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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.

Headwind Hall

Headwind Hall
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The world renowned Estonian conductor Tonu Kaljuste, the favourite of composer Arvo Pärt, wants to build an opera house called Nargen Opera on Naissaar, an island, which not long ago was a closed Soviet military base, does not have a regular ferry line, no electricity and has only one permanent resident. Against the odds and the opposition of the financial world, he wants to establish a unique cultural centre, where traditions and modern times meet. To put his idea into practice, he brings operas on stage on the mainland to raise money from the ticket sales, and carries construction materials and other necessities to the island in his own small boat. Along the way, he faces unexpected difficulties and finds himself in almost absurd situations.

Happy Nastunya

Happy Nastunya
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Our hero, as they say, is an ordinary country girl who was brought up in traditions of love for God, love for people, love for Ukraine. Nastunya's parents died when she was a little girl. When she was 16 she entered URA (Ukrainian Rebel Army) and witnessed the murder of her husband. In 1945 - her was arrested and delivered a child on the concrete floor in prison. In Siberia in 1953 she faced uprisings, tortures, the electric chair, paralysis… What helped her to survive in such a terrible Gulag world? Maybe it is the art of giving warmth and kindness to other people…

Dumili

Dumili
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A little fragment of our reality in Georgia. Dumili is a film about unemployed people and their hopes and disappointments.

Genius Children

Genius Children
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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.

Graduates and Dancers

Graduates and Dancers
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About 30 boys and girls gather in the dacing hall belonging to the local fire department. Together with their friends and parents they're celebrating their highschool prom, following all the usual rituals. Into the night, the party is getting more and more relaxed. The morning is far away.

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".

 

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