All IDFA articles – Page 2
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NewsUS ‘Billy Elliot’-style doc ‘Call Me Dancer’ sells to Toei for Japan for First Hand Films (exclusive)
First Hand Films is at IDFA with a busy slate including portmanteau project ’The Ten Commandments’.
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NewsPalestine Film Institute urges withdrawal of films from IDFA following response to opening-night protest
The PFI has issued a petition demanding IDFA acknowledge the festival’s earlier statement ”unjustly criminalises Palestinian voices and narratives”.
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Reviews‘Danger Zone’: IDFA Review
Eye-popping documentary follows so-called ’war tourists’ to active front lines
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Reviews‘The Clinic’: IDFA Review
Midi Z’s portrait of a Myanmar health clinic widens to explore the plight of a country in turmoil
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NewsIDFA apologises for “hurtful” slogan shown by activists at opening ceremony
”That slogan does not represent us, and we do not endorse it in any way.”
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NewsIDFA responds to open letter condemning inclusion of Russian film in programme
The letter said: “To continue providing space for representatives of the Russian cultural sector on international platforms means to normalize the unequal circumstances in which filmmakers in Russia and Ukraine live and work today.”
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FeaturesIDFA’s industry head talks making a living from docs, the market’s reality check and standing out in the autumn calendar
Adriek van Nieuwenhuijzen laments the decrease in broadcaster engagement with authored docs.
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Reviews‘A Picture To Remember’: IDFA Review
IDFA 2023 opens with an intimate film about the effects of war on one Ukranian family
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FeaturesHow IDFA’s DocLab is bringing a “weightless, ephemeral digital experience’ to a physical festival audience
DocLab’s Casper Sonnen explains why this year’s theme is ’Phenomenal Fiction’.
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NewsAutlook boards Wes Anderson-backed doc ‘Uncropped’ about photographer James Hamilton (exclusive)
Directed by D.W.Young, ’Uncropped’ rediscovers the work of a New York photographer billed as one of the great chroniclers of the cultural history of America
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NewsUkrainian filmmaker Alisa Kovalenko readies pair of war themed documentaries (exclusive)
Kyiv-based Kovalenko already has two films playing at IDFA film, ’Girl Away From Home’ and ’We Will Not Fade Away’
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NewsNew Docs takes on world sales for IDFA and Ji.hlava documentary ‘Atirkül In The Land Of Real Men’ (exclusive)
Janyl Jusupjan’s documentary focuses on a young woman getting involved in the male-dominated horseback sport Buzkashi.
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FeaturesUkrainian director Olga Chernykh on her IDFA opening documentary ’A Picture To Remember ’
Director tells Screen about the deeply personal approach she has taken with her first documentary
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Features“This is a mirror of the world”: IDFA director Orwa Nyrabia on reflecting pressing global issues at the festival
Documentary festival opens with Olga Chernykh’s personal portrait of the Ukraine-Russia conflict ’A Picture To Remember’
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NewsUkrainian doc ‘A Picture To Remember’ to open IDFA as festival unveils competition line-ups
Olga Chernykh’s A Picture To Remember explores the war in Ukraine through three generations.
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NewsIDFA 2023 adds 35 features in Luminous, Frontlight premieres sections
Also programmes IDFA on Stage events, plus Paradocs and queer programme.
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News‘Kabul, City In The Wind’ filmmaker Aboozar Amini returns to IDFA Forum with latest project
The Rough Cut Presentations section has expanded, including five additional projects from Ukraine.
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NewsIDFA lines up first 50 titles for 2023 edition, including focus on East and Southeast Asian cinema
Programme includes ‘top 10’ films selected by director Wang Bing and selection of Peter Greenaway films.
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NewsIDFA 2023 to celebrate Wang Bing, Peter Greenaway
Netherlands festival sets three focus programmes.
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NewsIDFA award-winner ‘Much Ado About Dying’ scooped up for UK and Ireland (exclusive)
The documentary has as its UK premiere at Sheffield DocFest today (June 15)