IDFA
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Leading a people without a country
PALESTINE: A surprisingly cinematic fly-on-the-wall view of the daily life - and epic struggles - of the Christian mayor of Ramallah.
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Cannes Docs – Marché du Film & CPH:DOX on «Documentary Production now – and beyond!»
CANNES DOCS: Cannes Docs - Marché du Film & CPH:DOX provide the informative panel discussion «Documentary Production now - and beyond!»
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Framing Africa (what is the reality behind the stories we don’t tell?)
AFRICA: A Dutch filmmaker looks to dissect the mechanisms underpinning the dominance of Western perspectives of the Congo and the African continent.
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IDFA to hold physical 2020 festival
For its 33rd edition, 18 – 29 November 2020, #IDFA will present its program in cinemas and extend it across virtual screenings. Though screening will have potentially reduced capacity, all selected films will premiere physically before running online for Dutch audiences via IDFA Virtual Cinema. For 2020, some 200 titles will be selected and judged…
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Dystopia ends when, Putin?
RUSSIA: Online video as a contemporary form of political expression and a plea against censorship in Russia.
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The power of narrative to heal
TRAUMA: An innovative, challenging, and disturbing examination of rape told through a narrative explored by survivors - and perpetrators of sexual violence.
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Katya and Vasya go to school
EDUCATION: Education takes on an entirely new meaning when two idealistic young city slickers take up teaching jobs in a provincial Russian town.
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Ordinary people. Ordinary activities
COMMUNISM: The banality of evil in communist-era Poland explored through archive footage of secret police audio and film recordings.
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The journey of a ghost
COLONIALISM: Almost 500 years after the Spanish Conquest, a ghostly figure merges history and the present reflecting on the legacy of colonialism.