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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 Maja Zrnić

Production company Factum Documentary Film Project

The Bridge

Most, Croatia, 2001, 33 min, Society

The story about the wartime destruction of historic monuments and human lives in Mostar, Croatia told through two young citizens of different ethnic groups who want to live in a united, not divided a town.... more

Director Ileana Stanculescu Producer Ileana Stanculescu Production company Ileana Stanculescu Director of photography Nikola Wyrwich

Editor Klaudia Begic IDF Events 2004 East Silver Financial Support Jan Vrijman Fund

The Bridge over the Tisa river

Podul peste Tisa, Germany, Romania, 2004, 75 min, Beta SP, History, Society

A bridge that has been destroyed during the Second World War is being rebuilt. The bridge over the Tisa river was built during the Austrian-Hungarian empire and linked two towns: Sighet and Solotvina. Now, one town is in the Ukraine and the other in ... more

Director Srdjan Knežević Producer Srdjan Knežević Director of photography Alexander Betanishvili

Editor Tobias Fülle IDF Events 2006 East Silver

Bridging Minds

Die Brücke der Verständigung, Serbia, 2006, 104 min, 35 mm, History, Politics

In the year 1953, only eight years after the war, a group of Austrian film-makers decided to co-produce a film with Yugoslav authorities, their former enemies from World War II. In spite of many obstructions and misunderstandings from both sides, the... more

Director Peter Kerekes

WWW http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/iv...

Brno 1969

Brno 1969, Czech Republic, 2009, 26 min, Archive, History, Society

Director Pavel Jirásek Producer Lukáš Šenk Production company Czech TV

Director of photography Petr Vejslík Editor Pavel Stříbrný IDF Events 2006 East Silver

Brno's Music Ghetto?

Hudební ghetto Brno?, Czech Republic, 2006, 57 min, Beta SP, Arts and Culture

A documentary film about music from the 1960's until today, which uncovers the city's music soul in its originality, frustration, exceptionality, intellectual potential and naive dottiness. ... more

Director Vitaly Manskiy

Production company ma.ja.de. Filmproduktions GmbH

Broadway. Black Sea

Brodvey. Chernoe more, Czech Republic, Germany, Russia, 2001, Society

Broadway. Black Sea presents a kaleidoscopic portrait of a Black Sea resort over the course of one holiday season. Largely devoid of authorial comment or exposition, the filmmakers are content to simply glide around the campsites, beaches and fairgro... more

Director Marek Tomasz Pawlowski Producer Malgorzata Walczak Production company Zoyda Art Production

Director of photography Adam Bajerski Editor Jan Mikolaj Mironowicz IDF Events 2010 East Silver

Broken Hearted Circus

Cyrk ze zlamanym sercem, Poland, 2010, 52 min, Beta SP, Arts and Culture

The documentary shows one day of a small traveling circus "Bojaro" since a moment of its arrival to a village till the final evening spectacle. It is a picture of a struggle for survival of a traditionally organized entity who has troubles with findi... more

Director Stefan Scarlatescu Producer Stefan Scarlatescu Production company Centrul pentru Cultură Tradiţională Dâmboviţa

Director of photography Stefan Scarlatescu Editor Stefan Scarlatescu IDF Events 2009 East Silver

The Broommaker

Maturarul, Romania, 2008, 10 min, DV, Personal View, Portrait

Vladoaia Stan, aged 80, is the last broommaker in Dobra village, Romania. Despite his age he works hard to earn some money, doing what he has done his whole life - making domestic brooms.... more

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

Director of photography Marek Tichý Editor Jiří Hrdlička

The Brothers

Bratři, Czech Republic, 1996, 20 min

Images and situations in the lives of a Moravian family. The mother, a simple country woman, goes about her daily chores, her head only filled with what she has to get done that day. Her sons live in their own world - one as a communist and archeolog... more

Director Ulrich Seidl

Brothers, Let Us Be Merry

Brüder, lasst uns lustig sein, Austria, 2006, 1 min, 35 mm

“Brothers, let us be merry, bravely defy your troubles” is from the slave’s song in Mozart’s Zaide. It accompanies two dimly lit men indulging in a purposeless pleasure: They masturbate as if someone had ordered them to get in the mood and enjoy them... more

Director Vladislav Kvasnička Production company Krátký Film Praha ...

Director of photography Antonín Kutík Editor Martin Steklý

Brown Coal Terror

Hnědouhelný teror, Czech Republic, 1994, 15 min, Environmental

Unscrupulous activities of the coal mines and some authorities in Libkovice, a village designed for demolition.... more

Director Martin Řezníček Producer Martin Řezníček Production company DOCUfilm Praha

Director of photography Martin Řezníček Editor Šimon Špidla Financial Support - specific grant: State Fund for the Support and Development of Czech Cinematography (2007)