IDF Archives

The occupation is in the frame

Francesca Borri / April 23, 2025

PALESTINE: Filmmakers documented the occupation for decades. These films saw the war long before the world pretended it began in October 2023.

Bezalel, Edward Said, Gaza, Hamas, IDF, Mahmoud Abbas, Musa Hadid, Naji al-Ali, Oslo Accords, Palestine, Palestinian Authority

Cinematic ethics – and dilemmas

Truls Lie / November 20, 2024

ETHICS: What can a festival’s Inspiration Forum inspire us to do? We live in a world of representations, of pictures, war manipulating us as humans, and what about our relation to nature? Can an old philosopher show us a way?

artificial intelligence, business, control, enlightenment, ethics, Ethiopia, Gaza, Healthcare, IDF, indigenous, Iraq, Ji.hlava IDFF, kurdish, logging, Martin Heidegger, microplastic, modernity, nature, philosophy, Renaissance, Sudan, Turkey, Ukraine

The changing mindset among young American Jews

Hans Henrik Fafner / March 21, 2024

ISRAEL: Exploring the shift in American Jewish support for Israel through personal journeys of disillusionment and activism.

AIPAC, Al Jazeera Balkans Documentary Film Festival, Auschwitz, Bethlehem, CPH:DOX, Erin Axelman, Gaza, Hamas, IDF, Israel, Israelism, Jerusalem, Miriam Adelson, Noam Chomsky, Palestinian, Sam Eilertsen, Sheldon Adelson, Tikkun Olam Productions, trauma, Washington, West Bank., Zionists

No Other Land

Francesca Borri / March 10, 2024

PALESTINE: Receiving both awards and death threats, No Other Land is a poignant exploration of resistance, solidarity, and the quest for justice in a land marked by conflict.

AfD), anti-Semitism, Antipode Films, Arab Spring, Basel Adra, Berlinale, Cinetic Media, CPH:DOX, Europe, Gaza, Hamas, Hamdan Ballal, Hebron, holocaust, HUMAN idff Oslo, IDF, MakeDox, Mariëtte Rissenbeek, Masafer Yatta, MDOC - Melgaço International Documentary Film Festival, Movies on War, Movies That Matter, No Other Land, Nordic/Docs, One World CZ, One World Romania, Palestine, peace, Rachel Szor, Samidoun, Sarajevo Film Festival, Sofia DocuMENTAL, trump, Ukraine. For, Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Yabayay Media, Yuval Abraham

Innocence has died

Hans Henrik Fafner / August 13, 2023

ISRAEL: Militarisation and its impact on young Israelis forced to serve against their own identity and values.

Autlook Filmsales, CPH:DOX, Danish Documentary, Gaza, Guy Davidi, holocaust, Hot Docs, IDF, IDFA, innocence, Israel, Kissufim, MakeDox, Medalia Productions, One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, refugee, suicide

East Doc Series reveals its five selected projects

Modern Times Review / August 20, 2020

The first session of East Doc Series, from the Institute of Documentary Film in association with Baltic Sea Docs and

Amanda Feldon, Baltic Sea Docs, East Doc Series, Fernanda Rossi, IDF, Prophet of Doom, Queen of Chess, Slumbering Concrete, Sunny Side of the Doc, Tin Can Race, Villages of Light

IDF-Ex Oriente Film 2020-featured-first session

This week, join Ex Oriente Film 2020 through online lectures & case studies

Modern Times Review / June 23, 2020

The Institute of Documentary Film (IDF) invites audiences to join the online programme for the first session of Ex Oriente

Ex Oriente Film, IDF, Institute of Documentary Film, Peter Kerekes, Salomé Jashi.

Institute of Documentary Film Ex Oriente Film 2020 projects revealed

Modern Times Review / June 1, 2020

12 documentary projects have been selected by the Institute of Documentary Film (IDF) for their 18th Ex Oriente Film Workshop.

Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Emma Davie, Ex Oriente Film, Giona Nazzaro, IDF, Institute of Documentary Film, Peter Kerekes, Salomé Jashi.