IDF (The Institute of Documentary Film) has announced all the projects selected for his year’s event running March 24-30 in Prague. Organized by IDF Film in cooperation with One World Film Festival, the East Doc Platform is the largest co-production, funding and distribution platform tailor-made for Central and Eastern European documentaries, and will take place at the French Institute in Prague, March 24-30.
The complete list (with full details on each) is as follows:
EAST DOC FORUM 2023: Founded in 2001 as the East European Forum, the East Doc Forum has become the region’s largest and prestigious pitching forum. Over the past 20 years, the East Doc Forum has hosted more than 800 filmmakers and producers from Central and Eastern Europe and over 300 commissioning editors, independent producers, distributors, film fund representatives and festival programmers from Europe and North America.
- Brothers in the Hunt (dir. Ieva Ozolina, Madara Melberga, Fa Filma, Latvia)
- Cuba & Alaska (dir. Yegor Troyanovsky, prod. Olga Beskhmelnytsina, Ukraine)
- Girls Sometimes (dir. Anna Artemyeva, prod. Ksenia Gapchenko, Germany)
- I Made a Mistake Coming Here (dir. Kseniya Halubovich, prod. Louis Beaudemont, Les Steppes Productions, France)
- Insurance Against Meteorites (dir. Natalia Śliwowska, Jorik Galama, prod. Kasia Kuczyńska, Haka Films, Poland)
- Sisters (dir. Tereza Bernátková, prod. Natália Pavlove, prod. Dagmar Sedláčková, MasterFilm, Czech Republic)
- Songs of Sisterhood (dir. Hanka Nobis, prod. Esther van Messel, First Hand Films, Switzerland)
- The Soldier’s Journey (dir. Helena Maksyom, prod. Adrian Pirvu, Pirvu A. Adrian PFA. Romania)
- World of Walls (dir. Lucia Kašová, prod. Matej Sotník, Wanda Kaprálová, Guča s.r.o., co-prod. Claw AV, Slovakia, Czech Republic)
Ten Ex Oriente Film 2022 projects are part of East Doc Platform 2023
- Basement 341 (dir. & prod. Roman Blazhan, Minimal Movie, Ukraine)
- Beautiful Void (dir. Andris Gauja, prod. Elza Gauja, Riverbed, co-prod. Film Tower, Latvia)
- Chasing Stumps (dir. Mihai Gavril Dragolea, prod. Elena Martin, Manifest Film, Romania)
- December (dir. Grzegorz Paprzycki, prod. Piotr Śmiechowski, Telemark, Poland)
- European Union Wolf (dir. Jadran Boban, prod. Dana Budisavljević, Hulahop, Croatia)
- Love and Capitalism (dir. Bára Jíchová Tyson, prod. Kristýna Škodová, Cinepoint, Czech Republic)
- May It Be a Girl (dir. Katerina Suvorova, prod. Aruan Anartaev, co-prod. Mischief Films, Kazakhstan, Austria)
- Maomi – Larger Than Life (dir. Judit Oláh, prod. Inez Mátis, Pi Production, co-prod. Majmun Film, Hungary, Germany)
- One Day I Wish To See You Happy (dir. Maryna Nikolcheva, prod. Oleksandra Kravchenko, Ukraine)
- War on Women (dir. Maris Salumets, prod. Volia Chajkouskaya, Allfilm, Estonia)
EAST DOC SERIES 2023: 5 docu-series projects coming from Central and Eastern Europe. Individual consultations and feedback from international experts. Lectures and case studies of successful series. Pitch presentation and trailer preparation workshop, marketing and promotion strategy preparation. Networking opportunities in form of public pitch at East Doc Forum and individual meetings with decision makers at East Doc Market.
- Out & Open (dir. Ieva Ozolina, prod. Madara Melberga, Fa Filma, Latvia)
- Dance Plus City (dir. Lina Lužytė, Marius Paplauskas, Triin Ruumet, Martti Helde, Rūta Ronja Pakalne, Valerijs Olehno, Vadim Ilkov, prod. Dagne Vildziunaite, Just a Moment, LT, LV, EE, UA)
- The Silent Hostage (dir. Katrina Tomasicka, Ilze Falkovska, Kultfilma /Amber Sound Ltd./, Latvia)
- Pacenotes (dir. Timo Novotny, prod. Sebastian Rieker, Seehund Media, Austria, Germany)
- Bohemian Identity (dir. Jakub Skalický, prod. Michal Gregorini, Mowshe, Czech Republic)
EAST DOC INTERACTIVE 2023: A creative lab and networking session within East Doc Platform that is designed for XR creators coming from Central and Eastern Europe. Over the course of 3 days the participants will consult their upcoming XR projects in development and production stage with international experts coming from the artistic, technological, or film scene.
