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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.

Gugara

Gugara
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It is late summer of 2006. Within the last few weeks, Dimitri and Tatiana, last herdsmen alive in the Taiga, have lost their reindeer, which were killed by wolves. This misfortune is going to force them to leave their life in the forest for the village. Their oldest son, Kola, already lives there. Kola is trying to prevent his parents from settling in Tutonchany village. He knows they are going to die there. He knows what happens to the old man nicknamed "Boatswain" who was in the same situation few years ago. This is the story of the decline of a small Siberian community. This observative documentary describes the paradoxical world of former nomads and reindeer herds that were forced to abandon their ancient life-ways. Characters of the film are on the different stages of forsaking world which was known us traditional way of life.

Glass Trap

Glass Trap
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Cash, a car and a mobile phone.... as well as fish. A group of tough men from around Warsaw organize a new form of entertainment. Their customary meetings over alcohol and drugs also include fights between aggressive aquarium fish which are, of course, accompanied by bets for large sums of money. Such is the extent of this hobby that one of the characters hopes his champion will contribute significantly to the purchase of a new Subaru.

Fate

Fate
  • Director
    Eszter Hajdú
  • Producer
    Dan Nutu
  • Country
    Hungary
  • Related to film
    Fate
  • Language
    Hungarian
  • Category
    Personal View
  • Length
    1' 00''
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I saw her first in the church. I could not take my eyes off her. She is an artist, a princess. She is highly respected. I wanted to get closer. I wanted to get intimate. I needed her trust… I had to show her… A film about the possibility of familiarization, about the connection of two people.

Drifter

Drifter
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Aileen (16), Angel (23) and Daniel (25) escaped the remnants of their families and the confines of their small towns to the anonymity of the Berlin metropolis. Their new space of action is the area around Zoo Station. They prostitute themselves to support their drug addiction. At night, they find shelter in halfway houses, in the homes of acquaintances or with regular clients. They have hopes and dreams and a vague plans for their lives, but one which remains a construction site, much like their world, in which they are constantly forced to establish themselves anew: a world of transitions, unstable in-betweens, the highways, the back ways, the stores, niches, and places of transit.

Failed States

Failed States
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Boys love to spin until they collapse. Is the world then spinning out of control? Failed States explores the preparations for renegotiating the Non-proliferation Treaty.

Family Fortune

Family Fortune
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Family Fortune, directed by Tonislav Hristov, is an intimate portrait of a Bulgarian family - the filmmakers own - that tries to make a living in the midst of unemployment and difficult circumstances. The country is joining the European Union in the beginning of 2007 and many young people have moved abroad to find better jobs and opportunities. Hristov himself has lived in Finland for eight years but the main focus of the film is on his family and their life in their homeland. The father has just lost his job after 36 years and is trying to find a new one, which proves to be hard - as well as the car equipment business his other son is trying to keep up.

Home

Home
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This is a personal exploration of the physical and mental repercussions of emigration. In 1969 a pregnant 18-year old girl flees her country with her married lover as the Russian tanks roll into the streets of Prague. They end up in Norway. They have a daughter. They become successful in the world of theater. At the height of fortune the beautiful mother decides to send her 15-year-old daughter away. They are never to live together after that. Now the mother lives in Los Angeles and the father has moved back to Prague. Contact between the family today is primarily through sporadic phone calls for the mother. The movie is an emotional journey of the daughter trying to map the disintegration of the family. It is an intimate story of her own family, with gleams of her childhood in Norway, her exile in the USA, and her "return" to the Czech Republic. Scenes of lonely characters set in different landscapes intercut with tragicomic meetings of family members who live their separate lives in various countries. The author is searching for answers to find out where her true home really is, searching in Prague, Oslo and Los Angeles.

History of Jaroslav Šabata

History of Jaroslav Šabata
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The film features the psychologist, politician and journalist Jaroslav Šabata (*1927) who symbolizes half a century of Czech history. The film explains the traces left by left-wing intelligentsia who first served the communist regime (Mr Šabata started giving lectures at the Department of Marxism-Leninism in 1953), then tried to reform it (as an active politician during the Prague Spring of the late 1960s), and later still opposed it (as early as 1971 he was sentenced to six and a half years in prison), eventually to see it collapse and help build a new democratic country.

Adventure of Anna Barbora - an Interplay

Adventure of Anna Barbora - an Interplay
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In a single scene, film director Vít Janeček records a discussion between journalist, ecologist and sociologist Jakub Patočka and his girlfriend Kateřina Havránková about a sudden turnaround in the case of 13-year-old Anna in which all three of them, including the cameraman-director, get personally involved. They were trying to assist the adoption of the supposedly 13 year-old girl by Patočka's acquaintance Klára Mauerová, who was accused of abusing her own sons. Patočka admits to his girlfriend that he has found out some new, important information - that the 13 year-old Anna is actually 34-year-old Barbora. The film captures the reactions of people involved in efforts that suddenly turned out completely differently. The three protagonists experience a complete loss of trust, disappointment and social ridicule.

Fabulous Faires

Fabulous Faires
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In the "Belgrade home for retired persons", Meri Galevska, along with her husband, composer Nikola Galevski, formed a sextet. When Meri became widow, the original sextet dissolved. Firmly determined to fulfill her and her husband's dream, Meri formed a new sextet made solely of women. They embark on a music tour where they face many challenges and discover the steel will of Meri's personality.

 

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