All IDFA articles – Page 9
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Reviews‘Gorbachev. Heaven’: IDFA Review
A true Titan of history tells his story - or the parts of it he’s comfortable with - to a probing Vitaly Mansky
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Reviews‘White Noise’: IDFA Review
A deep-dive inside the Alt-Right movement with director Daniel Lombroso
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FeaturesWhy some Hong Kong documentary filmmakers are staying anonymous for safety
The collective behind two IDFA premieres – Inside The Red Brick Wall and Taking Back the Legislature – are staying anonymous.
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FeaturesIDFA’s DocLab is taking audiences to existential dance classes and online discos
Caspar Sonnen, IDFA’s head of new media, has been inspired by how interactive artists have been reacting to the pandemic.
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FeaturesIDFA filmmaker Diane Sara Bouzgarrou on ‘The Last Hillbilly’ about “a town not documented in tourism or art”
French direcrtors Diane Sara Bouzgarrou and Thomas Jenkoe offer an intimate portrait of a hillbilly poet.
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FeaturesHow IDFA is supporting new international documentary talent
The IDFAcademy has moved online to nurture the careers of 60 emerging and directors.
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NewsUK documentary filmmaking booms in pandemic year
Are non-fiction films easier to finance and produce in 2020?
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NewsIDFA opens with a show of online international solidarity
Directors were beamed in from around the world to join artistic director Orwa Nyrabia in an Amsterdam cinema.
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Reviews‘Landfall’: IDFA Review
The combination of the poetic and the polemical speaks volumes as Cecilia Aldarondo surveys the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico
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Reviews‘Nothing But The Sun’: IDFA Review (Opening Film)
IDFA 2020 starts with a powerful and moving look at the disenfranchised Ayoreo people of Paraguay
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Reviews‘Til Kingdom Come’: IDFA Review
A provocative look at the links between Israel and American evangelical Christian groups
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NewsIDFA opening filmmaker Arami Ullón: ”Parts of Paraguay don’t react to any sort of art”
The Swiss-based director looks at the changing ways of life of the Ayoreo people in Paraguay.
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Features“2020 lets us re-think the core of what we do,” says IDFA’s Orwa Nyrabia
Syrian filmmaker turned festival director talks about the importance of cinema screenings at IDFA’s hybrid edition.
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NewsWhy executives from Snap, Google and HP are tuning into this year’s IDFA DocLab Forum
Yorinde Segal talks about the second edition of the new media-focused DocLab Forum.
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NewsIDFA project ‘Stay Home’ aims to show a children’s view of the pandemic
Norway’s ‘Stay Home’ sees the 11 children and teenagers record themselves.
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NewsIDFA’s online industry Forum aims to be more accessible than ever to international decision makers
IDFA industry head Adriek van Nieuwenhuijzen says moving Forum online was only way to keep it global this year.
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FeaturesHow is the documentary sector coping with the chaos that is 2020?
International filmmakers and executives speak to Screen about keeping going during the pandemic.
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News‘Nothing But The Sun’: first trailer for Arami Ullón’s IDFA opener (exclusive)
The festival is planning to open physical screenings once the latest Netherlands lockdown is lifted.
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NewsFears grow for imprisoned Egyptian producer Moataz Abdelwahab
The International Coalition for Filmmakers at Risk (IFCR) calls for his release of the producer in jail since May.