A Greek Journalist: Be Careful What You "Like"
Although Dimitra Kouzi has been involved in numerous projects, documentaries are her true passion. She says that the audience is wise and well-informed.
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Although Dimitra Kouzi has been involved in numerous projects, documentaries are her true passion. She says that the audience is wise and well-informed.
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KineDok is a new kind of international community, a unique film club and an alternative distribution platform, connecting both the fans and makers of creative documentary. In its pilot edition, 12 thought-provoking East and Central European documentaries were screened at more than 20 non-traditional venues (local clubs, cafes, galleries, attics etc.) in each of the participating countries: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Croatia.
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The Institute of Documentary Film in cooperation with the Czech Centre London, DocHouse Cinema and University of Bristol organizes 2 screenings of investigative documentary Sugar Blues. Film’s director and its main protagonist Andrea Culková embarks on a journey to fight off the “sugary dictatorship” and to uncover the consequences of the centuries’ worth of sugar consumption on both the individuals and the society.
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This year's edition of the Forum 2000 conference will host project KineDok within its programme, screening a documentary film 1989, dealing with the events preceding the fall of the iron curtain. The film will be followed by a discussion with its Danish director Anders Østergaard, nominated for the Academy Award for his previous film Burma VJ.
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On July 1st, KineDok is launching in Romania with the screening of „Men with Balls” at Cinema Elvira Popesco in Bucharest. The one serving the balls will be the protagonist of the film, the mayor of the Hungarian village of Besence, who will attend the event. Mr. Ignácz József will then leave for Timișoara and Arad, where the next screenings of the film are scheduled for the 2 and the 3 of July.
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I like project KineDok.This is a wonderful possibility to acquaint the audience with Russian independent films. I think my films are versatile, because they mention universal questions, which can be clear to any country and make audience think over and look at ourselves from the other side; maybe even laugh at ourselves. I hope KineDok audience will appreciate this... says the director Alina Rudnitskaya
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Comeback, a strong and visually refined portrait of two notorious recidivists Mira and Zlatko, was originally shot as a graduation film of Miro Remo, but the talented director managed to succeed in a huge competition of several hundreds of films from the whole world and got into the documentary competition at Karlovy Vary IFF 2014. The film, supported by Institute of Documentary Film and included in the KineDok project selection, currently has the rating of 79% at Czechoslovak Movie Database.
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Visually refined Polish documentary Joanna with the music by Oscar-winning composer Jan Kaczmarek collects one award after another at film festivals throughout Europe. This extremely powerful film about life in the shadow of impending death, nominated for Oskar is one of the KineDok films.
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On Wednesday, April 15, the official launch of project KineDok in Slovakia will take place in Bratislava in A4 -Association for Contemporary Culture. The introductory film will be the Danish-Hungarian documentary 1989. During the following year, screenings at 20 more non-traditional venues will take place in Slovakia.
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The director investigates the impact of hundreds of years of sugar consummation on individuals and society. She discovers the huge power this white powder has played in history right through to the present day. She uncovers links between mental and behavioural disorders and excessive consumption of sugar. An interview with Andrea Culková, the director of Sugar Blues
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Within East Doc Platform, a new and unique project of international importance will be introduced, named KineDok. “The project aims to adress the audience of creative documentaries, who are convinced that these films are worth seeing on the big screen and being accompanied by debates with the filmmakers or other interesting guests. KineDok will be welcomed by those who believe that a shared experience with friends at their favorite venue is better than solitary streaming at home and those who prefer the genius loci of alternative spaces to the unified multiplex cinema halls. Not to mention the possibility of meeting new people who think alike from five different countries and an opportunity to become an active part of this alternative distributional network“, says Jana Ripplová, the main coordinator of project KineDok.
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