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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.

I Love My Boring Life

I Love My Boring Life
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The diary of a grandmother from the Prague neighbourhood of Zbraslav as a diary of eternity. Using informal language, for five years grandmother Alena Němcová from Zbraslav has been writing down weather forecasts, dreams, her morning exercises, cooking, everyday house bustle, global events as well as notes concerning relationships, religion and the general spirit of the times – matters of a private, family, social, real and also surreal nature. The film captures the life in her house as a place that could represent a slice of the world and merge various events and connections, both of a daily and timeless nature. It points out that banality can indeed be part of our perception but not of the world itself. The device is just a change of banality to singularity. This film is part of the "Breathless – Dominance of The Moment" documentary film project.

Grandfather

Grandfather
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The documentary movie „The Grandfather" is a story about a polish artist and photographer, Henryk Rogozinski, whose adventure with photography began by accident. His first camera was made by his own hands. Using this prototype camera he developed his passion for photography. As a young boy he studied at a typography accademy, which gave him the knowledge about photosesitive materials, leading him to design his own complicated negative tooling process. Rogozinski launched a photography studio and a workshop for photography enthusiasts, and as a member of the Polish Artists' Photography Union, he left behind a massive franchise.

The Beautiful Fly of the Bees

The Beautiful Fly of the Bees
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The reconstruction of the photographic Atelier Seidel in Český Krumlov and the rediscovery of a unique collection of nearly 140,000 historical photographs becomes not only the basis for the narrative of a life-story of two photographers – father and son, but also leads to the revival of Czech-German dialogue, and to the reconstruction of the long-gone lives and culture. It brings us to a general meditation over photography, which serves here not only as historical testimony, but also as a means of experiencing and remembering.

Well-Paid Stroll

Well-Paid Stroll
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This documentary film describes the preparations for the new presentation of the jazz opera created by Jiří Suchý and Jiří Šlitr at the National Theatre in Prague. The show originated in 1965 and was presented at the Semaphor Theatre, the home stage of these popular authors and singers. Jan Roháč and world-renowned Miloš Forman directed this version. It was also the latter who created a successful come-back of the show 40 years later in the spring of 2007, with the help of lyricist Jiří Suchý, conductor Libor Pešek and Forman's twin sons, stage designers Petr and Matěj.

Jan Klusák – Axis temporum

Jan Klusák – Axis temporum
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This black-and-white documentary captures composer Jan Klusák on the axis of time (axis temporum) between his 70th and 75th year of age full of incomparable vitality, charm, and wit. Klusák composes a pivotal composition of this period and follows its genesis during a performance by Petr Altrichter. He allows us a glimpse of his childhood, which comes alive through photographs of his beloved father who perished in Auschwitz. He also characterizes his various happy and difficult periods when his music was not allowed to be performed. Klusák's life story reflects the most tragic moments in the history of the 20th century. Everything is permeated with his music – music as a life attitude.

Citizen Havel Is Rolling Barrels

Citizen Havel Is Rolling Barrels
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In 1974, the then banned playwright Václav Havel found a job as a brewery hand so that he would not be accused of social parasitism. He ended up rolling barrels and filtering beer for nearly a year even though he drove a Mercedes to work. His new experiences, described in the film by Arnošt Šerkézy, his boxer buddy from the lager cellar, started him on a new way of writing. He dashed off his first autobiographical - and arguably his best - play, Audience, in a single night. The film relates stories of the genesis, the productions and the cultural reverberations of Havel’s influential one-act.

Granny

Granny
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55 years old Tamara is fed up with men of her own generation, whom she perceivesas constant bitter wiseacres deprived of all ideals in life. She posts an online ad:"Mature, slightly kinky female is searching for boys aged 17–30", and receives 650 responses… from then on she's been busy sorting out the responses, choosing boysto date and meeting up with them. Soon she realizes that she replaces their mother,sex teacher, soul healer. Documentary film about a Grandma, who has more than just the ageing process to come to terms with…

Forgotten Transports to Poland

Forgotten Transports to Poland
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Breaking down our notions about "Holocaust documentaries", the film focuses on humanidentity and its changes. It deals with choices, people, escaping Nazi ghettos, laborand death camps in the Lublin region of Poland, had to make in order to adapt and survive in utter extremity, on the run, in hiding – with a great deal of ingenuity,much humor and tremendous optimism. This documentary tribute to the human spiritis completely devoid of commentary, contemporary and make-believe footage and employs only impeccably researched time-and-place precise materials and fascinatingwords of the witnesses. From playing a deaf-mute fool, armed resistance to a touchingtale of forbidden love, the handful of witnesses share their past, for the first time. This documentary offers a surprising picture of survival "as we don't know it".

Fighting the Brain

Fighting the Brain
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A threefold portrait, presenting the reality within the limits of a subjective view, puts together the lives of an increasingly more remote writer and musician; a hacker, dreaming his dream of transformation into a purely virtual existence in the depths of technology; and an undertaker, unrealistic raconteur, living on the history of half-mythical Sudetenland.

Unwelcome

Unwelcome
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A documentary myth. Five stories about a journey from the Underworld. Since the early 1990s the director has been accompanying and filming five children, now adults, who were rejected by their parents and left in the maternity hospitals right after they were born. The state has taken care of them: from the material point of view they lacked almost nothing - only they lived in another world. Particularly during the Communist era, all children that were different were carefully kept out of sight, hidden in a kind of underworld, far from the rest of the society and its joys and sorrows. The protagonists of the film, however, surmounted the obstacles and entered our world: they are living independently, working, having healthy children, divorcing, and getting married again; some have even met their parents.

 

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