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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.

Stalin Thought of You

Stalin Thought of You
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Boris Efimov’s pen had churned out political cartoons for the Soviet press on just about every world event in the past hundred years. But behind his titanic career, his charm and his wit, is what Efimov calls “a wound that does not heal”: the execution of his older brother Mikhail Koltsov. Koltsov was a famous journalist, pal of Earnest Hemingway and Soviet spy; but he always looked out for his younger brother Boris, who to his dying day worked and slept under his older brother’s portrait. The keys to Koltsov‘s fate and Efimov’s contradictory attitude toward it are bound up in their complex relationship with Stalin. Efimov’s words, drawings and animated films are interwoven with rarely seen footage from the Russian State Film Archives...

Flood

Flood
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Fragile

Fragile
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"Fragile" is a film about photography in the Post Soviet Era in St. Petersburg. It looks at the bitter elegancy of this town, it’s citizens and the tender and graceful models of Evgeny Mokhorev. The film accompanies Evgeny Mokhorev as he photographs people on the street in St. Petersburg in the tradition of Brassaï. In the next part he shares a deep insight in his way of working with nude models. In between the movie shows further interviews with honoured Art Collector Joseph Baio, Nailya Alexander, Ekaterina Kondranina and Dr. Irina Tchmyreva.

Mum Died on Saturday in the Kitchen...

Mum Died on Saturday in the Kitchen...
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This film is about my Father, a musician in a province Ukrainian philharmonic, who abandoned his life-dream of becoming a symphonic director for my childhood's sake...

Should I Really Do It?

Should I Really Do It?
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This real-life feature follows the extraordinary life of Petra, a German woman living in Istanbul, in an ironic inversion of the familiar story of Turkish migrants to Germany. Her life will take such strange turns you’ll think she’s following a script. But really, we’re watching a real life protagonist evolve in the face of life. For, ultimately, nothing is ever as surprising as life. Except, perhaps, fiction! During 'sessions' with the mysterious, masked Herold, her life unfolds before our eyes and we will learn about everything: Istanbul, Germany, family, friends, drugs and death. “Should I Really Do It?” plays with these concepts of real life and fiction, documentary and drama... Could life ever be more interesting than fiction?

My Beautiful Dacia

My Beautiful Dacia
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My Beautiful Dacia is a humorous essay on the Romanian odyssey from communism to capitalism as seen from the perspective of one of Romania's most charismatic symbols: Dacia, a simple and discreet automobile, but also a mirror of Romanian society. The film follows several Romanians whose lives are interconnected by this humble car, thus showing the present transformation of Romanian society from past to present.

Alma M. Karlin - The Odyssey of a Lonely Woman

Alma M. Karlin - The Odyssey of a Lonely Woman
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Alma M. Karlin is a Slovenian phenomenon, a daring and brave woman who, between 1919 and 1927, set out on a perilous and risky eight-year journey around the world equipped with a typewriter, the famed “Erika”. Writing about her experience, which marked her for life (both physically and spiritually), becomes her way of achieving inner catharsis. It is this journey in the quest for “knowledge of herself” (as Alma calls it), a search for eternal truths about existence and life, religion and cultures, which lead her to a higher level of spirituality and philosophical awareness which finds an increasingly strong expression in her later writing.

Šentilj-Spelfeld a Border Crossing that Once Was

Šentilj-Spelfeld a Border Crossing that Once Was
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“Šentilj / Spielfeld” was once a gate that stopped thousands of cars and millions of people on their way to enjoy shopping in Austrian supermarkets or to enjoy holidays on the outstanding coast of Yugoslav republics. The queues of cars and people fed the local population and brought prosperity to the region. A small Austrian grocery store that happened to be put on the right spot had revenues of a supermarket chain and Slovene parking spots gave job to more food sellers that the neighbouring city did. But all of this changed.

Erkki-Sven Tüür: 7 Etudes in Pictures

Erkki-Sven Tüür: 7 Etudes in Pictures
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Besides Arvo Pärt, Erkki-Sven Tüür is the most known Estonian composer, whose work is loved and honoured by the general music public all over the world. The film consists of 7 parts, each of them tells a different story and has a special visual solution to open an important theme in composer´s life. The chapters resound the musical history, worldviews and existential questions which are important to the composer. Questions are being answered by Tüür and the people, who understand and appreciate his creative life and his colorific personality. His work is being ordered by the best interprets and orchestras, his pieces are performed in the most respectable music halls. BBC Music Magazine released an overview of 250 interprets, composers and conductors, who have made an impact to the music of the world. People who make difference, said the cover of the magazine. Next to John Adams, John Tavener and Gavin Bryarsiga, Erkki-Sven Tüür was one of the 70 composers included there. How does the process of music writing go, how does the initial music piece get into the music hall, which are his sources for inspiration? Which is his position in the context of the world music? These and lots of other

Ilja

Ilja
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A film manual on how not to get pulled down by communism or by ones own death or The last days of Ilja Zeljenka, the most famous music composer of the second half of the 20th Century, known for auditioning his forbbiden cantata for two reciters "Auswitch".

 

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