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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.

Estonian Stories. Miss Robinson

Estonian Stories. Miss Robinson
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Olga, who already for seven years has been working as a waitress in a 24-hour bar, is seeking for love that would eventually lead to marriage. The first potential husband was sentenced. She is waiting for him to return and is even ready to marry him inside the prison. As time goes by, she realizes that a marriage to a prisoner cannot be her dream. Life goes on – Olga finds new love that is also distant and ambiguous. Yearning to run from solitude and to flee from reality forces her to go to her next loved one…

Eternal Life

Eternal Life
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Report on eternality between the walls, among the walls, as well as inside the walls of the Prague National Museum, accompanied by the comments of the curators and the larder beetles. A reportage on the form and changes within the memory of a nation, as well as on the immortality of desert fox, but also on the fact whether the grey hippopotamus is worried about his existence.

Evald Okas

Evald Okas
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A film about Evald Okas the biggest and the most controversial legend of Estonian art. His monologues open for us the important signposts of his life and creative work. Evald Okas became an artist before the World War II and has been a part of Estonian culture for over 70 years. In the film Okas is going back to the past opening for us a fascinating story of his life. We see his paintings, graphics, scissor cuts, book illustrations and Ex Libris. Okas' art is full of erotic power, passion and unexpected visual ideas.

The Five Cardinal Points

The Five Cardinal Points
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The film narrates the story of the inhabitants of the Mexican village Tres Valles in the region of Veracruz. For generations these people were rooted with their soil. They worked as farmers and craftsmen. Cultivation of rice, pineapple and sugarcane made a simple wealth possible. Everything changed because of globalization, the commodity prices went down. The families couldn't live from the salaries paid by the sugarcane factories anymore. Nowadays there are no future prospects, the families' only choice is separation. Either legal or illegal they move towards the USA to search for work. Most of them are settling down in Kansas were they “rebuilt” their home village Tres Valles to celebrate the Mexican provenance and to overcome their home sickness more easily.

The Flood

The Flood
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Kosinj and neighboring villages, passive parts of Lika are tormented by floods every twenty years or so, due to heavy rains and snow melting. Villages, couple of kilometers away from river Lika are under water. The whole region becomes one huge lake where the only communication mean is by boats. Film follows stories of two volunteers - during the flood, each of them becomes the only link with the rest of the world for their respective communities, Serbian and Croatian.

Flyers for Freedom

Flyers for Freedom
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The poet Edeltraud Eckert died in a GDR prison at the age of 25. Details of the last five years of her life might never be known. What is clear is that in 1950, she carried leaflets campaigning for a “Task force against inhumanity” from West Berlin to Rathenow in the East. For this, she was arrested by the Soviet military administration. “Flyers for Freedom” creates a fragmented record of the premature death of Edeltraud Eckert through the accounts of friends, relatives and fellow prisoners.

For My Dad

For My Dad
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Documentary “For My Dad” is a story of a woman, whose father was in 1950’s sentenced for his political activities to 25 years of imprisonment. What is the life of a child growing up in a rotten society of communist regime like? What is the burden a child present at the arrest of her own father and labeled traitor of a nation has to bear? Mrs. Bočková asks herself if she should revenge or forget about the past and go on with her life as if nothing had happened. However, to live to tell the story and warn future generations is Mrs. Bočková's life mission. It is because fear and worries about her family are still part of her life.

From Ararat to Zion

From Ararat to Zion
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The colorful mosaic of Christian pilgrimages to the Holy Land has been shaped over two thousand years. Pilgrims have brought their stories with them, and left their memories with the land.Here the documentary filmmakers have given us a view of some essential passages in these stories, to reveal the precious identities which the stories preserve. They follow the paths taken by Armenian pilgrims as they travel between two focal points of history – from the Mount Ararat to Zion, from A to Z. For the filmmakers themselves, the process of making this film became a pilgrimage they will remember throughout their lives.

Getting On

Getting On
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A film about a complicated relationship between a mother and daughter. 90-year-old Nina and her single daughter Alice live together in a cramped flat. Between their beds is a black piano – a symbol of Alice’s unfulfilled music career. Nowadays they run a dancing group for seniors and their life is focused mainly on this. It seems that work makes up for them the lack of men in their life, but is it really true?

The Goalgetter's Ship

The Goalgetter's Ship
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In 1964, the island ferry “Nordby” was launched in Denmark. Three decades later it was taken out of service and sold: to the Nigerian football player Jonathan Akpoborie playing in the German Bundesliga. He christened the ferry in his mother’s name “Etireno”. Soon afterwards, the Etireno appeared in the headlines of the international media – as a suspected child slavery ship off the coast of West Africa... When it became known who the owner of this ship was, his club VfL Wolfsburg immediately parted company with its Nigerian striker. The footballer’s guilt was never proven.The film reconstructs the events and uses them as an opportunity to begin a search for the protagonists at the time: What were the consequences of the fateful journey for the children on board the ship? How did life continue for the Togolese girl Adakou? What does the future hold today for Nouman, the young boy from Benin? What became of the striker’s career? And the ferry – does it still exist?The accounts and meetings create a German-African story about dreams, life plans and the trading commodity humans.

 

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