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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 Colour of Your Socks - A Year with Pipilotti Rist

The Colour of Your Socks - A Year with Pipilotti Rist
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The film accompanies the Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist around the world, shows her at work in her studio in Zurich as well as at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Since she won the Duemila Prize at the Biennale di Venezia in 1997, Pipilotti Rist is an internationally recognized and renowned artist. For the first time, she lets a documentary filmmaker into her world, providing insight into her creative process, the development of projects and the collaboration with her team.

Concrete Pharaohs

Concrete Pharaohs
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Welcome to the picturesque world of the Kalderash Roma – a closed community of no more than 1 million people all over the world. "Concrete Pharaohs" take us on a journey into the lifestyle and traditions of the most hidden and intriguing Roma communities. A charismatic Gypsy baron will walk us through his stories and his new house. We will learn the hot trends in Roma tombstone design. We will go down into the underground homes of African granite, furnished with beds, wardrobes, stereos and a charged cell phone – a direct line to the other world. A celebration of life and afterlife in all of their manifestations.

Cranberry Island

Cranberry Island
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This is a story about a Russian Munchausen who builds a wind turbine in his yard and puts his beehives on the roof because wild bees live in tree hollows. His wife sometimes argues, sometimes agrees with him, takes care of the children and the household, and claims that she lives in paradise. Sometimes she plays the piano with her eyes closed. The village around them is empty - almost every resident left for the city or died - so our characters live as if on an island. Their children clean the sewer system, learn English and German, and grow older before our very eyes.

Demon Hands

Demon Hands
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The film is about focal dystonia - a disease that primarily strikes professional musicians. This disease ruins the lives of tens of thousands of musicians, in part because the patients are afraid to talk about it, and because doctors often misdiagnose it. The film originated in a screenplay by classical guitarist Sándor Mester (known as MS3), who suffered from this disease for more than a decade. Depression, alcoholism, suicide - this is the path often followed by musicians with focal dystonia... The film interviews musicians from eight different countries who either suffer from dystonia or have recovered.

Dialogues

Dialogues
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The film is a documentary essay about the need for and the lack of dialogue between the fatherland and an individual.

Early Learning

Early Learning
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Mikołaj, an oceanography student, arrives to do his internship at the Marine Station in Hel. Under the watchful eye of his boss, Professor Krzysztof Skóra, he cares for a newborn seal. A male, he is given the name of Hel. Mikołaj teaches him how adapt to life in the wild. Before he can be released into the Baltic, Hel has to learn how to live with the herd, find his own food and, most important of all, how to avoid contact with humans. And what of that, as pupil and teacher begin to be bound by a ‘dangerous’ thread of friendship…? Meanwhile, the day approaches when the fully-fledged Hel, a wild animal, will have to leave the Station. Professor Skóra and other members of the scientific team have passed on numerous professional skills to Mikołaj. Will this knowledge stand him in good stead on the day when feelings come into play? (51' version for television also available)

Eastern Wind: The Film

Eastern Wind: The Film
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Miqueu is a musician. His son Balthazar is a violinist. They head off to play in Budapest with Hungarian musicians. They arrive for the Dance House Festival in Budapest, where Michel gets busy recruiting musicians for the concert. Cue rehearsals with Vujicsics Band in Szentendre, and Márta Sebestyén, Ferenc Sebő, Csaba Ökrös in Budapest. Finally, the concert on A38, the music moat. Everyone’s there. This is a musical journeys in space, time and spirit. Just as we are Trying to find our place in terms of tradition, within Europe.

Escape to the Other Side

Escape to the Other Side
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Tens of thousands of Europeans travel every winter with their mobile homes to Morocco, like birds are drawn southwards. Most of them belong to a generation that upheld the European work ethic: home, car, family and work until you drop dead. Suddenly these goals are questioned. Was the sacrifice worth it, if children don't care about the house? Or if at 50 you can't work anymore, are not allowed to or don't want to? A reflection of European society concentrated on Moroccan camping sites.

Escapeologists in Budapest

Escapeologists in Budapest
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The special journey consisted of an open-air exhibition (Overture), video and slide installations (Gödör [Pit]), theatre performances by professional and amateur participants (LaborHotel and artProletarz), and a happening (Finale) by artists with the participation of the public. The film takes the audience through each station of this series of actions and at the same time endeavours to portray the artists.

Establishment

Establishment
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Film about Armenia in past 20 years seen through camera lens and memories of a photographer. It focuses on the self-determination movement of Nagorno Karabagh's majority ethnic of Armenian population, which aimed to gain autonomy from Azerbaijan in 1988, and disastrous earthquakes of Leninakan and Spitak, that killed thousands of people. The film also depicts Azerbaijan´s and Turkey´s blockade of Armenia as a result of the war in Nagorno Karabagh. The absolute lack of fuel, electricity and food during those cold and hard five years and the countrie's continuing political struggle since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

 

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