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.
CINEMA: Four films and two books – can they capture something about this newly dead legend of cinema? Let me try, especially with Godard’s…
WAR: Footage from a Soviet war crimes trial in Kiev in 1946 underscores today's atrocities committed by the heirs to the Red Army in…
THE PHILLIPPINES: The following text introduces the concept of the retrospective of Philippine documentary cinema that will be presented at this year’s festival in…
BELARUS: A dreamy figure takes us through the protesting crowds of 2020 Belarus as dreams turn to nightmares.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Legendary Magnum photographer Josef Koudelka revisits more than 200 Hellenistic and Roman ancient cities he had shot over the past 26 years.
For its 2022 edition, the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival will screen over three hundred films across all sections, including a unique retrospective of…
From today (10 October), «Short Joy», the competitive international short film section Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, will be presented online exclusively on DAFilms.com…
16 new European documentary projects will be presented at the 2nd Ji.hlava IDFF (25 – 30 October) New Visions Forum, held as part of…
COMMUNITY: It's more than icebergs and permafrost vanishing in the Arctic as a young anthropologist discovers in Svalbard, Norway.