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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.

The Other Romania / Spain the Last Train

Director Irina Pacurariu Production company TVR Romanian Television

Director of photography Ticu Lacatusu IDF Events 2005 East Silver

The Other Romania / Spain the Last Train

Cealalta romanie, Romania, 2005, 35 min, 35 mm, Anthropology, Human Rights

Hundreds of thousands of Romanians have chosen Spain as their new country. The illusion of a better life, a civilization unknow to most of them, the chance to rise above the conditions of their native country, all these have acted as suggestive argum... more

Director Attila Iván Producer Attila Iván Production company Iván Attila

Director of photography Attila Iván Editor Viktor Csendír IDF Events 2008 East Silver

The Other Side of Sunset

A naplemente fonákja, Serbia, 2007, 22 min, Arts and Culture, Portrait

This documentary, based on the poetic opus of Otto Tolnai - the author from Vojvodina - takes us to the spaces and towns which determined the course of the author's life. Gestures, events and characters from all stages of his life, together with the ... more

Director Marcin Latałło Producer Wojciech Szczudlo Production company Telewizja Polsat S.A. ...

Director of photography Marcin Latałło Editor Michał Januszaniec IDF Events 2010 East Silver ...

The Other Side of the Poster

Druga strona plakatu, Poland, 2010, 52 min, Beta SP, Arts and Culture

This film is about one of the most important graphic movements of the XXth Century: the Polish Poster School. It became a phenomena world-wide in the 1960-70’s. Polish posters expressed the freedom of their creators in the communist times. The post... more

Director Maria Pesli Producer Maria Pesli

Director of photography Svetlana Blakhina ... Editor Maria Pesli

Other women’s narratives

Αφηγήσεις Άλλων Γυναικών, Greece, 2011, 35 min, Digi Beta, DV, Experimental, Personal View, Social Issues, Society

Other Women’s Narratives is a collaborative creative documentary. A journey to the inconspicuous aspects of life of three women, who live in Greece the last 15-20 years: Aferdita Cako and Manjola Milla from Albania and Svetlana Blakhina from Belaru... more

Director Marko Škop Producer Ján Meliš ... Production company Artileria ... Director of photography Ján Meliš

Editor František Krähenbiel IDF Events 2005 Doc Launch ... Sales Film Distribution ARTCAM

Other Worlds

Iné svety, Slovak Republic, 2006, 78 min, 35 mm, Creative, IDF Video Library, Society

Six heroes on the edge of the globalized world. "Made in Šariš". Šariš, in the East of Slovakia is a very specific border region between Eastern and Western Europe. Borderline between rational individualism of the West and expressive emotionality... more

Director Alice Růžičková Production company Czech TV

Director of photography Martin Čihák Editor Martin Čihák

Otto Placht - Jungle Painter

Otto Placht - Malíř džungle, Czech Republic, 1999, 58 min, 16 mm

Otto Placht (*1962) is a Czech painter who lives and works in Peru in the "suburbs" of the Amazon jungle near the town of Pucallpa on the upper banks of the river Ucayali. He married Monica, a local woman from the Shipibo tribe. They have two childre... more

Director Andrzej Titkow Production company The Documentary and Feature Films Studio

Director of photography Witold Stok Editor Andrzej Janowski ...

Otwarty - zamkniety

Poland, 1987, 35 mm, Arts and Culture, Reportage

A film-coverage of the 7th international theatre festival in Wroclaw, in October 1981. Two months later, the martial law would be declared. At the politically slanted festival, the avant-garde drama has always been at the centre of interest. Up until... more

Director Tamás Almási Producer Tamás Almási

Editor László Hargittai

Our Cells

Sejtjeink, Hungary, 2002, 91 min, 35 mm

They say there are two things for which people are prepared to do anything: not to have or to have children…. Our heroes’ greatest desire was to have a baby. The hop was in vain, long years passed before it became clear that only in vitro fertili... more

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

Director of photography Martin Schinabek Editor Jakub Hejna

Our Class

Naše třída, Czech Republic, 2001, 30 min, 16 mm

My schoolmates from the elementary school after ten years... FAMU, Department of Documentary Film (3rd year)... more

Director Ivo Macharáček

Production company Czech TV

Our Countryside - Bitter Water

Náš venkov - Hořká voda, Czech Republic, 2004, 18 min, Environmental

Through the records of the lives of several women from Staré Hamry we learn about the construction of a dam on the river Ostravice in the late 1960s that flooded the marvellous valley along with the people's homes. The documentary shows the impact o... more

Our Countryside - With a Horse into the Forest

Director Ivo Macharáček

Production company Czech TV

Our Countryside - With a Horse into the Forest

Náš venkov - S koněm do lesa, Czech Republic, 2004, 18 min

Director Ivo Macharáček follows people who have chosen to live in the countryside; he went to see Milan Blizňák from Hošťálková in Walachia who works with a horse in the rough conditions of the Carpathian hills. The film presents the man and ... more

Director Nikolaus Geyrhalter Producer Nikolaus Geyrhalter Production company ZDF - Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen ... Director of photography Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Editor Wolfgang Widerhofer IDF Events 2006 East Silver Sales Autlook Filmsales