IDFA Daily #2 2016 (English)

International Section 19/20 nov 2016

DocLab turns 10 DocLab, IDFA’s new media programme exploring the intersection between documentary and digital technology, turns 10 this year. By Melanie Goodfellow When it launched in November 2007, the first iPhone had been on the market for two years; Android smartphones would arrive a year later; the iPad was three years off.

Social networks were in their infancy. Facebook had fifty million users, against 1.79 billion users a day now. VR headsets, Artificial Intelligence, data mining and biometrics were the stuff of technology research laboratories.

Digital revolution

Fast-forward ten years and digital technology is an integral part of our everyday lives. As it marks its tenth anniversary, DocLab explores how the digital revolution has impacted both documentary and our everyday lives in a programme entitled Elastic Reality.

“It’s a fitting theme for our tenth anniversary,” says DocLab creator and curator Caspar Sonnen. “The internet has had an increasing influence on our reality in the ten years since we began.”

Elastic Reality

Continuing its four-year partnership with Flemish Arts Centre de Brakke Grond, which is the main hub, the Elastic Reality programme spans an exhibition, conference and live events.

Exhibits include Follower by American media artist Lauren McCarthy, who has created a number of works exploring how our digital and physical worlds are becoming increasingly intertwined. In Follower, she examines how technology raises the possibility of new forms of real-life social interaction. Participants sign up at DocLab to download the Follower app onto their smartphone and be

followed by one dedicated follower for a five-hour period during the festival. The follower will never make their presence known, but will snap photographic evidence that they were on the participant’s tail during the session. “Just participating in it throws up a lot of questions about why we want to be followed”, says Sonnen.

Underground

There are also a number of VR works including Francesca Panetta’s Underworld: A Virtual Experience of the London Sewers, which takes the viewer on a torch-lit tour of the city’s intricate sewer system, designed by 19th-century civil engineer Joseph Bazalgette.

The work, which world premieres at DocLab, is the latest VR experience commissioned by The Guardian for Google’s Daydream View headset.

Other VR works in the line-up include award-winning Notes on Blindness VR, simulating what it is like to lose one’s sight; the timely Flint is a Place, about the c­ rimeridden declining former industrial hub which became a symbol of all that was wrong with the US in the recent presidential campaign.

Physically interactive

The National Film Board of Canada – a key collaborator with IDFA since its early days – will world premiere Bear 71 VR, a reworking of its web-based experience following a Canadian grizzly bear, which won the IDFA DocLab award in 2012.

Other physically interactive exhibits include photographer Sanne De Wilde’s The Island of the Colorblind, a small chamber simulating the visual reality of inhabitants of the Pacific island of Pingelap who all suffer from achromatopsia, limiting the colour range of their sight.

Visitors can also try out Smell Dating, a new dating service connecting people to their perfect match through their response to the scents left on worn t-shirts.

The opening of DocLab in de Brakke Grond on Thursday. Photo: Nichon Glerum

Immersive network

The live programme continues on Saturday with The Best of Awkward Tech, an exploration of the most absurd inventions that expand our notions of reality, featuring Matt Romein and Joseph Mango’s Meat Puppet Arcade, in which the users play with digital reconstructions of the makers’ dismembered body parts like pinballs in a slot machine.

Beyond the public events, DocLab will also host a meeting of its fledgling Immersive Network, aimed at stimulating new collaboration in the digital arts and storytelling arenas.

Corporate colonisation

Looking back over the past decade, Sonnen notes that the spirit of the internet has changed since DocLab began.

“When we started, the internet was a much more chaotic, ambiguous, open and playful kind of space. In the last ten years, traditional browser-based internet has been channelled, colonised even, by a handful of corporations”, he notes. “This has not resulted in everyone building their own blogs to show their feelings, but everybody being part of one or three global networks, which in turn has resulted in filter bubbles and all that comes with that. It’s not necessarily a new phenomenon, it’s been heading that way over the last ten years, but now it’s starting to affect not just the internet but our lives in general.”

Cutting up rough

Sunday afternoon in the NH Carlton Vivaldi, filmmakers can discuss with some of the world’s top editors how to elevate their works-in-progress to something akin to greatness during the Rough Cut consultancy session. Internationally renowned, prize-winning editors such as Yaël Bitton, Menno Boerema, Per K. Kirkegaard, Jean Tsien and Iikka Vehkalahti will meet up with filmmakers to talk about the business of creative editing, and will advise on how best to go forward with the rough cuts of their films.

The session is open to all IDFA pass-holders, but book your consultation now at the Industry Desk!

Rough Cut Services: 14.45, Sunday 20 November, NH Carlton Vivaldi

NORWEGIAN FILMS

NORWEGIAN FILMS IDFA 2016

Feature-Length Competition

MOGADISHU SOLDIER

Dir/Scr: Torstein Grude. Prod: Bjarte Mørner Tveit, for Piraya Film.

Feature-Length Competition

NOWHERE TO HIDE

Dir: Zaradasht Ahmed. Scr: Ahmed, Hans Husum, Terje Lind Bjørsvik. Prod: Mette Cheng Munthe-Kaas, for Ten Thousand Images.

First Appearance Competition

SEALERS – ONE LAST HUNT

Dir/Scr: Trude Berge Ottersen, Gry Elisabeth Mortensen Prod: Gry Elisabeth Mortensen, Trude Berge Ottersen for Koko Film

AMBULANCE

(IDFA: Best of Fests)

DUGMA - THE BUTTON

(IDFA: Best of Fests)

WHEN I HEAR THE BIRDS SING

(Kids & Docs Competition)

THEA

(Kids & Docs Competition)

REMEMBER ME? (IDFA: Student Documentary competition)

LIBERATION DAY

www.norwegianfilms.no

(IDFA: Music Documentary)

KFF S&P’s first slate features five festival and market titles, including Wojciech Kasperski’s Icon which gets its international premiere in IDFA’s Mid-Length competition. The third film in a trilogy focused on Russia, the film captures life in a remote psychiatric hospital in Siberia.

Cinematography is by Lukasz Zal, who lensed the Foreign Language Oscarwinning Ida, with editing by award-winning Tymek Wiskirski. “It’s very touching and deep, focused very closely on the patients and a rare portrait of an institute like this. It’s a work of art”, says Ludwig.

The work clinched five awards at the Krakow Film Festival, including the FIPRESCI Prize and Polish Society of Cinematographers’ Award.

By Melanie Goodfellow The foundation, a long-time attendee of IDFA in a promotional capacity for Polish documentaries in the festival and market, has expanded its remit to cover sales with the creation of the new subsidiary.

“We’ve been at the forefront of promoting Polish documentaries around the world for

some time now. This is a natural step for us,” says Magda Ludwig, who will be handling sales alongside colleague Barbara Orlicz. “It’s new ground for us. There aren’t that many sales companies selling out of Poland and there are none focusing on Polish documentaries. We won’t automatically do sales on all Polish documentaries – that’s in the hands of the producers.

“There will be cases where we only handle the festival side and sales are handled by international sales companies,” she adds.

“We’ll do it step by step, but the aim is to get bigger and bigger.”

The newly branded unit will also continue KFF’s promotional work, with Katarzyna Wilk acting as the key festival contact.

Autlook touches down

M

achines is the feature-length debut of recent CalArts graduate Rahul Jain and was filmed in a textile factory in India. Autlook discovered Machines at Goa’s Film Bazaar. “We were stunned by the film’s artistic value, which goes to the heart of documentary filmmaking, pairing an astonishing visual vision with an intransigent look at social injustice. Rahul is an incredible young talent and we are very proud to have acquired his film”, says Autlook CEO Salma Abdalla.

Autlook’s second competition film is Amateurs in Space. For six years, award-winning director Max Kestner followed two friends and top engineers as they pursued their dream to build a DIY spaceship. Against all odds – family obligations and technical obstacles – they managed to build a rocket for not much more than the budget of a car.

Other titles on the slate include Przemysław Kamiński’s medium-length The Gift, about an ember-walking mystic; Szymon Uliasz and Magdalena Gubała’s The Internal Ear, about iconic Polish jazzman Mikolaj Trzaska, and Marcin Kopeć’s Walking Spark about a former Mafia member trying to go straight.

In the backdrop, KFF S&P is also handling festival bookings for feature-length competition title You Have No Idea How Much I Love You by Pawel Lozinski, capturing a complicated mother and daughter relationship, which is sold internationally by Paris-based CAT&Docs.

.

Vienna-based sales outfit Autlook Film Sales, now in its 10th year, has arrived in Amsterdam with two world premieres in IDFA’s Feature-Length competition: Machines and Amateurs in Space. By Geoffrey Macnab

As Autlook TV sales manager Andrea Hock says: “We signed the project three years ago when it was pitched as a comedy.

But along the way, the friends got into huge fights, adding a tragic-comic layer, which Max turned into a complex narrative of friendship and ambitions.”

Autlook is also handling Robinù by Italian journalist turned filmmaker, Michele Santoro. The film, which screens in IDFA’s Best of Fests, offers a startling portrait of Neapolitan teenagers who become Mafia recruits.

Here at IDFA, Abdalla will present a panel on her company’s sales and marketing strategy for the football biopic Becoming Zlatan by Fredrik and Magnus Gertten. The film (which screened at IDFA last year) was released in twenty-two territories. North America and Australia/NZ are currently in negotiation for a major SVOD platform release.

.

Out of the box

IDFA programming chief Martijn te Pas talks about the high quality of Dutch documentaries within the 2016 programme, while expressing concerns over the future funding of the genre from 2017.

By Nick Cunningham This year, fifteen films compete in the Dutch competition, compared to just eleven in 2015. Two of these – Miss Kiet’s Children by Peter and Petra Lataster, which Te Pas calls a ‘masterpiece’, and Coco Schrijber’s How to Meet a Mermaid (‘a very creative, rich and multi-layered piece of cinema’) – are also selected for IDFA’s feature-length competition.

IDFA opener Stranger in Paradise (Guido Hendrikx) is also selected for the First Appearance competition, while Erik Lieshout’s Michel Houellebecq/Iggy Pop starrer To Stay Alive – A Method (‘a film I really adore’) also competes in the Mid-Length competition.

The Dutch competition further includes a diverse and eclectic range of docs from new and established directors alike, spanning a plethora of subjects from across the world. Marco De Stefanis’ Waiting for Giraffes tells of a vet who is trying re-establish the only zoo in Palestine, while Reber Dosky’s Radio Kobanî tells of a radio station launched by a female reporter in the formerly IS-occupied Syrian border town. The European (Dirk Jan Roeleven) chronicles two tumultuous years in the life of Frans Timmermans, Vice President of the European Commission, while Laetitia Schoofs’ Fallen Flowers Thick Leaves follows a Chinese sexologist treating a number of women in her Beijing practice. Te Pas describes Catherine van Campen’s Zaatari Djinn, about children growing up in a Jordanian refugee camp, as “pure cinema, a film that will really travel.”

Dutch documentary, Te Pas argues, is going from strength to strength. “A few years ago you had Ne me quitte pas (Niels van Koevorden and Sabine Lubbe-Bakker, 2013) and Those Who Feel the Fire Burning (Morgan Knibbe, 2014). These young filmmakers came up with fantastic independent films and I think that might have inspired others as well,” he comments. “Now we see the emergence of directors like Guido Hendrikx with the opening film here and Sjoerd Oostrik’s A Quiet Place. They are trying new ways. It is not working perfectly all the time, but there is this feeling of excitement and freedom.” Te Pas also cites the international success of Dutch creative feature documentaries over the past year, such as Tom Fassaert’s IDFA 2015 opener A Family Affair and Ester Gould’s A Strange Love Affair With Ego.

Machines

There’s an old/new kid on the block at IDFA’s Docs for Sale this year in the shape of KFF Sales and Promotion (KFF S&P), an offshoot of Poland’s Krakow Film Foundation.

The fledgling sales outfit has another four titles in Docs for Sale, including Piotr Stasik’s 21 X New York, which was signed on the eve of the market. An intimate portrait of New York City, it follows a series of characters as they travel on the subway before heading above ground where they unveil their lives. It is one of the nominees in the documentary category of the upcoming European Film Awards (EFA).

To Stay Alive – A Method

Poles push doc sales

Like all parties with a vested interest in Dutch doc finance, Te Pas is waiting to see how the new NPO Fund (which replaces the Media Fund) intends to operate from 2017, especially in the field of the creative documentary. “The Media Fund has played such an supportive role and the whole staff there knew exactly what they were doing; that it is a lot of work and that you have to take risks,” he comments. “I am concerned that the new fund might have the broadcaster in mind most of the time, so they might not necessarily think that it is so interesting to make or support the really creative films that are also doing well outside the little square box called television.”

