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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.

At First Sight

At First Sight
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It's not about new or interesting films, but about the constant awareness of seeing and hearing. About the constant opening of the heart." The foundations of A Prima Vista are based upon the unreleased film works from the personal archive of Michael Pilz. The available material was barely altered and highlighted with quotes, sound, noise and music collages. "It is a film for meditation. Moreover, it is a meditation." (Quotes by Michael Pilz).

7915 km

7915 km
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A motor-sports spectacle that kicks up plenty of dust. On the trail of the 2007 Dakar Rallye 7915 KM undertakes a search, along the way encountering the variety to be found in Africa's present in Morocco, Sahrawi Republic, Mauritania, Mali and Senegal. 7915 KM demonstrates the extent of this distance, which is the result of political and economic conditions, and also the ideas and prejudices to be found in both Europe and Africa. It also makes the closeness tangible, which becomes clear in the stories of everyday life, work, hopes and worries. Keeping the sobering reality in mind, it creates an homage to humanity and slowness which questions deep-seated perceptions and the role of Europeans in numerous, presumably African, problems.

Apocalypse on Wheels

Apocalypse on Wheels
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This is a film about what the car traffic turns us into. For 5 months the director in the passenger seat accompanies five ordinary people (A half paralyzed man who not only drives a car, but he also helps other people to avail themselves of cars; Peruvian woman, who was been raised in a city with an equally crazed traffic; a father who has recently lost his daughter in a traffic accident; a policeman who was beaten up by the militia before December 1989) on their every day journeys around the capital.

800 Violet Horses

800 Violet Horses
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At the beginning it was 192 horses...then it was 400...now they are 800. And when I did what I wanted, I understood I had to learn. It is, you know, like a woman. One day, there are no problems at all; everything goes smoothly, but some other time the glitches happen - this or that problem arises, but that's why we are the sportsmen - to fight against all this.

Blind Family

Blind Family
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The young blind couple is expecting their first child.The authors of the film follow them till last moment.We wait intently for the birth of the child and hope that he will see...

Afghan Women Behind the Wheel

Afghan Women Behind the Wheel
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The desire for freedom is natural for people all over the world.Obtaining a driving license is becoming a key factor towards personal freedom for Afghan women. However, is the Afghan society prepared for women behind the wheel? This topic and many others are beeing discussed by young talented director Sahraa Karimi in her film Afghan Women Behind the Wheel.By interviewing women of different age and from different social conditions, Shaara, born and raised in Kabul, gets the idea of their lifes and dreams. She tries to understand the issue of personal freedom in connection with getting a driving licence. The film is a fascinating portrait of women´s life in Kabul, where dreams are different to reality, Kabul, where the present time still has to face the culture of the past.

Agor Dromesko (At the End of Way)

Agor Dromesko (At the End of Way)
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Andrzej Wajda: Let's Shoot!

Andrzej Wajda: Let's Shoot!
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A record of a few months of struggle on the set, showing an atmosphere of work and a picture of immense film machinery, and at same time presenting the truest and intimate portrait of the Master of Polish Cinema, the Oscar winner. In 1957 Andrzej Wajda won the Silver Palm in Cannes for his film 'Canal', along with 'Seventh seal' by Ingmar Bergman. We meet him 50 years later, as the author of many important films, such as 'Ashes and Diamonds', 'Man of Marble' or 'Danton', now directing one the most important films in his career, 'Katyn', about the massacre in which thousands of Polish officers, including Wajda's father, were murdered by the Soviets, during World War II - a tragedy left unspoken for decades. During the shooting of the film, 4 young documentary filmmakers - his former students had a chance to get closer and see how their Master works on his most intimate story. Extraordinary for his sensitivity, immeasurable passion, the feeling of mission and great diligence. But also in moments of tiredness, joy, failures, in conversations with people. Perhaps it is only on the set where one can see what Andrzej Wajda really is like.

Ants Eskola: To Be or Not To Be

Ants Eskola: To Be or Not To Be
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The story of prince Hamlet touched the deepest and most painful spots in the soul of the actor Ants Eskola. Why? Why was that story so important to him? To him Hamlet's monologue "To be or not to be" did not simply express the will to die or the concept of suicide, rather than the fact that other people are those who force you to ask yourself - are you capable to fulfill your dreams in life. His best years passed in the concentration camps in Gulag. When he returned to Estonia, freedom had been replaced with foreign dictatorship. A country of ones own with an "oblast". Life as a public enemy began, a fight for survival in a totalitarian system. Materials from archives of Estonia as well as from Finland have been used in the making of this film.

Argippo Resurrected

Argippo Resurrected
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Shot in Prague, Český Krumlov, Kuks and Venice, Argippo Resurrected expresses the suggestive beauty and original atmosphere of Baroque theatre. Antonio Vivaldi's lost opera Argippo was originally composed for a Prague debut in 1730. Lost for centuries, the opera's score was discovered by a young Czech conductor Ondřej Macek. Almost as remarkable as the discovery of this lost masterpiece was the process of remounting the work. Dan Krameš's film observes, gloriously, the gradual birth of the modern world premiere of Argippo and the search for its authentic Baroque interpretation. It confirms the genius of Argippo, the most significant opera written for Prague before Mozart's Don Giovanni.

 

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