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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.

Film About Anna Akhmatova

Film About Anna Akhmatova
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Fate granted Anna Akhmatova immense poetic talent, beauty, fame and a brilliant generation. Then came the executions of her loved ones, hunger, wars, revolutions, Soviet terror, isolation, betrayal. Yet Akhmatova emerges victorious, armed with mere words of poetry that-too dangerous to commit to paper-had to be memorized to be preserved. A Film follows this story reminiscent of an antique tragedy. Its participants, aside from the heroine, include Apollo and the muses, Dido and Aeneas from her beloved record of Purcell, Amedeo Modigliani, witches and visitors, statues and sovereigns, portraits and artists, armies and gardens, Paris and Leningrad, the storyteller and eternal chorus of milling crowds. The poet Anatoly Naiman, talks about Anna Akhmatova he knew and travels to the places she has left.

H.R. Giger Revealed

H.R. Giger Revealed
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Let bizarre landscapes take you to the world of biomechanoids and aliens, erotomechanical constructions and devilish monsters, where you lose your track of time and space. Unique private footage of swiss surrealist and the world he created, digitally remastered moving collages of pictures from all important periods of his work. This all is accompanied by psychedelic music...

Belgrade Phantom

Belgrade Phantom
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Belgrade, the capital of the Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia, August 1979. President Tito is on his last diplomatic journey, taking part in the world Summit of The Non-Aligned Movement in Havana, Cuba. Using a stolen Porsche, a mysterious man creates chaos by driving it around the central city square for ten nights. He even publicly challenges the police via popular radio station. The chase becomes more and more spectacular. But, Tito is coming back... The government is making great pressure on the police. The Phantom in the white Porsche has to be removed from the streets of Belgrade. "Fast and Furious" of the Socialist era at the end of the 70's and one of the most successful films of the Serbian cinema in the past 10 years.

Erotic Nation

Erotic Nation
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The main line of the movie is comprised by a story of the first ever Sex shop in Slovakia. Karol Raffay had started his own business after the November revolution in 1989. He and his family sex-business as well as democracy in Slovakia basically undergo the same process and the movie is finding the parallels between these two.It tells a story of the shop, its customers, sexual history of the country with big volition and small self-confidence. It shows sexual life of Slovaks against a background of social, political and other changes. Slovak citizens can vote in free democratic elections for the first time, they can walk into a legal Sex shop for the first time as well. The situation is the same as in the postcomunist countries in the Europe. Both freedoms cause them problems.

Diaries and Novels by Pavel Kohout

Diaries and Novels by Pavel Kohout
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Pavel Kohout precisely records anything that happens on any given day in his diaries; we can therefore recall the social and personal vicissitudes in the life of a Czech writer thanks to random readings from his diaries, against the background of preparations for the performance of selected parts of the novels under the leadership of J. A. Pitínský and the recordings of a public celebration of Kohout's 80th birthday, attended for representative reasons by Czech political and cultural elites.

Eisenwurzen - A Mountain Musical

Eisenwurzen - A Mountain Musical
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Eisenwurzen is located in a longtime steel-factory region between Lower Austria, Upper Austria and Styria. EISENWURZEN (The Musical) is a 52 minute glance at the myths and toils of this country-like industrial landscape, a sung landscape portrait, unplugged.The heroes and heroines - all musicians - are miners, charcoal burners, mountain farmers, hunters and factory workers. With the strange musicality of their voices they create, within a meteorological as well as social politically rough climate, a spare hymn on an already historical worker's society. One that has portrayed itself with mineral wealth, mountain top, stable work and work ethics. They sing with their songs the Eisenwurzen Blues and, at the same time, it's avantgardistic arrival in contemporary song-culture. A Docu-musical for friends or foes of folk music.

FILM IST. a girl & a gun

FILM IST. a girl & a gun
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Using images "from the first four and a half decades of cinematography," taken from 11 archives across the world, Gustav Deutsch has constructed a musical "film drama in five acts" (genesis, paradeisos, thanatos, imaginary, symposium). In detail, the editing of FILM IST. is again based on visual analogies, the external similarity of bodies, objects, movements and narratives. The film constructs its own amazing attractions from the juxtaposition of documentary, fictional, pornographic, and scientific and propaganda images that are literally alien to their original purpose. In other words, they are images that do not necessarily belong together, though they create visual contexts.

Gadjo

Gadjo
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Music becomes a reason for the meeting of Gypsy boy and old Silesian man. Rebellious hip hop texts contrast with idyllic songs played on the old man's guitar. The confrontation of those two distinct worlds leads to the surprising and close relation between them.

Generace 0

Generace 0
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Snezhana is 15 years old. She is pregnant. Her boyfriend Vova is 16 years old. What happens when children have children?

HEIM

HEIM
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An entire house open for viewing, from attic to cellar. The entire gamut of a parochial idyll in the provinces is laid bare in Claudia Larcher's video animation, in the form of photos and moving images assembled into a seemingly endless pan shot. The audio track drones in the background, awaking something uncomfortable and sinister.

 

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