“We want to co-operate with the NPO Fund and the NPO, they are a very important partner of the festival, so we really hope there will be a productive co-operation in the coming five or ten years because I think it is necessary to keep the quality and variety of films. The whole climate hopefully will remain healthy,” Te Pas continues. “So we must give them a chance, and maybe after a year or two we can evaluate what they are doing and how they are doing it, but I can just say that we will dearly miss the Media Fund for many reasons. They have done a tremendous job.”

.

3

FallenFlowers_120x172.5mm_. 2016-10-27 11:04 AM Page 1

www.kff.com.pl

NEW POLISH SALES AGENT Icon by Wojciech Kasperski

Sat 19 \ 12:15 \ Munt 12 (industry screening) Mon 21 \ 18:45 \ tuschinski 3 tue 22 \ 21:00 \ Munt 10 Fri 25 \ 22:00 \ Munt 12 Sat 26 \ 10:15 \ tuschinski 4

The Gift by Przemysław Kamiński

Walking Spark by Marcin Kopeć

21 x New York by Piotr Stasik

The Internal Ear by Szymon Uliasz & Magdalena Gubała

Watch it at DocS For Sale MonsterInTheMind_120x172.5mm_. 2016-10-27 11:06 AM Page 1

CO -FINANCED BY THE POLISH FILM INSTITUTE

AllGovernmentsLie_120x172.5mm_. 2016-10-27 11:02 AM Page 1

Memory Gain

By Melanie Goodfellow

Octogenarian journalist sets down at IDFA this weekend with her debut documentary feature, consultant-produced by Tilda Swinton.

IDFA has a long history of welcoming first-time directors to present their debut works, but never before one in her 80s.

Veteran journalist and best-selling health and nutrition writer Jean Carper, 84, arrives at IDFA for the first time this weekend with her first feature documentary Monster in the Mind, exploring and debunking some of the media myths around Alzheimer’s disease.

“I was 80 years old when I started in January 2012, and I will be 85 next January.

I’ve worked on it for nearly five years. It’s completed but there’s now still so much to do in terms of the festivals”, says the indefatigable Carper.

“I’d never made a documentary before. I

was winging it all the way but I did have good advice. Tilda Swinton, an old friend, was my mentor. I asked her many things.

I got people who I knew in the field of producing to help me out too. It’s some kind of a miracle it came together. Every time I look at it, I think, ‘How did this happen?’”

Carper first started researching the illness some 30 years ago when she worked as a medical correspondent for US news network CNN. Like many journalists covering the disease, she reported extensively on a series of terrifying scientific research reports predicting that Alzheimer’s was destined to become the scourge of the West’s aging population.

Culture clash

Her interest was reignited in older age when she discovered that she carried one of the genes linked to Alzheimer’s disease. “I’d had nightmares as a child about Frankenstein, but as I approached my eightieth birthday, I started to have these very weird and strange dreams about Alzheimer’s”, recalls Carper.

Her original premise for the documentary had been to explore whether scientists had advanced in finding a long promised cure.

She discovered instead that scientists were increasingly advocating lifestyle changes to prevent a future epidemic of neuraldegenerative diseases, and that Alzheimer’s was not the all-pervasive monster it had been built up to be. “I had been part of the propaganda machine to feed Alzheimer’s to the public,” says Carper.

Although the topic is complex, Carper cleverly lightens the tone by treating the disease as a monster in a horror movie, intercutting the work with scenes from old black-and-white films to heighten this theme. It was an idea that came to her after the full implications of her research sank in. “I said to myself, this is a scientific horror film,” says Carper, who flew to Detroit where Swinton was on the set of Jim Jarmusch’s vampire picture Only Lovers Left Alive, to get her opinion on the idea.

“I wanted to show Tilda where I am going with this. I showed her the opening which set the stage and said, ‘What do you think?’ and her response was, ‘It’s fabulous’,” she recalls.

Carper is now traveling festivals with the film and is also writing a book summing up research around how lifestyle impacts neural health.

T

Ex-BBC Storyville supremo Nick Fraser is at IDFA this week, looking for projects for new documentary streaming platform, Yaddo. By Geoffrey Macnab “I had a wonderful run at the BBC and all good things come to an end. I will keep on working with the BBC in a different capacity in the future”, Fraser says of his departure from Storyville earlier this autumn.

Fraser has big plans for Yaddo. His message for filmmakers in Amsterdam is “come to us. We have commissioned thirty-five to forty programmes. We’ve commissioned long films, short films and we’ve worked with filmmakers. We’re open for business and we are commissioning stuff.”

.

Early on during this year’s IDFA, Dogwoof – the UK’s leading documentary distributor and sales agent – announced that it is to handle international sales on Uģis Olte and Morten Traavik’s Liberation Day about cult band Laibach’s concert in North Korea. IDFA will host the international premiere on Saturday, followed by a Q&A and special 30-minute Laibach concert with an introduction by celebrity intellectual, Slavoj Zizek.

By Geoffrey Macnab

he film was produced by Uldis Cekulis (VFS Films, Latvia) and Morten Traavik (Traavik.Info, Norway) in co-production with Mute Records (UK), Norsk Fjernsyn (Norway) and Staragara (Slovenia), and supported by Arts Council Norway, National Film Centre of Latvia, the Culture Capital Foundation (Latvia) and the Slovenian Film Centre.

Cult band Laibach, formed in the former Yugoslavia and now of Slovenia, have been agitating and courting controversy for over 35 years. The film follows them to Pyongyang, North Korea, where they were miraculously invited to perform in celebration of the country’s Liberation Day (marking the 70th anniversary of liberation from Japan).

“They’re not a typical western band,” Dogwoof Global’s Head of TV Sales and Acquisitions Vesna Cudic comments of Laibach.

“This clash of cultures is really extraordinary. It [the film] has

Open for business

this amazing insight into life in North Korea and how things operate there on the level of lower-rank officials.”

Dogwoof has also confirmed the latest sales news on various other projects on its slate. Forever Pure has now gone to ITVS Independent Lens. Timely political doc Weiner (about disgraced ‘sexting’ American politician and former New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner) has gone to Documentary Club (Thailand) and Transformer (Japan).

Here at IDFA, Dogwoof Global has eight titles screening. These include Citizen Jane (fresh from its premiere in Toronto); Forever Pure, about Israeli football team Beitar Jerusalem F.C. which caused consternation among some fans by fielding two Arab players; Nanette Burstein’s Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee; crowd-pleaser Life, Animated, about a boy diagnosed with autism who uses animation to make sense of the world, and Alma Har’el’s LoveTrue.

.

Intriguingly, Fraser is immersing himself in the world of pigs with Yaddo’s first feature doc, Oink. “That’s underway now,” Fraser says. “That’s something that was my idea. I’ve always been fascinated by films that describe our relationship with animals. I was just increasingly fascinated by our relationship with pigs.”

Oink, he explains, is an ecological story with a political undertow. “There are a billion-odd pigs in China and pig waste is a very important feature of Chinese life.” Fraser points to plans to use parts of pigs’ bodies (for example, heart valves) for human transplants. The film will also look at the cultural impact of pigs, considering such novels as Animal Farm, and ask why the Black Panthers called the police ‘pigs’. “I think it will be both entertaining and illuminating. I am always trying to find subjects that get people to think about the world, but aren’t too preachy”, Fraser says.

As for his own relationship with pigs, Fraser said that he went on holiday in a place where pigs were kept in the garden. “I found them very clever, appealing animals. I don’t have a special regard for pigs. I just feel that this is a subject that is underexplored.”

Yaddo has already commissioned over thirty shorts. “When you are online, a good part of your output should be either finding great material that exists already or creating good material. Online, the role of shorts is obviously more important.” As Fraser points out, for “people under 30, all their viewing is online.”

Fraser has been commissioning shorts along thematic lines.

One format is five films about the same subject or the same place. These include films from Rio and films from Cape Town. Subjects include suburban taxidermists, films about grime artists and singing bird competitions.

Another format is called ‘Criminal’, and consists of five-minute films in which people talk about crimes they have committed. Some are from LA and some are from Chile. If longer films emerge from these shorts, Yaddo will ask for first refusal on them. “We are prepared also to post works in progress on our site to help people raise cash”, Fraser explains.

Yaddo is expected to be available “in pretty much every country in the world” by the end of the year, but Fraser says that the US launch will be delayed until early next year.

“The whole point about Yaddo is that it is a very low-overhead, low-cost service. The idea is that we get to a position where we can be viewed anywhere in the world and we pick up viewers in every market.” Yaddo doesn’t look for exclusive rights. “If we invest in something, we don’t mind if it is on lots of other outlets and platforms,” Fraser says.

.

5

www. catndocs.com

Fund fair

By Nick Cunningham

Kaisa Kriek. Photo: Nichon Glerum

“The NPO Fund will be a continuation of what the Media Fund established. We will continue with that quality level, and also with talent development.

For example, it is important for us to concentrate on stimulating the emergence of young filmmakers together with the industry,” says Kaisa Kriek, Secretary of the new NPO Fund and NPO former head of sales.

The NPO Fund replaces the Media Fund as of 1 January 2017 and has an operational budget of €16.6 million.

The exact budget earmarked for creative documentary will be announced at the beginning of 2017.

NPO hosted a meeting of some two hundred Dutch filmmakers and producers on 17 November to offer a broad-stroke analysis of the new fund and its aims. “We totally understand that there has been a lot of agony and fear about what is going to happen, so we invited people to be critical and to let us know if they have questions, and what we can do better.” The main concern, she stressed, was whether quotas would (or should) be applied to applications from broadcaster in-house departments against applications made as co-productions with independent producers.

Another key concern of Dutch producers and interested parties is whether the integrity of the creative documentary, both in production and release terms, can be maintained within the new funding system, especially as the number of documentary advisers has been cut back considerably. Kriek maintains that the new outfit will be ‘leaner and meaner’ and that overheads will account for a mere €600,000. The number of advisors has been cut to eight per board (fiction, doc and radio).

“More and more documentaries have Film Fund money and so it is more likely that they will come in to cinemas if it is a co-operation with the Film Fund,” Kriek says. “Concerning the content of projects, it is more up to the broadcasters and the advisors to decide. But the first criteria is that the project has artistic creative value, that it has a Dutch origin and appeals to Dutch [audiences], and that it has cultural diversity. You can do a lot within that – it is very broad.”

And will Dutch documentary continue to have the same international outlook and appeal? “From where I am coming from, on the international side, I hope so, but I don’t decide on the projects so it is up to the advisors and the broadcasters what their priorities are in terms of what they want to show. You have development money and you have realisation money, and for realisation you need to have a broadcast guarantee from the broadcaster, from NPO, otherwise you cannot apply. This was always a criterion. So I hope it will remain with the same international outcome.”

Right now, Kriek and Secretary General Hanneke Bouwsema are fixing the timeline for funding applications. Together with board members, the pair will evaluate the new Fund, its workings and procedures in December 2017, after its first year of operation. In the meantime, Kriek is grateful for the amount of support she is receiving for her endeavours. “When I was appointed Secretary of the NPO Fund, I received so many positive reactions from Dutch colleagues, filmmakers and producers. For me personally it is very rewarding to feel I have built this trust over the years.”

.

The Female Paradocs Gaze Samira Elagoz’s Craiglist Allstars and Maarit SuomiVäänänen’s Minispectacles Albuquerque Straight will world premiere this weekend in a provocative double bill organised by IDFA’s Paradocs strand, aimed at works going beyond the usual frame of traditional documentary.

Craiglist Allstars follows Dutch performance artist and filmmaker Elagoz as she embarks on a series of meetings with men she connects with through the Craigslist “Man Seeks Woman” listing: including a sadist pianist; magician; an internet exhibitionist; recently divorced English plumber; soft porn director and trans­sexual internet stripper. Some of the encounters are quite matter of fact, some awkward, others menacing.

“It’s uncomfortable to watch. People make personal films about family issues but who

really dares to make a film like this, to put something really at stake and play a game with that,” says Daamen. “Is it a feminist film? It’s perhaps a perfect example of a female gaze.”

Minispectacles Albuquerque Straight is a seven-minute portrait about a strange young man living in a motel with a lynx from Finnish filmmaker Suomi-Väänänen who has built her reputation on short character-driven films. “They’re completely different films, but they’re both very intense films and in a weird way they come together,” says Daamen.

