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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.

Two love stories

Two love stories
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A visit to two Roma couples in Kosova opens up a parallel world both at the margins and in the midst of Kosovar society. Snapshots from a circle of life, love, labour and loss intertwine to tell very different kinds of stories. Almost without noticing, the viewer enters these lives and is intrigued to find out more about them. The tone and the images, while overall quiet and matter-of-factly, convey a wide range of emotions and moods, from vivacious to hopeless, from light to somber and back.

Henryk Wars, a Songster of Warsaw

Henryk Wars, a Songster of Warsaw
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A native of Warsaw, a student of Karol Szymanowski at the Warsaw Conservatory, Henryk Wars became famous as a court composer of hits for stars of fashionable Warsaw cabarets. He has also written music for fifty Polish feature films. He kept composing also in the USA, where he landed after WWII, back from the war trail of an officer of General Anders' Polish Armed Forces in the East. A friend of John Wayne, Henryk Wars worked in Hollywood, has provided musical scores for sixty films, and had his songs sung by Brenda Lee, Doris Day, Bing Crosby, and Margaret Whiting, among other world-class singers.

Cupboard

Cupboard
  • Director
    Jacob Dammas
  • Country
    Poland
  • Related to film
    A Cupboard
  • Language
    German
  • Category
    Personal View, Youth Documentary
  • Length
    1'
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In the late 1960s, four strong men from a local bar in Wroclaw carried a 150 kg German-made vitrine from one side of Zgodna street to the other. A very personal film on the mysterious Polish "March of 1968".

Journalists

Journalists
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Belarus seems to be the only country in Europe where the state authorities have switched to the Soviet past again. After a short period of liberal changes, the society has been directed to a non-civilized mode of development. Belarusian journalists have sensed all the methods the authoritarian regime can use. Their publications were closed and professions were forbidden for them, their colleagues disappeared, they themselves were put into a jail. And they were tempted as well. Few of them have managed to stand this ordeal. Freedom of speech, its ideals were real not long ago, but now they have become dangerous to one's professional activities, to family and life. This film is a look at various Belarusian journalists to see how they make their choices. We must see the importance of being earnest in the times when the social and economic structures are changing. This choice between conscience and temptation, between fear and dignity turns out to be too difficult. The film contains the facts only. These are the facts of struggle between freedom and slavery. These facts make up the picture of morale existing in a state that is called the last dictatorship in Europe.

Themis

Themis
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Absolute power allows absolutely everything to everybody. That is why the Belarusian Themis today is a lady of loose morals, always and everywhere seeking her own best interest...

Corridor #8

Corridor #8
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CORRIDOR #8 is a huge EU infrastructural project meant to link the Black and the Adriatic Seas, already a decade in the planning. CORRIDOR #8 is a non-road movie about a road historically known as the European part of the Silk Road upon which St. Peter brought Christianity to Europe. It was also the road used by smugglers during the Yugo Embargo.

Way to Calarasi

Way to Calarasi
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János Kurkó, a businessman from Csíkszereda (Mercurea Ciuc) travels to a dreary little town near the Romanian-Bulgarian border to find his memories from his teenage life. The great journey takes place in time as well as in space.

Papa

Papa
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This feature-length documentary presents a loving and humorous portrait of the artistic and private life of Zdeněk Svěrák, famous as a writer, actor, lyricist, screenwriter, and father. "We started where Elementary School took place, in the Prague suburb of Bohdalec; we took a peek at Kopidlno, the place where he survived the war as a seven-year-old; we went to Žatec where he started out as a teacher and wanted to become a famous writer... We traveled with the Jára Cimrman Theater during its winter tour to the mountains; and in summer we visited his country house." Many other people appear in the film who have been instrumental in Svěrák's personal life and career. Another major element involves the professional cooperation of the father and son tandem, which during the shooting went through a painful creative crisis, all the more delicate in that professional approaches, opinions and attitudes became intertwined with family relationships...

When I Win a Million

When I Win a Million
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Altaj Republic in Russia is going to be the "Russian Las Vegas". The main character, Dimon, decides to buy the first slot machine with the hope to succeed in the new sphere of business.

Tile Mail

Tile Mail
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This film from Lisbon, is Nobert's Super 8 film-letter, with the help of which he tries to take up contact with his distant family. Nobert has learnt the art of painting of Portuguese tiles, the azulejos by that he earns his living. Through Nobert's painting, the visual world of the film base on the art and decorative tradition of azulejos painting. It shows an interesting parallel and an example of the possible integration of the cultures of today's immigrants in the Portuguese and overall European history. The development of tile-painting tells the story of connection and interaction between cultures. The style of Portuguese azulejos were influenced from outside. The system of motives, its unique expression, on which Portugals are certainly proud of, was created through the integration of Spanish, Dutch, Arabic, Indian, Chinese, Brazilian and African motives into national art.

 

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