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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.

People on the Wall

People on the Wall
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Who is on the wall in 15 homes and offices, 15 strong emotions.

Silence of Innocence - The Artist Gottfried Helnwein

Silence of Innocence - The Artist Gottfried Helnwein
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Gottfried Helnwein is an artist of clear statements, uninhibited and idiosyncratic. With his hyper-realistic depictions of tortured girls in the 1970s to the paintings and photographs of today, he confronts us with the dark sides of human nature. Silently but mercilessly he uses the fate of the innocent child to bring before our eyes the human capacity for suffering, making the beholder a passive, and indeed active, accomplice to injury and abuse. It is not for nothing that Helnwein is one of the world's best-known and at the same time most controversial German-speaking artists of the post-war period. Helnwein is an artist who thinks in political terms, analysing present and historical world events and revealing, there too, the structures of power and violence. All his life he has addressed the issue of the cruel mechanisms of the Nazi period. His pictures are an ongoing appeal against collective amnesia, deliberate or otherwise.

Moscow : Liverpool

Moscow : Liverpool
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There is a legend, which says that in 1966 The Beatles visited USSR, spent a few hours in the transit hall of the Sheremetievo airport. During the conversation with a correspondent from the radio station "Mayak" John Lennon declared, that there is no rock n' roll music in the Soviet Union. 40 years have passed. Moscow's best bands, which play the hits of The Beatles, set out on the journey to Liverpool to prove the opposite.

City Named Desire

City Named Desire
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"The City Named Desire" is a portrait of a city as seen by temporary Berliners. The documentary depicts those who came and stayed and those who passed on through - artists who report on their life, work and their personal experiences. Itaccompanies the beneficiaries of DAAD grants to the places that they experienced as liberating or oppressive, places that fascinated them and which had a significant influence on their work."The City Named Desire" recounts stories from the forty-plus years of post-war history, from the days of the Cold War to the arrival of a new Berliner after the fall of the Wall.The film's pageant interweaves the lives and stories of internationally renowned artists into a kaleidoscopic image of Berlin that looks inwards from outside and offers magnified images of proximity and alienation.

Word

Word
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This documentary is dedicated to Solzhenitsyn's 90 years anniversary. There are rare cronicle materials in the film, exclusive interviews with Alexander Solzhenitsyn about modern literature and future of Russia in 21st century. One of the friends of Solzhenitsyn, Nikita Struve, shares his memories about famous writer, reads letters, which Solzhentsyn sent him. Struve tells a story of how he published "The Gulag Archipelago" in France.His wife Natalya tells about his last days, thoughts and plans.

Dreamers

Dreamers
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"Dreamers" is a film about two young hip hopers Samir Karic and Amir Muminovic from a small village Hajvazi in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Because of the lyrics in one of their songs where they criticize the local Mayor, they have been attacked by Mayor's son. East West Centre and director Haris Pasovic invited them to play in his show Class Enemy after reading an article in some local newspaper about this incident. The show Class Enemy is about a disempowered group of students in one of the local high schools raging with violence. Samir and Amir go for a World Tour with the play.

Legend of Shiva & Parvati

Legend of Shiva & Parvati
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The Legend of Shiva and Parvati Where heaven and earth touch tower the summits of the Himalayas. They are the scene for the old Indian legend of the hot-tempered Shiva and his wife Parvati. In the same mountain area a young German woman meets an Indian yogi, who is revered by his followers as Shiva. Many years later, Krishna Saraswati, the son of this extraordinary couple and director of the film, describes how his parents tried to find their own and truthful way between Germany and India, between legend and reality.

Shadows

Shadows
  • Director
    Gregor Theus
  • Country
    Germany
  • Related to film
    Shadows
  • Language
    German
  • Category
    Health, Portrait
  • Length
    1' 06''
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For many years, Olaf, Mona and Maria have been suffering from severe depressions.The illness has left them without any interest in life.Suffering from suicidal thoughts they seek help and admit themselves to the psychiatric clinic of the Charité Berlin. They do not shy away from trying controversial treatments such as electroconvulsive therapy. Their struggle has been followed for over two years. A film about hope, the abysses of life, and the brutal cruelty of an illness.

Between Rounds

Between Rounds
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A story of a young man Yoan Pablo Hernandez, who out of responsibility towards his family leaves his home in Cuba. In order to provide a better life for his parents and siblings, he decides to earn as much money as possible in far away Germany. His biggest asset is his talent as a boxer. The price he is prepared to pay for his ambition is high. Life amongst the extended family in Cuba is exchanged for a fight against isolation. Pablo's plight is made all the worse by the fact that there is no way back after being labeled a 'defector' by his homeland. A film about a life in isolation and yearning for home.

Spy in a One Horse Town

Spy in a One Horse Town
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Acting on assignments recieved from imperialist intelligence organs, the practical tasks of espionage are carried out by professional spies as well as agents recruited from among the citizens of other countries, who on becoming agents regularly betray their own homeland.What are agents recruited for? Is it possible to give up spying? We put these questions to Gábor Rimner, who was recruited by the CIA in 1973 to be spy.

 

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