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Tvůrčí skupina 2A8 (rozuměj sekundáni jihlavského gymnázia aneb velikost kraťas(ů) 12 až 13 let .-)) představí své první dva  mikro dokumenty z bílých svahů i útrob školy, které vznikaly pod křídly třídního učitele Zdeňka Krásenského a záštitou Centra dokumentárního filmu (CDF).

Pokud se ve své bakalářské či magisterské práci hodláte věnovat fenoménu dokumentárního filmu, právě vám je určena tato soutěž projektů! Ve hře jsou nejen možnosti rešerší a konzultací s týmem CDF, ale i finanční ocenění 5.000 Kč (Bc.) a 10.000 (Mgr. práce)! Více informací najdete ZDE.

On the occasion of the Pavel Koutecký Awards, the CDF will visit Prague to present a popular lecture on sound and music in film by professional sound technician Václav Flegl.

Centrum dokumentárního filmu hledá KOORDINÁTORA / KOORDINÁTORKU PROVOZU CENTRA, KNIHOVNY A VIDEOTÉKY CDF.

Staňte se členem kreativního týmu a pomozte rozvíjet kulturní odkazy.

On Monday, May 1 and on the weekend of 6 – 7 May as well as on Monday May 8, the CDF will be closed.

The spring holidays are knocking on our door...
And we are looking forward to your visit on Good Friday and Holy Saturday!
Our Centre will be closed on Easter Sunday and Monday as we will be outdoors enjoying the budding nature.
 
Fri April 14 – open 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM (lunch break 1:00 - 2:00 PM)
Sat April 15 – open 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM (lunch break 1:00 - 2:00 PM)
Sun April 16 – closed
Sun April 17 – closed

Nenechte si ujít cyklus dvou vzájemně provázaných lekcí věnovaných tvůrčímu psaní ve spojitosti s dokumentárním filmem vedený jedním z nejvýraznějších filmových recenzentů a kritiků!

The spring is coming and we have prepared an overview of the latest and most inspiring film titles and film publications. Do you want to know what topics are trending on the Czech, Slovak, Hungarian and Polish documentary scene? 

You have already seen two screenings organised by the Centre for Documentary Film and there are nine more to go!

As the fourth Advent weekend is knocking on our door and the holiday season of peace and love are nearing, we would like to inform you about CDF’s opening (and closing) hours during holidays.

Take advantage of the holidays and visit the CDF on November 17 to watch movies dedicated to the student-related anniversary!

As part of the 20th Ji.hlava IDFF, the Centre for Documentary Film had the selected films assessed by two five-member juries composed of secondary and University students. How many films did they see and which titles did they choose? Read more here.

CDF is again extending its Opening Hours throughout the duration of the festival!

Between October 25 and 30, we will be offering our services from 10 am until 11 pm.

Aside from the first Game Zone, a public gaming zone set up on Jihlava’s Masaryk Square, the festival in conjunction with our Center and other Jihlava-based institutions co-organises an entertaining and educational programme for children aged 6 to 11.

Pre-festival photos from Jihlava taken at our photo point set-up as part of the urban adventure game – UrbanGame – are already up on our Facebook profile!
What and how much did you carry on your back?

On Wednesday, September 28, between 1 and 5 pm Jihlava will become a venue of an urban game that will take place in the urban public space, combining elements of storytelling, game, competition and instruction.

The new issue of Dok.revue brings an engaging discussion between CDF’s director Šimon Bauer, Karel Holcman from the Association of Taxi Licence Holders and Czech Television’s media analyst Milan Kruml.

The summer is over and we are presenting a brand new series of evening screenings entitled Czech Documentary Film Legends. What notable names can you look forward to?

After the two opening screenings, there are three more to see!

Win a trip to the European Film Awards gala evening!

And CDF answers the call...

Throughout the whole summer, you too will have the opportunity to visit (in the regular opening hours) the world of documentary cinema in our video library, accompanied by hundreds of interesting books embellished with autographs and fingerprints of famous personalities.

