All IDFA articles – Page 9
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Reviews‘Taamaden’: IDFA Review
Seydou Cisse’s economic migrants take a dangerous route from Mali to Valencia
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Reviews‘Day After….’: IDFA Review
Hop on the Rocket paddle-steamer from Dhaka to Khulna in Kamar Ahmad Simon’s seductive documentary
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Reviews‘Mr Landsbergis’: IDFA Review
Sergei Loznitsa compiles an exhaustive account of the struggle for Lithuania’s independence from the USSR
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Features“We cannot have another year like this,” say doc sales agents at IDFA
Cautious distributors, slimmed-down festivals and dwindling funders are cause for concern.
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NewsIDFA DocLab head on Facebook woes, the “messy metaverse” and how to make living as a VR filmmaker
DocLab is now in its 15th year.
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NewsGo2 Films add buzzy IDFA title ‘Housewitz’ to international sales slate
Oeke Hoogendijk’s film is premiering in the Envision competition.
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FeaturesOeke Hoogendijk explains how she convinced her agoraphobic mother to feature in ‘Housewitz’
The Dutch documentary director is debuting two very different films at IDFA.
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Reviews‘One Take Grace’: IDFA Review
Intimate, engaging portrait of South African actor-domestic worker Mothiba Grace Bapela
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Reviews‘Four Journeys’: IDFA Review (opening film)
Louis Hothothot turns the lens on his own childhood in this probingly autobiographical film
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FeaturesHow are producers making documentaries with real impact without preaching and turning off audiences?
Producers need to balance supporting a filmmaker’s vision while raising funding and finding an audience.
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FeaturesIDFA Bertha Fund head: “Whenever there is a rise in applications, it comes from Latin America”
Isabel Arrate Fernandez, head of the Bertha Fund, on why applications doubled in 2020.
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FeaturesLouis Hothothot on how IDFA opening film ‘Four Journeys’ brought him back to his family
The film tells the story off how China-born Hothothot was an illicit second child during China’s one-child era.
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NewsOrwa Nyrabia on the direction in which he is steering International Film Festival Amsterdam
The IDFA festival director talks projects, backers and the tyranny of the 90-minute film-making trope.
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NewsHow IDFA will go ahead as an in-person event despite Netherlands’ partial lockdown
Artistic director Orwa Nyrabia confirmed that less than 1% of the expected 2,000 industry delegates have cancelled their trips.
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NewsIDFA unveils main competition line-up; to open with Louis Hothothot’s ‘Four Journeys’
IDFA is taking place as a physical event in the Netherlands from November 17-28.
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NewsIDFA 2021 reveals Luminous, Frontlight titles, special screening of Dziga Vertov restoration
Vertov is best known for ’The Man With The Movie Camera’.
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NewsIDFA unveils jam-packed industry programme including Geeta Gandbhir’s Prince doc
IDFA Forum will take place from November 20-26.
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NewsFirst films, Hito Steyerl titles revealed by International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
IDFA is taking place as a physical event from November 17-28.
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NewsIDFA director teases new-look programme, honorees and Hito Steyerl collaboration
IDFA will present its lifetime achievement award to revered Armenian director Artavazd Peleshyan.
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NewsIDFA unveils major programming shake-up as festival director explains the changes
Orwa Nyrabia talks exclusively to Screen about shifting the focus to more experimental documentaries