- Fresh Memories (dir. Volodymyr Kolbasa & Ondřej Moravec, prod. Ondřej Moravec & Robin Pultera / BRAINZ IMMERSIVE, Czech Republic, Ukraine)
- The Life Beneath Our Feet (dir. Thom Vander Beken, prod. Marc Goyens, Belgium)
- Panel Program (dir. Botond Tobai, Peter Becz, prod. András Szabó, Hungary)
- Dream Screen (dir. Johannes Krell, prod. Ayla Güney, Germany)
- Humart (dir. Michał Stankiewicz, prod. Justyna Nowak, Poland, USA)
CZECH DOCS: COMING SOON 2023: a presentation dedicated to Czech documentary projects within the East Doc Platform program. Upcoming feature documentaries are presented by producer-director team to an audience of invited representatives of leading international film festivals, sales agents, distributors, and to the wide public. This event is organized in cooperation with the Audiovisual Producers’ Association (APA).
- Police Symphony Orchestra (dir. Dominik Kalivoda, prod. Michal Kráčmer / Analog Vision, Czech Republic)
- The World According to Jiri (dir. Marta Kovářová, prod. Jan Bodnár / Gnomon Production, Silvia Panáková / ARINA Ltd., Czech Republic, Slovakia)
- Atyrkul in the Land of Real Men (dir. Janyl Jusupjan, prod. Alice Tabery / CINEPOINT, Christian Lelong / CINEDOC FILMS, France, Czech Republic)
- 1+1+1 (dir. Ondřej Vavrečka, prod. Vít Janeček / D1FILM, Czech Republic)
- Amoosed! (dir. Hana Nováková, prod. Kateřina Traburová / LaDamplinque, Czech Republic, Slovakia)
EAST DOC MARKET 2023: the EDM offers filmmakers the opportunity to meet with over 70 international funders, broadcasters, distributors, sales agents and festival representatives. Over the course of two days, filmmakers pitch their projects at 15 minutes long individual meetings to the partners of their choice or the ones who requested specifically to meet the project. Over two days, more than 400 curated individual meetings take place.
- A Picture to Remember (dir. Olga Chernykh, prod. Regina Maryanovska Davidzon, Real Pictures, co-prod. Laurence Uebersfeld, LuFilms, Ukraine, France)
- Bitter Sugar (dir. Ana Barjadze, prod. Irina Gelashvili, Radium Films, Georgia)
- Fixing the War (dir. Clare Stronge, prod. Gary Lennon, Plainsong Ltd., Ireland) – Awarded at Docs Ireland 2022
- Flowers of Ukraine (dir. Adelina Borets, prod. Glib Lukianets, Gogol Film, Poland, Ukraine)
- Four Winters in Edificio Cuba (dir. Aleksandra Maciuszek, prod. Aleksandra Maciuszek, New Plot Films, Poland) – Awarded at DocsBarcelona 2022
- Hasan’s Joy (dir. Natalia Pietsch, Grzegorz Piekarski, prod. Katarzyna Kostecka, Larmo, Poland) – Awarded at Krakow Film Festival / Doc Lab Poland 2022
- Liberation Diaries (dir. Matteo Parisini, prod. Lorenzo Cioffi, Ladoc, co-prod. Tina Leeb – DOCDAYS Productions and Audrey Ferrarese, Drôle de Trame, Italy, Germany, France) – Awarded at Sunny Side of the Doc 2022
- Memory (dir. Vladlena Sandu, prod. Yanna Buryak, Mimesis, France, Netherlands, Kosovo)
- Until the Wedding (dir. & prod. Daniel Stopa, KIOSK FILMS, Poland)
- Where I End And You Begin (dir. David Power, prod. Raffaella Pontarelli, Amarena Film, Romania, Italy)
- I Have Never Been on an Airplane (dir. Redon Kikaj, prod. Dardan Hoti, Farid Eslam / Mind Riot media, XK, CZ)
- Souvenirs (dir. Pegah Ahangarani, prod. Gabriela Daniels, Kaveh Farnam / Europe Media Nest, CZ)
