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IDFA announces first films for 2020; Best of Fests & Gianfranco Rosi Top 10

IDFA has announced the first films of its 33rd edition. With 30 films in the Best of Fests programme, and 10 titles selected by Guest of Honour Gianfranco Rosi for the Top 10 programme, #IDFA sets the tone for its festival running 18 – 29 November 2020 in-person and online. The first films included for Best of Fests and Gianfranco Rosi’s selections are as follows: Best of Fests The Truffle Hunters (dir. Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw) Stray (dir. Elizabeth Lo) The Foundation Pit (dir. Andrey Gryazev) Time (dir. Garrett Bradley) Acasă, My Home (dir. Radu Ciorniciuc) IWOW: I Walk…

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IDFA has announced the first films of its 33rd edition.

With 30 films in the Best of Fests programme, and 10 titles selected by Guest of Honour Gianfranco Rosi for the Top 10 programme, #IDFA sets the tone for its festival running 18 – 29 November 2020 in-person and online.

The first films included for Best of Fests and Gianfranco Rosi’s selections are as follows:

Best of Fests

    • The Truffle Hunters (dir. Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw)
    • Stray (dir. Elizabeth Lo)
    • The Foundation Pit (dir. Andrey Gryazev)
    • Time (dir. Garrett Bradley)
    • Acasă, My Home (dir. Radu Ciorniciuc)
    • IWOW: I Walk on Water (dir. Khalik Allah)
    • The Earth Is Blue as an Orange (dir. Iryna Tsilyk)
    • Bulletproof (dir. Todd Chandler)
    • Dope is Death (dir. Mia Donovan)
    • Makongo (dir. Elvis Sabin Ngaibino)
    • El Father Plays Himself (dir. Mo Scarpelli)
    • Notes from the Underworld (dir. Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel)
    • Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (dir. Bill Ross, Turner Ross)
    • Garage People (dir. Natalija Yefimkina)
    • Heaven Beneath My Feet (dir. Sandra Madi)
    • Hey! Teachers! (dir. Yulia Yishnevets)
    • Jacinta (dir. Jessica Earnshaw)
    • Jungle (Louise Mootz)
    • Mayor (dir. David Osit)
    • The Mole Agent (dir. Maite Alberdi)
    • Oeconomia (dir. Carmen Lossman)
    • Once Upon a Time in Venezuela (dir. Anabel Rodriguez)
    • An Ordinary Country (dir. Tomasz Wolski)
    • Petit Samedi (dir. Paloma Sermon-Daï)
    • Please Hold the Line (dir. Pavel Cuzuioc)
    • A Shape of Things to Come (dir. Lisa Marie Malloy, J.P. Sniadecki)
    • Songs of Repression (dir. Estephan Wagner, Marianne Hougen-Moraga)
    • Things We Dare Not Do (dir. Bruno Santamaria)
    • Welcome to Chechnya (dir. David France)
    • Zappa (dir. Alex Winter)

    Top 10 by Gianfranco Rosi

    • 10 Shorts by Vittorio De Seta (dir. Vittorio De Seta)
    • Anna (dir. Alberto Grifi, Massimo Sarchielli)
    • Route One/USA (dir. Robert Kramer)
    • A Bigger Splash (dir. Jack Hazan)
    • Francesco, giullare di Dio (dir. Roberto Rossellini)
    • India: Matri Bhumi (dir. Roberto Rossellini)
    • Los olvidados (dir. Luis Buñuel)
    • The Mouth of the Wolf (dir. Pietro Marcello)
    • Banditi a Orgosolo (dir. Vittorio De Seta)
    • 48 (dir. Susana de Sousa Dias)

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