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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.

Pension Payday

Pension Payday
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Life is a short period of time... This film is about people who meet and talk to each other while waiting for pensions. We see their personalities through their dialogues that are sometimes comic and sometimes sad or compassionate, yet they help each other to survive this oppressive atmosphere of waiting. We see the sun shining and the rain, we see snow and kids playing outside… it seems those hours of waiting become everlasting.

Never Been Better

Never Been Better
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People know very little about present-day situation of Bosnia and Herzegovina even though it has almost all model examples for various social and political problems. Never Been Better is a satirical and personal insight into a suffering country whose destiny has deeply influenced the lives of its citizens as well as the film's director. Department of documentary film, FAMU - graduate film.

One Who Set Forth

One Who Set Forth
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"I am my own history", is how the character Kamikaze responds to the question "who are you?" in Wim Wenders' KINGS OF THE ROAD. Drawing parallels between his early films and his personal biography, this documentary traces Wim Wender's own history, focussing on the director's life prior to his leaving Germany for the USA after his international breakthrough with THE AMERICAN FRIEND (1976/77). In intimate conversations, Wim Wenders talks about his sheltered upbringing in post-war Oberhausen. Excerpts from Wenders' early works illustrate how, time and again, the filmmaker was portraying people he knew and experiences that were authentic. This is just one of the ways in which this documentary sheds new light on the early films of Wim Wenders.

Panda With Red Ears

Panda With Red Ears
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Images recorded on a journey that can either be the threshold between a pasture and wasteland, or between a man and a woman, or a homeland and a foreign country, or an animal and a human being, comprise a film report – with chapters Hong-Kong, Tibet, China and Ours – about travels in the east, defined by the tension between elusive fragmentation and solid memories, between ghosts of ephemerality and meditative rest, where the image itself becomes the journey’s consciousness, a reminder of infinity in the finite world.

Pharmacist

Pharmacist
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"The Pharmacist" tells the story of a single woman nearing her sixties. She lives in a village where she's been working as a pharmacist for over 30 years. The village's small community considers this straightforward and dignified lady to be a freak whose priorities are first with the rights of animals, and second with her right be a proud lonely woman who devotes herself to cats and books.

New Hyperion, or Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

New Hyperion, or Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
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A real and unfinished story lived and performed by philosophers and heads of states and churches, artists and party secretariats, scientists and ministers of federal and republic governments, retirees and prisoners, unionists and officers, dissidents and gray zone, preachers and armed forces, both right-wing and left-wing radicals, citizens, and their MP's during the first free election in Czechoslovakia in 1990: Vachek's theater of the world... The first installment in Vachek's tetralogy Little Capitalist (New Hyperion, or Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, 1992; What Is to Be Done? A Journey from Prague to Cesky Krumlov or How I Formed a New Government, 1996; Bohemia Docta, or The Labyrinth of the World and the Lust-house of the Heart (a Divine Comedy), 2000; Who Will Watch the Watchmen? Dalibor Or The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin, 2002), an original survey of Czech politics, science and culture in the 1990s and at the turn of the millennium.

Plani di giardini ideali

Plani di giardini ideali
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A Baroque western with documentary elements that sprouts from the seed of a mystical rose, much like the meeting of protozoa in glass of water decaying with wheat. The film’s windows easily double up beneath the breezes of Venetian streets, the hills and quarries of Palava, and in the nooks and crannies of Podbaba, in order to take you away to the songs of birds, fish, stalks of dandelion and macho thistles, into the past, present and future reveries of ideals. Is it possible to sign off from humanity? Is the wolf a sweet child of innocence? Have you ever had a cosmic bee on the bucket?

Memory of the Twentieth Century: The Events of Pavel Štecha

Memory of the Twentieth Century: The Events of Pavel Štecha
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Pavel Štecha is one of the leading Czech photographers and documentarists. His black-and-white photos from 1968-89 are well-known, but his photographs of ordinary life from the period are also of crucial importance - cottage-goers, shops, streets and the clothing of the time... In his art, he often managed to capture features of the Czech character. The film visits him at a time when his life is dominated by a serious illness.

Positive Emotions

Positive Emotions
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Ever since they fell in love, Tsveta and Yanko have dreamed about having three children and a big dog. Their dream has come true. Tsveta is a puppet-show director, something she has always wanted to do. Several years ago, Yanko got a USA Green Card, and together with one of his daughters, Vlada, went to New York, where she continued her education at prestigious music school. However, Tsveta got ill and doctors gave a severe diagnosis: multiple sclerosis. Although Yanko's dream of possessing a US passport seemed almost fulfilled, he had to come back to Bulgaria. Film reveals challenges that the family is facing in the new circumstances, and also the way each member is trying to deal with them.

 

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