The craft of documentary filmmaking
FOCUS: IDFA Programmer Laura van Halsema on «Focus: Re-releasing History».
Defense mechanisms
ISRAEL: An apartment building in Jerusalem exposes the repressive and damaging manifestations of Israel’s concept of defense.
A lifetime in film
IDFA: What can we say about the 2019 IDFA choice of Jørgen Leth (82) and Patricio Guzmán (78) for «Lifetime Achievement Award» and «Guest of Honor» respectively?
North Korea is ‘the biggest illegal job agency in the world’
NORTH KOREA: Why do UN sanctions fail to eradicate North Korea’s exploitative operations?
Silent cries and a money-driven welfare system
CAPITALISM: Midnight Family and Overseas show two very different kinds of underprivileged workers within a backdrop of our times’ ruthless capitalism.
Point of no return
CORRUPTION: In his new film, Marco Ferrari focuses on the heavy personal consequences when you turn into a whistleblower at your own workplace.
Excavating war in the South Caucasus
CONFLICT: 5 female de-miners look to clear the land of danger in the still disputed territory after the war in Nagorno-Karabakh
Family Relations
IRAN: A severe critique of the Muslim model of a family from within, and subtle analysis of patriarchy and authoritarianism
Self-irony and its failures of seduction
CREATIVITY: An Estonian enfant terrible of literature flights writer’s block with absurd experiments.
Unpredictability is a very good trait
IDENTITY: A kaleidoscopic portrait of a strange and divided nation behind the scenes
Fishing in tidal waters
ECOLOGY: Director Renu Savant gives us the opportunity to see the ancestral, small-fishing methods of the men of Mirya on the west coast of India.