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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.

Fortress Visitors

Fortress Visitors
  • Director
    Petr Hátle
  • Country
    Czech Republic
  • Related to film
    Fortress Visitors
  • Language
    Czech
  • Category
    History, Politics, Society, Youth Documentary
  • Length
    1' 00''
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Terezín fortress, a WW2 concentration camp, gets visited by 200,000 tourists every year, as it's a short stop on the way from magical Prague to Karlštejn castle. Enjoy yourself. Cut glass as a souvenir. Dachau, Mauthausen, Buchenwald, Ravensbrück. Nutrias, grass snakes, a home of birds. Arbeit macht frei.

Citizen Havel

Citizen Havel
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In the course of 13 years the crew has filmed 45 hours of images and recorded 90 hours of sound material. This truly unique material offers new looks behind the scenes of international politics in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, and also into events in a post-totalitarian country during its transition to democracy. Václav Havel was a key figure in the great changes that took place in central and Eastern Europe in the 1990s - the film material captures his work and influence both in his country and internationally. Among the truly unique events captured on film is Bill Clinton's State visit to the Czech Republic in January 1994, including the private part of the visit, when he went to the Reduta jazz club in Prague. Other events are the historic 2002 NATO Summit in Prague, Václav Havel formulating his position for a statement during the Prague meeting of the International Monetary Fund: "I sympathize with opponents of the IMF, and I'm also anti-establishment, but now I represent the country hosting the meeting"...

Immortal Balladeer of Prague

Immortal Balladeer of Prague
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This 62-minute documentary captures the search by the Czech-American journalist, Thomas Hasler from Baltimore, for his famous father Karel Hašler, the legend of Czech music, theatre and cinema. In 2007, Thomas visits the Czech Republic to trace the life of the father he never met. The Czech writer Arnost Lustig guides him, while finishing a story about Karel Hašler’s death in the Mauthausen concentration camp. Karel Hašler was an artist of the highest order. For over ten years, he was a member of Prague’s National Theatre. He also managed the Havel family-owned Lucerna Cabaret, wrote plays, operettas and acted in vaudeville and variety shows. His seditious songs incited the Czechs to rebel against Austria- Hungary’s imperial rule, and, after the birth of the Czechoslovak Republic, Hašler’s songs targeted those who betrayed the democratic ideal. With the advent of the talkies, Hašler became a prominent film music composer, director, screenwriter and actor. After the 1939 German occupation of Bohemia and Moravia, Karel Hašler, a member of the underground, was arrested by the Gestapo in 1941, and brutally murdered in a concentration camp. The SS poured ice-cold water over him and left him outside in December frost to freeze into an ice statue. Through Hašler’s songs, archival footage and rare witnesses, the documentary reveals Hašler to be a grand persona of 20th century Czech history. By murdering Karel Hašler, the German Nazis killed Czech culture for the six years of the occupation. By filming Hašler’s life and work, the documentary attempts to resurrect the immortal balladeer.

Porodní plán

Porodní plán
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What does childbirth look like? How can it affect the baby's life? And how does it affect the life of the woman? What are the current conditions in this country under which we bring children into this world? In this film we explore a terrain that is somewhat dangerous at times; we maneuvre between the camps of mutually hostile groups: supporters of medically controlled birth on the one hand, and natural birth supporters on the other. Their argument involves the very nature of childbirth. Is it a medical procedure or is it an intimate event in the life of a woman? In this situation, we as women cannot be merely unbiased observers for we are directly affected by the whole conflict. This film traces the state of Czech obstetrics. However, ours is not a common, dryly objective portrait. Rather, it is a guide for personal use as well as a comprehensive tool that provides insight into the issue.

Odessa Motives

Odessa Motives
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Residents of Odessa, Ukraine have long been known as a 'special breed' for their eccentric ways, unstoppable humor and unique dialect.This film explores the city's culture, old and new, through random encounters with its current residents. A butcher from the famous Privoz marketplace, a historian, librarians, holocaust survivors, an art collector, a poet, a musician and several school children tell about their lives in the city.

People by the Railway

People by the Railway
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People by the Railway is a group portrait about people living by a deserted railway track in the south of Central Slovakia. The film reflects the current "state of things" in confrontation with the past.

Optical Vacuum

Optical Vacuum
  • Director
    Dariusz Kowalski
  • Country
    Austria
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    Optical Vacuum
  • Language
    English
  • Category
    Anthropology, Experimental, Science and Technology
  • Length
    1' 00''
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Webcams have made it possible for the Internet "to have eyes," reflecting society from a subjectless and anonymous perspective. Over the past years, Dariusz Kowalski has downloaded surveillance sequences from various public and semi-public locations which in fact were not intended to be used. Work places, conference rooms or even laundromats are the starting point for Optical Vacuum. These are images that were not intended for private experience. The soundtrack consists of personal, almost intimate diary-like commentary which also seems to be not intended for the public. A film about voyeurism, surveillance and voluntary self-exposure, the three aspects of the internet that are dependent on each other.

I've Got to Tell You

I've Got to Tell You
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In reaction to the police assault on CzechTek in August 2005, the organizers of the Trutnov music festival called Czech Prime Minister Jiří Paroubek on his mobile phone directly from the stage. Former dissident, goat farmer, and a Green Party candidate Stanislav Penc asked Paroubek whether he had any message for the festivalgoers. The prime minister wished them a good time and hung up. Penc then shared Paroubek's phone number with the audiences. Paroubek subsequently received thousands of text messages and filed a complaint against Penc with the Trutnov City Hall. The city hall employee handling the case prepared for his meeting with Penc more than painstakingly: he even asked his colleague to videotape the proceedings. At the beginning, it all seemed rather uneventful, but the eloquent and exceptionally assertive Penc who is well-versed in law decides to fight back and ultimately wins when he forces the clerk to write up a report from the meeting, a move by which the civil servant basically incriminates himself on the violation of official procedures.

Player

Player
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A documentary about Jaan Ehlvest, the gifted Estonian chess grandmaster. Playing chess is his only income but, above all, it is his calling. In the Soviet Union, Jaan belonged to the chess elite, in New York he has to take part in low-budget competitions, where the winner gets 200 dollars. This documentary poses the question: Will Ehlvest break through one more time, will he reach the top again? Through this journey we will begin to see chess player Jaan Ehlvest as a person. The Player tells the story about being yourself under the conditions of social and personal upheaval.

 

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