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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.

L.A. Unfinished

L.A. Unfinished
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L.A. has dedicated himself to creating the biggest painting for his retrospective exhibition: huge oil on canvas, 5.0x3.0 m, a parody of old historic paintings on which kings and courtiers were painted throughout previous centuries. The inspiration for his historic painting Lovro Artukovic took from the signing of the Dayton agreement and for models who will participate on his painting he chose his friends, Berlin emigrants.After weeks and weeks of exhausting work L.A. will finish his painting. His models will follow till the last moment - till the opening of the big exhibition at which they will be main "stars" of the program.

Northern Spring

Northern Spring
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Ten years ago Gintaras worked as a piano teacher. Today he is a lorry driver who plies a route between Lithuania and the far north of Norway. He accepts the spartan conditions with equanimity, without experiencing any sense of deprivation. He has traded life on the road for a warm bed; the din of the motorway is for him a different type of music.

Donation Addiction

Donation Addiction
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A film about people who are so uncompromisingly driven in their quest to do good, that they become a burden to society.

Another Planet

Another Planet
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Creative Documentary-Feature, shot on four continents, presents the hidden face of our planet and the general and moral crisis of our world. We can follow the various, irrational stages of defencelessness as the characters in all seven stories, all minors, accept their fate with quasi humility. The appalling everyday life of child labourers, child prostitutes and child soldiers is revealed to us in Congo, Cambodia and Ecuador. Tibor Máthé's powerful imagery and Tibor Szemző's magical music, create a dramatic juxtaposition.

Valkyrie Limited

Valkyrie Limited
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Love, hate, power and greed are just a small spectrum of human characteristics encoded in Richard Wagner's The Valkyrie. It is universal opera and therefore creates a massive challenge to an artist's imagination. Valkyrie Limited is an investigation of the director's mentality into and beyond the reality of staging the Valkyrie at the Latvian National Opera. Taking the Valkyrie phenomenon to an abstract level, the film seeks the fragile link between a pragmatically constructed performance and the world of the unconscious that lies within the music and the narrative.

I Choose the Life

I Choose the Life
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For women from the penitentiary in Lubliniec detention is not the greatest problem. Many of them escaped domestic hell by committing a murder. Now, through theatre therapy they shake themselves free from their tragic past, overcome fears and regain human dignity. They learn to live a normal life. They share their stories with the world and experience a sort of katharsis.

Three Bibles, Two Destinies, One Love

Three Bibles, Two Destinies, One Love
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Three stories about three Bibles (Codex Gigas, Velislav`s Bible, Luther`s Bible) interwoven with the fate of two people.

Vide_O_Drom

Vide_O_Drom
  • Producer
    Karin Helml
  • Country
    Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania
  • Related to film
    Vide_o_drom
  • Language
    German
  • Category
    Social Issues, Society
  • Length
    8' 16
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4 short documentaries directed by young Roma and Sinti: AUSTRIA „Sinti, Roma. Han lauter gai? Seid ihr alle da?" (Everybody here?) Verein Ketani Linz, Gitta Martl/Nicole Sevik u.v.a., AT 2009, 20 min. Technical Support: Hermann Peseckas, Andreas Baumgartner/STUDIO WEST Alongside personal talks the short film gives an insight into culture and social structure of Sinti in Austria. „The past is not forgotten. Future has not started yet. We need supernatural strength to overcome prejudices and to survive." (Gitta Martl) HUNGARY "Kum noj vidém/Ahogy mi látjuk" (As we see it) Videant Ltd., Young Roma from Alsószentmárton, HU 2009, 15 min. Technical Support: Somogyvári Rudolf, Gajdos Milán, Zajti Balázs/VIDEANT LTD. The film shows the village Alsószentmárton from the perspective of young Roma living there. Many of them are in a difficult situation looking for jobs, others want to go to University. The film also gives an insight into the educational work at the „Kistigris" (Little Tiger) High School and the local day-care centre. ROMANIA "Amen sam Roma" (We are people) Association Thumende, Young Roma from Petrosani, RO 2009, 20 min. Technical Support: Cristinela Ionescu, Alin Nebeleag Ciprian, Adi Jineriu/THUMENDE TV The film deals with Petrosani, a miners´ town in the Jiu Valley in Romania. Many families, Roma as well as Non-Roma were searching for happiness in the mining industry. There is a miners´ saying: "Going into the dark we all are black." It is a multicultural society where identity, tradition and progress are constantly on trial. BULGARIA „Musika ot Stolipinovo" (Music & Daily Life in Stolipinovo) Foundation ROMA, Asen Karagyosov/Angel Mihaylov u.v.a., BG 2009, 18 min. Technical Support: Andreas Kraus, Hermann Peseckas/STUDIO WEST A traditional Roma musician and a group of young break dancers use different methods to fight the Ghetto problems. Maksim gets people into daydreaming for some hours and thus forget about their proble More about the project at www.romavideodrom.net / contact@romavideodrom.net

Hero of Our Times

Hero of Our Times
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Hero of our Times, a film composed of three novels introduces an old intellectual and his disappearing world. The main character meets thee different women. The director has intended to show the inner world of famous Slovak film critic, his attitude and thoughts. Story about man, who feels lost in today's society as he watches how the thing he believed in are slipping away.

End of poetry

End of poetry
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The End of Poetry conjures up a picture of bygone times and men. It's a glance from the future into the past, depicting the flag-flying days in Estonia. There is a contemporary Painter, a Writer, a Historian, a Soldier, a Teacher, a Scientist and a Composer. It might well happen that these characters open up to reveal their beliefs. But it might equally be the case that these conundrums are left for the viewer to decipher on their own. Where poetry ends, history begins.

 

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