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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.

East Doc Platform

One World: Thursday Hosts Czech Premiere of Punk in Africa

On Thursday, you can look forward to the Czech premiere of Punk in Africa – a document packed with music that maps the growth of the punk scene in South Africa and its role in the fall of apartheid. After the screening (Lucerna, 7:15 p.m.), you can join our Q&A session with the film’s authors – Keith Jones and Jeff Brown – and then party with DJs in Café Lucerna! On Thursday, you can also look to another panel debate, this time after the screening of Taste the Waste which starts at the French Institute at 7.30 p.m. The wastage of food and pressure of retail chains will be discussed by Vojtěch Kotecký of Hnutí DUHA, food journalist Petra Pospěchová of the Czech daily Hospodářské noviny, and Czech farmer Jaroslav Štencl. On Thursday, you can also continue gaining our festival badges. It is high time you started completing the challenges in all seven festival cinemas and venues and got closer to winning the crystal badge – the popular beaver’s tail by Bořek Šípek!