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NewsLGBTQ+ sports documentary ‘Gay Games’ picked up for world sales (exclusive)
Film is currently in production, from Bafta-winning director Cherish Oteka.
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Features“Documentary film has always been annoying to authorities,” says IDFA’s Orwa Nyrabia
The artistic director is embracing issues from AI to global politics in his final edition that opens today.
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News‘Acting’: first trailer for Sophie Fiennes documentary screening at IDFA
The film had its world premiere in Edinburgh.
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NewsOrwa Nyrabia to leave International Documentary Festival Amsterdam in 2025
The Syrian filmmaker will oversee his seventh and final edition as IDFA artistic director later this month.
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NewsAfghan women documentary ‘Writing Hawa’ boarded for sales ahead of IDFA premiere (exclusive)
The film plays in IDFA’s International Competition.
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NewsItalian IDFA title ‘Personale’ acquired for worldwide sales (exclusive)
The film tells the story of a housekeeping team in a hotel in the Italian Dolomites.
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News‘About A Hero’, hybrid doc about an AI-generated Werner Herzog film, to open IDFA 2024
‘About A Hero’ is directed by Polish artist and filmmaker Piotr Winiewicz.
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NewsIDFA Forum 2024 line-up includes ‘House Of The Holy Father’ with Trine Dyrholm
’House Of The Holy Father’ is co-directed by Eva Mulad and Andreas Koefoed.
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NewsVitaly Mansky’s war doc ‘The Iron’ among early titles announced by IDFA
International Documentary Festival Amsterdam confirms first titles to play at festival in November.
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NewsIDFA to honour Belgian filmmaker Johan Grimonprez
The director is best known for Sundance award-winner ’Soundtrack To A Coup d’Etat’.
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NewsProducer defends Palestinian director of BBC Storyville project after IDFA speech row
Mohammed Almughanni used the phrase ‘From the river to the sea’ while on stage at IDFA Forum.
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Reviews‘Tehachapi’: IDFA Review
French artist JR mounts a large-scale project at the maximum security California Correctional Centre
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News‘20 Days In Mariupol’ scoops IDFA audience award
Mstyslav Chernov’s unflinching account of the early days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine wins the public vote at the documentary festival
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Reviews‘1489’: IDFA Review
IDFA winner from Armenia is an intensely personal portrait of a family coping with the loss of a brother and son in the 2020 Artsakh war
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NewsIDFA head Orwa Nyrabia to organise symposium to help festivals navigate turbulent political times
The documentary festival has experienced protests, open letters and film withdrawals this week.
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Features“We screen 440 hours of new content a year:” How Al Jazeera is becoming a major documentary player
“We are a bridge between filmmakers to the north and to the south.”
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Reviews‘Life Is Beautiful’: IDFA Review
Palestinian filmmaker Mohamed Jabaly documents his fight to return to Gaza
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News‘1489’ leads 2023 IDFA winners
Documentary chronicles the Armenian director’s search for her missing soldier brother.
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NewsPalestinian doc ‘Son Of Streets’ wins best pitch at IDFA Forum
Mohammed Almughanni’s film about a boy coming of age in a Beirut refugee camp won the €1,500 cash prize.
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FeaturesJoe Houlberg Silva explains how his debut feature doc ‘Ozogoche’ took flight
’Ozogoche’, a world premiere at IDFA, is about a species of sandpiper bird and the community who live around their lake.