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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.

Bear Islands

Bear Islands
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In "Bear Islands", director Martin Ryšavý continues his exploration of subjects related to the Sakha Republic, or Yakutia, Russia's Far Eastern Federal District. The film captures the life of residents in the remotest part of the territory, Nizhnekolymsky Ulus. Bear Islands are located in the East Siberian Sea at the mouth of the Kolyma River. The camera follows park rangers who take care of the nature reserve as they travel to an isolated polar station through the vast space where the past meets the present. A portrait of a landscape, its history and people who inhabit it.

Earthlings, Who Are You Voting for?

Earthlings, Who Are You Voting for?
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The film shows that even mentally handicapped people can get their bearings in public spaces and have a political opinion. The crew followed a phenomenon which affects all of us; elections to the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic. They participated in pre-election meetings, recording surveys of unusual topics with citizens as well as politicians. External cameras captured everything; the reactions of the security personnel, the supporters as well as opponents of particular political parties. The film crew also investigated whether pre-election promises are but empty slogans, attempting to reveal to which extent the prejudice against everything that is not "completely normal" is still rooted in the Czech society 20 years after the revolution.

God Let Us Be Well

God Let Us Be Well
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The scenery of ordinary people and ordinary countryside is captured by the cameras of Czech ethnologists. The film offers insight into everyday life in the mountain villages of Eastern and Western Serbia along with its aging population.

Ptáčata

Ptáčata
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Sixteen eight-year-old classmates mostly of Roma descent are the protagonists of Fledglings, a 16-part docu-soap in which the children were given cameras and, for a period of one year, captured the world and events around them. Shot from September 2009 to August 2010, Fledglings is the first Czech docu-soap project, with a few elements of reality show. In more than 500 hours of footage, the children at times find themselves in situations they would not otherwise be exposed to but finding the right solution and approach is always entirely up to them.

Hospital at the End of the World

Hospital at the End of the World
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Otakar Štěrba’s documentary film will take us on a trip to the world’s highest mountain range in Pakistan, where the following humanitarian goals were accomplished: The installation of a water conduit for a village that is located high in the mountains; the delivery of gift packages to less fortunate children; the transport and construction of a health center, thanks to which not a single child passed away in the first winter of its operation.

Familia

Familia
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Familia begins in a shanty town outside Lima, Peru. Fifty-year-old Nati Barrientos is about to close her large suitcase as her life partner, Daniel, silently looks on. In only a few hours she will leave her family for the first time in her life. Nati is going to work in Spain, hoping to provide a better future for her man and children. Before she leaves, Daniel has one final question: Do you really love me? When his wife his gone, Daniel struggles to keep the household together. His major concern is the 8-year-old son, Nata. Daniel tries to make himself and his son forget the hardships and their growing bond becomes an increasingly important part of the ties that keep the family together despite all. Meanwhile, working hard on the other side of the Atlantic, Nati initially enjoys the reprieve from the daily strain of family conflicts. But that feeling is soon replaced by the loneliness of an immigrant. An intimate story about love and family relationships in a globalized world. The film includes photographic and film material spanning over 35 years.

Negative History of Hungarian Cinema

Negative History of Hungarian Cinema
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Reconstructions of unrealized Hungarian films.

Cans of Time

Cans of Time
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The Cans of Time is a film rendering of the themes and outcomes of the Family Archives project. The aim of the Family archives was to collect and digitalize amateur film footage from various regions across the Slovak republic. In four years we collected around 400 hours of footage. Apart from the popular and traditional family footage the project has managed to source some rare historical footage such as the one capturing the construction of a huge sculpture of the Slovak politician M.R. Štefánik in 1937, or a few cases of private footage capturing the Russian invasion of 1968. Of an interesting value is also the insight the footage offers into various forms and shapes of the life of the middle classes.

Pit No. 8

Pit No. 8
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In the heart of a once thriving Ukrainian coal-mining region everybody digs – retirees, unemployed miners and even the children. Years ago, the town's desperate residents decided to start mining illegally; they excavate everywhere!!! The story focuses on the Sikanov family, which has three children. 15-year-old Yura, the grandson of a powerful Soviet plant director, is the head of the family working as a miner in the illegal pit. Most Jura wants to run his own cafe somewhere far from home, but the responsibility for the two sisters and looming economic crisis pushes his dreams in the distant future.

Vše pro dobro světa a Nošovic!

Vše pro dobro světa a Nošovic!
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An original portrait of a Czech village that houses a giant car plant built by South Korea's Hyundai. Before the village turned into an industrial zone, many of the landowners had no intention of selling their plots of land... Not until many of them faced pressure from their neighbours who had accepted approx. EUR 4000 in compensation and not until they received death threats. Using nine protagonists, the film paints a portrait of a village changed beyond recognition. A humorous yet compelling film about a field that yields cars.

 

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