Living with floods and garbage
CLIMATE: Once more, the formidable Brahmaputra river is on the ascent. Amidst a vanishing mud island, Afrin, a 12-year-old orphan, readies herself to depart from the sole realm she’s ever been acquainted with.
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.
Docu Talents from the East announces 2023 winners
The Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink Industry Days recently unveiled a selection of documentaries set for theatrical release within the next
What makes human life worth living?
EXTINCTION: A disturbingly accurate farewell to human life on planet earth.
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
RITUAL: Female solidarity through Estonian women continuing an age-old tradition.
While the Green Grass Grows
LIFE: A unique and personal cinematic exploration of the flow of rivers and lives, including the passing of his parents and global questions.
The last public servant
IRAQ: Former UN Secretary-General Hans Blix’s fact-finding mission in Iraq became an issue of war and peace, with his words becoming the most crucial for those trying to stop it.
A chilling look into China’s surveillance state
SURVEILLANCE: The Chinese surveillance state in a tale of technology, censorship and abuse of power in the 21st century.
Bringing back Jesus, with an AR-15
RELIGION: Power, money, and religion intertwine as the influential US Christian fundamentalist movement fights for the end of the world.
Echoes of Ji.hlava descends onto New York for four days of documentary screenings
After the announcement of Echoes of Ji.hlava IDFF in Bucharest, the festival also brings outstanding films from its 26th edition
Echoes of Ji.hlava IDFF returns to Bucharest with five screenings
The Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival will bring five films from its 2022 competition sections to Bucharest from 7 to
Garbage, garbage everywhere
ECOLOGY: Following waste across the planet and the endless struggle of people to gain control over it.