All Netherlands articles – Page 7
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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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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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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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Reviews‘Melk’: Thessaloniki Review
A grieving mother must find a way to come to terms with her loss in this quiet Dutch debut
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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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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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NewsACE Producers appoints ‘Silver Haze’ producer as president (exclusive)
Marleen Slot will take over from Antoine Simkine in April 2024.
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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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NewsPort of Production international producer residency arrives at Filmfest Hamburg
Focus turns to ”how to run a company, manage employees, draw up a business plan and think about the future and how to produce in a sustainable way.”
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NewsNetherlands Film Fund to rethink strategy as report confirms Dutch films struggle internationally
“It is time to rethink, said Fund’s Sandra Den Hamer in response to report by Olsberg SPI.
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Reviews‘Kalak’: San Sebastian Review
A tough story of sexual abuse anchors Isabella Eklöf’s Greenland-set follow-up to ’Holiday’
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NewsBero Beyer steps down as CEO of Netherlands Film Fund
Exec had taken time away from organisation earlier this year for work related health reasons.
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Reviews‘The Human Surge 3’: Toronto Review
Eduardo Williams experimental hybrid looks at the lives of possibly connected young people in Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Peru
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NewsIDFA 2023 to celebrate Wang Bing, Peter Greenaway
Netherlands festival sets three focus programmes.
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NewsSacha Polak’s Berlinale Panorama title ‘Silver Haze’ picked up for UK and Ireland (exclusive)
Film reunites writer/director Polak with British actor Vicky Knight.
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NewsClare Stewart, former London Film Festival director, to join Rotterdam as managing director
Stewart will work alongside festival director Vanja Kaludjercic.
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Reviews‘Omen’: Cannes Review
An ostracised Congolese man returns from Europe with his pregnant fiancee to face the fears of his traditional family
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Reviews‘Lost In The Night’: Cannes Review
Amat Escalante returns to Cannes with a surprisingly conventional crime movie
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Reviews‘Youth (Spring)’: Cannes Review
Wang Bing turns his intense focus on China’s young clothing factory workers again in this rigorous Competition documentary