Last Train Home wins top prize in Amsterdam
by Cineuropa
The winners of the various competition programmes were announced Friday, November 27 in the Pathé Tuschinski 1 in Amsterdam, during the awards ceremony for the 22nd IDFA - International Documentary Film Festival.
Lixin Fan’s Last Train Home (China/Canada), made with financial assistance from the Jan Vrijman Fund, won the VPRO IDFA Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary. John Appel won the very first Dioraphte IDFA Award for Dutch Documentary for The Player.
Prior to the announcement of the awards, Amsterdam alderman Carolien Gehrels officially launched IDFA TV, the online documentary channel where documentaries can be seen all year round, free of charge.
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