23-11-2018 IDFA 2018: Trapped in the City
David Verbeek's short documentary Trapped in The City of a Thousand Mountains, recipient of Netherlands Film Fund postproduction support, explores China's surveillance culture through the prism of the smouldering rap scene in the city of Chongqing in the southwest of the country.... -
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22-11-2018 IDFA 2018: Bellingcat
Hans Pool first became aware of Bellingcat (the website for investigative journalism) after reading an article about a Dutch member of the team.... -
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21-11-2018 IDFA 2018: O amor é único
Geoffrey Macnab talks to emerging talent Marina Meijer whose O amor é único is selected for IDFA Dutch Documentary Competition.... -
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20-11-2018 IDFA 2018: But Now is Perfect
Carin Goeijers' But Now is Perfect , a mid-length film about the European migration crisis selected for IDFA Dutch and Midlength Competitions, is a superbly crafted tale of tragedy heaped on tragedy. The director talks to Nick Cunningham. ... -
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19-11-2018 IDFA 2018: You are my Friend
You Are My Friend is a follow-up to Miss Kiet's Children , the wellreceived documentary that husband and wife team Petra and Peter Lataster made two years ago about a Dutch primary school teacher in charge of a class of immigrant children.... -
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18-11-2018 IDFA 2018: Sheep Hero
In Ton van Zantvoort's Sheep Hero a traditional shepherd tries to survive within a neo-liberal, highly automated farming industry, writes Nick Cunningham.... -
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17-11-2018 IDFA 2018: My Soul Drifts
Sometimes, when life becomes overwhelming and stressful, a bit of Zen is what is needed to restore the proper balance. That is what director Heinrich Dahms has always felt.... -
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17-11-2018 IDFA 2018: IDFA Competition for Kids & Docs
IDFA Kids & Docs Head of Education Meike Statema gives an overview of the four Dutch docs in this year's competition.... -
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17-11-2018 IDFA 2018: Buddy by Heddy Honigmann
Heddy Honigmann's latest feature documentary Buddy offers a ‘loving portrait of the deep bond' between humans and their guide dogs, reports Geoffrey Macnab.... -
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16-11-2018 IDFA 2018: The Miracle of the Little Prince
Marjoleine Boonstra is back at IDFA with her Dutch Competition title The Miracle of the Little Prince, about the impact of aviator Antoine de Saint- Exupéry's classic novel on indigenous communities across the world that are fighting to protect their language and culture. ... -
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16-11-2018 IDFA 2018: Good Neighbours
The trigger for Stella van Voorst van Beest's doc about the need to get neighbourly was a horrendous act of social negligence that the citizens of Rotterdam had witnessed a few years previously. Nick Cunningham reports.... -
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15-11-2018 IDFA 2018: Stones Have Laws
Artistic duo Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan's Stones Have Laws , pulls back the curtain on the Maroon communities living in the forests of Suriname, the former Dutch colony which today is South America's smallest independent country. ... -
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15-11-2018 IDFA 2018: Now Something is Slowly Changing
mint film office's Now Something Is Slowly Changing, selected for IDFA Feature-length and Dutch Competitions, is a minimalist reflection on the business of personal growth and develop ment. ... -
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14-11-2018 IDFA 2018: Interview with Orwa Nyrabia
"To my surprise, it is much less stressful than I expected," Orwa Nyrabia says of his early experiences as artistic director of International Doc Fest Amsterdam (a position he took up at the end of January). ... -
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13-11-2018 IDFA 2018 Opening: Kabul, City in the Wind
Filmmaker Aboozar Amini's Kabul, City in the Wind, which opens IDFA 2018, plunges spectators into the heart of the Afghan capital through the lives of a bus driver and a young boy who manages to find pleasure amid the debris of conflict. ... -
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