New films from Martin Scorsese, Patricio Guzman, Gianfranco Rosi and Ruth Beckermann are among the Masters selection for the 35th International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA).
Scorsese and David Tedeschi’s music film Personality Crisis: One Night Only will have its international premiere at IDFA, following a world debut at New York Film Festival in October. The film shows a set from US singer-songwriter David Johansen at New York’s Café Carlyle from January 2020.
The festival will also play Gianfranco Rosi’s first archive-based film In viaggio, which considers the human condition through the travels of Pope Francis. It debuted out of competition at Venice earlier this month.
Beckermann’s Mutzenbacher won the Encounters award on its debut at the Berlinale this February; the documentary shows the open casting audition process for a Beckermann film based on Felix Salten’s controversial book Josefine Mutzenbacher.
Further Masters titles include Patricio Guzman’s My Imaginary Country about the October 2019 protests in Santiago, Chile; and Sergei Loznitsa’s The Kiev Trial, about the 1946 war crimes trial.
Programming titles that have played elsewhere on the festival calendar, the Best of Fests strand includes Simon Lereng Wilmont’s A House Made Of Splinters, which has won awards at Sundance, CPH:DOX and Goteborg; Elwira Niewiera and Piotor Rosolowski’s The Hamlet Syndrome, in which a Ukrainian theatre group put on Shakespeare’s play as a means of dealing with their traumatic reality; and Christopher Sharp and Moses Bwayo’s Venice title Bobi Wine: The People’s President.
As a special tribute to Mantas Kvedaravicius, the Lithuanian filmmaker who was killed by Russian forces during the siege of Mariupol in Ukraine earlier this year, IDFA will play the late director’s films Mariupolis and Mariupolis 2.
The festival has also programmed its Short Documentary and Youth Documentary competitions; feature titles in the latter category include Susanne Regina Meures’ Girl Gang, Lucia Chcos and Alexandra Diaconu’s Fatima, and Carlos Hagerman and Jorge Villalobos’ Home Is Somewhere Else.
IDFA 2022 will run from November 9 to 20, with further titles to be announced in the coming weeks. Laura Poitras, winner of the Golden Lion at Venice earlier this month for All The Beauty And The Bloodshed, will be guest of honour at the festival.
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