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Tereza Plavecká received a special mention in My Street Films competition for her sense of lyricism and her ability to render her own perspective and voice in the film...
This film shot on 17 November 2016 – Struggle for Freedom and Democracy Day, a traditional day of public demonstrations – looks at the meaning of this public holiday by talking to various people who merely enjoy their day off and do not go to any protests...
A symbolic dark bridge between students of various nationalities and a Czech patriot.
Black Bridge
Director Ziad Kalthoum talks about his documentary Taste of Cement, winner of DAS Award 2017.
Video Interview: Ziad Kalthoum on Taste of Cement
This film was made during My Street Films workshop in Poland.
Kapitanizm
The short film deals with controversial concrete flower boxes at Prague's Smíchov District and their future fate.
The Smíchov Bargain
Uraniwa
The starting point for this unusual film is an American film production by Bertolt Brecht, inspired by an article in Life magazine. Shortly after arriving in the United States in 1941, the famous writer and playwright was fascinated by a report on the daily lives of a family of 'model' farmers who had been invited to live in a 'model' home open to the public 12 hours a day...
A Model Family in a Model Home
Story of Slovak hackers. You hear nothing, you see nothing. But everything is changed.
In Mexico, first prize winner at Oberhausen Short Film Festival, we are taken to Mexico City and back to Toronto in a timeless, beautifully filmed and paced journey through the 'New World Order' with images of bullfights, dinosaur graveyards, aquariums, tourists climbing the Aztec Pyramids and the belching smoke of a North American factory polluting the Mexican jungle.
A group of five school-aged youths spend their free time in front of a graffiti-covered wall. In the rough area near the train tracks we observe the process of rap being created. The free way the youths speak and off-the-cuff texts accompanied by music emanating from their mobile phones say a great deal about way they perceive the world.
What to Do While Trains Pass By
What is hiding behind the walls of the closely guarded building near Smržová u Hradce Králové? The town's residents have lived with indifference to the goings-on at the facility at their backs. The filmmaker provoked a debate which led to new information, rumors, and fantasies that have accumulated for years around the functioning of the place.
They Flew There with Zeppelin
An associative film about blending the personal with the common, about the relationship of the memories of a place and memories of individuals, about the processes of reconciliation and coming to terms with something. A film about searching for paths from small to big Berlin and more.
Messestraße Elf
One crack, thousands of taps, and poisoned inhabitants of Prague 6. Who knows what's in the water pipes?
"A film after film". A director goes to Sabinov, where the Oscar-winning film The Shop on Main Street was shot almost fifty years ago. He meets people connected to the film as well as others who remind him of various characters. A tribute to a particular film as well as to film as such.
The Stop on Main Street
In this portrait, consisting of a collage of the works, archive materials, and creative images by one of Canada's most expressive video artists, Colin Campbell (1942–2001), Mike Hoolboom looks for parallels with his own work. He addresses broader issues about video as a medium and includes interviews with Canadian artists. The end result is a non-traditional approach to film narrative.
What is it like to employ the exceptional long-term observational method brought to the world by internationally renowned Czech director Helena Třeštíková? What is the basis of the successes and pitfalls of following the individual life stories of seemingly common people for even dozens of years?
DAFilms Presents: Master Class - Helena Třeštíková
Thomas A Østbye is a distinctive voice among Norwegian directors. He is known for combining artistic reflections on the documentary genre with contemporary political dilemmas. He made his mark with formally challenging documentaries such as Imagining Emanuel, HUMAN, and In Your Dreams, which have received numerous art and film awards...
Ji.hlava IDFF Presents: Masterclass - Thomas A. Østbye
Godfrey Reggio's task will be to provoke those present to consider the most misunderstood and consequential subject of the last 5,000 years: the Technological Environment. Technology is not something we use; it is as ubiquitous as the air we breathe. Though seeing, we are blind to its presence, hidden in plain sight...
Ji.hlava IDFF Presents: Masterclass - Godfrey Reggio
Master Class of Peter Tscherkassky starts with the screening of Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine, premiered at Cannes IFF as part of the independent section, Quinzaine des réalisateurs. The Master Class itself focuses on an analysis of this film...
Ji.hlava IDFF Presents: Masterclass - Peter Tscherkassky
A living legend of feature and documentary film, Werner Herzog. Author of more than 50 films, a director who throughout his life has posed questions about limits that nature and human impose on each other. He then overcomes these limits as a filmmaker and presents on-screen what he finds on the other side.
Docs Against Gravity Presents: Masterclass - Werner Herzog
In the world of wrath and hatred this film is a dream about love and beauty. Mira Janek's full-length documentary inspired by the literary text written by furious dreamer Alexander Grin and Forman Brothers' Theatre performance...
Purple Sails
As it follows the arrows painted on old building facades in Pilsen, this short documentary asks passers-by if the know their origin and purpose. Some people have no idea that the arrows were ever anything more than way-markers, while others remember the time when they were drawn.
Follow The Arrows
Everyone has their favourite place where they can hide away from a problem or they can soothe their mind. This short film takes place at Vitkov park in Prague 3. It is presenting how the filmmaker see the difference between Czech and Burmese culture.
