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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.

Toys

Toys
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Belarus. Town of Zhlobin. It’s been 21 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union.Most of the locals survive solely by making and selling soft toys. Their only customers are the people passing through on trains. However, approaching a train with a toy in one’s hands is illegal.The film tells the stories of ordinary people living in the town of Zhlobin. They all make toys, sell them, have chats, drink, go back to making toys, sing, fight and… make toys again.

Barzakh

Barzakh
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In a Chechen city recovering after the war, a man disappears. The peope, trying to find him, are drawn into a world where they see encounters, diviners and legal advisors, the torturers and the tortured, secret prisons and mythical lakes. When the missing ones appear in those people's dreams, they say, they come from Barzakh - a land between the living and the death.

Babys Returns, Babys Escapes

Babys Returns, Babys Escapes
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This observational documentary follows the protagonist from his 16 to 20 years of age as he unsuccessfully tries to find his place within his family and the society; the film also captures life in an East Slovak Roma settlement. At the beginning, Babys runs away from a youth correctional facility off Bratislava to his grandmother who lives in a settlement on the other side of the country. He starts dating an older woman, Alena, who has several children and a husband currently in prison. Fearing the consequences, Alena's brothers drive him away and Babys returns back to the correctional facility. While he is impatient to get out and serves his apprenticeship, the settlement residents live in a routine monotony; except for Alena's pregnancy with an unknown man's child. After finally reaching adulthood, Babys goes back to the settlement but his return immediately flares up another conflict. This time he flees to Ireland.

Charcoal Burners

Charcoal Burners
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Every summer, Marek and Janina work as charcoal burners in the Bieszczady Mountains. Far from civilization, in the heart of the mountains, they live according to the rhythm set by nature. The documentary joins the man and the woman from dawn till dusk, observing the slow passage of time. A visual anthem to the beauty of life.

Czech Greens

Czech Greens
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This documentary sets out to uncover the inner developments of a political party as well as the director's own political activism. It also discusses a number of other issues: Why do people distrust politicians? What does it take to become a politician? What are political intrigues? What makes today's democracy so puzzling? In 2002, I joined a group of people who decided to revive the Green Party. Following my work with an environmental organization, I was able to watch the worlds of civic initiatives and political parties drift apart. I decided to use the opportunity to capture the reinvention of several individuals and the party itself and, for several years, to record all crucial developments relevant for the party. Despite often facing fickle attitudes, paranoia and red tape, I have managed to collect footage that should make for a compelling political film.

Baltoro Passage

Baltoro Passage
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Baltoro Passage is an intimate story set against the breathtaking views of Karakoram. It is also a multilayered portrait of children who are trying to understand the choices of their parents. But most of all it’s a story about love, passion and forgiveness. This emotional journey is led by Eliza Kubarska. Being a woman and an experienced alpinist, she often asks herself if her passion is worth the risk she takes? And – more importantly – can she be a mother and a mountaineer? To find the answer, along with an international group of grown-up children of acclaimed climbers, she sets out on an expedition along the Baltoro Passage on the Karakoram Highway. Our heroes will walk the same road that took their parents away. None of them is a professional climber. They will challenge themselves to face the past and to understand the force that once seduced their parents. The expedition will last one month and its main goal is to reach K2 base camp where parents of our protagonists are buried.

Gangster of Love

Gangster of Love
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Gangster of Love is a documentary comedy which points out some serious social issues. The story takes place in the mountainous Balkan region on the historical border of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire. Our film follows matchmaker Nedjeljko Babic aka Gangster. His life is devoted to helping young men and women from the region to find a soul mate. But lately his job has been more difficult than ever - women do not want to live in villages anymore. When Maya, a young Bulgarian girl, comes to Gangster looking for a new boyfriend, it seems that it will be an easy case for him. But the fact that she is the mother of a 3-year-old, and a foreigner, makes it mission impossible for Gangster - it seems that Croatian guys, no matter how desperate they are to find a woman, do not want a Bulgarian with a child. Her case discloses all the tragic absurdity of the traditional men in modern society: although they are lonely and desperate to find a woman, their stubborn conservatism prevents them in adopting different.

Heralds from the Big World

Heralds from the Big World
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This story takes place in the northern part of Russian Siberia. Every year in May 20 doctors, mostly women, leave their families, board on a ship and float on it until autumn. This ship is called the floating clinic, and it goes to places that are not accessible by roads, only by rivers, when ice goes down. Doctors live on this shift work as real sailors. They live in cabins, wake up and go to bed according to the ship schedule, react to false emergency alarms that captain sometimes switches on, listen to his strict disciplinary reprimands. Clean fish that sailors catch. The whole life passes in this half a year. Nurse Victoriya finds her new love on the ship, but her 2 year old son meanwhile forgets her voice. Cook Vitya starts to hate his profession, and the chief doctor tries to dismiss captain… But leaving the ship in November, doctors cry.

Evolution of Violence

Evolution of Violence
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