IDFA
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Sex and metropolitan living
The metropolitan symphony 21 X New York portrays the iconic metropolis through 21 of its citizens, focusing on what to do or what not to do in a city that never sleeps.
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IDFA 2013: Up close with a crisis
Large-scale crisis and catastrophes – whether war, famine or disease – often attract film makers, relief organisations and press. Whether this is helpful is debatable.
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A confident woman
Challenging deeply rooted patriarchal customs. Rafea: Solar Mamas directed by Mona Eldaief and Jehane Noujaim won the Oxfam Novib Award at IDFA last November.
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IDFA 2012: Emotions
Music as inspiration and the effects of musicophilia. Can music change people? Yes. Sometimes. Very Rarely. Just like love.
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A conspiracy against conspiracy
What is the power of disclosure? asks Truls Lie. Three films – from Burma, from Guantánamo and about Wikileaks – shows that todays “guerrilla” don’t use violence but information as their weapon.
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IDFA 2010: Multiple times in documentaries
Three documentaries show that history can be understood in terms of time periods of different duration: A single event such as an airship trip in 1929, a long running campaign to distort Palestinian history, or the memories of a father connected to world events.
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IDFA 2009: Any possible social impact?
Documentary’s effects span from long views of history to intimate life. A movie may rewrite the past through the present, or a documentary may modify perceptions of the mass media. The following soliloquies and monologues from this year’s IDFA provide a summary of documentary’s capacity, or inability, to enable change.
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IDFA 2006: A Toast to the Documentary
Overall, IDFA 2006 was business as usual with an extensive film programme, countless seminars, workshops and masterclasses, and FORUM and Docs for Sale as the major business events
