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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.

When I Cry, My Heart Beats

When I Cry, My Heart Beats
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Eleven-year-old Mustafa, a street-kid in Bucharest, leads a sad and dangerous life amid drugs, prostitution and violence. During the daytime, he trains in Parada Circus to be circus performer, where he gets a warm meal, a change of clothes and school lessons. Mustafa and five other street children used mini-DV cameras to capture their own very personal lives. With this remarkable material, together with her own observations, director Annett Schütze and her film-team created a poignant and moving portrait about forgotten children who refuse to give up.

Tomorrow You Will Leave

Tomorrow You Will Leave
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The story of my Vietnamese father who was able to build up a new life in a small Austrian village, but there is still an open chapter in the past: the search for the man who once helped him.

Gustáv Husák Centre Stage

Gustáv Husák Centre Stage
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Memories of eyewitnesses, a portrait of a left-wing intellectual viewed from different angles and illustrated with archive materials and a theatre mis-en-scene. A man who used power to promote the Communist Party policy in Slovakia only to become its victim when sentenced to life. A story of a career politic who became a representative of the Prague Spring when released, and then ended up being a president of oblivion, an icon of normalization and decay of the Czechoslovak state.

Who Will Teach Me Half a Character?

Who Will Teach Me Half a Character?
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The documentary is about good ideas of uncle Ho, respect for teachers and a return to one's homeland... Or travelling through Vietnam in the footsteps of Czechoslovak-Vietnamese friendship. Who Will Teach Me a Half of a Character follows in the footsteps of former Czechoslovak-Vietnamese cooperation and seeks to sum up its importance in the lives of several Vietnamese citizens. The film also reports on contemporary Vietnam through the experiences of local people who are not separated from Czechs by a language barrier.

Vixen Academy: How to be a Bitch

Vixen Academy: How to be a Bitch
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Young women in St. Petersburg go to school again. They want to learn how to seduce, marry and control men. They want to learn how to be a successful bitch. Vixen Academy is a tragicomic documentary about early Russian capitalism, which exists in the fears, hopes, dreams and intimacies of its young generation.

Beyond the Mountains

Beyond the Mountains
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A documentary film about the everyday life of refugees in Georgia, who escaped from the war in Grozny. The sphere of the story is Pankisi Gorge in Georgia, the neighbouring country of Chechnya, where hundreds of Chechen refugees run for shelter. There will be one main protagonist - Musa, a singer who tries to pass on the knowledge of the Chechen music; the everyday life of Musa’s family will be the central narration of the film. The central moment in the film is to describe the life of the children who live here, and the film narration will incorporate their monologues as they recall scenes from the past or speak about their future plans and dreams. The film’s structure will be small vignettes, small episodes of the children’s lives in Duisi primary school. At the beginning of each episode their name will be shown, which they will write with white chalk on a blackboard and introduce themselves. They tell us in their own way of their pain, joy and dreams...

Waltz

Waltz
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Each day, doctor sits on his bicycle and visits his patients in remote Belorussian villages. Deeply human situations and slow rhytm of the film measured by the movement of doctor's bicycle reminds us about life in its natural circle.

In Transit

In Transit
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In Transit is a travelogue of a Romanian journey across space and time, composed of subjective impressions of the present and childhood memories of the past. The video reflects on the meaning of the post-communist transition, as well as on the processes through which history and memory are re-written. Following a non-linear narrative, themes recur in a spiral movement, and the ending returns to the beginning of the film, which receives a different interpretation by questioning the status of its images.

Village Photographer

Village Photographer
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The main character of the film Nikolay Viktorovich Zykov, a village photographer, poet and philosopher, is experiencing difficult moment of his life. It is only now, when he has turned seventy and lost his wife, he understands that this frail woman who gave birth to his eight children was the spiritual light and the foundation of their family life. Zykov cannot do his favourite hobby, which is photography, anymore. For hours he listens to the music and thinks back about the past, where he left something that he is to repent for, where there is never-ending love and happiness captured at the pictures.

Transylvanian Timber

Transylvanian Timber
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The only way to reach the Water Valley stretching along the border with Ukraine in northern Romania is via a narrow-gauge railway. The line is operated by a wood processing company which uses it to transport workers and tree trunks through the hilly forests. Romanian border officials now also use the old railway line to patrol the border of the European Union. TRANSYLVANIAN TIMBER provides this information in an on-screen text at the beginning of the film. It then shows scenes shot around the railway, there is no dialogue. A mountain stream rushes through the forest, men fish by the river, a shepherd tends his flock, a car drives along a deserted country road, and again and again viewers look into the faces of men on the train. These impressions from a region on the fringes of Europe are interrupted halfway through the film: a ship crosses the screen, and a disembodied voice retells a dream...

 

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