Only on July 4 – 7 CDF’s doors will remain closed (due to the decoration of the interior of the Dukla Cinema).

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We are looking forward to your next visit in the cosy and refreshingly cold attic of the Dukla Cinema.

Your CDF team

Join us at 7.30 pm on June 21 in the Dukla Cinema to find out what would happen if aliens paid us a visit...

On Wednesday, May 18, the Center for Documentary Film was visited by US Ambassador Andrew Schapiro and his wife Tamar Newberger.

Two national holidays are coming soon!

CDF recommends: Amsterdam University Press’s website offers a freely downloadable English monograph about acclaimed Dutch documentary filmmaker, Joris Ivens – don’t miss out on this worthwhile read!

The Center for Documentary Film will take part in the celebrations marking the fifth anniversary of the DIOD Theater.

Easter is quickly approaching and we would like to inform you that the CDF will be closed on Good Friday, March 25, on Easter Sunday, March 27, as well as on Easter Monday, March 28.

Thank you for your understanding and see you after Easter!

The spring seems not to have yet awaken, but the CDF is already fully at work, offering educational courses starting this week.
Our offer includes a variety of attractive courses, so don’t wait for the spring to come and visit the CDF!

All TV and film fans are cordially invited to a screening organised by the CDF on Wednesday evening, presenting Czech reality show Golden Youth aired last autumn on Czech Television.

A schedule of evening screenings from February till May 2016 is now available.

On February 3, starting at 7:30 pm in the Edison Hall of the Dukla Cinema, the CDF will host Janek Rubeš, the author of a series of reportages on the practices among Prague’s taxi drivers,. This event comes as the first of a three-part series organised by the CDF under the title Reality Show. The episode Prague vs. Money has become hugely popular thanks to the online TV stream.cz  and Rubeš has thus managed to draw attention to this burning social issue, which will hopefully soon be competently resolved.

Dlouho jsme přemýšleli nad tím, jak v Centru bude kolem Vánoc otevřeno. A jelikož bychom rádi vyhověli Vašemu zájmu a zároveň si také dostatečně před začátkem Nového roku odpočinuli, rozhodli jsme se takto:

23. - 27. 12. 2015 - ZAVŘENO

28. - 29. 12. 2015 - OTEVŘENO

30. 12. 2015 - ZAVŘENO (otevřeme však případným zájemcům po telefonické domluvě - 774 101 686)

31. 12. 2015 a 1. 1. 2016 - ZAVŘENO

Děkujeme za pochopení a budeme se na vás těšit!

Krásné svátky a šťastný Nový rok přeje tým CDF:)

This morning, Czech Radio Radiožurnál hosted the director, Andrea Culková. Does her name sound familiar? Sure! 

The Christmas is nearing and the month of December is often filled with stress and hurry. However, it is also a peak season for educational projects and public screenings that keep the whole CDF busy.

A two-day workshop with outstanding Czech documentary filmmakers (Vít Janeček, Drahomíra Vihanová, Vít Klusák, etc.) in which they will explore the borderline between fiction and documentary film. In addition to a series of lectures, the participants will be offered a wide range of benefits.

This week’s third lecture on Sound and Music in Film is cancelled. It will be postponed to next Thursday – 26 November, again at 1:30 pm.

As part of extending our scope of reach, we organise late afternoon and evening screenings for the public. The upcoming second screening is aptly titled “A Dinner at the CDF”. 

We would like to inform you that all today’s lessons organised by the CDF will be held in the DIOD Cinema.

Thank you for your understanding.

The Opening Ceremony of Ji.hlava IDFF, traditionally taking place at DKO, will be broadcast live on Playo.tv. Join us to enjoy the exceptional show starting tomorrow, October 27, at 8:00 PM.

Think through film!

Stream the event HERE.

During the festival week, the Centre for Documentary Film will be open from 10:00 AM until 11:00 PM.

