30-01-2015

Meet Jihlava IDFF at Rotterdam and Berlinale

    The festival season is starting and you can meet our programme directors and other members of Jihlava IDFF team at many important festivals. The next opportunity after the end of Rotterdam IFF will be Berlinale. The director of Jihlava IDFF Marek Hovorka and Head of Industry Office Jarmila Outratová will be happy to meet you at Berlinale from 7th to 9th February. And do not miss the opportunity to meet there this year’s Emerging Producers.

    Achievements of Emerging Producers

    Three of our Emerging Producers - Pawel Kosuń from Poland, Eva Blondiau from Germany and Pedro Fernandes Duarte from Portugal - were participants of prestigious TorinoFilmLab on November 2014. Film Nebel (The Fog) – produced and co-written by Emerging Producer Elsa Kremser from Austria – won Award for upcoming new talent at the first edition of Porto/Post/Doc in Portugal. It’s another success of this poetic and experimental documentary after the November award from Minsk IFF.

    Awards and Nominations for Into the Clouds We Gaze

    This Year’s Czech Joy winner and triple holder of Jihlava IDFF Award for the Best Czech Documentary Martin Dušek got another reason to be joyous. His documentary Into the Clouds We Gaze got the Czech Critics’ Award for the Best Documentary and was also nominated in the same category by Czech Film Academy. Dušek’s new film was already screened in competitions at Chicago IFF and Sevilla IFF.

    17 documentaries from Jihlava IDFF in Brussel

    From 5th to 22nd February Echoes of Jihlava IDFF will take place in Brussels for the third time. Seventeen unique documentaries from all important competition sections of Jihlava IDFF will be screened in Cinéma Nova including the Czech Joy winner Martin Dušek’s Into the Clouds We Gaze. Some directors will be also present to attend Q&A’s. Rozálie Kohoutová will represent the creative team of omnibus Gottland, which is a kind of manifest of young Czech generation of documentarists. Phillip Warnell will come with his hypnotizing film Ming of Harlem: Twenty One Storeys in the Air from the Opus Bonum section. And the Lithuanian portrait of a child’s microcosm Chimney will be presented by its director Laila Pakalnina. A day before the programme’s beginning in Cinéma Nova the official opening will take place on European Parliament.
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    Media Coverage of Jihlava IDFF 2014

    “And the festival itself has capitalized on its remote location from a major city to create a rich program of venturesome docs from Eastern and Central Europe, as well as work from Western Europe, the US, Burma, Syria and Israel, among other countries. The festival also spotlighted the work of such masters as Godfrey Reggio, Filipino director Kidlat Tahimik and the late Alain Resnais. Reggio and Tahimik were on hand to teach master classes, along with such luminaries as Nicolas Philibert and Bing Wang,” writes Tom White in his extensive report for Documentary. You can find other articles and reviews here.

    Viktor Kossakovskij’s first world online retrospective

    DAFilms.com portal presents the first world online retrospective by Russian film legend Victor Kossakovskywhich will offer 6 films by the filmmaker. These will include The Belovs (RU, 1992, 60’), which ranked the director among world-class filmmakers in the early 1990s, as well as awarded Wednesday 19. 07. 1961 (GB, FI, D, RU, 1997, 93’) and Pavel and Lyalya (a Jerusalem Romance) (RU, 1999, 34’). The film retrospective will be available to international viewers from Monday, January 19 to Sunday, February 1 for free.

    Contact: Jarmila Outratová, Head of Industry Office: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.