There is no overriding theme running through the selection, he says, other than the fact that many of the films are deeply personal. “I don’t make my selection along thematic lines. I select films which I think can be an interesting addition to what IDFA shows in the festival.”

Other works in the line-up include dissident Chinese filmmaker Huan Ying’s Welcome capturing local officials in China’s Sichuan province making veiled threats to lay off investigating a lung disease afflicting workers in the region. “The screen is blacked out. I think he’s left the cap on his camera lens. We just hear the conversations. It’s a very brave film about oppression and censorship. It’s really

intimidating. The Chinese official we hear talking would never have spoken in this way if he’d known it was being captured,” says Daamen. The director will coming to the festival.

Daamen also highlights Italian artist Yuri Ancarani’s The Challenge capturing a larger-than-life weekend in Qatar in which tradition vies with modernity against a desert backdrop. “It’s a film with unique imagery and exceptional sound design and hardly any dialogue. It’s something you need to experience in the cinema, on the big screen,” he says.

Beyond the selection, Daamen expresses satisfaction with the strand’s growing connections with other art venues in the city, including Flatland Gallery, De Balie, Amsterdam Arts Weekend and prestigious gallery Foam.

“I like the fact Paradocs is also resonating throughout the city and is visible in other locations and not always in a direct collaboration with IDFA but because IDFA is there,” he says.

Melanie Bonajo, whose Progress vs Regress in which a group of older people discuss their relationship with technology is screening in the main programme, is also showing a solo exhibition at Foam at the same time as Paradocs.

Melanie Goodfellow

Kids 4 Docs 4 Kids “You can talk about any topic in children’s documentary,” underlines Meike Statema, Head of Education (Youth Programs and IDFAcademy).

By Nick Cunningham Statema oversees the Kids & Docs Competition selection and points out that there is never any shortage of titles to select. She describes Saskia Gubbels’ Naomi’s Secret, about a girl whose mother has mental health and drugs problems, as a “really well-made film” with a tough and attractive central character. “You can relate to her even if you’re not in her situation at all … this is how some kids are growing up.

Life is not always easy.”

All of the films screening in the Kids & Docs section will have the chance of an afterlife through IDFA’s Docschool Online section. What’s more, ten thousand school kids are expected at IDFA screenings this year. These kids can also access IDFA docs in the classroom – and there are further screenings of selected films after the festival is over. At the same time as encouraging children to watch the films, IDFA works hard to promote them with distributors, sales agents and other festivals.

Alongside the six Dutch titles, Kids & Docs is showcasing half a dozen other films from around the world, among them Otto Bell’s Mongolia-located The Eagle Huntress (executive produced by Daisy Ridley of Star Wars fame) which screens in Tuschinski on November 19 and EYE on November 20.

Films of all running times feature in the Kids & Docs competition, from one minute to long-form. Through such programming, Statema hopes, young audiences will discover just how flexible documentary can be. “The idea about documentary [among children] is that it is very informative and quite boring. This is a way of showing it can be all kinds of different things – and fun!” Statema cites Win by Fall by German director Anna Koch, about five 12-year-old girls who leave home to study wrestling at the celebrated Eliteschule des Sports in Frankfurt. The film was originally entered for IDFA’s Student programme but Statema fell in love with it and nabbed it for her section instead.

Accompanying the screenings, there will be two days of Kids & Docs industry events during IDFA. NPO Sales and several producers and broadcasters from the Netherlands will present a selection of children’s documentaries in the Docs for Sale viewing room. Meanwhile, during the Forum, four projects aimed at kids will be presented, among them the groundbreaking transmedia project If You Are Not There, Where Are You? Another key event is the RealYoung Thinktank, at which leading industry practitioners will come together to brainstorm on the development of kids’ docs. “Overall I think IDFA is taking the genre to the next level, with a range of industry events growing every year and new formats in the selection,” Statema underlines.

IDFAcademy continues November 19 with sessions on creating a successful pitch trailer (with editor Jesper Osmund), co-production financing (Christian Popp and Signe Byrge Sørensen) and maximising audiences through alternative distribution strategies (Peter Broderick). Later, award-winning Austrian filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter will discuss ways to find and create your own signature as a filmmaker.

On Sunday, 20 November, IDFAcademy offers up sessions on achieving impact through distribution and storytelling on digital platforms. In the Festival & Sales Strategies session, sales supremo Salma Abdalla (AUTLOOK), distributor Debra Zimmerman (Women Make Movies) and director Tom Fassaert (A Family Affair) will share their tips and secrets.

.

7

PROUDLY PRESENTS AT IDFA A RECKLESS

AN IMPOSSIBLE

A BROKEN

DREAM

MISSION

FRIENDSHIP

HOMO SAPIENS A FILM BY NIKOLAUS GEYRHALTER

GRAPHIC DESIGN AND ART DIRECTION // TORSTEN HØGH RASMUSSEN //// PHOTOGRAPHY // STINE HEILMANN OG TORSTEN HØGH RASMUSSEN

D A N I S H D O C U M E N TA R Y P R E S E N T S

66 Forum

Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin

NIKOLAUS GEYRHALTER Editing MICHAEL PALM Sound Design PETER KUTIN, FLORIAN KINDLINGER ALEXANDER KOLLER Location Research SIMON GRAF Research MARIA ARLAMOVSKY SIMON GRAF, CHRISTOPH GRASSER, SEBASTIAN ARLAMOVSKY, THOMAS CERVENCA Production Managers KATHARINA POSCH, FLAVIO MARCHETTI, LIXI FRANK Executive Producer MICHAEL KITZBERGER Producers NIKOLAUS GEYRHALTER, MICHAEL KITZBERGER, WOLFGANG WIDERHOFER, MARKUS GLASER Website WWW.HOMOSAPIENS-FILM.AT Director and Cinematographer

Sound Re-Recording

Camera Assistants

A D O C U M E N TA R Y F I L M B Y M A X K E S T N E R STARRING PETER MADSEN AND KRISTIAN VON BENGTSON DIRECTOR MAX KESTNER PRODUCER SIGRID JONSSON DYEKJÆR PGA CINEMATOGRAPHERS MAX KESTNER · CLAUS MEJLING · POUL MEYER · KIM HØGH MIKKELSEN FILM EDITOR JACOB THUESEN SOUND DESIGNER HANS MØLLER COMPOSER PAUL LEONARD-MORGAN GRAPHIC DESIGNER TORSTEN HØGH RASMUSSEN LINE PRODUCER SIDSEL LØNVIG SIERSTED POST PRODUCER SØREN GREEN EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS SIGRID JONSSON DYEKJÆR PGA EVA MULVAD · MIKALA KROGH · PERNILLE ROSE GRØNKJÆR PRODUCED BY DANISH DOCUMENTARY WITH THE SUPPORT OF DANISH FILM INSTITUTE HELLE HANSEN · DR ANDERS THOMSEN · SVT AXEL ARNÖ · RUV HERA ÓLAFSDÓTTIR · YLE JENNY WESTERGÅRD · VPRO NATHALIE WINDHORST AGAINST GRAVITY ARTUR LIEBHART · NORDISK FILM & TV FOND KAROLINA LIDIN · THE CREATIVE EUROPE PROGRAMME OF THE EUROPEAN UNION INTERNATIONAL SALES AUTLOOK FILMSALES SALMA ABDALLA

Plakat_DK_UK_08.indd 2

Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft

28/09/16 16.46

MARCELWEISHEIT.COM

FEATURE LENGTH COMPETITION

A FILM BY RAHUL JAIN A J A N N P I CT U R E S / PA L L AS F I L M / I V F I L M S P R O D U CT I O N D I R E C T O R O F P H O T O G R A P H Y R O D R I G O T R E J O V I L L A N U E VA S O U N D D E S I G N S U S M I T ' B O B ' N AT H M I X I N G A D R I A N B AU M E I S T E R E D I TO R S R A H U L J AI N , YA Ë L B I T TO N D I G I TA L C O L O R I ST G R E G O R P F Ü L L E R PRODUCERS R A H U L J AI N , T H A N AS S I S K A R AT H A N O S , I I K K A V E H K A L A H T I D I R E CTO R R A H U L J AI N INTERNATIONAL SALES

PRODUCED BY

JANN PICTURES

IV FILMS

WITH THE SUPPORT OF

g

p

Supported by Creative Europe – Media Pro ramme of the Euro ean Union

PARTICIPATANT OF THE WORK-INPROGRESS LAB AT

FEATURE LENGTH COMPETITION R O SFO RTH and DA NI SH D O CU M ENTA RY present

Will eating insects save our Earth?

a GA STR O NO M I C A DVENTU R E with NO R D I C FO O D LA B by A ND R EA S JO H NSEN STARRING ILLUSTRATION // JAN OKSBØL CALLESEN //// GRAPHIC DESIGN AND ART DIRECTION // TORSTEN HØGH RASMUSSEN

Plakat_UK_01.indd 1

SALMA ABDALLA CEO YOUN JI FESTIVAL SALES LISELOT VERBRUGGE TV + VOD SALES

HEAD CHEF

B EN R EAD E

LEAD RESEARCER

JO SH EVA NS

HEAD CHEF

R O B ERTO FLO R E

DIRECTOR AND CINEMATOGRAPHER ANDREAS JOHNSEN PRODUCER SIGRID JONSSON DYEKJÆR FILM EDITOR MENNO BOEREMA · ADDITIONAL EDITOR PER SANDHOLT · SOUND DESIGNER PHILIP FLINDT FOLEY ARTIST VLADIMIR RAKIC MUSIC SPACELAB COLORGRADE ANDERS V CHRISTENSEN KONG GULEROD

FILM GRAPHIC DESIGNER TORSTEN HØGH RASMUSSEN EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS ANDREAS JOHNSEN · SIGRID JONSSON DYEKJÆR · EVA MULVAD · MIKALA KROGH AND PERNILLE ROSE GRØNKJÆR PRODUCED BY ROSFORTH AND DANISH DOCUMENTARY IN CO-PRODUCTION WITH SUBMARINE KLOOS & CO · CLIN D’OEIL FILMS WITH SUPPORT FROM DANISH FILM INSTITUTE KLARA GRUNNING-HARRIS AND CECILIA LIDIN · DR METTE HOFFMANN MEYER · SVT AXEL ARNÖ · RUV HERA ÓLAFSDÓTTIR · RTBF WILBUR LEGUEBE · VPRO BARBARA TROYEN AGAINST GRAVITY · CANVAS · NORDISK FILM & TV FOND KAROLINA LIDIN · THE NETHERLANDS FILM FUND · THE NETHERLANDS FILM PRODUCTION INCENTIVE · CREATIVE EUROPE PROGRAMME OF THE EUROPEAN UNION INTERNATIONAL SALES AUTLOOK SALMA ABDALLA WWW.BUGSFEED.COM 12/04/16 14.14

+43 676 90037 | SALMA@AUTLOOKFILMS.COM +43 699 10918851 | YOUN@AUTLOOKFILMS.COM +31 624 719035 | SALES@AUTLOOKFILMS.COM

Harvesting the world

photo: Nadine Maas

Look through the “crop” of 15 IDFA Bertha Fund-backed films at this year’s festival and what is immediately apparent is the enormous variety. By Geoffrey Macnab

In loco parentis

I

t may have taken Neasa Ní Chianáin a long time to finance her In loco parentis, screening in IDFA’s feature-length competition, but it was very much worth the wait. The film chronicles a year in an Irish boarding school and, like many of the institution’s senior staff, it exudes both charm and authority. The film was initially supported by Spanish broadcaster TVE before the Irish Film Board and broadcaster RTE came on board.

Ní Chianáin and co-director (and partner) David Rane both attended boarding schools as children and were determined to see what life was like in a twenty-first century establishment. They therefore trained their gaze on the progressive, non-denominational Headfort School, located in the historical town of Kells, not far from Dublin.

The school building is straight out of the Irish Ascendancy and is set within acres of lush countryside and woodland. Also located within the grounds is the small cottage where John and Amanda Leyden reside, two teachers who have taught at the school since 1970. It is the work of this inspiring pair, and the lively scholastic activity of pupils within their classrooms, that forms the basis of the film.

“When we first met the Leydens, I don’t think they were really interested in us at all as filmmakers, and it took some time for us to have that door opened,” Ní Chianáin explains. “But once it was opened that was it; that was when the whole thing started coming to life.”

