The iconic Glock
Despite a somewhat sprawled narrative, this collection of stories around the gun named Glock is worth your attention.
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.
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The apocalyptic face of capitalism
The shocking reality of Ghana’s electronic waste dump Sodom reveals the truth about our unending need for the newer and better in Western consumerism.
Down the fake news rabbit hole
A new documentary examines the Trump campaign and the breadth of the influence of «fake news» exclusively through the eyes of Russian media sources.
40 years of oblivion
What kind of a rule is maintained through violence, torture, murder, secrecy and institutionalised silence?
From protégée to dictator
RUSSIA: A glimpse into Vladimir Putin‘s rise to power – from his early promises of media freedom to the flagrant disregard of democratic norms.
The many ways to power
The Jihlava Doc Festival of 2017 was focussed on political film. Several films took on the theme of state leaders and the election processes that led to their victory.
The Presidents You Deserve
At the 2016 Jihlava Documentary Film Festival in October, five films about presidential campaigns were selected. Here are the impressions, ranging from Kennedy to Trump, of the screenings. Will they help us gain better understanding of how to deceive people – or push them off the edge?
This week’s magazine launch
Modern Times – a new European documentary magazine was launched at this week’s Jihlava International Film Festival.
Hannah Arendt as a refugee
Hannah Arendt’s reflections on the existential impossibility of escape are more relevant than ever, and make up the basic premise in a new documentary film about the philosopher, who herself fled to Paris at a time of political polarisation.
BILL MORRISON: My films are not a conversation with the past
Bill Morrison is honored as one of the last “possessed” experimental filmmakers working with reviving the found-footage and non/fictional film material.
Prize winner: Blinded by the limelight
MEDIA The media’s place in a changing society and an interesting cross-section of Georgian country life.