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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.

3 Weddings: Elena & Leo

3 Weddings: Elena & Leo
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In 1956, Elena was only four when her parents left Hungary to build a new life in Argentina. She became an immigrant for the second time when she returned to Hungary in 1975. She was scrutinized by the communist authorities as a potential spy and had to fight prejudice to be accepted and feel like a Hungarian again. In 2008 she fell in love with Leo, a 35-year-old guy from Cuba. They got married in Budapest, but bureaucracy and prejudice threaten their relationship and may turn them both into migrants … again. Through the love story of Elena and Leo we learn more about migrant illusions, nostalgia and homesickness.This short documentary is part of the "3 Weddings" series (3 esküvő, 3 x 26 min).

3 Weddings: Zsuzsa & Mubarak

3 Weddings: Zsuzsa & Mubarak
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Mubarak is a 2m tall, 30- year- old Muslim from Africa. Zsuzsa is a young lady with gentle curves from Budapest.They are in love.The pitfalls of acceptance, adjustment and communication challenge their relationship. Mubarak is deeply religious, Zsuzsa is a modern woman with a uniquely strong personality. The snapshots of their marriage show how Islam and Eastern European culture and two diametrically opposite personalities search for harmony. This short documentary is part of the "3 Weddings" series (3 esküvő, 3 x 26 min).

9 Lives

9 Lives
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At least 9000 young people in Germany live on the streets. Nearly 2000 of so called "street kids" live in Berlin. They come from different parts of Germany but also from Kazakhstan and Kosovo and other countries. The film portrays the destinies of Sunny, Toni, Krümel ("Crumb"), JJ, Stöpsel ("Plug"), Soja and Za – who have all, perhaps, already lived nine lives. The film shows the emotional and physical beatings these people have suffered. But despite all this destruction, they are endowed with remarkable strength and talent. The film concentrates on how their personalities materialize as they discuss their lives in front of a neutral backdrop in a studio.

Alda

Alda
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The screenplay for this film is based on the writings of a person suffering from the Alzheimer's disease. The story of Mrs. O. is told through a combination of documentary film footage and her own videos from a hand-held digital camera since she records mini instructions for various daily activities, memories, thoughts and commentaries on various events, trying to prevent forgetting them later in the future. Through the individual story of a gradual memory loss, the film represents a metaphor of the memory loss of the whole society which is trying to forget the past events that determined its current status quo // All rights are with the producer FAMU - Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.

American in Poland

American in Poland
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A few months ago, working on another project, we found in the archives of the Polish secret police the file concerning the now completely forgotten visit of Robert Kennedy in Poland in the remote sixties. Robert Kennedy, Attorney General in the US Government, went on a private visit to Warsaw in the end of June and the beginning of July, 1964...

Anton in the Shadows

Anton in the Shadows
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Anton, a polish worker with wide-ranging, but unspecialized skills, works for Erwin Wurm, a contemporary Austrian artist of international renown. Erwin imagines his artworks, while Anton assures their physical and technical construction. Anton’s life is divided between his work in the world of contemporary Viennese art and his modest cottage in the south of Poland. His life tells an unusual story of exile.Anton, a polish worker with wide-ranging, but unspecialized skills, works for Erwin Wurm, a contemporary Austrian artist of international renown. Erwin imagines his artworks, while Anton assures their physical and technical construction. Anton’s life is divided between his work in the world of contemporary Viennese art and his modest cottage in the south of Poland. His life tells an unusual story of exile.

An Application for Asylum in the Czech Republic on Ecological Grounds

An Application for Asylum in the Czech Republic on Ecological Grounds
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“My name is Brian Kulkaer Larsen, I am forty three years old, I come from Copenhagen and I am applying for asylum in the Czech Republic for ecological reasons." Filmed in Denmark, this film demonstrates two of the country's cutting-edge ecological projects while poking gentle fun at the “dinosaur” mentality of high carbon emission and energy generation. Kulkaer Larsen is a figure, that is shunned by Danish society. He has a dream of freedom to rival the first pilgrim fathers, however, until he visits the Czech Republic he has nowhere to realise it. This "real-life" investigation explores the environmental technology and Kulkaer and his shovel's struggle for dirty justice in a spotless world.

Arena

Arena
  • Director
    Gunter Schwaiger
  • Country
    Austria, Spain
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    Arena
  • Category
    Adventure and Sports, Arts and Culture
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Following the difficult struggle of some young apprentices brings the spectator into contact with all the facets of the bullfighting world. Travelling with them through Spain, France, Portugal and Colombia, we meet pupils and maestros from the bullfighting schools, banderilleros , bullfighting manager, impresarios and indeed the great figures like Luis Bolívar, Uceda Leal, Sebastién Castella, Morante de la Puebla or José Tomás. Thus "Arena" enables us to discover in depth the complexity of this singular Western cultural phenomenon.

Autumn Gold

Autumn Gold
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Life is short. Run faster. Autumn Gold tells the life-affirming story of five athletes in their preparation for the Track and Field World Championships. Their toughest challenge is their age: these potential world champions are between 80 and 100. With ambition and a good portion of humour, they accept the task. On the finishing line of their lifes, they seek their ultimate challenge for yet another time and give their best on the way to a gold medal in Finland. True to the motto: "We can still rest after death."

Bad Girls. Cell 77

Bad Girls. Cell 77
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Women locked up in 15m2 speak of men and of freedom. The intimacy between seven Polish inmates under Janusz Mrozowski's camera's discreet gaze. Seven women, seven inmates who, behind the smoke from their cigarettes and next to teddy bears hanging from their beds' bars, deliver an exceptional account, true and modest, of their daily lives, their regrets, their anxieties, their hopes, and remember through words, in the space of a moment, the path for freedom.

 

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