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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.... - Read more

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.... - Read more

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.... - Read more

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. ... - Read more

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.... - Read more

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. ... - Read more

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. ... - Read more

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). ... - Read more

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. ... - Read more