IDFA 2024 35 articles available in total starting from 11/09/2024. Last article published on 29/11/2024. page: [1] 2 3 4 next 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 2024Interview: 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 2024Interview: 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 2024Interview: 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 2024Interview: 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 2024Review: The Shadow ScholarsEloïse 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 2024Interview: 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 2024Interview: 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 2024Review: Writing HawaNajiba 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 2024Interview: 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 page: [1] 2 3 4 next