IDFA
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IDFA adds special lost Dziga Vertov; announces Luminous and Frontlight titles
After disappearing for a century, Dziga Vertov’s long-lost masterpiece The History of the Civil War makes its world premiere via the IDFA on Stage programme. It will screen only once during the festival (20 November) and will be accompanied by a live score composed and performed by The Anvil Orchestra and its historian and restorer…
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IDFA announces 62 selected projects for 2021 IDFA Forum co financing/co production market
IDFA has announced the 62 documentary projects selected for IDFA Forum 2021. Celebrating its 29th edition this year from 20 to 26 November, the co-production and co-financing market welcomes some of the world’s leading filmmakers, artists, and emerging talents back to Amsterdam to present a dynamic slate of points of view to the international documentary…
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The rise, fall, and rise of Russia’s free-spirited broadcaster
JOURNALISM: The story of Russia's last national independent TV news station.
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IDFA announces 2021 Masters, Best of Fests, and Paradocs selections
IDFA has added another 65 films to its 2021 festival lineup, 17 – 28 November, including the non-competitive program sections Best of Fests, Masters, and Paradocs. Best of Fests will feature another robust selection of films favored across the 2021 festival circuit. These titles include Payal Kapadia’s A Night of Knowing Nothing, Marie Amiguet’s The…
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When one book is always enough
AGEING:What can a group of retirees engaged in leisurely hours reading Proust have to tell us about the world we live in today?
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IDFA announces focus programmes and 2021 DocLab theme
IDFA (17 – 28 November) has just unveiled the two focus programs of its upcoming edition: «The Future Tense» and «unConscious Bias». Alongside the announcement, details on the fifteenth edition of IDFA DocLab, and the corresponding theme program «Liminal Reality», which acts as a celebration of ambiguity in life, tech, and art, have also been…
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Phie Ambo: Art as activism. Activism as art
On Sunday, 19 September, the third day of #Nordisk Panorama# 2021, a masterclass with Danish filmmaker and activist #Phie Ambo# occurred as part of the festival’s industry market events. Ambo’s most recent film, the climate activist-focused 70/30, had premiered at this year’s #CPH:DOX as its opening film. However, her entire two-decade filmography situates Ambo as…
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Cataloguing chronicide In the Soviet Union
CONFLICT: Reconstructing and visualising the historical context of the Babi Yar tragedy, where 33,771 Jews were massacred during Ukraine's German occupation.
