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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.

What Is to Be Done? (A Journey from Prague to Cesky Krumlov or How I Formed a New Government)

What Is to Be Done? (A Journey from Prague to Cesky Krumlov or How I Formed a New Government)
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In this monumental social-philosophic essay, director Karel Vachek follows up on his previous work. This time Vachek enters the film and, along with his assistant Luboš, becomes an active organizer and author of the action on the screen. In this way he reaches the boundaries of a genre in which a documentary film is not a real reflection of reality, but the result of a specific artistic creation. The work originates by an interaction between the film team and the film reality as well as by the reorganization of the footage new units. The second line of the film consists of conversations among several Czech scholars who are on a bus to Český Krumlov.

Cinema Komunisto

Cinema Komunisto
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When reality has a different script from the one in your films, who wouldn't invent a country to fool themselves? Using rare footage from dozens of forgotten Yugoslav films, as well as never-seen-before archive from film sets and Tito’s private screenings, the documentary recreates the narrative of a country, the stories told on screen and the ones hidden behind it. Stars such as Richard Burton, Sofia Loren and Orson Welles add a touch of glamour to the national effort, appearing in super-productions financed by the state. Tito’s favorite film director, his projectionist who showed him films every night for 30 years, the most famous actor of partisan films, and the director of the film studios who was a secret policeman - all tell how the history of Yugoslavia was constructed on the screen.

Br(e)aking Point

Br(e)aking Point
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A documentary film about real-life heroes whose everyday job has the possibility to take away someone else's life, without a chance to react. This film presents the deep trauma and bitter sense of guilt that Serbian train-engine drivers face after accidental deaths and suicide jumpers.

Children of the Great Lake

Children of the Great Lake
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Northern Baikal. A place of the former construction of BAM. Here, behind the destiny of the lost generations, is hidden the beauty and greatness of Lake Baikal. Only the warning sound of the Shaman's drum can be heard from mountains. But it does not speak about the well-being of the future…

Czeslaw Niemen

Czeslaw Niemen
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"Czeslaw Niemen" is a film about a man who was a symbol and an indispensable part of the new era of music in Poland - the era of big beat. However, as much as he was a legendary figure he was also a controversial one. Hated by the contemporary government and worshipped by the crowds, he is one of the most multi-faceted personalities of the time. "Czeslaw Niemen' is also a film of numerous questions about this complex character and his intentions. Looking for the answers and posing further questions, we will try to tell the story of a man whose life is described by his fans and friends as both accomplished and tragic.

Breastplate

Breastplate
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It's much more difficult for the healthy to solve problems than for cancer patients to live a normal life. Here are some tips and tricks for looking special rather than sick. This 31-year-old woman with breast cancer could be everybody. Even the film director herself…

Children in Exile

Children in Exile
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In "Children in Exile" survivors of Soviet deportation to Siberia describe their experiences as the youngest victims of the Soviet system. These crimes against humanity have never been legally confronted, and as one of the interviewed victims states, "a crime should be called a crime."

Journey of Magdalena Robinson

Journey of Magdalena Robinson
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Slovak photographer Magdalena Robinson is on a journey. A journey to school, a journey to the mountains and to Gestapo. Her journey to the concentration camps and her journey back home. Her journey in time and a journey of faith. Her journey to eternity. She shares her poignant testimony with us, even though she herself doubts the meaning of such action. The film is a response to the tendency to relativize the fascist crimes and war criminals in Slovak society.

Bucharest, Memory Lost

Bucharest, Memory Lost
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Documentary about memory. It follows the personal pursuit of Albert to recuperate his own roots. His father, the Spanish politician Jordi Solé Tura, who became a key figure during the Spanish Transition, was obliged to go into exile toward the end of the 1950s for his militant anti-Franco beliefs. Now, after living a life replete with passionate personal and political experiences, Jordi has begun to enter a new, internal exile, this time with no possibility of returning: a fight against Alzheimer's Disease. Every day, his memory slips further away. With this film, Albert will resurrect the memory not only of his father's atypical life, but also that of other historical Spanish figures such as Santiago Carrillo, Jorge Semprún and the ex-president of Catalonia Jordi Pujol, and little known episodes in the fight against Franco's dictatorship and the Cold War. For Albert, many of these experiences are the diffuse recollections of a child. He will travel from one exile to another, trying to recompose the memory of his family, his own memory.

Loves Time

Loves Time
  • Director
    Jan V. Sacher
  • Country
    Czech Republic
  • Related to film
    Love's Time
  • Language
    Czech
  • Category
    Youth Documentary
  • Length
    1' 00''
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A film on time´s relativity, on love and on the eternal longing of youth. - Department of documentary film, FAMU - 3rd year (bachelor degree film).

 

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