The Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival
Located in Jihlava, Czech Republic
The Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival is the largest festival of creative documentary films in Central and Eastern Europe. It draws attention to documentaries notable for their innovative visual style and a deeper social reflection and confrontation.
The Jihlava IDFF has a prominent place on the map of documentary film festivals, being also a member and co-founder of Doc Alliance, an initiative of seven key European documentary film festivals, the activities of which also include the selective documentary and experimental video-on-demand portal dafilms.com.
The 30th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival begins this Friday, 23 October, in the Czech city of Jihlava. Running until 1 November, the anniversary…
The 30th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival marks its anniversary with a section devoted to films that altered law and public debate, a Trinh…
The 28th Ji.hlava IDFF has announced the award winners. Tomorrow evening, Ji.hlava Online kicks off. It will run until November 17 and will offer…
ENVIRONMENT: Fifty years after capturing America’s consumerist landscape, photographers revisit their work, offering a reflective documentary on environmental crises and unfulfilled promises.
CONFLICT: Ville Suhonen's study of the cult of youth soldiers in inter-war Finland shows there's nothing new in the old sacrificing the young for…
TOURISM: Combining performance, visual effects, newly captured and found footage, this hybrid work offers an exploratory journey through the desolate remnants of an abandoned…
HEALTH The dawn of the age of Homo Plasticus – or how plastics are going to kill us, unless we do something about them.
ADVERTISING: Radu Jude’s latest weaves commercials from the past 35 years, creating a disorienting critique of capitalist culture, advertising, and national identity in post-communist…
