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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.

Stations

Stations
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A film about the romantic days past of railway stations, as seen through the eyes of an old engine conductor and a cashier in one of the forgotten railway stations that trains only pass by. It's a lonely world, full of memories and railway ambience. A story without words, but with music, sounds of the railroad and unrealized journeys that make their lives endurable.

Glass Paintings

Glass Paintings
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A portrait of an artist can be more than just a film about his work. In this film, Lubor Dohnal attempts to capture the multi-coloured translucence of Palo Macho´s glass paintings. The filmmaker and the artist try to find a common language without superfluous words.

Sarajevo Roses

Sarajevo Roses
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Sarajevos Roses tells a story of a young Austrian woman travelling to the former crisis area of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Getting an idea of life during war is the aim of her journey. During her search, she comes accross memory-worlds of survivors of the war in Sarajevo. The inhabitants of the city grant an insight in what life was like during the times of war and how they managed to deal with that situation. The filmmaker is looking for parallels between life during war and her own life in peace.

Kites

Kites
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In 2006, at the Art School in Kabul, a film course "Kabul - My City" was held. Students were given cameras and professional help from a young polish director by the name of Jacek Szaranski. The students came up with the ideas for their films and the style in which they would show Kabul. They focused their lenses on their closest surroundings - neighbors' children, ubiquitous kites and themselves. "Kites" has become a record of the present day Kabul from the perspective of an Afghan teenager. It also became a story about how a film passion is awakened, the difficulty of asking questions and the courage of hearing answers. Kites had a simple starting point: cameras + youth + Afghanistan. Few people believed that it would succeed. CAMERAS? But there is no electricity! But not so long ago it was impossible there to record a human image. And the dust?! The cameras will be broken after three days and the nearest service is presumably in Moscow, isn’t it? Unless there is no problem at all because they will get stolen on the first day, since they steal there a lot, don’t they? Forget the cameras, but the youth?! They don’t have a TV set at home, and half of them have never been to a cinema and now they are supposed to have camera in their hands and what are they supposed to do with it? And if they do anything, will these “works of art” enchant European audience? And Afghanistan... Everybody knows everything about Afghanistan because at least once a week you can see it in the news, because either something has been blown out or there is the polish army present there or the Taliban, someone has been kidnapped or has been released, every two weeks you have a catchy headline. And is there anything interesting in this Afghanistan at all? That’s what many friendly people said to us. But well, everyone can be wrong and we went shooting. When you have finally seen the film tell us whether it was worth it.

Loos Ornamental

Loos Ornamental
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The film is part of the series Photography and Thereafter which is about writing, drawing, sculpture and architecture. The subjects of this film are achievements in active design and projection-ideas that have been made real-and are visible as writing, drawing, photography, architecture and sculpture. What is being analysed is a way of seeing that is almost reversed - seeing as expression, not impression. The eye as the interface between the brain and the external world; the gaze as the energy of composing that turns the inside out and presents a mirrored reality. Interior design as an autobiography - Adolf Loos (1870 - 1933) Against the grain: material as an ornament. Documentation of the interiors designed by Loos that are still available.

Little Fish... Big Fish

Little Fish... Big Fish
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This is a salutary tale of fish poachers and fish protectors. Gangs of organised thieves take fish in industrial quantities from the river along with a single poacher in a checked shirt. A lonely pensioner,János (with a monthly income of 18 euros), sets off in the direction of the same river to literally fish for his supper. A couple of fishing wardens do their best to stop this illegal activity but only manage to catch János and penalise him according to the exact letterof the law. This film attempts to portray a Hungarian universe and not suggest that "big fish" eat "little fish" but that "big fish" flout the law and slip through the net while the "little fish" get hooked every time.

Half Past Three

Half Past Three
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A documentary film about peculiar and unconventional people living in a peculiar and unconventional place. After several visits to the easternmost region of interwar Czechoslovakia, a director and a cinematographer decided to revisit the place; this time with a film camera, to bring back a message about the peaceful yet original everyday life of the locals. With a slightly detached point of view, they follow the uneasy life of several individuals who were not able to choose their destiny, but who refuse to grumble about it.

Roots of Relationship

Roots of Relationship
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Generation gap present in everyday arguments between a grandmother and a granddaughter, the film director, leads to her decision to leave. The image of the house being emptied both in time and space combined with a long and agonizing dialogue becomes the basis of a harsh and yet familiar documentary, an insight of a personal reality, where pity combines with reproach, and where in spite of mutual accusation, there is no one to blame, as the recorded situation cannot be accompanied by nothing but misunderstanding.

Little Bird’s Diary

Little Bird’s Diary
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The first Latvian documentary-animation film is based on unique drawings from the diary of 80-year-old Irina Pilke, encompassing a period from the end of WWII until the 1980s. These drawings, where the author appears as a little bird, depict everything around her. Irina's observations of everyday life in her drawings are vital, slightly ironical and incredible reflections of the time period. She seemed to accept life as it was in the Soviet time, and made no attempt to depict anything as overtly political or ideological. And yet that period's absurdities are clear from the daily, social and political details in her drawings.

Over the Bridge

Over the Bridge
  • Director
    Ján Kász
  • Country
    Slovak Republic
  • Related to film
    Over the Bridge
  • Language
    Hungarian
  • Category
    Religion, Society
  • Length
    1' 00''
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The story of a young woman from Slovakia who lives in Germany with a Muslim. In order to get to know him better, she had to marry him according to Islam. Shortly after that, she voluntarily converted to Islam and as a sign of that started to wear a scarf. Because of fear of not being understood, she keeps it a secret from her parents for five years. Now she decides, however, to confirm her relationship by means of a typical wedding in Slovakia. What must she do in order to bring together her own (already Islamic) views and those of her parents? Is it possible at all, to find a bridge between the two very different cultures?

 

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