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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.

Review: Trains

Review: Trains

The found-footage film by veteran Polish documentarian Maciej J Drygas, which is the result of ten years’ work, really lets the mind wander  

26/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Eleonora Camizzi • Director of Pictures in Mind

Interview: Eleonora Camizzi • Director of Pictures in Mind

“I already felt that this set-up could help us have real conversations, where we could really listen to each other”

The Swiss director unpicks her process of pointing the camera at herself and her father, afflicted by schizophrenia  

25/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Review: The Jacket

Review: The Jacket

Belgian director Mathijs Poppe’s documentary is a multilayered narrative tracking a symbolic garment through the Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon  

22/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Review: Light Memories

Review: Light Memories

Misha Vallejo Prut unpacks intergenerational trauma as perpetuated by silence and absence, in the process making one of the most gorgeously lensed personal documentaries of the year  

22/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Review: Silent Observers

Review: Silent Observers

Eliza Petkova’s new documentary adopts the point of view of five animals in a remote Bulgarian village  

22/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Review: Green Is the New Red

Review: Green Is the New Red

Anna Recalde Miranda’s fifth documentary sounds the alarm bells for Latin America’s politics  

22/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Maciej J Drygas’s Trains crowned with the Best Film Award at IDFA

Maciej J Drygas’s Trains crowned with the Best Film Award at IDFA

Also among the European winners were An American Pastoral, Bestiaries, Herbaria, Lapidaries, The Guest and Writing Hawa  

22/11/2024 | IDFA 2024 | Awards

Review: Abo Zaabal 89

Review: Abo Zaabal 89

In his poignant doc, Bassam Mortada, the son of a political prisoner, investigates how the very fabric of his family was torn apart and the constituent parts never came back the same way again  

22/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Review: Home Game

Review: Home Game

In her personal new film, Lidija Zelović uses archive and family footage to make a political diagnosis  

21/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Myrid Carten • Director of A Want in Her

Interview: Myrid Carten • Director of A Want in Her

“People are often powerless over their issues, but there are ways in which we can make excuses for it as well”

The Irish artist and filmmaker talks about turning a critical lens on her mother and herself in her first feature-length documentary  

21/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

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