IDFA Program Guide 2022

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

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Supporting artistic, independent, and critical voices from around the world In collaboration with filmmakers from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Oceania the Fund strives toward a truly international documentary industry

IDFA Bertha Fund – Classic Funding opportunities for documentary filmmakers and producers living and working in IBF supported regions •

Development: For research, writing and/or production of a trailer

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Production & post-production: For all stages of production & postproduction

Deadlines: 10 December 2022 and 10 June 2023

IDFA Bertha Fund – Europe Minority Co-production Funding opportunities for producing documentary films realized through international co-productions between at least one European and one nonEuropean producer Minority co-production: Featurelength documentary films with potential to reach a global audience

The Netherlands Film Fund + IDFA Bertha Fund Co-production Scheme Funding opportunities for the realization of international documentary coproductions •

Feature-length documentary films which have previously been supported by IDFA Bertha Fund are eligible

Deadline: 1 April 2023

Deadline: 20 February 2023

Applications need to be submitted by a European partner

Applications need to be submitted by a Dutch partner

Visit www.idfa.nl/idfaberthafund for regulations and deadlines.

Contact: idfaberthafund@idfa.nl

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PARTNERS OF IDFA Premium Partners

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Donations to IDFA AVROTROS, Better Places, Buma Music in Motion, Cinecittà, Dutch CORE, Embassy of Sweden, EOdocs, Eye International, Goethe-Institut, Institut français des Pays-Bas, KRO-NCRV, LaScam, Lutfia Rabbani Foundation, and OUTtv.

Main Partners

Suppliers Allrent, Alvero, Arti et Amicitiae, Avenu Media, Beam Systems, Cinema De Vlugt, De Balie, DeLaMar Theater, Eden Hotels Amsterdam, Event Engineers, Eye, Felix Meritis, Filmtechniek BV, Fiona Online, Hertz, Het Ketelhuis, INDYVIDEO, International Theater Amsterdam (ITA), inVision Subtitling, JMT, Kriterion, MacBike, Mausolos, Mercure Amsterdam Centre Canal District, NH Hotel Amsterdam Centre, Noord e-bikes, Oberon, Prinsengracht Hotel, Rex International, Rialto, Royal Theater Carré, Stichting Audiovisuele Toegankelijkheid, Tim&Daan, Uniglobe Perfect Travel, VBVB Cultuurautomatisering, Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond, and the Volkshotel.

Partners

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IDFA would like to thank all Friends, Special Friends, and Special Friends+ of the festival.

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DocLab Research Collaborations include ARTIS-Planetarium, Atlas V, Bombina Bombast, Diversion cinema, East City Films, Kaspar AI, Eye Filmmuseum, National Film Board of Canada, ONX Studio, Polymorf, POPKRAFT, Sandman Studio, The Immersive Storytelling Studio (National Theatre), and Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond.

IDFA Forum is supported by

IDFA Bertha Fund is supported by

Contributors Adriek van Nieuwenhuijzen (Head of Industry), Julia Yudelman (Senior Editor), Marjolein Polder (Communications Project Manager), Theo Imhoff (Designer), Emiel Efdée (Designer), Roxy Merrell (Copy Editor), Laurien ten Houten (Industry Relations & Talks Manager), Ellen Bannink (Development Coordinator), Eveline Kaethoven (Program Coordinator), Victoria Chernukha (Talks Editor), Nina van Doren (DocLab Researcher & Editor), Hugo van Noort (DocLab Intern).

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 7

Useful information

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Useful information: IDFA DocLab

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Filmmaker Talks

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Film Talks

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Industry Talks

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Industry Sessions

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Industry Meetups

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Think Tanks

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Delegation project presentations

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Social events

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Industry and public program schedule

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Films

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New media & performances

Beba by Rebecca Huntt

Photo by Roos Trommelen

Photo by Jurre Rompa

Photo by Coen Dijkstra 4

35% cash rebate films & series

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Learn more about our programmes on ammodo.org

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USEFUL INFORMATION Photo by Roger Cremers FESTIVAL CENTER

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Internationaal Theater Amsterdam (ITA), Leidseplein 26 Our new Festival Center is open to all accredited guests and visitors to meet up, catch a film or performance, and absorb a wide range of talks.

Here you’ll find all guest information, the Guest Desk, Guest Box Office, Industry Desk, Consultancy Desk, Press Desk, and plenty of social and meeting spaces. The Festival Center is also home to our talent development program and daily Industry Talks and Consultancies.

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GUEST DESK ITA – Ajax Foyer Here, accredited guests can pick up their pass and get general information about the festival.

Nov 8 | 12:00–21:00 Nov 9–19 | 9:00–21:00 Nov 20 | 10:00–14:00

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Tickets can be booked at idfa.nl and will be automatically uploaded to your pass.

To avoid empty seats, please cancel your ticket if you can’t make it to a screening. Complimentary tickets can easily be returned through your MyIDFA account or by emailing service@idfa.nl There is no admission after the screening start time.

PRESS & INDUSTRY SCREENINGS Pathé City, Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 15-19 Press & Industry Screenings show all films selected for the International and Envision Competitions, world premieres from across the program, and a number of international premieres from other sections.

Passholders must reserve a free ticket online to gain admission. Tickets are available the day before the screening starts and will be uploaded onto your pass.

Nov 11–15 TICKET PRICES

GUEST BOX OFFICE

Regular rate €11.50

ITA – Bookshop This is where guests can book tickets for screenings and other events.

Guest discount €8.50 Networking passholders Amsterdam City passholders (blue diamond)

Nov 9–19 | 9:00–21:00 INDUSTRY DESK ITA - Bookshop At the Industry Desk, we can help you with any questions regarding IDFA’s activities for professionals. We guide you through the industry side of the festival, and keep you informed on our array of talks, sessions, and meetings.

Nov 11–16 | 9:00–17:00 CONSULTANCY DESK

Students €5.75 CJP pass holders Amsterdam City passholders (green dot) ACCESSIBILITY As part of our ongoing commitment to delivering an inclusive festival experience, IDFA is working to remove several access barriers in our programming and services. For information regarding location access, audio descriptions, closed captions, sensory-friendly screenings, screenings with amplified sound, and more, please visit idfa.nl/accessibility

ITA – Koninklijke Foyer (Second floor) From the Saturday until the Wednesday of the festival, we have multiple consultants on-site for you to ask questions about distribution, grant writing, festival strategies, impact producing, and more. Stop by the Consultancy Desk to see the availability of our industry consultants or queue for a last-minute seat.

Nov 12–16 | 10:00–16:00

If you have questions, comments, or suggestions about accessibility at IDFA, please get in touch with us via service@idfa.nl

PRESS DESK

AVAILABLE ONLINE

ITA – Marnix Salon The Press Desk is intended for members of the press. If you need information about the festival programs or guests, or want to arrange an interview, please send your request to our international press officer at annetakahashi@idfa.nl

In addition to all the festivities in Amsterdam, we have a few online services for you. The following are available to all guests, whether attending in person or online.

Nov 9–18 | 10:00–18:00 TICKETS •

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Guests with a Festival, Press, Forum, DocLab Forum, Producers Connection, or IDFAcademy pass can get up to 20 complimentary tickets for regular screenings and events, including live cinema events, after which they can purchase tickets with a discount.

Guests with a Networking pass can purchase tickets with a discount.

All passholders can purchase tickets for special screenings with a discount.

HEALTH & SAFETY AT IDFA 2022 At IDFA, the health of our visitors, guests, and employees is paramount. To read the most up-to-date protocols please refer to idfa.nl/covid-19.

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Press & Industry Library: Watch films from the IDFA 2022 selection online and on demand from November 10 to 20. Please note that films only become available in the Press & Industry Library after their premiere.

Talks Library: Watch a selection of industry and audience talks online and on demand. Talks will be added to the Library approximately one day after happening in Amsterdam and will be made available until December 14.

Guest List: Access company profiles, biographies, and contact information of all accredited guests through our online directory.

If you are accredited as an online Forum Observer, you’ll also have access to the recorded pitches, available within 24 hours after the live pitches for a limited period.

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USEFUL INFORMATION Photo by Coen Dijkstra

DocLab is IDFA’s program for interactive and immersive non-fiction. Since 2007, we have been exploring the boundaries of the documentary genre with the exhibition of digital art, multi-sensory XR projects, live events, and experimental forms of theater and storytelling. Under the theme Nervous Systems, the sixteenth edition of DocLab returns to the heart of Amsterdam.

EXHIBITION

LIVE EVENTS

Free admission, Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond Brakke Grond is the main location of the IDFA DocLab program. Here you can play, discover, and experience a selection of the best new interactive documentaries, XR installations, and performances. Register online for a free ticket.

Nov 11–19 | 11:30–20:30 Nov 20 | 11:30–18:00

Ticketed admission, ARTIS Planetarium (Plantage Kerklaan 38–40) and Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond (Nes 45) DocLab’s Live Events are one-of-a-kind themed evenings with live screenings, artist talks, and interactive experiments. Dive deeper into the world of digital art and immersive documentaries, meet the creators, and hear the stories behind the projects in the official IDFA DocLab 2022 selection.

Nov 11–18 | from 20:30

SPECIAL INSTALLATIONS & PERFORMANCES

MOTION CAPTURE STAGE

Ticketed admission, Arti et Amicitiae (Rokin 112) and Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond (Nes 45) For the experiences below, booking an advance ticket is necessary. Each of these projects has several showings per day. More information about these projects can be found in the list of new media and performances at the back of this program guide.

Walk-in admission / ticketed admission, Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond (Nes 45) In collaboration with ONX Studio, a joint initiative of Onassis USA and New Museum’s NEW INC, DocLab is presenting a public motion-capture stage this year.

Slumberland* Interactive theater in VR

Arti et Amicitiae

Nov 11–20

In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats* Interactive rave experience in VR

Arti et Amicitiae

Nov 11–20

Brakke Grond Horizon One-on-one interactive theater performance

Nov 11–16, 18–20

*For wheelchair-accessible showings of Slumberland and In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats, please visit de Brakke Grond.

More information at idfa.nl/accessibility VR GALLERY Ticketed admission, Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond (Nes 45) A ticket to the VR Gallery gets you a 50-minute time slot to experience multiple VR projects of your choice, undisturbed. To watch all the projects on offer, you need to reserve 3 time slots.

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For the first time, DocLab and ONX come together to explore new possibilities in narrative and movement. Experience the technology that converts the live movements of dancers and performers into virtual reality at our motion capture stage, transported directly from ONX’s XR exhibition and production space in New York. Five ONX Member artist projects will be presented as live performances along with participatory workshops, demos, performances, and talks. Some sessions are free to attend; some special performances require an advance ticket. Discover the program at idfa.nl/mocap Nov 11–14 LOCATIONS Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond, Nes 45 Arti et Amicitiae, Rokin 112 ARTIS-Planetarium, Plantage Kerklaan 38–40

New from the MIT Press

Meet the authors IDFA Industry Talk Monday, November 14 at 3pm Location: ITA Studio 1

Collective Wisdom Co-Creating Media for Equity and Justice

By Katerina Cizek and William Uricchio; Contributions by Juanita Anderson, Maria Agui Carter and Detroit Narrative Age How to co-create—and why: the emergence of media co-creation as a concept and as a practice grounded in equity and justice.

Co-creation is everywhere: It’s how the internet was built; it generated massive prehistoric rock carvings; it powered the development of vaccines for COVID-19 in record time. Co-creation offers alternatives to the idea of the solitary author privileged by top-down media. But co-creation is easy to miss, as individuals often take credit for—and profit from— collective forms of authorship, erasing whole cultures and narratives as they do so. Collective Wisdom offers the first guide to co-creation as a concept and as a practice, tracing co-creation in a media-making that ranges from collaborative journalism to human–AI partnerships.

Available in hardcover and eBook.

mitpress.mit.edu

FILMMAKER TALKS Filmmaker Talks are hour-long interviews with renowned documentary directors, focusing on their creative methods, body of work, and views on filmmaking.

Master Talk: Laura Poitras

Filmmaker Talk: Emma Davie

In an in-depth public interview, Artistic Director Orwa Nyrabia talks to Laura Poitras about her rebellious creative trajectory, Top 10 favorite films, and the political power in documentary art. Long prolific in the spheres of documentary and journalism, Poitras’ fearless filmmaking has changed the world as we know it. Her film My Country, My Country examined the US occupation in Iraq; The Oath shed light into the dark core of America’s war on terror; the Oscar-winning Citizenfour beared witness to Edward Snowden’s unfolding whistleblowing campaign; and Risk (2016) portrayed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Her films have marked dramatic milestones in recent history, while creating a film record of the US government’s civic rights violations. Laura Poitras has also taught filmmaking at Yale and Duke University, shared a Pulitzer Prize for public service with her reporting on the N.S.A.’s mass surveillance, and has been on the board of the Freedom of the Press Foundation.

An in-depth conversation with filmmaker and scholar Emma Davie. Together with writer Pamela Cohn, she will discuss her body of work, artistic choices, and views on cinematic art.

Her latest film All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, which won a Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival 2022, will be one of the center points of this Master Talk.

FR 11 Nov, 15:45, Carré Public

This insightful session will also include excerpts from Davie’s various works as well as her new film The Oil Machine. Emma Davie’s filmmaking practice centers around profound creative collaboration both in front and behind the camera. In her work, she often experiments with narrative approaches and complex relationships between the observer and the protagonist. After directing a number of successful documentaries for television, including What Age Can You Start Being An Artist?, Gigha, Buying Our Island, and Flight, Davie co-directed I Am Breathing which won a Scottish BAFTA for Best Director.

Another important inspiration in Davie’s career is performance theater, which shaped so much of Becoming Animal, a film she co-authored with Peter Mettler in 2018. Emma Davie served as a documentary programmer for the Edinburgh International Film Festival, was on the board of EDN, and currently runs the postgraduate course in documentary directing at Edinburgh College of Art. MO 14 Nov, 13:00, ITA: Studio 1 Public

IDFA Dialogue: What gender are film festivals?

Inspired by the Not Yet Yes program and its thought-provoking viewpoint on queerness, Artistic Director Orwa Nyrabia sits across philosopher Simon(e) van Saarloos in an open, contemplative debate about unarticulated power dynamics in the documentary and film festival scenes.

What happens if we borrow from the glossary of queerness and apply it to the film process? How would it affect our understanding of the relationship between the people in front of the camera and those behind it? Between a filmmaker and a decision-maker? Between a curator and a spectator?

As influential cultural machines, what patterns do film festivals embody and enforce? How does equality mesh with systems designed around exclusivity and competition? This bold and critical examination will be accessible to industry guests and public audiences.

Filmmaker Talk: Nishtha Jain An inspirational hour-long conversation with renowned Indian filmmaker Nishtha Jain. Moderated by writer Pamela Cohn, this talk will focus on Jain’s creative credo and body of work, featuring excerpts from both The Golden Thread and earlier films. Nishtha Jain’s cinema explores the political in the daily, and sheds light on the mechanisms of invisible oppression. Her films peer into the cultural constructs like privilege, cast, class, and gender revealing their omnipresence in contemporary Indian society.

SA 12 Nov, 14:00, De Balie: Grote Zaal

Jain has also been working across various platforms including scripted film and virtual reality installations. Among the works to be discussed during this filmmaker talk are some of her most known documentary titles: City of Photos (2004), Lakshmi and Me (2007), and Gulabi Gang (2012).

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TU 15 Nov, 14:00, ITA: Studio 1 Public

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IDFA TALKS

Filmmaker Talk: Kidlat Tahimik

Filmmaker Talk: Petra Lataster and Peter Lataster

An in-depth conversation with director, artist, and multidisciplinary performer Kidlat Tahimik. Writer Pamela Cohn talks to the prominent Filipino filmmaker about his body of work, creative process, and shifting boundaries between genres and cultures.

An inspirational, hour-long conversation with Petra Lataster-Czisch and Peter Lataster.

Writer Pamela Cohn speaks with the renowned directors about their impressive filmography, views on cinematic art, and approach to working as a creative duo.

Kidlat Tahimik is considered the godfather of Philippine New Wave cinema. His very first film Perfumed Nightmare won the FIRPESCI Prize at Berlin Film Festival and was released in the US by Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope studio. Tahimik’s free, experimental, and uncompromising visual language employs various performative methods outside conventional dramaturgy. His films include: Why Is Yellow the Middle of the Rainbow?, Turrumba, Orbit 50: Letters to My 3 Sons, Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi, and BUBONG! (Roofs of the World! UNITE!). Like in many of his films, the artist appears as a protagonist in the epic essay Balikbayan #1 Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III, which was awarded the Caligari Prize at Berlinale.

Peter and Petra Lataster have shared a cinematic path for more than twenty years, and collaborated on dozens of titles that earned an array of Dutch and international awards. An unconditional curiosity for human existence guides a lot of their work, which expands the territory of the regular and mundane into profound universes full of philosophical discoveries. Another signature of their repertoire is that many of their films follow intimate, deeply personal situations, and often engage filmmakers’ own family circle. At the intersection of these traits is Lataster’s new film Journey Through Our World, which will have its world premiere as part of the International Competition. This Filmmaker Talk will also explore other films, including Jerome Jerome, Miss Kiet’s Children, Not Without You. Selected excerpts will be highlighted as a part of the interview.

Tahimik has recently been working with shorter forms and installations, having multiple exhibitions in leading art institutions all over the world.

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FILM TALKS Film Talks are extended conversations between filmmakers, experts, and moderators that directly follow the screening of a film.

The Hamlet Syndrome + Talk hosted by the European Cultural Foundation

Bella Ciao + Talk hosted by the European Cultural Foundation

Theater maker Roza Sarkisian is united with five young Ukrainians in an intense process, to create a performance in which Shakespeare’s Hamlet and their reality come together. Moderated by writer and journalist Chris Keulemans, Antonina Setbur (Antiwar Coalition) and the film directors discuss the multifaceted role of art in a complicated world. Presented in collaboration with the European Cultural Foundation.

Followed by an interview with director Giulia Giapponesi and scholar Melanie Schiller. Moderated by journalist and film critic Dana Linssen, the conversation will discuss the intertwining of messaging between progressive movements and popular music.

FR 11, 15:30, Tuschinski 1

The Oil Machine + Talk hosted by VU

Colette and Justin + Talk Debut filmmaker Alain Kassanda and his grandparents explore their family history in this richly layered portrait, drawing together politics and personal memories. Followed by a conversation with the director and Eric Hynes, film programmer at the Museum of Moving Image in New York.

FR 11, 17:00, Eye: Cinema 1

IDFA Hit: White Balls on Walls + Talk hosted by Het Parool Followed by a conversation with director Sarah Vos, Stedelijk Museum Director Rein Wolfs, and Head of Research & Curatorial Practice at Stedelijk Charl Landvreugd, moderated by Hadassah de Boer.

SA 12, 14:30, Kleine Komedie

IDFA and VU present The Oil Machine by Emma Davie in the context of climate law and policy making, followed by an extended conversation hosted by public international lawyer David Rossati.

SA 12, 15:30, Rialto VU: Zaal 4

The 3 Rooms of Melancholia + Talk After the screening, director Pirjo Honkasalo and Laura Poitras will have an extended conversation about the creative process behind this multilayered, poetic film that reflects a whole range of fundamental human feelings around war. Their discussion will also touch upon the expression of masculinity in cinematic language.

SA 12, 16:00, Eye: Cinema 1

FR 11, 18:30, Carré

Alis + Talk During workshops at a shelter in Bogotá, filmmakers Clare Weiskopf and Nicolas van Hemelryck delicately captured brave and poignant stories of its residents. Followed by a conversation with curator Eric Hynes, and the two directors of the film.

Europe + Talk In this observation of the daily reality of migrants in a major European city, Philip Scheffner cast Algerian actress Rhim Ibrir to re-enact Zohra’s story.

Followed by a conversation with the director and Eric Hynes, film curator of the Museum of Moving Image in New York.

SA 12, 17:30, Tuschinski 4

SA 12, 13:30, Tuschinski 1

IDFA TALKS

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IDFA Hit: Bobi Wine: The People’s President + Talk

In viaggio + Talk

A charismatic ghetto pop star Bobi Wine decides to run for president, yet meets daunting opposition. The film that cleverly documents a deadly dangerous political game in Uganda will be followed by a conversation with the director Christopher Sharp, as well as the protagonist himself.

Following In viaggio, which presents a chaotic and unjust world, as seen through the eyes of Pope Francis, there will be a moderated conversation with Gianfranco Rosi. Together with critic Nicolas Rapold, the filmmaker will discuss his creative process, which involved layering of archive material, news reports, and footage from his earlier works.

SA 12, 20:00, Carré

MO 14, 14:00, Tuschinski 1

Silent House + Talk hosted by De Groene Amsterdammer We follow the fortunes of three generations of an upper-middle-class family against the backdrop of four decades of Iranian history. With the century-old family house in Tehran as a silent witness, the family’s story becomes a mirror of society. Followed by a conversation with Or Goldenberg from De Groene Amsterdammer and directors Farnaz Jurabchian and Mohammadreza Jurabchian.

SA 12, 20:30, Kleine Komedie

African Moot + Talk (Oxfam Novib Special) Followed by an interview with director Shameela Seedat. The conversation will discuss this portrait of committed African youth, trying to shape the future of their continent. Presented in collaboration with Oxfam Novib.

SU 13, 14:00, Tuschinski 1

Meet Marlon Brando & Maria Schneider, 1983 + Talk A 1966 film Meet Marlon Brando by David and Albert Maysles is presented alongside the new experimental Maria Schneider, 1983 which brings to life an archival testimony on abusive practices in the film industry. After the screening, visual artist Elisabeth Subrin will speak about her film in the framework of Focus Program: Around Masculinity.

MO 14, 17:15, Tuschinski 4

Liturgy of Anti-Tank Obstacles & When Spring Came to Bucha + Talk hosted by De Groene Amsterdammer This combined screening is followed by a conversation with Rutger van der Hoeven from De Groene Amsterdammer and directors Mila Teshaieva and Marcus Lenz. The talk will address the creative process behind both films, the current war in Ukraine, and the role of filmmakers in wartime.

MO 14, 19:45, Kleine Komedie

Paradise + Talk As heatwave leads to huge forest fires in Siberia, villagers join forces to subdue the inferno they call the Dragon. A visually powerful film about the havoc that climate change can wreak. After the screening, director Alexander Abaturov will talk about his creative process with critic and film programmer Eric Hynes.

SU 13, 14:30, Eye: Cinema 2

Racist Trees + Talk Can a tree be racist? Residents of Crossley Tract, a historically Black neighborhood in Palm Springs, wrestled with this curious question for decades, culminating in heated discussions on national TV. After the screening, critic Nicolas Rapold will speak with directors Mina T. Son and Sara Newens about the process behind the film.

TU 15, 12:30, Tuschinski 4

The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived + Talk Lebanese director Heiny Srour put her life at risk in the early 1970s, filming the struggle for independence in Dhofar, Oman. This powerful feminist statement, where her primary focus is on the women fighters, is screened as part of the Focus Program: Around Masculinity. Followed by a live interview with the filmmaker.

SU 13, 18:00, Eye: Cinema 2

The Etilaat Roz + Talk hosted by De Groene Amsterdammer As Kabul is recaptured by the Taliban, the passionate journalists of the Etilaat Roz daily newspaper grow increasingly concerned. Hopelessness and fear gradually take over in this penetrating film. Followed by a conversation with Editor-in-Chief of De Groene Amsterdammer Xandra Schutte and director Abbas Rezaie.

TU 15, 14:30, Eye: Cinema 2

Father, Son and Holy War + Talk This daring two-part documentary explores the notion of manhood as it relates to violence, religious traditions, and the Hindu-Muslim conflict in the early ‘90s. Shown as part of Focus Program: Around Masculinity, and followed by a conversation with director Anand Patwardhan and IDFA programmer Sarah Dawson.

SU 13, 20:00, De Balie: Grote Zaal

Wisdom Gone Wild + Talk A poetic and affectionate portrait of a born storyteller with dementia. Now that Rose, the Japanese-American mother of filmmaker Rea Tajiri, is sinking deeper into her dream world, her daughter and caregiver tells Rose’s complex life story. After the screening, film critic Nicolas Rapold will discuss the creative process with the director and her collaborators.

TU 15, 15:30, Tuschinski 4

Camouflage + Talk Do those who live near the Argentinian army base Campo de Mayo still remember its dark past? Writer Félix Bruzzone’s mother was murdered there during the dictatorship. Now he travels this emotionally-charged landscape and meets the local people. The screening will be followed by a conversation with director Jonathan Perel and IDFA programmer Maria Campaña Ramia.

SU 13, 20:30, Kleine Komedie

Blue ID + Talk Following their intimate report on the transition of Rüzgar Erkoçlar, who has to go through his journey of self-realization under extreme media scrutiny, Burcu Melekoglu and Vuslat Kara will talk about their film and the story behind it. The two directors will be interviewed by scholar Özge Calafato.

TU 15, 18:30, Tuschinski 4

Free Money + Talk (Oxfam Novib Special) Followed by a conversation between Oxfam Novib chief human economist Esmé Berkhout and directors Lauren DeFilippo and Sam Soko about fair finance, distribution of wealth, and human economy. Presented in collaboration with Oxfam Novib.

TU 15, 18:30, Tuschinski 1

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IDFA TALKS

Ruthless Times – Songs of Care + Talk

The Arbor + Talk

The right to spend the final years of your life in dignity is threatening to become unaffordable. This unorthodox combination of classic documentary and musical is a sharp indictment of market forces in the care for the elderly in Finland. Followed by a conversation with director Susanna Hulke and film critic Nicolas Rapold.

This impressive reconstruction of Andrea Dunbar’s short life employs the voices of people from Dunbar’s circle to create an emotional expression of her autobiographical play The Arbor. Following the screening Artistic Director Orwa Nyrabia will speak to director Clio Barnard about her film that pushed boundaries between reality and fiction.

WE 16, 15:15, Tuschinski 4

FR 18, 18:15, Eye: Cinema 2

Mariupolis 2 + Talk

Look What You Made Me Do + Talk hosted by VEVAM

Lithuanian filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravičius returned to the ruined Ukrainian city of Mariupol, a hell on earth where life goes on amid the bombardments. He was killed by Russian troops, but his crew went on to finish the film. After the screening, there will be an extended program in collaboration with Free Press Unlimited.

The screening will be followed by an extended conversation with director Coco Schrijber. Presented in collaboration with Stichting VEVAM Fonds, the copyright holders organization for directors of film-and television productions in The Netherlands.

FR 18, 20:00, Tuschinski 1

WE 16, 17:00, Eye: Cinema 2

Notes on Displacement + Talk

We, Students! + Talk hosted by OneWorld

In this meta portrayal, visual artist Khaled Jarrar takes a deep dive into the fear and disorientation felt by a Syrian family on the grueling journey to a better life. After the screening, a discussion will follow with the director himself and film critic Nicolas Rapold.

A nimble portrait following the lives of students Aaron, Benjamin, Nestor, and Rafiki in the Central African Republic. In this poverty-stricken country, the friends focus their hopes on the future. The screening is followed by a talk between OneWorld Editor-in-Chief Seada Nourhussen and IDFA’s Artistic Director Orwa Nyrabia.

WE 16, 18:30, Tuschinski 4

SA 19, 15:45, Eye: Cinema 2

Midwives + Talk hosted by Mama Cash

Mothers ​+ Talk hosted by Female Economy & New Metropolis Nieuw West

Two women, a Buddhist and a Muslim, work together at a maternity clinic in Myanmar. The oppression of Rohingya Muslims in the country means it’s dangerous to treat Muslim women—but neither of these obstetricians take any notice of that. Followed by a conversation with moderator Nadia Moussaid director Hnin Ei Hlaing. Presented in collaboration with Mama Cash.

WE 16, 18:30, Tuschinski 1

Four Amsterdam mothers explain how their sons got in trouble with the law and were subjected to a stigmatizing crime prevention program called Top400. Despite their powerlessness and frustration, they keep fighting for their children. Followed by a conversation with Female Economy and New Metropolis Nieuw-West. Moderated by Myriam Zahraoui.

SU 20, 13:00, Cinema De Vlugt

On Boys, Girls and the Veil + Talk In his 1995 film, Yousry Nasrallah investigates the complex views young Egyptians have on gender and cultural norms. Years later, the same topics still stir lively debates in many societies. After the screening, Nat Muller will interview the renowned director as a part of this edition’s Focus Program: Around Masculinity.

TH 17, 12:00, Eye: Cinema 1

Notes for a Film + Talk Director Ignacio Agüero portrays a story of a Belgian civil engineer, who in 1889 worked on a railroad across a brand new region of Chile: Araucanía.

After this film, where the tumultuous past and the ever-changing landscape are a constant background presence, the renowned filmmaker will be interviewed as a part of Focus Program: Playing Reality.

TH 17, 15:15, Tuschinski 4

Just an Alien + Talk The spiritually minded vagabond Zhighou Sun guides the viewer through the extraordinary world of the “Foreigners Street” Chinese amusement park in Chongqing, a surreal sanctuary full of strange structures, from UFOs to an Egyptian pyramid. After the screening film critic Nicolas Rapold will discuss the filming process with the director Weicheng Hua. FR 18, 15:30, Eye: Cinema 2

Heroic Bodies + Talk Through unique archive material and interviews with activists, Heroic Bodies presents a history of the development of women’s rights in Sudan. We see and hear how women have been oppressed, ignored, and abused for centuries, and what has changed. The screening will be followed by an in-depth discussion with director Sara Suliman.

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INDUSTRY TALKS Industry Talks dive into the key trends and urgent discussions currently defining the industry.

Industry Talk: (Co-)Production in a changing financing landscape Hosted by DAE and DPA A deep dive for producers into the complexities of higher budget international co-production. A masterclass-like panel of experts explain the secrets of the trade, IP rights, rules of engagement, the ever-intimidating elements of recoupment schedules, and the famous CAMA—in a global production environment that sees more equity investment and higher contributions from equity-backed production houses and studios. As we enter a new and exciting age of expanded financing and distribution opportunities, how will this change production workflows? What are new guidelines and why are they growing in importance for European producers? What can we learn from the North American system of equity financing models? What should we defend without compromise in this new world? A panel of expert producers and European production powerhouses weigh in on these new considerations.

Speakers: Ina Fichman (Intuitive Pictures) and Michael Haslund-Christensen (Elk Films) Moderator: Derren Lawford (DARE pictures) SA 12 Nov, 15:00, Felix Meritis: Shaffyzaal Passholders

These days, a documentary editor’s responsibility has grown due to the ever-multiplying amount of footage and choices that can be made. An editor must navigate between serving the director’s vision, uncovering the story the footage holds, and at the same time master the editing process, full of deadlines and expectations.

Yaël has edited numerous successful documentaries such as: Invisible Demons, by Rahul Jain, which showed at Festival de Cannes 2021; Advocate,

by Rachel Leah Jones, which showed at Sundance official selection 2019, and won the Emmy Award for Best Documentary and was shortlisted for an Oscar; Devil’s Pie: D’Angelo by Carine Bijlsma, Tribeca Film festival 2019; and Machines by Rahul Jain, IDFA 2016.

Yaël is also a well-known story consultant, she worked for DokIncubator and Rough Cut Services, and is very good at exposing the problems in a cut that “just doesn’t seem to work, yet.”

She has been teaching at the HEAD film department in Geneva for the last 10 years.

From 1995 to 1999, Yaël worked as a script supervisor on various feature films in the U.S. including: Lisbon Story (Wim Wenders, 1994), Girlfight (Karin Kusama, 2000), and Hamlet (Michael Almeryda, 2000). She has directed two feature-length documentaries: Not for Sale (2003) and The Rabbi’s 12 Children (2007), as well as various shorter formats for TV.

Industry Talk: Co-creation is everywhere but hard to see

Speaker: Yaël Bitton

Often hidden in plain sight, co-creation is at the heart of many films and projects at IDFA. In this panel, creatives at IDFA will demonstrate the many ways in which they co-create within communities, using the internet, across disciplines and even with non-human systems such as buffalo herds and artificial intelligence. Illustrated with lots of clips, this panel of artists will share a wide array of creative practices that draw on collective filmmaking, restorative justice, community-centered philosophies and Indigenous epistemologies. While very diverse, together the panel aims to illustrate how co-creation in its multitude can offer new narratives, systems and new kinds of hope for our cinematic and collective futures.

Moderator: Annelotte Medema (NCE)

Speakers: Mario Valero (dir. Cross Words), Tessa Ratuszynska (dir. With these Hands), Tasha Hubbard (Buffalo Song Productions) and Juanita Anderson (coauthor Collective Wisdom) Moderator: Katerina Cizek (author, with William Uricchio and 12 co-authors, Collective Wisdom) SA 12 Nov, 16:00, ITA: Studio 1 Passholders

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Industry Talk: NCE Masterclass with editor Yaël Bitton

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SU 13 Nov, 09:30, ITA: Studio 1 Passholders

Industry Talk: Innovations in (online) distribution – part III

Industry Talk: Producing – Beyond money

Hosted by Creative Europe desk NL

“Pro rata pari passu” is a basis of partnership that presumes all co-producers live in and contribute to a project from within similar paradigms. As the documentary world opens up and tries to expand its horizons, it becomes clear that simple financial contribution calculations are not fair or balanced.

Then, in a creative documentary film environment, is the value of producing measurable only by the cash brought to the table? Let’s hear from professionals on their experiences and strategies around fairness, integrity and knowledge-sharing.

During the Industry Talk in November 2020, we asked the question: Will there be a role for virtual cinema, that arose opportunistically during the lockdowns, in the future? We also canvassed audiences’ appetites for docs from VOD platforms, library and new business models developing. In 2021, we looked back on the major changes and challenges in distribution caused by the pandemic and looked ahead to see which changes were there to stay. This year, we look into how stay-at-home habits can potentially clash with a desire to return to the physical cinema.

The cinemas have opened but the physical market hasn’t restored yet.

Worldwide theatrical markets are still down with about 30% and top 5 films dominate the box office. The tendency is to concentrate on how many bums are on the seats. But what could hybrid distribution bring the industry in terms of audience engagement, audience growth, and artistic development? How can virtual cinema, or theatrical with other types of VOD companion angles (including TVOD/SVOD/AVOD), help torpedo distributors and cinemas into the next era and how will it help filmmakers build an audience?

Speakers: Anke van Diejen (Picl), Anna Germanidi (Modern Films) and Esther van Messel (First Hand Films) Moderator: Wendy Bernfeld (Rights Stuff, NL) SU 13 Nov, 16:00, ITA: Studio 1 Passholders

Industry Talk: Nicolas Philibert on his career as a filmmaker Hosted by LaScam An internationally renowned documentary director, Nicolas Philibert is one of the great filmmakers of the human condition and, for all lovers of cinéma du réel, he has been an essential reference point for the past thirty years.

