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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.

Michael Berger - A Hysteria

Michael Berger - A Hysteria
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The subject of the film, Austrian investment banker Michael Berger, who became a dollar millionaire through a risky hedge fund, remains a chimera - an absent individual who also cannot be captured through his crime. There is not even a single picture of him to see, and all that is left of his influence are the impressive sums that are actually missing from the local banks at some time. In six attempts, the film tries to draw together a case from the traces of Michael Berger’s undertakings.

Mongolia – In the Shadow of Genghis Khan

Mongolia – In the Shadow of Genghis Khan
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More than just Words

More than just Words
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"More than just Words" - doing something rather than just talking about a problem. In February 1984, 50 Austrians formed the work brigade “February ’34” and set off for Nicaragua. They were moved by their solidarity with the Sandinista Revolution, which ended the decades-long dictatorship of the Somoza clan, only to be threatened by the US policy of invasion. For almost a month, the group worked on a construction of a community center under extremely difficult conditions, at the same time getting acquainted with a country in the middle of a process started by a revolution.

A Murder on the Eve of Spring

A Murder on the Eve of Spring
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A 33-year-old human rights activist Jana Polyakova has committed suicide in the provincial mining town. The local authorities through the power structures and the KGB systematically pursued a lonely young woman for her active opposition of civil and political activities. They used all the most sophisticated mocking methods including psychological pressure, provocation, and, finally, torture and beatings. Moreover, driven to despair a woman was convicted of defamation of the police officer who brutally beat her, with the payment of a huge monetary compensation in his favor. Unable to withstand such injustice and cynicism, the woman brought the scores to life…

My House Stood in Sulukule

My House Stood in Sulukule
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Land acquisition for luxury apartment development forces a 600 year old Roma quarter in Istanbul to face the eviction. Sulukule, a run-down district in Istanbul, is the oldest Roma settlement in the world. Until the 1990ies the Roma made a living through music and dance. Sulukule was the home of nearly 40 entertainment houses which were popular with Turks and tourists until the clubs were closed down in the 1990ies and 2005 an urban renewal project started. The municipality wanted to buy all the buildings and replace them with luxury villas, transforming the neighbourhood. The film depicts Sulukule as an example for the numerous urban renewal and gentrification projects world-wide and their social consequences.

Old Man and the Bomb

Old Man and the Bomb
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Story about old man Trifun, from village Binovce. In 1999 NATO bomb was dropped in his yard. It didn't explode. Nine years later, when no one came to dismantle the bomb, he decided to do it on his own. He want to free all village people from the fear of explosion ...

Other Land

Other Land
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The modern world loses representation that roots are the main value in human life. These values are replaced with other values, such as career, money, the social status. We pursue the invented tops while our parents attain the age in old people's homes.

Palimpsest

Palimpsest
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A palimpsest is written material from which the original writing has been removed and replaced by something new. Enough of a trace can be left of the removed writing that it can still be read. Gustav Spet was an important philosopher whose entire oeuvre was deleted by Stalin’s regime of terror. He was exiled and then executed in Tomsk in 1937. His death was kept a secret, and his family only learnt the truth in 1989. Using the help of Marina Spet’s 92-year-old daughter, the film is an attempt to provide a partial re-reading of Spet and the surrounding life of him that was obliterated.

A Parable of Life

A Parable of Life
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A film portrait of Bulgarian original painter Valchan Petrov.

Poet of Cinema: Artavazd Peleshyan

Poet of Cinema: Artavazd Peleshyan
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