All IDFA articles – Page 9
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NewsIDFA starts conversation about “decolonising” the documentary world
”One big issue that is hard to address is the position of the filmmakers themselves,” said Tessa Boerman.
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Features‘Til Kingdom Come’ director Maya Zinshtein on the odd connection between Kentucky, Trump and Israel
’Til Kingdom Come is produced by the Oscar-winning John Battsek.
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NewsWhy Neon is experimenting with different VoD models
“We’ve had to figure out ways to make our films just as exciting and vibrant,” Neon’s Elissa Federoff told an IDFA panel.
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Reviews‘Dormant’: IDFA Review
Natalia Labake’s film about the women in her family is haunted by lost souls and unfulfilled lives
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Reviews‘Inside The Red Brick Wall’: IDFA Review
A deep dive into the stand-off between police and protesters at Hong Kong’s Polytechnic University last year
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Reviews‘Gorbachev. Heaven’: IDFA Review
A true Titan of history tells his story - or the parts of it he’s comfortable with - to a probing Vitaly Mansky
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Reviews‘White Noise’: IDFA Review
A deep-dive inside the Alt-Right movement with director Daniel Lombroso
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FeaturesWhy some Hong Kong documentary filmmakers are staying anonymous for safety
The collective behind two IDFA premieres – Inside The Red Brick Wall and Taking Back the Legislature – are staying anonymous.
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FeaturesIDFA’s DocLab is taking audiences to existential dance classes and online discos
Caspar Sonnen, IDFA’s head of new media, has been inspired by how interactive artists have been reacting to the pandemic.
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FeaturesIDFA filmmaker Diane Sara Bouzgarrou on ‘The Last Hillbilly’ about “a town not documented in tourism or art”
French direcrtors Diane Sara Bouzgarrou and Thomas Jenkoe offer an intimate portrait of a hillbilly poet.
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FeaturesHow IDFA is supporting new international documentary talent
The IDFAcademy has moved online to nurture the careers of 60 emerging and directors.
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NewsUK documentary filmmaking booms in pandemic year
Are non-fiction films easier to finance and produce in 2020?
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NewsIDFA opens with a show of online international solidarity
Directors were beamed in from around the world to join artistic director Orwa Nyrabia in an Amsterdam cinema.
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Reviews‘Landfall’: IDFA Review
The combination of the poetic and the polemical speaks volumes as Cecilia Aldarondo surveys the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico
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Reviews‘Nothing But The Sun’: IDFA Review (Opening Film)
IDFA 2020 starts with a powerful and moving look at the disenfranchised Ayoreo people of Paraguay
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Reviews‘Til Kingdom Come’: IDFA Review
A provocative look at the links between Israel and American evangelical Christian groups
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NewsIDFA opening filmmaker Arami Ullón: ”Parts of Paraguay don’t react to any sort of art”
The Swiss-based director looks at the changing ways of life of the Ayoreo people in Paraguay.
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Features“2020 lets us re-think the core of what we do,” says IDFA’s Orwa Nyrabia
Syrian filmmaker turned festival director talks about the importance of cinema screenings at IDFA’s hybrid edition.