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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 Rudolf Chudoba Producer Marie Kučerová

Production company Czech TV WWW http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/iv...

Grassroots: Prague Spring

Občanská hnutí: Osudy Pražského jara, Czech Republic, 2008, 28 min, Beta, Politics

In the late 1960s, Czechoslovaks trusted the communists and the Soviets. This is a documentary about a betrayal and its consequences which last to this day and split up the society.... more

Director Martin Pátek

Production company Czech TV

Great Bear - Laughing Beasts

Velký vůz - Smějící se bestie, Czech Republic, 2002, 28 min, Society

What are Czechs like in contact with foreigners? Laughing beasts?... more

Director Marek Dušák ... Production company Czech TV

Director of photography Marek Dušák ...

Great Bear - Long Live Death

Velký vůz - Ať žije smrt, Czech Republic, 2001, 28 min, Society

Different perspectives on death.... more

Director Jaroslav Hovorka Producer Milada Rebcová

Production company Czech TV

Great Bear - When Tears Laugh

Velký vůz - Když se pláč směje, Czech Republic, 2004, 28 min, History

Director Jaroslav Hovorka found survivors from the Terezín ghetto who talk about the theatre and musical performances that were organized there. ... more

Director Alexandru Solomon Producer Tudor Giurgiu Production company Libra Film

Director of photography Constantin Chelba Editor Sophie Reiter IDF Events 2005 East Silver ...

Great Communist Bank Robbery

Marele jaf comunist, Romania, 2005, 75 min, DV, History, Human Rights, Politics

In 1959, in Romania, six former members of the nomenclature and the Romanian secret police organized a heist of the National Bank. After they were arrested, the state forced them to play themselves in a film reconstructing the crime and the investiga... more

Director Renata Poljak Production company Croatian Film Clubs' Association ... Editor Stéphanie Araud

IDF Events 2006 East Silver Sales Camera Lucida

Great Expectations

Velika Ocekivanja, Croatia, 2006, 17 min, Digi Beta, Arts and Culture

Man and architecture speak the same language. Humans and architectural violence are the result of the same viral infection - "great expectations."... more

Director Josef Abrhám ml. Production company FAMU - Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague ...

Director of photography Josef Abrhám ml. ... Editor Miloš Krejcar

Great Fun

Kopec srandy, Czech Republic, 2006, 14 min, ?, Portrait, Youth Documentary

Adrenaline rides of a disabled sportsman Marek Schneider, nicknamed "Mountain Tornado". Department of documentary film, FAMU - 4th year.... more

Director Atanas Kiriakov Producer Gergana Stankova Production company Menclips Ltd.

Director of photography Dimitar Mitov Editor Ognian Ivanov IDF Events 2008 East Silver ...

The Great Love of the French "Terrorist" Abel Rambert

Goliamata Lubov na Frenskia "Terorist" Abel Rambert, Bulgaria, 2008, 52 min, Beta SP, Arts and Culture, Portrait

A Frenchman Abel Rambert saw a drawing of Pascin for the first time in 1948 and he had fallen in love with his art. This drawing predestined his future. Not only he became a collector and art gallery owner, but he also became the best expert on Pasci... more

Director Viktar Dashuk Production company Viktar Dashuk Director of photography Anatol Kazazaev

Editor Vyacheslav Asliuk IDF Events 2005 East Silver

Great Mystery

Magnum misteria, Belarus, 2005, 52 min, DV, Human Rights, Portrait, Society

This film is an attempt to look into a black hole of the Chernobyl catastrophe, an attempt to describe what resists any description, an attempt to comprehend through death a man`s life after Chernobyl.... more

Director Vít Janeček Producer Vít Janeček Production company International Organization for Migration (IOM) Director of photography Lukáš Kokeš ...

Editor Hedvika Hansalová IDF Events 2011 Catalogue of Upcoming Czech Documentary Films ... Financial Support Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic

Great Opportunity

Skvělá příležitost, Czech Republic, 2010, 57 min, Digi Beta, Human Rights, Social Issues

Until the crisis of 2008, some eight thousand Mongolians came to work in the Czech Republic; since that time, the numbers reduced by half. Unlike other nationalities, most of them usually end up working at the very bottom of the production chain and ... more

The Greatest Czech - St. John Nepomucene

Director Otakáro Maria Schmidt Producer Jakub Červenka ... Production company JC&J Production ... Director of photography Milan Demela ...

Editor Attila Kovács WWW http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/iv... Financial Support - The ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic - Plzeň region

The Greatest Czech - St. John Nepomucene

Nejznámější Čech - Jan Nepomucký, Czech Republic, 2008, 57 min

A documentary film about St. John Nepomucene. According to estimates, there are approx. 30.000 monuments dedicated to John Nepomucene just across Europe, out of which one-fifth is located in the Czech Republic. One can find Nepomucene's traces in Cen... more

Director Olga Špátová Producer Adam Polák Production company Adam Polák s. r. o. ... Director of photography Olga Špátová

Editor Jakub Voves IDF Events 2012 Catalogue of Upcoming Czech Documentary Films ... WWW www.nejvetsiprani.cz Financial Support Czech State Fund for the Support and Development of Czech Cinematography ...