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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.

Czech Phenomenon: Dance Lessons

Czech Phenomenon: Dance Lessons
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With a humourous distance, Dancing Lessons examines a phenomenon unique to Czech national culture - dance courses. The director followed a Prague dance class for more than a year - from the signing up, the balls, through to the last class, capturing the transformation of insecure, self-conscious youth into self-confident young ladies and gentlemen.

Black Hearts (…the Earth isn’t Round)

Black Hearts (…the Earth isn’t Round)
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Four Roma families, four lives in four countries during four seasons through the eyes of four people. This is the third of a series of year-long observational documentary films by Břetislav Rychlík that explores human communities. After his internationally recognized films One Year (about the lives of seven elderly people from the highland villages and secluded dwellings of the Horňácko Region who were born in the time of the Austro-Hungarian Empire) and God's Quarry (one year in North Bohemia), the two directors, Monika Rychlíková and Břetislav Rychlík, and two photographers, Jindřich Štreit and Marie Zachovalová, present their joint view of four Roma families. The film was made from December 2006 to December 2007 in the following locations: a Roma settlement in Slovakia; a traditional Roma village community in Hungary; an industrial area in Poland, and a suburban Roma community in the Czech Republic. Roma museums and organizations from all Visegrad countries cooperated during the development of this film and during the selection of the protagonists.

Havel Circus

Havel Circus
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Vaclav Havel personally returns to the stage – half-year lasting social-stage project of the theatre called Husa na provazku, with the programme culminating in scenic filming of Vaclav Havel’s dramas from Garden party to Leaving. Film version of the project opens a great topic of culture and history, power and outsidership, theatre and life, dream and reality and their mingling; it aims to be a return of artistic roots of Vaclav Havel, the play writer.

Concrete Stories

Concrete Stories
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Both a capitalist invention and a Soviet symbol, the concrete slab buildings link a whole destiny of people. A film about a shared reality. In Concrete Stories, people from different countries who live in concrete buildings tell their stories as they relate to industrial housing in the time of clashing ideologies between East and West. The film puts forward a European story of standardization that has ruled the lives of entire generations. We compare spaces and public interests of the time, the tenants in different countries become virtual neighbours. The documentary aims to connect various stories from all around Europe to erase the stigma concrete panel buildings often have, by relating their historical and European meaning.

Cinémensonge (Film-Lie)

Cinémensonge (Film-Lie)
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Stories of partner relationships serve as the starting point for a study of conscience (consciousness) and its relation to reality, which is, however, shot as a suicidal attack upon the faith in the truthfulness of the documentary (which is only dogma, distorted reality). And so the love affairs of a father bringing up two daughters become a peculiar experimental verification of film theories as the screenplay was written by the author together with C. G. Jung, Epstein, Kracauer, Balázs, Vertov, Bazin, Metz and Deleuze.

Dancing with Time

Dancing with Time
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Ballet dancers normally end their careers in their mid-thirties. But four former professionals, two women and two men, nearing their eighties have taken up the challenge to return to the stage and dance again. "Dancing with Time" shows the extraordinary result, filmed in the opera house in Leipzig, where they once were leading members of the ensemble. They tell the stories of their lives in dance and the film extends this beyond the stage to portray Ursula, Christa, Siegfried and Horst as vivid personalities who have lived through the greatest upheavals and social changes of the last century in Germany. Nothing about them is old, except their age.

Close-up at Andrzej Wajda

Close-up at Andrzej Wajda
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The film was made to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Andrzej Wajda`s work as a film director. Archival material is juxtaposed with shots from his film locations and fragments of his films, as well as with memories of women working with the director. Krystyna Zachwatowicz, Agnieszka Holland, Barbara Pecśesicka and Krystyna Janda tell their stories of Andrzej Wajda and what was it like to work with him.

Church Will Arrive in the Evening

Church Will Arrive in the Evening
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In the ice-free months of the year, Father Gennady captains a barge transformed into a floating Orthodox Church on a mission trip along the Volga-Don Canal to the remote Russian villages. At each port, Father Gennady leads church services, distributes holy sacraments and listens to confessions. But it all changes when, due to unexpected circumstances, the mission trip suddenly takes a rather different turn.

Chemo

Chemo
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Patients in an oncology clinic receive chemotherapy. Their faces can be seen in a close-up. They lie in pairs and hold fascinating conversations. Life seen from a different perspective, a distance offered by a hospital, reveals its value, sense and charm. Why so late?

Body Trail

Body Trail
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The body as a tool for experiencing spatial dimensions. Body sculptures, which change and adapt to the environment, create new perspectives and insights into architecture and the city - a conceptual filling of empty urban spaces. The experimental short film Body Trail is based on an outdoor performance which took place in Vienna in October 2007.

 

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