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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.

Grossmann's Land of the Gods

Grossmann's Land of the Gods
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Galina Grossmann is a Doctor of Biological Sciences, a health advisor, composer, singer, dancer and painter. In the summer of 2008 her newest musical creation was premiered at the Munalaskme Nursing Home. It is the story of Jesus Christ, who did not die on the cross and was brought by spirits to the land of the Gods, drawn by fifteen horses. Those spirits were Estonian spirits. That land was Estonia. This film is about the land of the Gods and a person at play.

Portrait to USA

Portrait to USA
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He had made a great work, but he terminated on perifery of society. Today he try to do what he did not.

Bosnia Argentaria

Bosnia Argentaria
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With very great range of interviewed people this is a story about events from July of 1995 in Srebrenica, with a chronology of events of war in Bosnia and history of the town of Srebrenica. This documentary shows a picture of events in Srebrenica and Potocari, the "March of freedom and death" in July of 1995, political circumstances, attitude of international community, end of war, trials, surrenders, arrests, impact of life and politics of event in Serbia, Bosnia and rest of the world. We have a few topics as following: victims and executioners, leaders of Serbian and Bosnian side (Karadzic, Mladic, Oric), lies and urban myths, responsibility of International community,geopolitical momentum, faith of refugees, knowledge of young people from Bosnia, Serbia and Europe on matter, impact on life.

The Spy Inside

The Spy Inside
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His job was to protect NATO’s secrets but he ended up selling them to the Kremlin. This is the astonishing account of how Herman Simm, a former soviet militia officer, rose to become amongst the few safeguarding NATO’s military secrets. How, for over 13 years, he passed those confidential documents over to the Russians, jeopardising the West’s security and provoking the largest counter-intelligence operation in NATO’s history. The inside story of Russia’s highest ranking spy in NATO.

Beslan. Hope

Beslan. Hope
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Five years ago, 1 September 2004 terrorists seized the school No. 1 in Beslan. Nadezda Gurieva, a teacher of history, was among the hostages together with her three childern: Boris, Vera and Irina. Boris and Vera died during the assault...

Circus

Circus
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Circus is a place where lives intersect and dizzy stunts are performed, the main of which is called "destiny". In the lives of the children emerges Larisa, who is the stage director and the manager of a children's circus. Will the simple tricks and the juggling balls become the cause to address the main issues? Will the children be art and part in a dashing circus flight? Or will they disappear into thin air in the labyrinths of indifference and neglect? Can the rhythm of rehearsals become their pulse and their hope? Will they entre… the arena?

For Home Viewing

For Home Viewing
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Soviet school, Olympic Bear, death of Brejnev, Perestroika, the long awaited adult life. The trees under my window used to be so small, and now it's difficult to see anything behind them.

Factories of Imagination

Factories of Imagination
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"In the European urban landscape of the end of the 20th century, many sites symbolic of industrial merchant and military age lost their raison d’etre and felt into disuse, their memory set aside. 'Industrial wastelands, eyesores, silent spaces' are words of absence that designate the brutal passage from one epoch to another, leaving neighborhoods disfigured and people out of work…and yet they open unexpected perspectives for use.” From the book “Factories of the Imagination” published by Trans Europe Halles Network.

Family

Family
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“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” - wrote Russian writer Tolstoy. Is there a happiness beyond commonly accepted ways of living? When a father – a gay who has AIDS, and mother – a lesbian, are both “flower-children” of Hippy generation? Is it possible to love and to be loved not “like everybody else”? A long way of understanding for film characters, who live in Free town Christiania in Denmark.

Nomads

Nomads
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The film "Nomads" tells us about Azerbaijan herdsmen, who overtake a flock of sheep from one place to another, during six days. The road is wearisome and dangerous. The people and animals get very tired, and some of them can’t stand it and die.

 

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