The West, the rest, and the great test
GEOPOLITICS: The phrase «the international community» needs to be redefined. Today, it is simply a phrase politicians use when they want to avoid taking responsibility.
Not around my luxury villa
AFRICA: If this book is translated into English, it will become a new French academic bestseller.
Safe or sorry?
Former hacker makes a dismal account of your online privacy in the era of tech giants soaking up all our private information. Simple precautions, however, might do a lot of good.
Military frame of mind
Filmed in the immediate aftermath of Russia’s seizure of Crimea and the outbreak of civil war in Ukraine’s eastern Russophone provinces, this is a timely warning of the remilitarization of education and society in Europe as the post Cold War optimism crumbles.
Encounters with the dying
This is where we are all headed. With a background of beeping hospital monitors and oxygen pumps, End of Life is a caring, charming and at times poignant demystification of the death process.
Faulty Figures
Unequal distribution of (inherited) wealth has lately taken much of the blame for winners taking it all, and then some. In her disturbing account of the advent of data modelling, data scientist Cathy O’Neil shows how numbers themselves have become commodities, further widening the gap between the haves and the have nots.
When Glimpses of Humaneness Become Grotesque
GREECE, GOLDEN DAWN : In this documentary we follow three of the women at the top of Golden Dawn, the notorious Greek extreme right-wing party.
Stalin’s Many Admirers in Today’s Russia
STALIN, RUSSIA: Through interviews, observations and archival footage, this documentary explores the present baffling and widespread reverence of Stalin.
Barbara Visser
IDFA aims to present a wide array of documentaries, from small and personal stories to epic dramas. The basis for the selection is the quality of the films, rather than one preconceived theme.