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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.
20 Days in Tibet
Director Silvestar Kolbas Producer Zdenka Gold Production company Spiritus Movens Director of photography Silvestar Kolbas
Editor Sven Pavlinic IDF Events 2011 East Silver WWW www.spiritus-movens.hr Financial Support 7.000 EUR from Croatian Audiovisual Center + 3.000 EUR from private sponsors

20 Days in Tibet

20 dana na Tibetu, Croatia, 2011, 75 min, Beta SP, Nature, Society, Travel
This film tells the story of a group of people from Zagreb who travel with Croatian, Nepalese and Tibetan guides on a journey from Nepal to the beautiful Tibetan highlands. The journey takes them on a meandering route from Kathmandu via Lhasa to west...  more
24 Carat
Director Stefan Capaliku Producer Agim Pocari Production company Digitalb
Editor Florian Haxhihyseni IDF Events 2011 East Silver

24 Carat

24 Karatesh, Albania, 2010, 30 min, DV, History, Society
A small town in the heart of Albania was established because of a copper mine. After the collapse of communism, the mine and the factory processing gold and silver were both closed down. People try to leave the town but many of them just can't. So th...  more
8 Stories That Haven't Changed the World
Director Ivo Krankowski Producer Ivo Krankowski ... Production company LaCamera Independent Director of photography Tomasz Michalczewski
Editor Marta Michno IDF Events 2011 East Silver Financial Support Humanity in Action PolskaPolish Jewish Youth Organization

8 Stories That Haven't Changed the World

8 historii, które nie zmieniły świata, Poland, 2010, 35 min, Digi Beta, HD, Archive, History, Society
8 characters, Polish Jews born between 1914 and 1933, are taking us to the land of their youth, their first dreams and their adventures. The story refers to the characters’ earliest memories: what was the first book they read, how was their first day...  more
91st Kilometre
Director Liina Paakspuu Producer Kiur Aarma Production company Traumfabrik
Director of photography Liina Paakspuu IDF Events 2011 East Silver

91st Kilometre

91. kilomeeter, Estonia, 2010, 56 min, Beta SP, Portrait, Reportage, Society
A chronicle of Estonia in the year 2009. The basis of the film is a parallel drawn between the age of the Republic of Estonia on one hand and places at a certain distance from the capital of the country on the other: 91 years = 91 kilometres. The fil...  more
Abendland
Director Nikolaus Geyrhalter Producer Nikolaus Geyrhalter Production company Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion GmbH Director of photography Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Editor Wolfgang Widerhofer IDF Events 2010 Doc Launch ... WWW www.abendland-film.at Sales Autlook Filmsales

Abendland

Austria, 2011, 90 min, HD, Creative, Society
Western standard of living, civilization, and the urge to exclude others from it are the core of Geyrhalter's latest cinematic documentary essay. Entirely shot at night, Geyrhalter takes us on a very personal journey through the Western world and the...  more
Allentsteig
Director Nikolaus Geyrhalter Producer Nikolaus Geyrhalter ... Production company Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion GmbH Director of photography Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Editor Andrea Wagner IDF Events 2011 East Silver Sales Autlook Filmsales

Allentsteig

Allentsteig, Austria, 2010, 79 min, Digi Beta, Creative, History, Society
The belief that there are no more white spots on Austria’s map is not quite right: In 1938 the German army established one of Europe’s largest military training grounds in northern Lower Austria. The over 160 square kilometers it covers are still res...  more
Am I Happy or What?
Director Vanja Svilicic Producer Damir Teresak Production company Maxima Film d.o.o. Director of photography Vanja Svilicic
Editor Vanja Svilicic IDF Events 2011 East Silver Financial Support no

Am I Happy or What?

