherries to Cherries

Od višní do višní, Czech Republic, 2010, 57 min, DVD, Portrait, Youth Documentary

The director made the documentary film From Cherries to Cherries about her mother after the death of her father. Against the backdrop of one year in the garden, which the father used to take care of, mother and daughter are looking for emotional atta... more

Director Roman Motyčka Producer Yvona Gromanová

Director of photography Martin Duba Editor Jaromír Vašek

From Dan to Dama

Od Dana k DAMA, Czech Republic, 2001, 37 min, 35 mm, DV

Aluminum pipes or a connection of a children’s hockey stick and a hanger, laundry drier and tens of other objects that can be turned into musical instruments. Dan Dlouhý, the head of the DAMA DAMA music band, shows how one can play nearly anything. ... more

Director Dražen Žarković Production company Maxima Film d.o.o.

Director of photography Branko Linta ... Editor Dražen Žarković

From Dawn Till Dusk

Od jutra do mraka, Croatia, 2005, 26 min, Entertainment, Portrait, Society

One day in the life of the most popular Croatian performance artist. Bizzare postcard of Croatia`s capital. A study of Croatian mentality.... more

Director Miha Knifić Production company Strup Produkcija Director of photography Nejc Saje

Editor Blaž Čadež IDF Events 2004 East Silver

From East

Z Wschoda, Slovenia, 2004, 28 min, Beta SP, Anthropology, History, Science and Technology

Documentary about Slavs, humans that came and live on the banks of Mura river in Slovenia and other parts of Europe. Reconstructions of living chambers, clothes...... more

Director Ildikó Enyedi ... Producer János Rózsa

Production company Objektiv Filmstudio

From Europe into Europe

Európából Európába, Hungary, 2003, 36 min, 35 mm

Pál Sándor "Bless the Magyar, Lord we pray" István Szabó "It’s hard for the human nature to make a true confession of the past" (Attila József) Miklós Jancsó If you don’t die young – you get old. Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács I bring with me a past full of c... more

From Hell to Paradise or Chopin Saved Me

Director Michael Teutsch Producer Michael Teutsch Production company Filmglas München

Director of photography Klaus Kolbe ... Editor Peter Koehler Sales Ruth Diskin Films Ltd.

From Hell to Paradise or Chopin Saved Me

From Hell to Paradise or Chopin Saved Me, Israel, 2005, 73 min, Beta, DVD, Archive, Arts and Culture, History, Music, Personal View, Portrait, Religion, Social Issues

The renowned pianist Alice Sommer is 104 years old and lives in London. She experienced and witnessed most of the significant events in the 20th century: World War I, the Inflation, World War II, the Holocaust, the Liberation, Communism, Emigration, ... more