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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.

1968: Betrayal

1968: Betrayal
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Betrayal - the second part of the series devoted to the Prague Spring - charts the fundamental events which took place from 1968 to 1969. After the leaders of the Czechoslovak Communist Party returned from Moscow, the future of the country was said to depend on its ties with the Soviet Union. After hope was steamrolled by the Soviet tanks, the betrayed country once again began living in an atmosphere of fear, lies and hypocrisy. The nation was roused from its profound lethargy only by the death of Jan Palach who protested the occupation by self-immolation. After his burial and after the bloody suppression of the demonstrations on the first anniversary of the occupation, the daunting era of normalization began.

1968: Hope

1968: Hope
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The first part of a documentary series returns to the Prague Spring of 1968 - to the period of so-called socialism with a human face in which there was a glimmer of hope that society as a whole would fully recover. The film, pieced together solely from period footage without commentary, chronologically recalls the key moments of an era when the process of democratization and revival was also accompanied by an extraordinary cultural boom. After only a few months, however, the post-January policies and planned economic reforms were stifled by the August invasion by the Warsaw Pact armies, which arrived to "rescue freedom from the planned counter-revolution".

At First Sight

At First Sight
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It's not about new or interesting films, but about the constant awareness of seeing and hearing. About the constant opening of the heart." The foundations of A Prima Vista are based upon the unreleased film works from the personal archive of Michael Pilz. The available material was barely altered and highlighted with quotes, sound, noise and music collages. "It is a film for meditation. Moreover, it is a meditation." (Quotes by Michael Pilz).

Alone

Alone
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A country landscape in the winter. An empty road covered in snow. A lonely female figure, walking from one village house to another. Svetlana is a doctor who has been living in this village and treating its people for 20 years - not only in this village, but also in four neighboring villages. Svetlana is the only doctor for the entire district, and for her, this is a normal life that she would exchange for no other.

Ace Slash

Ace Slash
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Failed Balkan rock and heavy metal singer and Guns'n'Roses fan, Ace Slash (based on his resemblance to Guns'n'Roses guitarist), paints his own psychological profile. Unemployed, drinking heavily and refusing to face his failures due to a lack of opportunity for his kind of talent in his Balkan country, Ace confronts his mother, father, girlfriend, friends and his grandmother, who takes care of him.

Alyosha

Alyosha
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Monuments serve the purpose to establish memory and create identity. Most monuments erected during the Soviet regime were taken away after Estonia regained its independence in 1991. The Bronze Soldier Alyosha, located in the center of Tallinn, remained in its place. For Estonian nationalists this monument was the symbol for Soviet occupation and marked the beginning of Stalinist repressions. However, for many Russians the monument was one of the few remaning symbols that connected them to Russia and Russian identity. Alyosha brings us the people who gathered to the Bronze Soldier in 2005-2007 and whose behaviour created a new line in our cultural memory. What mattered were the rituals around the monument, not the monument itself.

7915 km

7915 km
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A motor-sports spectacle that kicks up plenty of dust. On the trail of the 2007 Dakar Rallye 7915 KM undertakes a search, along the way encountering the variety to be found in Africa's present in Morocco, Sahrawi Republic, Mauritania, Mali and Senegal. 7915 KM demonstrates the extent of this distance, which is the result of political and economic conditions, and also the ideas and prejudices to be found in both Europe and Africa. It also makes the closeness tangible, which becomes clear in the stories of everyday life, work, hopes and worries. Keeping the sobering reality in mind, it creates an homage to humanity and slowness which questions deep-seated perceptions and the role of Europeans in numerous, presumably African, problems.

Apocalypse on Wheels

Apocalypse on Wheels
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This is a film about what the car traffic turns us into. For 5 months the director in the passenger seat accompanies five ordinary people (A half paralyzed man who not only drives a car, but he also helps other people to avail themselves of cars; Peruvian woman, who was been raised in a city with an equally crazed traffic; a father who has recently lost his daughter in a traffic accident; a policeman who was beaten up by the militia before December 1989) on their every day journeys around the capital.

Adrenaline and Turbulence

Adrenaline and Turbulence
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"Aerobatic paragliding is kind of a dance for me in the third dimension" - states Gábor Kézi in the new feature fifty-minute documentary, Adrenaline and Turbulence. Through a blend of aerial dynamics and multidimensional interaction, Adrenaline and Turbulence explores the subculture subtleties of the evolving extreme sport of paragliding aerobatics (commonly known as acro) by following the development of two of world's best acro pilots, Pál Takáts and Gábor Kézi. The two protagonists fell in love with the sport of paragliding in 2002 in their homeland of Hungary, and with a passion for adrenaline, began to delve into the world of acro paragliding. It was not too long before they outgrew their 50-60m homeland hills and left on a journey around the world in search of a bigger opportunities until they premier appearance on the professional scene in 2005.

800 Violet Horses

800 Violet Horses
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At the beginning it was 192 horses...then it was 400...now they are 800. And when I did what I wanted, I understood I had to learn. It is, you know, like a woman. One day, there are no problems at all; everything goes smoothly, but some other time the glitches happen - this or that problem arises, but that's why we are the sportsmen - to fight against all this.

 

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