From the 23rd - 28th of October 2007 took place in Jihlava, Czech Republic, the International Festival of Documentary Films, the biggest event of this kind in Central and Eastern Europe. The 11th annual meeting of fans of this genre offered again a unique selection of Czech and international films under a motto: 'Thinking through film.'
The festival program as always was divided into three main contest categories. The first one: 'Good work' offers every year thematically interesting documentaries from all over the world, not only the famous ones but also those the have not been discovered yet. The second category: 'Between the seas' presented this year high-quality films from 6 European counties, the special interest was paid this time to the Eastern European film. The last section: 'Czech joy' concentrates on the domestic documentaries, 13 films from the Czech production participated in the contest this year. The non-competition category: 'Transparent beings' offers a retrospective of important persons of the world cinematography, this year it was dedicated to the legend of the French film, Chris Marker, the German film essayist Harun Farock and the Argentinean director Raymund Gleyzer.
The price 'The best world documentary’ in a category 'Good work' was given to a Chinese director James T. Hong for his 731: Two versions of Hell. As 'The best Czech documentary' in the section 'Czech joy' was considered A Town Called Hermitage by Ondřej Provazník and Martin Dušek. The jury decided that 'The best documentary of Central and Eastern Europe' is the film Artel by a Russian director Sergei Loznitza.
The special award of the festival ‘The Benefit to the World Cinematography’ was given to a Czech origin director Woody Vašulka, who belongs to the first generation of the experimenters with the video technology. He lives from 1965 in the U.S. where he co-founded the Inter-media theatre of electronic media - The Kitchen in New York.
The festival program as always was divided into three main contest categories. The first one: 'Good work' offers every year thematically interesting documentaries from all over the world, not only the famous ones but also those the have not been discovered yet. The second category: 'Between the seas' presented this year high-quality films from 6 European counties, the special interest was paid this time to the Eastern European film. The last section: 'Czech joy' concentrates on the domestic documentaries, 13 films from the Czech production participated in the contest this year. The non-competition category: 'Transparent beings' offers a retrospective of important persons of the world cinematography, this year it was dedicated to the legend of the French film, Chris Marker, the German film essayist Harun Farock and the Argentinean director Raymund Gleyzer.
The price 'The best world documentary’ in a category 'Good work' was given to a Chinese director James T. Hong for his 731: Two versions of Hell. As 'The best Czech documentary' in the section 'Czech joy' was considered A Town Called Hermitage by Ondřej Provazník and Martin Dušek. The jury decided that 'The best documentary of Central and Eastern Europe' is the film Artel by a Russian director Sergei Loznitza.
The special award of the festival ‘The Benefit to the World Cinematography’ was given to a Czech origin director Woody Vašulka, who belongs to the first generation of the experimenters with the video technology. He lives from 1965 in the U.S. where he co-founded the Inter-media theatre of electronic media - The Kitchen in New York.
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