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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.

Beautiful Misunderstanding

Beautiful Misunderstanding
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A funny story about three contact-improvisation dancers: Danya from Israel, Renata from Poland and Marcus from Germany who arrive to Jerusalem wanting to express their views on the most important issues by dancing. They perform anywhere - in the streets, in parks and gardens. Will the inhabitants of this multicultural and colorful city appreciate their efforts? Do they need them? The dancers will learn this - but only if they learn to communicate between themselves.

Fruit Falling On Its Own

Fruit Falling On Its Own
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Documentary film about a painter and a graphic artist Jiří John who is a significant representant of the Czech post-war art. He was born in 1923 in Třešť, in the central Bohemia, the local nature inspired many of his works. The nature, to which he was closely attached, was the main source of his themes. John´s work was fully appreciated after his death in 1972. The documentary film Fruit falling of itself is a fragile and attentive portrait which was realized with John´s wife, also an artist, Adriena Šimotová and his brother Vladimír John. His friends – theoretician of arts Jaromír Zemina and poet and translator Jan Vladislav – complete this portrait with their erudite notice.

Let's Make Money

Let's Make Money
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After ''We Feed the World'', the spectacular documentary about our foodstuffs, the film-maker Erwin Wagenhofer presents us his new, shocking documentary. ''Let's Make MONEY'' follows the tracks of our money through the worldwide finance system.Wagenhofer looks behind the scenes of the colourful backdrop of banks and insurance companies. What does our pension provision have to do with the property blow-up in Spain? We don't have to buy a home there in order to be involved. As soon as we open an account, we're part of the world-wide finance market - whether we want to be or not. The bank enters our account into the global money circuit. Possibly banks or pension funds lend our money to speculators.We customers have no idea where our debtor lives and what he does to pay our interest fees. Most of us aren't even interested, because we like to follow the call of the banks: ''Let your money work''. But money can't work. Only people, animals or machines can work.

Look at the life through my eyes

Look at the life through my eyes
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This is the story about very closed, very sole world located in onevillage in Macedonia, village where life is like a fairy-tale, almostlike lived in another time and space.People there look at the life through their eyes, very slowlyaccepting changes from the outside world, like not wanting to be partof it. They like to keep quiet about anything that does not fit into their fairy tale. The wishes, the fears, the fights, the secrets stay hidden behind the closed and high gates of the houses.

Move of the Wall

Move of the Wall
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What do we get, if we bring free climbing to extreme limits of physical powers and technical perfection? We also add the steel logic of playing chess, refinement of ballet, and take everything over the edge of laws of physics? Bouldering. Boulders are lower self-standing rock formations that are up to 12 metres high. Climbing is done without ropes and protection. Primal, natural contact with the rock and most primary contact with nature. The routes are so hard that it is not possible to see the line of climbing - holds and footholds. This is why climbers do not see routes and boulders and also do not name them routes, but "problems". A problem is first studied; each individual move, and then trying to combine them together. At the tend, to climb the line.Sometimes it takes a day, sometimes four years - for 18 moves and 10 metres of The End, which was climbed by Urh Čehovin after four years of continuous studying. The End is one of the hardest boulder problems on the planet, graded Fb 8c. A bit cosmic, quantum and incomprehensible? See the movie, there is everything quite simple to the eye.

Muestra Cuba

Muestra Cuba
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Muestra Cuba is a film on Cuban "interiors" - in the largest sense of the word. We meet six people of different social standings, who take us into their houses - Jose Emilio, the artist, Eduardo, the maniac car restorer, Yaquelin - the santería-believer surviver, Nadia, the young artist who is in a priviledged situation, Martha - the memento of the good old times, and Homero and Magalys, the art-collectors- old couple. While they take us through their big or small dwellings, we get an insight into their lives. The optimistic and joyful atmosphere of the film can be a great lesson to many of us living in the "western" society.

My Wehrmacht

My Wehrmacht
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Some people still believe that the Hitler´s army was the right one. But this film does not speak about political extremists. It shows a normal life of good citezens, who work, love their children, and feel good in Wehrmacht and SS uniforms.

New Day Dawns in the Eastern Corner

New Day Dawns in the Eastern Corner
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Estonia regained its independence in 1991. The Bronze Soldier Alyosha, located in the center of Tallinn, remained in its place. For Estonian nationalists this monument was the symbol for Soviet occupation and marked the beginning of Stalinist repressions. However, for many Russians the monument was one of the few remaining symbols that connected them to Russia and Russian identity.Documentary Alyosha brings us the people who gathered to the Bronze Soldier in 2005-2007 and whose behaviour created a new line in our cultural memory. What mattered were the rituals around the monument, not the monument itself. Differences of opinion about history resulted in tragic conflicts and relocating the monument.

Optimist

Optimist
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„The Optimist" is a documentary about the heroic struggle of a man against all odds in the complicated geopolitical space of Central Europe in the first half of the 20th century. Born in 1870 to a Hungarian-Jewish family in today's Slovakia, Lajosz Winter was a man of entrepreneurial genius and unbreakable spirit. He was the founder of the Slovak Balneological Society and a builder and modernizer of the world-famous Slovak spa town of Piešťany. Despite surviving four political regimes and anti-Semitic, anti-Hungarian and anti-capitalist persecution, he remained a steadfast optimist until his death in 1968.

Our Street. Cinema Version

Our Street. Cinema Version
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For over three years the author of the film has accompanied a poor family from Łódź living opposite the former textile factories. They worked there for generations. After the fall of communism they watched a slow collapse of the plant. Today they are witness to another civilizational change: Manufaktura, which is the biggest shopping and entertainment centre in this part of Europe, is being built in place of the factories. How will the Furmańczyk family fit into this new landscape?

 

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