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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 Train Stop

The Train Stop
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Speeding trains slice through the silence of the small train stop. The whistle on the locomotive and the thunder of the wheels disappear into the night, but fail to wake up people at the station. People just continue to sleep. What do they wait for? What will wake them up?

Tsunami After the Wave of Interest

Tsunami After the Wave of Interest
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The authors of this documentary film folow the stories of five people in the Indonesian province of Aceh after the 2004 tsunami.

U.S.S02 Serbia

U.S.S02 Serbia
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When Serbian steel works giant Sartid lost its battle with the accumulated debt, it was in 2002 purchased by the largest US metal processing company US Steel. From that times the living standard of local urban and village population significantly improved with dramatically improving of malignant tumors. This story of ours is about people who are working hard but are realising in the process that the steel works that is feeding them is simultaneously poisoning them. This is film about people’s struggle to live long enough in order to get the opportunity to experience the benefits of “better life”.

Václav Havel, Prague - Castle

Václav Havel, Prague - Castle
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When Václav Havel was elected president on 29 December 1989, he and his advisors' immediate goal was to lead the country to its first free elections as quickly as possible. Petr Jančárek's documentary devotes itself to the first six months of Havel's presidency. We also discover the personality of Václav Havel, as seen through the eyes of those around him. The film chronicles his first trips to European countries, the USA and the Soviet Union. It also depicts his historically significant speech to the United States Congress as well as the first visits of Pope John Paul II and the Dalai Lama to the former Czechoslovakia. Jančárek's film presents the complex personality of the former president, who suddenly went from being a dissident to become the head of a free democratic state.

Vortex

Vortex
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Filmed over a period of six months, this social documentary feature film shows the lives of Roma families in a small village in Hajdu-Bihar county, North-East Hungary, close to the Romania border. Unemployment is close to 100% in this community, and the isolation, poverty and discrimination against Roma create a situation in which families find it hard to live decent lives. The film focuses on the experiences of three families, following the various hardships and setbacks they faced over this period. Problems of illness, poor living conditions, lack of basic amenities and even house collapse combine with fears of children being taken into care, with ever-present challenges of finding enough food, and wood to heat their houses. This creates a situation in which hope is hard to find and in which children suffer as well as the adults. Solutions are not simple or easy, and the local services struggle to find ways to help these people out of their desperate plights.

Waiting for the Reindeer Yoke

Waiting for the Reindeer Yoke
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The final piece of four-part Polarion series introduces us to the Izhem people. Time flows as slowly as the Izhma River in this remote part of northern Russia. Consequently, a visit by Canadian students or Czech filmmakers is a welcome distraction. Folklore here is coalescing with the influence of Russian culture, and there is a risk that slowly disappearing traditions might die with the passing of the older generation. That's why the young ethnographer Galina is collecting old songs, customs and stories to preserve the "spiritual backbone of her nation."

What Makes a Man

What Makes a Man
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Film “What Makes Man” is about a shockingly interesting and contradictory personality able to create dramatic situations around him in every sphere of life – in his family, sports, everyday life and politics, when communicating with people and with the world in general. The main character of the film is extremely vigorous, possesses great fighting spirit and is able to easily influence people. First of all his sons...

What Remains

What Remains
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The film is about the empty spaces left behind in the wake of war and violence. The film is composed of long static wide shots of places and land- scapes in present day Bosnia Herzegovina. The ordinary banality and beauty of the places shown, forms a contrast to the fact that atrocities were committed during the Bosnian War from 1992 until 1995 at all of these sites. “What remains” is a filmic memorial beyond the ordinary limits of representation and understanding. The places in the film are present for their own sake. They do not explain themselves to us. They throw back the answers we ask them.

Wild Balkans

Wild Balkans
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For centuries the Balkans has been a region ravaged by wars and conflict. Yet, paradoxically, those wars are what has allowed much of the region to remain as a pristine and untouched wilderness. The landscape belongs more to Middle Earth than modern Europe. Many wild animals that have vanished from the rest of Europe have their last stronghold here. "Wild Balkans" is an enthralling and stunning visual exploration of an area where there has been little but bad news for centuries. This spectacular film explores the region, its landscapes and the wild creatures that have lived unchanged for centuries, and holds out great hope that they will survive into the future.

Wolf Suschitzky - Photographer and Cameraman

Wolf Suschitzky - Photographer and Cameraman
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Wolf Suschitzky is one of the most successful Viennese born directors of photography and photographers, who emigrated during World War II. The film is going to retell his life story. Particulary different from other film homages- Suschitzky will tell his story himself. He is still very agile, living in London. A chance we can’t miss!

 

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