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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.

Two Highways

Two Highways
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The guru of the Leningrad underground, Boris Koshelokhov, has come up with a plan to create one of the biggest works in the history of art: a 5000 square meter painting. The preparatory stages of his project are finished. Now it's a just a matter of finding a wall that's big enough...

Three Men and a Fish Pond

Three Men and a Fish Pond
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Three elderly country bachelors idle away their time amidst the semi-wild nature, closer to birds and fish ponds than to humans.

Jan Saudek: Trapped by His Passions, No Hope for Rescue

Jan Saudek: Trapped by His Passions, No Hope for Rescue
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The full-length documentary film Jan Saudek provides a personally truthful yet harsh life story of a hero and dropout. It is presented as a grand drama, not just full of stirring, colorful photographs, but also provocative ideas, illusions and ideals. Jan Saudek became a world-renowned photographer, winning international awards and being exhibited abroad, long before he had gained recognition in his native country.

Into the World

Into the World
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Nothings demonstrates the fragility of human life more clearly than the sight of a newborn child. And so the film Into the World begins, though slowly and quietly, with an alarming image: that of a gasping infant in an incubator. A baby behind Plexiglas, doubly cut off in the intensive-care unit of a gynecological clinic in Vienna: This is the film's subject, the innermost chamber in the world. This study of an institution shows daily routine, and also matters of fundamental importance, in an expedition through nurses' lounges and maternity wards, through reception areas, waiting areas and examination rooms. Director Constantin Wulff dispenses with the conventions of television reports: He doesn't provide well-rounded portraits of women about to become mothers, or "what's she doing now" stories, or classic human interest stories, he takes a different approach, presenting brief, intense episodes.

Who Will Guard the Guard? Dalibor or The Key to Uncle Tom's Cottage

Who Will Guard the Guard? Dalibor or The Key to Uncle Tom's Cottage
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The fourth and final part of the documentary tetralogy Little Capitalist that mirrors the ups and downs of post-revolution Czech society. Stage director J.A. Pitínský leads rehearsals of Bedřich Smetana's opera Dalibor at the National Theatre. A parallel staging of Dalibor is simultaneously carried out by director Karel Vachek who brings various guests - artists, scientists, intellectuals or political activists - into the theatre. Against the backdrop of Smetana's music that, according to Vachek, has mystical qualities, and inside a building that embodies a number of national desires and myths, we hear stories of individuals who have in various contexts stood up against official power and law.

Fish'n'Pills

Fish'n'Pills
  • Director
    Tereza Tara
  • Country
    Czech Republic
  • Related to film
    Fish'n'Pills
  • Language
    Czech
  • Category
    Environmental, Health, Youth Documentary
  • Length
    1' 49''
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The pill - a symbol of sexual freedom. But what are the consequences? Are people really free in their decision making? Women under the influence of synthetic hormones, fish changing their genders, men suffering from increasing sterility and scientist talking about new substances in the environment, endocrine disruptors.

Themersons

Themersons
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The film is retracing the love story of an unusual and unique creative union. It is a well-hidden treasure in the culture and art of the 20th century. Franciszka and Stefan Themerson lived and worked together for almost sixty years, first in Poland, then in France and eventually they settled in England. The only time when they were separated was the outbreak of WW2 but even then they remained connected.

Three Women

Three Women
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Hajni: She fled from her partner to a home for battered women. He found her. Zita: The frying oil spilled when she was cooking, so her husband nearly beat her to death. Her young son stepped between them. Tamara: Despite her ex-husband's threats, she started a new life. She took her daughter to their former apartment for visitation. All three are mothers. All three are battered women. All three loved the men who beat them. They escaped several times, then returned. Two of them still have a chance to start over...

I Love Poland

I Love Poland
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They are young and ideological. The members of All Polish Youth (APY) - an organization that descries itself as the ideological legate of the pre-war National Movement. What do they believe in? How strong are those beliefs? In "I Love Poland", the organization's members, who are already known to the public through mass media, show us a new face. The authors talk with them and accompany them to their meetings and actions, among them those which are aimed against the homosexuals and pro-European movements. They film the rapid development of the political careers of the organization representatives, who will become members of the Parliament and government.

Usti Opre

Usti Opre
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With music and images, the film travels across the landscape of Central Europe and describes the inventiveness and stylistic range of Roma musical traditions. With shifting rhythms and changing textures from city to village, concert hall to café - Usti Opre challenges our ideas about gypsy culture and rewards us with a rich and engaging musical panorama. Through interaction during rehearsal, recording, and live performance, the film explores the unique boundaries of contemporary Roma music and describes the creative capacities of individual musicians who, despite prejudice and discrimination, continue to build upon traditions and shape new avenues of musical expression.

 

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