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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.

The Man with 150. 000 USD Prize on his Head

The Man with 150. 000 USD Prize on his Head
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A portrait of Lars Vilks, a Swedish artist of Latvian ancestry, a university professor, a sculptor, provocateur, scandal-maker and State Secretary of his own micro-nation of LADONIA and lecturer on art theory in Sweden. He is the only Swede and the only Latvian to have a price of $ 100 000 put on his head. But perhaps his creative and intellectual powers are worth much more?

Lithuanian Gene

Lithuanian Gene
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Recent geological and archeological surveys of our territory and genetic studies of the population facilitate a deeper understanding of the Lithuanian nation formation. The interface of sciences gives rise to a new hypothesis of the Lithuanians' origin, temper, and genetic characteristics, which predetermine the traits of character and hereditary diseases. Based on such genetic information, scientists can be more specific in establishing how nations used to migrate around the world, while health professionals can diagnose hereditary diseases and disease risks more efficiently.

Natasha

Natasha
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Natascha lives in Uniza, she is 8 years old. Most of the windows of the house, where she lives, are nailed shut, except for one room with four iron beds, a chest of drawers and many cardboard boxes. One of these boxes keeps Natasha's clothes. Just now she put on her prettiest dress. She is open minded, chats away frankly and unintentionally. But what she says affects you in an unexpected way. Natascha is an experimental documentary, slowly evolving the portrait of a girl, who lives in one of the most desolate parts of Russia.

You Are Not Alone...

You Are Not Alone...
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May 2008, Hargita In Székely County the election campaign is in full swing. Politicians come and go. The people stay.

Nora Is Still Alive

Nora Is Still Alive
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Nora loves wasps and hates piano music. And Nora is going to die soon. This is what the doctors say, but Nora just seems to stay alive – despite her physical and mental disabilities, she now became 30, outliving her loving mother and grandmother. She has never realized their death – her brother, however, makes a film about the loss and turns out to be closer to his sister than he realizes himself. Spanning a time of five years, this 70 minute portrait traces the dramatic changes in this once lively family as Nora’s cheerful character remains unaware of all and ever the same happy.

All Boys

All Boys
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"All Boys" tells the story of the rise and demise of the gay porn brand in the Czech Republic of the mid-1990s. The film focuses on the lives of producer Dan Komar and his young models, expecially a young homeless boy Ruda. The film is about human relationships in the gay porn business and about the production and consumption of porn. "All Boys" shows ambivalent, weird, great and complex moments of human life. The young men’s illusions about future meet the fantasies of their seniors. We are all human. We are all exploiting others and being exploited in the money-driven market economy. Even consumers are voluntary or involuntary members in the club of exploitation.

Controversial History

Controversial History
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In commemorating WWII events in Latvia each year, several „controversial dates” arise. These are remembrance dates that are viewed differently by Latvians, Russians and Jews. The film searches for answers through three main characters, each a representative of their nationality, and categorical in their opposing way of thinking. Why is a date that is celebrated and honoured by one side, also a symbol of deep pain and injustice for another? Why are there, to this day, in a country as small as Latvia three or more completely differing historical interpretations...

The Prose of Time

The Prose of Time
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The film touches on the problem of the children abandoned or assailed by their own parents. A young girl sings for herself children songs, a boy tells how he was bound with a chain about the neck and beaten by dad, a grandmother raises grandchildren, who call her “mom”. The makers of the documentary recall values once held sacred and respected by the people, but nowadays ignored: to raise a child, to dig a well, to build a house. Children are abandoned, once beautiful houses are left to their fates, and the well, a symbol of the maelstrom of life, is also left on its own, drying up. A world scarred by the past and seemingly cursed by the present. Raising a child, digging a well and building a house seem to have lost their meaning nowadays.

psst pp Piano – Hommage to Mary Bauermeister

psst pp Piano – Hommage to Mary Bauermeister
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An art historical journey through the early avant-garde. Taking in the Dadaists in Zurich, the Surrealists, Sigmund Freud, WWII and the New Realism of Yves Klein in Paris, the focus comes to rest on the studio Mary Bauermeister (1960-1962) in Cologne, where Nam June Paik performed his legendary composition "Hommage à John Cage".

Version Vera

Version Vera
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A film about Vera Mukhina (1889 – 1953) based on the diaries of the outstanding Riga-born sculptress who studied in Paris with Rodin´s pupil Bourdelle, the master of European sculpture. At the 1937 Paris World Exposition, Mukhina presented her monumental sculptural ensemble „Worker and Peasant Woman“. Weighing 75 tons and 53 metres high, it becomes a sensation. Mukhina truly believes in human ideas, and this is successfully used by the USSR propaganda machine.

 

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