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.
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…
CLIMATE: Four young women of colour take the fight for a Green New Deal to Congress.
MIGRANTS: Africa's migrant crisis seen through the lens of a mother to be.
CHINA: The raw reality of daily life in China juxtaposes with a microcosm of kindness in a semi-legal countryside orphanage for handicapped children.
YOUTH: Zhu Rikun’s new doc captures Chinese youths as they experiment with their relationships and belief systems.
FAMILY: A timeless tale of growing up in a land of both magic and hatred.
The 25th annual Ji.hlava IDFF will open with When Flowers Are Not Silent by Belarusian director #Andrei Kutsila#. When Flowers Are Not Silent captures…
