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On October 23, IDFA Meets gets up close and personal with feminist author Munganyende. In this special daytime program, the writer takes us into the safe haven of a migrant living room, recreating the ease she felt growing up in these intimate spaces. Rebecca Achieng Ajulu-Bushell's short documentary film Breakfast in Kisumu will be screened, and East African breakfast will be served.
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Dutch talent development program Videoland Academy is now accepting entries for its third edition. Continuing its work with emerging screenwriters and documentary filmmakers who tell contemporary, original, and accessible stories in different genres, the third Videoland Academy is specifically seeking documentary proposals within a Dutch context, and fiction proposals within a Dutch horror context.
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This year’s Film Fund DocLab Interactive Grant goes to the interactive artworks [Posthuman Wombs] by Anna Fries and Malu Peeters and Disarmed by Alexandra Barancová, Jae Perris, and Moniker. Each project will receive a development contribution of €10,000 and will premiere at IDFA DocLab 2021 in November. With the grant, awarded for the fifth time this year, the Netherlands Film Fund and the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam support the realization of innovative artistic projects with international potential.
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IDFA Meets, together with journalist-curator Ruben Baart and IDFA DocLab, investigates the intimate relationship between humans and technology in our next event. On September 30, dive into the world of artificial intimacy at Felix Meritis in Amsterdam.
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IDFA 2021 is only a few months away, and preparations are already in full swing. With the festival returning to cinemas all over Amsterdam, we're eagerly looking for volunteers to make this edition a success. Will you come join the team?
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The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam announced the first details of its 2021 edition today, which will bring acclaimed filmmakers Hito Steyerl and Artavazd Pelechian to Amsterdam alongside presenting programs that celebrate their work. The festival also announced a first glimpse of an upcoming Focus Program in homage to renowned filmmaker Johan van der Keuken, marking the 25th anniversary of Amsterdam Global Village. IDFA will take place from November 17 to 28, 2021 in Amsterdam.
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Specially for Pride, you can watch the extraordinary documentary film Unforgivable here until August 15. The film, about a small group of gay prisoners in a packed El Salvador prison, won the prize for best short documentary at IDFA last year. Telling the story of the sensitive Geovany, a former gang member who dares to be openly gay in the harsh prison environment, Unforgivable also left a lasting impression at numerous other international festivals. In celebration of the film's limited run in the IDFA Collection, we sat down with director Marlén Viñayo to talk about the making of this special documentary film and about the situation currently facing the LGBTQ+ community in El Salvador.
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IDFA Meets and ROEF Amsterdam join forces for the second year! On Friday, August 27, head to the roof of the NEMO Science museum for a special screening of the Romanian festival hit Acasă, My Home while overlooking the Amsterdam skyline.
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On Thursday, September 2, IDFA presents the Dutch premiere of Pawel Lozinski's The Balcony Movie in Pathé Tuschinski in Amsterdam.
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In 2018 Dutch documentary maker Corinne van der Borch pitched the project Sisters on Track at IDFA Forum together with the Norwegian director Tone Grøttjord-Glenne. Now, three years later the film has been released. The documentary tells the story of three young American sisters who, because of a coverstory in the magazine Sports Illustrated, are propelled into national stardom. And with Netflix as distributing partner the film now reaches an worldwide audience of millions.
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