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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.

Life is Awesome

Life is Awesome
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Two years after her son’s tragic death, Teresa Anielak sets out on a quest to find the recipient of her son’s heart, which she donated shortly after he was declared brain-dead. The task is not easy since Poland’s official policy regarding organ donation protects the identity of both the recipients and the donor. Alongside her story we see and hear emotional stories and thoughts of several heart recipients and families who donated organs of their tragically deceased loved ones. Fragments of a real life heart transplant operation are inserted into the film as illustration to the stories and allow the viewer to witness this miraculous procedure.

Lise Forell – Without Borders

Lise Forell – Without Borders
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The film explores borders in the life of a woman who broke away from her family's expectations in 1939 and set out to define her own ground with her own rules. Lise Forell, a Brazilian painter of Czech-German descent, lives a happy life that is marked by constant obstacles and challenges. Yet she also has the willpower to overcome and go beyond any crises, social norms and boundaries in general. At 85 years of age, she is able to assess her remarkable life story without being sentimental, with a due distance and creative energy.

Living on Light

Living on Light
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There are people who claim they do not eat or at least – attempt to liberate themselves from the necessity of eating. They are not "ill" – they have simply chosen to follow a very unique lifestyle based on Eastern philosophy originated in India. Our guide to this world will be Joanna, a sociologist, Phd. Though the death of her mother a few years ago was a shock, it helped her to understand something of the effects of long-lasting fast. It was this personal experience that inspired Joanna to begin her research of the non-eating phenomenon…

Longplay

Longplay
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Music covers serve as a space where music meets graphic arts and design. How are designers influenced by music? How do they cope with commercial aspects of covers? What does their work really involve? What will they do once storage media are replaced by online services? This documentary presents views from various musicians, designers, visual artists and producers, among others: Karel Haloun, Luděk Kubík, Aleš Najbrt, Robert V. Novák, Michal Cihlář, Joska Skalník, Marcel Musil, Ondřej Ježek, Bourek, Jakub Siňor and Wladimir 518.

Love History

Love History
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The film is about women in Austria and Germany tracing their Nazi family history. They research the historical facts as well as the marks this past has left on their lives: how does it affect their personal relationships, love and political activism? The protagonists are shown in public spaces. Architecture from the 1950s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s in Vienna are the locations for the film. They stand for the way National Socialism was dealt with in Austria and reflect the political currents during those eras.

Love Me

Love Me
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In 2000 Magda, student from Poland, spends her holidays in Sweden and meets Eric, a divorcee with three children. In 2002 they get married. Is the emigrant's life what she's been dreaming of?

Man who Changed Shanghai

Man who Changed Shanghai
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Three siblings, Martin (87) from Monaco, Theo (85) from Canada and Alessa (82) from the USA narrate the fascinating true-life story of their father L.E. Hudec (1893-1958), a famous architect in Shanghai. For the first time Alessa visits Slovakia the birthplace of her father. Together with her brother Theo, they decide to visit China after 63 years - the country of their childhood and youth. This inspiring documentary not only explores the many exciting details of the life of L.E. Hudec, father of Asian high-rises, but also serves as an authentic testimony of life of Europeans in Colonial Shanghai before The People’s Republic of China was formed. It presents the never-before-seen 16mm home-movies that were shot between 1927-1938 by Ladislav Hudec himself.

Mark of Cain

Mark of Cain
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Ana Magaš is a young woman sentenced on eight years of prison after killing her husband Lucijan in a self-defense. After three years in prison the president of the Republic of Croatia, Stjepan Mesić, has amnestied Ana. When she came back to her hometown Zadar she became aware that struggle for her rights and "normal life" is at its very beginning. Ana is aware that living together with her son is too much to expect. The social workers named her to be his legal guardian, but her son refuses to see her. After she was released from the prison a new life begins, struggle for her child, finding a place to live, a job to do, facing the reality of ‘freedom’ and new expectations.

Mathias, Mathias

Mathias, Mathias
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„King Matthias died in Vienna around the end of October in 1490. He was poisoned. One evening he ate some figs. He was already very ill during the night, and in the morning... he was dead." A 13-minute animation documentary about the residents of Kolozsvár: how much do they know about the famous sovereign, King Matthias, who was born in their city? „And the only other thing I can say about him is that there is a statue of King Matthias sitting on a horse here. That's it. What else is there to say?"

Messages from Paradise #1 Egypt: Austria - About the Permanent Longing for Elsewhere

Messages from Paradise #1 Egypt: Austria - About the Permanent Longing for Elsewhere
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In a village in Egypt, young men dream of migrating to Europe where they hope to realise all the good things they lack at home: money, freedom, new horizons. In Vienna, Egyptian migrants long back home. Their stories of migration reveal that the realities of living in Europe are more complex and nuanced than they themselves might have dreamt of. Paradise seems to be always elsewhere. And perhaps happiness lies not in making old dreams come true, but in finding new ones.

 

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