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.
UKRAINE: Sergei Loznitsa's new archive-based doc is an impressive reconstruction of the trial of 15 Nazi officers in Kiev after World War II, inevitably…
Six weeks remain until the start of the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, which will take place from 25 to 30 October. As every…
TERRORISM Uncovering the history of the Islamic State through the lenses of its now-detained members, capturing the reality of life in a land ravaged…
LEGACY: A son's search for meaning at the site of a former Argentinian concentration camp where his mother «disappeared» in the 1970s.
WAR: Confronting Serbia's wartime past and the evil that is still on the loose today.
CULTURE: An insight into the unique liveliness of a forgotten subculture from emigrated Turkish guest workers and their grandchildren in Germany.
SEX: Exploring the female body in Hollywood by tracing the making of sex scenes, the toll it takes on those involved, and what it…
CONFLICT: Sergei Loznitsa’s sombre documentary, The Natural History of Destruction, re-examines the heavy bombing of British and German cities during World War Two, posing…
