Honored guests of this year’s Ex Oriente Film in Jihlava are three internationally acclaimed and inspiring directors: Victor Kossakovsky (Russia), Laurent Bécue-Renard (France) and Anja Salomonowitz (Austria).

The nominees for Silver Eye Awards have been announced. They will be judged by three juries for the seventh time in 2015.

Two new Czech documentaries, A Colourful Tail of a Flying Comet and Mills of God, were theatrically released in Czech Republic on 24 September 2015.

This year, the Emerging Producers project will for the fourth time present the upcoming generation of European documentary film producers.

With the opening of a seventh screening hall at Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival (JIDFF), the festival’s capacity is now expanding by over 400 seats. 

This year's edition of the Forum 2000 conference will host project KineDok within its programme, screening the documentary film 1989 at the Austrian Cultural Forum in Prague on 15 September 2015.

The ninth edition of DOKU.ARTS entitled Architectures in Motion will take place in the Zeughauskino of the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin from 9 to 27 September 2015.

A young director sets out to visit an old professor and asks him for recipes for the body and the soul. 

The 21st edition of Sarajevo Film Festival (14-22 August 2015) will screen 23 documentaries, five of which were supported by various activities of Institute of Documentary Film (IDF). All of them are competing for the Heart of Sarajevo Award

KineDok plans 200 screenings at alternative venues in Romania in 2015. 

Documentary director Jan Gogola is in post-production with the 80-minute creative documentary Excursions.

Vitaly Mansky’s documentary Close Relations is set for a December 2015 release.

JIHLAVA: A promotional and educational project which brings together talented documentary film producers from EU countries, Emerging Producers will run from October 28 – November 1, 2015 at the Jihlava IFF.

The International Film Festival in Karlovy Vary brings a rich film programme every year, as well as industry activities for both film professionals and interested public. 

The 50th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival will present a total of 11 new Czech documentaries in various sections.

Institute of Documentary Film (IDF) is proud to present 12 upcoming documentary projects from the Central and Eastern Europe that have been selected for 13th edition of Ex Oriente Film.