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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.

Institute of Documentary Film’s Activities

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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.

Director Arash T. Riahi Production company sixpackfilm

IDF Events 2005 East Silver

Mississippi

Mississippi, Austria, 2005, 6 min, Beta SP, Arts and Culture, Experimental

Nature is not what differentiates between chaos and structure, the observer does through his or her choice of point of view and representational technique. In the tradition of avant-garde film subduing chaos through abstraction, translating it into s... more

Director Georgy Molodtsov Production company Twice Team Director of photography Maxim Dubovicky

Editor Georgy Molodtsov IDF Events 2005 East Silver

Mobed

Mobnutye, Russia, 2005, 8 min, DV, Experimental, Human Rights, Portrait

Flash in the crowd... something wrong... and in a moment all became normal again. What happened? You`d never tell, now you are Mobed! Nobody knows who they are, but to you only, the Flashmobbers will tell everything about Flashmob.... more

Director Annett Schütze Production company KINO KOMBAT Filmproduction Director of photography Aleksandrs Grebnevs

Editor Annett Schütze IDF Events 2005 East Silver ... Sales KINO KOMBAT Filmproduction

Moskatchka

Moskatchka, Latvia, 2005, 90 min, DV, Anthropology, Human Rights, Society

Moskatchka (from Moskaw district) is the nick-name of one of most interesting districts in Riga. In the beginning of 20th century – a working-class district, in the WWII – a concentration camp for Jews, during the Soviet times – favorite district for... more

Director Oliver Malina Morgenstern Production company Global Entertainment & Media s. r. o. Director of photography Oliver Malina Morgenstern

Editor Martin Suja IDF Events 2005 East Silver

Mrs. Gröbovka

Paní Gröbovka, Czech Republic, 2004, 14 min, DVD, Arts and Culture, History, Politics

In the Havlíček Gardens in the Vinohrady district of Prague, there is a dilapidated Renaissance villa, built at the turn of the 18th and 19th century by Moritz Gröbe, a businessman and architect. During WWII, the Nazi youth organization was based the... more

Director Zsolt Juhász ... Production company Da-Da Film

Director of photography Péter Szalay IDF Events 2005 East Silver

Mrs. Iron

Vassné, Hungary, 2005, 25 min, Beta SP, Entertainment, Human Rights

How does one become the king of engines? What does it mean to hear a train whistle while one sits in a prison cell? What is more important - locomotives or women? It is a passion which can affect all generations, it can be infetious, however it never... more

Director Željko Mirković Production company Krug Director of photography Ivan Hazi Zdravković

Editor Darko Ković IDF Events 2005 East Silver

Muharem Music the Eyes of Life

Muharem muzika oci zivota, Serbia, 2005, 28 min, DV, Anthropology, Human Rights, Portrait

The story of a blind Gypsy musician who is a refugee and lives at the edge. He communicates with other people only through his music. It is a film on an awaken hope.... more

Director Bernard Šafařík Production company SAFILM s. r. o. ...

Director of photography Miroslav Čvorsjuk IDF Events 2005 East Silver

My Enchanted Castle

Můj zakletý zámek, Czech Republic, 2004, 57 min, Beta SP, History, Politics, Society

The director is one of the descendants of Baron Schebek, a significant railway constructor in the Austrian-Hungarian monarchy and the owner of vast estates in the Sazava region. After the Revolution, the family got back among others the castle in Zru... more

Director Helena Třeštíková Production company Czech TV Director of photography Vlastimil Hamerník ...

Editor Zdenek Patočka IDF Events 2005 East Silver

My Lucky Star

Moje šťastná hvězda, Czech Republic, 2004, 58 min, Digi Beta, Portrait

The story of a woman who survived the hell of several concentration camps. Zdenka Fantlová recounts her unique life story with its all dramatic turns: her happy childhood in the pre-war years, the deportation to Theresienstadt and the great love she ... more

Director Karol Marc Kopecky Production company Karol Marc Kopecky IBIS Director of photography Karol Marc Kopecky

Editor Zuzana Urbanova IDF Events 2005 East Silver

Neanderthals-The End of an Age

Slovak Republic, 2005, 40 min, Beta, Anthropology, History, Nature

What was the real cause of the Neanderthls` decline? Are modern humans their descendents? These questions, and many more, are examined in the documentary film Neanderthals: The End of an Age.... more

Director Vasil Karkelanov Production company Studio Karkelanov Ltd. Director of photography Vasil Karkelanov

Editor Vasil Karkelanov IDF Events 2005 East Silver

Nestinars - Fires Of Devotion

Posvetenite na ogania, Bulgaria, 2005, 51 min, Digi Beta, Human Rights, Society, Youth Documentary

In the evening on June 3 a bonfire is kindled on the village square. Pale, shivering woman with vacant eyes, ice-cold hands and feet embers to the accompaniment of bagpipers and drums, screaming unearthly and foretelling the future. Finally, they com... more

Director Wiktor Skrzynecki Production company Kalejdoskop Film Studio Director of photography Leszek Skuza

Editor Bogusław Saganowski IDF Events 2005 East Silver

Never-ending Dream

Niekonczacy sie sen, Poland, 2005, 27 min, Beta SP, Arts and Culture, Youth Documentary

The film is a story of an eminet artist, stage and film designer, Jerzy Skarzynski. He and his wife Lindia Minticz made their name as visionary designers of the best Wojciech Has`s feature films. Jerzy Skarzynski was a set designer, his wife designed... more

Director Jordi Niubo Producer Eliška Kaplicky Fuchsová ... Production company Czech TV ... Director of photography Michal Černý

Editor Geoffrey Case ... IDF Events 2005 East Silver Financial Support - financial contribution: State Fund for the Support and Development of Czech Cinematography (2002) - financial contribution: Design Centrum Czech Republic