John, like the school itself, is a bundle of contradictions. He is in his late sixties (maybe even his seventies) and at first seems absurdly standoffish, but he soon

reveals a devilish sense of playfulness and can even play Van Halen licks on his electric guitar. When talking to a boy about taking a pledge of abstinence from alcohol before his Confirmation (a Catholic rite of passage) he advises against, advocating wise consumption instead. “When the kids first arrive they don’t really understand Mister Leyden, it takes a while to get his sense of humour,” confirms Ní Chianáin.

“But you see them changing and finally they click and get this grumpy old man – and then the banter starts.”

The theme of non-conformism continues with the headmaster (himself a former pupil of the school), who tells his charges that if they encounter an immoral law, ‘then they should break it.’

“I think nowadays there is a lot more awareness of the children’s emotional landscape and a lot more attention is paid to the whole child maybe than when we were going to school,” says Ní Chianáin. “The one thing that strikes you about Headfort is that they are very happy children.”

Evidence of this is presented by the bucketful as the children belt out their own idiosyncratic version of Wild Thing, gambol in the school fields, get happily lost in the woodlands during field trips, perform in the school play or engage eagerly in school debates. Homesick, shy or perturbed children are monitored and embraced, and staff are on hand to perform parenting duties when the pain of home separation is acutely felt. “At Headfort, the children really have a different kind of childhood”, Ní Chianáin underlines. Nick Cunningham IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary

There are several titles made by first-time directors, but also documentaries made by veterans (for example, Mahamat Saleh Haroun’s Hissein Habré, a Chadian Tragedy).

There are political docs as well as deeply personal stories. “Of the 15 films, at least half are debut films”, notes Bertha Fund managing director Isabel Arrate Fernandez.

Screening here at IDFA are some of the first films supported through the Fund’s recent initiative, IBF Europe, launched two years ago to boost co-production between European producers and filmmakers from developing countries.

Among these is Maite Alberdi’s The Grown-Ups, about a group of middle-aged Chilean friends with Down syndrome, co-produced by Denis Vaslin of Dutch outfit Volya Films. Also an IBF Europe project is China’s Van Goghs, directed by father and daughter team Haibo Yu and Kiki Tianqi Yu and produced by Reinette van de Stadt of Amsterdam-based Trueworks.

IBF Europe doesn’t just offer co-production support. It also helps underwrite the distribution, sales and marketing of selected films – as long as plans are in place for the films to be seen in at least three territories. Both China’s Van Goghs (sold by CAT&Docs and distributed in the Netherlands by Cinema Delicatessen) and The Grown-Ups are receiving a hefty 30,000 Euros each toward their releases through this scheme. Rahul Jain’s Machines will also receive support.

“It doesn’t necessarily have to be a traditional cinema release. It can be a combination [of film, outreach and online]”, explains Arrate Fernandez. The money can be used for creating a website, pushing the film on social media and for generally creating an eye-catching campaign.

Alongside IBF Europe, traditional funding continues through IBF Classic which supports project development or production & post-production.

The IDFA Bertha Fund has an overall budget of around 750,000 Euros a year. (400,000 Euros of this comes from the Bertha Foundation.)

IDFA Bertha Fund supports 24 projects each year through the classic scheme and six through IBF Europe. (They’ll tend to receive 20,000-25,000 Euros each.) Applications tend to come predominantly from Latin America and Asia, but Arrate Fernandez is heartened by a surge of applications from the MENA countries. Among films from MENA countries in this year’s programme are Egyptian doc Happily Ever After from Nada Riyadh and Ayman El Amir and Whose Country from Mohamed Siam (also Egyptian) and Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania’s Zaineb Hates the Snow. The Fund tweaked its normal rules recently to support one or two projects from Syrian directors now based in Europe, among them Last Men in Aleppo and On Screen Off Record.

There are five IDFA Bertha Fund-backed projects pitching at the Forum this year – among them All About Amal from Mohamed Siam (about an angry adolescent in post-revolution Egypt); Bullet Catcher from Ruslan Batytskyi and Lesya Kalynska (about Svitlana and Pavlo, who fall in love during the Ukrainian revolution in 2013 but then have to deal with the Russian invasion) and Raghu Rai: An Unframed Portrait from Avani Rai (about a photographer and his 50-year journey capturing the stories of India).

The Fund used to give support to other festivals but this has now stopped. Several of the events it once backed, among them CinéDOC-Tibilisi and RDOC, International Documentary Film Festival of Dominican Republic and Caribbean, are looking to find backing elsewhere. “That was really our aim, to try to create sustainable organisations, ­really rooted in their communities”, says Arrate Fernandez.

.

Nowhere To Hide

I

t’s late 2011, and the Americans are about to leave Iraq. The local people are rejoicing.

“The whole country is now independent and free”, the radio announcer proclaims.

Three years later, and this optimism is well and truly shattered. Male nurse Nori Sharif, working in central Iraq in a part of the country deemed the “triangle of death” and a complete no-go-zone for outsiders, chronicles the slow slide into despair, the increasing sectarianism and the rise of ISIS. The violence seeps into hospitals and schools. Kidnappings shoot up.

Kurdish-Norwegian filmmaker Zaradasht Ahmed was “directing” Nori from a distance. (Ahmed himself was in the town of Sulaymaniyah, in Iraqi Kurdistan.) At first, the idea was that Nori would film what was going on around him – he would be the observer, not the subject.

“We gave him the camera, we gave him the knowledge”, Ahmed says of Nori. He and his collaborators would tell Nori what to shoot and where to point his camera. All the time, the violence was moving closer and closer to Ahmed.

By the end of 2013 and the start of 2014, society was close to collapse. At this point, Sharif himself became the subject of the film. It turned into the story of a man and his family trying to survive. “It was the only way to justify the work, to focus on Nori,” Ahmed remembers. “All material since about 2013 was twisted again. It was

more Nori to be in front of the camera, teaching him how to film himself, teaching other people how to film him, to angle it more from a personal point of view.”

By the end, Nori was isolated. He didn’t know whether to stay or to leave. ISIS was in control.

This was a world in which anybody could be a victim – and anybody could be an enemy.

Ahmed had between 300 and 400 hours of footage from which to assemble Nowhere to Hide, which runs at 86 minutes. The project involved five years of shooting and a year of research. The director pays tribute to his editor, Eva Hillstöm, and her painstaking work in uncovering the “hidden human feeling” in the story as they attempted to make a “different kind” of war film – one looking at the experiences of “ordinary” people caught up in a conflict they’ve done nothing to provoke. “The film would have been different without her”, the director says.

As for Nori himself, he is not expected at IDFA. “When I was last in Iraq a couple of months ago, I suggested to him that we wanted him to come”, Ahmed recalls. However, over the space of a month, Nori lost two of his brothers. One died in a car accident, the other “because of ISIS”. “He was not in the mood to travel. He said ‘I think I should stay here ... I wish he could have been here to see his work.” Geoffrey Macnab IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary

9

KOKO FILM PRESENTS

“An urgent, haunting look at our secret wars - through the eyes of the men we use to fight them.

Mogadishu Soldier is absolutely essential.”

Joshua Oppenheimer “Rough, rare and gripping.”

Iikka Vehkalahti

SUBMIT YOUR FILM!

A FILM BY TORSTEIN GRUDE AND NIELS PAGH ANDERSEN

NEW LATIN AMERICAN FEATURE DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION

WORLD PREMIERE NOV

19.

20:45

TUSCHINSKI 2

SAT

19-11

11:45

MUNT 13

INDUSTRY SCREENING

SUN

20-11

19:00

EYE CINEMA 2

ASSEMBLING REALITY

@MOGADISHUSOLDIER

DISTRIBUTION:

PRODUCTION COMPANY:

Philippa Kowarsky +972 3 566 4129 / philippa@cinephil.com www.cinephil.com

Bjarte Mørner Tveit +47 408 70 587 / bjarte@piraya.no www.piraya.no

APRIL 20-30, 2017

SÃO PAULO/RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: DECEMBER 16, 2016

WWW.ITSALLTRUE.COM.BR | INFO@ITSALLTRUE.COM.BR WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/ETUDOVERDADEOFICIAL | TWITTER.COM/ETUDOVERDADE

Foto / Photo: Cássio Vasconcellos

SATURDAY

Still Tomorrow

The Grown-Ups

M

aite Alberdi’s The Grown-Ups examines the situation in her native Chile, which has one of the highest incidences of people born with Down syndrome in the world due to its highly restrictive abortion laws. The film follows 40 and 50-something adults – Anita, Rita, Ricardo and Andres – who are attending an expensive private school for people with the condition.

They are desperate to break out of the extended childhood cocoon imposed on them by protective parents, but it’s debatable how they would cope in the real world.

The film grew out of Alberdi’s 2014 feature documentary Tea Time about her grandmother and her old school friends who met up regularly for a tea party over six decades. One of the characters in that film was an aunt with Down syndrome.

“One of my grandmother’s big concerns was what would happen to my aunt when she wasn’t there. She always expected to outlive her daughter, but with the rise in life expectancy this risked no longer being the case. A lot of parents of her generation found themselves in her situation. It was with this doubt of my grandmother in mind that I started researching the options out there for adults with Down syndrome in Chile,” says Alberdi.

She discovered that, on many levels, Chile’s approach to its citizens with Down syndrome was outdated. Protection laws only cover them up to the age of 25 years and they are discriminated against in terms of wage equality, regardless of whether they are as productive as their co-workers or not.

Alberdi spent two years researching the film and another year

Average life expectancy for people with Down syndrome has increased from 25 years old in the early 1980s to 60 years old today, but many care systems around the world have yet to take on board that so many people with the condition are living well into adulthood. simply visiting the school to observe what went on. “I was looking at the situations, the dynamics and the kind of thing that happened to the characters. When you make an observational documentary like this without interviews and voiceovers, you really need to understand what could happen. I always trust that the things I see in that phase I will see again when I am there with a camera, because life is a cycle and it is likely to happen again,” says Alberdi. “We then shot over one year, three times a week, and then spent eight months editing.”

When Alberdi finally did start filming, with her long-time cinematographer Pablo Valdes, the start of the shoot coincided with a new programme by the school to treat its pupils more like adults in response to a growing sense of discontent as they grew older and older. “It was aimed at making them feeling like adults, working with a psychologist,” says Alberdi.

But the programme was also the catalyst for a rebellion by the pupils which had been a long time coming as they grappled with being treated like children into adulthood. “It changed the mood in the school and not all the parents were in agreement with the approach,” she says. “I think the parents will be shocked when they finally see the film.”

As she awaits the release of the film in Chile next summer, Alberdi is developing her next feature documentary The Mole Agent. “It’s about a private detective and I can’t say any more than that, otherwise I will kill the case,” says Alberdi. She hopes to show footage for the project at IDFA 2017. Melanie Goodfellow IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary

Passage – A Boatmovie

got off. We’d often end up hitch-hiking, carrying all our stuff on small trolleys,” recounts De Wilde.

Film-makers Jascha de Wilde and Ben Hendriks’ Passage – A Boatmovie is one of the more contemplative works at IDFA this year.

By Melanie Goodfellow Initially devised as a documentary installation over three separate screens, the work takes the viewer on a journey across the hidden world of Europe’s inland waterways in a Spits riverboat.

These once-common European freight barges used to ply their trade across the interconnected inland waterways of the Netherlands, Belgium and France, but are fast disappearing.

De Wilde and Hendriks, who were last at IDFA in 2009 with Lou Biou – The Feast of the Fabulous Bull about bull-fighting in the southern French region of the Camargue – discovered the world and the dwindling community that works the boats through a chance meeting with a Spits captain at a wedding.

“We became fascinated by their way of life.

They live separately from society, in their own small communities, often in couples”, says De Wilde.

The pair worked as a stripped down two-person crew, using 4K and HD cameras. “It was pretty straightforward apart from getting back to the car after we’d

They originally planned to make a traditional, linear documentary, but as shooting progressed they decided to opt for an interview-less, installation-style format.

“The visual aspects were so interesting, we thought it would be nice to put people inside the scenery by surrounding them with screens”, says Hendriks.

The resulting 54-minute work plays out as a moving triptych immersing the viewer in the slow-moving world of a Spits as it travels along the so-called “North-South” inland water network running from the Netherlands, through Belgium and on to the South of France.

Original music by Austrian composer and pianist Marion von Tilzer and Scottish percussionist Alan ‘Gunga’ Purves – inspired by the sounds of ships’ engines and water – accompanies the piece as the Spits glides slowly southwards.

The work is premiering in the IDFA Competition for Dutch Documentary on one screen, with the three windows playing out side-by-side. It can also be viewed as an immersive experience at Amsterdam’s Perdu Theatre from 21 to 23 November.

