A lost world in the name of God
RELIGION: A testament to the human and cultural destructive power of white, Christian arrogance.
IDFA
Located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
IDFA offers an independent and inspiring meeting place for audiences and professionals to see a diverse and high-quality program. The diverse nature of the event applies to the form and content of the films as well as to the cultural backgrounds of the filmmakers. IDFA offers an alternative to mass entertainment and uniformity, confirming that there is an increasing need in audiences for high-quality films that delve deep and urge us to reflect.
IDFA Country Focus: Chile
The International Documentary Festival Amsterdam kicks off its festival today through 6 December 2020 (online market shave been open since
The years to come
SOCIETY: Maite Alberdi’s film cleverly touches on a delicate theme and invites us with compassion and tenderness to reflect on isolation, the rigours of patriarchal society, and the organisation of work and family.
Year of the soldiers’ babies
CONFLICT: Decades after many young Peruvian women were raped by army soldiers, they take the perpetrators to court in the name of justice and dignity.
«Chile is now living a transformation»
ChileDoc: With a strong showing of work at both DOK Leipzig and IDFA, Chile’s documentary output continues to thrive. To find out more Modern Times Review spoke with the Director of Chiledoc, Diego Pino Anguita.
Old hate, new influencers
ALT-RIGHT: An investigation into the roots of rising white nationalism in the U.S. and abroad.
«It’s very easy for people who have the luxury of having cinema to take it for granted»
IDFA: Artistic Director Orwa Nyrabia speaks with Modern Times Review about the festival’s 33rd edition.
Everything to do with it
MEMORY: How did otherwise ordinary human beings take part in one of humanity’s greatest crimes?
In our hands
ECOLOGY: Watch it and weep: Jennifer Abbott’s remarkable, poetic, and lyrical film about the profound urgency, grief, and gravity of climate change is deeply moving.
Tracking truth beyond the frontiers of dawn
INTERVIEW: Gianfranco Rosi speaks to Modern Times Review on new film, Notturno.
Humans of no nation
REFUGEES: Since 2016, 700,000 people of the Rohingya Muslim minority fled Myanmar making the Kutupalong refugee camp one of the biggest in the world.