From Louvre City and Nenette, to In the Land of the Deaf, Every Little Thing, and the acclaimed Être et Avoir (which ran for a year in Amsterdam!)—Philibert can be credited with having reconciled the general public with documentary cinema, while never relinquishing his art or making the slightest concession. Since 2002, more than 130 tributes and retrospectives of his films have been organized around the world.

Speakers: Nicolas Philibert and Anja Unger (LaScam) Moderator: Martijn Winkler (Vertov) MO 14 Nov, 10:00, ITA: Studio 1

Speakers: Guevara Namer, Alex Shiriaieff (B2B Doc), and Gugi Gumilang (In-Docs) Moderator: Brigid O’Shea (DAE), Guevara Namer (visual artist, filmmaker) MO 14 Nov, 15:00, Felix Meritis: Concertzaal Passholders

Industry Talk: Collective Wisdom Book – meet the authors Meet most of the authors and co-authors of IDFA’s recommended book of 2022, Collective Wisdom, the first book to trace the history and relevance of co-creation in media, especially within documentary forms, and emergent technologies. While co-creation is often hard to see, the 14 (!) authors/ co-authors argue co-creation is both ancient and digital, and that it’s very common yet often hard to see. They also emphasize co-creation carries with it big risks, alongside huge potential, as long as it is tied to equity and justice. In this lively, rotating series of panels, including special guests from the Indigenous Screen Office Delegation, this event will celebrate the book and ask crucial questions about the urgency of co-creation.

MO 14 Nov, 15:00, ITA: Studio 1 Passholders

Industry Talk: Accessibility in industry events Festival industry markets are an essential space for the business of documentary, prime meeting ground for professional networking, knowledge-sharing and simply gathering as a community. What happens when this physical or online space by its design (or lack thereof) automatically excludes a part of the industry. This panel delves into industry event accessibility, looking at how festival and market organizations are taking informed steps to create and prioritize accessibility in their designs. Hearing from both filmmakers and festivals, it examines current processes and successful case studies in a European context and internationally.

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Speakers: Ondřej Kamenický (International Human Rights Film Festival One World), Amanda Upson (Tuck and Roll Productions, Fwd-Doc), Julia Yudelman (IDFA), Adi Hollander (Haptic Room Studies)

Industry Talk: Capturing reality in motion

Moderator: Jess Search (Doc Society)

For the first time this year, ONX and IDFA DocLab collaborate to present a special motion capture stage at the festival—exploring the artistic potential of motion capture technology for documentary art.

MO 14 Nov, 16:45, Felix Meritis: Concertzaal

This talk will dive into questions that working with this technology bring.

How can we artistically push the creative treatment of reality through immersive and motion capture technology? What can we do with captured human movements and virtual environments, beyond action movies? What can documentary art and storytelling bring to the motion capture stage?

And what does it mean to capture a body?

Industry Talk: Disrupt narrative, disrupt history

Keynote by: Kent Bye (Voices of VR Podcast) Speakers: Avinash Changa (WeMakeVR), Bombina Bombast (creator Slumberland), and ONX Studio Moderator: Sandra Rodriguez (VoulezVous) MO 14 Nov, 13:00, de Brakke Grond: Rode Zaal Passholders

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Hosted by Beeld & Geluid Archives provide a wondrous, almost endless source of image and moments of recorded stories/histories. Reshaping this material, artists and filmmakers question seemingly objective historical events, juxtapose and interrupt official readings of history, and shine a new light on past events that have shaped and continue to shape generations of people.

History seems to repeat itself over and over so how can we reflect on impactful and painful events differently and break the cycle? What new stories can be born of histories?

Selected for the Beeld & Geluid IDFA ReFrame Award 2022, filmmakers come together to reflect on the archival material they chose to form new narratives on persistent power structures that influence the world around us.

Speakers: Alain Kassanda (dir. Colette and Justin) and Janaína Nagata (dir. Private Footage) TU 15 Nov, 10:00, ITA: Studio 1 Passholders

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Industry Talk: Laura Poitras x ICFR: Filmmakers at Risk

Industry Talk: The magic of impact for film

A necessary examination of the growing prosecution and incarceration of filmmakers around the world. An update from the International Coalition for Filmmakers at Risk (ICFR) on the world’s current state, with a special focus on Iran, and also Turkey, Afghanistan, and Ukraine, among others. Hosted

by Laura Poitras, IDFA’s Guest of Honor, who herself had experience with such harassment from authorities, and whose life and work are marked by a sense of solidarity towards the topic.

Hosted by Movies that Matter

The International Coalition for Filmmakers at Risk (ICFR) is a non-profit foundation established in 2020 as a joint initiative of IDFA, IFFR, and EFA. ICFR’s mission is to lobby the global film community for the benefit of film professionals facing oppression or prosecution anywhere. ICFR has recently contributed to solidarity efforts towards the film communities of Iran, Ukraine, and Afghanistan. ICFR recent cases were mostly from Myanmar, Turkey, Iran, Sudan, and Egypt.

Documentary and impact have always been intrinsically linked for many filmmakers. Time and time again, impact work has proved its ability to create a dialogue in society, change politics and influence decision makers. So much so, producing impact for film has become an industry on its own over the past two decades.

What is the state of impact production now? How do we define impact?

What and who do you need to make an impact campaign? How to finance an impact campaign? Does impact now only belong to impact producers?

What is the role of the filmmaker when shaping the impact campaign?

This Talk brings together impact focused professionals, filmmakers who have achieved serious impact with their films, to examine and help us shape the next phase of a great movement.

Keynote by: Moataz Abdelwahab (Team One Productions)

Keynote: Eefje Blankevoort (Prospektor)

Speakers: Sara Ishaq (Comra Films), Vanja Kaludjercic (Festival Director IFFR) and Orwa Nyrabia (Artistic Director IDFA)

Speakers: Danielle Turkov (Think-Film), Laure de Peretti de la Rocca (The StoryBoard Collective), Rob Williams (Participant), and Sam Soko (dir. Free Money)

Moderator: Laura Poitras TU 15 Nov, 12:00, ITA: Studio 1 Passholders

Industry Talk: Exploring new horizons for children’s documentaries Aimed at professionals interested in the realm of youth documentaries, this afternoon features different program elements designed to stimulate and inspire industry professionals and keeping them up-to-date about the latest developments in the field.

The session will tap into various industry perspectives relevant when working with narratives for younger audiences. Based on knowledge-sharing and exchange, the afternoon will also feature a case study and will highlight a recent research initiative initiated by IDFA and supported by the Netherlands Film Fund. The survey translates earlier exploratory discussions and support models for children’s documentaries into a concrete proposal, looking at the genre’s prospects and how to reinforce (international) production further.

Speakers: Signe Zeilich-Jensen, Inka Achté & Hanna Karppinen (directors, Jasmin’s Two Homes), Aleksandra Derewienko (Cat&Docs), Mandy Bezema (VPRO Jeugd), Liisa Karpo (Napa Films, Jasmin’s Two Homes), and Christine Kecher (The New York Times, Op-Docs) Moderator: Ulla Haestrup TU 15 Nov, 15:00, Felix Meritis: Concertzaal Passholders

Moderator: Margje de Koning (Artistic Director Movies that Matter) TU 15 Nov, 16:00, ITA: Studio 1 Passholders

Industry Talk: Documentary Theater – Processing from the inside The discipline of drama therapy uses the power of theater and storytelling to facilitate personal growth and healing. This encounter will further celebrate a batch of both classic and new films that have used this practice to deeply moving results when directors collaborate with their protagonists to create a bespoke universe of internal exploration and performance.

Together, filmmaker and subject(s) learn to objectify trauma and pain and then re-subjectify those stories through autobiography, sound, vision, poetry, and dance—using all the creative tools in their arsenal. By facilitating these explorations of hidden emotions and feelings in a safe and controlled environment, this practice has evolved in the documentary form as long as the genre has been around.

In what will certainly be a dynamic and exciting talk, with two of the directors featured in this year’s Focus Program: Playing Reality, we will explore what it means to work within this active and experiential approach that aims to help people address various issues—including trauma and pain, mental illness, relationship problems, and personal goal-setting, by processing past experiences and working through challenging life situations.

These filmmakers believe that all of us have an innate capacity for creative expression and that when individuals explore their inner lives through drama and re-enactment, they can access hidden parts of themselves and develop new ways of relating to others, and most importantly, to themselves, resulting in fresh and innovative cinematic portraits.

Speakers: Brian Hill (dir. The Not Dead) and Roberta Torre (dir. Le favolose The Fabulous Ones) Moderater: Pamela Cohn WE 16 Nov, 10:00, ITA: Studio 1 Passholders

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Industry Talk: Europe Conference - Being Europe, seeing Europe

Industry Talk: Dutch Docs in Motion - Aspirations of the Dutch documentary industry

Hosted by Arte

Hosted by NAPA

IDFA and Arte are proud to launch a new addition to its Industry Talks program. The Europe Conference aims to celebrate and examine the stakes of documentary production in the continent, and the necessity of a pan-European view, and policies, for the well-being and the progress of our field. The stakes are not simply about money or regulation but mostly about ideas and creative reflection.

The Dutch documentary industry is in motion. It has always been strong and resilient, but beneath the surface it deals with challenges; a high demand for content and insecurity about funding opportunities, not to mention the impact of the crises the world is dealing with. The dynamics of our times call for introspection; what defines our industry, now and in the future? How do we take our projects to an even higher level, make films that are reflective of these times, increase our international visibility, and how can we best reach our audiences?

Cross-border co-production between European countries is incomparable to those in any other region. A similar approach to the administrative, financial, and the existential aspects of the profession allows for a more collegial environment. However, this does not come without risks. The idea of Europe itself is being challenged every day. A more resilient European film space needs to empower its foundations, and to offer an open understanding of Europe. A Europe that is collaborative, that realizes its privileges and its shortcomings. A Europe that is not Euro-centric. “Worlding Europe” is the new catchphrase to contemplate.

For more details on the program and speakers, visit idfa.nl WE 16 Nov, 15:00, Felix Meritis: Concertzaal Passholders

In a program for and by professionals, we will discuss these developments.

But above all we will focus on the ambitions and dreams of the industry.

What conditions are needed to ensure a flourishing, durable industry, to realize those dreams? What part do policy makers, funds, broadcasters, and film makers and producers themselves play in this?

For more details on the program and speakers, visit idfa.nl The main language of this talk will be Dutch.

TH 17 Nov, 13:00, ITA: Studio 1 Passholders

Industry Talk: New Tech – Manufacturing the truth In this Talk, artists and filmmakers will discuss the new technologies they use in their media practice. These technologies vary from deepfake techniques to Artificial Intelligence.

They will also discuss the ethical implications of their work. How and when do you inform audiences about the tricks of the trade regarding the media they use? How might we assess a media technology’s potentials to enable good work, and its capacities to produce intentional or unintentional harm—and who is responsible for making these assessments?

William Uricchio will start the session with a short overview of what can be learned from old media technologies when they were new.

Speakers: Amer Shomali (dir. Theft of Fire, IDFA Forum 2022), Ali Eslami (dir/prod A Stretch of Time), and Francesca Panetta (incoming Director AKO Storytelling Institute, UAL) Moderator: William Uricchio (MIT Open Documentary Lab) WE 16 Nov, 16:00, ITA: Studio 1 Passholders

Industry Talk: Connecting Dutch docs in a changing market Hosted by The Netherlands Film Fund What are current developments and how can Dutch documentary makers stay connected? Which shifts in the documentary field are we currently seeing and how well do Dutch documentaries fit the international demands and standards?

This session reflects on the position and perspective of Dutch documentary films in the international financing and distribution market. It will also stimulates a dialogue with Dutch producers, filmmakers, and market partners consisting of a sales agent, a festival programmer, and a head of industry.

In addition, international film professionals will share their perspective in this fast-changing market and the audience will be encouraged to participate in the conversation.

For more details on the program and speakers, visit idfa.nl TH 17 Nov, 10:00, ITA: Studio 1 Passholders

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INDUSTRY SESSIONS Industry Sessions bring you up to speed on the latest developments in the industry.

Industry Session: How to position your film

Industry Session: How to work with Al Jazeera

The choices you make early on to create the identity and distribution path of your film will determine how the film industry as well as the audience perceive it. Some elements are fully in your control: The synopsis you write, the stills you choose, or the poster you create. The next steps are more complicated: Determining the right festival premiere and distribution launch, and importantly the sales agent who can help you make these decisions. Square Eyes’ Wouter Jansen shares insights on these elemental moments in the life of your film.

A leading player in the documentary financing environment, with a catalogue of films that played at IDFA, Cannes, Locarno, CPH:DOX, Hot Docs, Tokyo Docs, DokLeipzig among others, the Al Jazeera Media Network offers multiple channels, services and subsidiaries focusing on journalism and documentary all around the world. Al Jazeera Documentary Channel (AJD) is the main broadcaster that exclusively offers documentaries in the Arab world, routinely collaborating with filmmakers worldwide. This panel provides a full overview of commissioning and collaboration opportunities with the first independent news channel in the Arabic-speaking region, and beyond.

Square Eyes is a world sales agency which works with outstanding non-mainstream films that take narrative and aesthetic risks. We develop bespoke release strategies for bold, author-driven features as well as shorts. Recent titles we’ve worked with are A Night of Knowing Nothing by Payal Kapadia, Anhell69 by Theo Montoya, Afterwater by Dane Komljen or the short films One Thousand and One Attempts to be an Ocean by Yuyan Wang and Neighbour Abdi by Douwe Dijkstra.

Speakers: Adel Ksiksi and Jamel Dallali Moderator: Rudy Buttignol SUN 13 Nov, 10:00, Felix Meritis: Shaffyzaal Passholders

Speaker: Wouter Jansen SA 12 Nov, 10:00, Felix Meritis: Koepelzaal Passholders

Industry Session: How to work with a sales agent Shoshi Korman of Cinephil and Monica Hellström of Ström pictures take you through the essentials steps towards a successful distribution path.

How to navigate the world of festivals to find the right place to release your film? How to develop an individual strategy for different types of docs and collaborate as a team. This session will analyze how they worked on FLEE, He’s My Brother and A House Made of Splinters.

Cinephil is an international sales and advisory firm, with astrong reputation for securing international distribution, broadcasting and financing deals for documentaries from around the world on behalf of producers and directors. With a history of selling unique and award-winning films, Cinephil also acts as a strategic advisor and co-producer.

Industry Session: How to get most out of your short The short film genre is a world on its own. In her role as co-director of IF/ Then Shorts at Field of Vision, presenter Caitlin Mae Burke has traveled this specific, exciting world with over 75 shorts from around the globe, from development through distribution as they found their own unique paths to success. Questions about financing, distribution potential, festival strategy and more? In this session, Caitlin gives answers and takes you into the big world of shorts.

Speaker: Caitlin Mae Burke SUN 13 Nov, 11:00, Felix Meritis: Shaffyzaal Passholders

Cinephil has facilitated the sales and financing of well over a hundred films.

Cinephil represented (and produced) the 2013 Academy Award nominee, The Gatekeepers; 2014 Academy Award nominee, The Act of Killing. Recent titles include three-time Academy Award nominee FLEE, by Jonas Poher Rasmussen; two-time Academy Award nominee Collective, by Alexander Nanau, Gunda, by Victor Kossakovsky; and Sundance winner A House Made of Splinters.

Ström Pictures is an international documentary and feature film production company based in Copenhagen, Denmark. The goal is to help artists transform their potential into features, documentaries and animated films with high artistic ambition of creative individuality, yet reflecting valid issues of our times. Believing that international co-productions are the most accurate answer to the needs of multicultural audience, Ström Pictures engages in projects with worldwide potential as the main or minor producer.

Speakers: Shoshi Korman (Cinephil) and Monica Hellström (Ström Pictures) SA 12 Nov, 11:00, Felix Meritis: Koepelzaal Passholders

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INDUSTRY MEETUPS

THINK TANKS

These invitation-only gatherings promote discourse, collaboration, and connection across borders.

By invitation only, Think Tanks dive deeper into various industry-related topics.

DocLab R&D Summit: Round Table Sessions

DocLab R&D Summit An integral component of the IDFA DocLab research program is the R&D Summit, a think tank event for experts from all corners of the interactive and immersive storytelling industry to explore next steps in developing the medium. This event presents information gained from research, case studies, prototypes, and other new initiatives in the new media field.

DocLab R&D Summit Lunch is hosted by Sandman Studios / Sandbox Immersive Festival.

SU 13 Nov, 10:00, de Brakke Grond: Rode Zaal By invitation

Industry Meetup: DAE General Assembly DAE – Documentary Association of Europe is the members network for documentary professionals from inside and outside of Europe. The association acts and advocates for everyone working in documentary storytelling professions. We have three main activities: creating a stable and strong network of professionals who regularly collaborate and share information and experience with each other; curating, collating, and creating an abundance of resources and opportunities for the members; and lobbying on a pan-European and international level for the best conditions for documentary education, financing, and distribution.

Cross-sector focus meetings with topics and themes from the IDFA R&D program.

SU 13 Nov, 13:00, @droog: White Space By invitation

Think Tank: DAE’s Documentary Film Financing Companion One thing we know for sure about financing and distributing documentaries is that we are in a near-constant state of evolution. In the last years, no organizations have been monitoring the who and how of things. DAE is planning a new ambitious tool for the documentary community, a holistic, online Documentary Film Financing Companion. We invite participants of this Think Tank to lay a foundation for the collecting and sharing of relevant data on all sectors financing and distributing documentaries across the globe.

TU 15 Nov, 15:00, Felix Meritis: Sterrenzaal By invitation

To find out more: www.dae-europe.org SU 13 Nov, 12:30, Felix Meritis: Shaffyzaal By invitation

Industry Meetup: Ukrainian Programmers Delegation Festival representatives and film programmers gather at the Docs for Sale Husley Lounge in Amsterdam to celebrate documentary and honor their Ukrainian colleagues, the Ukrainian Programmers Delegation 2022.

In partnership with Docudays UA. MO 14 Nov, 13:00, Felix Meritis: Huslylounge By invitation

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DELEGATION PROJECT PRESENTATIONS Coming from all over the world, these professional filmmaker associations attend the festival to network, offer insight into local documentary industries and resources, and discuss possibilities for co-production.

Delegation Project Presentation: South Korea Korean Pitching Day is sponsored by Korea Communications Agency (KCA) and Korea Radio Promotion Association (RAPA). Eight projects are selected

by EBS International Documentary Festival (EIDF) industry pitching. The projects have already received mentorship on story composition, trailer editing, and pitching strategies. By expanding the network between overseas documentary industry and Korean documentary production, the initiative would like to contribute to the diversity of international documentary platforms. The eight projects tells the universal humanism from the perspective of Koreans. As the projects are in the stage of development, they will be developed into works with global competitiveness through opinions and feedback from documentary industry officials around the world. When the projects are completed, the films aim to be introduced through various windows from all over the world.

SA 12 Nov, 14:00, Felix Meritis: Koepelzaal Passholders

Delegation Project Presentation: Emergence Magazine x IF/Then Shorts Emergence Magazine and IF/Then Shorts, an initiative of Field of Vision, are proud to debut the inaugural SHIFTING LANDSCAPES – Emergence Magazine x IF/Then Shorts Lab with this work-in-progress screening at IDFA. Three film teams exploring stories of migration (of people, animals, ideas, and the abstract) in India, Japan, China, Iceland, and beyond will present their work to interested industry professionals at this event, after which the filmmakers will be available for continued conversation.

Marking the first partnership between IF/Then Shorts and Emergence Magazine, this year-long lab focuses on short-documentary production, cohort collaboration, and mentorship, and offered filmmakers $25,000 in grant support, individual project mentorship, and career advancing public activations to assist in the completion and distribution of high profile projects via IF/Then Shorts and Emergence Magazine.

WE 16 Nov, 09:00, Felix Meritis: Shaffyzaal Passholders

Delegation Project Presentation: Palestine Film Institute presents Palestine Film Institute (PFI) is inviting 3 Palestinian filmmakers to present their upcoming feature documentaries projects. The selected projects will be participating in the Palestine Documentary hub session during IDFA. The filmmakers will be presenting their projects in front of key invited professionals and decision makers. Each director will have 15 minutes in total to present and speak about their projects.

PFI will promote these projects and create a space for the selected directors to meet the international network and be a part of the industry activities during the festival. As part of the delegation, we will facilitate the directors’ meeting and share their upcoming film projects with potential international partners and the larger festival network, curated for directors and producers who are seeking to make the most out of their time in Amsterdam.

Each director will participate in a program tailored to their project, developed in collaboration with PFI industry consultants.

SA 12 Nov, 17:00, Felix Meritis: Koepelzaal Passholders

Delegation Project Presentation: IDF presents East Doc Series Documentary series are becoming a popular format, but in central and Eastern Europe such projects are only scarcely reaching the international market, although there is potential in topics and talents, as well as interest from the audience and producers. In 2020, the Institute of Documentary Film (IDF) introduced a new activity for supporting this format: The East Doc Series. The program is designed to provide necessary feedback, skills, networking opportunities, and know-how exchange between experts and film professionals coming from Central and Eastern Europe.

The five projects presented within this special IDFA presentation were part of the East Doc Platform pitches and took part in the training programme aimed to bring new ideas from experts and provide connections with broadcasters, funders, producers, and more.

The overall IDF programme for the CEE series is devised in synergy with our own dedicated training programme Ex Oriente, which works with series projects in development and will introduce a stand-alone training programme for series in 2023.

The presentation will be moderated by Christian Popp (YUZU Productions) WE 16 Nov, 12:00, Felix Meritis: Shaffyzaal Passholders

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SOCIAL EVENTS IDFA’s daily social events are unmissable occasions for guests to mingle and network.

Guests Meet Guests All IDFA guests are invited to meet, exchange ideas, and have a drink at the daily Guests Meets Guests cocktail hour.

TH 10, FR 11 and WE 16 Nov, 18:00, Café Kuyl Passholders

Docs for Sale: Happy Hour We invite you to join for drinks on behalf of our sponsors: Autlook Filmsales, DutchCORE, Lightdox, Millenium Docs Against Gravity, Rise and Shine World Sales, and SEE NL. FR 11 to WE 16, 17:00, Felix Meritis: Huslylounge Docs for Sale & IDFA Forum Passholders

IDFA DocLab: Exhibition Opening Drinks - hosted by Onassis Foundation Festive opening of the DocLab Nervous Systems exhibition. Drinks hosted by the Onassis Foundation, partner of the ONX + DocLab MoCap Stage.

IDFA Forum: Producers Connection Drinks hosted by Scenery Closing a full day of Producers Connection activities, these drinks bring all participants together for a celebratory toast.

2022 has already been a special year for Amsterdam-based media company Scenery. Multiple projects are being released on international platforms, notably Human Playground for Netflix. An extraordinary new docuseries about unique sports across the globe, from age-old rituals to billion-dollar businesses. Directed by Tomas Kaan and narrated by Idris Elba. Amsterdam is our hometown, and we want to celebrate our recent success with the lively documentary community during IDFA. That is why we are hosting the Producers Connection Drinks. In the ever-changing landscape of cinema, we want to build bridges between big markets, global streamers, and the stories of our finest filmmakers. We are looking for groundbreaking stories and bold ideas. Therefore, we would love to connect with you. www.scenery.eu SA 12 Nov, 16:30, Felix Meritis: Zuilenlounge By invitation

FR 11, 20:30, de Brakke Grond By invitation

Guests Meet Guests - hosted by ITA – Italian Trade Agency and Doc/it

IDFA Forum: Producers Connection Lunch - hosted by FeverFilm & Posta

All IDFA Guests are invited to meet, exchange ideas, and have a drink at the daily Guests Meet Guests cocktail hour.

Following the Producers Connection presentations, the project teams and participating independent producers are invited for an informal lunch together.

ITA – Italian Trade Agency and Doc/it – Italian Documentary Association invite you to meet the Italian delegation attending IDFA 2022. For the eleventh year running, Italy attends with an official delegation of professionals organized by ITA, the governmental agency that supports the business development of Italian companies abroad and promotes the attraction of foreign investment in Italy, in collaboration with Doc/it, the official association of Italian documentary producers and filmmakers.

Amsterdam-based post-production companies FeverFilm & Posta invite you for a lunch during Producers Connection. As a key player in offering full-service picture and sound post under the same roof, we are open for collaboration on documentary co-productions. With a long and award-winning track record in sound design, re-recording mix, grading, and finishing for international documentaries, we welcome you to have a chat with us. feverfilm.nl | posta.nl

ww.ice.it | www.documentaristi.it SA 12 Nov, 18:00, Felix Meritis: Zuilenlounge, Shaffyzaal and Huslylounge Passholders

SA 12 Nov, 13:00, Felix Meritis: Teekenzaal By invitation

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IDFA Forum: Producers Breakfast - hosted by RAPA & KCA

IDFA Markets Drinks – hosted by Screen Scotland

Producers at IDFA Forum meet each other over coffee to kick-start the day together. The pre-arranged table seating ensures that participants meet colleagues from countries they’re interested in learning more about.

Celebrating the future of documentary storytelling. The IDFA Markets will kick off this year’s editions with an informal meet and greet.

Korean filmmakers are looking forward to meet you! RAPA is Global Media Education Institute based on South Korea government and the Global Pitching Academy (GPA) is a main documentary training program. You can meet the GPA producers and directors during the IDFA Forum Producers Breakfast. Documentary filmmakers from various backgrounds in Korea will be presenting their projects on Korea Pitching Day (hosted by KCA).

Do you want to meet Korean filmmakers? Sign up for the IDFA Forum Producers Breakfast! rapa.or.kr | kca.kr SU 13 and MO 14 Nov, 08:00, Felix Meritis: Zuilenlounge By invitation

Guests Meet Guests - hosted by German Films & German Documentaries All IDFA Guests are invited to meet, exchange ideas, and have a drink at the daily Guests Meet Guests cocktail hour.

Screen Scotland, in partnership with the Scottish Documentary Institute, is delighted to host 2022’s IDFA inaugural Market Drinks. This event provides an exceptional opportunity for key industry decision makers and producers from around the world to connect with Scotland’s filmmakers that will spark creative business, market, and co-production opportunities.

Screen Scotland is the national body that drives development of all aspects of Scotland’s film and TV industry, through funding and strategic support.

Screen Scotland is part of Creative Scotland and delivers these services and support with funding from Scottish Government and The National Lottery. Our program of growth for film and TV in Scotland includes developing Scotland’s skills base, growing creative, business, market, and international opportunities, stimulating an increase in production infrastructure, and supporting Scotland’s talent pool to deliver outstanding content. We also create international connections and co-production opportunities for Scotland’s producers and filmmakers at markets and festivals across the globe. www.screen.scot SU 13 Nov, 21:00, VondelCS Docs for Sale & IDFA Forum Passholders

German Films Service + Marketing GmbH is the national information and advisory center for the promotion of German films worldwide and the official external representation for German films appointed by the federal government of Germany.

IDFA Forum: Lunch - hosted by Chicken & Egg Pictures

In cooperation with the German Documentary Association (AG DOK), German Films is promoting German documentaries all over the world. German Films organizes pre-selection screenings, collective submissions to international documentary festivals, provides information for filmmakers and festivals, coordinates umbrella stands for documentary filmmakers, and organizes co-production meetings. Together with the German Documentary Association, the label German Documentaries was developed. It provides a website and an online catalogue with further information on German documentary productions.

In honor of the recipients of the 2022 Chicken & Egg Award, Chicken & Egg Pictures cordially invites you to join the Forum Lunch. Chicken & Egg Pictures is a US-based nonprofit organization providing a global community of women and non-binary documentary filmmakers with creative and financial support to realize their cinematic visions and build fulfilling careers in a gender-inclusive media industry.

www.german-documentaries.de | www.agdok.de | www.german-films.de SU 13 Nov, 18:00, Felix Meritis: Zuilenlounge, Shaffyzaal and Huslylounge Passholders

French Docs Drink at IDFA Hosted by Unifrance, LaScam, Région Grand Est and Institut français NL, in partnership with L’Œil d’or.

Come and mingle with international documentary professionals during the French Docs Drink, also attended by French documentary talents, producers and sales agents attending IDFA 2022.

SU 13 Nov, 19:00-21:00, De Balie By invitation

A welcome break from the busy pitch schedule, the daily lunch offers an informal setting to meet, greet, and eat.

www.chickeneggpics.org MO 14 Nov, 13:00, Westerkerk IDFA Forum Passholders

Guests Meet Guests - hosted by I Am The Earth All IDFA guests are invited to meet, exchange ideas, and have a drink at the daily Guests Meets Guests cocktail hour.

An invitation to find out more about I Am The Earth, a documentary film created by Marca Chile that shows initiatives from Chileans who are providing innovative solutions to address the transformation of the planet by climate change. Directed by Chilean talents such as: Maite Alberdi, María Paz González, Sebastián Fernández, and Santiago Correa, and produced by the company Fabula. marcachile.cl MO 14 Nov, 18:00, Felix Meritis: Zuilenlounge, Shaffyzaal and Huslylounge Passholders

IDFA Forum: Producers Breakfast Designed to connect international producers with each other over coffee, the Producers Breakfast event invites accredited producers at the Forum to kick-start the day together. Producers can indicate countries they’d be curious to get to know better, and we will plan table seating accordingly.

TU 15 and WE 16 Nov, 08:00, Felix Meritis: Zuilenlounge By invitation

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IDFA Forum: Lunch - hosted by Al Jazeera Documentary Channel A welcome break from the busy pitch and presentation schedule, the daily lunch offers an informal setting to meet, greet, and eat.

A key film industry player, Al Jazeera Documentary Channel (AJD) marks its 16th anniversary on January 1. The past decades have been filled with thousands of documentary stories created by talented Arabs and international filmmakers, initiatives, and awards.

AJD is the main broadcaster that exclusively offers documentaries in the Arab world, covering a wide range of topics, it presents unique stories enriching the lives of millions of people and inspiring future generations of great filmmakers.

Since 2007, AJD has commissioned and co-produced thousands of inspiring titles; many were awarded in notable international festivals globally, including, but not limited to, IDFA, Sundance, Cannes, Locarno, CPH:DOX, HotDocs, Tokyo Docs, K-Docs, Sunnyside, DOK Leipzig, AJB DOC, and many others. doc.aljazeera.net

IDFA Forum: Lunch - hosted by Chiledoc A welcome break from the busy pitch and presentation schedule, the daily lunch offers an informal setting to meet, greet, and eat.

In Chile, we like to say that we are a country of documentary filmmakers.

Because our documentary cinema has a long tradition where we have dedicated ourselves to work with reality with passion and from a diversity of points of view. We are now in a special moment where we feel very proud of our cinematography and filmmakers. Today, the Chilean documentary is on the world map and at a key moment, where co-productions are growing and where also the relationships with other Latin American countries are stronger. We are here to build new alliances and promote networks that will let us work together in the future.

Let’s enjoy this instant and the opportunity to share, to meet each other again, and to hear each other in person. Chiledoc, powering Chilean documentaries! chiledoc.cl WE 16 Nov, 13:00, Westerkerk IDFA Forum Passholders

TU 15 Nov, 13:00, Westerkerk IDFA Forum Passholders

Guests Meet Guests - hosted by Catalan Films and DocsBarcelona All IDFA guests are invited to meet, exchange ideas and have a drink at the daily Guests Meets Guests cocktail hour.

Catalan Films and DocsBarcelona invite you to meet the Catalan delegation attending IDFA 2022. Catalan Films is the driving force behind the internationalization of the Catalan audiovisual industry, establishing local, national, and international connections. DocsBarcelona is a consolidated project devoted to documentary offering an international competitive festival, a financing market, an international documentary training program, and the largest distribution brand and documentary exhibition network in Spain. catalanfilms.cat | docsbarcelona.com TU 15 Nov, 18:00, Felix Meritis: Zuilenlounge, Shaffyzaal and Huslylounge Passholders

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PARTNERS OF THE INDUSTRY PROGRAM AND IDFA TALKS IDFA Forum is supported by

Guests Meet Guests are hosted by

Docs for Sale Happy Hour is hosted by

Producers Connection is supported by

Producers Connection Lunch and Drinks are hosted by

IDFA Markets Drinks are hosted by

Forum Lunches are hosted by

Industry Program is hosted by

Film Talks are hosted by

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D E S I G N C AT H E R I N E Z A S K

Photo by Karlijn van Diepen

GET TO KNOW OUR MARKETS AND FILMMAKER SUPPORT ACTIVITIES On the following pages, you’ll find the comprehensive festival schedule for industry and general audiences. We also welcome over a thousand guests through our markets and filmmaker support activities. Here’s a taste of what goes on during the festival.

SUPPORTING FILMMAKERS AT THE FESTIVAL IDFACADEMY DURING IDFA One of our flagship talent development programs, IDFAcademy gives emerging international filmmakers the opportunity to meet a broad spectrum of highly esteemed documentary professionals willing to share their knowledge of the industry.

This year the program moves to Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, our new Festival Center, where 100 selected filmmakers convene from November 10 to 13. With half the participants flying into Amsterdam from outside Europe, this edition of IDFAcademy stands as our most international to date. Activities include Filmmaker Talks, round table discussions, intimate group sessions, and case studies—all geared towards orienting talents within the international documentary market.

Find the IDFAcademy program at idfa.nl/idfacademy-at-idfa IDFA BERTHA FUND The IDFA Bertha Fund supports independent, critical, and artistic voices from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Oceania with the aim of stimulating and empowering the creative documentary sector in these regions. In addition to providing development and production grants year-round, the Fund gives support to filmmakers during the festival through tailored consultancies, training, and industry events to broaden their international network and knowledge.

As a guest of IDFA, you can find IBF-supported filmmakers everywhere in the festival selection this year—from Best of Fests all the way to the Envision Competition—as well as in IDFAcademy, the Forum selection, the Docs for Sale catalogue, and the Talks program.

Learn more about the IDFA Bertha Fund at IDFA 2022 via idfa.nl/ibf-at-idfa

IDFA’S MARKETS: TOGETHER UNDER ONE ROOF AT FELIX MERITIS IDFA FORUM IDFA Forum is one of the most influential meeting places for filmmakers, creators, and producers working on ground-breaking creative documentaries and new media projects. Now in its 30th year, our co-financing and co-production market has moved into its new headquarters, where sixty of the strongest documentary projects being developed and produced globally are presented from November 12 to 16.