IDFA Competition for Dutch Documentary

Jian Fan’s IDFA feature-length contender Still Tomorrow came about through a pretty amazing piece of synchronicity, the director (who calls himself ‘Travis’ in tribute to the character in Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas) reveals. He was looking for a “non-professional poet with a normal job” to be the subject of his next film project, when in January 2015, a producer from Youku [the largest video streaming website in China] discovered Yu Xiuhua.

“Youku decided they wanted to commission a documentary on her,” Jian says. “After doing research on her and her poems, I realized she’s exactly the non-professional poet I was looking for, so I immediately accepted Youku’s offer to make a documentary about her.”

Before one of her poems (called ‘Crossing Half of China to Sleep with You’) brought her instant, viral fame on the internet, Yu Xiuhua lived quietly, working on her parents’ farm and writing poems as a means of dealing with the trials and tribulations of mundane life in rural China. She suffers from cerebral palsy, is married to an older man who is usually away working in the cities and has a grown-up son who is also away, at university. “Chinese people don’t often open up their real feelings inside,” Jian says, “they often channel it through another way.” In Yu Xiuhua’s case, this way is poetry – and, as the film shows, this way suddenly brings her a whole, completely unexpected, new life, in the media spotlight. “Before my film, a lot of journalists interviewed her,” Jian says, “but I wanted her to feel the different approach of a documentary filmmaker – and the key difference that comes from my understanding of her life and her poems.”

“I started to build up trust with her, and she started to tell me little secrets that she hadn’t told any other reporter. She would talk to me when she was unhappy or facing difficulties.

She treated me as a friend, and got along with my team very well. My wife and I would go and visit and comfort her. We even worked in the fields together during the harvest season.”

This closeness between filmmaker and subject is at times very apparent in Still Tomorrow, and allows the filmmaker to catch some crucial, intimate moments of Yu Xiuhua’s journey – such as when she first confronts her husband with her desire for a divorce. “She told me when she was going to do it, so we were waiting there the whole afternoon and caught the scene”, the director says.

One of the keys, perhaps, to the huge appeal of Yu Xiuhua’s poetry is the way it reflects her ability, as Jian puts it, to “approach the pains of life in a seemingly playful and cheerful way.” In front of the camera, Yu Xiuhua exudes such a playful charisma it can be difficult to imagine her darker moments. “When she’s alone, she often cries, can’t sleep or even feels desperate,” the filmmaker says. “Her poems show these emotions.”

Fortunately, her newfound fame has not lessened Yu Xiuhua’s creative output. “She is still writing poems, and published a new book in 2016. In the past two years, her life has changed so much; her poems come from her life – her creative spirits are quite active. She’s also writing a novel now”, Jian reveals. Mark Baker IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary

11

Deadline for application MA programme 13 January 2017

Master of Film we are looking for artistic researchers The Master’s Degree Programme in Film at the Netherlands Film Academy offers a select group of no more than ten artistic researchers (filmmakers and visual, media or other artists) the opportunity for further personal and professional development within an investigate, highly

demanding and internationally oriented setting. The focus of the course is on artistic research in and through film, defined as an ongoing process in which artistic practice feeds the need for research, which in turn inspires artistic practice.

www.masteroffilm.nl

Tripping Stones

“

W

e rather arrogantly in a way just called them,” filmmaker Paul Dugdale recalls of just how he and his producer partners began working with the Rolling Stones. They had realised that the legendary band were about to perform again in Hyde Park and volunteered to make a film of the concert. That was in 2013. Now, he has completed two new films featuring the band. Havana Moon is

a record of their concert in Havana, Cuba, earlier this year. Its companion piece, The Rolling Stones Olé Olé Olé!: A Trip Across Latin America (screening at IDFA this weekend) follows the band’s recent Latin American tour. “What was incredible was how much trust they put in us from the start,” the British documentary maker reflects on Mick, Keith and co. “If you’re doing any film with an artist, you need that trust.”

Olé Olé Olé involved Dugdale and his team

travelling across Latin America for 50 days, shooting the band as they performed everywhere from Mexico to Argentina, from Peru to (finally) Cuba.

Jagger and Richard may be in their 70s but that doesn’t mean they’ve forgotten their rock and roll roots. They still partied hard.

“They’re not 25 anymore, so I guess it is a bit more sedate, but they had a good time.”

The filmmakers claim they were given considerable creative freedom. “We had a shared goal, which was let’s not just make

a tour film. Let’s do something bigger and better, because they’ve done it a million times before,” Dudgale says. This wasn’t intended as a “salacious, rock and roll, sex and drugs movie” but more, the director says, “a cultural exploration.”

Everywhere the band went, local audiences were in a frenzied state of excitement at the prospect of seeing the Stones perform. “What we were interested in examining is that they were the original rock and roll rebels. A lot of these countries were so turbulent and had that rebellious nature to them. There was a real link … they represent this ‘sticking it to the man’ kind of thing”, the director notes.

In the course of their travels, they came across people who had been banned from listening to rock and roll (but did so anyway, illegally). For many of these dissidents, who had faced arrest for being fans of the Rolling Stones, coming face-to-face with the actual band was a moment to savour.

Along the way, there were plenty of logistical challenges.

In Cuba, all the equipment had to be brought in. The Pope made his displeasure evident that the concert was being planned for Good Friday. Then, to complicate matters further, President Obama turned up on the first official US visit in many decades the same day the band was planning to perform. For the filmmakers, this was all good material.

“We were looking for points of jeopardy and points where we could find something exciting in this story,” Dugdale remembers of the Obama and Vatican double whammy which briefly threatened to scupper the gig. “We wanted jeopardy … but we didn’t want that much jeopardy!” If the Cuban show had been cancelled, the film would have lost its ending.

In the end, the show was a triumph. “I’ve filmed lots of bands in lots of countries, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a reaction like I saw there,” Julie Jakobek, executive producer of the film who will be attending Saturday’s screening at the Carré with the director, says of the show in Havana. “It was visceral, powerful and passionate … it was special to the band as well. You can see Keith visibly moved.”

Geoffrey Macnab Music Documentary

Mogadishu Soldier

For producer-director Torstein Grude, documentary making can be a very perilous business. The Norwegian was trying to set up a newspaper in a UN refugee camp in Tanzania. He uncovered huge amounts of corruption in the camp.

A

“

fter trying to make a film there, we ended up being chased by the Tanzanian government, who took out charges against us for espionage,” Grude recalls. “We fled into Burundi. There, we were basically beaten by this rebel group with machetes. It was a very dark situation. We thought we were going to be killed.”

The country was in the midst of a civil war. Soldiers came to their rescue. He befriended these men, learning that they had all been child soldiers. Once peace was established, the soldiers were re-deployed in Somalia. It was then that Grude first got the idea to use them as filmmakers, getting them to shoot a record of their war against Islamist terrorist group Al-Shabaab. This sparked the genesis of Mogadishu Soldier.

The soldiers’ footage, he felt, had a freshness and frankness an outside documentary maker couldn’t have achieved. “There’s an alienation that comes with a camera crew and professionals,” he suggests. “I have found that with many of our productions. Once you bring a camera into a situation, people start to change … what I wanted to do with these guys was to remove all the professionals from the shooting location.”

The soldiers were keen to learn. All they knew was guns and war. “They got a salary from us for camera and sound people.

That was something we did quite a lot of research into so that it was a fair payment … not something extravagant that would put them in danger but, at the same time,

a substantial sum.” The material they shot was flown out every fortnight, eventually arriving by DHL in Norway.

In editing, the challenge for the filmmakers was to preserve the soldiers’ perspective and not to impose a ‘white Westerner’ point of view. The instructions Grude gave them tended to be technical – for example, how to improve the sound. At the same time, it is Grude’s documentary. “They have not taken part in the creation of the film. They gathered material and that is it.” The result was 523 tapes for Grude and his team to winnow down into the feature-length film premiering at IDFA. Grude’s films tend to upset somebody or other. The Magnitsky Act. Behind the Scenes, which he produced recently for director Andrey Nekrasov, caused controversy by turning up evidence of dark practices not just in Putin’s Russia, but in the West too.

During the editing of Mogadishu Soldier, he took a whistle-stop trip to Washington for an early screening of Magnitsky Act. “That morning, the Washington Post wrote an editorial saying we were part of the Kremlin propaganda system for Putin.” Legal action was threatened against the film. Harassed, Grude briefly contemplated going away “to start making films about snails”, thereby avoiding the controversy that invariably dogs his work. “But … It is what I am meant to do,” he says, dismissing the idea he will ever take the safe option. Geoffrey Macnab IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary

Amateurs in Space

T

he idea was fantastical – most would say impossible. In 2008, Danish astro-scientists Kristian von Bengston and Peter Madsen announced their intention to send a manned rocket into space. Their heroes were the NASA controllers and astronauts who, more than five decades before, had responded to President Kennedy’s call to put a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s. But while NASA’s dollar budget ran into the hundreds of millions, Madsen and von Bengston were working within somewhat narrower confines: a budget of just $56,000.

Director Max Kestner charted their development over the next six years for his feature doc Amateurs in Space, world premiering in IDFA’s feature-length competition.

While the film is highly cinematic, replete with great launch footage, pertinent NASA archive shots of the likes of pioneering US astronaut Alan Shepard and JFK, as well as many passionate and articulate speeches about the science of propulsion, it is the complex and fragmented relationship between the protagonists that powers the film forward.

“There had been signs of conflict all along,” director Kestner says. “But I had the feeling they were two halves of something that couldn’t really exist without either of them. The uniqueness of the project was that it was these two characters who found one another, and because of that combination we felt they could succeed with something very big. They are to me extraordinary characters, even though they call themselves amateurs.”

Von Bengston and Madsen may be brilliant in their own ways, but it is Madsen who ticks all the Alpha boxes, at least initially, playing Simon to Von Bengston’s Garfunkel. He is passionate, he is dangerous, he is exotic; swift to anger and possessed of a particular talent for invective.

“You’re right, but I won’t acknowledge it, as a matter of principle”, he tells his partner. He is one of those types who operate within the dark margins where genius resides.

Von Bengston, on the other hand, is a family man with two kids and a desire to spend the weekends at home; in the film, his fire burns less brightly than that of his colleague. Until, that is, Madsen’s excesses become too much for everybody to bear.

“I had two main reasons to make the film”, points out Kestner. “One was that I really liked the characters and their way of being together, the way they talked and acted together. But the other reason is that as a director you want your protagonists to have problems, and I knew that these problems would generate great scenes of discord. You want them to have problems so they can overcome their problems, and they had chosen the biggest problem you could have – putting a man into space without any money…

The gap between what they actually had and what they wanted to achieve was so big, and it was in that space that the film evolved.”