Interview with members of a fictitious Czech Border Defence Society (CBDS) which represents a form of docu-fiction. In the first half, the viewer is confronted with historical information, personal life's tragedies and scenery shots of the ruins after the infamous Czechoslovak financial contribution (Bunkers of the pre-war fortification)...
CBDS (Czech Border Defence Society)
A testimony on a pipeline damage incident, theft and two official records from one police station in the Prague city centre, disturbing the peaceful Christmas spirit during which blood is drained.
Police Record from Jungmann Square
The Tomáš Baťa Monument, designed by architect František Lydie Gahura well-known for his designs in the city of Zlín commissioned by Tomáš Baťa, is one of the masterpieces of Zlín's functionalism. It is currently closed. What will happen to it in five years?
For almost 20 years, there has been a rehabilitation centre for clients with drug, alcohol and gambling addictions at Hraničná Street. Two years ago, a gambling club was built on the very same street. I grew up there and I came to like the clients as a child. That is one of the reasons why I was taken aback by the new gambling club in close proximity of the centre.
Hraničná Street
The picture of a time period which the citizens from Modrý Kameň live nowadays in. The stories of people told through their dialogues with a postwoman who is a part of their everyday life. At first sight, the postwoman is a bearer of messages to people, but she is actually a collector of their life stories.
The News Collector
Spanish solitaire and a juror of the Between the Seas section, Albert Serra, winning the Golden Leopard Award at Locarno Film Festival, gained renown for his triptych of unprecedented adaptations – Honor de cavalleria, Birdsong and The Story of My Death, in which classical literary figures Don Quixote, Casanova or Dracula act as abstract, but all the more fascinating principles...
Ji.hlava IDFF Presents: Masterclass - Albert Serra
Film director, screenwriter and an actor whose films are usually associated with the Third Cinema movement and with the criticism of Neo-colonialism. Kidlat Tahimik is one of the most acclaimed Philippine filmmakers, a laureate of the "Plaridel honorarium for Independent Cinema", whom many of his colleagues and film critics call the "father of Philippine independent cinema"...
Masterclass - Kidlat Tahimik (Jihlava IDFF)
A Chicago-based artist and filmmaker interested in landscapes and systems. Rather than telling stories, her films pose a series of issues – and through their at times ambiguous nature, allow for a complicated reading of the questions being asked...
Ji.hlava IDFF Presents: Masterclass - Deborah Stratman
The film consists of four chapters, each of which is a critical commentary on the contemporary city. Problems which the creator usually shows in his art/ activist projects in public space are this time captured in more poetic, abstract and personal form...
Comments on Megapolis
Filmmakers that were selected at Visions du Réel in the past twenty editions celebrate the Festival's anniversary by each making a short movie in which they expose their view of the future.
Trace of the future according to Jay Rosenblatt
Trace of the future according to Thomas Heise
Trace of the future according to Laila Pakalnina
Trace of the future according to Massimo D'Anolfi and Martina Parenti
Trace of the future according to Gürcan Keltek
Trace of the future according to Kevin Jerome Everson
We read many texts every day. How can we regulate this quantity?
Behind a Poster
The story of Milda and his pack, love for music and a little experiment. Documentary as a time machine trying to link two diametrically different eras of a corner pub on Řezáčovo Square.
Play It Again, Boys!
I couldn't find historical records, photos or documents. But I found Mrs. Markova.
Na Knizeci
Six years after Belgrade was bombed by NATO forces, some buildings still remain destroyed. A team of cleaning ladies enters the ruins of the serbian Ministry of Defense wishing to put a bit of order in the chaos...
Room Service for Bombed Buildings
Victor Kossakovsky introduced himself in the role of a lecturer on January 23 in Světozor Cinema. He introduced his film work, selecting important moments he commented on, and explained how he approaches the film documentary not only from the position of a director but also from the perspective of a screenwriter, cameraman and editor.
DAFilms Presents: Masterclass - Victor Kossakovsky
Alana Victoria Hunt is a curator in Aboriginal community art center. White employees work with Aboriginal artists who tell the history of the Aboriginal nation Giya through art. Their works are painted with natural paints extracted from the soil.
White-Black Film
A master class with the well-known Russian director Sergei Loznitsa, the creator of award-winning documentaries and feature films.
Planete Doc Film Festival Presents: Masterclass - Sergei Loznitsa
Lisbon Docs is an international financing and co-production forum for documentary film and is a co-production between Apordoc – Associação pelo Documentário and EDN – European Documentary Network. During Lisbon Docs, documentary projects were developed in an intense workshop, pitched to a panel of leading broadcasters and individually matched for meetings with potential collaborators.
Lisbon Docs Pitching Sessions
Two men are walking in the big city at night. They are having the kind of conversation that only lost souls can have.
PS Sao Paulo
Because of the elevator, occupants of the house only know the others on their floor. Meeting the yet unseen occupants of an apartment building after two years of house sharing. What links those who have chosen this place out of all other places on the planet? A minimalist documentary probe into local predetermination and polite urban indifference.
Decent House
A short film about demolition of the huge hotel from the socialist era.
Hotel Praha