The festival's organiser is DOC.DREAM – Association for the Support of Documentary Cinema.
In 2014 the festival welcomed over 3400 accredited guests, 842 film professionals and 183 media representatives. The projections were attended by over 37000 viewers and 2200 unique tickets were sold.
Awards of Jihlava IDFF 2015:
Award for the Best International Documentary Film 2015- Opus Bonum competition
Award for the Best Central and Eastern European Documentary Film 2015 - Between the Seas competition
Award for the Best Czech Documentary Film 2015 - Czech Joy competition
Award for the Best Experimental Documentary Film 2015 - Fascinations competition
Award for the Best Czech Experimental Documentary Film 2015 - Exprmntl.cz competition
Award for the Best Short Documentary Film 2015 - Short Joy competition
Award for the Best Debut Documentary Film 2015 - First Lights competition
Contribution to World Cinema 2015
Audience Award 2015
Respect Weekly Award for the best TV and Video Reportage 2015
Awards of Jihlava IDFF Industry Programme 2015:
Silver Eye Awards / Institute of Documentary Film
Award for the Best Film Festival Poster 2015
Audience Award for the Best Film Festival Poster 2015
DOC ALLIANCE AND DAFILMS.CZ
Doc Alliance Selection Award
Discover the Power of Documentary Film Doc Alliance Selection Award is annually given to the best documentary fi lm. Since 2008, the Doc Alliance Selection Award has annually been presented by an alliance of seven documentary fi lm festivals: CPH:DOX Copenhagen, Docs Against Gravity FF, Doclisboa, DOK Leipzig, FID Marseille, Jihlava IDFF and Visions du Réel. Each of the festivals involved nominates one film and one film critic from the respective country as a jury member. In addition to the online documentary portal, DAFilms.com, the Doc Alliance Selection Award, is among DAF’s key projects. This year for the first time, the award for the winning fi lmmakers was presented at the Locarno Film Festival.
DAFilms.com - Your online documentary cinema
The online portal www.DAFilms.com is the main project of the Doc Alliance festival network formed by seven key European documentary film festivals (CPH:DOX Copenhagen, DOK Leipzig, FID Marseille, Jihlava IDFF, Docs Against Gravity FF, Visions du Réel Nyon and Doclisboa). It represents an international online distribution platform for documentary and experimental films focused on European cinema. For free or a small fee, it offers over 1300 films accessible across the globe for streaming or legal download. The films are included in the virtual database on the basis of demanding selection criteria. The portal presents regular film programmes of diverse character ranging from presentation of archive historical films through global retrospectives of leading world fi lmmakers (Jørgen Leth, Sergei Loznitsa, Agnès Varda, Peter Tscherkassky, Victor Kossakovsky…) to new premiere formats such as the day-and-date release.
The Jihlava IDFF brings the fourteenth volume of its Industry Programme. Once more, we have invited a great number of fi lm professionals from the Czech Republic, other European countries and overseas, so that you can meet them, get to know their work and start new collaborations. Like in other art scenes, in the fi eld of documentary fi lmmaking it is also very important to stay open-minded, to know (about) the right people and to keep track of new trends and approaches.
The Industry part of the IDFF festival provides a platform that makes it all easier and faster. Whether you wish to acquire new inspiration at workshops with people that are changing the rules of the world, discover new talents to work with, seek advice regarding festival organising or are interested in experimental fi lmmaking, you will find what you are looking for.
We are very happy to see an increasing number of delegates from various industry sectors coming each year that deepen the connection between the specifi cs of the Eastern and Western tradition. It makes us very proud and confident in what we do. Moreover, it encourages us to put even more eff ort and creativity in our activities. If you are visiting Jihlava for the fi rst time, make sure to fully explore its potential. If you don’t know how, find our festival Matchmaker, Patricie Pouzarová, and she will help you. Coming as a regular, we hope you will find again what you love about the festival and, in addition, get pleasantly surprised with our brand new modules.
Inspiration Forum
A five-day meeting of ten selected directors from around the world and significant personalities from outside the film community. The Inspiration Forum is a platform based on multidisciplinary foundations hosting three main guests, who represent various fields of knowledge – ranging from sciences to the arts, literature, theater, business and the media world. The merit of this project is that it brings together personalities who usually only appear at professional and closed forums.
Guests of 2015 Inspiration Forum:
Julian Assange
One of the most controversial fi gures of our time. He is best known as the founder and public face of WikiLeaks, the Internet-based publishing organisation which makes headlines around the world by releasing suppressed information about corporate, government and military corruption and misconduct. Assange is an advocate of information transparency and market libertarianism. Since 2012, he has been living in asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
Maria Alyokhina
A poet and member of the punk rock protest group Pussy Riot, concentrating on feminism, LGBT rights in Russia, and acting in opposition to the current political system in Russia represented by President Vladimir Putin. A er a nearly two-year-long imprisonment following a protest concert held in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, Maria, together with her fellow Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, focuses on a campaign concerning human rights violations in Russian prisons, on political prisoners and on raising awareness of this topic internationally.
Maria Alyokhina will be accompanied at the Inspiration Forum by other guests – Polina Nemirovskaya, manager of the Open Russia human rights organisation established by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Ksenia Zhivago - a collaborator of Zone of Rights, an organisation specialising in promoting the rights of Russian prisoners, and Aleksandr Sofeev - photographer and Russian political activist.
Osama Abdul Mohsen
The World got to know this man as one of the Syrian refugees, running from the police at the Hungarian-Serbian border near Röszke. Video, where is documented how a Hungarian TV reporter tripped him while he was carrying his little son, became a viral and stirred up strong emotions. Osama Abdul Mohsen is now trying to establish new life in Spain where he was off ered haven and job as a coach by a soccer school, and accepted invitation to Jihlava IDFF, where he will share his experience with a situation that has been a topic no. 1 for the past several months in all news and social networks.
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