Nick Cunningham IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary

13

Program TUSCHINSKI TUSCHINSKI 1 1

TUSCHINSKI TUSCHINSKI 2 2

TUSCHINSKI TUSCHINSKI 3 3

TUSCHINSKI TUSCHINSKI 4 4

TUSCHINSKI TUSCHINSKI 5 5

TUSCHINSKI TUSCHINSKI 66

DE MUNT DE MUNT 9

9

DE MUNT DE MUNT 10 10

DE MUNT DE MUNT 11

11

DE MUNT DE MUNT 12 12

DE MUNT DE MUNT 13 13

EYEEYE CINEMA CINEMA 1

CARRÉ CARRÉ

9:00 9:00

10:00 10:00

10:30 10:30

Best ofBest Fests of, 91’ Fests, 91’

10:30 10:30

Weiner Weiner

10:45 10:45 Industry Industry Screening Screening

JoshJosh Kriegman, Kriegman, ElyseElyse Steinberg Steinberg

11:00 11:00

Anuktatop: Anuktatop: TheThe Metamorphosis Metamorphosis

Best ofBest Fests of, 100’ Fests, 100’

Nicolas Nicolas Pradal, Pradal, Pierre Pierre Selvini Selvini First Appearance First Appearance Competition, Competition, 112’ 112’

1Minute 1Minute Nature Nature & & TheThe Eagle Eagle Huntress Huntress

10:00 10:00

Thomas Thomas Lennon Lennon

Philip Philip Gnadt, Gnadt, Mickey Mickey Yamine Yamine

Gaza Gaza SurfSurf ClubClub

Panorama Panorama , 86’ , 86’

Nikolaus Nikolaus Geyrhalter Geyrhalter Masters Masters , 94’ , 94’

Wrong Wrong Elements Elements

15:30 15:30 Industry Industry Screening Screening

Planeta Planeta Petrila Petrila

I Made I Made You,You, I KillI Kill YouYou

Feature-Length Feature-Length Competition, Competition, Dutch Dutch Assembling Assembling RealityReality , 115’ , 115’ Competition, Competition,

Best ofBest Fests of, 91’ Fests, 91’

Maayan Maayan Schwartz Schwartz

Waiting Waiting for Giraffes for Giraffes Marco Marco de Stefanis de Stefanis DutchDutch Competition, Competition, 84’ 84’

14:45 14:45

Audrius Audrius Stonys Stonys

Mid-Length Mid-Length Competition, Competition, 56’ 56’

Panorama Panorama , 84’ , 84’

18:30 18:30

Dylan Dylan Williams, Williams, Erik Pauser Erik Pauser

Zaradasht Zaradasht Ahmed Ahmed

21:15 21:15

Bruno Bruno JorgeJorge

Andrei Andrei Dascalescu Dascalescu

TheThe ManMan from from Mo’Wax Mo’Wax22:00 22:00 Matthew Matthew JonesJones Raised Raised

by Krump

by Krump MusicMusic Documentary Documentary , 108’ , 108’

22:45 22:45

To Be ToaBe Miss a Miss

Turner Turner Ross,Ross, Bill Ross Bill Ross MusicMusic Documentary Documentary , 96’ , 96’

Edward Edward Ellis,Ellis, Flor Flor Salcedo, Salcedo, Aaron Aaron Woolf Woolf

Abandoned Abandoned Land Land

Best ofBest Fests, of Assembling Fests, Assembling RealityReality , 102’ , 102’

GillesGilles Laurent Laurent

22:45 22:45

Where Where You’re You’re Meant Meant to Be to Be

23:00 23:00

ZeroZero Days Days

Paul Paul Fegan Fegan

AlexAlex Gibney Gibney

Panorama Panorama , 73’ , 73’

MELKWEG GROND BRAKKE BRAKKE GROND BRAKKE TUSCHINSKI 3 GROND TUSCHINSKI 4GROND MELKWEG TUSCHINSKIMELKWEG 5 TUSCHINSKIMELKWEG 6 2BRAKKE EXPOZAAL EXPOZAALRODE ZAAL RODE ZAAL RABOZAAL RABOZAAL CINEMA CINEMA

Who’s Who’s Gonna Gonna LoveLove Me Me Now? Now? Tomer Tomer Heymann, Heymann, Barak Barak Heymann Heymann Masters Masters , 86’ , 86’

MusicMusic Documentary Documentary , 77’ , 77’

Masters Masters , 114’ , 114’

10:00

10:00

10:00 10:00Life, Animated

ZATERDAG ZATERDAG1919NOVEMBER NOVEMBER

Thomas Lennon

10:30 10:30 Brakke Grond 10:30 RodeBrakke Zaal Grond Rode Zaal Panorama, 86’

10:30

Weiner 1Minute Nature &Order 10:45 Industry Screening NCE presents: NCE Order presents: Josh Kriegman, The in Eagle Huntress in Chaos, Niels Pagh Chaos, Niels Pagh Anuktatop: Elyse11:00 Steinberg film isClass subtitled in English AndersenThis Master Andersen Master Class Metamorphosis BestWhere ofGod Fests, 100’ God Knows Knows I Am Where I AmThe and will be dubbedmost in Dutch Scandinavia's most Scandinavia's influential influential Nicolas Pradal, Pierre Selvini 11:00

11:00 11:00

10:00

Sacred

Roger Ross Williams

Todd Wider, JeddTodd Wider Wider, Jedd Wider Best of Fests, 99’

10:45

Erik Lieshout Erik Lieshout

Mid-Length Competition, Competition, 21:00 21:00Mid-Length

, 60’ , 60’ DutchDutch Competition Competition

22:15 22:15

TheThe Rolling Rolling Stones Stones Olé Olé Olé Olé Olé!: Olé!: A Trip A Trip Across Across Latin Latin America America + Live: + Live: Douwe Douwe BobBob

22:15 22:00 22:0022:15

TheThe Challenge Challenge Yuri Ancarani Yuri Ancarani Paradocs Paradocs , 69’ , 69’

The screening The screening is preceded is preceded by a performance by a performance of Rolling of Rolling Stones Stones songssongs covered covered

by Dutch

by Dutch singer-songwriter singer-songwriter Douwe Douwe Bob. Bob. See page See page 107 107

23:00 23:00

–

10:45

Best of Fests, 84’

Admission for allAdmission passholders for all passholders

Immersive Network Immersive Network Summit Summit

15:00 15:00

16:00

16:00

Petra Lataster-Czisch,with Extendedwith Q&AExtended Q&A 16:30 Peter Lataster An in-depth conversation An in-depth conversation Feature-Length Competition, Dutch between filmCuts criticbetween Nicolas film critic Nicolas Competition, Assembling Reality, 115’ Chairun Nissa Rapold and filmmaker Rapold Frederick and filmmaker Frederick Panorama , 70’ Wiseman about the Wiseman editing about of the editing of his 1970 classic film hisHospital.

1970 classic film Hospital.

17:00 17:00 See page 119 See page 119

17:45

Hospital

Frederick Wiseman Frederick Wiseman

Yezidi Girls & Yezidi The Girls &Assembling The Reality, 84’Assembling Reality, 84’ Return Return

18:00 18:00 with Extendedwith Q&AExtended Q&A

Followed by an in-depth Followed by an in-depth 18:30 conversation withconversation director with director You Have No Idea How Zahavi Sanjavi, protagonist Zahavi Sanjavi, protagonist Much I Love You Shilan and writer Shilan Chris Keuleand writer Chris Keule19:00 19:00 Pawel Lozinski mans. See page 114 mans. See page 114 Feature-Length Competition, 80’

19:00 19:00The Grown-Ups Maite Alberdi

Feature-Length Competition,19:30 80’

20:30

Erik Lieshout

Mid-Length Competition, Mid-Length Competition, 21:00 21:00 Dutch Competition, 60’Dutch Competition, 60’

21:30

Amateurs in Space 21:45 Max Kestner Rats Feature-Length Competition, 90’ 22:15

Yuri Ancarani

Yuri Ancarani

23:00 23:00

Paradocs, 69’

Masters, 89’

21:45

Rats

The Promise The Promise 21:45 Marcus Vetter, Karin Marcus Vetter, Karin Man from Mo’Wax Steinberger The Steinberger Matthew MastersJones , 117’

Music Documentary, 108’

18:00 KETELHUIS KETELHUIS

Citizen Jane: Battle for the City

Panorama, 75’

13.35-15.00

19:30

19:30

Best of Fests, 91’

18.05-20.00 Diner Break

Guido Hendrikx Guido Hendrikx

15:15

Panorama, 17’

Mid-Length Competition, 56’

16:00

16:00

In Loco Parentis Feature-Length Competition, 103’

Beeldbepalers: 16:00 Beeldbepalers: Renzo Martens Renzo Martens

Catherine Olsen (Passionate Catherine Olsen 4 (Passionate 4 House Call Meet 15:45 IDFAcademy Meet IDFAcademy Meet IDFAcademy IDFAcademy the Meet the Docs) at the Industry Docs) Desk. at the Industry Desk.

Neta Shoshani, David Ofek

the Professionals the Professionals Professionals Professionals Special: Special: The Good Postman 16:00 Mid-Length Competition, 62’ For all passholders For all passholders Round table meetings Round and table meetings and Geyrhalter Nikolaus Nikolaus Geyrhalter Tonislav Hristov (upon registration*) (upon registration*) VPRO Extra: 16:15 Industry Screening one-on-one Competition, meetings one-on-one with meetings with Feature-Length 82’ Award-winning filmmaker Award-winning filmmaker The European renowned professionals. renowned professionals.

Nikolaus Geyrhalter Nikolaus will talk Geyrhalter will talkNew Life Gogita’s about ways of finding aboutand ways of finding Levanand Koguashvili IDFAcademy passholders IDFAcademy passholders

creating your owncreating signature your as own signature as Feature-Length Competition, 72’

a filmmaker. a filmmaker.

17:00 Industry Screening IDFAcademy To Stay Alivepassholders –IDFAcademy passholders

A Method

Erik Lieshout

Mid-Length Competition, Dutch Competition, 60’

18:00

Best of Fests, 96’

Paul Salahadin Refsdal

23:00

Eat That Question Eat That - Question Frank Zappa in Frank Zappa in His Own Words His Own Words

To Be a Miss

Edward Ellis, Flor Salcedo, Aaron Woolf Panorama, 84’

Dugma: The Button Best of Fests, 58’

18:30

Dil Leyla

NH Carlton Puccini NH Carlton 9:00 – Puccini 21:00 9:00 – 21:00

Based on the works Based of writer on the works of writer Olga Delane Andrew Feinstein,Andrew Johan Feinstein,Panorama Johan , 80’ 20:45 Grimonprez madeGrimonprez Shadow made Shadow Planeta PetrilaWorld.

World. After the screening After both the screening both Andrei Dascalescu Feinstein and Grimonprez Feinsteinwill and Grimonprez will 21:00 First Appearance Competition, 90’ join Bahram Sadeghi joinfor Bahram a talk.Sadeghi for a talk.

Cameraperson 23:00

Kirsten Johnson

23:00

Abandoned 23:00 Land Gilles Laurent Panorama, 73’

Thorsten SchütteThorsten Schütte

Music Documentary, 90’ Music Documentary, 90’

24:00

24:00

1:00

1:00

Best of Fests, Assembling Reality, 102’

18:00

Filmsales, CAT&Docs Filmsales, and RiseCAT&Docs and Shine.and Rise and Shine.

Docs for Sale &Docs IDFAfor Forum Sale & passholders IDFA Forum passholders 19:00

Zuiderkerk – Zuiderkerk 18:00 Unknown – 18:00Brood + Live:

DanyGuests Lademacher’s Guests Meet Guests Guests Meet Romance All IDFA guests areAllinvited IDFA guests toWild meet are and invited exchange to meet ideas and exchange ideas

19:00

Jérôme le Maire computers available. computers available.

20:30 Feature-Length Competition, 85’

Zofia Kowalewska

In collaboration with KPN

De Jaren19’CaféDe – 22:00 Jaren Café –See 22:00 Student Competition, Presents. page 107

20:00

Unknown IDFA Dance Night IDFA Dance Night Brood Coeurope

Alink DJ Ed Rock. A regular DJ Ed at Rock.

IDFADennis Cafe A regular and host at IDFA of the CafeDJand host of the DJ Giovanni Troilo Music nights.

Ed plays nights. singles Ed Dutch plays fromCompetition, vinyl way back singles as from well as way back as well as Mid-Length Competition, 61’ vinyl Walk in and book Walk your one-on-one in andFirst book consultancy. your one-on-one Documentary, 90’ Appearance Competition,consultancy.

98’ brand new tracks.brand Manynew genres, tracks. fromMany 1956genres, till 2016, from inclu1956 till 2016, inclu-21:00 ding soul, rock, new ding wave, soul,reggae, rock, new hip wave, hop and reggae, beyond. hip hop and beyond.

Walk-in consultancies Walk-in consultancies Elisabeth Mortensen

Arti et Amicitiae Arti10:00 et Amicitiae – 22:00 10:00 – 22:00

with Extended Q&A

Followed by an in-depth conversation with director Zahavi Sanjavi, protagonist Shilan and writer Chris Keulemans. See page 114

20:30

To Stay Alive – A Method Erik Lieshout

Mid-Length Competition, Dutch Competition, 60’

Admission FreeAdmission Free

All accredited guests All accredited have the opportunity guests havetothe reserve opportunity to reserve a meeting/screening a meeting/screening room for small groups roomof forupsmall to 15groups of up to 15 22:15 22:15 22:00 people. Reservations people. can be Reservations made at the can Industry be made Desk. at the Industry Desk.

Who’s GonnaGrondBrakke The Rolling Additionally, six viewing Additionally, boothssixare viewing available booths for holders are available for holders Brakke 9:00 – 23:00 Grond 9:00 –Stones 23:00 Love MeinNow? Olé Olé Olé!: A Trip of a Press Pass at Docs of a Press for Sale.

PassBoth at Docs services for Sale. are located Both services in are located 22:45 does it feel to How have does someone it feel to follow haveyou someone in the follow you in the Tomer How Heymann, Across Latin America Arti et Amicitiae. Arti et Amicitiae.

