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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.

When Did I Stop Telling You My Dreams?

When Did I Stop Telling You My Dreams?
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My good-bye letter to her is accompanied by black-and-white photographs to evoke memories from our past. She lives in an old people's home, I come to visit her.

In the Stasi Line of Fire: The Case W. Loetzsch

In the Stasi Line of Fire: The Case W. Loetzsch
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In the 70s Wolfgang Loetzsch was the most promising cycling talent in East Germany. An unwilling revolutionary, he refused to be an opportunist within the state sport apparatus. The secret service, the Stasi, arranged for an icy headwind to blow in the face of his career. 17 years long he won race after race in East Germany but was never allowed to participate in any important international race outside of the country. The documentary tells how an unpolitical man develops a personal resistance against opportunism, cowardice and betrayal and in doing so upsets the entire machinery of a repressive state..

Walk on the Edge of Democracy

Walk on the Edge of Democracy
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"Walk on the Edge of Democracy" shows a camera panning the security fence around the 2007 G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany. Jörg Hommer followed the 12.5 kilometer barricade with a camera. The Baltic Sea glistens in the morning sun. The waves break continuously on the shore. We start to walk.... Moving forward, steadily forward: Along different landscapes, blooming rapeseed, a main road - another checkpoint, police control. After an identity check we carry on. Even the Editing does not break the fence. Sporadically original sounds recorded at the G8 summit are audible. The constant interplay of the ongoing in front and behind the fence in combination with the narrative sound line let the fence become a projection screen of the individual utopia.

Welcome to North Korea!

Welcome to North Korea!
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In its catalogue, a Czech travel agency offers a "journey into the unknown", a tour of North Korea. This trip was the second time since 1990 that a group of Czech tourists set foot in North Korea. The film follows twenty-seven Czechs who have decided to spend approximately 2,600 Euros on a sightseeing tour of a country which cultivates a cult of personality, maintains concentration camps for its citizens and doesn't hide its development of nuclear weapons. Foreign visitors are only allowed a view of a carefully prepared illusion, thoroughly supervised by "guides". What is more, the North Korean system is starkly reminiscent of the Czechs' own past. Which emotions do our travellers experience: sympathy, nostalgia or, in contrast, happiness that "we already have this behind us"? How does someone, after being accustomed to freedom and democracy, come to terms with the directives and restrictions of a totalitarian system?

Left, Right, Forward

Left, Right, Forward
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In our documentary film, we follow members of two very different organizations: the young communists and the young conservatives. Through their lives and ideas, we will try to understand why these young people link themselves with politics and how that influences their lives. In the end we will probably find out that although the communists hate the conservatives and vice versa, both these organizations work on the same principles and the motivations for joining them are basically the same. Department of documentary film, FAMU - graduate film.

Ivetka and the Mountain

Ivetka and the Mountain
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One day in the summer of 1990, two ten-year-old girls were playing in a clearing on Mount Zvir near the East Slovak village of Litmanová. Suddenly they heard strange and frightening noises. Overcome by fear and anxiety, the children started praying. The noise stopped and the girls saw the Virgin Mary who then guided them back to the village. Since then, pilgrims have been visiting the place where the girls repeatedly saw the apparition. This documentary film follows the story of one of the girls and explores both the positive and negative issues related to her experience. It deals with humility, faith in the power and mercy of God, and the earthly life of those who believe in His glory. http://www.ivetka.net

Interrogation

Interrogation
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How well do we remember the war? Is it hard for us talk about it? Do we start remembering suddenly when talking about it? "Interrogation" investigate the trauma, but not aiming at human pain. On the contrary, this film attempts to open the abysses of the war denial, which have become a dominant, but silent dimension of everyday life in the post-war Bosnia And Herzegovina.

Jonathan From Australia

Jonathan From Australia
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A harbour is being built in Saaremaa. Fireworks and salutes announce the arrival of the cruise ship Lili Marleen. Wedding rituals are performed for the sake of tourists in Mustjala, the nearest settlement to the sea terminal. Jüri, Eti, Leo, Feliks and Toomas have become Europeans. Does the legend of a White Ship taking everybody to a Dreamland become a reality?

Time

Time
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Merry Christmas, Bosnia!

Merry Christmas, Bosnia!
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The war report on a Christmas concert of local pop stars for Bosnian soldiers begins with a press conference, where the celebrities talk about landmines. The report was shot in 2001 by the directors Klusak and Remunda, who later dusted it off to remember the bizarre tour of singers (one airplane) and journalists (two other airplanes) to the Czech army unit, during which they were, thanks to the kindness of the military headquarters, shown the arms and the fighting strategies and given information about the sponsors.

 

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