Docs on the Spot

In cooperation with the Institute of Documentary Film, we present a selection of the best documentaries from Central and Eastern Europe. They all participated in East Doc Platform, an exceptional event for documentary professionals held annually in Prague. East European documentary combines unique poetics and specific themes; explore them with us! What films can you watch at DAFilms?

RABBIT A LA BERLIN

Director: Bartosz Konopka

The untold story about wild rabbits which lived between the Berlin Walls. For 28 years Death Zone was their safe home. Full of grass, no predators, guards protecting them from human disturbance. They were closed but safe and happy. Their population quickly grew up to thousands. Guards started to remove them. But rabbits survived and stayed there. Unfortunately, for them, one day the wall fell down...

THE DAZZLING LIGHT OF SUNSET

Director: Salome Jashi

The film takes a small town television station as the centerpiece of its story and draws a pseudoethnographic portrait of a community in Georgia. Rituals and traditions define the lifestyle here, though a distant crooked reflection of the modern world has already invaded the collective mind...

DISCO AND ATOMIC WAR

Director: Jaak Kilmi

Disco and Atomic War tells the story of a strange kind of information war, where a totalitarian regime stands face to face with the heroes of popular culture. And loses. Western popular culture had an incomparable role shaping Soviet children's world-views in those days...

New Resistance

This year, East Doc Platform focuses on the theme of NEW RESISTANCE, referring to the documentarists‘ unwillingness to conform, to comply with regimes tending towards totalitarianism, with a society that is turning fascist. Want to learn more about the impact of totalitarian tendencies on the life and work of documentary filmmakers? Come to Prague‘s French Institute on Tuesday, March 6, at 4 pm and attend a panel discussion with interesting guests.

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