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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.

Themis

Themis
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Absolute power allows absolutely everything to everybody. That is why the Belarusian Themis today is a lady of loose morals, always and everywhere seeking her own best interest...

Corridor #8

Corridor #8
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CORRIDOR #8 is a huge EU infrastructural project meant to link the Black and the Adriatic Seas, already a decade in the planning. CORRIDOR #8 is a non-road movie about a road historically known as the European part of the Silk Road upon which St. Peter brought Christianity to Europe. It was also the road used by smugglers during the Yugo Embargo.

Way to Calarasi

Way to Calarasi
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János Kurkó, a businessman from Csíkszereda (Mercurea Ciuc) travels to a dreary little town near the Romanian-Bulgarian border to find his memories from his teenage life. The great journey takes place in time as well as in space.

Papa

Papa
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This feature-length documentary presents a loving and humorous portrait of the artistic and private life of Zdeněk Svěrák, famous as a writer, actor, lyricist, screenwriter, and father. "We started where Elementary School took place, in the Prague suburb of Bohdalec; we took a peek at Kopidlno, the place where he survived the war as a seven-year-old; we went to Žatec where he started out as a teacher and wanted to become a famous writer... We traveled with the Jára Cimrman Theater during its winter tour to the mountains; and in summer we visited his country house." Many other people appear in the film who have been instrumental in Svěrák's personal life and career. Another major element involves the professional cooperation of the father and son tandem, which during the shooting went through a painful creative crisis, all the more delicate in that professional approaches, opinions and attitudes became intertwined with family relationships...

When I Win a Million

When I Win a Million
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Altaj Republic in Russia is going to be the "Russian Las Vegas". The main character, Dimon, decides to buy the first slot machine with the hope to succeed in the new sphere of business.

Tile Mail

Tile Mail
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This film from Lisbon, is Nobert's Super 8 film-letter, with the help of which he tries to take up contact with his distant family. Nobert has learnt the art of painting of Portuguese tiles, the azulejos by that he earns his living. Through Nobert's painting, the visual world of the film base on the art and decorative tradition of azulejos painting. It shows an interesting parallel and an example of the possible integration of the cultures of today's immigrants in the Portuguese and overall European history. The development of tile-painting tells the story of connection and interaction between cultures. The style of Portuguese azulejos were influenced from outside. The system of motives, its unique expression, on which Portugals are certainly proud of, was created through the integration of Spanish, Dutch, Arabic, Indian, Chinese, Brazilian and African motives into national art.

I Am von Höfler - Variation on Werther pt. 1

I Am von Höfler - Variation on Werther pt. 1
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Péter Forgács specializes in collecting amateur movies and re-editing them into unique cinematic works. This time, he presents the von Höfler family saga, which began 250 years ago. The family belonged to the aristocracy and owned a leather factory in the city of Pecs in southern Hungary. Tibor Höfler, the main protagonist, documented the history of the family throughout the 20th century, and it is his films and letters, as well as additional archival material, that give us a look at the story of his life and that of his family-his relations with women, his complex relationship with his son, born out of wedlock, his life during World War II when many of his family members were sent to ghettos and concentration camps, the communist era during which the family property was confiscated, and even a brief visit to Israel in 1967.

I Am von Höfler - variation on Werther pt. 2

I Am von Höfler - variation on Werther pt. 2
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How does the process of film-making—like weaving a carpet, a of a 250 years saga of the Hungarian von Höfler family—render the chosen subject topical, re-liveable? And what is the topical signifier, is it merely a fleeting (a momentary) décollage — which is neither a piece of news, nor official history? And what does the glance at (the films, stories) from the past of my protagonist, the young Tibor Höfler projected into his future (our present), offers to find, by such puritan means, about the vortex called time? The twists of a long life, the elegy of the last member of the great Pécs leather manufacturers. Recently researchers claim that Goethe modelled his famous Werther figure after an ancestor of Tibor Höfler: our film journey presents itself in time and space with this double twist. Not only Goethe's hero Werther is different from the real 18th-century Jakob von Höfler, but thus the threads of the Höfler saga intertwine in a double spiral of fate within the 20th century Central Europe's turmoil. The real and invisible images of the melancholic hero, Werther — a literary fate — cross cut with the real life protagonist von Höfler's life, his love, his family, his fate.

One-Way Kids

One-Way Kids
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During the Greek civil war (1946-1949) 25.000 children were transferred by the communist partisans to socialist countries, in order to "protect them until the victory". The victory never came, the children never came back. Nikos was one of them. In 1948, he was sent with 250 other children from his village to Hungary. Later he escaped to France and lost track of the other village children. Now retired, Nikos has decided to find out what happened to them.

Industrial Elegy

Industrial Elegy
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A visually poetic documentary about people living in the mining colonies in Ostrava that are gradually being shut down. As this world slowly disappears, we also lose the local traditional values, unique experiences and important memories of remarkable people who live very tough lives.

 

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