All IDFA articles – Page 3
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Reviews‘The World Is Family’: IDFA Review
Veteran documentarian Anand Patwardhan turns the camera on his own parents to reflect on India’s turbulent history
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NewsNeon distribution head Elissa Federoff delivers upbeat doc forecast in IDFA keynote
“We have seen titles doing the best they’ve ever done before in this ‘unhealthy’ marketplace.”
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Reviews‘As The Tide Comes In’: IDFA Review
Residents on the tiny Danish island of Mando confront the realities of climate change in this immersive documentary
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Reviews‘The Last’: IDFA Review
Paraguayan filmmaker Sebastian Pena Escobar takes a personal trip to the country’s threatened forests
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NewsPalestine Film Institute welcomes latest statement from IDFA
Festival statement followed a PFI statement lambasting IDFA’s earlier statement.
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Reviews‘Selling A Colonial War’: IDFA Review
An examination of Dutch attempts to reframe the Indonesian War Of Independence
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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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NewsPalestine Film Institute urges withdrawal of films from IDFA following response to opening-night protest
The PFI has issued a petition demanding IDFA acknowledge the festival’s earlier statement ”unjustly criminalises Palestinian voices and narratives”.
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Reviews‘Danger Zone’: IDFA Review
Eye-popping documentary follows so-called ’war tourists’ to active front lines
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Reviews‘The Clinic’: IDFA Review
Midi Z’s portrait of a Myanmar health clinic widens to explore the plight of a country in turmoil
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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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NewsIDFA responds to open letter condemning inclusion of Russian film in programme
The letter said: “To continue providing space for representatives of the Russian cultural sector on international platforms means to normalize the unequal circumstances in which filmmakers in Russia and Ukraine live and work today.”
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FeaturesIDFA’s industry head talks making a living from docs, the market’s reality check and standing out in the autumn calendar
Adriek van Nieuwenhuijzen laments the decrease in broadcaster engagement with authored docs.
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Reviews‘A Picture To Remember’: IDFA Review
IDFA 2023 opens with an intimate film about the effects of war on one Ukranian family
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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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NewsAutlook boards Wes Anderson-backed doc ‘Uncropped’ about photographer James Hamilton (exclusive)
Directed by D.W.Young, ’Uncropped’ rediscovers the work of a New York photographer billed as one of the great chroniclers of the cultural history of America
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NewsUkrainian filmmaker Alisa Kovalenko readies pair of war themed documentaries (exclusive)
Kyiv-based Kovalenko already has two films playing at IDFA film, ’Girl Away From Home’ and ’We Will Not Fade Away’
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NewsNew Docs takes on world sales for IDFA and Ji.hlava documentary ‘Atirkül In The Land Of Real Men’ (exclusive)
Janyl Jusupjan’s documentary focuses on a young woman getting involved in the male-dominated horseback sport Buzkashi.
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FeaturesUkrainian director Olga Chernykh on her IDFA opening documentary ’A Picture To Remember ’
Director tells Screen about the deeply personal approach she has taken with her first documentary
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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’