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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.

Silent Surrender

Silent Surrender
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How does it feel to be a 10-year-old in the whirlwind of history? How does it feel to be an adult in a state that enjoys the spoils of success one day and disappears from the map the next? Silent Surrender is a film about that fatal year for Estonia, about freedom and compulsion, about the things done and left undone. Is it possible to learn from history?

Time is Here

Time is Here
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Sometimes a second lasts forever, sometimes you don't notice days passing. Joonas, Karit, Doris and Fred are all seven years old and starting their first school year. They live in different places all over Estonia, their lifestyles are not the same; they are very different individuals. But time flows around them in the same way. In their first school year, they need to adapt to the new life – waking up too early, doing endless schoolwork, finding their status in the class. Instead, they only want to be with friends, eat chocolate, play in the yard, and run like the wind. This documentary follows four children through their first year in school. There's no past, no future – just the moment they live in. Time is here.

Life is a Flower

Life is a Flower
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"Life is a flower" provides the viewer with the double portrait of two aging Estonian artists, painter Evald Okas and photographer Kalju Suur. Author uses contrast of different art styles to create a fascinating dialogue in question. Documentary shows the two old masters, good acquaintances, among who also goes a little rivalry...

Maestro

Maestro
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A portrait of the legendary photographer Kalju Suur. When you are 80 years old, you have taken pictures of bare-skinned ladies for the past 50 years, and you are trying to keep yourself going – what else can you do but continue taking pictures, using an old-school camera and wearing white gloves. And there is still always some candy for the beautiful ladies in your pockets.

Katka

Katka
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Helena Třeštíková's film is a remarkable documentary tracing fourteen years in the life of a young junkie and her futile battle with drug addiction. Why did she start taking drugs? She claims she wanted to be different. The year is 1996 and 19-year-old Katka lives in the Sananim therapy community in the town of Němčice with hope for a normal life – she dreams of having a boyfriend and even a family, some day. But there's no happy ending. The director records Katka's descent over the years into a spiral of theft, prostitution, physical and psychological deterioration – a spiral that is broken only by brief flashes of hope and resolutions to stop taking drugs. Katka's desire is sincere, but in the end drugs always win. Will Katka finally find the strength when she becomes pregnant and motherhood offers her life-sustaining motivation?

The Kingdom of Dead Mice

The Kingdom of Dead Mice
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How dissenters and opposition members in Belarus are villainised, criminalised and physically destroyed. Media performances, propaganda and manipulation at the heart of darkness.

Island Belarus

Island Belarus
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Belarusian President Lukashenko is overseeing a military procession in Minsk's impressive Victory Square. It is a precisely choreographed spectacle in authentic Soviet style. Suddenly, the scene shifts to the countryside where a grubby, elderly man is chopping down a tree. The old man lives in a deserted village, its houses on the verge of collapse." Director Victor Asliuk's contrast of Belarus's rural and urban life is both touching and full of atmosphere. He examines the tangible differences between the young in the city and the elderly in the village and between modernity and tradition, interspersing modern images with archive material depicting the countryside as it used to be.

Europolis, The Town of the Delta

Europolis, The Town of the Delta
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In 1933 Eugeniu Botez, an engineer and a commandant of the harbour of Sulina, wrote a novel. He entitled it "Europolis" and signed it under the name of Jean Bart. A year later he died. In this strange novel Jean Bart prophesies that one day nothing will be left from the town, once full of life. With the death of Europolis Europe will be slowly dying in pains. A few years later his prophecy started to come true...

Fantom

Fantom
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August 1979, Belgrade, the capital of the Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia. President Tito is on his last diplomatic journey, taking part in the world Summit of The Non-Aligned Movement in Havana, Cuba. Using a stolen white Porsche Targa 911-S sports car, a mysterious man makes chaos for the State police for ten nights by driving it around the central city square. He even begins announcing his escapades on a popular radio show and publicly challenges the police to try to catch him. And Tito is coming back... The Phantom in the white Porsche has to be removed from the streets of Belgrade.

For Sale

For Sale
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There is an old Bulgarian tale that says, if the shadow of a living person is blended into a new construction, the latter will become stronger and endure firmly the traces of time and blows of nature. Each autumn hundreds of Bulgarians, Turks and Gypsies, from various ages and social backgrounds, leave for the Black sea and spend most of the year far away from their families, enduring inhuman conditions – thus turning them into immigrants in their own country. The film reveals the loneliness, dreams, and future desires of the shadows of the anonymous, ordinary construction workers of contemporary Bulgaria, which has embarked on the road to Europe, but now is owned by dubious nouveaux riches, corrupted politicians and untouchable drug barons that are protected by the system.

 

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