Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival is the largest festival of creative documentary films in Central and Eastern Europe. It draws attention to documentaries with innovative visual style and a deeper social reflection and confrontation. Jihlava IDFF has a prominent place on the map of documentary film festivals, being also a member and co-founder of Doc Alliance, initiative of seven key European documentary film festivals, the activities of which also include selective documentary and experimental video-on-demand portal www.dafilms.com.

Every year the festival program awards the best international documentaries (Opus Bonum), the most remarkable Central and Eastern European documentaries (Between the Seas, the winner is awarded with EUR 7 500), the best Czech documentaries (Czech Joy, the winner is awarded with EUR 5 000) and the best of the experimental documentary films (Fascinations) and since 2014 also the best European short documentary (Short Joy) and the most remarkable first documentary debut (First Lights). A different perspective, both in terms of cinematographic approach and thinking about the world is reflected in retrospective sections Translucent Beings.

The festival continues to explore what documentary means. A new section called Doc-fi shows how permeable the boundaries between documentary and fiction film are and new Reality TV section introduces the actual shapes of the crossbred genres like docudrama, docusoap, reality show or mockumentary to the audience. You can see the list of all festival sections here: www.dokument-festival.cz/program/sections

The festival is famous for its informal atmosphere, discussion character and full cinemas - in total more than 37.000 viewers visited last year's film screenings. The festival brings along a wide accompanying programme such as author readings, theatre cabarets, concerts of alternative music or Darkroom, focusing on still images on the big screen.

19th Jihlava IDFF 2015 will take place on October 27 - November 1, in Jihlava (Czech Republic).
More information at www.dokument-festival.com