IDFA
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Melt
CLIMATE: Geyrhalter’s latest observes global snowscapes and people amid tourism and research, documenting vanishing ice, extreme weather, and urgent climate-policy questions.
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IDFA invites Portuguese filmmaker Susana de Sousa Dias as 2025 Guest of Honour
The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) will present an extensive retrospective of Portuguese filmmaker, curator, and academic Susana de Sousa Dias, highlighting her distinctive approach to archival cinema and political memory. De Sousa Dias has gained international recognition for her films examining dictatorship, colonial legacies, and collective memory through innovative use of archival materials.…
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ShareDoc: When Empathy Demands More Than Applause
SHAREDOC: ShareDoc turns post-film empathy into real support for documentary protagonists.
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Didy
MEMORY: A son’s journey to rediscover his mother unearths buried memories and reveals the silenced strength of Rwandan women.
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Where Zebus Speak French
POST-COLONIALISM: A community compelled into powerful resistance to defend their culture and legacy against foreign forces seeking to erase their land, lives, and history.
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Will Europe watch as Hungary criminalises culture?
HUNGARY: With the introduction of the new «foreign agent» bill, the country’s documentary community is under siege by censorship, surveillance, and democratic erosion.
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Life and Other Problems
HUMANITY: Is human life special? Or just one iteration in a massive, co-created web of intelligence?
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KFF Industry celebrates 20 Years as filmmaking hub
The Krakow Film Festival’s industry arm, #KFF Industry#, marks a major milestone this year as it celebrates its 20th anniversary. What began in 2006 as a modest initiative with a few video booths has evolved into the largest international industry event of its kind in #Poland, dedicated to documentary, short, and animated film professionals from…
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About a Hero
AI: What happens when an algorithm mimics Werner Herzog? A philosophical labyrinth of machine identity and narrative distortion unfolds.