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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.

Home

Home
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This is a personal exploration of the physical and mental repercussions of emigration. In 1969 a pregnant 18-year old girl flees her country with her married lover as the Russian tanks roll into the streets of Prague. They end up in Norway. They have a daughter. They become successful in the world of theater. At the height of fortune the beautiful mother decides to send her 15-year-old daughter away. They are never to live together after that. Now the mother lives in Los Angeles and the father has moved back to Prague. Contact between the family today is primarily through sporadic phone calls for the mother. The movie is an emotional journey of the daughter trying to map the disintegration of the family. It is an intimate story of her own family, with gleams of her childhood in Norway, her exile in the USA, and her "return" to the Czech Republic. Scenes of lonely characters set in different landscapes intercut with tragicomic meetings of family members who live their separate lives in various countries. The author is searching for answers to find out where her true home really is, searching in Prague, Oslo and Los Angeles.

History of Jaroslav Šabata

History of Jaroslav Šabata
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The film features the psychologist, politician and journalist Jaroslav Šabata (*1927) who symbolizes half a century of Czech history. The film explains the traces left by left-wing intelligentsia who first served the communist regime (Mr Šabata started giving lectures at the Department of Marxism-Leninism in 1953), then tried to reform it (as an active politician during the Prague Spring of the late 1960s), and later still opposed it (as early as 1971 he was sentenced to six and a half years in prison), eventually to see it collapse and help build a new democratic country.

Adventure of Anna Barbora - an Interplay

Adventure of Anna Barbora - an Interplay
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In a single scene, film director Vít Janeček records a discussion between journalist, ecologist and sociologist Jakub Patočka and his girlfriend Kateřina Havránková about a sudden turnaround in the case of 13-year-old Anna in which all three of them, including the cameraman-director, get personally involved. They were trying to assist the adoption of the supposedly 13 year-old girl by Patočka's acquaintance Klára Mauerová, who was accused of abusing her own sons. Patočka admits to his girlfriend that he has found out some new, important information - that the 13 year-old Anna is actually 34-year-old Barbora. The film captures the reactions of people involved in efforts that suddenly turned out completely differently. The three protagonists experience a complete loss of trust, disappointment and social ridicule.

Fabulous Faires

Fabulous Faires
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In the "Belgrade home for retired persons", Meri Galevska, along with her husband, composer Nikola Galevski, formed a sextet. When Meri became widow, the original sextet dissolved. Firmly determined to fulfill her and her husband's dream, Meri formed a new sextet made solely of women. They embark on a music tour where they face many challenges and discover the steel will of Meri's personality.

Great Love of the French Terrorist Abel Rambert

Great Love of the French Terrorist Abel Rambert
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A Frenchman Abel Rambert saw a drawing of Pascin for the first time in 1948 and he had fallen in love with his art. This drawing predestined his future. Not only he became a collector and art gallery owner, but he also became the best expert on Pascin's art in the world.

Flow

Flow
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I am here because I can no longer run away from myself - this is what young participants of the canoeing camp for drug addicts say about themselves. The camp is organized by the Łódź branch of Monar. Participation in the canoeing rally through the Rospuda valley is an element of the group therapy which teaches the addicts how to be responsible and well organized, and how to live in a community. Unfortunately, only a few will manage to permanently overcome the addiction and return to a normal life.

German blood

German blood
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Lyubov Kostina was born in the concentration camp of Schweinemünde city. There is German blood in her veins. Her mother felt bitterness towards fascism and Stalin's concentration camps. Her grandma reared little Lyuba. And nobody in school or at home loved the girl because it was known that there is a German blood in her veins, and she is fascist's daughter, therefore she is a fascist. This is devoted to children who are victims of war.

Focal Distance

Focal Distance
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A lonely, aging photographer lives in a little town where the traces of the communist era are well-preserved. Love, loneliness, senility, sadness, tiredness, memory, reminiscences, offence… Life becomes black and white when the end is closer, when colors bleach; paper turns yellow and only in the memory faces and smiles are still bright and varied in colors.

Faceless

Faceless
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Images of Fear, against Fear. Fear blots out the present. It feeds on a past that spills uncontrollably into the present and takes possession of the future. Vanquishing this fear by eliminating past and future is the promise of the Big Brother state. This promise is contrived to legitimise the constant observation of public space, which turns the dream of a carefree existence and an isolated present into a nightmare reality.Manu Luksch employs the vocabulary of science-fiction film to draw us into this nightmare. Crucially, she uses only images obtained from the operators of CCTV video-surveillance systems in London, under the terms of a British law governing access to data. In a mirror image of the failed act of liberation that the trauma of this realization incites, Faceless succeeds in traumatizing its viewers by means of an equally atmospheric and weirdly illuminated metanarrative - that of a society whose self-understanding is occluded by its dazzling media hyperpresence.

Goldfish

Goldfish
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"Goldfish" is a film about the colourful everyday lives of a group of mentally handicapped people. The film follows the group as they prepare to put on a production of "The Tale of the Goldfish", an adaptation of a work by Alexander Pushkin. They take part in the rehearsals for the play, which will be performed in the theatre in Krakow, Poland. This is a story about simple dreams that may come true. Kamil wants to have lift licence and learns to operate lift by himself. Michal tries to make his dream come true every day by trying to create as much cleaning work as possible, but the truth is that his passion are horses. He dreams to go to them. Marek's television has bad reception so he wants a new antenna. Witek - lazy boy, after trying out different jobs, becomes a porter because it doesn't demand much.

 

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