IDFA
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IDFA Forum announces selections, new category & award
63 projects have been selected for the 2020 #IDFA Forum, the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam’s co-production and co-financing market. Featuring established filmmakers and new voices, a new award (IDFA Forum Award for Best Pitch), an additional presentation category designed to support filmmakers through the pandemic, and the market’s most diverse lineup to date, the Forum…
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IDFA 2020 adds Masters, Paradocs, and Best of Fests additions
International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) has announced a slew of new films for its hybrid edition running 18 – 29 November 2020. After announcements surrounding the Best of Fests section and Gianfranco Rosi’s Top 10, auteur focused Masters and the experimental Paradocs have been selected. Also, new additions to Best of Fests feature. Masters 9to5:…
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IDFA announces first films for 2020; Best of Fests & Gianfranco Rosi Top 10
IDFA has announced the first films of its 33rd edition. With 30 films in the Best of Fests programme, and 10 titles selected by Guest of Honour Gianfranco Rosi for the Top 10 programme, #IDFA sets the tone for its festival running 18 – 29 November 2020 in-person and online. The first films included for…
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After initial postponement, Mallorca slow festival MajorDocs returns; full programme announced
After its initial postponement in March of this year due to the COVID-19 situation, Palma’s (Mallorca) #MajorDocs will hold its second edition from September 29th to October 3rd in a hybrid format. The films presented will only be available physically in order to support the cinemas. At the festival, each day two documentary features will…
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IDFA, IFFR, EFA launch International Coalition for Filmmakers at Risk
IDFA, #IFFR, and the #EFA have joined together to establish the International Coalition for Filmmakers at Risk (ICRF) – a collective response to cases of filmmakers facing severe risk. Its creation is in response to the increasing number of filmmakers being threatened while in their field, and across the world. The announcement, which came from…
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IDFA welcomes Gianfranco Rosi as 2020 guest of honour
IDFA has announced its 2020 Guest of Honor as Italian director Gianfranco Rosi. Among Rosi’s many accolades, he is the only filmmaker to win top awards at two A-list festivals with documentary films, the Venice Golden Lion with Sacro GRA (2013) and the #Berlinale Golden Bear with Fire at Sea (2016). Rosi’s entire body of…
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When time is your only ally
IDENTITY: Thrown into a world to suffer similar refusals unite two young men, one Sicilian, the other Nigerian.
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The death that denies its name
DRUGS: Since the election of Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte, a collection of evil spirits have been appearing on the streets of Manila.
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For a few more yards
CONFLICT: Acclaimed Cambodian director Rithy Panh takes viewers on a compelling disturbing and artistic study of the corrosive power of evil in human existence.