Barak Heymann Where You’re physical world, instead physical of just world, oninstead social media? of just Or onto social media? Or to + Live: Douwe Bob 23:00 Masters, 86’ Meant to Be The screening is preceded look for love with look yourfor nose, love rather with than your nose, swiping rather profile than swiping profile 23:00 Zero Days Paul Fegan by a performance of Rolling pictures on Tinder? pictures What would on Tinder? a computer What would brain asay computer brain say Alex Gibney Music Documentary, 77’ Stones songs covered by Dutch Masters, 114’ when it secretly takes whena itpeek secretly at your takes instagram a peek atpictures? your instagram pictures? singer-songwriter Douwe Bob. Trigger your senses Trigger and experience your sensesthirty and experience of the world's thirty of the world's See page 107 best interactive documentaries, best interactivevirtual documentaries, reality experiences virtual reality experiences Stedelijk Museum Stedelijk 10:00Museum – 18:00 10:00 – 18:00 and physical installations and physical in theinstallations ten-day DocLab: in theElastic ten-day DocLab: Elastic 24:00 Some installations exhibition. Some have installations varying opening have varying opening Johan Grimonprez JohaninGrimonprez Stedelijk Museum in Stedelijk Museum Reality exhibition.Reality hours On-site (11:00reservation – 21:00). On-site may bereservation required. may be required.

Ongoing exhibitions Ongoing of twoexhibitions video works ofby two Johan video works by Johan hours (11:00 – 21:00).

Grimonprez from Grimonprez the Stedelijkfrom Museum the Stedelijk collection, Museum dial collection, dial Admission FreeAdmission Free H-I-S-T-O-R-Y and Kobarweng H-I-S-T-O-R-Yorand Where Kobarweng Is Your Helicopter? or Where Is Your Helicopter?

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

Yezidi Girls & The Return

The screening isGuests followed by a hour, supported at the daily GuestsatMeet the daily Guests Guests cocktail Meet hour, supported cocktail

by Doc/it. performance by Dany Ladema-

20:00by Doc/it.

cher’s Wild Romance, Herman IDFAOut Writing Room IDFA Writing Room for allAdmission passholders for all legendary passholders Burning CloseAdmission Ties Brood’s former band.

Workspace for all Workspace accredited guests. for all accredited Wifi connection guests.and Wifi connection and Trude Berge Ottersen, Gry

17:45

HostedCompetition,

by NPO Sales, EYE International,

by NPO Sales,Films EYE International, Transit, Autlook Films Transit, Autlook Feature-Length 88’Hosted

20:00

Sealers – One Last Hunt NH Carlton Rossini NH Carlton 10:00 –Rossini 17:00 10:00 – 17:00

17:00

Still Tomorrow Docs for Sale Happy Docs for Hour Sale Happy Hour Jian Fan

Meeting Room Meeting with screening Room with facilities screening facilities

22:00

After the screening, journalist Marcia Luyten discusses the making of the film with director Dirk-Jan Roeleven.

See page 107

SOCIAL EVENTS SOCIAL EVENTS

Student Competition, 72’

20:00

16:00

+ Special Guest

18:00Arti Industry Screening et Amicitiae Arti–et17:00 Amicitiae - 18:00 – 17:00 - 18:00

Asli Özarslan

19:00

IDFA in De Balie: IDFA in De Balie: 20:00 20:15 Shadow World Shadow World Siberian Love

15:00

Book your one-one-one Book your one-one-one

An Insignificant Man Khushboo Ranka, Vinay Shukla

22:45

14:00

PreregisteredPreregistered consultanciesconsultancies

Feature-Length Competition, 86’

20:00

The screening a See page 124 is followed See pageby124 conversation between fashionfor all passholders 13:00 Admission for allAdmission passholders journalist and curator Aynouk Tan, director Andrew Rossi and moderator Arno Kantelberg (editor-in-chief of Esquire).

See page 107

15:30 15:30 Comp. – Grote 15:30 Zaal &Comp.

Foyer– Grote 15:30 ZaalIndustry & Compagnie Foyer Screening 15:30 – Zuilenzaal Compagnie – Zuilenzaal consultancy with consultancy with with with

Neta David criticalShoshani, art machine critical andOfek make art machine it and make it Mid-Length 62’Unilever beneficialCompetition, on a former beneficial on a former Unilever plantation in Congo. plantation in Congo.

17:00 In collaboration with In collaboration De Balie. with De Balie.

18:00

Find out about theFind various out about the various

14:45 NH Carlton Verdi & Vivaldi NH Carlton Verdi & Vivaldi Dutch Competition, 84’14:45

22:30

Turner Ross, Bill Ross 23:00

into co-production into co-production Future Maximize Future Maximize 13:45 Industry Screening Two renowned producers Two renowned producers Your Audience Your andAudience and will share their experience will share their experience Your Distribution Your Distribution Daan’s Inheritance

DAILY SERVICES DAILY SERVICES

22:00

Maceo Frost

Contemporary Color

Mid-Length Competition, 52’

Reset 13:00 Compagnie 13:00 – Grote Compagnie Zaal 13:00 – Grote Compagnie Zaal 13:00 – Zuilenzaal Compagnie – Zuilenzaal

Woman and the Glacier Audrius Stonys 15:00

Cucli

Dutch Competition , 85’Dutch Paradocs , 45’ Competition, 85’

Raised by Krump

Music Documentary, 96’

18.05-20.00 Diner Break

12:00

Industry Session: Industry Session:

IDFA Bertha Fund IDFA Bertha Fund 12:30

The First Monday inby funding schemes funding offered schemes offered by + Special Guests May the IDFA Bertha Fund. the IDFA Bertha Fund.

Xavier Marrades

14:00 14:15

Zaradasht Ahmed

19:00 Masters , 78’

Feature-Length Competition, Assembling Reality, 88’

Wojciech Kasperski

12:45

20.00-22.30 20.00-22.30 on the risks and benefits on the risks of and benefits of PeterPostema Broderick will Peter takeBroderick partici- will take particiJoris O.J.: Made in America O.J.: Part MadeIIIin America Part III and co-producing.

14:15 Industry co-financing co-financing andDutch co-producing.

Competition, pants on a quick85’illustrated pants on atour quick illustrated tour Screening and Extended Q&A and Extended Q&A of the distributionoffrontier. the distribution frontier. for Giraffes Waiting IDFAcademy passholders IDFAcademy passholders Marco de Stefanis IDFAcademy passholders IDFAcademy passholders

Nowhere to Hide

Stranger in Paradise Stranger in Paradise 19:00

10:00 Screening 10:00Industry NH Carlton 10:00 Verdi NH Carlton 10:00 Verdi NH Carlton 10:00 Paganini NH Carlton Paganini

Alban Teurlai, IDFAcademy Small IDFAcademy Small IDFAcademy Small IDFAcademy Small Thierry Demaizière Maria JoséinCuevas Best ofPart FestsII , 110’ Session: Insights Session: Insights Session: SeizeSession: Your Seize Your O.J.: Made America O.J.: Part MadeII in America

Dylan Williams, Erik Pauser

Mohamed Jabaly

Masters, 119’

22:00

13.35-15.00 Lunch Break

Beauties Night 15.00-18.05 of the 15.00-18.05

18:30

19:00

Ambulance

Icon

10.30-13.35 10.30-13.35 O.J.: Made in America O.J.: Part MadeI in America Part I

13:00 Lunch Break

13:00

18:30

19:00

Panorama, 21’

23:00

Claudio Capanna

Panorama, 83’

19:00

12:15 Industry Screening

Shifting Perspectives, 467’ Shifting Perspectives, 467’

Life to Come

17:45

The Borneo Case

19:30 with Extended with Q&AExtended Q&A

Masters, 89’

Best of Fests, 97’

1:001:00

Panorama, 68’

Lucija Stojevic

Best of Fests, 80’

Matt Tyrnauer

24:00 24:00 24:00

Nada Riyadh, Ayman El Amir

La Chana

First Appearance Competition, 83’

A Young Girl in A Her Young Girl in Her Nineties Nineties

Morgan SpurlockMorgan SpurlockMasters, 117’

The ChallengeThe Challenge Paradocs, 69’

17:00

DocLab DocLab BestDark Live: The Best ex-Yugoslavian cult ex-Yugoslavian band cult band Yann Coridian. SeeYann pageCoridian.

115 See page 115 Live: 20:00 It’s The Getting Laibach, the first Western Laibach, band the first Western band of Awkward of Awkward Tech OlgaTech Kravets perform in North to perform Korea, in North Korea, A playful evening Aduring playful which evening during which Mid-Length Competition, 48’to followed by a concert followed by the by a concert by the 20:45 digital artists present digital absurd artists present absurd 20:45 band. See band. See page 106 inventions that expand inventions our that expand ourpage 106 Mogadishu Soldier November December existing notions ofexisting reality notions of reality Liberation DayLiberation Day Torstein Grude Bruno Jorge and confront us with andour confront us with our Traavik, Morten Ugis Morten OlteTraavik, Ugis Olte Paradocs 21:00 21:15 21:15 21:15 Feature-Length Competition, , 23’ Music Documentary Music Documentary, 100’ tech-obsessed everyday tech-obsessed lives. everyday lives. , 100’ Assembling Reality, 88’ The Graduation Daan’s Inheritance Daan’s Inheritance 21:30 21:30 Smoke See page 111 See page 111 Claire Simon Joris Postema Joris Postema Roy Villevoye

Best of Fests, 80’

22:15 22:00 22:00

Jacqueline Zünd

Happily Ever After

10:15 IDFAcademy Plenary IDFAcademy Plenary

with Extendedwith Q&AExtendedIDFAcademy, Q&A Consultation) Industry at the Industry Register for short Register meetingsfor shortConsultation) meetings at the featuring IDFAcademy, Mikael featuring Mikael 11:00 After the screening After of this the screening of this(EDN) and Desk.

Desk. with various professionals with various for professionals for Opstrup Opstrup editor (EDN) and editor epic investigationepic of the investigation O.J. of theOsmund.

O.J. matters onand generalFor matters and Jesper Jesper Osmund. advice on generaladvice all passholders For all passholders Simpson trial, journalist Simpson Claire trial, journalist Claire (upon registration*) (upon registration*) specific questions.specific questions.

IDFAcademy passholders IDFAcademy passholders Diao will have an Diao in-depth will have an& in-depth 11:45 Industry Invitees & Invitees Docs for Sale passholders Docs for Sale onlypassholders only Screening conversation withconversation director Ezrawith director Ezra Mogadishu Soldier 12:00 NH Carlton 12:00 Paganini NH Carlton Paganini Edelman. See pageEdelman.

118 See page 118 Torstein Grude

House Call to redress his enterprise his enterprise the to redress the

Panorama, 84’

17:00 Music Documentary , 96’ Music Documentary, 96’

10:00 Compagnie 10:00 – Grote Compagnie Zaal – Grote Zaal

10:30

16:30 Artist Renzo Martens Artist shares Renzo Martens shares

First Appearance Competition, First Appearance Competition, Best of19:30 Fests, 78’ Dutch Competition, 72’Dutch Competition, 72’ Those Who Jump Those Who Jump El patio Turn Over the Stones Liberation DayLiberation + Day + Followed by an in-depth Followed by an in-depth Estephan Wagner, Estephan Moritz Wagner, Moritz Elvira Diazjourna- between journa-Nir Dvortchin Live: Laibach Live: Laibach conversation between conversation 20:00 Siebert, Abou Bakar Siebert, Sidibé Abou Bakar SidibéAustin Panorama 82’ Competition, 29’ A documentary about A documentary the about the list Liddie and list, Liddie director Austin 20:00 and director Student

To Stay Alive –To Stay Alive – A Method A Method Erik Lieshout

19:30

Almost There

16:00

1

The Grown-Ups Preregistered PreregisteredIndustry Session: Industry VOD Session: VOD10:00 Maite Alberdi consultancieswith Wendy Bernfeld Session:The Pitch Session: & Pitch10:30 & Industry consultancies with Wendy Bernfeld Gringo: Dangerous Screening 10:30 Arti et Amicitiae 10:30 Arti et Amicitiae Feature-Length Competition, 80’ Book your one-one-one Book your one-one-one Trailer Workshop Trailer Workshop Life of John McAfee Admission for all Admission passholders for all passholders Homo O.J.: Made Sapiens in America O.J.: Made in The America Docs for Sale Meet Docs for Sale consultancy Meet with consultancy with with with PitchBurstein & TrailerThe Workshop, Pitch & TrailerCoeurope Workshop, See page 124 See page 124 Nikolaus Troilo (Part I, IIGeyrhalter & III)(Part I, II & III)Nanette Claire Aguilar (Claire Claire Aguilar Aguilar (Claire Aguilar the Professionals one of, 98’ last year’s biggest one of last hitsyear’s at Giovanni biggest hits at the Professionals Masters Masters, 94’ Mid-Length Competition, 61’ 10:30

Neasa Ní Chianáin

Kesang Tseten

Marc Waltman Marc Waltman

17:30 Industry Screening

Hospital

15:00

Trembling Mountain

Walking in the Walking in the Opposite Direction Opposite Direction 17:15

Philip Gnadt, Mickey Yamine

12:00 12:15

The life story of Adrian The life Borland story of Adrian Borland , 82’Music Documentary, 82’ Music Documentary of The Sound, followed of Theby Sound, a followed by a performance of the performance band’s of the band’s songs by Moke’s Felix songs Maginn

by Moke’s Felix Maginn16:15 and The Citizens. See andpage The Citizens.

