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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.

Lifetime Is Not Enough

Lifetime Is Not Enough
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Andriej Kudinienko, Ivan Vyrypayev, Xawery Żuławski. A triple portrait following the process of filmmaking in Belarus, Poland and Russia. In the background - the legendary studios: Belarusfilm, Lodz, Mosfilm. A new generation of filmmakers enter old ateliers. The characters are the most promising film directors of their countries, artists with successful first features, trying to make their next movies. They share the same passion, but they face very different realities. All of them work in the legendary studios: Belarusfilm, Lodz, Mosfilm. The biggest film factories in Slavic lands had their time of glory in Communism era. Now they belong to three different worlds. The Belarussian director was duly warned not to raise any political issues. The Russian filmaker speaks about spirituality but the money for the movie comes from a private vodka producer. The director from Poland is delaying his next movie because of a loan, to be paid off by hard work on a TV series. The plot is based on observations by a friend-documentalist.

Little Alien

Little Alien
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They’re teenagers who fled crisis regions and undertook an extremely dangerous journey to Europe, all alone, hoping for one thing: to live. After arriving here, they fight to live normal lives, struggling against a system that demands they sacrifice their youth to an uncertain future. They spend their youths living life to the fullest.

Totó

Totó
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When he was a young rebel, Toto turned his back on his native town and has been living between worlds ever since, with his language, his feelings and his dreams. Born in Tropea, in Calabria, and married to a Viennese for thirty years, the man is an immigrant in Vienna. Once he turns fifty he becomes nostalgic for his native town and the feeling he has lost something becomes so intense that Toto’s thoughts keep turning to his childhood and youth when he was in southern Italy. Toying with the idea of going home, Toto sets out in search of himself…

Mother

Mother
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Short documentary about mother, who reflects on her son's life and death. Inspired by a personal diary from drug addiction treatment, which had been issued after he passed away in the year 1995.

Paradise Hotel

Paradise Hotel
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The young Demir dreams of a wedding. But his Roma tower block at the outskirts of a provincial town in Bulgaria is no place for romance. 25 years ago it had all it takes for panel socialist heaven: from parquet floors to intercom, the coveted hot water central, street lamps, benches under murmuring apple trees. Someone called the place Paradise Hotel – and the name stuck. But now? The parquet disappeared. The water stopped. The lights went off. And if you cross the field behind Paradise Hotel, you will see Bozhidar “The God Given” who protects everyone from evil and excessive happiness in a documentary about panel integration, love, misery, a lot of dreams, a little lyrics and one Gypsy wedding.

The Desert of Forbidden Art

The Desert of Forbidden Art
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How does art survive in a time of oppression? During the Soviet rule artists, who stay true to their vision, are executed, sent to mental hospitals or Gulags. Their plight inspires young Igor Savitsky. He pretends to buy state-approved art but instead daringly rescues 40,000 forbidden fellow artist’s works and creates a museum in the desert of Uzbekistan, far from the watchful eyes of the KGB. The film takes us on a dramatic journey of sacrifice for the sake of creative freedom. Today these paintings are worth millions - a lucrative target for Islamic fundamentalists, corrupt bureaucrats and art profiteers. The collection remains as endangered as when Savitsky first created it, posing the question whose responsibility is it to preserve this cultural treasure.

Scientists Under Attack

Scientists Under Attack
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In the early 90s the genetically modified plants were introduced to the market, which for some is the equivalent of an agricultural revolution that will solve all the world’s food problems. Others see these plants as an irrevocable destruction of bio-diversity on this planet that needs to be fiercely combated. Árpád Pusztai and Ignacio Chapela are distinguished scientists and their careers are in ruins. They choose to look at the phenomenon of genetic engineering, but now they are suffering the fate of those who criticise the powerful vested interests that now dominate big business and scientific research. Statements made by scientists themselves prove that 95% of the research in the area of genetic engineering is paid by the industry.

Diversions

Diversions
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The 20th century begins. Carefree people roam from one attraction to another, laughing, renting boats and carriages, betting, smoking, playing with sand, changing clothes, flirting. As they circle around seashore parks and streets, they look for more diversions. They are seeking for ways to distract themselves from the fact that the war is about to start, that the summer is coming to an end...

Don Juans: Excuse Me Miss

Don Juans: Excuse Me Miss
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The basic narrative line of this documentary follows a rather peculiar workshop held in Zagreb. The aim of the workshop was to teach the participants one very basic skill – how to seduce a woman in order to get her to bed. Our documentary is following changes, fears, small successes and big misunderstandings of the twelve workshop participants. The participants were heterogeneous, coming from different countries (Austria, Germany, and USA) and were of different skin color. This interesting group of people had two things in common: they found themselves in the school benches in Sheraton hotel in Zagreb and they all have one goal - to seduce a Balkan girl.

My Perestroika

My Perestroika
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"My Perestroika" follows five ordinary Russians living in extraordinary times — from their sheltered Soviet childhood, to the collapse of the Soviet Union during their teenage years, to the constantly shifting political landscape of post-Soviet Russia. Together, these childhood classmates paint a complex picture of the dreams and disillusionments of those raised behind the Iron Curtain.

 

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