IDFA 2023

Alreadymade

by Stephen Dalton | Nov 12, 2023 | Featured, Festivals, IDFA 2023

Director Barbara Visser explores the controversial links between pioneering Dadaist artists Marcel Duchamp and Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven in her lively, adventurous, unconventional documentary ‘Alreadymade’.

Between Delicate and Violent

by Ben Nicholson | Nov 12, 2023 | Festivals, IDFA 2023, Verdict Shorts

Sirin Bahar Demirel’s stimulating bricolage short, Between Delicate and Violent, combines archival imagery with animation to examine how pictures tell stories and whether they can be mined for truth.

In Wolf Country

by Carmen Gray | Nov 12, 2023 | Festivals, IDFA 2023

Fear-stoking myths around wolves, back in Germany after a century, are dismantled in Ralf Bücheler’s doc ‘In Wolf Country’, appealing to nature management via science.

Magic Mountain

by Carmen Gray | Nov 9, 2023 | Festivals, IDFA 2023

A haunting, poetic doc with political undercurrents, ‘Magic Mountain’ examines a once-grand sanitorium in the Georgian mountains lost to the vultures of capitalism.

This Blessed Plot

by Stephen Dalton | Nov 9, 2023 | Featured, Festivals, IDFA 2023

Director Marc Isaacs takes a bumpy but engaging journey into post-Brexit England in his eccentric docu-fiction pageant ‘This Blessed Plot’.

I Would Like to Rage

by Ben Nicholson | Nov 9, 2023 | Festivals, IDFA 2023, Verdict Shorts

Chloe Galibert-Laine’s latest video essay, I Would Like to Rage, reflects on the place of rage online and through this lens explores the blurred lines between authenticity and performativity

A Picture to Remember

by Carmen Gray | Nov 8, 2023 | Festivals, IDFA 2023

Olga Chernykh’s poetic, vividly sensorial essay-doc debut ‘A Picture to Remember’ reconstitutes Donetsk as a cinematic site of memories for three family generations of women.

IDFA’s Orwa Nyrabia on Making Space for the Unclassifiable

by Carmen Gray | Nov 8, 2023 | Featured, Festivals, IDFA 2023

IDFA’s artistic director Orwa Nyrabia talks with TFV critic Carmen Gray about the festival’s role in times of tension, and where documentary might be heading.

While the Green Grass Grows