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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.

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A portrait of the world's renown sociologist Zygmunt Bauman during a four day visit in his Leeds home, combined with the exploration of links between his scholarly work Modernity and the Holocaust and Winter in the Morning, a Warsaw ghetto memoir by his late wife, Janina Bauman.

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After the Kosovo war devastated a young couple's homeland and their dreams for a normal life, they set out unexpectedly from the Balkans on a wild journey to rebuild their lives anew in America. Arriving in California amidst the peak of a housing boom that would burst soon, the film reveals their trials and tribulations over five years of turbulent economic, political and personal tides, presenting an unorthodox depiction of the American immigrant experience.

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This documentary is meant to open a window, overcoming prejudice and intolerance, into the lives of Cristi and George, two young men whose only “crime” is that they are deeply in love...

The Tundra Book. A Tale of Vukvukai, the Little Rock

The Tundra Book. A Tale of Vukvukai, the Little Rock
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72 years have passed as deer herder Vukvukai lives in the depths of Chukotka. He is an old man full of energy and wisdom - The Real Man of Tundra whose life can not be seen apart from the deer. His people take care of a huge herd - over 14,000 deer. Their life is a non-stop struggle for survival and well-being in the most harsh weather conditions of Chaun-Chukotka. They deeply believe in the strength of tradition and so succeed in their struggle. The ancient culture of Nomadic Chukchi takes care of them, so they preserve and follow it. As far as it is now - their realm remains stabile. This is the Truth of Vukvukai.

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When laying the foundations of Odessa in 1794, the builders begun to cut stone right from beneath the ground to obtain building material. The excavations went on until the 1960s, with no scheduling and coordination, hence what remains now is a labyrinth strecheing over tha area of 2000 km... In the 19th century, workers left peculiar drawings and inscriptions on many underground walls, nowadays seen as a vivid relicts of their lives. Caves under houses were used as cellars or depots for contraband goods. In the wartime the catacombs gave shelter to civilians, partisans and deserters. Today, the most frequent visitors are speleologists and adventurers. The film Chthonian City depicts presents these situations with the use of video, revelations of people who tell about the catacombs through hand-drawn animation, and miners’ drawings found in the labyrinth.

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Filmmaker Aliona van der Horst follows the trail of the unconventional Dutch-Japanese pianist and artist Tomoko Mukaiyama who made a huge work of art on the theme of womanhood and fertility. She created a cathedral-like space out of twelve thousand white silk dresses in which visitors, as in a ritual, roamed around and fell silent. And where people confessed intimate details about children who were or were not born, about sexuality and life-choices. In a visual and poetic way, the film penetrates into what is probably still one of the greatest of taboos, menstruation, and, as a consequence, touches upon universal themes around life and death.

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12 Meters is a documentary about the musician who has constructed the biggest drum in the world. In this film we can see all ups and downs during his work.

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In October 2010, the chancellor Angela Merkel claimed that attempts to build a multicultural society in Germany had "utterly failed". From the perspective of children like Anita, Sedat and Nasmija, born and raised in Germany by parents who had fled the war-torn Kosovo at the beginning of the 1990's, the statement makes no sense. For them, there is no question about their nationality: they are German. Fifteen months ago, Sedat and Nasmija were deported from Germany. They are now bound to bear the inhuman conditions of a refugee camp in Kosovo...

 

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