All The Beauty And The Bloodshed director Laura Poitras will be guest of honour at the 2022 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), which has also set two Focus programmes and the theme for its new media section DocLab.
Fresh from winning the Venice Golden Lion for her Nan Goldin documentary All The Beauty…, Poitras has curated a ‘Top 10’ programme for the festival, of films she believes are key to the human condition. Titles announced so far include Steve McQueen’s Hunger, Frederick Wiseman’s Titicut Follies and Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb’s This Is Not A Film.
The festival will also screen a retrospective of seven films by Poitras, including her 2015 best documentary Oscar winner Citizenfour and her recent Venice winner.
She will participate in a masterclass discussion with IDFA artistic director Orwa Nyrabia in Amsterdam’s Pathe Tuschinski cinema.
IDFA has programmed two ‘Focus’ strands for the 2022 festival. ‘Around Masculinity’ will look at what the festival terms ‘the problematic social construct’ of masculinity, through films such as the Maysles Brothers’ Meet Marlon Brando, Heddy Honigmann’s Crazy and Alina Rudnitskaya’s Bitch Academy.
In ‘Playing Reality’, films including Clio Barnard’s The Arbor and Werner Herzog’s Little Dieter Needs To Fly will look at the concept of theatricality in non-fiction filmmaking.
Nine titles have been programmed for ‘Around Masculinity’ so far with eight for ‘Playing Reality’; further additions will be made to both sections in October.
The festival has also set the theme of ‘Nervous Systems’ for DocLab, its section for new media. DocLab will consist of 10 days of in-person digital and XR programming, with the theme referencing the systems both inside our body and in the world in which we live. The DocLab programme will be announced in the coming weeks.
The 35th edition of IDFA takes place November 9-20 in Amsterdam, with final competition titles announced on October 20.
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