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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.

For Freedom

For Freedom
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Documentary about the unsuccesful revolution in Belarus during the presidential election in 2006.

Extraordinary Adventures of Diego Diegovich in the Land of the Bolsheviks

Extraordinary Adventures of Diego Diegovich in the Land of the Bolsheviks
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The fate of Mexican painter and muralist Diego Rivera is connected to Russia in a number of ways: Russian painters Angelina Belova and Maria Vorobyova-Stebelskaya gave birth to his children; he was Trotsky's long-time friend; he joined the Communist Party for several years; and he was in friendly relations with major figures of the young Soviet art movement, such as Eisenstein, Mayakovsky, Erenburg. Finally, Soviet Russia is where Diego Rivera came during the last years of his life with the hope of healing his cancer. This film explores the connection between the painter born in the faraway Mexican village of Guanjuato and the young Soviet state.

Womenfolk

Womenfolk
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Even nowadays in the traditionally very family-structured and male dominated agricultural business, it is not always easy to lead a farm as a woman living without a life partner. Be it the acceptance in society or the question, how to manage all the challenging physical work, which on other farms is done by two or more people. Driving around with their tractors, handling the cattle and doing a lot of manual work, the six portrayed Austrian women farmers manage the obstacles in their lives with quite different styles.

Lost Holiday

Lost Holiday
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A documentary detective story. Lada, a Czech traveller, finds by chance a dirty suitcase in a Swedish waste bin. It contains only a very carefully packed plastic bag full of film rolls. Lada takes all of the 22 film rolls home to Prague and has them developed. There are 756 fascinating photos from a trip of seven Asian men, probably from China. Lost Holiday tells the story of the search for these unknown tourists, based only on the lost photographs. We would like to give the photos back to them. And so the unknown men from Asia become guides on our exciting journey as we search through the lost photos and also for the nature of contemporary man.

Enemy of the Destiny

Enemy of the Destiny
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After more than 60 years has arisen the first movie about one of the bravest warrior of our country ever, who will be forever an example for muse and representative of exceptionality in volume of self-sacrifice. This documentary film was based on book called "Three of many …" by Vítek Formánek. The incredible life story of heroic war pilot František Truhlár, who has decided to leave the country of birth voluntarily in 1939 and fight for our freedom, is narrated by Zdenek Sverák. František Truhlár couldn't know that the biggest enemy for him will become his own destiny. This destiny was written by flames.

Eye above Prague

Eye above Prague
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An extraordinary tale of Jan Kaplicky, one of the most consummate visionaries of modern architecture. Shot over 3 years in the UK, Czech Republic and Italy, the film portrays Kaplicky at the height of his profession and the petty political gamesmanship that denied him his crowning achievement. His most audacious building would have been the Czech National Library, a triumphant return to his home country and vindication of his uncompromising philosophy. The organic design was too forward-looking for the political powers in Prague, however, and the architect tragically died uncertain whether his achievement would ever be realized.

The Lucky Ones

The Lucky Ones
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The field of observation is limited to the seat of the Registry Office within its opening hours, or more specifically to its three rooms. One of them is used to register births, the second one - deaths and the third one - weddings. The observation of the clients' and clerks' behavior in each room unveils a picture of our everyday life as well as fate.

Little Bride (Przyrzeczona, Leslaw Dobrucki, 2010)

Little Bride (Przyrzeczona, Leslaw Dobrucki, 2010)
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There is about 2.5 million Turkish minority members in Germany. Every year there is at least a dozen of Turkish women beaten to death by their husbands or other family members. The actual scale of those crimes in Germany, where law and order are so highly valued, is unknown — according to the official data, in Turkey there are committed more than 300 so-called honor killings annually and 40% of wives are violence victims. A Turkish girl was sent to Germany and forced to marry when she was 13 years old. Soon after that, her hell has begun; she was beaten and abused in different ways. After several years she managed to run away; she has been hiding until now – only because of that she is able to tell us her life story.

K 11 - Confessions of a Sex Tourist

K 11 - Confessions of a Sex Tourist
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K11 - synonym for a known mecca of prostitution in Cambodia, shows the perpetrator’s side of sex tourism. Unaware of the hidden camera an 44-year old businessman openly talks about his tricks to lure young girls into his hotel, while he ridicules new international laws that protect young sex workers. The director Puja Khoschsorur lived in Cambodia working with a local NGO to monitor, investigate and report on all forms of violence against women. A rare insight into a hidden mass of western men, realizing their perverted dreams, without any fear of prosecution.

Out of round: What is behind?

Out of round: What is behind?
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After the festival success of his films "Here We Are" and "The Border", documentary filmmaker Jaro Vojtek returns with the short social documentary "Out of Round". The main protagonist is a Roma man called Jožo/Fero whose addiction has taken everything from him and pushed him and his family onto the edge of society. Marked by difficult fate, he is still an eternal child whose best friend is Nemo the dog. Despite his primary backwardness he feels mentally superior to other members of his family and is the only one who makes an effort to return to normal life.

 

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