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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.

Defamation

Defamation
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What is anti-semitism two generations after the Holocaust? In his exploration of modern Israeli life, director Yoav Shamir travels the world in search of the most modern manifestations of the "oldest hatred", and comes up with some startling answers. He follows American Jewish leaders to the capitals of Europe, as they warn government officials of the growing threat of anti-semitism and he tacks on to a class of Israeli high school students on a pilgrimage to Auschwitz. Opinions differ and tempers sometimes flare but the film shows, one thing is certain: only by understanding their response to anti-semitism can we really appreciate how Jews today, and especially modern Israelis, respond to the world around them.

Heart of Jenin

Heart of Jenin
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Jenin refugee camp. On November 5th, 2005, 12-year-old Ahmed Khatib was shot by an Israeli soldier whilst playing with a plastic gun. Despite his grief the father, Ismael, decides to donate his son's organs to Israeli children. Four of those, each from a different part of Israel's diverse society, are alive today thanks to Ismael Khatib's courageous act. The film reconstructs the tragic events around the shooting, and accompanies Ismael on a journey to visit the organ recipients: Mohammad, a Bedouin boy in the Negev Desert; Samah, a Druse teenager in the North of Israel; and Menuha, daughter of an Orthodox family in Jerusalem.

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?

Goleshovo

Goleshovo
  • Director
    Ilian Metev
  • Producer
    Metodi Metev
  • Country
    Bulgaria, United Kingdom
  • Related to film
    Goleshovo
  • Language
    Bulgarian
  • Category
    Longitudinal, Society, Youth Documentary
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The countryside of Bulgaria rejects one of the most severe cases of depopulation in the world. This is a tale about the death of Goleshovo, a forgotten town in the mountains. Here, a handful of old people struggle for survival: A couple fights with their donkey. A forgetful priest leads his congregation into confusion. A woman cheers up her friends with songs. Will their children ever return? Composed with rigorous attention to form, this observational documentary is an austere yet ultimately rewarding portrait of hope.

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.

House with the Green Roof

House with the Green Roof
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The film tells a life story of two women from the borderland of Czech Republic who were affected by Nazism. First woman comes from a mixed Czech-German Jewish family. Her family was forced by the German occupation into exile in Great Britain. After the war she returned to Czechoslovakia. The second protagonist comes from a German Catholic family in region of Liberec. She and her family were forced to leave home due to their German nationality after the end of the war. After sixty years, she returned to Liberec and started to do a research into the history of Jewish citizens of Liberec. Both women met. Their friendship helped us to reconstruct the pre-war diversity of the city where people of different nationalities and faiths had lived together. http://www.dumsezelenoustrechou.cz/

 

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