All IDFA articles
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Reviews‘Trains’: IDFA Review
IDFA top prize-winner is a timeless train trip through black-and-white archive footage
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NewsArchive-based ‘Trains’ wins best film at IDFA 2024
The jury acclaimed the “bold and inventive” use of archive.
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NewsSudan-Egyptian doc ‘Dry Sky’ wins best pitch at IDFA Forum
Best rough cut was awarded to Do You Love Me, an archive-based movie about Beirut.
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NewsMediawan Rights’ Arianna Castoldi on building an auteur-driven documentary slate
Castolid explains why Mediawan has created a doc strand at a tough time for the genre.
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NewsThere’s a crisis in self-censorship by documentary institutions, says IDFA debate
Risk averse festivals and buyers are proving a major hurdle for political films, hears IDFA’s ’Finding the Compass’ session.
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Reviews‘Writing Hawa’: IDFA Review
IDFA breakout charts one Afghan mother’s quest to educate herself - just as the Taliban rolls into Kabul
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NewsJourneyman Pictures adds ‘Love & Trouble’ to its IDFA slate (exclusive)
Amy Hardie’s feature doc is about a couple who deal with past trauma when their baby’s cries trigger PTSD.
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FeaturesThe hot market titles to look out for at IDFA 2024
Screen profiles a selection of key titles available across IDFA.
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Reviews‘An American Pastoral’: IDFA Review
Timely documentary tracks small-town school board elections in Pennsylvania
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Reviews‘The Shadow Scholars’: IDFA Review
Steve McQueen-produced doc shines a light on Kenya’s academic ghostwriter-for-hire industry
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Reviews‘The Propagandist’: IDFA Review
Chilling portrait of Dutch filmmaker and Nazi propagandist Jan Teunissen
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Reviews‘A Want In Her’: IDFA Review
Affecting documentary sees Irish artist Myrid Carten turn her camera on her troubled mother
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Reviews‘The Shepherd And The Bear’: IDFA Review
Immersive documentary follows the controversial reintroduction of wild bears to the remote French Pyrenees
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Reviews‘About A Hero’: IDFA Review
IDFA opener is an uneven AI-generated hybrid murder mystery in the style of Werner Herzog
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FeaturesHow IDFA’s DocLab is pushing the boundaries of documentary and reality
DocLab’s Caspar Sonnen on why this year’s theme is ‘This Is Not A Simulation’
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FeaturesRecord entries, big budgets and new funders: How the IDFA Forum for creative docs is shaping up
Adriek van Nieuwenhuijzen, IDFA’s head of industry, says she was surprised by the sheer number of entries this year.
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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.