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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.

Liliputian Mimicri - part one: The Blinking Sand

Liliputian Mimicri - part one: The Blinking Sand
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Of all marine creatures the smallest are the hardest to film. Due to their size and amazing ability to hide, they are almost invisible to the human eye. Underwater cameraman and wildlife-filmmaker Dávid Attila Molnar gives an amazing introduction into the hidden world of marine liliputians. Geared up in technical scuba diving equipment, he talks about his underwater adventures from a sea aquarium. Thanks to a 2-way underwater communication system he talks to a group of school children who listen outside.Special sound and visual effects, funny animations and fantastic wildlife stories. A joyful, happy documentary recommended for every age group.

Restaurant Bakhmaro

Restaurant Bakhmaro
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A journey into a lively, yet desolate building in a provincial Georgian town. It once used to be a hotel called ‘Bakhmaro’. At the center of the building there is a restaurant with its walls covered in bright green and orange plastic foam and where the tables are set waiting for customers who rarely come. A Chinese shop, slot machines and a political party office can also be found here. The building is a microcosm sodden with the constant anticipation of change. It is a model of one troubled country with its endless demonstrations and opposition rallies. At the same time the backdrop of political situation only mirrors the life people live here.

Of Course to America!

Of Course to America!
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In 2000, Ketevan decided to leave her hometown Tbilisi and depart for the West. Being refused a normal visa, she booked an airplane ticket from Georgia to Mexico and with the help of smugglers swam across the muddy waters of the Rio Grande and crawled through the sewers of El Paso, illegally entering the USA. At the other end of the tunnel border police were waiting for her. Ketevan was detained. Her lawyer Sister Marlene lost Ketevan's asylum case and even her American husband, John, could not legalize her stay in "the land of the free". Ketevan is an accomplished theatre director. She dramatizes and stages her story for her Georgian friends in a one-woman show. In the theatre she finds her freedom.

Flyers Over Amazonia

Flyers Over Amazonia
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Flying as a dream and a passion, a job and a fate. That's the story of pilots Nilton and Fernando, hoboes of the air. They fly over Amazonia, the largest river region on the planet and its greatest forest, both a miracle of creation and a target of deforestation. Amazonia is portrayed in brilliant bird's-eye-view images, through authentic characters and their stories, actors, the pilots' voices, their thoughts concerning flying, fact and invention.A film that maintains a balance between realism and poetry, everyday life and dreams, combining them to pull the viewer into this world. An invitation to fly along.

Hidden Garden

Hidden Garden
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The author of "Hidden Garden" on an exciting journey through Venice, going from one native Venetian to another, discovers the reality and values of this ancient city today through the eyes of its citizens…

Sajmiste - The History of A Camp

Sajmiste - The History of A Camp
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This is a story about a completely different time, a story about people no longer exist,a story about forgotten place of execution. About a place where thousandsof Jews and Serbs were murdered, a place of horrible suffering, death and memories.This is a history of one of the most notorious camps in World War II, presentingnew documents and interpretations, exclusive testimonies of surviving witnesses, and so far unpublished and unseen archive materials. The documentary presents testimonies from miraculously surviving eyewitnesses, former camp prisoners andfeatures reconstructions of the actual events while using archive material which hasnot been seen or published before.

City With No God

City With No God
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It is a story about the city NOWA HUTA ( located next to Krakow. ). The city that was built in the early communist times in Poland. The former authoritie´s idea was to build the city without any church, the city without God. The authorities decided to persuade people from the very distant regions in Poland and encourage them to settle in Nowa Huta, to live there and to work there. How the communists' intentions have succeed, we can see from the film presenting us the archive footage as well as the inhabitants telling us the stories about their everyday struggle for faith during the communist regime.

Snapshots

Snapshots
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Chronologically arranged documentary Snapshots portrays the life of the legendary Czechoslovakian rock musician Dežo Ursiny as well as depicts the times he had lived in. Ursiny's relatives, friends and colleagues from music bands (i.e. Ivan Štrpka, Andrej Šeban, Radek Pastrňák, Zdenka Krejčová…) talk about him, his life and his work

Six Weeks

Six Weeks
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Due to different life situations there are mothers who do not want or those who cannot bring up their children. They have the right to give the child away just after delivery. During the first six weeks of the newborn's life the mother has to make the decision about the definit resignation of her parental rights. She is free in making her decision however the decision she makes cannot be changed afterwards. A biological mother loses any contact with her child. She can only write a final letter to the child. The film shows in a poetical way the first six weeks of the small human being who was given away.

She Who Measures

She Who Measures
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Are we truly free? Are our desires truly our own or merely imposed products of the society we live in? The question this film is asking is this: are we slaves to the culture and society we were born in or is there a way to escape after all?

 

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