In addition to the 22 projects selected for the market’s flagship Forum Pitch category, and the six projects selected for the annual Rough Cut Presentations, this year marks the second edition of the Producers Connection, an exclusive producer-to-producer showcase of twelve selected projects ripe for international co-production. We’re also delighted to expand IDFA DocLab Forum this year into a two-day event with a showcase of twenty interactive and XR projects.

Read more about the Forum at idfa.nl/idfaforum DOCS FOR SALE Docs for Sale facilitates the sales and distribution of high-end documentary films, providing one-on-one meetings, bespoke services, and strategic know-how for IDFA-selected films as well as other outstanding titles on today’s market. Over the years, it has grown into one of the world’s premier markets and distribution incubators for documentary cinema, welcoming artistic documentary films from all over the world.

Now located under the same roof as IDFA Forum, Docs for Sale welcomes the industry in a whole new way this year: The year-round catalogue, curated meetings, viewing booths, and happy hours are joined by new networking spaces open to all market guests. The team has also created specialized how-to guides for navigating shorts, children’s documentaries, and making the most of the market for IDFA-selected film teams. Last but not least, consultants are on hand and available to advise on a wide variety of topics such as distribution and PR strategies, impact, and more.

Explore Docs for Sale at idfa.nl/docsforsale

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Wednesday November 9

Wednesday 9 November Public screenings 10:00

11:00

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13:00

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15:00

16:00

17:00

18:00

19:00

20:00

21:00

22:00

23:00

09:50

Tuschinski 1

VPRO Preview

Program compiled by the VPRO. Tickets available at vpro.nl/idfa

Industry Wednesday program 9 November 09:00

10:00

11:00

Wednesday November 9 12:00

13:00

14:00

15:00

16:00

17:00

18:00

19:00

20:00 20:00

21:00

IDFA Opening Night

Carré

22:00

LM

All You See

LEGEND What do the labels mean?

Abbreviations for program sections

The colors used in the schedules and A to Z lists provide more information about the films, projects, and events.

In the schedule you will find abbreviations indicating the IDFA program sections a film is selected for.

All screenings of films that have their European, international, or world premiere at IDFA are listed in red , as well as Press & Industry and Market Screenings.

All screenings of films that have previously screened in Europe or the Netherlands are listed in blue.

All new media projects are listed in yellow.

All events are listed in grey.

IDFAcademy Harvest Films developed at one of IDFAcademy’s talent programs.

IDFA Forum Harvest Films that previously pitched at IDFA Forum.

IDFA Bertha Fund Films supported by the IDFA Bertha Fund.

IC International Competition EC Envision Competition SC IDFA Competition for Short Documentary YC IDFA Competition for Youth Documentary LM Luminous FLT Frontlight OS IDFA on Stage PD Paradocs M Masters BF Best of Fests T10 Top 10 RS Retrospective: Laura Poitras FP Focus: Playing Reality FM Focus: Around Masculinity INF IDFA DocLab Competition for Immersive Non-Fiction DST IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling DS IDFA DocLab Spotlight

Dutch spoken programs.

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Thursday 10 November 10 November 10:00

11:00

Public screenings

12:00

13:00

12:30

Opening film: All You See

Tuschinski 1

14:00

15:00

13:00

Bobi Wine: The People’s President

17:00

18:00

Mothers

16:45

BF

11:30

10:00

Tuschinski 6

Citizenfour

14:00

BF

Aurora’s Sunrise

13:00

RS

Flag Wars

12:30

12:00

Munt 11

14:45

Sisterhood

13:15

13:00

Mutzenbacher

Eye: Cinema 1 12:00

Eye: Cinema 2

Kriterion 1

A Little Love Package

PD

Riotsville, USA

15:00

BF

Camouflage

20:30

Loving Martha

19:30

The Arbor

17:45

18:30

15:00

28

The March on Rome

M

21:00

SC, BF

18:30

18:00

Fragile Memory

BF

FP

M

Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot

Till the End & Jaime

African Moot

LM

21:00

BF

De Humani Corporis Fabrica

Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal De Balie: Grote Zaal

IC

FLT

BF

BF

Cosmic Chant.

Niño de Elche

SC, EC

The Silence of The Banana Trees & Scenes with My Father

19:30

All That Breathes

15:00

PD

21:00

BF

Money, Freedom, a Story of CFA Franc

16:00

M

21:15

The United States of America

Colette and Justin

17:30

BF

FLT

BF

M

American Journal

How to Save a Dead Friend

Munt 13

20:30

17:45

15:45

LM

RS

Terror Contagion & Risk

While We Watched

Innocence

M

21:15

RS

18:15

BF

IC

Parallel World

T10

Matter Out of Place

12:45

Munt 12

Anhell69

SC, BF

20:00

Return to Homs

15:45

BF

Dreaming Walls

Solmatalua & Foragers

The Oath

17:00

PD

20:45

BF

18:30

RS

EC

Striking Land

M

The Oil Machine

My Country, My Country

BF

Steel Life

17:00

BF

15:30

Notes for a Film

Munt 10

Black Mambas

RS

13:00

Munt 9

23:00 M

The Natural History of Destruction

20:30

BF

17:30

SC, BF

Is There A Pine on the Mountain & The Super 8 Years

Things I Could Never Tell My Mother

22:00

21:15

PD

The Hamlet Syndrome

Tuschinski 5

21:00

Danse Macabre

17:00

13:30

20:00 FLT

NPO 2Doc Primeur

Tuschinski 3

Tuschinski 4

19:00

18:30

BF

Werner Herzog – Radical Dreamer

NPO 2Doc Primeur

Tuschinski 2

16:00

15:00

LM

BF

Gigi la Legge

BF

21:15

Scala

21:00

BF

BF

The New Greatness Case

Industry Thursdayprogram 10 November 09:00

10:00

11:00

Thursday November 10 12:00

13:00

14:00

15:00

16:00

17:00

18:00

19:00

20:00

21:00

22:00

10:15

Munt 13

Market Screening

18:00

Café Kuyl

Guests Meet Guests

ONTROEREND GOED

Funeral “A theatrical ritual about the finiteness of things, that brings people together, whatever they believe, are or think.”

TOM STRUYF

FindingWillard “A multimedial, filmic travelogue around development and decay, care and community in a small American town.”

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Friday November 11 11 November 10:00

11:00

Public screenings 12:00

13:00

12:30

14:00

15:00

The Pawnshop

Tuschinski 1

16:00

19:00

20:00

18:45

Wildcat

+ Talk Followed by an

21:00

A Little Love Package

13:30

12:00

14:30

FM

Caesar Must Die

Tuschinski 5

17:30

15:15

This Is Not a Film

15:00

12:30

11:45

Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot

Munt 11 10:30

The Yellow Ceiling

Will You Look at Me & A Sound of My Own

11:00

M

Everything Will Be OK

BF

14:00

M

In viaggio

Eye: Cinema 1 12:00

Salaam Cinema

Eye: Cinema 2

IDFA Hit All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

20:00

21:00

LM

17:00

Colette and Justin

Beyond Extinction: Sinixt Resurgence

20:30

IC

Light Falls Vertical + Talk

Stuntwomen

Black Mambas

BF

15:00

Nothing Compares

21:15

BF

BF

BF

M

18:00

How to Save a Dead Friend

21:00

BF

Cosmic Chant.

Niño de Elche

20:00

OS

IDFA on Stage Between Nothingness and Infinity, I Began to Weep

Frascati 1

20:30

OS

IDFA on Stage The Eagle & the Tortoise

Frascati 2 18:45

ONX + DocLab MoCap Stage: Showcase

de Brakke Grond: Rode Zaal 11:30

de Brakke Grond

DocLab: Nervous Systems Exhibition & VR Gallery

Play, discover and experience a selection of interactive, multi-sensory XR-documentaries in the exhibition. Register online for a free ticket. Experience a selection of the best of this year’s virtual reality works in the VR Gallery. With 50-minute time slots.

Regular ticket sales.

11:30

Arti et Amicitiae

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In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats & Slumberland

Immerse yourself in two collective VR experiences as part of IDFA DocLab. Enter a magical dream world with the immersive performance Slumberland or go on a multi-sensory search for an illegal rave in 1989 (In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats).

LM

A Provincial Hospital

20:30

20:30

Opening Night DocLab: Nervous Systems exhibition

M

BF, LM

Presented by De Balie.

De Balie: Filmzaal 12:00

Shorts Cityscapes

Foragers

17:30

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

21:00

BF

Mutzenbacher

Kleine Komedie

IDFA Hit All You See

LM

18:30

Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal 15:00

21:30

FLT

Followed by a discussion with special guests.

18:15

SC, EC

We, Students!

Personality Crisis: One Night Only

IDFA Hit White Balls on Walls

The Silence of the Banana Trees & Scenes with My Father

De Balie: Grote Zaal

21:00

EC

18:30

Master Talk: Laura Poitras

FLT

IC

Paradise

18:15

PD

15:45

RS

BF

LM

Blue ID

Followed by a conversation with Alain Kassanda.

15:00

Kriterion 1

A House Made of Splinters

FLT

18:00

Europe

12:30

Carré

YC

20:30

BF

Mom

15:00

FP

BF

Fragile Memory

NPO 2Doc Primeur

Money, Freedom, a Story of CFA Franc

14:00

Alis

17:30

16:15

BF

21:00

EC

Youth Films: 14+

Polaris

FLT

Kenya

19:30

PD

M

Ruthless Times – Songs of Care

13:30

M

18:30

SC

21:15

PD, BF

Just an Alien

Aftersun

14:45

M

The Porters & Away

Shorts Higher Dimensions

16:15

BF

The River Is Not a Border

Munt 10

20:30

18:15

T10

FLT

The Etilaat Roz

FLT

BF

My Paper Life

Munt 9

20:45

R 21 aka Restoring Solidarity

BF

FLT

Bella Ciao

FLT

17:45

BF

Pornomelancolía

Tuschinski 6

21:00

Trained to See – Three Women and the War

23:00

Meet Me in the Bathroom

IC

Silent House

FP

Every Little Thing

Tuschinski 4

18:00

PD

22:00 21:45

BF

extended conversation with the filmmaker.

Tuschinski 2

Munt 13

18:00

BF

The Hamlet Syndrome

14:00

Munt 12

17:00

15:30

BF

BF

BF

Industry Friday 11 program November 09:00

10:00

Friday November 11 11:00

12:00

13:00

14:00

15:00

11:45

15:00

Market Screening

Tuschinski 3

Press & Industry Mothers

16:00 FLT

17:00

18:00

17:30

Press & Industry A Way To B

19:00 M

20:00

21:00

20:30

22:00

Press & Industry Apolonia, Apolonia

IC

12:45

Market Screening

Tuschinski 6 09:00

Pathé City 2

IC

Press & Industry Colette and Justin 09:15

Pathé City 3

EC

Press & Industry Scenes with My Father 09:30

Pathé City 4

Market Screening

11:15

IC

Press & Industry Paradise 11:00

Press & Industry Light Falls Vertical

13:45

EC

11:30

13:15

Press & Industry Silent House

IC

EC

Press & Industry Just an Alien

LM

Press & Industry Loving Martha

13:30

Press & Industry Mom

LM

12:00

Munt 9

Market Screening 15:45

Carré

Master Talk: Laura Poitras 18:00

Café Kuyl

Guests Meet Guests

Elsa

PARTNER IDFA 2022

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Saturday 12 November 12 November 10:00

11:00

12:00

10:30

13:00

10:00

Silent Love

12:45

BF

10:30

12:30

Loving Martha 10:00

Munt 9

Home Is Somewhere Else

13:00

YC

10:30

11:00

10:30

Titicut Follies

Munt 13 10:00

Eye: Cinema 1

13:00

T10

13:15

M

10:30

Inside My Heart

20:45

M, BF, FLT

My Lost Country

20:30

EC

20:00

10:00

Carré

de Volkskrant-dag

13:00

BF

Kriterion 1

Innocence

Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal

While We Watched

10:00

The United States of America 12:45

FLT

10:00

14:00

FM

12th & Delaware

11:30

A House Made of Splinters

21:00

BF

18:45

BF

The Pawnshop

14:45

BF

Werner Herzog – Radical Dreamer

11:00

21:30

10:00

11:00

Solmatalua & Foragers

Bella Ciao + Talk

17:30

FLT

Dreaming Walls

Followed by an extended conversation with the filmmaker.

13:00

BF

15:30

YC

Waters of Pastaza

13:30

SC, BF

21:00

BF

Beyond Extinction: Sinixt Resurgence

16:00

Black Mambas

Silent House + Talk

BF

21:15

BF

19:00

African Moot 21:00

LM

All You See

Nothing Compares OS

IDFA on Stage Between Nothingness and Infinity, I Began to Weep 20:30

OS

IDFA on Stage The Eagle & the Tortoise

Frascati 2 11:00

MoCap Stage: Once A Glacier

11:30

13:00

MoCap Stage: Realtime

15:00

MoCap Stage: Bag of Worms

de Brakke Grond

DocLab: Nervous Systems Exhibition & VR Gallery

Arti et Amicitiae

In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats & Slumberland

IC

Followed by a conversation with Farnaz Jurabchian and Mohammadreza Jurabchian.

The River Is Not a Border

Hosted by VU. FLT

20:30

BF

20:00

32

BF

Beba

18:30

M

The Oil Machine + Talk

Frascati 1

de Brakke Grond: Rode Zaal

FLT

Trained to See – Three Women and the War

In collaboration with VPRO’s Nooit Meer Slapen.

14:30

BF

The Exiles

Cesária Évora

Play, discover and experience a selection of interactive, multi-sensory XR-documentaries in the exhibition. Register online for a free ticket. Experience a selection of the best of this year’s virtual reality works in the VR Gallery. With 50-minute time slots.

Regular ticket sales.

11:30 Immerse yourself in two collective VR experiences as part of IDFA DocLab. Enter a magical dream world with the immersive performance Slumberland or go on a multi-sensory search for an illegal rave in 1989 (In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats).

BF

EC, SC

The Silence of the Banana Trees & Scenes with My Father

BF

Polaris

18:00

BF

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power VPRO Extra

All That Breathes

Kleine Komedie

Podium Mozaïek

21:30

YC

Home Is Somewhere Else

The New Greatness Case

16:00

IDFA Dialogue with

18:45

18:00

FLT

BF

Danse Macabre

Simon(e) van Saarloos

ITA: Rabozaal

Rialto VU: Zaal 4

White Balls on Walls

IDFA Meets Kriterion: R 21 aka Restoring Solidarity

BF

Steel Life

15:00

M

American Journal

16:00

BF, SC

When the Mountain Rumbles & This Was Your Nicest Auntie Ria

Followed by a live interview.

FLT 22:00

19:15

SC

Shorts Intangible Nature

BF

The Eclipse

12:00

Ketelhuis: Zaal 1

De Balie: Grote Zaal

16:15

PD

Gigi la Legge

IDFA Hit Bobi Wine: The People’s President + Talk

Highlights from the IDFA program, selected by de Volkskrant film critic Bor Beekman and editor-in-chief of Volkskrant Magazine Aimée Kiene.

10:00

22:30

M

A Way to B

17:30

FLT

LM

Art Talent Show

19:45

The 3 Rooms of Melancholia + Talk

Merkel

21:15

BF, LM

Liturgy of AntiTank Obstacles & When Spring Came to Bucha

T10, FM

BF

Miúcha, the Voice of Bossa Nova

18:15

FP

16:00

LM

14:00

SC, BF

Is There a Pine on the Mountain & The Super 8 Years

Eye: Cinema 2

Little Dieter Needs to Fly

EC

Manifesto

Shorts Numerical Being

15:45

FLT

Kenya

My Imaginary Country

17:45

PD

Private Footage

FLT, SC

20:30

IC

BF

Camouflage

Shorts Profound Expressions

Journey Through Our World

BF

21:30

LM

20:00

17:00

M

My Paper Life

From the Other Shore LM

IC

21:30

FLT

19:15

YC

Mom

14:30

M

Goodbye, Captain

Much Ado About Dying

19:00

16:45

BF

A Compassionate Spy

10:00

Munt 12

20:30

M

BF

FLT

The Lost Souls of Syria

Free Money

15:30

13:45

YC

Girl Gang

Munt 11

21:00

PD

M

Youth Films: 14+

A Provincial Hospital

Will You Look at Me & A Sound of My Own

Followed by a conversation with director Philip Scheffner.

15:00

23:00

21:15

YC

Europe + Talk

22:00 IC

Apolonia, Apolonia

17:30

The Kiev Trial

13:30

BF, PD

Shorts Higher Dimensions

Munt 10

21:00

Youth Films: 9-13

Dry Ground Burning

PD

Aftersun

20:00

18:45

15:30

LM

19:00

19:45

YC

FP

FP

Moscow

Tuschinski 6

Ramboy & Sezer’s Summer

Theatre of War

13:00

BF, SC

Till the End & Jaime

18:00 BF

Nothing Lasts Forever

15:45

14:15

IC

17:00

16:30

LM, BF

Shorts Cityscapes

Parallel World

Tuschinski 5

16:00

BF

Discussion with directors Clare Weiskopf and Nicolas van Hemelryck.

10:00

Tuschinski 4

15:00

Alis + Talk

Coffee screening hosted by Saeco.

Tuschinski 2

14:00

13:30

BF

Geographies of Solitude

Tuschinski 1

Public screenings

20:30

DocLab Live: Eating the Metaverse

BF

BF

PD

BF

Industry Saturdayprogram 12 November 09:00

10:00

Saturday November 12

11:00

12:00

10:15

Market Screening

Tuschinski 3 09:00

Pathé City 2

Press & Industry Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudović Reels 09:15

Pathé City 3

Press & Industry Blue ID

15:00 15:15

16:00

17:00

LM

17:00

Press & Industry From the Other Shore

IC

18:00

19:00

20:00

19:15

FLT

FLT

Press & Industry White Balls on Walls

Press & Industry My Name is Happy

21:00 21:30

22:00 LM

Press & Industry Between Father and Son

Press & Industry Journey Through Our World 11:45

EC

Press & Industry My Lost Country 09:30

Pathé City 4

14:00

Market Screening

11:15

IC

13:00 13:00

LM

Market Screening 11:30

Press & Industry Manifesto

EC

13:30

IC

Press & Industry Much Ado About Dying 13:15

FLT

Press & Industry The Etilaat Roz 14:00

IDFA Dialogue with

De Balie: Grote Zaal

Simon(e) van Saarloos 15:00

Industry Talk

Felix Meritis: Shaffyzaal

(Co-)Production in a changing financing landscape 18:00

Guests Meet

Felix Meritis: Zuilenlounge

Guests hosted by ITA-Italian Trade Agency and Doc/it 10:00

Felix Meritis: Koepelzaal

Industry Session How to position your film & How to work with a sales agent

14:00

Delegation Project Presentation: South Korea 16:00

Delegation Project Presentation: PFI

Industry Talk Co-creation is everywhere but hard to see

ITA: Studio 1 10:00

ITA: Koninklijke Foyer

17:00

Consultancy Desk: Group consultancies and walk-in consultancies Sign up for the last spots at one of our consultants at the consultancy desk.

Paradise

CREATIVE EUROPE MEDIA

For more info on the funding opportunities go to ec.europa.eu/media Questions? Contact your local MEDIA desk for advice & support.

In the Netherlands: Creative Europe Desk NL

Supporting European Stories

My Paper Life

Creative Europe MEDIA is a proud supporter of IDFA

Dreaming Walls

Including many Creative Europe MEDIA-supported films such as The 3 Rooms of Melancholia, Alis, Anhell69, Apolonia, Apolonia, Caesar Must Die, Dreaming Walls, Everything Will Be OK, The Golden Thread, A House Made of Splinters, Hunger, Innocence, Missing 10 Hours VR, My Imaginary Country, My Paper Life, The Natural History of Destruction, Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudović Reels Paradise, Pornomelancolía, Theatre of War and You Have No Idea How Much I Love You. 33

Sunday November 13 13 November 10:00

11:00

Public screenings

12:00

10:30

Wildcat

Tuschinski 1

African Moot + Talk

12:30

Beyond Extinction: Sinixt Resurgence

YC

Waters of Pastaza

The Porters & Away

SC

12:45

FLT

12:45

M

The Oil Machine

10:30

Parallel World

Eye: Cinema 1

Blue ID

10:00

Kriterion 1

From the Other Shore (Audio

10:30

Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels

14:30

T10

PostApocalypse program

Heroic Bodies

16:00

IC

Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudović Reels

Eye: Cinema 2

17:45

LM, SC

The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived + Talk

Followed by a conversation with director Alexander Abaturov.

13:00

LM

15:45

FLT

Kenya

18:30

BF

Polaris

12:45

PD

Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal

The United States of America

Ketelhuis: Zaal 1

Shoah

16:00

BF

Gigi la Legge

Silent Love

21:00

FLT

EC

21:30

21:30

FLT, BF, M

21:30

BF

Mutzenbacher

This film will be shown on one day, in four parts with three intermissions.

14:15

YC

17:00

BF

BF

17:00

T10

Jeugdvoorstelling

10:30

14:00

LM, BF

Liturgy of Anti-Tank Obstacles & When Spring Came to Bucha 11:00

Midwives

Riotsville, USA

13:30

BF

Mothers VPRO

Scala

20:00

20:00

Forensic Architecture program

Father, Son and Holy War

11:00

Followed by a conversation with director Anand Patwardhan.

20:30

The Hamlet Syndrome

14:00

Rialto VU: Zaal 4

Fragile Memory

11:00

Cesária Évora

13:45

BF

12:00

BF

Bobi Wine: The People’s President

Podium Mozaïek

13:00

de Brakke Grond: Rode Zaal 11:30

MoCap Masterclass Kat Sullivan

17:00

BF

15:00

A Way to B

20:30

RS

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed 17:00

BF

Meet Me in the Bathroom

How to Save a Dead Friend M

Camouflage + Talk

20:30

BF

18:30

White Balls on Walls

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RS

My Country, My Country 21:00

FLT

15:00

ONX + DocLab Mocap Stage: Dance Looper

DocLab: Nervous Systems Exhibition & VR Gallery

Play, discover and experience a selection of interactive, multi-sensory XR-documentaries in the exhibition. Register online for a free ticket. Experience a selection of the best of this year’s virtual reality works in the VR Gallery. With 50-minute time slots.

Regular ticket sales.

In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats & Slumberland

BF

Followed by a conversation with director Jonathan Perel.

11:30

Arti et Amicitiae

OS

IDFA on Stage Arcadia Live

Extra

BF

Kleine Komedie

FM

+ Talk

+ Talk

FLT

PD

The Unstable Object II

In collaboration with radio program Argos.

de Brakke Grond

M

T10

Ketelhuis: Zaal 2

ITA: Rabozaal

FM, PD

Meet Marlon Brando & Maria Schneider, 1983

10:00

De Balie: Grote Zaal

LM

The Northeast Winds

Things I Could Never Tell My Mother

BF

Pornomelancolía

21:00

FM

18:45

BF

BF, LM

Will You Look At Me & Dear Mother, I Meant to Write About Death

Shorts Numerical Being

Description)

10:00

BF

Steel Life

The Fabulous Ones

18:00

IC

Paradise + Talk

21:30

19:15

BF

M

FLT

IC

Dreaming Arizona

My Courtyard & Transactions

13:00

LM

10:30

15:00

IC

20:00

My Name Is Happy

18:30

M

Dry Ground Burning

PD

Goodbye, Captain

BF

The Exiles

Striking Land

EC

20:15

FLT

16:45

IC

Much Ado About Dying

21:30

SC

R 21 aka Restoring Solidarity

14:00

10:00

Munt 13

13:45

M

21:45

Just an Alien

Shorts Intangible Nature

17:30

BF, SC

M

FLT

IC

18:45

FLT

When the Mountain Rumbles & This Was Your Nicest Auntie Ria

20:30

Blue Files

Girl Who Dreams about Time

The Lost Souls of Syria

14:30

BF

Aurora’s Sunrise

15:45

21:00

18:45

M

SC, FLT

We’re Here to Try

LM

23:00

Shorts Profound Expressions

FLT

17:30

The Natural History of Destruction

21:30

M

18:15

Stuntwomen

22:00 M

Look What You Made Me Do

Dorpie

15:30

21:00

20:30

The Land

LM

Art Talent Show

FP

11:00

Munt 12

20:00

18:30

LM

BF

14:00

FLT

The Yellow Ceiling

11:30

Munt 11

Merkel

15:00

You Have No Idea How Much I Love You

Munt 10

19:00 FLT

Miúcha, the Voice of Bossa Nova

A Symphony for a Common Man

10:15

18:00

17:15

Between Father and Son

T10

Hunger

11:00

Munt 9

17:00

15:45

M

A Compassionate Spy

12:00

10:00

16:00 BF

Oxfam Novib Special

EC

Tuschinski 5

15:00

Followed by a conversation with the filmmaker.

Light Falls Vertical

Tuschinski 4

Tuschinski 6

14:00 14:00

Coffee screening hosted

by Saeco.

10:00

Tuschinski 2

13:00

BF

Immerse yourself in two collective VR experiences as part of IDFA DocLab. Enter a magical dream world with the immersive performance Slumberland or go on a multi-sensory search for an illegal rave in 1989 (In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats).

Cesária Évora

20:30

Doclab Live: Unlocking the System

BF

Industry program Sunday 13 November 09:00

10:00

Sunday November 13

11:00

12:00

10:15

Market Screening

Tuschinski 3

13:00

14:00

12:15

15:00 14:45

Market Screening

16:00 M

Press & Industry Look What You Made Me Do

17:00 16:45

Press & Industry All You See

18:00

19:00

20:00

19:00

LM

LM

Press & Industry Polish Prayers

10:30

Tuschinski 4 09:00

Pathé City 1

Press & Industry Dreaming Arizona 09:15

Pathé City 3

IC

EC

Press & Industry The Fabulous Ones 09:30

Pathé City 4

Market Screening

Market Screening

11:00

13:00

FLT

Press & Industry Kenya 11:15

Press & Industry Girl Who Dreams About Time 13:15

EC

Press & Industry Notes on Displacement 11:30

Press & Industry Invoked

10:00

13:00

DocLab R&D Summit

de Brakke Grond: Rode Zaal

Summit Lunch hosted by Sandman Studios / Sandbox Immersive Festival.

10:00

12:30

Industry Session How to work with Al Jazeera & How to get the most out of your short

Felix Meritis: Shaffyzaal

Press & Industry Shangri-La, Paradise Under Construction

LM

IC

LM

Press & Industry Dear Mother, I Meant to Write About Death

MoCap Masterclass Kat Sullivan

Industry Meetup DAE General Assembly

18:00

Guests Meet Guests hosted by

Felix Meritis: Zuilenlounge

German Films & German Documentaries

09:30

ITA: Studio 1

22:00

EC

13:45

LM

Press & Industry Inside My Heart

21:00 21:00

16:00

Industry Talk NCE Masterclass with editor Yaël Bitton

Industry Talk Innovations in (online) distribution – part III

10:00

ITA: Koninklijke Foyer

Consultancy Desk: Group consultancies and walk-in consultancies Sign up for the last spots at one of our consultants at the consultancy desk.

17:00

DocLab R&D Summit: Networking Drinks

de Brakke Grond: Foyer 13:00

DocLab R&D Summit: Round Table Sessions

@droog White Space

for your consideration “a work of poetry, power and grace” - Washington Post

“beautifully made exploration of the past”

“haunting and provocative” - Variety

“poignant... extraordinary story”

- Hollywood Reporter

- IndieWire

Three Minutes A Lengthening

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Monday November 14 14 November 10:00

11:00

Public screenings

12:00

10:30

Apolonia, Apolonia

Tuschinski 1

13:00

14:00

15:00

14:00

IC

In viaggio + Talk

12:30

11:45

Matter Out of Place

12:15

We’re Here to Try

11:45

11:30

14:45

12:15

14:30

10:45

Nothing Compares

Home Is Somewhere Else

10:00

Eye: Waterfront

Not Yet Yes Workshop: Slow Transitions

LM

Guapo’y

21:00

RS

M

The Golden Thread

21:30

LM, BF

Aurora & A Sound of My Own

EC

Raw Session

18:30

21:00

LM

Polish Prayers

YC

Ramboy & Sezer’s Summer

17:00

FLT

While We Watched

Not Yet Yes (Queer Day by Simon(e) van Saarloos)

15:00

YC

FLT

FLT

Merkel

18:15

Port Desire

21:00

IC

Notes on Displacement

EC

12:30

Not Yet Yes Workshop: Everything is queer if I say it many times 12:15

Inside My Heart

Kriterion 1

18:00

EC

21:15

BF, EC

Terror Contagion & Risk

RS

Flag Wars

Racist Trees

Balls & Invoked

PD

15:15

13:45

BF

12:00

Eye: Cinema 2

Danse Macabre

FLT

Blue Files

Eye: Cinema 1

14:45

LM

21:15

Manifesto

20:30

BF

17:45

EC

My Lost Country

FLT, SC

18:15

M

M

The Kiev Trial

12:00

Munt 13

We, Students!

The March on Rome

BF

Loving Martha

17:30

YC

LM

Still Static & The Night My Brother Disappeared

FLT

15:00

LM

Solmatalua & Foragers

18:00

SC, BF

21:00

BF

The Exiles

BF

Naked Gardens

Q&A hosted by Simulacrum.

18:30

Between Father and Son

Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal 15:00

Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot

Ketelhuis: Zaal 1

21:00

LM

18:15

M

Aurora’s Sunrise

21:00

SC

Shorts Intangible Nature

Geographies of Solitude 21:00

IDFA on Stage Non-Aligned Newsreels: Fragments #2

De Balie: Grote Zaal 15:00

Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudović Reels

De Balie: Filmzaal 10:30

Kleine Komedie

Private Footage

PD

13:30

My Imaginary Country

IC

16:30

M

Innocence

18:00

Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels

21:00

FLT

Colette and Justin

Beba

ONX + DocLab MoCap Stage: Showcase 11:30

DocLab: Nervous Systems Exhibition & VR Gallery

Play, discover and experience a selection of interactive, multi-sensory XR-documentaries in the exhibition. Register online for a free ticket. Experience a selection of the best of this year’s virtual reality works in the VR Gallery. With 50-minute time slots.

Regular ticket sales.

11:30

In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats & Slumberland

21:00

IC

15:00

de Brakke Grond: Rode Zaal

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OS

BF

hosted by Dutch United Nations Student Association.

18:30

Arti et Amicitiae

BF

BF, LM

+ Talk

A Symphony for a Common Man Q&A

Podium Mozaïek

de Brakke Grond

BF

Liturgy of Anti-Tank Obstacles & When Spring Came to Bucha

18:00

Rialto VU: Zaal 4

BF

19:45

BF

M

Girl Gang

20:45

FLT, SC

18:15

IC

15:00

BF

The New Greatness Case

Munt 12

17:45

23:00

21:30

IC

Sisterhood

Shorts Workforce

Dreaming Arizona

Dorpie

Nothing Lasts Forever

+ Talk

FM

22:00

Personality Crisis: One Night Only

20:00

PD, FM

Meet Marlon Brando & Maria Schneider, 1983

15:15

LM, BF

12:15

Munt 11

17:15

21:00 21:00

Wisdom Gone Wild

Erase and Forget

M

Will You Look At Me & Dear Mother, I Meant to Write About Death

Munt 10

14:45

M

20:00 FLT

18:45

LM, SC

BF

The Eclipse

19:00

The Last Dolphin King

My Courtyard & Transactions

13:30

Tuschinski 4

Munt 9

18:00 18:15

15:30

LM

The Northeast Winds

Tuschinski 6

17:00

Followed by a conversation with director Gianfranco Rosi.

Tuschinski 2

Tuschinski 5

16:00 M

Immerse yourself in two collective VR experiences as part of IDFA DocLab. Enter a magical dream world with the immersive performance Slumberland or go on a multi-sensory search for an illegal rave in 1989 (In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats).

The Etilaat Roz

20:30

DocLab Live: The Tool is the Message

FLT

Industry program Monday 14 November 09:00

10:00

11:00

Monday November 14 12:00

13:00

14:00

11:45

Market Screening

Tuschinski 3

15:00

14:15

16:00

17:00

16:00

Market Screening

18:00

19:00

18:15

FLT

Press & Industry Racist Trees

20:00

FLT

Press & Industry The Last Dolphin King

20:30

21:00

22:00 FLT

Press & Industry Money, Freedom, a Story of CFA Franc

12:00

Market Screening

Tuschinski 4 09:00

Press & Industry Port Desire

Pathé City 2

09:15

Press & Industry Cross Words

Pathé City 3

10:45

IC

EC

11:15

Press & Industry Portrait of My Father 13:45

EC

Press & Industry Raw Session

09:45

Market Screening

Pathé City 4

13:15

IC

Press & Industry Wisdom Gone Wild

12:15

Press & Industry Guapo’y

LM

IC

EC

Press & Industry How Dare You Have Such a Rubbish Wish

11:15

14:15 LM

Press & Industry Aurora

Market Screening

De Balie: Grote Zaal

13:00

Industry Talk Capturing Reality in Motion

de Brakke Grond: Rode Zaal

15:00

Industry Talk Producing – Beyond Money

Felix Meritis: Concertzaal

16:45

Industry Talk Accessibility in Industry

13:00

Industry Meetup Ukrainian Programmers Delegation

Felix Meritis: Huslylounge

18:00

Guests Meet Guests

Felix Meritis: Zuilenlounge

hosted by I Am The Earth 10:00

Industry Talk Nicolas Philibert on his career as a filmmaker

ITA: Studio 1

10:00

ITA: Koninklijke Foyer

13:00

Filmmaker Talk Emma Davie

15:00

Industry Talk Collective Wisdom Book – meet the Authors

Consultancy Desk: Group consultancies and walk-in consultancies Sign up for the last spots at one of our consultants at the consultancy desk.

SEE

WATCH ENJOY MEET

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Tuesday 15 TuesdayNovember 15 November 10:00

11:00

12:00

Public screenings 13:00

11:45

Tuschinski 1

14:00

15:00

Silent House

16:00

15:00

IC

17:00

18:00

Naked Gardens

19:00

20:00

18:30

BF

21:00

22:00

23:00

21:30

FLT

Free Money + Talk Oxfam Novib Special

IC

Paradise

Followed by a conversation with the filmmakers.

12:15

The Natural History of Destruction

Tuschinski 2

18:00

LM

Inside My Heart

12:30

Wisdom Gone Wild

Followed by a conversation with director Rea Tajiri.

