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East Silver

Source | Martin Mareček | Czech Republic | 2004

The most watched films of the 2nd East Silver Market in 2005:

Czech examples included:
Zdroj (Source) / Martin Mareček
Czech Dream (CZ, Vit Klusak, Filip Remunda)
The Beauty Exchange (CZ, Erika Hnikova)
Chačipe (Kha-Chee-Pae) / Miroslav Janek
Kamenolom boží (God’s Quarry) / Břetislav Rychlik
Vierka / Miroslav Janek
Občan Havel jede na dovolenou (Citizen Vaclav Havel Goes on a Vacation) / Jan Novak
One Love / Petr Zahradka
Soukromé století (Private Century) / Jan Šikl

Slovak examples included:
Slavnost osaměle Palmy (Celebration of the Lonely Palm) / Marko Škop, Juraj Johanides
My zdes (Here We Are) / Jaroslav Vojtek
Anděle plačou (The Crying of Angels) / Zuza Piussi
66 Seasons / Peter Kerekeš

Among international docummentary films, the most successful for screening were:

UNMIK TITANIK / Boris Mitic
The TV and Me / Bojana Papp
Losers and Winners / Mirosław Dembiński
But the Hour is near / Juris Poskus
De Lana Caprina / Elena Sorokina
Dreamland / Laila Pakalnina
A Bar at the Victoria Station / Leszek Dawid
Gingerbread Land / Elizabeta Zemljic
In search of happiness / Alexander Gutman
A blessing or a curse / Vasily Yatskin
Children of the Singing Revolution / Arvo Iho
Generation C.K.O.D. / Piotr Szczepanski
Dwarfs go to Ukraine / Miroslaw Dembinski
The Wall / Brigitta Bodenauer, Michael Strohmann, Didi Bruckmayr
On Suicide / Ivaylo Simidchiev
89 Millimetres / Heinzel Sebastian
Arabesca / Damir Cucic
Dialogues on an electric train / Sergey Litovec
Casino Transsylvanie / Robert Lakatos
Sevdah: the bridge that survived / Mira Erdevicki

The East Silver video library, opened during Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, visited 80 European film professionals. With the following we started closer cooperation:

Jordi Ambros, TV3 CAT, Spain
Petr Bilik, Department of Theatre, Film and Media Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, Palacky University, Czech Republic
Igor Blaževič, One world, Czech Republic
Kathrin Brinkmann, ZDF, Germany
Monika Derenda, Cracow FF, Poland
Christine Dollhofer, Crossing Europe Linz, Austria
Nick Fraser, BBC 4, Great Britain
Guy Gauthier, film critic and theorist, France
Flemming Grenz, DR TV, Denmark
Franz Grabner, ORF, Austria
Ronnie Griens, distributor, the Netherlands
Zora Hlavičkova, Central-European Seminar, Czech Republic
Mette Hoffmann Meyer, TV2, Denmark
Dušan Jurčik, Bayer, Czech Republic
Marje Jurtschenko, distributor, Estonia
Maya McKechneay, Sixpackfilm, Austria
Christine Kopf, Go East Wiesbaden, Germany
Jan Kastner, Finale Plzeň, Czech Republic
Barbara Orlicz, Crakow Film Festival, Poland
Leena Pasanen, YLE, Finland
Jean Perret, Visions du réel, Nyon, Switzerland
Christian Popp, SFB/ ARTE BERLIN, Germany
Otto Reiter, Viennale, Austria
Wim Van Rompay, Lichtupunkt, Belgium
Outi Saarikoski, distributor, Finland
Carol Spycher, distributor, Switzerland
Karel Strachota, Finale Plzeň, Czech Republic
Alexandra Strelkova, Bratislava Film Festival, Slovakia
Hans Joachim Schlegel, Berlinale, Germany
Christine Schulgin, DocPoint Helsinki, Finland
Ladislav Šery, Institute for Roman Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University, Czech Republic
Tore Tomter, NRK, Norway
Gerald Weber, Sixpackfilms Vienna, Austria
Jenny Westergaard, distributor, Finland
Julieta Zacharova, Karlovy Vary IFF, Czech Republic
Helena Zajicova, Finale Plzeň, Czech Republic
Debra Zimmerman, distributor, USA.

East Silver market together with the Caravan represent an easily accessible and unique offer of the latest East European documentary production. Several films from the project were bought by European televisions or distribution companies.