Remaining Screenings: Thurs, Nov 26 @ 8pm Fri, Nov 27 @ 9:30pm Sat, Nov 28 @ 1:15pm Synopsis In the age of New Media, people all around the world are posting an endless stream of video clips online. Every day, thousands of web surfers cram their video notes into virtual bottles, toss them into the […]
Remaining Screening Times: Sat, Nov 21 @ 10:30am Sun, Nov 22 @ 8:45pm Mon, Nov 23 @ 12:15pm Thurs, Nov 26 @ 5:30pm Fri, Nov 27 @ 5:15pm Sat, Nov 28 @ 7pm “Marianne Hertz: Model and Perfect Mother.” This is how filmmaker Tom Fassaert’s grandmother was presented in a 1950s magazine. His father, uncle […]
Screening Times: Sat, Nov 21 @ 7:30pm Sun, Nov 22 @ 10:30am Wed, Nov 25 @ 1pm Thur, Nov 26 @ 9:45pm Fri, Nov 27 @ 5:15pm In 1973, Claude Lanzmann started shooting Shoah, a nearly 10-hour film that many regard as the most important ever made about the Holocaust. The Frenchman worked for a […]
Screening Times: Thurs, Nov 19 @ 4pm Fri, Nov 20 @ 3pm Sat, Nov 21 @ 11pm Tue, Nov 24 @ 10:30pm Sat, Nov 28 @ 5:30pm A unique, disturbing glance inside the Red Mosque movement, a network of schools in Pakistan that is a breeding ground for radical, militant Islam. The recipe is very […]
Aside from screening his Top 10 favorite documentaries, IDFA is honoring Academy Award-winning director Errol Morris with a retrospective. His films show a master of interviewing at work: talking heads who never quite say what you expect them to. When Errol Morris interviews someone, he usually starts by saying that he doesn’t know where to […]
from hot docs Toronto, November 23, 2010 – Hot Docs will present Ally Derks with the 2011 Doc Mogul Award, recognizing an individual who, over the course of her or his career, has made an essential contribution to the creative vitality of the documentary industry, both at home and abroad. Founder and director of the […]
from idfa The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) has just opened at Pathé Tuschinski with Stand van de sterren (Position of the Stars) by Leonard Retel Helmrich. Before the opening, the winner of the 2010 Dutch Cultural Media Fund Documentary Award was announced by the fund’s chair Jacob Kohnstamm. The prize of € 125,000 […]
from idfa The 23rd edition of IDFA opens tomorrow with the screening of Stand van de sterren (Position of the Stars) by Leonard Retel Helmrich. The heart of Amsterdam will be home to the international documentary world until Sunday 28 November. As well as the more than 300 documentaries on the program, there will be […]
