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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.

Direction: Iceland

Direction: Iceland
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Three women - grandmother, mother and daughter - go to Iceland to find the grave of the Grandmother's father who died during the 2nd World War. Discovering Iceland makes them learn more about themselves and changes their relationship.

Granny Teri

Granny Teri
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Granny Teri is about to go. She's in the state between life and death where she floats between dreams and reality. Her daughter, Paula, is in her sixties and has been taking care of her mother - serving, washing and changing her diapers for two years. Although Granny is not well in her mind, she expresses her very wise and heartbreaking thoughts. Are these coded messages newly founded, or have they been hiding deep inside her from the past? It is like a philosopher's dream, then silence comes again and with it, hallucination. Untill, at last, comes death.

A Handful of Sadness - Afghanistan 2007

A Handful of Sadness - Afghanistan 2007
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A legend claims that after Allah had finished creating the Earth, he was left with a handful of leftovers and debris. He pauses, slowly opens his hand and throws them to the ground. Steep mountain ranges, plunging gorges and vast deserts came into existence. And so Afghanistan was created. A Handful of Afghanistan is a documentary about a country where war and peace are melted into one. For thousands of pilgrims the trip to a New Year celebration in the city of Mazar-I Sharif, at the high mountain passes of Hindokush, becomes an epic battle with Nature. But in Afghanistan that is just the beginning… A magic circle of war is turning and turning…

Four Feet on the Ground

Four Feet on the Ground
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Our story is set in the only Hungarian city with statue dedicated to a dog, one "who" saved more than 200 human lives. The main characters are three incredible women with completely different backgrounds: one of them is an advertisement manager, another one is a veterinary, and the youngest is a sportswoman. They all have families, jobs, different personal dramas acted out right in front of the camera. However, they have on thing in common: their passion is providing home for stray dogs. A few years ago everything seemed to work out fine; they put up a shelter and helped two thousand dogs to find new owners. But a landslide ruined everything and they had to start all over again. Since 2005 we’ve followed their struggle against bureaucracy and social apathy. 5 years passed by and now it’s over. The new shelter meeting the European standards is ready.

For the Love of Prague

For the Love of Prague
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For his new love Zdenka left the American cartoon director Gene Deitch in 1958 his family in New York and relocated to Prague. What followed surpasses the most fantastic imagination of Hollywood filmmakers. Besides films as Tom and Jerry or Popeye, he made dozens of short cartoons with Czech animators. (Munro won the Oscar in 1961). As a jazz enthusiast, he has recorded the home blues session of John Lee Hooker a time before the first official recording. His life-love story is an intelligent and chilling account of 40 years under communism, lived by an American "guest".

Personal Delivery

Personal Delivery
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Three stories from Bolivia, yet they are still concerning us. About the power in unity, about the fact that when there is no unity, something is wrong and about what it really means to be fair.

Don't Get Me Wrong

Don't Get Me Wrong
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Somewhere, sometime... a world in which time runs the same as stones falling implacably on stones. A self-sufficient universe, with rules that escape the common logic but are perfectly valid. Days go by, between daily routine and endless conversations about life, death, God, and weather forecasts. What is divine and what is not? Who brings and who stops the rain? After all, what is normal and what is not? On the fragile and impossible to distinguish border between fiction and documentary, in a contemplative and visually refined way, the film follows the existence of a marginal community that has a profound and unaltered human value, though it's considered "null" from a social utilitarian point of view. Blatantly absurd actions get a second meaning which is deeply emotional. The only way to escape the essential absurdity of this existence is through love.

Divorce Albanian Style

Divorce Albanian Style
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This is a story about love and separation, about families forcibly separated by the totalitarian regime of Enver Hodja - the longest-serving European dictator of the 20th century. Only because their wives were foreigners …

Figuring Out Father

Figuring Out Father
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The documentary film shows Sophie Templer-Kuh, a Jewish woman born 1916, on a search for her Austrian father, anarchist and psycho-analyst Otto Gross. This takes her to the early years of the modern age, to Vienna of the 1910s and 20s. Her search for her lost story, and that of her family, is an emigrant's look at Europe, the look of a woman who gradually realizes how much her father influenced the contemporary values of a liberal, self-determined and individualistic society.

Ghosts of Zagreb

Ghosts of Zagreb
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Documentary follows five ninety-something former members of the Zagreb antifascist illegal movement, as they walk through the streets of their home town. They are remembering forgotten Zagreb's history - being one of the centers of urban anti-fascistic resistance in occupied Europe in Second World War.Walking their way throughout the city, they tell us their stories of horror on one hand, but the most idealistic period in their life on the other.Film about times that have been purposely concealed in recent Croatian history.

 

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