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24/08/2025

Congrats Dea and Irina! Film at East Silver Caravan and previously at Short Pitch Program was selected to prestigious film festival Camden. ❤️

24/08/2025

Congratulations!!🎊🍾🎉
We are very proud to Kristina, Ivo and film.
It’s “our” East Silver Caravan film and we hope film will be doing as much as great as is this doing already . 😘❤️🙏

13/01/2025

📢 We are shutting down this page and moving it❕

We’re combining all our pages into one place for better clarity. From now on, you can follow us exclusively on Institute of Documentary Film, where we’ll share the most important updates from the world of documentary film. 🎬

Thank you for your support—we look forward to seeing you all in one place! 🤍

👉 Follow us here: Institute of Documentary Film

*We’re not deleting this page, but it will no longer be updated.

16/11/2024

More time apply. ❤️

🚨 Skvělá zpráva! Termín pro přihlašování na East Doc Platform 2025 jsme prodloužili do 22. listopadu! 🚨

Pokud pracujete na celovečerním dokumentu nebo dokusérii, máte ještě týden navíc na podání přihlášky a možnost posunout svůj projekt na další úroveň. Nenechte si ujít šanci propojit se s osobnostmi oboru a soutěžit o prestižní cenu Series Co-Production Development Award v hodnotě 50 000 €!

🔗 Přihlaste se zde: https://bit.ly/csEDP2025Call

16/05/2024

And our documentary film KIX was just in Taiwan! ✈️🎥

16/05/2024

Where to see our film Silence of Reason outside the festival circuit in May? 🌸⤵️

A film exposing the r**e camps set up by Serb forces in the town of Foca early in the Bosnian War, based court transcripts.

05/05/2024

🏆 The award winners have been announced and we are proud that Silence of Reason ( ) won the best mid-length doc! Congratulations! 🤍

02/05/2024

More great news from ! Congratulations to Kumjana Novakova's film Silence of Reason on winning a Golden Apple from BHFF / Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival and a Golden Lily from goEast Film Festival! 🏆🍏🌺

If you'd like to see the film, check out the post below to find an upcoming screening! ⤵️

30/04/2024

Great news! The Kiosk - documentary film ( ) will be screened during Neisse Film Festival and is part of the competition. Congrats!

Daniel Stopa Józefina Gocman Dicks Paweł Chorzępa Rolando Garduño Milena Wielgo Laurie Spiegel

Here we go! Our complete festival program for the 21. Neiße-Nysa-Nisa Film Festival 2024 is now online: www.neissefilmfestival.net/de/kalender2024

Have fun clicking through...

23/04/2024

We are delighted that Silence of Reason, which is part of the East Silver Caravan 2024, is achieving international success!

This year alone, it has won:

➡️ Grand Prize and The Youth Prize for Best Film (Festival PUNTO DE VISTA)
➡️ Special mention in regional competition (ZagrebDox)
➡️ Best Director (Jeden svět / One World)
➡️ Amnesty International Award for Best Film on Human Rights Issues (Ljubljana Documentary Film Festival)
➡️ International Award (Cinéma du réel - Festival international du film documentaire)

Not to mention Best Directing at IDFA 2023 and more. A big congratulations to Kumjana Novakova and the whole team. 🤍

🎧 If you want to find out more about Silence of Reason, you can listen to our True Story podcast where Nicole J. Adelman talks with Kumjana: https://dokweb.net/articles/detail/1667

[PRIX INTERNATIONAL CINÉMA DU RÉEL 2024 l CINÉMA DU RÉEL INTERNATIONAL AWARD 2024]

SILENCE OF REASON de / by Kumjana Novakova

Doté par l’association Les Amis du Cinéma du réel (5 000 €) et décerné à un long métrage étranger de la compétition.

26/03/2024

Congratulations to Flowers of Ukraine which has just received the Silver Eye Award for the best feature documentary at the Ceremony during One World Film Festival & East Doc Platform's Guests Meet Guests. The Special Mention went to The Other One.