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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.

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).

Czech Phenomenon: Dance Lessons

Czech Phenomenon: Dance Lessons
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With a humourous distance, Dancing Lessons examines a phenomenon unique to Czech national culture - dance courses. The director followed a Prague dance class for more than a year - from the signing up, the balls, through to the last class, capturing the transformation of insecure, self-conscious youth into self-confident young ladies and gentlemen.

Black Hearts (…the Earth isn’t Round)

Black Hearts (…the Earth isn’t Round)
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Four Roma families, four lives in four countries during four seasons through the eyes of four people. This is the third of a series of year-long observational documentary films by Břetislav Rychlík that explores human communities. After his internationally recognized films One Year (about the lives of seven elderly people from the highland villages and secluded dwellings of the Horňácko Region who were born in the time of the Austro-Hungarian Empire) and God's Quarry (one year in North Bohemia), the two directors, Monika Rychlíková and Břetislav Rychlík, and two photographers, Jindřich Štreit and Marie Zachovalová, present their joint view of four Roma families. The film was made from December 2006 to December 2007 in the following locations: a Roma settlement in Slovakia; a traditional Roma village community in Hungary; an industrial area in Poland, and a suburban Roma community in the Czech Republic. Roma museums and organizations from all Visegrad countries cooperated during the development of this film and during the selection of the protagonists.

 

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