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Real bodies, fake bodies: the dichotomy of female objectification
GENDER EQUALITY: From Kurdish villages to college campuses, gender-based abuse knows no boundaries.
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Scientifically proven fiction
LEGENDS: Does Shangri-La really exist? From the mountains of Tibet to global archives, filmmaker Mirka Duijn seeks the answers.
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Dutch films to feature prominently across IDFA programme
With the 35th #IDFA officially underway, there are a total of 26 Dutch (co)productions in its line-up. No less than 19 films will be competing for one or more IDFA awards, and 20 (co)productions will be celebrating their world premiere at the festival. As the festival opened with one, Niki Padidar’s All You See, here…
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An eternal audition
IDENTITY: Encounters with three other «new comers» to the Netherlands, the IDFA opening film turns the spotlight on all of us as it ponders questions of belonging, who gets exclusion, and the constant reaffirmation of outsider status.
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A lesson in past and present war crimes
UKRAINE: Sergei Loznitsa's new archive-based doc is an impressive reconstruction of the trial of 15 Nazi officers in Kiev after World War II, inevitably making the viewer reflect on more recent war crimes.
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On the murderer’s side
ABUSE: Three survivors of domestic violence who have murdered their abusers are given a chance to tell their stories.
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Choices of war
CONFLICT: Sergei Loznitsa’s sombre documentary, The Natural History of Destruction, re-examines the heavy bombing of British and German cities during World War Two, posing the question – ‘is it morally acceptable to kill civilian populations as a means of war?’
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Documenting resistance through cinema
MYANMAR Pots and pans against bullets and bombs: the story of Myanmar’s rising resistance to the military coup of February, 2021.