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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.

Between Heaven and Earth

Between Heaven and Earth
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Salina and Albert are fairly normal teenagers living in Berlin. But what makes them different is their dreams. How can you dream of the future if you don´t even know what tomorrow will bring? Seven years ago the family S. escaped from the war in their country of Chechnia to come to Germany. Seven years of uncertainty, seven years hoping to be accepted as political refugees and receive permission to stay. Over two years, this film follows the life of the family and shows what it means to fill your days with nothing but waiting, as they struggle to not loose hope between metropolitain life and muslim religion, between great dreams and tough reality.

(Half) the Time of My Life

(Half) the Time of My Life
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What else is there in life before it's all over? An ironic self-portrait of a whole generation - the happily depressed; a real life version of a coming-of-age novel of our present, and Marko's future. Marko has decided to go on a very personal mission. He will visit old friends, his parents, and their friends to find out whether they are better off than him. Why does being 30 have to be this hard?

14 Days. The Bydgoszcz Provocation

14 Days. The Bydgoszcz Provocation
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A compelling and accurate depiction of one of the most important events in Poland's contemporary history.

Autumn of the Magician

Autumn of the Magician
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Documentary portrait about director of photography Tonino Guerra, a man with an extraordinarily rich inner world that does not resemble our usual reality at all His whose literary works are included in school programs and at the university level, whose movies, shot with Antonioni and Fellini, received the most prestigious international awards and became the classic of the genre. „ Once upon a time there was an angel with a mustache, who couldn't do anything either on Earth or in the sky. One day he entered the cabin of a hunter and started to feed stuffed birds with grain. Everybody was laughing at him. But one day the stuffed birds came back to life. They flapped their wings and flied to the sky. Everybody was laughing, but this time it was with joy. The angel with a mustache was laughing too. If we had enough imagination, these birds would come back to life too. And they would fly to the sky. Because magic exists!" Tonino Guerra

7 Wonders of Bratislava

7 Wonders of Bratislava
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In this film subtitled Alternative Soundtrack, which emerged as a student exercise in the Editing Department at FAMU in Prague, the capital city of Slovakia becomes a sign, a symbol, unleashing a game of multiple associations. This is the basis of a fragmented portrait of reality, where the fluid manner in which an occurrence, an atmosphere, or an environment is expressed is heightened by artistic and musical sensitivity, which helps to create an authentic representation of an inner world, replete with poetic dreaming.

BAM

BAM
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BAM, or Baikal-Amur Magistral, was Leonid Brezhnev's plan to build more than 3500 km of railroad, along with 200 stations and communities in five years in Southern Siberia. The work was to be done mainly by Komsomol elite youth. "BAM - Railroad to Nowhere" is a documentary about the pioneering spirit, about people who built the future with their own hands and how today they are trying to hold on to it, even if the rest of the world would like to forget them.

Attwenger Adventure

Attwenger Adventure
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This infectious and often hilarious documentary follows the unlikely career of Attwenger, the world's only Alpine folk-punk band. For 17 years the band have been on the road, combining accordion, mantra vocals and local dialect with thrash drums and extreme energy. The first Austrian band to combine traditional music with contempoary elements, they have had an enormous influence on local punk, independent rock and hip-hop cultures. Emerging as leaders in the world music scene as well due to a series of high-profile collaborations, this defiantly provincial band has managed to affirm the validity of local music and set an inspiring example of how to avoid the conventional channels of the music business.

Because of Her

Because of Her
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This is a film about love. 27 young people who grew up during late communist era in Bulgaria, had turned up at a place in very intriguing, strange or conspiratorial manner and it had changed their lives. All has started on a stage in 1982 and it still goes on. They gather again to say things they have never said. And all because of Her.

Adina galerie

Adina galerie
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Ada Raichonak and her husband Aleh are an aged couple of farmers. Most of their neighbors are still forced to work in kolkhoz. But the life of farmers in Belarus is not much easier. Working hard at the farm, Ada founded an art gallery in her village and organizes summer art workshops for painters who come from all over the country. The film will tell about collisions between the artists who hate authoritarian regime which makes Belarus the "last dictatorship in Europe", the peasants who are influenced by populist propaganda of the authorities and Ada who tries to reconcile all of them with the help of the 'magic power of art…' The village of Germanovichy is situated in a very beautiful place, but it seems that the atmosphere there is saturated with spite, aggression and despair. Like in 19 th century the people live mostly in old wooden houses without running water. They use horses for transportation and for cultivation their small pieces of land. There is no private property for land and people are forced to work in kolkhozes. Those who are trying to organize the farmer business are treated badly by the authorities. The life of both farmers and kolkhoz workers is very hard. More and more people die of alcoholism. But there are people who don’t give up. Our film will tell about Ada Rajchonak, the wife of farmer Aleg, who is trying, in defiance of the authorities, to show the beauty of Art to her neighbors, to tell them about the history of their land, to organize them to vote for democratic changes during the elections.

Bahrtalo! Good Luck!

Bahrtalo! Good Luck!
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How to hit the Jackpot? This question is not a simple one to answer for anybody. But it's even harder to solve for the two friends in this neo-realistic comedy: the "big hat" Gypsy and his Hungarian buddy - both of them Transylvanians. Many times they don't succeed, but when they do, their success doesn't last long. Yet they know something not a lot of us know: how to enjoy life. A road movie about two Transylvanian friends, Lali and Lori, who will stop at nothing to make it big. Director Róbert Lakatos follows the two men on a hilarious and pointless trip to Austria, and later when they end up in Egypt to sell a German Shepherd. The charismatic Lali negotiates on everything, even stuff that's nailed down, revealing his Eastern European bravura but also his flair. No setback will deter him, no matter how big. When the men finally have their finances in order, they quickly lose all their money on senseless knickknacks. Lakatos sets up the situations, but the men play themselves. Clad in an enormous moustache and hat, Lali doesn't take the slightest notice of the ways of the world and always manages to talk his way in. From a Viennese flea market to the foot of the pyramids, Lali might drive Lori crazy, but the friendship between the two men remains intact. Lakatos illustrates the differences between East and West in a relaxed and playful manner. His camera documents the events without interruptions, as if they were scenes from a feature film.

 

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