17:15

12:00

15:00

FM

Burden of Dreams

15:15

FLT, SC

12:00

The Yellow Ceiling

Munt 11

Colette and Justin

15:00

M

Matter Out of Place

13:30

14:45

13:00

11:30

Eye: Cinema 2

17:00

T10

PostApocalypse program

Eye: Cinema 1

Shorts Intangible Nature

SC

The Etilaat Roz + Talk

Girl Who Dreams about Time

20:30

FM

How Dare You Have Such a Rubbish Wish

Followed by conversation with director Abbas Rezaie.

21:00

EC

15:00

Mothers

15:00

Silent Love

De Balie: Grote Zaal

FLT

BF

18:00

Look What You Made Me Do

17:45

Port Desire

21:00

Nothing Lasts Forever

20:45

M

20:30

EC

Invoked

Presented by De Balie.

20:00

OS

IDFA on Stage Granma. Trombones from Havana

ITA: Rabozaal 18:00

Polaris

Rialto VU: Zaal 4

21:00

BF

Riotsville, USA

18:30

21:00

FLT

Money, Freedom, a Story of CFA Franc

Podium Mozaïek

Europe

20:00

OS

IDFA on Stage Finding Willard

Frascati 1

20:30

DocLab at the Planetarium: Here and After

ARTISPlanetarium 18:30

IDFA on Stage Funeral

de Brakke Grond: Rode Zaal

OS

11:30

de Brakke Grond

DocLab: Nervous Systems Exhibition & VR Gallery

Play, discover and experience a selection of interactive, multi-sensory XR-documentaries in the exhibition. Register online for a free ticket. Experience a selection of the best of this year’s virtual reality works in the VR Gallery. With 50-minute time slots.

Regular ticket sales.

11:30

Arti et Amicitiae 38

BF

LM

All You See

IC

BF

Anhell69

LM

Guapo’y

Ketelhuis: Zaal 1

21:30

BF, LM

18:30

Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal

EC

Notes for a Film

Aurora & A Sound of My Own

Q&A hosted by Offscreen.

M

Music for Black Pigeons

18:30

IC

LM

The Soiled Doves of Tijuana

18:00

FLT

15:00

Kriterion 1

20:15

SC

Crazy

14:30

FLT

The Last Dolphin King

The Silence of The Banana Trees & Wild Wounded Animals

BF

Midwives

19:45

PD

17:45

FLT

My Name is Happy

Munt 13

21:15

LM

Shangri-La, Paradise Under Construction

A Little Love Package

YC

Youth Films: 9-13

18:30

M

SC, LM

21:00

LM

Sisterhood

17:00

M

The Land

Munt 12

20:30

A Country in a Corner & Malavoune Tango

18:15

IC

EC

Cross Words

BF

Cosmic Chant.

Niño de Elche

Still Static & The Night My Brother Disappeared

21:00

IC

In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats & Slumberland

Immerse yourself in two collective VR experiences as part of IDFA DocLab. Enter a magical dream world with the immersive performance Slumberland or go on a multi-sensory search for an illegal rave in 1989 (In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats).

20:30

IDFA on Stage Funeral

OS

EC

PD

The Unstable Object II

Portrait of my Father

16:45

12:15

19:45

FP

18:00

BF

My Paper Life

Munt 9

Munt 10

Light Falls Vertical

Extended talk with directors Burcu Melekoglu and Vuslat Kara.

The Not Dead

Tuschinski 6

21:30

LM

Blue ID + Talk

+ Talk

Tuschinski 5

NTR Avond van de Wolf

18:30

IC

FLT

White Balls on Walls

NTR Avond van de Wolf

15:30

FLT

Followed by a conversation with directors Mina T. Son and Sara Newens.

21:00

BF

Nothing Compares

NTR Avond van de Wolf

Racist Trees + Talk

Tuschinski 4

15:30

M

BF

PD

Munt 12

Package 14:45

Munt 13 Industry program Tuesday 15 November 09:00

10:00

13:00

14:00

T10

15:00

PostMarket Screening Apocalypse program

11:30

09:00

14:30

SC 11:30

11:00

LM

Press & Industry The Soiled Doves of Tijuana 09:15

11:30

EC

10:45

Ketelhuis: Pathé City Zaal 4 1

M

13:30

Press & Industry Dorpie 13:00

15:00 13:45

11:00

BF

BF

LM

20:30

EC

Invoked

Presented by De Balie.

OS

IDFA on Stage Granma. Trombones from Havana

18:00

11:45

Polaris

Market Screening

21:00

BF

Riotsville, USA

18:30

15:00

Industry Talk Exploring new horizons for children’s documentaries

21:00

FLT

Money, Freedom, a Story of CFA Franc 18:00

Europe

20:00

BF

PD

OS

IDFA on Stage Guests MeetFinding Willard Guests hosted by

Frascati 1 Felix Meritis: Zuilenlounge

de Grond: ITA:Brakke Koninklijke Rode Zaal Foyer

20:45

All You See

20:00

Podium Mozaïek Felix Meritis: Concertzaal

ARTISITA: Studio 1 Planetarium

Nothing Lasts Forever

IC

Market Screening

Rialto VU: Zaal 4 De Balie: Grote Zaal

21:00

M

12:15

ITA: MuntRabozaal 13

EC

Anhell69

LM

Look What You Made Me Do

Port Desire

22:00 FLT

21:30

BF, LM

18:00

17:45

21:00

M 20:45

Notes for a Film

Aurora & A Sound of My Own

FLT

BF

20:00

21:00

EC

Guapo’y

Silent Love Market Screening

Market Screening

20:30 LM

Music for Black Press & Pigeons Press & Industry Industry The Lost Souls of MalavouSyria ne Tango

18:30

15:00 YC

LM

19:00 18:45

18:30

IC

FLT

Mothers Press & Industry Fatima

Press & Industry The Golden Thread

De Balie: Munt 9 Grote Zaal

FLT

Girl Who Dreams Press & Industry about Time Heroic Bodies Q&A hosted by Offscreen.

LM

Press & Industry When Spring Came to Bucha

15:00

13:15

FM

How Dare You Have Such a Rubbish Wish

with director Abbas Rezaie.

LM

20:15

The Soiled Doves Tuesday of Tijuana November 15

18:00

FLT

14:00

The Etilaat Roz + Talk Market Screening Followed by conversation

Press & Industry The Northeast Winds

Press & Industry Notes for a Film

16:00

17:00 16:00

SC

The Silence of The Banana Trees & Wild Wounded Animals 17:00 18:00

Crazy Market Screening

Shorts Intangible Market Screening Nature

Eye: Cinema Tuschinski 52

Rialto De Pijp: Pathé City 3 Bovenzaal

12:00

13:00

11:15

Eye: Cinema Tuschinski 31

Kriterion Pathé City1 2

17:45

FLT

My Name is Happy

11:00

King

Catalan Films and DocsBarcelona 10:00

Industry Talk Disrupt narrative, disrupt history 10:00

12:00

Industry Talk Laura Poitras x ICFR

14:00

Filmmaker Talk Nishtha Jain

16:00

Consultancy Desk: Group consultancies and walk-in consultancies Sign up for the last spots at one of our consultants at the consultancy desk.

20:30

DocLab at the Planetarium: Here and After

Industry Talk The Magic of Impact for Film 18:30

IDFA on Stage Funeral

OS

20:30

IDFA on Stage Funeral

OS

11:30

de Brakke Grond

DocLab: Nervous Systems Exhibition & VR Gallery

Play, discover and experience a selection of interactive, multi-sensory XR-documentaries in the exhibition. Register online for a free ticket. Experience a selection of the best of this year’s virtual reality works in the VR Gallery. With 50-minute time slots.

Regular ticket sales.

11:30

Arti et Amicitiae

In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats & Slumberland

Immerse yourself in two collective VR experiences as part of IDFA DocLab. Enter a magical dream world with the immersive performance Slumberland or go on a multi-sensory search for an illegal rave in 1989 (In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats).

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Wednesday November 16 16 November 10:00

11:00

12:00

Public screenings

13:00

14:00

12:15

The Oil Machine

Tuschinski 1

15:00

16:00

15:00

M

Geographies of Solitude

Coffee screening hosted by Saeco.

13:45

17:00

18:00

12:15

11:15

15:15

11:45

10:45

10:00

Balls & Invoked

13:00

Free Money

12:15

15:00

BF

Black Mambas

Munt 11

12:00

14:30

Art Talent Show

12:30

SC, FLT

12:30

YC

Munt 13

Shorts Profound Expressions

Eye: Cinema 1

Ramboy & Sezer’s Summer 11:00

12:00

LM

21:00

18:15

21:15

EC

We, Students!

The Oath

15:00

18:00

RS

17:45

LM, SC

21:00

BF

How to Save a Dead Friend

20:45

LM, BF

Will You Look At Me & Dear Mother, I Meant to Write About Death

BF

The Eclipse

Presented by De Balie.

20:00

OS

IDFA on Stage Granma. Trombones from Havana

18:00

21:00

BF

Anhell69

Rialto VU: Zaal 4 12:30

Dry Ground Burning

M

16:00

SC, FLT

Still Static & The Night My Brother Disappeared

18:30

Racist Trees

FLT, M, BF

Shorts Numerical Being

Q&A hosted by CUT.

Podium Mozaïek

20:30

FLT

FLT

Mothers

20:00

OS

IDFA on Stage Finding Willard

Frascati 1 18:30

Cesária Évora

Cinema De Vlugt

18:30

IDFA on Stage Funeral

de Brakke Grond: Rode Zaal

OS

DocLab: Nervous Systems Exhibition & VR Gallery

Play, discover and experience a selection of interactive, multi-sensory XR-documentaries in the exhibition. Register online for a free ticket. Experience a selection of the best of this year’s virtual reality works in the VR Gallery. With 50-minute time slots.

Regular ticket sales.

11:30

In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats & Slumberland

21:00

BF

11:30

40

FLT

Heroic Bodies

M

A Way to B

A Country in a Corner & Malavoune Tango

21:00

SC, M

Wild Wounded Animals & How Do You Measure a Year?

ITA: Rabozaal

Arti et Amicitiae

BF

Q&A hosted by Machiavelli study association.

15:00

de Brakke Grond

BF

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

Raw Session

Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal

De Balie: Grote Zaal

21:30

The March on Rome

Special screening of the last film of Mantas Kvedaravičius with an extended program.

M

M

We’re Here to Try

FLT

18:30

Ketelhuis: Zaal 1

21:15

YC

Girl Gang

Mariupolis 2

A Compassionate Spy

BF

Werner Herzog – Radical Dreamer

17:00

15:00

M

In viaggio

21:00

Bella Ciao

Mariupolis

Shangri-La, Paradise Under Construction

Kriterion 1

21:30

M

18:30

14:30

M

Everything Will Be OK

BF

Pornomelancolía

RS

18:15

EC

LM

21:45

BF

18:30

Citizenfour

15:30

Stuntwomen

Alis

17:45

Cross Words

21:15

FLT

Gumbo Coalition

LM

SC, FLT

Shorts Day Workforce

19:00

M

M

Mutzenbacher

PD

Striking Land

Munt 12

Eye: Cinema 2

The Golden Thread

LM

21:00

LM, BF

Beyond Extinction: Sinixt Resurgence

15:45

FLT

20:30

M

Uncanny Me & Kam Loo Tsui

18:15

PD

The Unstable Object II

EC, BF

My Imaginary Country

Shorts Day Cityscapes

13:30

PD

21:15

EC

LM

18:00

YC

Shorts Day Youth Films: 14+

The United States of America

Munt 9

17:30

The Soiled Doves of Tijuana

PD

Danse Macabre

Followed by a conversation with Khaled Jarrar.

FM

14:45

BF, PD

Shorts Day Higher Dimensions

Tuschinski 6

22:00

Notes on Displacement + Talk

Bitch Academy & Der Busenfreund

BF

Followed by a conversation with the filmmaker.

T10

18:30

M

Ruthless Times – Songs of Care + Talk

23:00

All That Breathes + Talk

Return to Homs

14:15

FLT

The Lost Souls of Syria

22:00

21:30

Oxfam Novib Special

19:15

Followed by a conversation with director Susanna Hulke.

Tuschinski 5

21:00

BF

Followed by an extended conversation with the filmmaker.

EC

LM

Polish Prayers

Tuschinski 4

20:00

Midwives + Talk

The Fabulous Ones

Tuschinski 2

Munt 10

19:00

18:30

BF

Immerse yourself in two collective VR experiences as part of IDFA DocLab. Enter a magical dream world with the immersive performance Slumberland or go on a multi-sensory search for an illegal rave in 1989 (In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats).

Nothing Lasts Forever 20:30

IDFA on Stage Funeral

OS

BF

M

Industry program Wednesday 16 November 09:00

10:00

11:00

12:00

Wednesday November 16 13:00

14:00

15:00

16:00

11:45

Market Screening

Tuschinski 3

17:00 16:45

18:00

Press & Industry Blue Files

19:00

FLT

20:00

21:00

19:45

Press & Industry The Land

22:00

M

15:00

Industry Talk Europe Conference - Being Europe, seeing Europe

Felix Meritis: Concertzaal 09:00

Felix Meritis: Shaffyzaal

Delegation Project Presentation: Emergence Magazine x IF/ Then Shorts 10:00

ITA: Studio 1

12:00

Delegation Project Presentation: IDF

Industry Talk Documentary Theatre - Processing from the Inside

Filmmaker Talk Kidlat Tahimik

10:00

ITA: Koninklijke Foyer

14:00

16:00

Industry Talk New Tech – Manufacturing the Truth

Consultancy Desk: Group consultancies and walk-in consultancies Sign up for the last spots at one of our consultants at the consultancy desk.

18:00

Guests Meet Guests

Café Kuyl

supports

Dutch Documentary Filmmakers attending IDFA

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Thursday 17 November 17 November 10:00

11:00

Public screenings

12:00

13:00

14:00

15:00

16:00

14:00

Journey Through Our World

Tuschinski 1 12:00

Fragile Memory

Tuschinski 2

12:30

How Dare You Have Such a Rubbish Wish

Tuschinski 3 12:00

Youth Films: 9-13

Tuschinski 4

15:45

13:45

12:00

De Humani Corporis Fabrica

15:30

BF

Naked Gardens

13:00

Portrait of my Father

11:30

12:00

Just an Alien

Munt 12

14:30

EC

Dreaming Walls

12:45

12:00

Balls & Invoked

16:00

M

Look What You Made Me Do

14:00

My Name Is Happy

Eye: Cinema 2

Polish Prayers

Ketelhuis: Zaal 2

20:30

21:00

Apolonia, Apolonia (WePresent Night) 20:30

Surprise Screening

21:00

PD

BF

Camouflage

18:00

20:30

BF

The Exiles

BF

11:30

DocLab: Nervous Systems Exhibition & VR Gallery

Play, discover and experience a selection of interactive, multi-sensory XR-documentaries in the exhibition. Register online for a free ticket. Experience a selection of the best of this year’s virtual reality works in the VR Gallery. With 50-minute time slots.

Regular ticket sales.

11:30

Arti et Amicitiae

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In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats & Slumberland

BF

Presented by De Balie.

LM

18:30

M

Goodbye, Captain

The Northeast Winds

Alis

M

20:00

SC

17:45

M

Ruthless Times – Songs of Care

A Compassionate Spy

Sensory friendly screening.

de Brakke Grond

M

21:00

T10

The Porters & Away

Cinema De Vlugt

SC, BF

When the Mountain Rumbles & This Was Your Nicest Auntie Ria

The Land

This Is Not a Film

17:30

Rialto VU: Zaal 4

21:30

20:45

LM

15:00

M

American Journal

BF

The New Greatness Case

BF, SC

Is There A Pine on the Mountain & The Super 8 Years

LM

18:15

YC

From the Other Shore

De Balie: Grote Zaal

RS

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

FM

18:30

10:00

21:30

21:15

BF, EC

Striking Land

14:45

BF

Silent Love

BF

Bobi Wine: The People’s President

Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal A House Made of Splinters

21:00

Meet Marlon Brando & Maria Schneider, 1983

Curated by WePresent.

Q&A hosted by FLOOR (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences).

Ketelhuis: Zaal 1

BF, M, FLT

21:30 FM, PD

12th & Delaware

17:00

Girl Gang

M

BF

BF

18:45

M

17:45

IC

FLT

15:00

Kriterion 1

18:00

The Eclipse

21:15

BF

Scala

17:30

Girl Who Dreams About Time

Followed by a live interview with Yousry Nasrallah.

19:00

FP

M

Shorts Numerical Being

YC

Waters of Pastaza

BF

14:45

FM

On Boys, Girls and the Veil + Talk

Eye: Cinema 1

18:30

21:15

21:00

BF

Anhell69

BF

M

23:00

Music for Black Pigeons

19:00

YC

Theatre of War

The Kiev Trial

The Natural History of Destruction

Munt 13

16:00

IC

14:45

BF

Beba

Things I Could Never Tell My Mother

Fatima

22:00

Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot

FM

18:30

IC

16:15

FP

PD

The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived

Dreaming Arizona

Moscow

Munt 11

18:45

Followed by a conversation with director Ignacio Agüero.

LM

21:00

BF

Aftersun

EC

Notes for a Film + Talk

20:00

19:00

YC

15:15

YC

Tuschinski 6

Munt 10

Cosmic Chant.

Niño de Elche

Home Is Somewhere Else

Shangri-La, Paradise Under Construction

Munt 9

17:45

LM

15:30

12:30

Tuschinski 5

19:00 BF

Innocence

Uncanny Me & Kam Loo Tsui

EC

18:00

17:15

14:45

BF

17:00

IC

Immerse yourself in two collective VR experiences as part of IDFA DocLab. Enter a magical dream world with the immersive performance Slumberland or go on a multi-sensory search for an illegal rave in 1989 (In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats).

21:00

Mom

21:00

LM

FLT

IDFA Meets Ambassadeurs van Amsterdam: Racist Trees

Industry Thursdayprogram 17 November 09:00

10:00

11:00

Thursday November 17 12:00

13:00

14:00

15:00

16:00

17:00

18:00

19:00

20:00

21:00

22:00

20:00

Awards Ceremony

ITA: Rabozaal 10:00

ITA: Studio 1

Industry Talk Connecting Dutch docs in a changing market

13:00

Industry Talk Dutch Docs in Motion - Aspirations of the Dutch documentary industry

17:00

Filmmaker Talk Petra & Peter Lataster

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Friday November 18 18 November 10:00

11:00

Public screenings

12:00

13:00

14:00

15:00

16:00

17:00

18:00

19:00

20:00

09:50

VPRO Review

Tuschinski 1

11:30

Geographies of Solitude

Tuschinski 2

Music for Black Pigeons

12:15

Tuschinski 3

Riotsville, USA

Tuschinski 4

American Journal

11:30

10:30

10:00

African Moot

Munt 10

14:15

10:45

Manifesto

13:45

Much Ado About Dying 14:15

FLT, SC

11:30

12:30

14:00

Kriterion 1

astonishing stories and visual highlights from the IDFA program.

21:30

FP

Hosted by the European Cultural Foundation.

18:30

21:30

T10, FM

The 3 Rooms of Melancholia

Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal 14:00

10:00

Ketelhuis: Zaal 2

17:15

BF

A Provincial Hospital

Ketelhuis: Zaal 1

Port Desire

20:15

LM

Shangri-La, Paradise under Construction

LM, BF

Liturgy of AntiTank Obstacles & When Spring Came to Bucha IC

Journey Through Our World

IC

Sensory friendly screening.

15:00

Europe

De Balie: Grote Zaal

PD

18:00

Little Dieter Needs to Fly

20:30

FP

Portrait of My Father

18:30

10:00

Best of IDFA: Audience Favorites

ITA: Rabozaal

FP

Salaam Cinema

YC

Fatima

Q&A hosted by Soapbox.

VICE Night VICE selects

Followed by a conversation with director Clio Barnard.

17:00

PD

Private Footage

FLT

21:00

LM

The Arbor + Talk

Followed by a conversation with director Weicheng Hua.

M

A Symphony for a Common Man

18:15

EC

Just an Alien + Talk

BF

20:45

FP

Inside My Heart

15:30

EC

21:00

20:15

17:30

Surprise Screening

FLT

Kenya

Everything Will Be OK

Every Little Thing

14:30

FLT

21:30

EC

Pornomelancolía

IC

17:15

FLT

The Fabulous Ones

Eye: Cinema 2

16:45

IC

BF

Wisdom Gone Wild

The Last Dolphin King

Trained to See – Three Women and the War

19:00

How Dare You Have Such a Rubbish Wish

Werner Herzog – Radical Dreamer

IC

BF

Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels

Parallel World

17:30

M

21:00

IC

19:30

LM

BF

The Hamlet Syndrome

13:30

EC

11:15

Eye: Cinema 1

16:15

EC

Personality Crisis: One Night Only

Shorts Profound Expressions

Munt 13

The Soiled Doves of Tijuana

My Lost Country

BF

18:00

PD

BF

The River Is Not a Border

Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudović Reels 16:45

SC, BF

13:15

A Little Love Package 20:30

SC, BF

When the Mountain Rumbles & This Was Your Nicest Auntie Ria

EC

Till the End & Jaime

BF

10:15

Munt 12

15:30

21:30

FLT

Followed by a conversation with director Sara Suliman.

Notes on Displacement

SC, BF

Is There A Pine on the Mountain & The Super 8 Years

Heroic Bodies + Talk

17:30

YC

21:00

FM

18:15

T10

BF, LM

EC

13:45

M

All That Breathes

Munt 11

Titicut Follies

Ramboy & Sezer’s Summer

Erase and Forget

Aurora & A Sound of My Own

Raw Session

The Golden Thread

15:00

M

12:30

Tuschinski 6

17:45

SC, LM

20:30

M

Gumbo Coalition

My Courtyard & Transactions

BF

Steel Life

Tuschinski 5

17:15

M

15:15

BF

12:00

23:00

M

Followed by a conversation with the filmmaker.

14:30

BF

22:00

Look What You Made Me Do + Talk

Program compiled by the VPRO. Tickets available at vpro.nl/idfa.

Munt 9

21:00

20:00

21:00

LM

All You See

IC

BF

Meet Me in the Bathroom

VPRO Extra

Followed by a conversation with VPRO’s 3voor12.

09:30

DLM: Mary Dresselhuys

20:00

Best of IDFA: Award Winners

10:00

DeLaMar: Wim Sonneveld Zaal

18:30

Best of IDFA: Audience Favorites

A House Made of Splinters 18:00

Blue Files

Rialto VU: Zaal 4

18:30

21:15

BF

21:00

Between Father and Son 21:00

BF

44 de Brakke Grond

11:30

DocLab: Nervous Systems Exhibition & VR Gallery

Play, discover and experience a selection of interactive, multi-sensory XR-documentaries in the exhibition. Register online for a free ticket. Experience a selection of the best of this year’s virtual reality works in the VR Gallery. With 50-minute time slots.

LM

BF

The Pawnshop

20:30

ARTISPlanetarium

BF

Miúcha, the Voice of Bossa Nova

FLT

Aurora’s Sunrise

Cinema De Vlugt

FLT

While We Watched

DocLab at the Planetarium: Song, Swarm and Silence

Aurora’s Sunrise

Cinema De Vlugt

Public screenings ARTIS-

The Pawnshop

DocLab atNovember the Friday 18 Planetarium: 20:30

Planetarium

Song, Swarm and Silence

11:30

de Brakke Grond

DocLab: Nervous Systems Exhibition & VR Gallery

Play, discover and experience a selection of interactive, multi-sensory XR-documentaries in the exhibition. Register online for a free ticket. Experience a selection of the best of this year’s virtual reality works in the VR Gallery. With 50-minute time slots.

Regular ticket sales.

11:30

Arti et Amicitiae

In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats & Slumberland

Immerse yourself in two collective VR experiences as part of IDFA DocLab. Enter a magical dream world with the immersive performance Slumberland or go on a multi-sensory search for an illegal rave in 1989 (In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats).

The best of IDFA 2022 also on NPO Start From Sunday 20 November 2Doc IDFA Primeur:

Mothers (VPRO) Nirit Peled

From Sunday 20 November 2Doc IDFA Primeur:

From Sunday 20 November 2Doc IDFA Primeur:

(VPRO)

(VPRO)

A House made of splinters Simon Lereng Wilmont

All you see Niki Padidar

npo.nl/documentaires

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Saturday 19 November 19 November 10:00

11:00

Public screenings

12:00

13:00

14:00

15:00

16:00

17:00

18:00

19:00

20:00

10:00

Best of IDFA: Audience Favorites

Tuschinski 1

10:30

14:45

11:00

10:00

Naked Gardens

Tuschinski 4

13:45

EC

12:45

BF

11:00

10:30

13:00

10:00

13:15

LM

10:45

Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudović Reels

Munt 10

10:30

Father, Son and Holy War 10:00

Dreaming Arizona

Munt 13

13:45

13:00

IC

In viaggio

15:45

19:45

18:30

EC

Discount available for Cineville members.

13:30FM, PD

15:45

11:00

We, Students! + Talk hosted by OneWorld

10:00

11:00

Inside My Heart

Ketelhuis: Zaal 1 10:00

Ketelhuis: Zaal 2

17:00

FM

Crazy

The Yellow Ceiling

20:30

12:30

Gumbo Coalition

15:45

M

We’re Here to Try

18:30

M

Free Money

21:15

FLT

Matter Out of Place

20:00

Best of IDFA: Award Winners

How to Save a Dead Friend

10:00

18:45

Best of IDFA: Award Winners

12:30

FLT

15:00

Bella Ciao

15:45

Blue ID

Cinema De Vlugt

18:00

FLT

My Name is Happy LM

Nothing Compares

20:45

FLT

18:30

IDFA Meets Meervaart Studio: Beba

Dorpie

BF

11:30

DocLab: Nervous Systems Exhibition & VR Gallery

Play, discover and experience a selection of interactive, multi-sensory XR-documentaries in the exhibition. Register online for a free ticket. Experience a selection of the best of this year’s virtual reality works in the VR Gallery. With 50-minute time slots.

Regular ticket sales.

11:30

Arti et Amicitiae 46

In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats & Slumberland

Immerse yourself in two collective VR experiences as part of IDFA DocLab. Enter a magical dream world with the immersive performance Slumberland or go on a multi-sensory search for an illegal rave in 1989 (In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats).

21:00

M

BF

21:30

BF

The Pawnshop

R 21 aka Restoring Solidarity

Rialto VU: Zaal 4

de Brakke Grond

M

EC, SC

The Not Dead

DeLaMar: Wim Sonneveld Zaal

BF

YC

Fatima

The Kiev Trial

09:30

DLM: Mary Dresselhuys

Dreaming Walls

21:30

My Courtyard & Transactions

M

PD

22:00

FLT

19:00 LM, SC

FP

You Have No Idea How Much I Love You

14:00

LM

Aftersun

Mountain Man & Scenes with My Father Sensory

friendly screening.

10:00 FP

De Balie: Grote Zaal

16:00

M

21:30

PD

Private Footage

Racist Trees

The Natural History of Destruction

M

Dry Ground Burning

19:00

13:00

M

LM

21:00

18:45

BF

The best of IDFA in one day for CJP-film fanatics.

The Land

Stuntwomen

BF

CJP: IDFA in één dag

Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal

21:15

YC

Ramboy & Sezer’s Summer

18:00

Meet Marlon Brando & Maria Schneider, 1983

BF

The Exiles

Wildcat

Eye: Cinema 2

LM

Polish Prayers

EC

My Lost Country

Tomorrow’s Classics

Kriterion 1

20:30

FLT

Cross Words

10:00

Eye: Cinema 1

FM

Surprise Screening

17:00

M

M

21:00

BF

Midwives

20:00

FLT

The Etilaat Roz

FM

My Imaginary Country

While We Watched

14:30

M

FLT

Bitch Academy & Der Busenfreund

17:15

BF

IC

21:00

FM

Caesar Must Die

LM, BF

Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels

11:30

Munt 12

16:30

LM

Money, Freedom, a Story of CFA Franc 18:45

M

EC

Girl Who Dreams About Time 20:30

LM, SC

Shorts Cityscapes

14:00

IC

17:15

BF

Gigi la Legge

Ruthless Times – Songs of Care

Munt 11

23:00

21:30

M

A Way to B

A Country in a Corner & Malavoune Tango

The March on Rome

Art Talent Show

18:30

EC

15:45

LM

Mom

The Northeast Winds

Munt 9

15:30

EC

Raw Session

20:30

BF

Light Falls Vertical

14:00

LM

BF

Scala

Tuschinski 6

16:45

Notes for a Film

A Provincial Hospital

LM

Guapo’y

21:00

BF

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

BF, LM

Will You Look At Me & Dear Mother, I Meant to Write About Death

Uncanny Me & Kam Loo Tsui

Tuschinski 5

17:15

SC

The Porters & Away

The Fabulous Ones

Tuschinski 3

22:00

NPO IDFA Audience Award Winner

SC

The Silence of The Banana Trees & Wild Wounded Animals

Tuschinski 2

21:00

20:00

FLT

BF

Miúcha, the Voice of Bossa Nova

BF

Public Sundayscreenings 20 November 10:00

11:00

10:00

12:00

13:00

10:30

13:45

M

Personality Crisis: One Night Only 11:00

Heroic Bodies

Tuschinski 3 10:00

The Soiled Doves of Tijuana

Tuschinski 4

How Dare You Have Such a Rubbish Wish

Journey Through Our World

10:15

10:45

10:15

10:00

Music for Black Pigeons

Munt 11

10:30

16:15

23:00

M

16:30

EC

The Golden Thread

M

The Golden Thread

15:45

LM

Loving Martha

16:15

LM

SC, BF

La Reprise. Histoire(s) du théâtre (I)

Till the End & Jaime

12:45

15:45

Surprise Screening

16:00

LM

From the Other Shore

ITA on Screen: La Reprise.

Histoire(s) du théâtre (I)

IC

Silent House

13:45

22:00

RS

Gumbo Coalition

13:45

FLT, SC

Shorts Workforce

Munt 12

21:00

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

Uncanny Me & Kam Loo Tsui

M

20:00

YC

Waters of Pastaza

Notes on Displacement 13:00

T10

Hunger

Munt 10

16:30

LM

16:00

Wild Wounded Animals & How Do You Measure a Year?

YC

Fatima

19:00

FLT

Dorpie

13:30 SC, M

FLT

Trained to See – Three Women and the War

Munt 9

16:15

EC

IC

Portrait of My Father

18:00

IDFA thanks their Friends with the Friends screening in Tuschinski 1.

IC

13:15

IC

17:00

Vriendenvoorstelling

Guapo’y

12:30

Port Desire

Tuschinski 6

16:00 16:00

14:15

FLT

LM

10:45

Tuschinski 5

15:00 FLT

White Balls on Walls

Coffee screening hosted by Saeco.

Tuschinski 2

14:00

13:15

IC

Paradise

Tuschinski 1

Sunday November 20

Liege, April 2012. Ihsane Jarfi, Muslim and gay, is tortured and murdered. The crime shakes the whole city. Milo Rau reconstructed the murder on stage. The dramatic play is now transformed into a film.

Ticket sales through ITA

FLT

Merkel

20:00, ITA: Grote Zaal 10:45

Cross Words

Munt 13

EC

10:30

13:00

A Country in a Corner & Malavoune Tango

10:00

Between Father and Son

Eye: Cinema 2

11:00

FLT

The Lost Souls of Syria 10:30

FLT

A Symphony for a Common Man

De Balie: Grote Zaal

15:30

BF

Blue Files

FM

16:15

Sisterhood

LM

16:15

SC, FLT

Still Static & The Night My Brother Disappeared

13:00

BF

My Paper Life

Burden of Dreams

Wildcat

13:15

16:00

BF

IC

13:30

FM

On Boys, Girls and the Veil

EC

Manifesto

De Humani Corporis Fabrica

Kriterion 1

Ketelhuis: Zaal 1

16:30

13:00

LM

Apolonia, Apolonia

10:15

Shangri-La, Paradise under Construction

IDFA Junior: Middag

12:00

Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal

LM

13:30

IDFA Junior: Ochtend

Eye: Cinema 1

15:30

LM, SC

Much Ado About Dying 16:00

FLT

The River Is Not a Border

Ysabel’s Table Dance

IC

BF

This program brings together the works of artist Ansuya Blom from the museum’s time-based media collection with a selection of her latest works. After the screening, Ansuya Blom will talk to curator Monika Szewczyk. Ticket sales via www.stedelijk.nl

10:00

Best of IDFA: Award Winners

ITA: Rabozaal

Stedelijk x IDFA: Video Club with Ansuya Blom

16:00, Stedelijk Museum 09:30

DLM: Mary Dresselhuys

Best of IDFA: Audience Favorites

10:00

DeLaMar: Wim Sonneveld Zaal

Best of IDFA: Award Winners

10:30

Rialto VU: Zaal 4

13:30

FLT

The Last Dolphin King

13:00

Cinema De Vlugt 11:30

de Brakke Grond

IC

Wisdom Gone Wild

FLT

Mothers + Talk hosted

by Female Economy & New Metropolis Nieuw West

16:15

Things I Could Never Tell My Mother 16:00

All You See

BF

Journey Through Our World

LM

DocLab: Nervous Systems Exhibition & VR Gallery

Play, discover and experience a selection of interactive, multi-sensory XR-documentaries in the exhibition. Register online for a free ticket. Experience a selection of the best of this year’s virtual reality works in the VR Gallery. With 50-minute time slots. Regular ticket sales.

11:30

Arti et Amicitiae

In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats & Slumberland

Immerse yourself in two collective VR experiences as part of IDFA DocLab. Enter a magical dream world with the immersive performance Slumberland or go on a multi-sensory search for an illegal rave in 1989 (In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats).

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BEELD & GELUID IDFA REFRAME AWARD Best creative use of archive

discover our collection beeldengeluid.nl

Choose a partner, more than a bank.

www.insingergilissen.nl

FINNISH FILMS for everyone!

IDFA Frontlight

The Night My Brother Disappeared

By Anna Blom Contact: Impressio Films

IDFA Competition for Youth Documentary

Jasmin’s Two Homes

By Inka Achté, Hanna Karppinen Contact: napafilms

IDFA Masters

Ruthless Times – Songs of Care

By Susanna Helke Contact: Raina Film Festival Distribution

IDFA Best of Fests

The New Greatness Case

By Anna Shishova Contact: Autlook Filmsales

IDFA Focus: Around Masculinity

IDFA Best of Fests

The 3 Rooms of Melancholia

African Moot

By Pirjo Honkasalo Contact: Deckert Distribution

By Guy Davidi Finnish co-producer: Making Movies

Co-productions supported by the Finnish Film Foundation

By Shameela Seedat Finnish co-producer: Tuffi Films

Innocence

A House Made of Splinters

By Simon Lereng Wilmont Finnish co-producer: Donkey Hotel

ses.fi/catalogue

FILMS All films in the selection, from A to Z.

