IDFA 2023

IDFA 2023: The Verdict

IDFA 2023: The Verdict

Nov 20, 2023 | ,

IDFA 2023 received a staggering dose of real-life events on its opening night; the quality of its film selection and a few political moves helped it recover.

IDFA: The Awards

IDFA: The Awards

Nov 20, 2023 | ,

Shoghakat Vardanyan’s ‘1489’ wins Best Film at IDFA for its humor and humanity in what the jury called “a vivid evocation of 100 years of history in less than 100 minutes of cinema.”

The Burden

The Burden

Nov 15, 2023 | ,

Elvis Sabin Ngaibino’s IDFA 2023 documentary, ‘The Burden’, walks a familiar path of African misery, but his compelling subjects lends this sophomore feature documentary a deserved poignancy.

Peter Greenaway at IDFA 2023

Peter Greenaway at IDFA 2023

Nov 15, 2023 | , ,

A star guest at the Dutch documentary festival, 81-year-old art-house provocateur Peter Greenaway discusses his two new feature projects, his fears for the future of cinema, and his own feelings of mortality.

The Kyiv Files

The Kyiv Files

Nov 15, 2023 | , ,

Dutch director Walter Stokman digs into recently declassified KGB archives in ‘The Kyiv Files’, an uneven but timely documentary about Ukraine, Russia and Cold War paranoia.

As the Tide Comes In

As the Tide Comes In

Nov 14, 2023 | , ,

Directors Juan Palacios and Sofie Husum Johannesen find beauty and sadness in ‘As the Tide Comes In’, a visually exquisite documentary about a tiny Danish island community menaced by climate change.

Tehachapi

Tehachapi

Nov 13, 2023 | , ,

French visual artist and film-maker JR chronicles his grand-scale collaboration with the inmates of a maximum-security prison in his didactic but uplifting documentary ‘Tehachapi’.

Limitation

Limitation

Nov 13, 2023 | ,

A raw and immediate found-footage assemblage, ‘Limitation’ traces Russia’s hand in the coup that overthrew Georgia’s first post-Soviet president Zviad Gamsakhurdia.

Awards Corner

IDFA 2023

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