Jihlava IDFF, the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival is one of the most significant festivals of creative documentary in Central and Eastern Europe. Presenting films of daring themes and distinct authorial style, its essential effort is to lead a dialogue with both these films and their authors. During the festival, films are accompanied by discussions with the audience, workshops, panel discussions as well as professional meetings or a wide section for film professionals. The six festival days are followed by a systematic all-year effort at further promotion and reflection of the documentary film. Festival echoes as well as regular screenings of selected films in partner cinemas are supplemented by expert publication activities. Within the last thirteen years, IDFF Jihlava has accomplished its motto „Thinking through film!“ More at www.dokument-festival.cz
OSCAR® NOMINEE - RABBIT A LÁ BERLIN
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OSCAR NOMINEE IN THE BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY SUBJECT CATEGORY
IDFF JIHLAVA PRIZE-WINNING FILMS
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The 13th Annual Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival took place from October 27 to November 1, 2009. The six-day celebration of original documentaries took place this year in DKO, in the two auditoriums of the Dukla Cinema on Masaryk Square and at selected screenings in Jihlava homes. Almost 240 films of all formats were shown.
Jorgen Leth and his Five Jihlava Obstructions
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A distinguished documentary film-maker, writer and poet Jorgen Leth will be this year’s guest of honour at the 13th Jihlava IDFF. His return after five years will follow up on an extensive retrospective prepared for him by Jihlava IDFF in 2004.
When Czech Had to Heil
Jihlava IDFF will present thirty documentaries of the Czech Republic’s Protectorate period which, seventy years ago, proclaimed Bohemia and Moravia autonomous Nazi-administered territories.
A peek at Jihlava’s competitive section Opus Bonum
The tendency towards taking stock of today’s economic situation is palpable in several competition films. “What do you think a chicken weighed fifty years ago and what does it weigh today?” asks director Robert Kenner in Food, Inc., a systematically argued, formally precise and witty analysis of the industrialization of nutrition.