Focus: Around Masculinity

12th & Delaware

Rachel Grady, Heidi Ewing United States, 2010, 81′

In Fort Pierce, Florida, women who’ve decided to terminate their pregnancy might accidentally step into the anti-abortion Pregnancy Care Center opposite the abortion clinic. A shocking and sometimes absurd look at two contrasting worlds.

SA 12 10:00 De Balie: Grote Zaal TH 17 18:45 Munt 13 Focus: Around Masculinity, Top 10

The 3 Rooms of Melancholia

Melancholian 3 huonetta Pirjo Honkasalo Finland, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, 2004, 106′ Shot in St. Petersburg, Grozny and Ingushetia, this multilayered, poetic film in three chapters reflects a range of fundamental human feelings and mental states that war invokes.

SA 12 16:00 Eye: Cinema 1 FR 18 18:30 Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal

+ Talk

IDFA Competition for Short Documentary

Achewiq, the Song of the Brave Women WP

Achewiq, le chant des femmes-courage Elina Kastler France, 2022, 16′

12 13 16 18

20:00 21:30 12:30 11:15

Munt 10 Tuschinski 2 Munt 13 Munt 13

African Moot

Shorts Shorts Shorts Shorts

Best of Fests

Shameela Seedat South Africa, Finland, 2022, 85′ A side of Africa we rarely see: spirited law students argue cases in simulated court hearings, to win the title of best mooter in the African Human Rights Moot Court Competition. We meet a new generation committed to the future of the continent.

TH SA SU FR

10 12 13 18

18:30 21:15 14:00 10:00

Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal Rialto VU: Zaal 4 Tuschinski 1 Munt 10

The teenage girls who live in a shelter in Bogotá have already been through a lot in their young lives. They talk about it through the perspective of a fictional friend: Alis.

Their soulful narrative reveals an amazing strength to embrace a brighter future.

FR FR SA MO WE TH SA

11 11 12 14 16 17 19

14:00 Munt 13 18:00-23:00 IDFA at home 13:30 Tuschinski 1 17:00 Eye: Cinema 1 19:00 Munt 10 18:30 Cinema De Vlugt 11:00 Kriterion 1

+ Talk Not Yet Yes

Best of Fests

All That Breathes

Shaunak Sen India, United Kingdom, United States, 2022, 94′

Two Muslim brothers living in Delhi, one of the world’s most polluted cities, try their best to run a sanctuary for birds of prey.

In a film that swings between hope and despair, the two central figures remain determined to never give up.

TH SA WE FR

10 12 16 18

16:00 11:00 21:30 10:15

Eye: Cinema 1 Kleine Komedie Tuschinski 1 Munt 11

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

Nan Goldin earned fame for her intimate and often intense photos of subcultures she was part of. Now she’s fighting the Sackler family, whose wealth comes from selling the addictive painkiller OxyContin. A moving, visual story about love and pain.

FR SU TH SA SU

11 13 17 19 20

12:30 17:00 21:30 10:00 16:00

Carré Kleine Komedie Munt 10 ITA: Rabozaal Tuschinski 4

All You See

IDFA Hit

Luminous

WP

Al wat je ziet Niki Padidar Netherlands, 2022, 72′

Lluís Galter Spain, 2022, 70′ A couple at a campground in Spain are behaving very strangely, and the imaginations of three teenage girls are running wild. This playful film-about-film moves effortlessly between documentary, thriller, detective story and fairytale.

TH FR SA SU TU FR SU

FR SA TH SA

11 12 17 19

16:15 13:00 19:00 21:30

Munt 10 Munt 9 Tuschinski 3 Eye: Cinema 2

+ Talk

Paradocs

10 11 12 13 15 18 20

12:30 21:30 19:00 16:45 20:45 18:30 16:00

Tuschinski 1 Carré Podium Mozaïek Tuschinski 3 Ketelhuis: Zaal 1 ITA: Rabozaal Cinema De Vlugt

Masters

American Journal Journal d’Amérique Arnaud des Pallières France, 2022, 112′

A collage of street scenes, news footage and anonymous archive material shows the United States at the height of its power.

However, the tone of this collective visual diary gradually shifts from euphoria to nightmare.

Nominated for the Beeld & Geluid IDFA ReFrame Award TH SA TH FR

10 12 17 18

15:45 12:00 20:30 12:00

Best of Fests

When the young queer actor he cast to star in a vampire film dies of an overdose, filmmaker Theo Montoya dives deeper into the no-future generation of Medellín, in this “trans film” about all the people who don’t belong to anything or anyone.

10 15 16 17

15:45 21:30 18:00 19:00

International Competition

IDFA Hit P&I

A portrait of the artist as a young woman.

Apolonia is talented, but is that enough to break into the art world? An impressive film that covers 13 years in an anything-but-average life.

FR SA MO TH SA SU

11 12 14 17 19 20

20:30 19:45 10:30 21:00 10:00 12:00

Tuschinski 3 Tuschinski 1 Tuschinski 1 Eye: Cinema 1 Eye: Cinema 1 Kriterion 1

The Arbor

P&I

Tomorrow’s Classics

Focus: Playing Reality

Clio Barnard England, 2010, 95′ In 1980, when Andrea Dunbar was only 18, her semi-autobiographical play, The Arbor, was performed in London. Director Clio Barnard made an impressive reconstruction of Dunbar’s short life, using the voices of people from her circle.

TH 10 19:30 Eye: Cinema 1 FR 18 18:15 Eye: Cinema 2

SU 13 20:30 ITA: Rabozaal

IDFA on Stage

Luminous

IP

An award-winning documentary taking a humorous look at the entrance exams at the Prague art academy, held under the watchful eye of the receptionist. How do you apply a selection procedure to something as subjective as art?

SA SU WE SA

12 13 16 19

21:15 14:00 14:30 20:30

Aurora

Munt 10 Kriterion 1 Rialto VU: Zaal 4 Tuschinski 6

Apolonia, Apolonia WP

This startling collage of archival footage of the British countryside is a cross between a historical document and a psychedelic trip. The pulsating soundtrack is performed live by Adrian Utley (Portishead) and Will Gregory (Goldfrapp) plus band.

Zkouška umění Adéla Komrzý, Tomas Bojar Czech Republic, 2022, 102′

Theo Montoya Colombia, Romania, France, Germany, 2022, 72′

TH TU WE TH

IDFA on Stage

IP

Art Talent Show

Munt 12 Ketelhuis: Zaal 1 Munt 12 Tuschinski 4

Anhell69

Arcadia Live

Paul Wright United Kingdom, 2022, 78′

Lea Glob Denmark, Poland, France, 2022, 116′

Laura Poitras United States, 2022, 122′

What if you suddenly end up in a world where you’re no longer seen but stared at?

This film shows the alienation this evokes for four protagonists who are new to the Netherlands. If no one knows who you used to be, are you still yourself?

Nominated for the IDFA Award for Best Dutch Film and IDFA Award for Best First Feature

Aftersun

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Clare Weiskopf, Nicolas van Hemelryck Colombia, Romania, Chile, 2022, 84′

Retrospective: Laura Poitras

The traditional improvisational song of the Northern Algerian Berbers is called achewiq. It is a vehicle for women to express their feelings and deal with disaster— such as the recent forest fires, which were unprecedented in their intensity.

SA SU WE FR

Best of Fests

Alis

+ Talk

Munt 13 Tuschinski 5 Munt 12 Tuschinski 3 Luminous

WP

‫هاگرحس‬ Masume Samereh Rezaei, Hossein Hosseini Afghanistan, Iran, 2022, 41′ For the second time in his life, rabab maker Gholam Nabi experiences the Taliban’s occupation of Afghanistan. Will he once again choose to only hear the sound of this musical instrument—so linked to his country’s soul—in secret, or is it time to leave?

MO MO TU FR

14 14 15 18

14:15 18:00 18:30 14:15

Pathé City 4 Munt 12 Kriterion 1 Tuschinski 5

Aurora’s Sunrise

P&I

Best of Fests

Արշալույսի Լուսաբացը Inna Sahakyan Armenia, Germany, Lithuania, 2022, 97′ A captivating animated documentary about the remarkable and tragic life of Aurora Mardiganian. As a teenager she escaped the Armenian genocide, and later was made famous in a Hollywood film about her life.

TH SU MO FR

10 13 14 18

14:00 10:30 21:00 18:30

Tuschinski 5 Munt 12 Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal Cinema De Vlugt

IDFA Competition for Short Documentary

Away

IP Ruslan Fedotow Hungary, Belgium, Portugal, 2022, 28′

A heartbreaking portrait of two 16-year-old Ukrainian refugees in Budapest. They help out at a school for refugee children and make protest art on the streets—triggering political discussions among the Hungarian passersby.

FR SU TH SA

11 13 17 19

20:30 10:15 17:30 14:45

Tuschinski 5 Munt 9 Ketelhuis: Zaal 2 Tuschinski 2 Best of Fests

Balls

Lopte Gorana Jovanović Serbia, Slovenia, 2022, 23′

MO 14 18:15 Munt 10 WE 16 10:00 Munt 10 TH 17 17:30 Munt 12 Best of Fests

Dazzling self-portrait of a New York filmmaker who explores her Latin and African-American heritage in this revealing glimpse into her turbulent youth and family history.

12 14 17 19

21:00 21:00 11:30 18:30

ITA: Rabozaal Rialto VU: Zaal 4 Munt 11 Cinema De Vlugt Frontlight

Bella Ciao IP Bella ciao – Per la libertà Giulia Giapponesi Italy, 2022, 92′

Did the Italian partisans really sing “Bella ciao” during their struggle against fascism?

The focus here is on the magic of a song that has captured the imagination of the world, with archive footage, interviews and music.

FR SA WE SA

11 12 16 19

21:00 14:30 18:30 15:00

Tuschinski 2 Kleine Komedie Eye: Cinema 1 Rialto VU: Zaal 4

+ Talk

IDFA Special

Best of IDFA: Audience Favorites

Each year, IDFA audiences select their favorite documentaries by rating films for the NPO IDFA Audience Award. Some of the best-rated films will be screened during a full day program for €47,50. Buy your tickets now and be sure not to miss the 2022 audience favorites!

FR FR SA SU

18 18 19 20

10:00 10:00 10:00 09:30

DLM: Wim Sonneveld Zaal ITA: Rabozaal Tuschinski 1 DLM: Mary Dresselhuys Zaal IDFA Special

Best of IDFA: Award Winners

The best films from IDFA 2022 selected by an international jury, especially compiled into a full day program. Tickets are €47.50 for the whole day. Purchase your tickets now to ensure your seat for this outstanding program!

FR SA SA SU SU

18 19 19 20 20

09:30 09:30 10:00 10:00 10:00

父子之间 Ronin Hsu Hong Kong, 2022, 73′

A patient family portrait in black-and-white, featuring an elderly father, who lives with his wife in the Chinese countryside, and their alcoholic son, who lives in the city. At his parents’ home, his isolation becomes tangible.

SA SU MO FR SU

12 13 14 18 20

21:30 15:45 18:30 21:00 10:00

Tuschinski 3 Tuschinski 2 Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal Rialto VU: Zaal 4 Eye: Cinema 2

P&I

Bobi Wine: The People’s President

Between Nothingness and Infinity, I Began to Weep IP

Entre le Néant et l’Infini, je me mis à pleurer Maxime Jean-Baptiste French Guiana, Belgium, France, 2022, 80′

A multimedia performance about the murder of 18-year-old Lucas, the nephew of filmmaker Maxime Jean-Baptiste, reflecting on the tragedy through a combination of video footage, interviews, readings, music, dance and lighting effects.

FR 11 20:00 Frascati 1 SA 12 20:00 Frascati 1

Rebeca Huntt United States, 2021, 80′

SA MO TH SA

Luminous

IDFA on Stage

Riots at the 1990 soccer match between Hajduk Split and Partizan Belgrade presaged the Yugoslavian Civil War. Thirty years on, army teams from the six now-independent nations are competing in a soccer tournament. Are the tensions a thing of the past?

Beba

Between Father and Son WP

DLM: Mary Dresselhuys Zaal DLM: Mary Dresselhuys Zaal DLM: Wim Sonneveld Zaal ITA: Rabozaal DLM: Wim Sonneveld Zaal

IDFA on Stage IDFA on Stage

Frontlight

Blue Files

IP Karpeta urdinak Ander Iriarte Spain, France, 2022, 113′

Les Blank United States, 1982, 95′

More than 4,000 citizens were tortured in the context of the Basque Conflict in Spain between 1960 and 2014. One of them was the filmmaker’s father. He and experts discuss the past, what torture is and how it affects the victims.

SU MO WE FR SU

13 14 16 18 20

20:30 12:00 16:45 18:00 13:00

Tuschinski 5 Munt 13 Tuschinski 3 Rialto VU: Zaal 4 De Balie: Grote Zaal

Frontlight

Luminous

A richly documented, vivid panorama of the bizarre history of the Sinixt, an indigenous Canadian people legally declared extinct in 1956. Sinixt activist Marilyn James and others have been fighting this injustice for decades.

An intimate report on the transition of the former actress Rüzgar Erkoçlar, who has to go through his journey of self-realization under media scrutiny in the traditional society of Turkey.

11 12 13 16

21:00 13:30 11:00 18:15

Munt 13 Podium Mozaïek Tuschinski 5 Munt 9

IDFA Competition for Youth Documentary

Beyond Our Stars Voorbij de sterren Sara van Oostrum Belgium, 2022, 16′

EP

In voice-over, children speak candidly about death and exchange ideas about it with elderly people. The visual illustrations include cut-out animations to which the children have clearly contributed.

SA SU TU TH SU

12 13 15 17 20

18:45 14:15 21:00 12:00 10:30

Tuschinski 2 Ketelhuis: Zaal 2 Munt 10 Tuschinski 4 Eye: Cinema 1

Dutch

Dutch

WP Mavi kimlik Burcu Melekoglu, Vuslat Karan Turkey, 2022, 85′

FR SA SU TU SA

11 12 13 15 19

20:00 09:30 10:00 18:30 15:45

How should a young woman with big ambitions survive in the new Russia? The answer is Bitch Academy, a course for the most determined gold diggers. With merciless candor, this short film provides a jarring portrait of a society adrift.

WE 16 14:15 Tuschinski 5 SA 19 20:00 Munt 9

Black Mambas

Best of Fests

Lena Karbe Germany, France, 2022, 81′

The Black Mambas combat poaching in Kruger National Park. It’s a dream job that empowers women, or so it seems. A multilayered observational portrait about post-colonialism and the shady side of tourism and nature conservation.

TH FR SA TU WE

10 11 12 15 16

17:30 Tuschinski 4 18:30 Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal 16:00 Podium Mozaïek 18:00-23:00 IDFA at home 12:15 Munt 11

P&I + Talk

The Bosom Friend Ulrich Seidl Austria, 1997, 60′

A portrait of a former math teacher with a passion for women with large breasts.

His explanation of the mathematical laws of sine and cosine merges into a paean to female curves.

WE 16 14:15 Tuschinski 5 SA 19 20:00 Munt 9

Caesar Must Die

Cesare deve morire Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani Italy, 2011, 74′

Christopher Sharp, Moses Bwayo United Kingdom, 2022, 114′

Fiction and reality intertwine over the course of this award-winning film in which inmates at Rebibbia prison in Rome throw themselves into a production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, a classic play packed with lies and treachery.

Running for president in Uganda can be deadly dangerous, even if you are a democratically elected member of parliament.

Charismatic ghetto pop star Bobi Wine decides to chance it anyway, but meets daunting opposition.

Camouflage

Best of Fests

Bobi Wine: The People’s President

TH SA SU TH

10 12 13 17

13:00 20:00 12:00 17:00

Tuschinski 2 Carré Podium Mozaïek Eye: Cinema 2

Brainwashed: SexCamera-Power

Kak stat stervoi Alina Rudnitskaya Russia, 2007, 29′

Focus: Around Masculinity

Focus: Around Masculinity

Munt 12 Pathé City 4 Eye: Cinema 1 Tuschinski 4 Cinema De Vlugt

Focus: Around Masculinity

Bitch Academy

TU 15 12:00 Tuschinski 6 SU 20 15:30 Kriterion 1

Der Busenfreund

Blue ID

FR SA SU WE

A disconcerting account of the insane circumstances surrounding the filming of Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo. Set up as an ethnographic chronicle, this documentary shows us the real Herzog, hysterically defying the impossible.

P&I

Beyond Extinction: Sinixt Resurgence IP

Ali Kazimi Canada, 2022, 102′

Focus: Around Masculinity

Burden of Dreams

IDFA Hit

Best of Fests

Nina Menkes United States, 2022, 108′

This essay documentary built around Nina Menkes’s lecture “Sex and Power: The Visual Language of Oppression” draws on a selection of classic and cult film images to deconstruct the ubiquitous objectification of women in film.

FR SA WE SA

11 12 16 19

12:00 14:45 21:00 17:15

Best of Fests

Camuflaje Jonathan Perel Argentina, 2022, 93′ Do those who live near the Argentinian army base Campo de Mayo still remember its dark past? Writer Félix Bruzzone’s mother was murdered there during the dictatorship. Now he travels this emotionally charged landscape and meets the local people.

TH SA SU TH

10 12 13 17

15:00 21:30 20:30 17:45

Kriterion 1 Munt 9 Kleine Komedie De Balie: Grote Zaal

Cesária Évora

+ Talk

Best of Fests

Ana Sofia Fonseca Portugal, 2022, 95′

Kleine Komedie ITA: Rabozaal Eye: Cinema 2 Tuschinski 2

IDFA Competition for Short Documentary

Budapest Silo

WP Szabadkikötő Zsófia Paczolay Netherlands, Hungary, Portugal, Belgium, 2022, 25′ A powerfully visual film, with stunning cinematography, about a worker at an old grain silo in Budapest. His work is like that of a scuba diver: each day he is lowered into the 25-meters-deep silos, where he performs a dazzling dance.

MO 14 17:45 Tuschinski 5 WE 16 21:00 Tuschinski 6 SU 20 10:30 Munt 12

FR 11 12:00 Tuschinski 5 SA 19 18:45 Tuschinski 6

An affectionate portrait of this Cape Verdean singer with a deep, melancholic voice, using archived footage, live recordings, and interviews to capture the life of a woman who never betrayed her humble origins and always held on to her independence.

SA SU SU WE SA

12 13 13 16 19

18:00 ITA: Rabozaal 14:00 Kleine Komedie 21:00 Podium Mozaïek 18:30 Cinema De Vlugt 18:00-23:00 IDFA at home

Shorts Shorts Shorts

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IDFA Junior

Champ

Cassandra Offenberg, 2019, 16′ A rugged youth documentary about 14-year old kickboxing talent Esma, who wants to become the world’s best fighter.

She also lives in constant fear of losing her mother, who’s gravely ill. Dutch spoken.

SU 20 13:30 Eye: Cinema 1

Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels

Dutch

Best of Fests

Mila Turajlić Serbia, France, 2022, 94′

13 14 18 19

16:00 18:00 21:00 14:00

Eye: Cinema 1 De Balie: Filmzaal Tuschinski 6 Munt 10

Citizenfour

Laura Poitras United States, Germany, 2014, 114′

A real-time documentary thriller about the large-scale illegal surveillance practices of the NSA, disclosed in 2013 by whistleblower Edward Snowden through filmmaker Laura Poitras and Guardian reporters Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill.

TH 10 10:00 Tuschinski 6 WE 16 17:45 Munt 12 International Competition

Colette et Justin Alain Kassanda France, Belgium, 2022, 89′

WP

Debut filmmaker Alain Kassanda and his grandparents explore their family history in this richly layered portrait, drawing together politics and personal memories.

The upheavals of post-colonial Congo feel palpably close.

Nominated for the IDFA Award for Best First Feature and Beeld & Geluid IDFA ReFrame Award TH FR FR MO TU

10 11 11 14 15

19:30 09:00 17:00 18:30 15:15

Munt 12 Pathé City 2 Eye: Cinema 1 Podium Mozaïek Munt 10

P&I + Talk

A Compassionate Spy

Masters

Steve James United States, 2022, 101′

In 1951, at the height of the Cold War, physicist Ted Hall risked his life by sharing US atomic secrets with the Soviet Union.

Seventy years on, his wife explains what possessed him to do it.

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13:45 12:30 15:00 20:45

Munt 11 Tuschinski 2 Kriterion 1 Ketelhuis: Zaal 1 Best of Fests

Cosmic Chant. Niño de Elche

Canto cósmico. Niño de Elche Marc Sempere-Moya, Leire Apellaniz Spain, 2021, 93′ Singer, performer and artist Niño de Elche is renowned for his groundbreaking vision of flamenco. Playfully provoking his audience, he invites them to consider a question: What can flamenco be?

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15:00 21:00 16:45 17:45

Eye: Cinema 2 Kleine Komedie Munt 9 Tuschinski 2

A visit to Matonge, the African quarter in Brussels, evokes mixed feelings for filmmaker Neema Ngelime. She would like to be part of the community, but at the same time struggles with its stifling morality.

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20:30 15:00 17:15 13:00

Munt 9 De Balie: Grote Zaal Tuschinski 5 Munt 13 Focus: Around Masculinity

Heddy Honigmann Netherlands, 1999, 100′ Dutch U.N. soldiers speak about their experiences in various conflict areas around the world. The vehicle for their recollections is the music they played at the time, which has become forever tied to their memories of war.

Cross Words

Passe-parole Mario Valero France, 2022, 81′

Envision Competition

IP

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09:15 21:00 15:30 17:00 10:45

Pathé City 3 Tuschinski 6 Munt 13 Munt 12 Munt 13

P&I

มรณสติ Thunska Pansittivorakul, Phassarawin Kulsomboon Thailand, Germany, 2021, 90′ A wild collage of scenes of state oppression and suspicious deaths that have taken place in Thailand over the last 90 years.

Archive footage of violence and pornography is interspersed with dance scenes and video clips, creating an audacious blend.

10 12 14 16

16:45 22:00 14:45 22:00

Tuschinski 2 Kriterion 1 Munt 12 Tuschinski 2

De Humani Corporis Fabrica

Véréna Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor France, United States, Switzerland, 2022, 115′ Following in the footsteps of Andreas Vesalius, who five centuries ago was the first to map human anatomy, this sensorial film explores the bodies of men and women during operations on various parts of the body. Intimate, at a microscopic level.

TH 10 17:45 Eye: Cinema 2 TH 17 12:00 Munt 9 SU 20 13:00 Eye: Cinema 2

Dear Mother, I Meant to Write About Death

Luminous

EP 我们在黑夜的海上 Siyi Chen United States, Hong Kong, China, 2022, 63′

13:45 21:00 11:45 17:45 13:45

Storyteller Sister Sylvester has made a book for collective reading. The audience participates in this film-concert by reading, following directions and listening to a remarkable story about recent events in Turkey and the history of the aerial view.

FR 11 18:15 Tuschinski 6 SA 12 10:30 Munt 10 WE 16 11:45 Tuschinski 6

FR 11 20:30 Frascati 2 SA 12 20:30 Frascati 2

Shorts Shorts Shorts

Frontlight

Dorpie WP Julia Jaki South Africa, Germany, 2022, 77′

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18:15 14:45 13:30 20:45 16:15

Tuschinski 4 Munt 9 Pathé City 3 Rialto VU: Zaal 4 Tuschinski 2

P&I

Jon Bang Carlsen has five teenagers from a small Arizona town stage their own lives— past, present and future—blurring the lines between reality and fiction. The photogenic landscape also plays a major role.

13 13 14 17 19

09:00 18:30 15:15 15:45 10:00

Pathé City 1 Munt 12 Tuschinski 6 Tuschinski 5 Munt 13

P&I

Best of Fests

The legendary Chelsea Hotel in New York is being turned into a boutique hotel, and its permanent residents have been living in the mess for the last nine years. Dreaming Walls captures the last visible remnants of the hotel’s dark and glorious past.

10 12 17 19

12:00 17:30 14:30 22:00

Munt 11 Kleine Komedie Munt 12 Kriterion 1

Pathé City 4 Munt 13 Munt 9 De Balie: Grote Zaal Tuschinski 3

15:30 14:00 12:30 21:00

P&I

12 14 14 16 17

12:45 Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal 13:30 Tuschinski 4 18:00-23:00 IDFA at home 20:45 De Balie: Grote Zaal 18:00 Munt 11

Elsa

IP Julia Jansch United States, 2022, 15′ An engaging portrait of Instagram celebrity and role model Elsa from Kenya, who attracted attention during the pandemic with her feisty, plain-speaking videos. But always “being yourself” also takes its toll.

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19:30 15:30 14:45 13:30

Munt 10 Munt 9 Tuschinski 6 Eye: Cinema 1

Dutch

Erase and Forget

Andrea Luka Zimmerman United Kingdom, 2017, 88′

An intimate portrait of James “Bo” Gritz, the most decorated US veteran of the Vietnam War, and the inspiration for Rambo. He exposes the interlocking dynamics of Hollywood’s fictional battlefields and America’s secret wars.

MO 14 14:45 Tuschinski 5 FR 18 17:45 Tuschinski 3 Frontlight

EP

Abbas Rezaie Afghanistan, 2022, 93′

Masters

Oil is rebellion in a sprawling favela on the outskirts of Brasilia. A group of self-assured women illegally tap it and sell gasoline through a motorcycle gang. This is the heart of a broad panorama of a Brazil we rarely see.

12 13 16 19

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The Etilaat Roz

Mato seco em chamas Adirley Queirós, Joana Pimenta Brazil, Portugal, 2022, 153′

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Framed by the solar eclipses of 1961 and 1999, this essayistic documentary examines how a Serbian family—and taking a wider perspective, an entire country—relates to a turbulent history.

Focus: Around Masculinity

Amélie van Elmbt, Maya Duverdier Belgium, France, Netherlands, Sweden, United States, 2022, 80′

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Best of Fests

The Eclipse

IDFA Competition for Youth Documentary

WP Jon Bang Carlsen Denmark, Estonia, Norway, 2022, 76′

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IDFA on Stage IDFA on Stage

Nataša Urban Norway, 2022, 110′

A sensitive character study of Lana, a woman who is showing herself to be a grassroots leader in a South African town where femicide is commonplace. Will she manage to get the government on board before there’s another victim?

Tuschinski 5 Munt 12 Podium Mozaïek Eye: Cinema 1

As Kabul is recaptured by the Taliban, the passionate journalists of the Etilaat Roz daily newspaper grow increasingly concerned. Hopelessness and fear gradually take over in this penetrating film.

Nominated for the IDFA Award for Best First Feature FR SA MO TU SA

11 12 14 15 19

20:45 13:15 21:00 14:30 14:30

Tuschinski 4 Pathé City 4 Podium Mozaïek Eye: Cinema 2 Munt 11

P&I + Talk

Paradocs

Europe

IDFA Competition for Short Documentary

Philip Scheffner Germany, France, 2022, 105′

Dust Away IP Tanita Rahmani, Dea Gjinovci United States, Indonesia, Switzerland, 2022, 12′

From one day to the next, an Algerian woman is driven into illegality. The life Zohra planned in France becomes an imaginary existence. Her isolation is made palpable as she literally vanishes from view.

The dirtiest jobs in the clean-up after the 9/11 attacks were given to undocumented immigrants, at the cost of their health.

Creatively edited images and animations accompany their testimonials.

FR SA TU FR

MO 14 17:45 Tuschinski 5 WE 16 21:00 Tuschinski 6 SU 20 10:30 Munt 12

Why did her mother not reveal that she had cancer? This is just the first of many questions the filmmaker has in this tender feature-length debut where mother and child explore their relationships—with illness, death and each other.

Nominated for the IDFA Award for Best First Feature 13 13 14 16 19

A dynamic impression of life under Chinese pressure in Hong Kong, with flashes of repression and protest among the barrage of scenes from the big city.

The unsettling soundtrack accentuates the nightmarish atmosphere.

Dry Ground Burning Best of Fests

IP

Sister Sylvester United States, 2021, 70′

Dreaming Walls Paradocs

IDFA on Stage

The Eagle & the Tortoise

Simon Liu Hong Kong, United States, 2022, 31′

Dreaming Arizona

Danse Macabre

TH SA MO WE

Best of Fests

Devil’s Peak

International Competition

A stimulating and vivid portrait of a generation, about a group of young people in their thirties and their relationships in Paris between 2019 and 2021. With a macabre news item as a common thread, we gradually get to know who they are.

Nominated for the IDFA Award for Best First Feature

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54

15 16 19 20

TU 15 17:00 Eye: Cinema 1 SA 19 14:00 Ketelhuis: Zaal 1

Retrospective: Laura Poitras

Colette and Justin

WP

Neema Ngelime Belgium, Hungary, Portugal, Tanzania, 2021, 16′

Crazy

Through unseen 35mm material, Ciné-guerrillas plunges us into the media battle that played out during the Algerian war of independence. Forming a documentary diptych with Non-Aligned, it shows cinema becoming a political weapon against colonialism.

SU MO FR SA

IDFA Competition for Short Documentary

A Country in a Corner

Shorts Shorts Shorts

11 12 15 18

15:00 17:30 21:00 15:00

Eye: Cinema 2 Tuschinski 4 Podium Mozaïek De Balie: Grote Zaal

+ Talk

Focus: Playing Reality

Every Little Thing

La moindre des choses Nicolas Philibert France, 1996, 105′

A delightful feel-good predecessor to the classic Être et avoir. The camera follows staff and patients at a remarkable French psychiatric facility during rehearsals for the annual stage show—this year it’s an operetta.

FR 11 13:30 Tuschinski 4 FR 18 17:15 Munt 13

Everything Will Be OK

Masters

Rithy Panh France, Cambodia, 2022, 98′

A dystopian vision by Rithy Panh à la Animal Farm and Planet of the Apes. Inspired by 20th-century dictators and the horrors of factory farming, animals—represented by clay figures—maintain totalitarian rule over humans.

FR 11 11:00 Munt 13 WE 16 11:00 Eye: Cinema 2 FR 18 20:15 Munt 12 Best of Fests

The Exiles

Ben Klein, Violet Columbus United States, Taiwan, France, China, 2021, 96′

In 1989, Christine Choy interviewed three Chinese men who had fled to the US after the Tiananmen Square student protest was violently crushed. Thirty years later, their optimism has turned to disillusionment.

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10 12 13 14 17 19

18:00-23:00 IDFA at home 10:00 Rialto VU: Zaal 4 16:45 Munt 11 18:00 Kriterion 1 20:30 De Balie: Grote Zaal 19:45 Munt 12

Le Favolose Roberta Torre Italy, 2022, 75′

13 13 14 16 18 19

09:15 19:15 17:00 13:45 12:30 11:00

EP

Pathé City 3 Eye: Cinema 1 Eye: Cinema 1 Tuschinski 2 Eye: Cinema 2 Tuschinski 3

P&I Not Yet Yes

Focus: Around Masculinity

Pitra, putra aur dharamyuddha Anand Patwardhan India, 1994, 120′

SU 13 20:00 De Balie: Grote Zaal SA 19 10:30 Munt 12

+ Talk

IDFA Competition for Youth Documentary

Fatima

WP Lucia Chicos, Alexandra Diaconu Romania, 2022, 92′ The video diary of 18-year-old Fatima, who fled Afghanistan with her family and now lives in Bucharest. With increasing frankness, the young Muslim woman records her life in the Romanian capital.

13:00 16:15 17:00 21:30 10:45

An inspirational, hour-long conversation with Petra Lataster-Czisch and Peter Lataster. Writer Pamela Cohn talks with the renowned directors about their impressive filmography, views on cinematic art, and approach to working as a creative duo.

TH 17 17:00 ITA: Studio 1

Filmmaker Talk

IDFA on Stage

IP

In this intimate live performance, Belgian theater director Tom Struyf tells the story of the footage he shot over several years in Willard, a tiny American hamlet, where the ruin of a psychiatric institution led him unexpectedly back to Belgium.

Pathé City 4 Tuschinski 6 Kriterion 1 Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal Munt 9

Flag Wars

P&I

Filmmaker Talk: Emma Davie Live interview with filmmaker and scholar Emma Davie. Together with writer Pamela Cohn, she will discuss her body of work, artistic methods, and views on cinematic art. This inspirational session will include excerpts from Davie’s various works as well as her new film The Oil Machine.

MO 14 13:00 ITA: Studio 1

Filmmaker Talk: Kidlat Tahimik An exciting live interview with director, artist and multidisciplinary performer Kidlat Tahimik. Writer Pamela Cohn talks to the prominent Filipino filmmaker about his body of work, creative process, and shifting boundaries between genres and cultures.

IDFA on Stage IDFA on Stage

Retrospective: Laura Poitras

Linda Goode Bryant United States, 2003, 86′ A film in cinema verité style about the gentrification of a Black working-class neighborhood in the US. Tensions rise when gay white people start buying up dilapidated but charming houses, at the expense of the original residents.

TH 10 13:00 Tuschinski 6 MO 14 15:15 Munt 13

Foragers

A daring two-part documentary that explores the notion of manhood as it relates to violence, religious traditions, the Hindu-Muslim conflict and the Bombay Riots in the early 90s.

15 17 18 19 20

Filmmaker Talk: Petra and Peter Lataster

TU 15 20:00 Frascati 1 WE 16 20:00 Frascati 1

Father, Son and Holy War

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TU 15 14:00 ITA: Studio 1

Tom Struyf Belgium, 2022, 90′

A group of fabulous trans women gather to honor their deceased friend Antonia in a way denied to her by her family, who buried Antonia in men’s clothes. Politics, pain and joie de vivre combine in this rousing and heartwarming tribute.

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An inspirational hour-long conversation with renowned Indian filmmaker Nishtha Jain. Moderated by writer Pamela Cohn, this talk will focus on Jain’s creative credo and body of work, featuring excerpts from both The Golden Thread and earlier films.

Finding Willard

Envision Competition, Focus: Playing Reality

The Fabulous Ones

Filmmaker Talk: Nishtha Jain

Best of Fests

Israel has banned harvesting za’atar and akoub, two plants essential to Palestinian cuisine. Officially, it’s to preserve nature, but Palestinian wild pickers see it differently.

A subtle but powerful film on how politics can reach into the kitchen.

