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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.

Griot's Story

Griot's Story
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A personal film based on the narrative of Adama Drame, an African drummer descending from a family of Drame griots, a caste of old African tradition upholders. The main character narrates in Dioula, the artist's mother tongue. A Griot's Story is the tale of a mature musician. The focus of the film is on Adama Drame's music and his attitude toward life, which keeps him fully aware of his music making mission. Adama Drame is a contemporary griot, albeit orthodoxly traditional, he is a contemporary African who forcefully defends and defenselessly looses his identity. An African who is exposed to economic and cultural colonialism. An African who resists the lures of an artistic career in Western Europe, although he has often worked there for 25 years. A man who looks after his own tradition and culture. Above all, a proud African in both Paris and Burkina Faso.

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.

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.

 

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