106 See page 106

First Appearance Competition, 90’

Hospital

Gaza Surf Club 10:00

12:00

My Mother The Beast Is Still Alive Walking in the Walking Opposite in the Opposite 15:15 – 15:15 – Jiao Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova + Live: Felix + Live: Direction Bo Direction Panorama, 88’ FarFelix Western Far Western Panorama, 90’ Maginn + TheMaginn Citizens+ TheJames Citizens Payne James Payne

Andrei Dascalescu

16:00

Hospital 16:00 16:00Miss Kiet’s Children

10:00

11:00

Best of Fests, 84’

EYE CINEMA

9:00

–

12:30

13 CARRÉ INDUSTRY INDUSTRY OFFICE OFFICE

9:00

Music Shorts Music Shorts 11:00 Compilation of short Compilation films of short films Wrong Elements 11:00 about classical music. about With: classical music. With:

The Immersive Network The Immersive Network Wrestling Alligators 12:45 Summit brings together Summit brings together Andrew Shea experts from all corners expertsoffrom all corners of 13:00 Peshmerga Panorama, 90’ the interactive and the immersive interactive and immersive with Extended Q&A 13:00 13:00 13:00Followed by an in-depth 13:15 Industry 13:15 – 13:15 – storytelling industry storytelling to formu-Screening industry to formu-I Made You, I Kill You Alexandru Petru Badelita late the next steps late in develothe next steps in develoThe Claim, the Honky Tonk Heaven: Honky Tonk Heaven: conversation between13:30 13:30 13:30 13:30 Brakke Grond 13:30 RodeBrakke Zaal Student Competition, 14’ Grond Rode Zaal ping the medium. ping Supported the Stolen medium. by Supported by journalist Twan Huys and Search for The Legend ofThe theLegend of the 13 Days.

Industrial Kids 13 & Days.

Docs Industrial ministry of Economic ministry Affairs of of Economic Affairs of Industry Talk: Industry Talk: My Friend, Yaniv director Bernard-Henri Lévy. See Art from WWII Broken SpokeBroken Spoke Party Process Competition Party Process 2 the Netherlands.

See theMensink page Netherlands.

141 See page 141Maayan Schwartz Reality Assembling Reality Assembling page 114 Ditteke Brenda Greene Mitchell, Brenda Greene Mitchell, 14:00 Yakov Poselsky Children’s Yakovdocumentaries: Poselsky By invitation By invitation Four renowned Student Competition, 45’ documentary documentary Four renowned Sam WainwrightSam Douglas Wainwright Douglas Dutch Competition, 91’ Sergei Loznitsa's1Minute Top 10Sergei , 62’Nature, Loznitsa's Top 10 , 62’ Waiting for Giraffes Che!, Rocknrol14:00 14:00Peshmerga Music Documentary , 75’Music Documentary , 75’ 14:00 editors take you on editors a journey take you on a journey Bernard-Henri Lévy Marco de Stefanis lers, Jesser and the Sugarcane, through their work through and thetheir work and the Best of Fests, 92’ Dutch Competition, 84’ Naomi’s Secret, Spotlight on creative editing process creative behind editing process behind Merna 150’. This screening 14:45 it. See page 122 it. See page 122 is Dutch spoken or Dutch Admission for allAdmission passholders for all15:00 passholders My Father 15:00 15:00 and subtitled.

20:30

PODIUM PODIUM DEDEBALIE MUNT KOMEDIE 10 KLEINE KOMEDIE DE MUNTCOMPAGNIE 11 DE&MUNT KLEINE ARTI 12 & ARTI DE MUNT MOZAÏEK COMPAGNIE MOZAÏEK GROTE ZAALGROTE ZAAL

Best of Fests, 87’

Jonathan Littell live during this screening.

The Pit, RightBest SideofThe of Cello Pit, Right and Side of Cello and 11:30 Fests, 133’ editor discusses his editor vision discusses his vision Joe’s Violin.

Joe’s Violin.

Raving and ongoing search andforongoing the search for theIran Raving Iran Susanne Regina Meures Susanne Regina Meures "authentic moment". "authentic moment".

and and recognized internationally recognized First Appearance Competition, 112’internationally 11:30

12:00 Brakke Grond 12:00 Expozaal Brakke Grond Expozaal

12:00 12:00

20:00 20:00

DE MUNT DE 9 BALIE

9:00

9:00 9:00

17:45

1:00

To Stay To Stay Alive Alive – – A Method A Method

DutchDutch Competition, Competition, MusicMusic , 90’ , 90’ Documentary Documentary

1:001:00

Planeta Petrila

g is preceded 23:00 ance of Rolling h covered by Dutch writer Douwe Bob.

Kirsten Kirsten Johnson Johnson

23:00 23:00

Panorama Panorama , 84’ , 84’

15:30 Industry Screening

g Stones é!: A Trip in America we Bob

Mid-Length Mid-Length Competition, Competition, 61’ 61’

20:30 20:30

1:001:00

Best of Fests, 99’

22:00

First Appearance First Appearance Competition, Competition, 98’ 98’

20:00 20:00

Unknown Unknown Brood Brood

24:00 24:00

Best of Fests, 91’

21:00

Dennis Dennis AlinkAlink

19:00 19:00

24:00 24:00

TUSCHINSKI 1 EYE TUSCHINSKI 2 EYE CINEMA EYE 1 CINEMA 1 CINEMA EYE 2 CINEMA

on, Music

Trude Trude Berge Berge Ottersen, Ottersen, Gry Gry Elisabeth Elisabeth Mortensen Mortensen

Cameraperson Cameraperson

Best ofBest Fests of, 97’ Fests, 97’

0’

Giovanni Giovanni TroiloTroilo

ZofiaZofia Kowalewska Kowalewska

22:15 22:15

MattMatt Tyrnauer Tyrnauer

Brood

Student Student Competition, Competition, 19’ 19’

The screening The screening is followed is followed by a by a performance performance

by Dany

by Dany LademaLademacher’scher’s WildWild Romance, Romance, Herman Herman Brood’s Brood’s legendary legendary former former band.band.

In collaboration In collaboration withwith KPN KPN Presents.

Presents.

See page See page 107 107

Sealers Sealers – One – One LastLast Hunt HuntCoeurope Coeurope

22:30 22:30

Contemporary Contemporary Color Color

Citizen Citizen Jane: Jane: Battle Battle for the for the CityCity

23:00 23:00

Unknown Unknown Brood Brood + Live: + Live: Dany Dany Lademacher’s Lademacher’s WildWild Romance Romance

Paradocs Paradocs , 45’ , 45’

Maceo Maceo FrostFrost

23:00 23:00

20:30 20:30

Followed Followed by anbyin-depth an in-depth conversation conversation withwith director director Zahavi Zahavi Sanjavi, Sanjavi, protagonist protagonist Shilan Shilan and writer and writer ChrisChris KeuleKeul mans. mans.

See page See page 114 114

19:00 19:00

Roy Villevoye Roy Villevoye

Masters Masters , 119’ , 119’

Panorama Panorama , 21’ , 21’

g is followed by a - by Dany Lademaomance, Herman ndary d. former band.

20:00 on with KPN page 107

Planeta Planeta Petrila Petrila

Panorama Panorama , 80’ , 80’

Yezidi Yezidi GirlsGirls & The & The Return Return

18:00 18:00withwith Extended Extended Q&AQ&A

Feature-Length Feature-Length Competition, Competition, 88’ 88’

Close Close TiesTies

Feature-Length Feature-Length Competition, Competition, 85’ 85’

17:00 17:00

Jian Fan Jian Fan

20:00 20:00

Burning Burning OutOut

First Appearance First Appearance Competition, Competition, 90’ 90’

Smoke Smoke

Claire Claire Simon Simon

21:45 21:45

Feature-Length Feature-Length Competition, Competition, 90’ 90’

20:45 20:45

Paradocs Paradocs , 23’ , 23’

TheThe Graduation Graduation

OlgaOlga Delane Delane

20:45 20:45

November November December December

Torstein Torstein Grude Grude

MaxMax Kestner Kestner

18:30 18:30

Dil Leyla Dil Leyla

Jérôme Jérôme le Maire le Maire

AfterAfter the screening, the screening, journalist journalist Marcia Marcia Luyten Luyten discusses discusses the making the making of the offilm the with film with director director Dirk-Jan Dirk-Jan Roeleven.

Roeleven.

See page See page 107 107

17:45 17:45

Student Student Competition, Competition, 72’ 72’

Siberian Siberian LoveLove

+ Special + Special Guest Guest

18:00 18:00 Industry Industry Screening Screening

Asli Özarslan Asli Özarslan

20:15 20:15

16:00 16:00

VPRO VPRO Extra: Extra: TheThe European European

StillStill Tomorrow Tomorrow

20:00 20:00

It’s Getting It’s Getting Dark Dark

Feature-Length Feature-Length Competition, Competition, , 88’ , 88’ Assembling Assembling RealityReality

22:00 22:00

Best ofBest Fests of, 58’ Fests, 58’

Feature-Length Feature-Length Competition, Competition, 86’ 86’

Student Student Competition, Competition, 29’ 29’

Mid-Length Mid-Length Competition, Competition, 48’ 48’

Amateurs Amateurs in Space in Space

Paul Paul Salahadin Salahadin Refsdal Refsdal

Mid-Length Mid-Length Competition, Competition, , 60’ , 60’ DutchDutch Competition Competition

Best ofBest Fests of, 78’ Fests, 78’

Mogadishu Mogadishu Soldier Soldier

21:30 21:30

Erik Lieshout Erik Lieshout

Nowhere Nowhere to Hide to Hide

OlgaOlga Kravets Kravets

21:00 21:00

Feature-Length Feature-Length Competition, Competition, 72’ 72’

To Stay To Stay Alive Alive – – A Method A Method

Nir Dvortchin Nir Dvortchin

20:45 20:45

Gogita’s Gogita’s NewNew LifeLife 17:00 17:00 Industry Industry Screening Screening

Best ofBest Fests of, 96’ Fests, 96’

18:30 18:30

16:00 16:00

16:15 16:15 Industry Industry Screening Screening

Mohamed Mohamed Jabaly Jabaly

TurnTurn Over Over the the Stones Stones

Panorama Panorama , 82’ , 82’

Mid-Length Mid-Length Competition, Competition, 62’ 62’

House House CallCall

17:45 17:45

Ambulance Ambulance

NetaNeta Shoshani, Shoshani, David David OfekOfek

Levan Levan Koguashvili Koguashvili

An Insignificant An Insignificant ManMan 18:00 18:00 Khushboo Khushboo Ranka, Ranka, Dugma: Dugma: TheThe Button Button Vinay Vinay Shukla Shukla

19:30 19:30

ElviraElvira DiazDiaz

Brood + Live:19:00 emacher’s ance

16:30 16:30

Panorama Panorama , 83’ , 83’

Masters Masters , 78’ , 78’

House House CallCall

Feature-Length Feature-Length Competition, Competition, 82’ 82’

Panorama Panorama , 68’ , 68’

Lucija Lucija Stojevic Stojevic

Feature-Length Feature-Length Competition, Competition, 80’ 80’

20:00 20:00

TheThe Good Good Postman Postman

NetaNeta Shoshani, Shoshani, David David OfekOfek

TheThe Borneo Borneo CaseCase

El patio El patio

15:45 15:45

Mid-Length Mid-Length Competition, Competition, 62’ 62’

19:00 19:00 19:30 19:30

15:30 15:30 Industry Industry Screening Screening

NadaNada Riyadh, