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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 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.

Good Morning, Lenin

Good Morning, Lenin
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An ironic documentary comedy showing Nowa Huta through the eyes of western tourists who would like to touch the past and have a taste of communism. Packed in old Trabant cars, ready for everything, they follow the footsteps of Man of Marble. This unconventional, but educational expedition is organized by young happeners from Kraków – the tourist company Crazy Guides.

Hacking the streets

Hacking the streets
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This experimental video deals with the appropriation of urban space and the perception of architecture by the subculture of skateboarders. Contemporary architectural theoretician Iain Borden provides the voice-over talking us through selected chapters of his book: "Skateboarding, Space and the City: Architecture and the Body". A dense visual texture of manipulated found footage of various skatevideos is accompanied by an elegiac sound composition. The spatial urban reproduction of skateboarders is reviewed by artistic means. Associative spaces of thought unfold. Haptic perception of space serves as a buzzword.

Hana, Dul, Sed...

Hana, Dul, Sed...
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Four women from Pyongyang. They play professional football. It guarantees them a living and gives them prestige. They're good at it and they love it. As members of the national team they represent a country seen by the world as a bizarre cult-of-personality farce. Often their international matches are dominated by attempts to retaliate for injuries sustained in wars in the past. The four regulars on their country's side were instrumental in the meteoric rise of North Korean women's football to figure among the best in the world. However, when they failed to qualify for the Olympics, their careers ended abruptly.

Happy End

Happy End
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Confronted with the satback of his cancer, the main character of the film begins a chaotic search for the remedy that will save him. Happy End is a chronicle of this "searching journey". The film offers a paradoxical insight, full of irony, at the crossing of realities and myths of our times.

Hard Lines

Hard Lines
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Coming from completely different backgrounds Peti and Robi wouldn't have met at all in ordinary circumstances. But after becoming juvenile offenders they were both sent to the same Juvenile Probation Supervision Office.

The Hardest of Choices

The Hardest of Choices
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A documentary looking at the lives of four women and their partners who have refused abortions after discovering they are expecting handicapped children. The author captures their reactions on learning of their babies' state of health, and the way in which they come to terms with the doctors' prognoses and their own feelings of hopelessness. One of the children dies before birth, another during birth, while another lives for only an hour after birth. The daughter of the fourth couple has Down's syndrome, and her mother describes how those around her reacted to the handicap. The key scene in this collective portrait, which grows into an existential drama concerning life and death, takes place at the grave of one of the dead children, on the Říp hill.

The Healer between the Worlds

The Healer between the Worlds
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Hitchhike the Wind

Hitchhike the Wind
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A group of five young people travel to Kazakhstan with the aim of sailing through the barren land. With the help of a homemade sail vehicle - driven only by wind and way of life - they finally reach the ship cemetery at Aral Sea. One of the greatest environmental disasters of the present. The audience accompanies the attempt to wreck and is part of the adventure.

Home is not Home

Home is not Home
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Society usually neither thinks nor talks much about what it feels like to live in an old people's home. "Home is not Home" presents four persons, with very different life stories, who seem to be friends in the home, but "outside" that place probably never would have met.

 

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