10 11 12 14

20:45 20:30 11:00 15:00

Tuschinski 4 De Balie: Grote Zaal Podium Mozaïek Kriterion 1

Forensic Architecture program

Top 10

After the screening of two impressive Forensic Architecture films: Shireen Abu Akleh: The Extrajudicial Killing of a Journalist and Torture in Saydnaya Prison, founder Eyal Weizman will give a special presentation and discuss the creative process behind the agency with IDFA Guest of Honor Laura Poitras.

SU 13 17:00 De Balie: Grote Zaal

Fragile Memory

Best of Fests

Igor Ivanko Ukraine, Slovakia, 2022, 85′ Igor Ivanko discovers piles of old negatives belonging to his grandfather Leonid Burlaka, and delves into the life of this retired Soviet cameraman. Ivanko gets the pictures developed, only to discover they are damaged—just like Burlaka’s memory.

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18:00 21:00 11:00 12:00

Frontlight

Free Money

EP Lauren DeFilippo, Sam Soko United States, Kenya, 2022, 77′

The fast-growing nonprofit organization GiveDirectly distributes a universal basic income to poor villages. Its implementation in Kogutu, Kenya, reveals the gap between ideology and reality.

SA TU WE SA

12 15 16 19

19:00 18:30 13:00 18:30

Tuschinski 6 Tuschinski 1 Munt 10 De Balie: Grote Zaal

+ Talk

Luminous

From the Other Shore

‫أهل الشاطئ اآلخر‬ Maher Abi Samra Lebanon, France, 2022, 62′

12 12 13 17 20

15:15 19:15 10:30 10:00 13:45

Tuschinski 3 Munt 9 Kriterion 1 Ketelhuis: Zaal 2 Munt 12

P&I

IDFA on Stage, DocLab: Nervous Systems

De Balie: Grote Zaal Munt 9 Rialto VU: Zaal 4 Tuschinski 2

A performance about the funeral process, the perfect occasion for combining ritual, emotion-sharing and religion. Belgian performance group Ontroerend Goed explores our relationship with life’s end in a staged ceremony. de Brakke Grond: Rode Zaal IDFA on Stage

de Brakke Grond: Rode Zaal IDFA on Stage

de Brakke Grond: Rode Zaal IDFA on Stage

de Brakke Grond: Rode Zaal IDFA on Stage

IDFA Competition for Youth Documentary

The Garbage Man O homem do lixo Laura Gonçalves Portugal, 2022, 12′

11 12 16 20

19:30 15:30 14:45 13:30

Munt 10 Munt 9 Tuschinski 6 Eye: Cinema 1

TH SA SU SA

10 12 13 19

21:00 22:30 12:45 13:15

Kriterion 1 Eye: Cinema 1 Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal Munt 9

Susanne Regina Meures Switzerland, 2022, 98′

A portrait of 14-year-old Leonie, a successful teenage influencer from Berlin. It seems like a fairy tale, all the followers, attention and free products, but the continuous pressure to produce content threatens to overwhelm her family.

SA MO WE TH

12 14 16 17

11:00 21:30 18:15 15:00

Munt 11 Tuschinski 2 Munt 13 Kriterion 1 International Competition

Girl Who Dreams About Time IP

Si-gan-eul kkum-kku-neun so-nyeo Hyuck-jee Park South Korea, 2022, 111′ A coming-of-age film about the young shaman Sujin, who oversees a temple together with her grandmother in the mountains of South Korea. Will she be able to combine her calling as a seer with her studies at the University of Seoul?

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13 13 15 17 19

13:00 18:45 15:00 14:45 21:30

Pathé City 1 Tuschinski 6 Kriterion 1 Eye: Cinema 1 Tuschinski 4

P&I

Special Screening

Gnosis Iluminada

Agustín Ortiz Herrera Spain, 2022, 55′

Drawn in flowing lines, this short animated documentary tells the story of Manel Botão, the filmmaker’s uncle. Conversations around the table with relatives paint a portrait of an extraordinary man during a dark period in Portuguese history.

FR SA WE SU

A sun-soaked portrait of Gigi, a police officer investigating a worrying series of suicides in a charming small Italian town.

Fortunately, there’s enough time left for flirting, chatting with colleagues or daydreaming in his overgrown jungle garden.

IDFA Competition for Youth Documentary

Funeral

TU 15 18:30

TU 15 20:30

WE 16 18:30

WE 16 20:30

The Adventures of Gigi the Law Alessandro Comodin Italy, France, Belgium, 2022, 102′

Girl Gang

Sylvana and Mohammed, both from Lebanon, like to go for walks together. She is in a wheelchair, he is blind; as he pushes her, she guides the way. They discuss the obstacles they face on a daily basis, which are physical, but above all societal.

SA SA SU TH SU

Best of Fests, Focus: Around Masculinity

Gigi la Legge

WP

Alexander Devriendt Belgium, 2022, 60′

Al-yad al-khadra Jumana Manna Palestine, 2022, 64′

TH FR SA MO

Girl Who Dreams About Time

Dutch

Incorporating several artistic collaborations, this multifaceted audiovisual project plays with time to channel queer and non-normative countercultural responses questioning the Western Gnostic tradition.

MO 14 17:00 Eye: Cinema 1

The Golden Thread WP

Not Yet Yes

Masters

Geographies of Solitude

Nishtha Jain India, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Netherlands, Norway, United Kingdom, 2022, 91′

A poetic 16mm portrait of Sable Island and its sole human inhabitant Zoe Lucas, who is studying and conserving its flora and fauna. The inspiring bond that develops between Lucas and the filmmaker leads to some remarkable experiments.

Beautifully composed images and an immersive sound design capture the last vestiges of Bengal’s jute industry, which has been virtually unchanged since the industrial revolution. Workers carry out their routine work along endless rows of antique looms.

Best of Fests

Jacquelyn Mills Canada, 2022, 104′

SA MO WE FR

12 14 16 18

10:30 21:00 15:00 11:30

Tuschinski 1 Ketelhuis: Zaal 1 Tuschinski 1 Tuschinski 2

MO TU WE FR SU

14 15 16 18 20

21:00 10:45 15:45 10:30 16:15

Munt 11 Pathé City 4 Munt 10 Munt 9 Tuschinski 5

P&I

WE 16 14:00 ITA: Studio 1

55

A House Made of Splinters

Best of Fests

Simon Lereng Wilmont Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Ukraine, 2022, 87′ Winter and war mean this Ukrainian children’s home near the front is fuller than ever. A group of resolute, no-nonsense women have created an almost magical place where they watch over children who are waiting for the government to decide their fate.

FR SA TH FR

Inside My Heart

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20:30 21:30 14:45 18:30

Munt 11 Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal Ketelhuis: Zaal 1 DLM: Wim Sonneveld Zaal

Masters

Goodbye, Captain Adeus, Capitão Vincent Carelli Brazil, 2022, 177′

IDFA Junior

Hello Salaam

Hallo salaam Kim Brand Netherlands, 2017, 16′

For decades, Vincent Carelli filmed the struggles of his friend Krohokrenhum, leader of the Gavião in the Brazilian Amazon, a man who tirelessly defends the traditions of his people against political, economic and cultural assimilation.

Two friends travel to a refugee camp in Greece to meet Syrian refugees their age and see how they’re coping. Language and cultural obstacles quickly make way for a friendship without borders. Dutch screening.

SA 12 10:00 Munt 12 SU 13 20:15 Munt 10 TH 17 20:00 Ketelhuis: Zaal 2

SU 20 10:30 Eye: Cinema 1

IDFA on Stage

Granma. Trombones from Havana

Stefan Kaegi Germany, 2019, 120′

Documentary theater in which four young Cubans reconstruct the lives of their grandparents and rewrite the history of their country. These stories are interwoven with the contemporary socio-political issues of a fast-changing Cuba.

TU 15 20:00 ITA: Rabozaal WE 16 20:00 ITA: Rabozaal

IDFA on Stage IDFA on Stage

WP Sofia Paoli Thorne Paraguay, Argentina, 2022, 71′

Celsa looks back on her time as a political prisoner during the brutal regime of Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay (1954-1989).

Traumatic memories are reawakened when what may be the remains of her murdered husband are found.

Nominated for the IDFA Award for Best First Feature 12:15 21:15 18:30 12:45 14:15

Pathé City 4 Munt 10 Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal Tuschinski 4 Tuschinski 3

Gumbo Coalition

Barbara Kopple United States, 2022, 108′

P&I

16 18 19 20

18:30 17:15 12:30 15:45

WP

The story of the development of women’s rights in Sudan is told through unique archive material and interviews with activists. We see and hear how women have been oppressed, ignored and abused for centuries, and what has changed.

SU TU WE FR SU

13 15 16 18 20

17:45 13:15 21:00 18:15 11:00

Munt 13 Pathé City 2 Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal Tuschinski 4 Tuschinski 3

P&I + Talk

Frontlight

A History of the World According to Getty Images EP

Richard Misek Norway, United Kingdom, 2022, 19′ A thought-provoking examination of the term “public domain” and deconstruction of the practice that allows historical footage to be placed behind the paywalls of companies such as Getty Images after their copyrights have expired.

SA SU WE TH

Masters

12 13 16 17

17:45 18:30 21:00 21:00

Munt 12 Kriterion 1 Rialto VU: Zaal 4 Tuschinski 5

Shorts Shorts Shorts Shorts

IDFA Competition for Youth Documentary

Home Is Somewhere Else

IP

Multiple Oscar winner Barbara Kopple tracks Marc Morial and Janet Murguía, two heavyweights in the battle for equal rights in the US. A portrait of a tireless warrior duo, and of an America in extremely turbulent times.

WE FR SA SU

Heroic Bodies

‫أجساد بطولية‬ Sara Suliman Sudan, 2022, 95′

Dutch

Frontlight

Luminous

Guapo’y

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Munt 11 Tuschinski 2 De Balie: Grote Zaal Tuschinski 6

Carlos Hagerman , Jorge Villalobos Mexico, United States, 2022, 88′

This animated documentary takes you inside their hearts and minds of three young undocumented immigrants and their families in the United States. Their stories tell of painful experiences, vibrant dreams and living under constant threat of deportation.

SA SA MO TH

12 12 14 17

10:00 18:45 12:00 15:30

Munt 9 Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal Eye: Cinema 2 Tuschinski 3

Best of Fests, Focus: Playing Reality

The Hamlet Syndrome

Focus: Around Masculinity

The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived

Syndrom Hamleta Elwira Niewiera, Piotr Rosolowski Poland, Germany, 2022, 86′

Theater maker Roza Sarkisian is united with five young Ukrainians to create a performance in which Shakespeare’s Hamlet and their reality come together. The depiction of this intense process is complemented by impressive portraits of the protagonists.

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Gianfranco Rosi Italy, 2022, 77′

Gianfranco Rosi presents a chaotic and unjust world, as seen through the eyes of Pope Francis. The director draws from archive material, news reports and footage from his own work in this film about the many journeys made by the church head.

Nominated for the Beeld & Geluid IDFA ReFrame Award FR MO WE SA

11 14 16 19

14:00 14:00 21:30 13:00

Eye: Cinema 1 Tuschinski 1 Munt 11 Munt 13

+ Talk

Best of Fests, Focus: Around Masculinity

Envision Competition

MO MO TU SA SU

Masters

In viaggio

17:00 Tuschinski 3 15:30 Tuschinski 1 18:00-23:00 IDFA at home 11:00 Kleine Komedie 16:15 Munt 10

+ Talk

Heiny Srour Lebanon, 1974, 65′

Lebanese director Heiny Srour put her life at risk in the early 1970s, filming the struggle for independence in Dhofar, Oman.

In this powerful feminist statement, her primary focus is on the women fighters.

SU 13 18:00 Eye: Cinema 2 TH 17 18:45 Tuschinski 4

+ Talk

How Dare You Have Such a Rubbish Wish WP

Chetor jorata kardi in arezooie mozakhraf ra bekoni Mania Akbari Iran, United Kingdom, 2022, 72′

Excerpts spanning Iranian film history show that women have always been oppressed, also in the years before the Islamic Revolution. Undaunted, Mania Akbari takes on the male gaze in this confrontational essay.

MO TU TH FR SU

14 15 17 18 20

13:45 18:00 12:30 19:00 13:45

Pathé City 3 Eye: Cinema 2 Tuschinski 3 Munt 10 Tuschinski 2

Masters

Year after year, a father asks his growing daughter the same questions: What are your dreams? What are you afraid of? The camera captures this gradual becoming of a human being, revealing the leaps we all make on the way to adulthood.

17:45 18:30 18:30 21:00 21:00 13:30 16:00

Munt 12 Shorts Kriterion 1 Shorts Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal Rialto VU: Zaal 4 Shorts Tuschinski 5 Shorts Tuschinski 6 Tuschinski 1 IDFA Friends Screening

How to Save a Dead Friend

Best of Fests

Marusya Syroechkovskaya Sweden, Norway, France, Germany, 2022, 103′ The love between like-minded millennials Marusya and Kimi turns to agony as Kimi gradually disappears into serious drug addiction. A portrait of a generation gripped by despair and hopelessness.

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10 11 13 16 19

13:15 18:00 17:00 21:00 20:00

When young Israelis turn 18, they have to join the army. Narrated diary excerpts of young people who died while in service illustrate their shattered dreams and desires in an increasingly militaristic society.

TH SA MO TH

10 12 14 17

18:15 10:00 16:30 17:15

Munt 10 Kriterion 1 Kleine Komedie Tuschinski 1

Inside My Heart

Jay Rosenblatt United States, 2021, 29′

12 13 16 16 17 20 20

Guy Davidi Denmark, Israel, Finland, Iceland, 2022, 100′

P&I

How Do You Measure a Year?

SA SU WE WE TH SU SU

Innocence

Munt 13 Kleine Komedie Rialto VU: Zaal 4 Ketelhuis: Zaal 1 DLM: Mary Dresselhuys Zaal

Hunger

Top 10

Steve McQueen Ireland, United Kingdom, 2008, 96′

Steve McQueen’s intensely physical, multi-award-winning feature debut. On 1 March 1981, IRA member Bobby Sands—a prisoner in a Northern Irish jail during the Troubles—went on a hunger strike to protest his brutal treatment. He died 66 days later.

SU 13 12:00 Tuschinski 4 SU 20 10:15 Munt 10

IDFA Dialogue: What gender are film festivals?

Het zit in mijn hart Saskia Boddeke Netherlands, 2022, 86′

+ Talk

Luminous

WP

The boundaries between the rehearsal process and the performance of a piece are blurred in this colorful and elaborate film about the Kamak theater group, a professional ensemble for actors with intellectual disabilities.

Nominated for the IDFA Award for Best Dutch Film SA SU MO TU FR SA

12 13 14 15 18 19

13:15 11:30 12:15 15:30 17:30 11:00

Eye: Cinema 1 Pathé City 4 Kriterion 1 Tuschinski 2 Eye: Cinema 1 Ketelhuis: Zaal 1

P&I

IDFA Competition for Youth Documentary

Insight

IP Einblick Emma Braun Austria, 2022, 20′ An atmospheric black-and-white documentary about Sophie, a chimney sweep in Austria. Over images of her working day, she speaks of her experiences as a woman in this male profession, ranging from undisguised sexism to meaningful conversation.

FR 11 19:30 Munt 10 SA 12 15:30 Munt 9 WE 16 14:45 Tuschinski 6

Envision Competition

Invoked

WP Prizvan i pozvan Luka Papić, Srđa Vučo Serbia, 2022, 64′ A hyperdynamically edited film about the first free elections in Serbia in 1990, which were won by Slobodan Milošević. Five presidential candidates of the time look back, and TV clips show the almost-surreal, circus-like election atmosphere.

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P&I

IDFA Competition for Short Documentary, Focus: Around Masculinity

Is There a Pine on the Mountain EP

Chongyan Liu France, 2022, 37′

Inspired by Not Yet Yes program and its though-provoking viewpoint on queer, IDFA Artistic Director Orwa Nyrabia sits across Simon(e) van Saarloos in an open contemplative debate about unarticulated power dynamics in documentary and film festival movement.

An intimate account of a highly toxic relationship: during a lengthy visit from her boyfriend’s mother, the filmmaker documents the arguments between mother and son. An oppressive and candid study of the transmission of violence through generations.

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Tuschinski 4 Eye: Cinema 2 Munt 11 Tuschinski 3

ITA on Screen: La Reprise.

Histoire(s) du théâtre (I) Liege, April 2012. Ihsane Jarfi, Muslim and gay, is tortured and murdered. The crime shakes the whole city. Milo Rau reconstructed the murder on stage. The dramatic play is now transformed into a film. Ticket sales through ITA

Best of Fests

Francisco Javier Rodriguez Belgium, 2022, 38′ With originality and subtlety, director Francisco Javier Rodriguez portrays the inner life of a 33-year-old psychiatric patient. The boundaries between reality and imagination fall away.

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Kriterion 1 Tuschinski 5 Munt 9 Munt 10

IDFA Competition for Youth Documentary

Jasmin’s Two Homes

Jasminin kaksi kotia Inka Achté, Hanna Karppinen Finland, 2022, 14′

WP

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Tuschinski 2 Ketelhuis: Zaal 2 Munt 10 Tuschinski 4 Eye: Cinema 1

Dutch

Dutch

Top 10

La jetée

Chris Marker France, 1962, 28′

A short post-apocalyptic film considered by many to be the masterpiece of film essayist Chris Marker. A series of still, blackand-white images tell the story of a time traveler who has been sent from the postWorld War III future to save the present.

International Competition

Journey Through Our World WP

Reis door onze wereld Petra Lataster-Czisch, Peter Lataster Netherlands, 2022, 113′ The first year of Covid lockdowns is seen through the eyes of documentary veterans Petra and Peter Lataster, in this affectionate look at their shrunken world. Their calm account captures the uniqueness of this strange period in history.

Nominated for the IDFA Award for Best Dutch Film 12 12 17 18 20

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Pathé City 2 Munt 11 Tuschinski 1 Ketelhuis: Zaal 1 Tuschinski 4

Just an Alien 神游乐园吟留别 Weicheng Hua China, 2022, 71′

P&I

Envision Competition

WP

The spiritually minded vagabond Zhighou Sun guides the viewer through the extraordinary world of the “Foreigners Street” Chinese amusement park in Chongqing, a surreal sanctuary full of strange structures, from UFOs to an Egyptian pyramid.

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Pathé City 3 Munt 9 Tuschinski 6 Munt 12 Eye: Cinema 2

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Katanga Nation

Best of Fests

Beza Hailu Lemma, Hiwot Admasu Getaneh South Africa, Ethiopia, 2022, 27′ A better life seems so close here, among the skyscrapers of Addis Ababa. But the people living in the Katanga district know how difficult it is to get ahead—and that only strengthens their resilience, and their love-thy-neighbor take on life.

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Kriterion 1 Tuschinski 2 Tuschinski 6 Munt 9

Shorts Shorts Shorts Shorts

WP Gisela Delgadillo Mexico, 2022, 90′

21:15 13:00 11:00 13:00 21:30

Tuschinski 6 Munt 13 Pathé City 1 Kriterion 1 Munt 10

P&I

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+ Talk

15:00 14:30 14:45 20:30

Masters

Masters

IP

Measured observations of the annual cycles in a rural Latvian community. Seleckis presents the full variety of modern farming life and opens up a highly topical discussion about the future of agriculture.

18:30 13:30 19:45 20:30 10:00

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Frontlight

WP ¿Qué le pasó al rey de los delfines?

Luis Ansorena Hervés, Ernest Riera Spain, 2022, 93′ The story of the rise and fall of the controversial Spanish dolphin trainer Jose Luis Barbero. A blurry 99-second video showing him allegedly mistreating animals goes viral, opening the door to a world of deeply questionable practices.

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18:15 18:15 19:45 14:15 10:30

Little Dieter Needs to Fly

Werner Herzog tells the life story of Dieter Dengler, raised in post-war Germany. His dream to become an American test pilot lands him in Vietnam, where he was shot down and captured by the Viet Cong on his very first mission.

SA 12 15:45 Munt 13 FR 18 18:00 De Balie: Grote Zaal

Tuschinski 3 Tuschinski 1 Munt 12 Munt 13 Rialto VU: Zaal 4

Gastón Solnicki Austria, Argentina, 2022, 81′

A meandering ode to Vienna and its disappearing café culture. Angeliki’s search for the perfect apartment provides the springboard for this film—part fiction, part documentary—in travels from Vienna to Andalusia.

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Liturgy of Anti-Tank Obstacles

What are artists to do in wartime? Instead of producing religious statues, the Ukrainian sculptors in this short film make anti-tank obstacles. The need for these is more urgent at the moment.

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The Longest Wait Den längsta väntan Lisa Meyer Sweden, 2022, 15′

P&I

IP

An intimate portrait of two Swedish girls on the brink of adulthood. In an atmospheric winter landscape, the friends hunt game for the first time without parental supervision.

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Dutch

Masters, Focus: Around Masculinity

Look What You Made Me Do WP

Coco Schrijber Netherlands, 2022, 84′

A film about love, and about anger hidden inside that can erupt without warning.

Every year, more than 30,000 women are murdered by their partners worldwide.

Three women who did not wait for this to be their fate tell their story.

Nominated for the IDFA Award for Best Dutch Film SU SU TU TH FR

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Frontlight

The Lost Souls of Syria

WP Les suppliciés Stéphane Malterre, Garance Le Caisne France, Germany, 2022, 99′

A calmly composed, probing account of attempts in various European countries to chart the crimes of the Syrian regime and bring the perpetrators to justice, based on thousands of smuggled photos of tortured and murdered victims.

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Loving Martha

Werner Herzog Germany, 1997, 80′

P&I

The Last Dolphin King

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IDFA Competition for Youth Documentary

Zemnieki Ivars Seleckis Latvia, 2022, 108′

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Pathé City 3 Eye: Cinema 2 Tuschinski 2 Tuschinski 4 Tuschinski 4

Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk Ukraine, United States, 2022, 13′

Tuschinski 6 Munt 11 Munt 11 Ketelhuis: Zaal 1

The Land

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Best of Fests

In January 1946, 15 Nazis were put on trial in Kiev for their role in the murder of 10,000 civilians in Ukraine. Sergei Loznitsa draws on recovered archive footage of the trial to assemble a shocking and urgent documentary.

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A Little Love Package

The Kiev Trial

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Paradocs

Raw and frank portrait of Kenya, a trans woman who lives in Mexico City. She witnessed her friend, a fellow transgender sex worker, being murdered by a client. In her long battle for justice, she can’t avoid having to face her own fears.

Nominated for the IDFA Award for Best First Feature 11 12 13 13 18

Filmmaker Efthymia Zymvragaki combines the story of a perpetrator and her own experiences with violence in a poetic film that offers insight into the causes and consequences of abuse.

Nominated for the IDFA Award for Best First Feature

Frontlight

Kenya

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WP Ara la llum cau vertical Efthymia Zymvragaki Spain, Germany, Netherlands, 2022, 83′

Focus: Playing Reality

Киевский Пpoцecc Sergei Loznitsa Netherlands, Ukraine, 2022, 107′

SU 13 10:30 Eye: Cinema 2 TU 15 13:00 Eye: Cinema 1

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Envision Competition, Focus: Around Masculinity

Light Falls Vertical

Kam-lōo-tsuí Pang-Chuan Huang, Chunni Lin Taiwan, 2021, 40′

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Finland is home to Jasmin and everything is familiar: the winters are cold, the playground is just around the corner and her best friend is called Maryam. But one day her parents decide to return to Somaliland.

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Luminous

IP

The life-size nude statue “Kam-lōotsuí” survived the war and the White Terror period in a factory warehouse belonging to the family of an art-loving clinician. His sons now reminisce about their lives with the artwork, as at last it is restored.

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Jaime

Kam Loo Tsui

P&I

+ Talk

P&I

Luminous

WP

Amando a Martha Daniela López Colombia, Argentina, 2022, 75′ Daniela López aims her camera at members of her own family—at her grandmother Martha, who escaped a violent marriage after 39 years, and at the rest of the family, who is struggling not only with that trauma but also with the film project itself.

Nominated for the IDFA Award for Best First Feature TH FR SA MO SU

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Malavoune Tango

P&I

Luminous

IP

Jean-Marc Lacaze France, Réunion, 2022, 55′

On Mayotte, the only French island in the Comoros, a group of outlawed young men lead their lives in the shadows, with nothing to rely on but their dogs. An empathetic portrait of a lost existence, both rough and tender.

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Manifesto

P&I

Envision Competition

WP

Manifest Angie Vinchito Russia, 2022, 68′

A dark mosaic of often-shocking videos that Russian teenagers have posted on social media. Clip after clip shows how aggression and oppression in schools is unwittingly passed on to the next generation.

Nominated for the Beeld & Geluid IDFA ReFrame Award SA SA MO FR SU

12 12 14 18 20

11:30 20:30 21:15 10:45 16:30

Pathé City 4 Munt 11 Tuschinski 6 Munt 12 Eye: Cinema 1

The March on Rome

P&I

Masters

Marcia su Roma Mark Cousins Italy, 2022, 98′

To this day, Benito Mussolini’s style of fascism continues to inspire authoritarian leaders. The March on Rome shows how Mussolini used intimidation and violence to seize power, and how he used propaganda to mythologize events.

Nominated for the Beeld & Geluid IDFA ReFrame Award TH MO WE SA

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15:00 15:00 21:30 15:45

De Balie: Grote Zaal Munt 10 Eye: Cinema 1 Tuschinski 6 Paradocs

Maria Schneider, 1983 Elisabeth Subrin France, 2022, 26′

Actor Maria Schneider (The Passenger, Last Tango in Paris) talks about abusive practices in the film industry, in an interview recorded in 1983. Elisabeth Subrin’s ingenious interventions in the archive material bring it into the here and now.

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+ Talk

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Frontlight

Money, Freedom, a Story of CFA Franc WP

L’argent, la liberté, une histoire du Franc CFA Lena Ndiaye Senegal, France, Belgium, Germany, 2022, 102′ The former French colonies in Central and West Africa have been independent since 1960, but many of these countries still use the currency of the former oppressor: the CFA franc. A new generation wants to complete the process of decolonization.

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Meet Me in the Bathroom Special Screening

Mariupolis

Mantas Kvedaravičius Lithuania, Ukraine, Germany, France, 2016, 80′

Merkel

Frontlight

EP

Eva Weber United Kingdom, Denmark, Germany, 2022, 97′

Lithuanian filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravičius (1976-2022) filmed this visually powerful tribute to Mariupol in the spring of 2015, just after the Russian occupation of Crimea. Despite the threat, life goes on, with all its joy, love and worry.

Thanks to her unique palette of knowledge and experience, Angela Merkel served as the forceful and influential chancellor of Germany for 16 years. Merkel looks back on her childhood and career with vivid archive footage and a range of interviews.

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Mariupolis 2

Special Screening

Mantas Kvedaravičius Lithuania, France, Germany, 2022, 112′ Lithuanian filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravičius returned to the ruined Ukrainian city of Mariupol, a hell on earth where life goes on amid the bombardments. He was killed

by Russian troops, but his crew went on to finish the film.

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+ Talk

Master Talk: Laura Poitras An extensive public interview with IDFA’s Guest of Honor Laura Poitras. Orwa Nyrabia, artistic director of IDFA, talks to Poitras about her impressive creative trajectory, Top 10 favorite films, and the political power in documentary art.

FR 11 15:45 Carré Masters

Matter Out of Place Nikolaus Geyrhalter Austria, 2022, 105′

Hypnotic observations of the shocking quantities of waste humanity is accumulating on Earth—and a glint of hope. People produce waste, but people can clean it up as well. From the maker of Our Daily Bread.

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Albert Maysles, David Maysles United States, 1966, 28′

Marlon Brando shows his most charming and most reticent side in an session with journalists. Demonstrating how the actor resists the interview format, Direct Cinema pioneers David and Albert Maysles also call into question the phenomenon itself.

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Kriterion 1 Tuschinski 4 Tuschinski 6 Eye: Cinema 2 Best of Fests

Meet Me in the Bathroom Will Lovelace, Dylan Southern United Kingdom, 2022, 105′

A portrait of the New York music scene around the dawn of the 21st century.

Stories told by the front men and one front woman paint a picture of a generation of bands such as the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Strokes, Moldy Peaches and LCD Soundsystem.

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Best of Fests

Miúcha, the Voice of Bossa Nova

Brazilian singer Miúcha worked with bossa nova legends including her brother Chico Buarque and husband João Gilberto. Her life’s story, told through a rich resource of unreleased archive material, offers a female perspective on this musical movement.

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Mom

Munt 12 Tuschinski 4 DLM: Wim Sonneveld Zaal Cinema De Vlugt

Luminous

EP

Mexican filmmaker Xun Sero questions his mother about her life as a Tzotzil woman.

The answers reveal a strong woman who has managed to create a place for herself within a patriarchal society.

Nominated for the IDFA Award for Best First Feature 11 11 12 17 19

13:30 18:00 16:45 21:00 13:00

Pathé City 4 Munt 13 Munt 10 Rialto VU: Zaal 4 Tuschinski 6

Focus: Playing Reality

Moscow

Moscou Eduardo Coutinho Brazil, 2009, 79′ The Brazilian theater group Galpão is in Moscow, working on their production of the Chekhov play Three Sisters. During rehearsals, filmmaker Coutinho captures the increasingly blurred boundaries between fiction and reality.

Los órganos internos de la Madre Tierra Ana Bravo Pérez Colombia, Netherlands, 2022, 22′ An experimental film connecting the port of Amsterdam with the territory of the Wayuu people in Colombia. The use of coal in Europe has a major impact on the indigenous people and on Mother Earth.

The mine is a stinking, open wound.

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Mothers

Shorts Shorts Shorts Shorts

Frontlight

WP

Four Amsterdam mothers explain how their sons got in trouble with the law and were subjected to a stigmatizing crime prevention program. Despite their powerlessness and frustration, they keep fighting for their children.

Nominated for the IDFA Award for Best Dutch Film TH FR SU TU WE SU

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P&I

Jess Kohl United Kingdom, 2022, 35′

WP

A coming-of-age documentary about 12-year-old JayDee, whose father brought him up on car racing. Now JayDee’s first race is approaching—and he doesn’t want to disappoint his father.

FR 11 19:30 Munt 10 SA 12 15:30 Munt 9 WE 16 14:45 Tuschinski 6 International Competition

Much Ado About Dying

IP Simon Chambers Ireland, United Kingdom, 2022, 84′ This tragicomic portrait of filmmaker Simon Chambers’ eccentric uncle demonstrates that death comes as a necessary end to life, caregiving is a heavy responsibility, and it’s wonderful to recite Shakespeare stark naked.

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Masters

Music for Black Pigeons

Jørgen Leth, Andreas Koefoed Denmark, 2022, 92′

Mother Earth’s Inner Organs WP

Tuschinski 1 Tuschinski 3 ITA: Rabozaal Ketelhuis: Zaal 1 Podium Mozaïek Cinema De Vlugt

P&I

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Fourteen years of musical encounters between Danish composer-guitarist Jakob Bro and various heroes of contemporary jazz. When the stars are asked what it means to be a musician, they answer in music.

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Eye: Cinema 1 Tuschinski 4 Tuschinski 2 Munt 11 Masters, Focus: Playing Reality

Mutzenbacher Ruth Beckermann Austria, 2022, 100′

A hundred men audition for the film version of a controversial pornographic novel. The filmmaker seats them on a casting couch and reverses the roles. Now the men are objectified, in this film packed with discomfort, disgust and lust.

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My Country, My Country Laura Poitras United States, 2006, 90′

Following the 2003 US invasion, can Iraq move towards a democratic future? The run-up to the first parliamentary elections since the invasion are problematic from the start. Poitras stayed in Iraq for eight months filming this incisive account.

TH 10 15:30 Tuschinski 6 SU 13 20:30 Rialto VU: Zaal 4

IDFA Competition for Short Documentary

Mountain Flesh Valentina Shasivari Switzerland, 2022, 18′

Mamá Xun Sero Mexico, 2022, 80′

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P&I

Moeders Nirit Peled Netherlands, 2022, 81′

Miúcha, a voz da bossa nova Daniel Zarvos, Liliane Mutti Brazil, France, United States, 2022, 98′

Focus: Around Masculinity

Meet Marlon Brando

Best of Fests

Two women, a Buddhist and a Muslim, work together at a maternity clinic in Myanmar. The oppression of Rohingya Muslims in the country means it’s dangerous to treat Muslim women—but neither of these obstetricians take any notice of that.

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IDFA Competition for Short Documentary

Hnin Ei Hlaing Myanmar, Germany, Canada, 2022, 92′

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Midwives

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IDFA Competition for Youth Documentary

A Mouthful of Petrol

WP

IDFA Competition for Short Documentary

My Courtyard

All looks calm in a beautiful Swiss mountain village, but sounds of rustling and crackling rise from deep underground.

What are those men doing with their measuring instruments? A meditation in black-and-white about people, nature and religion.

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Shorts Shorts Shorts Shorts

IDFA Competition for Short Documentary

Mountain Man Gangri gi min Arun Bhattarai Bhutan, 2022, 22′

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EP

On a boarding school in a city in the far northeast of India, 14-year-old Gautam is helplessly confined to his dorm during the Covid-19 lockdown. Back home in the village, his mother worries. An atmospheric, poetic short film about inequality.

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Masters

My Imaginary Country

Eleven-year-old Yangchen’s father is Bhutan’s glacier specialist. He spends months on end away from home measuring the ice thickness, which is rapidly diminishing due to climate change. But local people fear that he will disturb the mythical snow lion.

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Ne sotal Shrutiman Deori India, 2021, 10′

Kriterion 1 Munt 9 Ketelhuis: Zaal 1 Eye: Cinema 2 Ketelhuis: Zaal 2

Shorts Shorts Shorts Shorts Sensory Friendly

Mi país imaginario Patricio Guzmán Chile, France, 2022, 85′

In October 2019, 1.5 million Chileans took to the streets to fight for a more just society. Legendary filmmaker Patricio Guzmán was there to see a completion of the Chilean freedom struggle of his youth.

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10:00 13:30 21:15 21:00

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Envision Competition

My Lost Country

WP

Baladi aldaia Ishtar Yasin Gutiérrez Costa Rica, Iraq, Chile, Egypt, 2022, 96′

Filmmaker Ishtar Yasin Gutiérrez uses family photographs, extracts from letters and audio recordings to construct a loving portrait of her exiled theater director father Mohsen Sadoon Yasin, and an elegy to their lost homeland of Iraq.

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My Name Is Happy Nick Read, Ayse Toprak United Kingdom, 2022, 82′

P&I

Frontlight

WP

An urgent portrait of Mutlu Kaya, a rising star in Turkey who survived an attack in 2015. After her sister is subsequently murdered, Kaya decides to fight against femicide and the normalization of violence against women.

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My Paper Life

P&I

Best of Fests

Ma vie en papier Vida Dena Belgium, France, 2022, 78′ Iranian filmmaker Vida Dena follows an immigrant Syrian family in Brussels in this, her debut film. She brings their memories and experiences to life by animating the cutout drawings they make together.

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Naked Gardens

Best of Fests

EP Ivete Lucas United States, France, 2022, 90′

Naked Gardens takes you to everyday life in Sunsport Gardens, Florida. Naked is the norm in this community and people accept each other as they are. However, there are also problems, like what do you do about residents who want to wear clothes?

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Kriterion 1 Tuschinski 1 Munt 9 Tuschinski 4

Masters, Focus: Around Masculinity

The Natural History of Destruction

Sergei Loznitsa Germany, Netherlands, 2022, 110′

A painfully topical archive documentary mainly featuring footage of Allied bombing during the Second World War. Following in the footsteps of W.G. Sebald, Loznitsa asks whether mass destruction can ever be morally justified.

Nominated for the Beeld & Geluid IDFA ReFrame Award TH SU TU TH SA

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21:15 15:30 12:15 12:45 13:00

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Frontlight

The Night My Brother Disappeared IP Natten då min bror försvann Anna Blom Finland, 2022, 68′

The personal quest of human rights activist Adal Neguse shows how a collective human tragedy impacts on individual lives.

Survivors of a refugee boat that sank off the coast of Lampedusa in 2013 tell their story.

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18:15 12:15 16:00 13:15

Tuschinski 6 Munt 10 Podium Mozaïek Ketelhuis: Zaal 1

The Northeast Winds

International Competition

Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudović Reels

WP Mila Turajlić Serbia, France, Croatia, Montenegro, Qatar, 2022, 105′

Based on unseen 35mm material, Non-Aligned retraces the birth of the Non-Aligned Movement during the era of decolonization. Forming a documentary diptych with Ciné-guerrillas, it examines how cinema gave expression to their political dream.

Nominated for the Beeld & Geluid IDFA ReFrame Award SA SU MO FR SA

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09:00 13:00 15:00 18:00 10:45

Pathé City 2 Eye: Cinema 1 De Balie: Filmzaal Tuschinski 6 Munt 10

P&I

Luminous

The Northeast Winds

აღდგომა Nikoloz Bezhanishvili Georgia, 2022, 94′

WP

Local Stalinists resist when the statue of Stalin in Gori, the dictator’s birthplace, is torn down. But immersed in nostalgia and ideology, they fail to see that the world has irrevocably changed.

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Eye: Cinema 2 Tuschinski 2 Pathé City 2 Rialto VU: Zaal 4 Munt 9

The Not Dead

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Focus: Playing Reality

Brian Hill England, 2007, 75′

The gripping accounts of three British soldiers who served in violent conflicts and returned to an indifferent homeland with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Through poetry, their nightmarish experiences are elevated to a universal level.

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Not Yet Yes (Queer Day by Simon(e) van Saarloos) EP Not Yet Yes is a multiple-hour program, including films, workshops, speakers, and dancing. Not Yet Yes attempts to counter a common documentary form in which a process of coming out is shown. Not Yet Yes approaches film not for its story lines, but for its potential to be a physical space for wayward bodies to gather.

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Not Yet Yes Workshop: Slow Transitions

NPO IDFA Audience Award Winner

Slow Transitions is a gathering facilitated

by Natal Igor Dobkin that investigates the temporality of slowness as a method for change. The gathering will explore ‘mythical’ linear movements and how they can become radical when done in slow motion, such as with gender transitions, aging, and even the process of committing to a relationship.

Festive award ceremony of the NPO IDFA Audience Award, presented by curator and documentary fanatic Helmut Boeijen of NPO 2Doc. The winning film is chosen by the public and will be shown afterwards.

MO 14 10:00 Eye: Waterfront

Oasis

Envision Competition, Focus: Playing Reality

Notes for a Film IP Notas para una película Ignacio Agüero Chile, France, 2022, 105′

A playfully styled portrait loosely based on memoirs published in 1889, evoking recollections of an unspoiled Chile that reflect on the here and now. But the portrayal also sheds light on what has been lost through colonization and modernization.

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P&I

Notes on Displacement WP Khaled Jarrar Palestine, Germany, Qatar, 2022, 74′

Refugees are often in the news, but what do we really know about their experiences?

Notes on Displacement takes a deep dive into the fear and disorientation felt by a Syrian family on the grueling journey to a better life.

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Pathé City 3 Eye: Cinema 2 Tuschinski 4 Tuschinski 6 Munt 9

Nothing Compares

P&I

15:00 21:00 10:45 18:00 21:30

Best of Fests

Kleine Komedie Podium Mozaïek Eye: Cinema 1 Tuschinski 2 DLM: Wim Sonneveld Zaal Best of Fests

The New Greatness Case

Best of Fests

Anna Shishova Finland, Norway, Croatia, 2022, 93′

An unembellished analysis of the political trial of Anya, a Russian teenager arrested with nine others in 2018, for allegedly forming an extremist group planning to overthrow the government.

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Not Yet Yes Workshop: Everything is queer if I say it many times The artist Agustín Ortiz Herrera invites you to participate in a collective workshop experience, in which we, through conversationa dn a practical filming session, would like to address questions about the notion of “document”. What is it exactly? How is it configured in a cultural context? How political is it? Can it be made with a queer perspective?

Nothing Lasts Forever

Jason Kohn United States, 2022, 84′

A revealing film about the growing market for synthetic diamonds produced in factories. When the difference between man-made and mined gems disappears, revaluation will be inevitable. What is it we’re being sold?

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Camping together in the woods is what the twins Raphaël and Rémi like doing best. But Raphaël has an intellectual disability, and their paths will soon diverge.

During this one last summer, time seems to stand still for a while.

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The Oath

Dutch

Dutch Dutch

Retrospective: Laura Poitras

Laura Poitras United States, 2010, 96′

Laura Poitras casts doubt on American anti-terrorism policy through the experiences of brothers-in-law Abu Jandal (Bin Laden’s ex-bodyguard) and Salim Hamdan, one of the first Guantanamo Bay detainees to be put on trial.

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The Oil Machine

Contemporary, feminist take on Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor’s words and deeds in the period from 1987 to 1993. O’Connor’s unique voice and appearance made her a sensation. But she was brutally punished for her political statements.

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WP Oasis Justine Martin Canada, 2022, 15′

+ Talk

Kathryn Ferguson Ireland, United Kingdom, 2022, 100′

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IDFA Competition for Youth Documentary

+ Talk

Envision Competition

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Masters

Emma Davie United Kingdom, 2022, 82′

Almost no one would dare to call it “liquid gold” any more, but oil is still the fuel that drives our society. Activists, investors and most of all the planet itself are demanding change. But how to dismantle a machine that we are so dependent on?

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+ Talk

Focus: Around Masculinity

On Boys, Girls and the Veil Sobyan wa banat Yousry Nasrallah Egypt, 1995, 73′

What did young Egyptians think of wearing the hijab around 1995? And of love? Lively conversations cover topics ranging from family pressure to get married to the complexities of dating in Arab society.

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+ Talk

Tuschinski 1 Munt 10 Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal Cinema De Vlugt

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International Competition

Paradise

WP Alexander Abaturov France, Switzerland, 2022, 88′

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Parallel World 平行世界 Mei-Ling Hsiao Taiwan, 2022, 177′

WP

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The Pawnshop

Best of Fests

12:30 Tuschinski 1 16:00 De Balie: Grote Zaal 18:00-23:00 IDFA at home 21:00 Cinema De Vlugt 18:45 DLM: Wim Sonneveld Zaal Masters

Personality Crisis: One Night Only IP Martin Scorsese, David Tedeschi United States, 2022, 120′

An intimate performance by David Johansen at New York City’s storied Café Carlyle.

Johansen, the lead singer of glam punk pioneers New York Dolls and later Buster Poindexter, emerges as a fascinating guide to his own life and philosophy.

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Pornomelancolía

P&I

Best of Fests

Mexican nude model and gay porn actor Lalo Santos is his own boss, successful online, and the star of a porn film about Zapata. The work is hard, the future uncertain, and melancholy lurks in the moments between cruising and cumshots.

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Top 10

U.S. Department of Energy United States, 1949, 42′

The official record of the first pair of nuclear tests conducted by the U.S. Navy at the Bikini atoll in July 1946, in order to establish the forces military equipment and troops would be exposed to at the dawn of a new era of nuclear warfare.

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Port Desire

International Competition

You can take a soldier out of the war, but you can’t take the war out of the soldier. That certainly applies to Marcelo Wytrykusz, an Argentinian veteran of the Malvinas War. Forty years later, he’s still seeking revenge.

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Pathé City 2 Eye: Cinema 2 De Balie: Grote Zaal Ketelhuis: Zaal 2 Tuschinski 5

P&I

IDFA Competition for Short Documentary

The Porters

IP Les porteurs Sarah Vanagt Belgium, 2022, 32′

What happens when you get young people in Brussels to play a verbal memory game based on a list of objects from a colonial expedition in the former Belgian Congo?

As you might guess: surprise turns to anger, discussions and raised awareness.

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A Provincial Hospital

Ilian Metev, Ivan Chertov, Zlatina Teneva Bulgaria, Germany, 2022, 110′

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An observational documentary filmed in a Bulgarian provincial hospital, where a close-knit community has been hit by Covid-19. The hard-working medical team tackles the unpredictable disease in both a practical and empathetic way.

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R 21 aka Restoring Solidarity WP

Luminous

WP

When the filmmaker was eight, his father’s body was found on a beach near Montevideo. In this stylized cinematic quest, he seizes on every possible lead to find out what happened, and who his father was.

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Shorts Shorts Shorts Shorts

Best of Fests

Ainara Vera France, Greenland, 2022, 78′

While Hayat captains a boat sailing over the Arctic Ocean, her younger sister Leila gives birth to a baby daughter. Perhaps this new life has the power to break the cycle of neglect and absence in their family.

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P&I

Frontlight

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Pathé City 3 Munt 12 Kriterion 1 Tuschinski 6 Tuschinski 5

Regard Silence

Mira el silencio Santiago Zermeño Mexico, 2022, 30′

P&I

Frontlight

IP

A group of deaf people demonstrate just how powerful sign language can be as a means of expression. Following a poetry workshop, they perform poems in a unique way, showing that imagination knows no boundaries.

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Shorts Shorts Shorts Shorts

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Frontlight

P&I + Talk IDFA Meets

Top 10

Post-Apocalypse program In this compilation program by Laura Poitras, the military archival material of Project Crossroads is screened alongside the renowned experimental short film La jetée.

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IDFA Competition for Youth Documentary

Ramboy

Matthias Joulaud, Lucien Roux Switzerland, 2022, 31′ A calm and sensitive portrait of the bond between a grandfather and his grandson on the Irish island of Achill. During the summer, sheep farmer Martin teaches the teenager Cian the ins and outs of farming—and that means hard work for the boy.

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Talal Derki Syria, Germany, 2013, 87′

A remarkably intimate portrait of a group of young friends in Homs, Syria, dreaming of a peaceful revolution that will free the country of Assad’s dictatorial regime.

When the national army starts destroying their city, the boys turn into armed rebels.

Best of Fests, Focus: Playing Reality

Riotsville, USA

From the late 1960s, the US authorities’ response to social protest movements has increasingly tilted towards repression. This essay film shows the development through disconcerting archive material.

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Munt 11 ITA: Rabozaal Rialto VU: Zaal 4 Tuschinski 3 Retrospective: Laura Poitras

Risk

Laura Poitras United States, 2016, 86′

Can a tree be racist? Residents of Crossley Tract, a historically Black neighborhood in Palm Springs, wrestled with this curious question for decades, culminating in heated discussions on national TV. The dispute is peeled away like the layers of an onion.

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Top 10

Return to Homs

Sierra Pettengill United States, 2022, 91′

Militant films made between 1960 and 1980 presented the Palestinian struggle as a shining example to Japanese people opposed to US hegemony. An epilogue questions the boundary between sympathy, propaganda and identification.

Nominated for the Beeld & Geluid IDFA ReFrame Award

Racist Trees WP Sara Newens, Mina T. Son United States, 2022, 88′

A documentary view of taxi driver Oussama as he crisscrosses Casablanca in his compact cab taking passengers to their destinations. His lively conversations with his customers reveal a potpourri of the city.

Polaris

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Portrait of My Father

Samy Sidali France, 2021, 28′

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‫الفيلم رقم واحد وعشرون‬ Mohanad Yaqubi Palestine, Belgium, Qatar, 2022, 71′

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El retrato de mi padre Juan Ignacio Fernández Hoppe Uruguay, 2022, 99′

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International Competition

Petit Taxi

Envision Competition

IP

A playful, personal, political and uncompromising self-portrait of a group of non-binary and trans friends in Brazil. Their colorful raw material shows them shaping their lives off the beaten track.

A desktop documentary using open source research to expose the appalling reality beyond the frames of a carefree family vacation film, shot in early-1960s South Africa.

Nominated for the Beeld & Geluid IDFA ReFrame Award SA MO FR SA

Raw Session

Sessão Bruta As Talavistas, ela.ltda Brazil, 2022, 88′

Filme particular Janaína Nagata Brazil, 2022, 91′

Project Crossroads

Puerto Deseado Juan Manuel Bugarín Argentina, 2022, 74′

A tragicomic portrait of a struggling pawnshop in a working class neighborhood in Poland. It’s difficult to run a business where people find it so difficult to keep their heads above water. But the charismatic store owners aren’t about to give up.

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Paradocs

Private Footage

Best of Fests

Lombard Łukasz Kowalski Poland, 2021, 81′

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As a traditional Catholic, the young Antek holds deeply conservative views: homosexuality can be cured, Poland is for the Poles, abortion is evil, and sex before marriage is forbidden. Until he falls in love, and doubt begins to set in.

Manuel Abramovich Argentina, France, Brazil, Mexico, 2022, 95′

An account, filmed over 12 years, of the close bond between a mother—the filmmaker—and her daughter, who has Asperger syndrome. They face a challenge when, as a young adult, the daughter moves from Taiwan to live with her father in France.

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Luminous

WP

Hanka Nobis Switzerland, Poland, 2022, 85′

A heatwave leads to huge forest fires in Siberia. Villagers join forces to subdue the inferno they call the Dragon. A visually powerful film about the havoc that climate change can wreak.

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Polish Prayers

As tense as a spy thriller, as claustrophobic as a hostage drama and as disturbing as the recollection of a corrupted ideal, Laura Poitras’s revealing portrait of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange details the degeneration of idealism into megalomania.

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The River Is Not a Border

Maayo wonaa keerol Alassane Diago France, Senegal, Germany, 2022, 105′ Atrocities were carried out on both sides of the Senegal–Mauritania border in 1989. Senegalese filmmaker Alassane Diago gives victims and witnesses the opportunity to speak movingly about their experiences, as a first step towards reconciliation.

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IDFA Competition for Short Documentary, Focus: Around Masculinity

A Robust Heart

WP Un corazón más contundente Martín Benchimol Argentina, United States, United Kingdom, 2022, 12′

Sezers zomer Marina Meijer Netherlands, 2022, 42′

A simple, effective film about butchers working at an Argentine abattoir. They talk about their work and their personal lives, motivations and fears. The director also reveals something about himself.

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Ruthless Times – Songs of Care

The right to spend the final years of your life in dignity is threatening to become unaffordable. This unorthodox combination of classic documentary and musical is a sharp indictment of market forces in the care for the elderly in Finland.

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+ Talk

Focus: Playing Reality

Salaam Cinema Mohsen Makhmalbaf Iran, 1995, 75′

A casting call in Iranian newspapers to find actors for a film on the centenary of cinema yields thousands of candidates.

Makhmalbaf used the filmed auditions to create a comical look at a hidden part of Iranian culture.

FR 11 12:00 Eye: Cinema 2 FR 18 21:30 Eye: Cinema 2 Best of Fests

Scala

ทีร่ ะลึกรอบสุดท้าย Ananta Thitanat Thailand, 2022, 65′

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Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal Ketelhuis: Zaal 2 Munt 10 Tuschinski 6 Envision Competition

Scenes with My Father WP

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Masters

William Kentridge South Africa, United States, 2022, 110′ In his studio, the celebrated South African artist William Kentridge treats us to his playful philosophical thoughts on the impossibility of knowing oneself. A brilliant, witty self-portrait, with a key role for the coffee pot.

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Scenes with My Father

Shangri-La, Paradise Under Construction WP

Mirka Duijn, Nina Spiering Netherlands, Sweden, 2022, 94′

The earthly paradise of Shangri-La was invented by James Hilton for his 1933 novel Lost Horizon. But it was rediscovered around 20 years ago—that’s what China claims, in any case. This playful investigative film unpacks all the myths and tales.

Nominated for the IDFA Award for Best Dutch Film SU TU WE TH FR SU

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Al-Haq, Al-Haq’s Forensic Architecture Investigation Unit Palestine, United Kingdom, 2022, 10′ Based on publicly accessible data, testimonials and video footage, in this short film, the research group Forensic Architecture reconstructs the death of the Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.

Top 10

Claude Lanzmann France, 1985, 566′ This 9½-hour film is a milestone in the history of Holocaust documentaries.

Testimonies from survivors, perpetrators, collaborators and bystanders provide detailed descriptions of the perverse machinery dedicated to the extermination of Jewish people.

Brussels, Addis Ababa, and Casablanca set the scene for three moving, captivating, and engaging stories about demanding life in the big city. This compilation program includes Walls That Scream, Katanga Nation, and Petit Taxi.

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Kriterion 1 Tuschinski 2 Tuschinski 6 Munt 9 Best of Fests, Paradocs

Shorts: Higher Dimensions

These wildly experimental short films will take you on a hypnotic visual journey through space and time. This compilation program includes The Spiral, A Stretch of Time, and Devil’s Peak.

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Kriterion 1 Munt 9 Ketelhuis: Zaal 1 Eye: Cinema 2 Best of Fests, Frontlight, Masters

Shorts: Numerical Being Top 10

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Insecurities that the global climate crisis brings to communities around the world are creatively captured and expressed through different cinematic approaches. This compilation program includes Mountain Flesh, Mother Earth’s Inner Organs and Mountain Man.

P&I

Shireen Abu Akleh: The Extrajudicial Killing of a Journalist

Shoah

IDFA Competition for Short Documentary

Shorts: Intangible Nature

Luminous, Best of Fests

Munt 11 Pathé City 3 P&I Kriterion 1 Ketelhuis: Zaal 1 Ketelhuis: Zaal 2 Sensory Friendly Tuschinski 1 IDFA Friends Screening

Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot

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Shorts: Cityscapes

In an abandoned factory, a father and daughter time travel through their past of migration. In search of answers, they discuss the choices that were made when they fled from the former Yugoslavia to the Netherlands, and a family trauma unfolds.

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SU 13 10:00 Ketelhuis: Zaal 1

Scènes met mijn vader Biserka Šuran Netherlands, 2022, 47′

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Fourteen-year-old Sezer spends a long, languid summer in Rotterdam—swimming and fishing, but also stealing bikes. His mother desperately tries to keep him under control, while youth services threaten to intervene.

Nominated for the IDFA Award for Best Dutch Film

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Ananta Thitanat documents the dismantling of Scala, Thailand’s last standalone movie theater. From there, a bigger story emerges about working conditions, political upheaval and the filmmaker’s personal history.

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WP

Luminous

Armotonta menoa – Hoivatyön lauluja Susanna Helke Finland, 2022, 92′

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IDFA Competition for Youth Documentary

Sezer’s Summer

These filmmakers carefully count, measure and calculate to convey their compelling stories. An intriguing compilation program consisting of the engaging films Subtotals, A History of the World According to Getty Images and How Do You Measure a Year?

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IDFA Competition for Short Documentary, Frontlight

Shorts: Profound Expressions

In creatively expressing themselves through the profound language of art, the protagonists of these beautiful films express their deepest emotions and traumas. This compilation program includes: Achewiq, the Song of the Brave Women, Regard Silence and Violet Gave Willingly.

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IDFA Competition for Short Documentary, Frontlight

Shorts: Workforce

International Competition

Silent House

WP Khaneye khamoosh Farnaz Jurabchian, Mohammadreza Jurabchian Iran, France, Canada, Philippines, Qatar, 2022, 100′ We follow the fortunes of three generations of an upper-middle-class family against the backdrop of four decades of Iranian history. With the century-old family house in Tehran as a silent witness, the family’s story becomes a mirror of society.

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Pathé City 2 Tuschinski 2 Kleine Komedie Tuschinski 1 Eye: Cinema 1 Munt 11

Silent Love

P&I + Talk

Best of Fests

Marek Kozakiewicz Poland, Germany, 2022, 73′

A subtle coming-of-age film about changing roles in a Polish family. When 35-yearold Aga starts caring for her teenage brother following their mother’s death, can she tell him—and the deeply conservative world outside—that she is a lesbian?

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Sisterhood

A vibrant and richly emotional portrait of spirited twin sisters Husai and Hassi. They have decided to leave Sierra Leone to seek work in the Middle East. But how can they persuade their mother that’s a good idea?

These films creatively explore the motivations and fears of workers all around the world who are facing the harsh realities of their demanding jobs. This compilation program includes A Robust Heart, Dust Away, Suddenly TV, and Budapest Silo.

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The Soiled Doves of Tijuana WP

IDFA Competition for Short Documentary

Luminous

IP Mohamed James Sessy Kamara South Africa, Sierra Leone, 2022, 72′

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Munt 12 Tuschinski 4 Munt 10 Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal Luminous

Jean-Charles Hue France, 2022, 82′

The Silence of the Banana Trees WP

Whether they’re all dressed up and in full make-up, or looking like the Virgin Mary, the inhabitants of the red light district of Tijuana, Mexico, live in a world of their own.

Zona Norte is their home, but their minds are always elsewhere.

The documentary maker becomes a go-between in an attempt to unite a father and his terminally ill daughter. Abstract imagery and patient observations take the viewer on a journey into the father’s pain, to arrive at a heartwarming dénouement.

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Eneos Carka Hungary, Belgium, Portugal, Albania, 2022, 24′

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P&I

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Eye: Cinema 2 Munt 11 Ketelhuis: Zaal 1 Tuschinski 3

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Suddenly TV

Frontlight

WP

In film nist Jafar Panahi, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb Iran, 2011, 75′

‫قناة فجأة‬ Roopa Gogineni Qatar, Sudan, 2022, 19′

IDFA Competition for Short Documentary

IDFA Competition for Short Documentary

Solmatalua

Still Static

If collective memory exists, this may be what it looks like. An intuitive collage of people, landscapes, performances and impressionistic scenes emanate directly from the African diaspora in Brazil. Poetic and experimental, between ritual and activism.

Nominated for the Beeld & Geluid IDFA ReFrame Award

A woman and a man reflect on an unspecified harrowing event that they both lived through. However, they have very different ways of dealing with their horrific memories.

IP Rodrigo Ribeiro-Andrade Brazil, 2022, 15′

WP Adam Kaplan France, 2022, 22′

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A Sound of My Own

Rebecca Zehr Germany, 2021, 53′

After the death of krautrock legend Christian Burchard, his band Embryo continues, led by his daughter Marja. Is it possible to build musical autonomy on top of such a rich heritage?

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The Spiral

Best of Fests

A woman talks about how she sometimes sinks into a downward spiral of fear and emotion. With the addition of pulsating 80s sounds and gorgeous explosions of animated color, the story becomes as hypnotic as it is empathetic.

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Shorts Shorts Shorts

Stedelijk x IDFA: Video Club with Ansuya Blom This program brings together the works of artist Ansuya Blom from the museum’s time-based media collection with a selection of her latest works. After the screening, Ansuya Blom will talk to curator Monika Szewczyk.

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Breathtaking landscapes alternate with scenes of somber small-town life on a train trip across Peru. This contemplative journey takes us along a railroad route of almost 300 kilometers.

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A Stretch of Time Ali Eslami Netherlands, 2022, 22′

Paradocs

WP

Underground, a disembodied figure performs a Sisyphean task in the service of a living network archive that stores fragments of memories. This production, shot in a virtual world, blends cinema, video games and virtual reality.

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Shorts Shorts Shorts

Paradocs

Terra que marca Raul Domingues Portugal, 2022, 66′

A beautiful observation of the Portuguese countryside, where the land and forests are worked with attention and respect.

The film shows the intimate and reciprocal relationship between people and nature as a harmonious balance of give and take.

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20:30 21:30 12:00 18:30

Tuschinski 3 Munt 9 Munt 12 Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal

Jafar Panahi, who was put under house arrest and banned from making films in 2011, is currently imprisoned by the Iranian government. In spite of these restrictions, he’s made a defiant ode to both the art and the freedom that were taken from him.

MO 14 17:45 Tuschinski 5 WE 16 21:00 Tuschinski 6 SU 20 10:30 Munt 12

FR 11 15:15 Tuschinski 6 TH 17 18:15 Kriterion 1

Stuntwomen

Luminous

IP

Stuntwomen Virginie, Petra and Estelle are regularly thrown down stairs, hit by cars or beaten up on film sets. Usually they play the victim, while men are the heroes.

Where are the roles for action heroines?

11 13 16 19

18:15 17:30 21:15 21:15

Kriterion 1 Tuschinski 5 Munt 9 Munt 13

Munt 10 Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal Munt 12 Tuschinski 5

Subtotals

17:45 18:30 21:00 21:00

Munt 12 Kriterion 1 Rialto VU: Zaal 4 Tuschinski 5

Writer Annie Ernaux looks back at her and her family’s home movies, shot with a Super 8 camera in the 1970s and 1980s. What do the films have to say about who they were then, and about the times in which they were living?

Nominated for the Beeld & Geluid IDFA ReFrame Award TH SA TH FR

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13:30 10:30 21:15 21:00

Tuschinski 4 Eye: Cinema 2 Munt 11 Tuschinski 3

Attend an extra screening of a film that was a resounding success during the festival.

17 18 19 20

21:00 14:30 21:00 12:45

Kriterion 1 Eye: Cinema 1 Munt 11 Munt 11 Frontlight

A Symphony for a Common Man EP

Sinfonia de um homem comum José Joffily Brazil, 2022, 86′

A shocking documentary about the sabotage of a potential agreement on weapons of mass destruction between the US and Iraq in 2002. Diplomat José Bustani and others look back, condemning the US abuse of power.

SU MO FR SU

13 14 18 20

12:45 18:00 20:45 10:30

Best of Fests

Shorts Shorts Shorts Shorts

Tuschinski 6 Rialto VU: Zaal 4 Munt 13 De Balie: Grote Zaal

Laura Poitras United States, 2021, 25′

Research collective Forensic Architecture and Oscar winner Laura Poitras analyze the chilling consequences of Pegasus, the virus-like spyware that takes control of smartphones owned by political dissidents and those in their network.

TH 10 21:15 Tuschinski 6 MO 14 17:45 Munt 11 Focus: Playing Reality

Visual artist and filmmaker Lola Arias brings a number of British and Argentine veterans of the Malvinas/Falklands War together in short, theatrical setups to confront their memories, each other and the war that binds them.

SA 12 14:15 Tuschinski 4 TH 17 16:00 Munt 10 Best of Fests

Humaira Bilkis Bangladesh, France, 2022, 80′

The mother of filmmaker Humaira Bilkis became a devout Muslim after a pilgrimage to Mecca. Free-spirited Humaira is her polar opposite, but in this film she goes in search of what binds them.

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11:30 18:45 18:30 16:15

An intimate personal portrait of “Auntie Ria,” a feisty, independent woman who must face the reality that her dementia is gradually getting worse. Her niece Anneke tenderly captures the last seven years of her life.

SA SU TH FR

12 13 17 18

20:30 14:30 21:30 17:30

Eye: Cinema 2 Munt 10 Munt 13 Tuschinski 5

Fino alla fine Beatrice Perego Italy, 2022, 24′

IP

Martina is fascinated by death. In this poetic film she even stages her own dream funeral. This parting ritual helps director Beatrice Perego, a dear friend, to process her own major loss.

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10 12 18 20

18:30 10:30 13:45 16:15

Kriterion 1 Tuschinski 5 Munt 9 Munt 10 Top 10

Titicut Follies

Frederick Wiseman United States, 1967, 84′

Wiseman documentary debut is a shocking depiction of the treatment of convicted criminals in a psychiatric hospital. There is no attempt to make people better—instead, it’s all about power.

SA 12 10:30 Munt 13 FR 18 15:00 Tuschinski 4 IDFA Special

Tomorrow’s Classics

WP

IDFA and Cineville present Tomorrow’s Classics: a compilation program with contemporary cinematographic masterpieces by directors from across the globe.

Cineville members can attend for €12.50; or visit each separate screening for €2.50 each.

SA 19 10:00 Eye: Cinema 1 Top 10

Torture in Saydnaya Prison

Forensic Architecture, 2018, 28′ Based on witness statements, the Forensic Architecture research group reconstructs the interior of the infamous Saydnaya prison in Syria, where countless men have been tortured and executed since the start of the civil war.

SU 13 17:00 De Balie: Grote Zaal Frontlight

Things I Could Never Tell My Mother

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Dit was je leukste tante Ria Anneke de Lind van Wijngaarden Netherlands, 2022, 37′

IDFA Competition for Short Documentary

Surprise Screenings

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IDFA Competition for Short Documentary

This Was Your Nicest Auntie Ria WP

Till the End

Lola Arias Argentina, Spain, Germany, 2018, 81′

A poetic essay in which a contemplative voice-over accompanies 8mm home videos from bygone days in Iran. Lists of number-based facts evoke a sense of life’s intangible nature.

12 13 16 17

Les années super 8 Annie Ernaux, David Ernaux-Briot France, 2022, 60′

Theatre of War

Majmouan Mohammadreza Farzad Poland, Germany, Iran, 2022, 16′

SA SU WE TH

Best of Fests

Terror Contagion

Cascadeuses Elena Avdija Switzerland, France, 2022, 84′

FR SU WE SA

Shorts Shorts Shorts

Retrospective: Laura Poitras

Best of Fests

Vida ferrea Manuel Bauer Peru, Spain, 2022, 96′

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MO TU WE SU

Striking Land

María Silvia Esteve Argentina, 2022, 20′

Steel Life

Using a cardboard replica of a camera and a plastic bottle “microphone,” young revolutionaries interview demonstrators at the 2019 mass protests against Sudan’s military regime. A creative and hopeful take on a bleak situation.

The Super 8 Years

The Spiral

Top 10

This Is Not a Film

Tuschinski 5 Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal Tuschinski 5 Rialto VU: Zaal 4

Trained to See – Three Women and the War IP Drei Frauen und der Krieg Luzia Schmid Germany, Italy, 2022, 106′

An inspiring portrait of Margaret BourkeWhite, Martha Gellhorn and Lee Miller, three pioneering journalists who made history as the first female correspondents to report on the Second World War. FR SA FR SU

11 12 18 20

17:30 21:30 11:30 10:15

Tuschinski 4 De Balie: Grote Zaal Eye: Cinema 1 Tuschinski 6

Transactions

Luminous

EP

Rumbi Katedza South Africa, Zimbabwe, 2022, 52′ Frank, Miles and Portia have left Zimbabwe, but often send money to the families they have left behind. They discuss the financial support via group chats and video calls—because they are short of money themselves.

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15:00 15:30 15:15 19:00

Munt 13 Tuschinski 2 Tuschinski 3 Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal

Tuschinski 5 Tuschinski 2 Tuschinski 5 Munt 10

The United States of America

Paradocs

James Benning United States, 2022, 102′

Thoughtful shots of every state merge to become an alternative portrait of the USA. Benning shows America as we think it looks. A film to immerse yourself in, with a brilliant twist in the credits.

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21:15 13:00 10:00 10:45

Munt 10 Kriterion 1 Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal Munt 9 Paradocs

The Unstable Object II Daniel Eisenberg United States, 2022, 204′

Prosthetics, leather gloves, and distressed jeans are all produced in factories, but in each case the relationship between product, producer and customer is dramatically different.

SU 13 20:00 Ketelhuis: Zaal 2 TU 15 19:45 Tuschinski 5 WE 16 13:30 Munt 9 IDFA Competition for Short Documentary

IP

Claire Sanford Canada, 2022, 23′

An intimate portrait of Canadian textile artist Deborah Dumka, whose daughter, filmmaker Claire Sanford, captures Dumka’s skillful work and artistic process, occasionally posing painful questions about traumas borne in silence.

12 13 16 18

20:00 21:30 12:30 11:15

Munt 10 Tuschinski 2 Munt 13 Munt 13

Shorts Shorts Shorts Shorts

Vriendenvoorstelling

WP

IDFA thanks their Friends with the Friends screening in Tuschinski 1, where a compilation of three special documentaries will be shown. Friends receive a free ticket for this screening. Not a Friend yet? Sign up at idfa.nl/vriend SU 20 16:00 Tuschinski 1 IDFA Friends Screening

Walls That Scream

Les murs qui crient Evi Cats Belgium, 2022, 13′

Luminous

WP

11 12 16 19

21:00 12:45 18:00 16:30

Kriterion 1 Tuschinski 2 Tuschinski 6 Munt 9

Rialto VU: Zaal 4 Tuschinski 6 Munt 9 Tuschinski 3

11 12 13 16 19

17:30 19:45 15:00 18:00 18:30

P&I

Best of Fests

Nous, étudiants !

Rafiki Fariala Central African Republic, France, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2021, 83′ A nimble portrait following the lives of students Aaron, Benjamin, Nestor, and Rafiki in the Central African Republic. In this poverty-stricken country, the friends focus their hopes on the future. An award winner at IndieLisboa and Cinéma du Réel.

FR MO WE TH SA

11 14 16 17 19

15:00 De Balie: Grote Zaal 17:30 Munt 9 21:15 Kriterion 1 18:00-23:00 IDFA at home 15:45 Eye: Cinema 2

+ Talk

Best of Fests

Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer

A journey through the world of Werner Herzog, comprising interviews with actors and directors, Herzog’s family and the legendary filmmaker himself. Unique behind-the-scenes access and anecdotes paint a picture of a radical dreamer and visionary.

TH SA WE FR

10 12 16 18

15:00 11:30 21:00 17:30

As filmmaker Shuli Huang returns to his Chinese hometown in search for himself, a long due conversation with his mother plunges the two of them into a quest for acceptance and love in this Cannes award-winning film.

