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IDFA 2019

This Is Not a Movie

Yung Chang
Canada, Germany
2019
106 min
European Premiere
Festival history

Robert Fisk saw the film Foreign Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940) when he was 12. He immediately knew what he wanted to be: a foreign correspondent, like the film’s hero, played by Joel McCrea.

Fisk made his dream come true. Now 73, he’s still active as an author and war reporter. But he soon realized that reality doesn’t comply with the laws of film—hence the title of this portrait: This Is Not a Movie. Wars aren’t resolved by journalists, and the bad guys don’t always get what they deserve. Nevertheless, Fisk struggles on, possessed by the idea that he has to let the world know what’s happening in the world’s hotspots. His motto: report what you see with your own eyes. Only then will you get close to the truth.

As a Middle East expert, Fisk regularly comes under figurative fire, and this is also covered in the documentary. But above all, we see how he continues to search tirelessly for the facts.

Credits
Director
Production
    Anita Lee for National Film Board of Canada,
    Allyson Luchak for TINAM Inc.,
    Nelofer Pazira for TINAM Inc.,
    Ingmar Trost for Sutor Kolonko
Editing
    Mike Munn
    Mike Munn
Music
Involved TV Channel
    ZDF/ARTE,
    VPRO,
    RTS - Radio Television Suisse
    ZDF/ARTE,
    VPRO,
    RTS - Radio Television Suisse
World Sales
    Nathalie Bourdon for National Film Board of Canada
    Nathalie Bourdon for National Film Board of Canada
Screening copy
    National Film Board of Canada
    National Film Board of Canada

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