During the festival, Q&As organized by various student organizations will take place at Kriterion and Rialto VU. On this page you will find all the screenings where these talks will be held.
Specially for students, IDFA offers discounts for the upcoming festival edition. Read more about this here.
Solmatalua & Foragers
November 14 at 3:00 pm in Kriterion 1
Q&A organised by Simulacrum
A Symphony for a Common Man
November 14 at 6:00 pm in Rialto VU: Zaal 4
Q&A organised by SIB (Dutch United Nations Student Association)
Girl Who Dreams about Time
November 15 at 3:00 pm in Kriterion 1
Q&A organised by Offscreen
A Compassionate Spy
November 16 at 3:00 pm in Kriterion 1
Hosted by Machiavelli
Anhell69
November 16 at 6:00 pm in Rialto VU: Zaal 4
Q&A organised by CUT (Amsterdam University College Student Association - film committee)
Girl Gang
November 17 at 3:00 pm in Kriterion 1
Q&A organised by FLOOR
Private Footage
November 18 at 2:00 pm in Kriterion 1
Q&A organised by Soapbox
When the young queer actor he cast to star in a vampire film dies of an overdose, filmmaker Theo Montoya dives deeper into the no-future generation of Medellín, in this “trans film” about all the people who don’t belong to anything or anyone.
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In 1951, at the height of the Cold War, physicist Ted Hall risked his life by sharing US atomic secrets with the Soviet Union. Seventy years on, his wife explains what possessed him to do it.
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Israel has banned harvesting za’atar and akoub, two plants essential to Palestinian cuisine. Officially, it’s to preserve nature, but Palestinian wild pickers see it differently. A subtle but powerful film on how politics can reach into the kitchen.
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A portrait of 14-year-old Leonie, a successful teenage influencer from Berlin. It seems like a fairy tale, all the followers, attention and free products, but the continuous pressure to produce content threatens to overwhelm her family.
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A coming-of-age film about the young shaman Sujin, who oversees a temple together with her grandmother in the mountains of South Korea. Will she be able to combine her calling as a seer with her studies at the University of Seoul?
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A desktop documentary using open source research to expose the appalling reality beyond the frames of a carefree family vacation film, shot in early-1960s South Africa.
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If collective memory exists, this may be what it looks like. An intuitive collage of people, landscapes, performances and impressionistic scenes emanate directly from the African diaspora in Brazil. Poetic and experimental, between ritual and activism.
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A shocking documentary about the sabotage of a potential agreement on weapons of mass destruction between the US and Iraq in 2002. Diplomat José Bustani and others look back, condemning the US abuse of power.
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