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1222 articles available in total starting from 11/09/2002. Last article published on 11/04/2025.

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

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

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

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

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: 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

Review: A Want in Her

Review: A Want in Her

Myrid Carten's debut documentary traces her mother’s battle with addiction through a profound reprocessing of personal archives and piercing conversations  

19/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Stijn Bouma • Director of The Hunt for Meral O.

Interview: Stijn Bouma • Director of The Hunt for Meral O.

“I realised that as a society, we hadn’t understood what had happened at all: the devastation of lives”

The Dutch filmmaker explains why he wanted to transpose into fiction the dramatic, Kafkaesque story that opposed his country to many families forced into corners  

19/11/2024 | Arras 2024

Review: The Hunt for Meral O.

Review: The Hunt for Meral O.

Stijn Bouma delivers a poignant and highly engaged first fiction film about the scandalous oppression of a woman of Turkish origin by the Dutch authorities  

15/11/2024 | Arras 2024

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