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REPORT: IDFA 2024

Cineuropa is covering the 37th International Documentary Festival Amsterdam live with reviews, interviews and news...

REPORT: IDFA 2024

35 articles available in total starting from 11/09/2024. Last article published on 29/11/2024.

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Maciej J Drygas • Director of Trains

Interview: Maciej J Drygas • Director of Trains

“This film has a dark conclusion: we don’t learn from our mistakes; we repeat them”

We chatted to the Polish documentary director, whose recent IDFA winner reflects on the atrocities and joys of the 20th century  

29/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Kamal Aljafari • Director of A Fidai Film

Interview: Kamal Aljafari • Director of A Fidai Film

"This film is not only about Palestine, but about any place that has been occupied and any people subjected to oppression"

The Palestinian director talks about his feature built from archival images looted by the Israeli army that the filmmaker reworked to express the reality of oppression his people are experiencing  

28/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Najiba Noori, Rasul Noori • Director and co-director of Writing Hawa

Interview: Najiba Noori, Rasul Noori • Director and co-director of Writing Hawa

“It’s not just my mum's story; it’s also the story of so many other women who have been through the same experiences”

The director and co-director, also siblings, describe the shared intentions behind their film, a personal look at their mother’s life and three generations of women in Afghanistan  

27/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Anna Recalde Miranda • Director of Green Is the New Red

Interview: Anna Recalde Miranda • Director of Green Is the New Red

“The label of activism is the best one in the world”

The Italian-Paraguayan director analyses her sharp, critical look at Paraguay’s political past and present  

27/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Lidija Zelovic • Director of Home Game

Interview: Lidija Zelovic • Director of Home Game

“When you’ve lived through a political disaster, you no longer see politics as something that happens during the evening news”

We sat down to chat to the director about her film, which constitutes a warning against sweeping politics under the rug  

27/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Review: The Shadow Scholars

Review: The Shadow Scholars

Eloïse King’s devastating documentary follows Professor Patricia Kingori as she uncovers the mechanics and psychology behind the industry of Kenyan essay writers whose invisible work powers the West  

27/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Mathijs Poppe • Director of The Jacket

Interview: Mathijs Poppe • Director of The Jacket

“We are constantly projecting futures but also pasts, and we are trying to make sense of the world around us through fiction”

The Belgian director speaks about using a blend of documentary and fiction to create a story that reckons with the past, present and Palestinian hopes for the future  

27/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Eliza Petkova • Director of Silent Observers

Interview: Eliza Petkova • Director of Silent Observers

“I was questioning the idea that we’re more intelligent than, or simply superior to, the animal world”

The Bulgarian director discusses the joys and surprises of working with animals during the making of her new hybrid documentary  

27/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Review: Writing Hawa

Review: Writing Hawa

Najiba and Rasul Noori leverage their own subjectivity to create a tremendously powerful work on emancipation, freedom and opportunity for women in Afghanistan  

26/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Virpi Suutari • Director of Once Upon a Time in a Forest

Interview: Virpi Suutari • Director of Once Upon a Time in a Forest

“The company of these young radicals made me remember how essential it is to stay curious”

The director tells us more about her film that proves that people still need to fight for the environment everywhere – even in Finland  

26/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

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