Jesam li spretna?, Croatia, 2010, 50 min, DV, Social Issues, Society
In the center of Zagreb is a small hotel where tradition and modern customs meet. At first, it appeared that we entered into a peaceful, and cozy hotel where one might remember the chambermaids faces. Nothing is what it seems. The current political a...  more
American Passages
Director Ruth Beckermann Producer Ruth Beckermann Production company Ruth Beckermann Filmproduction Director of photography Antoine Parouty ...
Editor Dieter Pichler IDF Events 2011 East Silver ... Sales Cinephil Distribution & Coproductions

American Passages

Austria, 2011, 120 min, 35 mm, Arts and Culture, Personal View, Social Issues, Society
Initially, there's that moment of happiness: an African-American celebrating in Harlem cheers "We're free!" as if Barack Obama's victory meant the ultimate end of slavery. American Passages is an associative journey through the United States: a disil...  more
Arab Attraction
Director Andreas Horvath Producer Andreas Horvath Director of photography Monika Muskala ...
Editor Andreas Horvath IDF Events 2011 East Silver Sales Autlook Filmsales

Arab Attraction

Austria, 2010, 118 min, Digi Beta, Portrait, Religion
Arab Attraction explores the unusual paradigm shift of a woman known for her pronounced feminist views. She falls in love with a man from Yemen who is 20 years her junior, to become his second wife and a devoted Muslim....  more
Argentinian Lesson
Director Wojciech Staroń Producer Malgorzata Staroń Production company Staron Film Director of photography Wojciech Staroń
Editor Zbigniew Osinsk ... IDF Events 2011 East Silver ... Sales Krakow Film Foundation

Argentinian Lesson

Argentyńska lekcja, Poland, 2011, 56 min, Digi Beta, Creative, Personal View, Society, Travel
In 1998 Wojciech Staroń made the documentary film "The Siberian Lesson". The film told the story of a young teacher who emigrated to the vicinity of Lake Baikal in order to teach Polish deportees’ descendants their native language. Many years later, ...  more
At Equilibrium
Director René Eckert Producer René Eckert Production company blickinsfreie Director of photography René Eckert
Editor René Eckert IDF Events 2011 East Silver Financial Support Sponsored by BigAirBag ...

At Equilibrium

Bulgaria, Germany, 2010, 32 min, HD, Adventure and Sports, Society
Like the ubiquitous Coca Cola came appearing in Africa in the 80s, the American invention of snowboarding has been exported to nearly every snowy locale in the world. But access to snowboarding in most former Communist countries and the Near East did...  more
Awakening
Director Irena Fabri Producer Mirjana Tomic Production company Filmme Fatale Director of photography Lazar Bogdanovic
Editor Mateja Rackov IDF Events 2011 East Silver ... Sales Filmme Fatale

Awakening

Budjenje, Serbia, 2011, 85 min, DVD, HD, Current Affairs, Personal View, Politics, Social Issues
Ten years after Slobodan Milosevic was overthrown and the democracy officially came to Serbia, the society is still in chaos, burdened with corruption, violence towards minorities, strikes… The movie portrays this transitional chaos from a generation...  more
The Bad Field
Director Bernhard Sallmann Producer Julia Eisenberg Production company Feld GbR Eisenberg/Sallmann Director of photography Bernhard Sallmann
Editor Christoph Krüger IDF Events 2011 East Silver Financial Support bmukk ...

The Bad Field

Das schlechte Feld, Austria, Germany, 2011, 64 min, Digi Beta, HD, Environmental, Experimental, Personal View, Social Issues
The view of "The Bad Field" from the window of my room in my parents' house is the starting point of this video work. The field is both a doorway to and a surface onto which themes of the film can be projected: childhood, war, the disappearance of ru...  more
Bakhmaro
Director Salome Jashi Producer Heino Deckert Production company Sakdoc Film ... Director of photography Salome Jashi
Editor Derek Howard IDF Events 2010 Doc Launch ... Sales Deckert Distribution GmbH

Bakhmaro

Bakhmaro, Georgia, Germany, 2011, 58 min, HD, Social Issues, Society
A journey into a lively, yet desolate building in a provincial Georgian town. It once used to be a hotel called ‘Bakhmaro’. At the center of the building there is a restaurant with its walls covered in bright green and orange plastic foam and where t...  more
Balka: Three Stories
Director Anya Meksin ... Producer Sophie Pinkham Production company Columbia University ... Director of photography Anya Meksin
Editor Anya Meksin ... IDF Events 2011 East Silver Financial Support Open Society Institute Institute for International Education

Balka: Three Stories

Ukraine, 2010, 35 min, DVD, Health, Human Rights, Portrait, Social Issues
The fall of the Soviet Union led to a surge in injecting drug use and skyrocketing rates of HIV spread through shared injecting equipment. Balka: Three Stories chronicles the lives of women struggling with drug use and HIV in Ukraine. Through the cou...  more

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