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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.

RAPublic

RAPublic
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First documentary about the Czech hip hop scene shows how close the Czech rap can come to humour and irony. Three protagonists of the film, James Cole, Hugo Toxxx and Orion appear in situations where they are confronted with a professor of linguistics, children of a Romany quarter, a strict birth registry clerk, classical music trio, a statute of national revival hero Josef Jungmann, and the chanson singer Hana Hegerova, with whom they have a chance to sing the national anthem: "mimino mi mele nohu máma mele maso a máma mele sele kde domov můj?"

Other Side of Sunset

Other Side of Sunset
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This documentary, based on the poetic opus of Otto Tolnai - the author from Vojvodina - takes us to the spaces and towns which determined the course of the author's life. Gestures, events and characters from all stages of his life, together with the details of the Vojvodina landscapes, are transformed into a dreamy panorama. The film strums the rosary of Tolnai's verses, evoking the spirit of the native plain, Genius loci. While reading this poetry, we sink deep into the described scenes. The necklace of verses reaches the kaleidoscope, where the vibrant, ever-changing poetic statements twinkle in the colorful ornament.

Last Caravan

Last Caravan
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The Last Caravan presents the lives and life-style of last authentic comedians - puppeteers in the Central European region - in various cultural and social contexts. They are literally the last strolling comedians; some of them still play and live in their caravans and maintain their lifestyle as wandering entertainers. Besides the lives of the individual people, the film focuses on the common roots of this kind of European culture. We bring to the screen four nomad family portraits - The Dubsky and Anderle Family from Slovakia, The Kopecky and Novak Family from Czech Republic, The Kemeny Family from Hungary and The Domrowski Family from Germany.

Troublemakers

Troublemakers
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Věra Chytilová's documentary film that presents a diverse group of women who comment on various social and political issues.

Portrait of Andrzej Wajda

Portrait of Andrzej Wajda
  • Country
    Poland
  • Language
    Polish
  • Category
    Arts and Culture, Creative, Portrait
  • Length
    1' 31''
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On the Sky on Earth

On the Sky on Earth
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A group of supernatural phenomena aficionados comes to a small town Wylatowo (Takeoffville). Just like every year, they expect extraordinary signs to appear in the grain field. One of the investigators was almost kidnapped by a UFO. Yet he doesn't give up and he tries at any cost to prove the extraterrestrials' existence.

Town Called Hermitage

Town Called Hermitage
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Rising above an entertaning mosaic of the lives of several inhabitants of the "uprooted" village of Dolni Poustevna on the Šluknov promotory - the Vietnamese girl Denisa, a group of retarded inmates from the local welfare institute or the German brothel-hunting tourist Volker - is the all-pervading shadow of the resettlement forced upon the German population after the war.

Mr Steel Axe - Entering Heaven

Mr Steel Axe - Entering Heaven
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Gansükh (Mr. Steel Axe) is a shepherd, living in a northern Mongolian valley in the summer and as a shaman in Ulanbator in the winter. He decided to run for office at the parliamentary elections to be held in spring 2008. The story of the film concentrates on his everyday life in the yurt with his family and also shows his social and political activities. As a personal journey, we will follow him during the electoral campaign of the 2008 parliamentary elections and the course of the election in the rural district. The question is whether individual courage and the ruse of the proverbial poor lad can accomplish the mission of Gansükh to fetch a future for his people and a name and reputation for himself in 21st century Mongolia.

No more fear

No more fear
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A young, separated couple meet again for a film. In a small house by a lake they perform something that could be daily life: chopping wood, frying meatballs, arguing about minced meat, heating the oven, swimming, looking at the water and playing harmonica. Both of them are HIV positive. From now on everything is related to thoughts of finitude and death: drifting clouds, wind in the blades of grass, spider webs in the twigs, every word, every glance. However, Oles and Alexandra know why they are being filmed. Self-mockingly they become the protagonists of their own story, and in so doing they discard some of their burden. But at night by the open fire their facades of self-protecting coolness break. What remains are helplessness, fear and love.

Natasha

Natasha
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Ulli Gladik meets Natasha the beggar in Graz and, after a number of conversations, accompanies Natasha to her home of Breznik, a former industrial town near Sofia. Over a period of two years, Gladik, a combination camera woman and director, visits Natasha in Bulgaria and Austria, documenting the young woman's life - her journeys and traveling companions, her work as a beggar, her home in Graz, her family life and her everyday routine in Bulgaria.

 

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