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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.

Themersons

Themersons
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The film is retracing the love story of an unusual and unique creative union. It is a well-hidden treasure in the culture and art of the 20th century. Franciszka and Stefan Themerson lived and worked together for almost sixty years, first in Poland, then in France and eventually they settled in England. The only time when they were separated was the outbreak of WW2 but even then they remained connected.

Three Women

Three Women
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Hajni: She fled from her partner to a home for battered women. He found her. Zita: The frying oil spilled when she was cooking, so her husband nearly beat her to death. Her young son stepped between them. Tamara: Despite her ex-husband's threats, she started a new life. She took her daughter to their former apartment for visitation. All three are mothers. All three are battered women. All three loved the men who beat them. They escaped several times, then returned. Two of them still have a chance to start over...

I Love Poland

I Love Poland
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They are young and ideological. The members of All Polish Youth (APY) - an organization that descries itself as the ideological legate of the pre-war National Movement. What do they believe in? How strong are those beliefs? In "I Love Poland", the organization's members, who are already known to the public through mass media, show us a new face. The authors talk with them and accompany them to their meetings and actions, among them those which are aimed against the homosexuals and pro-European movements. They film the rapid development of the political careers of the organization representatives, who will become members of the Parliament and government.

Usti Opre

Usti Opre
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With music and images, the film travels across the landscape of Central Europe and describes the inventiveness and stylistic range of Roma musical traditions. With shifting rhythms and changing textures from city to village, concert hall to café - Usti Opre challenges our ideas about gypsy culture and rewards us with a rich and engaging musical panorama. Through interaction during rehearsal, recording, and live performance, the film explores the unique boundaries of contemporary Roma music and describes the creative capacities of individual musicians who, despite prejudice and discrimination, continue to build upon traditions and shape new avenues of musical expression.

When I Cry, My Heart Beats

When I Cry, My Heart Beats
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Eleven-year-old Mustafa, a street-kid in Bucharest, leads a sad and dangerous life amid drugs, prostitution and violence. During the daytime, he trains in Parada Circus to be circus performer, where he gets a warm meal, a change of clothes and school lessons. Mustafa and five other street children used mini-DV cameras to capture their own very personal lives. With this remarkable material, together with her own observations, director Annett Schütze and her film-team created a poignant and moving portrait about forgotten children who refuse to give up.

Tomorrow You Will Leave

Tomorrow You Will Leave
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The story of my Vietnamese father who was able to build up a new life in a small Austrian village, but there is still an open chapter in the past: the search for the man who once helped him.

Gustáv Husák Centre Stage

Gustáv Husák Centre Stage
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Memories of eyewitnesses, a portrait of a left-wing intellectual viewed from different angles and illustrated with archive materials and a theatre mis-en-scene. A man who used power to promote the Communist Party policy in Slovakia only to become its victim when sentenced to life. A story of a career politic who became a representative of the Prague Spring when released, and then ended up being a president of oblivion, an icon of normalization and decay of the Czechoslovak state.

Who Will Teach Me Half a Character?

Who Will Teach Me Half a Character?
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The documentary is about good ideas of uncle Ho, respect for teachers and a return to one's homeland... Or travelling through Vietnam in the footsteps of Czechoslovak-Vietnamese friendship. Who Will Teach Me a Half of a Character follows in the footsteps of former Czechoslovak-Vietnamese cooperation and seeks to sum up its importance in the lives of several Vietnamese citizens. The film also reports on contemporary Vietnam through the experiences of local people who are not separated from Czechs by a language barrier.

Vixen Academy: How to be a Bitch

Vixen Academy: How to be a Bitch
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Young women in St. Petersburg go to school again. They want to learn how to seduce, marry and control men. They want to learn how to be a successful bitch. Vixen Academy is a tragicomic documentary about early Russian capitalism, which exists in the fears, hopes, dreams and intimacies of its young generation.

Beyond the Mountains

Beyond the Mountains
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A documentary film about the everyday life of refugees in Georgia, who escaped from the war in Grozny. The sphere of the story is Pankisi Gorge in Georgia, the neighbouring country of Chechnya, where hundreds of Chechen refugees run for shelter. There will be one main protagonist - Musa, a singer who tries to pass on the knowledge of the Chechen music; the everyday life of Musa’s family will be the central narration of the film. The central moment in the film is to describe the life of the children who live here, and the film narration will incorporate their monologues as they recall scenes from the past or speak about their future plans and dreams. The film’s structure will be small vignettes, small episodes of the children’s lives in Duisi primary school. At the beginning of each episode their name will be shown, which they will write with white chalk on a blackboard and introduce themselves. They tell us in their own way of their pain, joy and dreams...

 

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