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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.

Town of Badante Women

Town of Badante Women
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A town without women. The men look after the children, cook, do the washing and… wait for money from their wives who work abroad. The Bulgarian town of Varshets is the site of a staggering social experiment. Many of its women work as “badante” in Italy, taking care of the old and the sick. The social structure of Varshets is changing and the transformations – some dramatic, others humorous– are everywhere: in the pubs, in the families, in the local brass band… And at the bus station, where once a year the women arrive for holidays.

Rabbit a la Berlin

Rabbit a la Berlin
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The untold story about wild rabbits which lived between the Berlin Walls. For 28 years Death Zone was their safe home. Full of grass, no predators, guards protecting them from human disturbance. They were closed but safe and happy. Their population quickly grew up to thousands. Guards started to remove them. But rabbits survived and stayed there. Unfortunately, for them, one day the wall fell down. Rabbits had to abandon comfortable system. They moved to West Berlin and have been living there in a few colonies since then - deprived of food, run over by cars, not knowing how to get around the new world. And they are still learning how to live in the free world, same as we – the citizens of Eastern Europe. This film takes you from rabbits to humans, from laughter to the real world.

Überzwerg/Superdwarf

Überzwerg/Superdwarf
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A film essay of Czechs, Germans and dwarfs. Hundreds of German tourists-retirees, who lived there before the Second World War visit a small Czech village near the Polish border (former Sudetenland). How can old tragedies, fairy tales and mythology of the Czech and German nations be connected?

Klucis. The Deconstruction of an Artist

Klucis. The Deconstruction of an Artist
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This film is a deeply personal view on the life of artist Gustav Klucis, one of the foremost representatives of early 20th century Russian avant-garde art, whose life drama reflects the tragedy of a whole nation during the years of Stalin’s repressions. It is a story about boundless ambitions, hope, love and artist’s responsibility that continues haunting him after his death. Gustav Klucis (1895–1938), one of the pioneers and major exponents of constructivism and photo collage, is also one of the most controversial figures in Latvian art. Born in a peasants’ family, he is perhaps the best known Latvian artist in the world. Ironically, the art catalogues and textbooks call him a Russian artist, and in Latvia he is still largely regarded as some sort of a "lost son". Gustav Klucis’s life and artistic career pose many questions still unanswered today. Who was he? A hero or a victim of his own political naivety? An idealist or a conformist? A patriot or a traitor of his homeland? Killed during the Stalin’s purges at the end of the 1930s, his name lives on in art history as one of the classics of Russia’s avant-garde art. This film will endeavour to "decipher" Klucis by using the means of his own artistic thinking.

In India, Between The Light And The Dark

In India, Between The Light And The Dark
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Over two months a group of Slovak documentary film students pass through thousands of kilometers in the strange land of India to shoot a film about this specific country. But it couldn't be without their personal experiences...

Hero of Red China

Hero of Red China
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A story of an ordinary peasant Fu Xiancai living in a communist regime who is brave enough to talk freely. But now he suffers. Three Gorges - the biggest hydroelectric power plant in the world was the reason why Fu lost his house and his field. He has been protesting against it. Now he lies in a Beijing's hospital after his vertebrae was crushed in an assault. A story of peasant Fu Xiancai living in a communist regime who is brave enough to talk freely. But now he suffers. Three Gorges - the biggest hydroelectric power plant in the world was the reason why Fu lost his house. He has been protesting against it. Now he lies in a Beijing's hospital after his vertebrae was crushed in an assault. Fu symbolically represents almost two million of peasants, who were moved due to the construction of the water plant. Their land was flooded and their houses were pulled down. The government promised compensation for flooded land and houses, but villagers finally got not even tenth of the original sum. The money was mostly stolen away by local officials. Fu started to organise protests of affected villagers. Despite of threats from police and anonymous phone calls he gave an interview to the German TV channel Das Erste. Later on he was threatened, that if he talks to western journalists, something inconvenient will happen to him. On his way home unknown offenders ambushed him and he was terribly beaten. His spine was broken, but the hospital refused to perform a surgery. When few days later western media published his photo, still it wasn’t clear, if he will survive the attack. Mr. Fu was saved by the wave of solidarity, which raised in Germany. Human Rights Watch in Berlin organised a collection and the German embassy in Beijing sent a doctor to perform a surgery of the injured activist. Local police force put this case away with a conclusion, that Fu simply fell from a slope to a concrete and so that's why he himself is responsible for the injury. But the fight of the peasant Fu hasn't finish yet. He found a lawyer and he wants to continue warning of corruption and injustice, which bind to the whole project of the water plant.

Governing, Don't Disturb!

Governing, Don't Disturb!
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The world of politics has a number of typical features: expansiveness, an effort to dictate the rules of the political game, to increase the powers of all players, to politicize significant social issues, to fill all important posts according to party affiliation, and to maintain power without any glitches, ensuring one's own political influence also for the future. These became most evident during the period of so-called "opposition contract", i.e., between the years 1998 - 2002. The film explores the negative attributes through a number of basic issues: How can power be usurped in a democracy? At the end of the 1990s, the two largest parties and their leaders came to understand that they could join forces and gradually simplify the political system to suit their needs. What steps did they take?

In Search of a Legend

In Search of a Legend
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Six people on-board a small yacht sailing across the Artic. Three months in the wilderness, away from the cares of daily life. Encounters with people and ruthless nature. The feeling of a great surprise at what they find in the kingdom of ice... This film is about an outstanding challenge and making a huge turn in the history of sailing by the youngest crew in the World. This film is also about the meeting of unique people who fight for survival by their own rules and about the Innuits, whose children hunt seals and prepare the meat in the morning and play video games and send text messages to their friends in the evening.

Kings of Their Time

Kings of Their Time
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Documentary with animated sequences about 85-year-old Elbert Tuganov and 80-year-old Heino Pars - two animators and artists who, despite the changing times, became masters of their specialty. Both are the creators of the world's first and only 3-D puppet films, along with many international award-winning animated films. They laid the foundation for the so-called Estonian school of animation back in 1957.

Wedding for Dummies

Wedding for Dummies
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When the world is facing major problems, everyday joys and troubles seem to be irrelevant. We just stop taking notice of them, or admiring them. This film is a humble attempt to turn our backs on the global problems and simply have a look in the mirror.

 

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