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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.

Confession of Kateryna K.

Confession of Kateryna K.
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Miroslav Janek's documentary provides an intimate statement on the life of singer Kateryna Kolcová-Tlustá. The blind Ukraine native lives, studies and performs in the Czech Republic. She has become one of the most highly-prized local discoveries thanks in part to her captivating interpretation of Jewish folk songs.

Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost
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Paradise Lost depicts constricting spirals of life which end with suicide.In spite all expectations, Martin survives realizing, that his way out of the hopelessness is through the therapeutic help.Philip after agonizing years still cannot win his battle against schizophrenia. Through dialogue with his parents the film traces the approaching suicidal tendencies of their child. A moving review of a young persons struggles.

Yallah! Underground

Yallah! Underground
  • Director
    Farid Eslam
  • Producer
    Farid Eslam
  • Country
    Canada, Czech Republic, Egypt, United Kingdom
  • Related to project
    Yallah! Underground
  • Language
    English
  • Category
    Arts and Culture, Creative, Culture, Current Affairs, Music, Personal View, Portrait, Reportage, Social Issues, Society, Youth Documentary
  • Length
    3' 36
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2011. Young Arabs have taken their anger and discontent to the streets throughout the Middle East and North Africa. They have brought an acute awareness of the need for change in Arab countries. But most of the world is still wondering. Who are these people? How do they envision the future of their societies? In order to understand the dreams, conflicts and life situations of these people, we will introduce young contemporary artists from different cities in the Middle East. They represent a new generation of Arabs who seamlessly integrate aspects of different cultures and philosophies into their lifestyle and work. The conflicts they have to face on a personal and professional basis heavily influence their art, creating a truly progressive underground culture. It is getting more visible in every major city in the region, making the Middle East one of the culturally most vibrant regions of today’s world.

Dawn is Peaceful in Artsakh

Dawn is Peaceful in Artsakh
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At the heart of the film is a 16-year-old young man, who gets the viewers acquainted with the past and the present of Artsakh through his eyes, becoming the symbol of the 16 years of Artsakh independence. Despite the past marked with war, famine, self-sacrifice, the present full of victory, pride and also post-war problems, makes us understand the dawn is peaceful in Artsakh.

Dusty Suit

Dusty Suit
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Frici used to be a musician and singer a long time ago, but his wife resented him being on the road all the time, so he sold his instrument. Since then his life has changed: he earns money by physical work and rarely has a chance to go on stage. Sometimes he is invited to folkdance camps as a singer, where he remembers the good old days and mourns over his fate.

Grandpa and Grandma

Grandpa and Grandma
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The documentary - animation is based on a life story of director's grandparents who were exiled to Siberia by Soviets in 1948. The severe period of Lithuanian history is being told in a personal way, in genre of a fairytale. The story teller is a little girl, who sees the events in her own child way. The visual basis of the film consists of extant family photographs together with the national archive material and animation inserts.

Dust

Dust
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Dust - it's everywhere and ever-present. A conglomeration of the finest particles set in motion as soon as things are starting to settle. It is fought and cleared away and yet returns again even as it is being removed. A Sisyphus is one who tries to defeat it. Dust nestles in carpets and in attics. It invades laboratories and settles on artworks. It is blown into the air from factory smokestacks and resides in every raindrop. Dust causes illness, dust makes up the cosmos. It is the smallest, discernable subject about which to make a film.

Difficult One

Difficult One
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For the last 10 years the number of orphan-children in Ukraine increased by 60% and amounts to 150 thousand. Orphanges are overcrowded. The state mechanism for the defense of children rights does not work. The private children centers are not regulated by legislation. The day-time orphanage, "Sun City," in Donetsk has existed for five years.

Gibellina - Il Terremoto

Gibellina - Il Terremoto
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A massive earthquake destroyed the Sicilian mountain village Gibellina 39 years ago. Hundreds of people died. The survivors eked out a life in meagre barracks for 15 years. Many left the country. The city was rebuilt 18 kilometers away as a lifeless bedroom community with modern, shoddy architecture and an over-abundance of modern art: an oversized, open-air museum at the border of a failed vision with increasing social and economic problems.

Flower Bridge

Flower Bridge
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Costica Arhir raises his three children in the village of Acui, Republic of Moldavia. His wife has left for Italy three and a half years ago to find work, and has not been home since. Roughly half of the active population of this country live in a similar situation. The documentary film, shot between January and April 2007, uses fictional elements in storytelling and camera work, creating a stage where the characters interpret themselves.

 

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