Tuschinski 1 ITA: Rabozaal Munt 12 Munt 11

IP Siamo qui per provare Jacopo Quadri, Greta De Lazzaris Italy, 2022, 88′

A theater documentary following a company through the turbulent creative process of a show in search of its script. Engulfed by the uncertainty of the present, the actors wind up disoriented and confused between their lives and the play taking shape.

13 14 16 19

21:00 12:15 21:15 15:45

18:15 10:30 19:45 11:30 21:30

Munt 13 De Balie: Grote Zaal Kleine Komedie Pathé City 3 Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal

+ Talk P&I

When the Mountain Rumbles

An observational portrait of three aging brothers living together, isolated in a Spanish village that many decades ago was emptied by government order. But now new political and economic decisions are threatening their way of life again.

SA SU TH FR

Tuschinski 4 Tuschinski 6 Munt 13 De Balie: Grote Zaal

12 13 17 18

20:30 14:30 21:30 17:30

Eye: Cinema 2 Munt 10 Munt 13 Tuschinski 5 Frontlight

EP Namaskar! Main Ravish Kumar Vinay Shukla India, United Kingdom, 2022, 94′ Does independent journalism still have a future? In India, the serious news channel NDTV, with Ravish Kumar at its centre, is forced to navigate a world that’s falling prey to increasing disinformation and polarization.

10 12 14 18 19

20:30 10:00 13:45 20:00 17:15

Munt 9 Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal Eye: Cinema 1 DLM: Mary Dresselhuys Zaal Munt 10

White Balls on Walls

Sarah Vos Netherlands, 2022, 90′

Frontlight

WP

Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art wants to become more diverse and inclusive. But how to go about that? An honest look behind the scenes into the sometimes-fraught process taking place in many public institutions.

Nominated for the IDFA Award for Best Dutch Film FR SA SA SU TU SU

11 12 12 13 15 20

18:30 15:00 17:00 18:30 21:00 13:15

Carré Ketelhuis: Zaal 1 Tuschinski 3 Podium Mozaïek Tuschinski 2 Tuschinski 1

IDFA Hit P&I

Sårede vilde dyr Jakob Pagel Andersen Denmark, 2022, 29′

IP

Love and panic compete for precedence when Jakob holds his newborn in his arms.

Hoping to gain insight into his feelings, the filmmaker visits his taciturn father in this moving, powerful and mutedly poetic self-examination.

17:45 18:30 10:30 13:30

Shorts Shorts Shorts Shorts

Munt 12 Tuschinski 2 Munt 13 Munt 9 De Balie: Grote Zaal Tuschinski 3 International Competition

Wisdom Gone Wild

IP

A poetic and affectionate portrait of a born storyteller with dementia. Now that Rose, the Japanese-American mother of filmmaker Rea Tajiri, is sinking deeper into her dream world, her daughter and caregiver tells Rose’s complex life story.

MO MO TU FR SU

14 14 15 18 20

10:45 18:45 15:30 16:45 13:30

Pathé City 2 Tuschinski 2 Tuschinski 4 Munt 12 Rialto VU: Zaal 4

P&I + Talk

The Yellow Ceiling El sostre groc Isabel Coixet Spain, 2022, 93′

A powerful account of abuse at a Spanish youth theater school. Testimonies from victims offer insight into the cunning manipulations of the perpetrator, who placed all his actions within the context of “theater.”

Nominated for the Beeld & Geluid IDFA ReFrame Award FR SU TU SA

11 13 15 19

10:30 12:45 12:00 17:00

Munt 12 Munt 9 Munt 11 Ketelhuis: Zaal 1 Focus: Playing Reality

You Have No Idea How Much I Love You Nawet nie wiesz, jak bardzo cię kocham Pawel Lozinski Poland, 2016, 81′

During a mother and daughter’s intimately filmed sessions with a psychotherapist, blame, grief and anger gradually make way for reconciliation. Their uniquely personal relationship ultimately reveals itself to be deeply universal.

SU 13 11:30 Munt 10 SA 19 16:00 Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal IDFA Competition for Youth Documentary

IDFA Competition for Short Documentary

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13:30 21:15 21:00 11:45 17:45 13:45

Youth Films: 14+

Wild Wounded Animals

TU WE SA SU

11 12 13 14 16 19

Masters, Focus: Around Masculinity

While We Watched

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FR SA SU MO WE SA

Rea Tajiri United States, 2022, 84′

El día que volaron la montaña Alba Bresolí Aliberch Spain, 2022, 29′

Masters, Focus: Playing Reality

We’re Here to Try

SU MO WE SA

12 13 14 15 18

Best of Fests

Tuschinski 3 Eye: Cinema 1 Podium Mozaïek Ketelhuis: Zaal 1 Tuschinski 4

We, Students!

A touching documentary on the personal impact of the Russian occupation of the Bucha region in March 2022. Traumatized locals and volunteers try to restore life from the ruins, while the war is still present in cities that have suffered heavy attacks.

Dang wo wang xiang ni de shi hou Shuli Huang China, 2022, 21′

Mila Teshaieva, Marcus Lenz Ukraine, Germany, 2022, 66′

Masters

Through a group of dancers with physical disabilities, Jos de Putter and Clara van Gool explore the adaptability of human beings and the flexibility of the human body, resulting in an experience that’s as confrontational as it is moving.

Nominated for the IDFA Award for Best Dutch Film

Best of Fests

Will You Look at Me

SA SU MO TU FR

WP Jos de Putter, Clara van Gool Netherlands, 2022, 96′

FR SA SU WE SA

Luminous

When Spring Came to Bucha WP

Munt 13 Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal Tuschinski 2 Tuschinski 6 Best of Fests

Two years after the death of a resident of the disadvantaged Cureghem quarter in Brussels, the graffiti still cries out for justice. The district is changing, but the improvements aren’t intended for the current residents.

FR SA WE SA

13:00 10:00 18:30 16:30

Thomas von Steinaecker Germany, United Kingdom, 2022, 103′

Violet Gave Willingly

SA SU WE FR

12 13 17 20

A Way to B

Photo model Lale creates the illusion of perfection, but there’s almost no space left for the real Lale. Should she risk having a digital copy of herself made? Documentary meets science fiction in a mirror of our times.

20:30 14:45 11:00 13:00

A group of children from the Achuar community, the original inhabitants of the region along the Pastaza River bordering Ecuador and Peru, move through the jungle independently—playing and working, in harmony with nature.

SA SU TH SU

IP Katharina Pethke Germany, 2022, 45′

16 17 19 20

Juunt Pastaza entsari Inês Alves Portugal, 2022, 61′

Luminous

Uncanny Me

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IDFA Competition for Youth Documentary

Waters of Pastaza

Wildcat EP Melissa Lesh, Trevor Beck Frost United States, 2022, 105′

This compilation program of youth films includes: Elsa, Insight, The Garbage Man, and A Mouthful of Petrol. The films have English subtitles.

FR 11 19:30 Munt 10 SA 12 15:30 Munt 9 WE 16 14:45 Tuschinski 6 IDFA Competition for Youth Documentary

Youth Films: 9–13

This compilation program of youth films includes: Beyond Our Stars, Jasmin’s Two Homes, Oasis, and The Longest Wait. The films have English subtitles.

SA 12 18:45 Tuschinski 2 TU 15 21:00 Munt 10 TH 17 12:00 Tuschinski 4

After serving in Afghanistan, the young British soldier Harry Turner struggles with PTSD. This drives him deep into the South American rainforest, where he takes on the care of an orphaned ocelot—which above all becomes an exercise in letting go.

FR SU SA SU

11 13 19 20

18:45 10:30 18:00 13:30

Tuschinski 1 Tuschinski 1 Eye: Cinema 1 Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal

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NEW MEDIA & PERFORMANCES Beyond the film program, IDFA explores the boundaries of the documentary art form with a selection of interactive and immersive projects and performances. Find an alphabetical overview below of all the installations, VR projects, and live events presented as part of IDFA DocLab, IDFA on Stage, and other special presentations from the program.

Exhibition in Brakke Grond The main location of IDFA DocLab is Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond. Experience a selection of the new interactive documentaries, XR installations, and performances in and around the building.

Register online for a free ticket.

VR Gallery in de Brakke Grond Discover a selection of the best new virtual reality films and experiences from the DocLab: Nervous Systems program. With a ticket you have 50 minutes to view various VR projects of your choice. Check out what’s on offer in the A-Z below.

IDFA on Stage and DocLab: Live events From motion-capture live performances and fulldome screenings to interactive themed evenings and experimental theater, the projects in IDFA on Stage and DocLab: Live Events are one-of-a-kind experiences at Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond and the ARTISPlanetarium, among other venues.

Special installations & performances Limited spaces are available for some special installations and VR performances. Purchase a ticket in advance to ensure your spot. idfa.nl/doclab | idfa.nl/idfaonstage

IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling, DocLab: Nervous Systems

Alone Together EP Dustin Harvey Canada, United Kingdom, 2022, 10′

Step into the world of the Alone Together Agency, where lonely people can hire replacement relatives. Use the app at DocLab to become a freelance family member and have real conversations with a virtual loner.

On show in DocLab Exhibition FR 11 to SA 19 11:30-20:30 Brakke Grond SU 20 11:30-18:00 Brakke Grond IDFA DocLab Competition for Immersive Non-Fiction, DocLab: Nervous Systems

The Anticipation of Rain WP

Naima Karim Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, Ireland, 2022, 7′ Using animated brush strokes in a 3D environment, a soundscape and scents, Naima Karim brings the tropical thunderstorm to life. Climate change has made the once-romantic monsoon into a life-threatening phenomenon.

Part of DocLab: VR Gallery FR 11 to SA 19 11:30-20:30 Brakke Grond SU 20 11:30-18:00 Brakke Grond

Arcadia Live

IDFA on Stage

IP

Paul Wright United Kingdom, 2022, 78′

This startling collage of archival footage of the British countryside is a cross between a historical document and a psychedelic trip. The pulsating soundtrack is performed live by Adrian Utley (Portishead) and Will Gregory (Goldfrapp) plus band.

SU 13 20:30 ITA: Rabozaal

IDFA on Stage

IDFA on Stage

Between Nothingness and Infinity, I Began to Weep IP

Entre le Néant et l’Infini, je me mis à pleurer Maxime Jean-Baptiste French Guiana, Belgium, France, 2022, 80′

A multimedia performance about the murder of 18-year-old Lucas, the nephew of filmmaker Maxime Jean-Baptiste, reflecting on the tragedy through a combination of video footage, interviews, readings, music, dance and lighting effects.

FR 11 20:00 Frascati 1 SA 12 20:00 Frascati 1

IDFA on Stage IDFA on Stage

IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling, DocLab: Nervous Systems

Border Birds WP Bieke Depoorter, Dries Depoorter Belgium, 2022, interactive

While humans erect more and more physical boundaries around the world, birds just carry on cheerfully ignoring them.

This digital project picked out 100 images of border-crossing birds from footage on publicly accessible cameras.

On show in DocLab Exhibition FR 11 to SA 19 11:30-20:30 Brakke Grond SU 20 11:30-18:00 Brakke Grond Presentation in DocLab Live: The Tool is the Message MO 14 20:30 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal IDFA DocLab Competition for Immersive Non-Fiction, DocLab: Nervous Systems

The Butterfly Effect

Mathilde Renault Netherlands, 2022, 20′

WP

In this multi-sensory installation, we make intimate acquaintance with a 4.5-billionyear-old rock fragment that traveled the universe before landing on Earth as a meteorite. Scientific data is translated into a sensorial experience.

On show in DocLab Exhibition FR 11 to SA 19 11:30-20:30 Brakke Grond SU 20 11:30-18:00 Brakke Grond

IDFA DocLab Competition for Immersive Non-Fiction, DocLab: Nervous Systems

Dancing with Dead Animals WP

Maarten Isaäk de Heer Netherlands, Germany, 2022, 10′ Maarten Isaäk de Heer has “re-animated” all the animals that died in his direct environment over the course of six months. He situates them in a pseudo-paradisical celebration of life that walks the line between tableau vivant and danse macabre.

On show in DocLab Exhibition FR 11 to SA 19 11:30-20:30 Brakke Grond SU 20 11:30-18:00 Brakke Grond Presentation in DocLab at the Planetarium: Here and After TU 15 20:30 ARTIS-Planetarium DocLab: Nervous Systems

DocLab at the Planetarium: Here and After An evening full of improbable life forms and poetic reflections on our place on earth under the enormous dome screen of the ARTIS-Planetarium.

TU 15 20:30 ARTIS-Planetarium DocLab: Nervous Systems

DocLab at the Planetarium: Song, Swarm and Silence Immerse yourself in a unique evening of the most spectacular 360-degree films today, including Swarm, Partita for 8 Voices, and Echoes of Silence, under the huge dome screen at the ARTIS-Planetarium.

FR 18 20:30 ARTIS-Planetarium

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DocLab: Nervous Systems

DocLab Exhibition: Nervous Systems

Alexander Devriendt Belgium, 2022, 60′

Play, discover, and experience a selection of groundbreaking interactive and multi-sensory XR documentaries in the Nervous Systems exhibition. Register online for a free ticket.

A performance about the funeral process, the perfect occasion for combining ritual, emotion-sharing and religion. Belgian performance group Ontroerend Goed explores our relationship with life’s end in a staged ceremony.

FR 11 to SA 19 11:30-20:30 Brakke Grond.

SU 20 11:30-18:00 Brakke Grond DocLab: Nervous Systems

DocLab Live: Eating the Metaverse

Evening about the malleable boundaries between virtual and sensory technology.

What does digital sushi taste like? Can we cook with microplastics? What is hunger in the metaverse and other infinite virtual worlds?

SA 12 20:30 de Brakke Grond: Rode Zaal DocLab: Nervous Systems

DocLab Live: The Tool is the Message

The tools around us define who we are and what we make. What would it be like if computers directed a Werner Herzog movie? Can a game fix us? An evening about co-creation with each other, with AI, but without Werner Herzog. With Constant Dullaart, Taylor McCue, Piotr Winiewicz, and Mads Damsbo, among others.

MO 14 20:30 de Brakke Grond: Rode Zaal DocLab: Nervous Systems

Doclab Live: Unlocking the System

We dance alone and yet together. An evening in which we search for disruption of dominant systems, together with media artists. From algospeak in the metaverse to bypass censorship, to queer pamphlets and the beauty of illegal raves.

SU 13 20:30 de Brakke Grond: Rode Zaal DocLab: Nervous Systems

DocLab: VR Gallery

Discover a selection of the best new virtual reality films and experiences from the DocLab: Nervous Systems program. With a ticket you have 50 minutes to view various VR projects of your choice.

FR 11 to SA 19 11:30-20:30 Brakke Grond SU 20 11:30-18:00 Brakke Grond IDFA on Stage

The Eagle & the Tortoise

Sister Sylvester United States, 2021, 70′

IP

Storyteller Sister Sylvester has made a book for collective reading. The audience participates in this film-concert by reading, following directions and listening to a remarkable story about recent events in Turkey and the history of the aerial view.

FR 11 20:30 Frascati 2 SA 12 20:30 Frascati 2

IDFA on Stage IDFA on Stage

DocLab: Nervous Systems, IDFA Doclab Spotlight

Echoes of Silence

Dome projections of starlit skies and animations complement this intense audio experience. A trip into space to explore the ways the emptiness of the universe manifests as sound at various places around the world.

Presentation in DocLab at the Planetarium: Song, Swarm and Silence FR 18 20:30 ARTIS-Planetarium

Tom Struyf Belgium, 2022, 90′

IDFA on Stage

IP

de Brakke Grond: Rode Zaal IDFA on Stage

de Brakke Grond: Rode Zaal IDFA on Stage

de Brakke Grond: Rode Zaal IDFA on Stage

de Brakke Grond: Rode Zaal IDFA on Stage

Dancing with Dead Animals

DocLab: Nervous Systems, IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling

Ghana Airways WP Hakeem Adam Ghana, Germany, 2022, 60′

DocLab: Nervous Systems, IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling

With news clips, snatches of music, historical recordings and advertising jingles, Hakeem Adam constructs an audio image of postcolonial Ghana. Through “things in which I can hear myself,” he examines what it means to be Ghanaian.

On show in DocLab Exhibition FR 11 to SA 19 11:30-20:30 Brakke Grond SU 20 11:30-18:00 Brakke Grond DocLab: Nervous Systems, IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling

Glasfäden IP Threads of Glass Ben Wahl Austria, Germany, 2022, 35′

An interactive graphic novel about Vietnamese migrant workers in Communist East Germany. After the borders opened up with the West in 1989, they saw their children struggling with cultural differences and discrimination in a rapidly changing society.

On show in DocLab Exhibition FR 11 to SA 19 11:30-20:30 Brakke Grond SU 20 11:30-18:00 Brakke Grond DocLab: Nervous Systems, IDFA Doclab Spotlight

Grandma’s House David Gardener Canada, 2022, 5′

A 360° guided tour of grandma’s house gets further and further off track, with the image tilting and the voice-over stuck on repeat. This is what it must be like to tumble down into the bottomless pit of dementia.

Presentation in DocLab at the Planetarium: Here and After TU 15 20:30 ARTIS-Planetarium IDFA on Stage

Granma. Trombones from Havana

Stefan Kaegi Germany, 2019, 120′

Documentary theater in which four young Cubans reconstruct the lives of their grandparents and rewrite the history of their country. These stories are interwoven with the contemporary socio-political issues of a fast-changing Cuba.

IDFA on Stage IDFA on Stage

DocLab: Nervous Systems, IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling

He Fucked the Girl Out of Me WP Taylor McCue United States, 2022, 25′

In this story, told through the medium of a retro interactive computer game, a trans person named Ann talks frankly and in detail about a traumatic sexual experience and its harrowing, ongoing aftermath.

On show in DocLab Exhibition FR 11 to SA 19 11:30-20:30 Brakke Grond SU 20 11:30-18:00 Brakke Grond

In this intimate live performance, Belgian theater director Tom Struyf tells the story of the footage he shot over several years in Willard, a tiny American hamlet, where the ruin of a psychiatric institution led him unexpectedly back to Belgium.

TU 15 20:00 Frascati 1 WE 16 20:00 Frascati 1

TU 15 18:30

TU 15 20:30

WE 16 18:30

WE 16 20:30

TU 15 20:00 ITA: Rabozaal WE 16 20:00 ITA: Rabozaal

Tamara Shogaolu Netherlands, 2020, 7′

Finding Willard

IDFA on Stage, DocLab: Nervous Systems

Funeral

Presentation in DocLab Live: The Tool is the Message MO 14 20:30 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

DocLab: Nervous Systems, IDFA DocLab Competition for Immersive Non-Fiction

Her Body and Other Mukbang WP

In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats IP

Most stars of mukbang videos, which feature individuals eating huge quantities of food, are East Asian women. In this video installation—a feminist riposte to this form of fetishization—a voluptuous woman becomes the meal.

This interactive VR documentary takes you deep inside the UK rave culture of 1989. Grab a flyer and hunt for the illegal rave, somewhere in a secret location in Coventry. Experience the anticipation, the search—and finally the euphoria.

On show in DocLab Exhibition FR 11 to SA 19 11:30-20:30 Brakke Grond SU 20 11:30-18:00 Brakke Grond

Regular ticketsale FR 11 to SU 20 in Arti et Amicitiae FR 11 to ZO 20 in Brakke Grond (wheelchair accessible)

Presentation in DocLab Live: Eating the Metaverse SA 12 20:30 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

Presentation in DocLab Live: Unlocking the System SU 13 20:30 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

Echo Tang United States, 2022, 3′

Darren Emerson United Kingdom, 2022, 35′

DocLab: Nervous Systems, IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling, Focus: Around Masculinity

His Name Is My Name Eline Jongsma, Kel O’Neill Netherlands, 2022, 33′

WP

A documentary about WWII in surprising form, unearthing the story of filmmaker Eline Jongsma’s great-grandfather, the infamous Dutch Nazi Gerrit Jongsma. Part family epic and part detective story, the series unfolds in ten binge-worthy episodes.

On show in DocLab Exhibition FR 11 to SA 19 11:30-20:30 Brakke Grond SU 20 11:30-18:00 Brakke Grond IDFA on Stage, DocLab: Nervous Systems, IDFA Doclab Spotlight

Horizon

In a unique one-to-one performance, you talk to a young person about the climate crisis and dreams for the future. The new generation has burning questions and is urgently searching for new hope.

Regular ticketsale, FR 11 to SU 20 – with the exception of TH 17, Brakke Grond DocLab: Nervous Systems, IDFA DocLab Competition for Immersive Non-Fiction

Ihyangjeong: Carving with Memories EP

WP

In this interactive VR simulation you try to stay a step ahead of censorship on a fictitious online platform, with critical posts about the sudden disappearance of influencer Kristine. Based on real anti-censorship techniques used by online activists.

Part of DocLab: VR Gallery FR 11 to SA 19 11:30-20:30 Brakke Grond SU 20 11:30-18:00 Brakke Grond Presentation in DocLab Live: Unlocking the System SU 13 20:30 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

Labyrinth WP Annie Marr United States, 2022, 40′

An interactive documentary about the mysterious 2010 disappearance of an American hiker in Joshua Tree National Park. Follow the fanatic online and off-line sleuths still searching for answers.

On show in DocLab Exhibition FR 11 to SA 19 11:30-20:30 Brakke Grond SU 20 11:30-18:00 Brakke Grond Presentation in DocLab Live: Unlocking the System SU 13 20:30 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

기억으로 만든 집: 이향정 Sunghwan Lee South Korea, 2022, 17′

For animator Sunghwan Lee, the South Korean housing market offers little opportunity to find a real home—one like his father’s childhood house, packed with memories.

A virtuoso animated journey through time and space.

Part of DocLab: VR Gallery FR 11 to SA 19 11:30-20:30 Brakke Grond SU 20 11:30-18:00 Brakke Grond DocLab: Nervous Systems, IDFA DocLab Competition for Immersive Non-Fiction

Ikhet (Sound Pyramid)

Kristine Is Not Well

Seeyam Quine United States, 2022, 15′

DocLab: Nervous Systems, IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling, Focus: Around Masculinity

Joeri Heegstra Netherlands, 2022, 45′

Ali Santana United States, 2022, 7′

DocLab: Nervous Systems, IDFA DocLab Competition for Immersive Non-Fiction

IP

DocLab: Nervous Systems, IDFA Doclab Spotlight, Focus: Playing Reality

The Man Who Couldn’t Leave 無法離開的人 Singing Chen Taiwan, 2022, 34′

This VR piece puts the viewer inside the penal colony where Taiwan imprisoned political prisoners in 1949. The now elderly A-Keun talks about hunger, boredom, the sense of time and his comrade who died in prison.

Part of DocLab: VR Gallery FR 11 to SA 19 11:30-20:30 Brakke Grond SU 20 11:30-18:00 Brakke Grond

Referring to the glorious light of the Great Pyramid of Giza, this interactive installation with light, vibration and a very personal sound collage immerses the visitor in a microcosm that stimulates the senses.

On show in DocLab Exhibition FR 11 to SA 19 11:30-20:30 Brakke Grond SU 20 11:30-18:00 Brakke Grond

IDFA on Stage IDFA on Stage

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ONX + DocLab MoCap Stage: Once a Glacier Jiabao Li

Once a Glacier tells the story of a relationship between a girl and a glacier through a live, mixed reality performance using motion capture technology. As the girl grows older, the existence of the ice is threatened, and the viewer is taken on a journey through her seemingly futile efforts to protect what was once an entire glacier.

SA 12 11:00 de Brakke Grond: Rode Zaal DocLab: Nervous Systems

ONX + DocLab MoCap Stage: Realtime

Once a Glacier

Matthew Niederhausen DocLab: Nervous Systems, IDFA DocLab Competition for Immersive Non-Fiction

Missing 10 Hours VR

Fanni Fazakas Hungary, 2022, 16′

WP

Watch passively, go along with what’s happening, or intervene? In this interactive VR production, the viewer’s choices determine whether a night out ends in date rape or the safe return home of the girl whose drink is spiked with GHB. Part of DocLab: VR Gallery FR 11 to SA 19 11:30-20:30 Brakke Grond SU 20 11:30-18:00 Brakke Grond DocLab: Nervous Systems, IDFA DocLab Competition for Immersive Non-Fiction

My Toe (Uncensored) Lisa Schamlé Netherlands, 2022, interactive

IP

When Lisa Schamlé posted photos of her toe online, she immediately got reactions from foot fetishists. That led to this installation of photos, embroidery and a live performance. Is it possible to fetishize absolutely every part of the female body?

ONX + IDFA DocLab MoCap Stage

ONX Studio United States, 2022, interactive ONX and IDFA DocLab are collaborating for the first time to present a motion capture stage at the festival. Live performances and workshops invite audiences and professionals to explore the artistic potential of mocap technology for documentary art.

DocLab: Nervous Systems

ONX + DocLab MoCap Stage: Bag of Worms

Matt Romein

Bag of Worms is a live motion capture performance lecture composed of vignettes, monologues, and games. A grab bag of ideas and experiments, this performance is inspired by body horror, creative violence, the WarioWare video game series, and more.

On show in DocLab Exhibition FR 11 to SA 19 11:30-20:30 Brakke Grond SU 20 11:30-18:00 Brakke Grond

SA 12 15:00 de Brakke Grond: Rode Zaal

Presentation in DocLab Live: Eating the Metaverse SA 12 20:30 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

ONX + DocLab MoCap Stage: Choreographic Interfaces Past & Future

DocLab: Nervous Systems, IDFA Doclab Spotlight

New Update Available – Version 2.1 WP

Jeroen van Loon Netherlands, 2022, 13′

Take a seat at the weekly computer hour for the elderly, where course leader Robert will help you find your way in the digital world. This funny and moving VR experience enables you to understand digital illiteracy among the elderly from the inside.

On show in DocLab Exhibition FR 11 to SA 19 11:30-20:30 Brakke Grond SU 20 11:30-18:00 Brakke Grond IDFA on Stage

Non-Aligned Newsreels: Fragments #2 – New Voices from the Summit WP

Mila Turajlić, Maja Medić Serbia, 2022, 90′

A live event in which six performers respond to rediscovered footage of a conference held in 1961 at which a new political dream for the Third World was formulated.

MO 14 21:00 De Balie: Grote Zaal IDFA on Stage

Okawari

DocLab: Nervous Systems, IDFA Doclab Spotlight

Landia Egal, Amaury Laburthe Canada, France, 2022, 30′ Welcome to Okawari restaurant! Sit down at a real table for a virtual meal. Place your order for more sushi, another bowl of ramen and yet another bottle of sake. But is this seemingly inexhaustible supply of culinary delights as infinite as it seems?

On show in DocLab Exhibition FR 11 to SA 19 11:30-20:30 Brakke Grond SU 20 11:30-18:00 Brakke Grond Presentation in DocLab Live: Eating the Metaverse SA 12 20:30 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

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DocLab: Nervous Systems

Kat Sullivan

Dancer, engineer, and motion capture director Kat Sullivan explores the complex collaboration between artistry and engineering in motion capture. This talk will be followed by the performance of her piece Dance Looper.

SU 13 13:00 de Brakke Grond: Rode Zaal DocLab: Nervous Systems

ONX + DocLab Mocap Stage: Dance Looper

Kat Sullivan

Dance Looper records motion capture data and plays it back in a digital landscape. All in real-time, with the ability to utilize the full choreographic toolset and play outside the limits of physical reality. Free admission.

SU 13 15:00 de Brakke Grond: Rode Zaal DocLab: Nervous Systems

ONX + DocLab MoCap Stage: Maquette

Maquette is a live interactive performance leveraging motion capture, avatars, and dance in an exploration of the parallel histories of averaging and idealism in art and society. The performers’ movements drive avatars in a genre-bending story that unfolds in both physical and virtual space.

Part of ONX + DocLab MoCap Stage: Showcase FR 11 18:45 de Brakke Grond: Rode Zaal MO 14 15:00 de Brakke Grond: Rode Zaal

Realtime by Matthew Niederhausen stages playful immersive scenarios between a participant in a VR headset and a live performer in a motion capture suit. These encounters, exploring the anxieties and joys of the so-called metaverse, are then mediated by a virtual cinematographer to produce a hybrid spectacle for a live audience.

SA 12 13:00 de Brakke Grond: Rode Zaal DocLab: Nervous Systems

ONX + DocLab MoCap Stage: Showcase

Four ONX artist performances, - engaged irreverently with gaming, horror, climate change, normative body typing, interactivity, - each using the motion capture stage in different ways: - as camera, performer, participant, or spectacle.

FR 11 18:45 de Brakke Grond: Rode Zaal MO 14 15:00 de Brakke Grond: Rode Zaal DocLab: Nervous Systems

Opening Night DocLab: Nervous Systems exhibition

The festive opening of the IDFA DocLab exhibition Nervous Systems. Drinks provided

by Onassis Foundation. Bring your phone and headphones. Access by invite only.

FR 11 20:30 de Brakke Grond DocLab: Nervous Systems, IDFA Doclab Spotlight

Partita for 8 Voices Michel Lam Canada, 2022, 27′

Eight incomparable singers explore the far reaches of the human vocal range. In a 360-degree projection, the score evolves into abstract patterns that draw the viewer in and depict sounds for which we have no words.

Presentation in DocLab at the Planetarium: Song, Swarm and Silence FR 18 20:30 ARTIS-Planetarium DocLab: Nervous Systems, IDFA DocLab Competition for Immersive Non-Fiction

Plastisapiens

EP Miri Chekhanovich, Edith Jorisch Canada, Israel, 2022, 15′

Leave behind your worries about the future—Plastisapiens takes you on a playful and soothing VR journey where organic beings and plastics become one.

Part of DocLab: VR Gallery FR 11 to SA 19 11:30-20:30 Brakke Grond SU 20 11:30-18:00 Brakke Grond On show in DocLab Exhibition FR 11 to SA 19 11:30-20:30 Brakke Grond SU 20 11:30-18:00 Brakke Grond Presentation in DocLab Live: Eating the Metaverse SA 12 20:30 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal DocLab: Nervous Systems, IDFA Doclab Spotlight

A Radical Compromise Daniel Červenka, Planetum Czech Republic, 2021, 12′

The effect of our hunger for fossil fuels on the environment becomes palpable in this 360-degree immersion into a Czech brown coal mine. The traces of destructive human activity are revealed from microscopic scale to all-encompassing.

Presentation in DocLab at the Planetarium: Here and After TU 15 20:30 ARTIS-Planetarium

IDFA on Stage, IDFA DocLab Program & Competition, DocLab: Nervous Systems, IDFA DocLab Competition for Immersive Non-Fiction

Slumberland WP Emma Bexell Stanisic, Stefan Bexell Stanisic, Bombina Bombast, Robin Jonsson Sweden, 2022, 30′

In our “attention economy”, where money is to be made from every second we spend looking at a screen, more and more people are suffering from insomnia. In this live guided group experience in VR, theater collective Bombina Bombast leads you to sleep.

Regular ticketsale FR 11 to SU 20 in Arti et Amicitiae FR 11 to ZO 20 in Brakke Grond (wheelchair accessible) DocLab: Nervous Systems, IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling

Social Bouquet

WP Constant Dullaart Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, 2022, interactive A social media platform without the battle for likes? Why not just build it yourself, thought artist Constant Dullaart during the Covid pandemic. In this idyllic online meadow of flowers, every visitor has a chance to bloom.

On show in DocLab Exhibition FR 11 to SA 19 11:30-20:30 Brakke Grond SU 20 11:30-18:00 Brakke Grond Presentation in DocLab Live: The Tool is the Message MO 14 20:30 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal DocLab: Nervous Systems, IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling

A South Asian Queer Pamphlet WP Soumya Mukhopadhyay India, 2022, interactive

Performance artist Kaur Chimuk was filmed during 26 queer performances that undermine South Asian gender norms.

Spell a word with the alphabet in this web installation and create your own queer pamphlet.

On show in DocLab Exhibition FR 11 to SA 19 11:30-20:30 Brakke Grond SU 20 11:30-18:00 Brakke Grond Presentation in DocLab Live: Unlocking the System SU 13 20:30 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal DocLab: Nervous Systems, IDFA Doclab Spotlight

Swarm

Maarten Isaäk de Heer Germany, 2022, 10′ We fly with the migratory birds of the future, which due to climate change will be forced to travel longer distances until they fall exhausted from the sky. On the ground, humans leave their final traces in a post-apocalyptic landscape.

Presentation in DocLab at the Planetarium: Song, Swarm and Silence FR 18 20:30 ARTIS-Planetarium DocLab: Nervous Systems, IDFA DocLab Competition for Immersive Non-Fiction

With These Hands WP Tessa Ratuszynska United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden, 2022, 20′

This VR installation shares challenging, complex and under-discussed stories of sexual assault and recovery. It explores the role of listening in the recovery of both survivors and those responsible for sexual harm.

On show in DocLab Exhibition FR 11 to SA 19 11:30-20:30 Brakke Grond SU 20 11:30-18:00 Brakke Grond

CO-FINANCED AND SUPPORTED BY:

SUPPORTED BY:

↘ BYE BYE BELARUS

↘ BOOKS VS TANKS

↘ THE LAST SUMMER

dir. Aliaksandr Matafonau [work in progress]

dir. Tetiana Hanzha, Yelyzaveta Pyrozhkova [work in progress]

dir. Ihar Czyshchenia Poland / 2022 / 43 min

Anna and Alexander built their family nest in the outskirts of Minsk.The presidential election in Belarus and the events that followed radically changed the plans of the young family. After losing her sense of security, Anna persuades Alexander to move from Belarus to neighboring Poland. They have to start everything from scratch again. The outbreak of the war in Ukraine distances the family's plans to return to Belarus even further.

Valentine, Georgia, Nadia, Arystarkh have been selling books at the used book market in Kiev for decades. They spend their days saving old books, haggling for a better price and amusing regular and new customers with jokes and stories. One day, they find out that the land where they sell second-hand books has been sold.

At the outbreak of the war, the situation of the buccaneers changed dramatically.

They no longer have to defend their stalls against the bulldozers. However, they must defend their barricade of books against Russian tanks.

The film tells the story of teenage skaters from Minsk who are enjoying the summer of 2020, probably the most difficult summer in the history of Belarus. They will never forget that summer: they fall in love, argue, re-concile, disappoint, laugh, go to clubs, prepare for exams, sing songs, but most of all they skateboard. They feel free in a country where the word “freedom” and its very notion are highly abstract. These young people personify the “tomorrow” of Belarus.

→ If you are interested in the projects send your inquiries at:

TVP Dokument / International Sales Aleksandra Kaźmieruk e-mail: aleksandra.kazmieruk@tvp.pl

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