You have a unique chance to visit the CDF during its 13-hour opening time. Plus you can look forward to new service features as a surprising bonus!

Come and see for yourselves!

We are looking forward to your visit!

For the upcoming school season, The Center for  Documentary Film prepared many new courses. One of the highlights is a set of two workshops for elementary school pupils. It focuses on film animation techniques and the history of the development of animated inventions. We offer a single workshop suitable also for first grade children, or a series of three lessons, that delves deeper into the art of animation filmmaking.

It takes a great deal of stubbornness to complete a degree in arts, regardless of whether your focus on the theory or practice. The Center for Documentary Film and Jihlava IDFF support your decision and will help you in your efforts. 

Today and each following Tuesday at 9:00 pm, Czech Television 2 will for several weeks broadcast a series of Czech documentary films. Tonight, you can watch Martin Dušek’s Into the Clouds We Gaze (2014). This film has already been presented as part of CDF’s educational programme – and you can see for yourself that film lessons are far from boring.

This year again, documentary film fans can look forward to screenings held at unusual venues in Jihlava in late August.

The Center for Documentary Film team is hiring new members.

We are looking for reliable, responsible and flexible candidates interested in culture (documentary focus preferable), with PC skills, who would be able to ensure decent representation and operation of the CDF office.

One of the last additions to CDF’s library fund is the publication of Generace Jihlava (Jihlava Generation) (ed. Lucie Česálková) and we bring a brief annotation of the title:

CDF made an appearance at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, showcasing the outcomes of our work. As part of the annual Docu Talents from the East (Jihlava IDFF), we boasted of CDF’s research achievements. We dedicated the whole of June to diligent work on our research, and we believe that we have produced a very interesting output. 

Monday, July 6, is a Czech national holiday and CDF will be closed. You can visit us on the following working day, Tuesday, July 7. 

At the end of June, the CDF launched its newsletter. The first issue was distributed to all of our followers and supporters featuring, among other information, many interesting facts and overviews of CDF’s activities that took place in the first half of 2015 – mainly related to lectures, box office figures, guests and CDF’s overall contribution to the sphere of documentary film theory. It also brings information about films screened during the courses and details regarding the past courses and the lecturers.

Director of Jihlava IDFF Marek Hovorka has introduced this year's visual and theme concept by unveiling the festival poster of the 19th edition of Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival. Hovorka also uncovered important changes in festival organization and introduced the very first and exclusive guest of Inspiration Forum.

Journalist and reporter David Macháček (1970) won in the category for Best Audiovisual Reportage of the Journalist Awards. We are proud that he is one of our affiliated lectors and we are capable of providing you with the very best of what the Czech scene has to offer.

In the week of April 20th – 24th we can look forward to a number of extremely interesting lectures, also some very important experts will come to lecture on their area of professional interest. 

Would you like to know who it will be? 

We would like to notify visitors and others who might be interested that during this week (April 13th-17th) the educational lectures and screenings will be held in DIOD- Divadlo otevřených dveří, Tyršova 12, 586 01 Jihlava.

Thank you for your understanding.

Please note that there is a change in the date on which the 3rd lecture in the cycle Sound and Music in Film will be held. It is being rescheduled from April 14th to April 21st.

If you were already set on going on the upcoming Tuesday, do not despair. The change in schedule will result in a program of even higher quality; you for sure have something to look forward to. You can find out more detail about the cycle here.

The carousel of educational lectures and screenings is in full swing, in that we have our guests that will be attending as the lecturers.

This time on Wednesday (April 8th) it will be the documentary filmmaker and sociologist Martin Kohout (1984). With this, the cycle named Contemporary Czech Documentary Film will begin. As the name suggests it will be dedicated to the analysis and development of Czech documentary film, its typical elements and the exceptions.

On Wednesday, March 18th, the director and documentarian Jan Látal will be coming to Jihlava to introduce the one-time lecture, From the Treatment to the Premiere, or the Basics of the creative process behind creating an audiovisual piece of work.

What we promise, we are ready to fulfill. That’s why during March, April and May you can look forward to attending lectures and screenings, enriched by the appearance of interesting guests and engaging discussions. We have prepared new educational courses for you and once again they are available not only to students, but also to all those interested from the general public.

With the spring approaching, we are also working away on beginning the new season.

We are putting together a program for educational lectures and screenings to be held in March and April, we are filling the library with new publications and fine-tuning the linked online search of books as well as films.

As part of the international conference, Film Education for the 21^st century (Filmová výchova pro 21. Století), which was held January 14^th-18^th, at the Prague cinema Ponrepo, two of our representatives will introduce the concept, activities and goals of the CDF. The event is hosted by the NFA and the company Free Cinema. The program of open film education will offer a wide range of activities concentrating on the current state and an overview on the issue of film and audiovisual education for both professionals, as well as the general public. We will be glad if you show us your support in person at the event. You can find out more information on the web pages of the Film Education.

Due to this, the CDF in Jihlava will be closed on January 17^th. We look forward to seeing you again on Sunday.

The CDF would like to wish you a happy and healthy year 2015, spent in the company of documentary film. Even in the New Year, you have a lot to look forward to. Once again we are preparing educational screenings and lectures, open to students, mainly students of high schools, but also the general public. Apart from all of this, I would like to remind you that the center is open every day according to the scheduled opening hours and prepared to welcome you, whether you come whether you seek film, books or knowledge.

We look forward to seeing you.

The last lecture from the educational cycle, Documentary Film- Window to the World?, will be dealing with the spirit of contemporary documentary film and as an example of such a film, director Martin Dušek will come personally to present his latest piece Into the Clouds We Gaze (K oblakům vzhlížíme), which won in this year’s IDFF Ji.hlava Czech Joy section. A lively discussion with the creator will follow the screening, so do not hesitate to come and take part in it. The time leading up to Christmas is ideal for some documentary enrichment

Each Wednesday (December 10th and 17th) the second lecture will begin at 13:30! Find out more about the lecture program and the other scheduled cycles here.

Thank you for your understanding and we look forward to seeing you.

On Tuesday, December 9^th, the Czech documentary filmmaker and provocateur Apolena Rychlíková will come to Jihlava with her film Family (Rodina). She will also be giving a lecture on the topic "Creative Documentary Film". We begin at 10:00 and due to the change in time schedule, the last third lecture of the day will begin at 13:45!

We look forward to seeing you.

For the upcoming two Tuesdays (December 9th and 16th) the last lecture will begin at 13:45 and end around 15:15 according to the amount of interest in the discussion.

Find out more about the lecture program and the other scheduled cycles here.

Thank you for your understanding and we look forward to your visit.

This upcoming Tuesday, December 2^nd the leading Czech columnist, editor and director David Macháček will come to Jihlava. He formerly cooperated with the Agricultural Newspaper (Hospodářské noviny), Mladá fronta Dnes, and with the weekly Respekt. Currently you have the opportunity of seeing him in the program Reporters of Czech Television (Reportéři ČT). The award-winning investigative reporter will come to Jihlava to lecture about the rules of reporting news and we will be happy to see you in attendance. Examples of the author’s reports will be screened as part of the lecture. We begin at 10:00 and the last lecture will end at around 16:30.

During December, the CDF will welcome lectors and lecturers as part of educational courses, not only targeted at high school students, but also seniors and the general public for the first time. The lectures and thematic screenings will be held at the Dukla cinema in the Edison hall. For sure, you have a lot to look forward to as the program will be enticing and horizon widening. Find out more information here.

The Center for Documentary Film in Jihlava begins…

From the end of October, members of the general public can come visit the Center of Documentary Films in Jihlava, located on the second floor of the Dukla cinema. Come and explore, browse through books and magazines about film and culture in general, watch films and boost your interest in documentary film. We are open seven days a week.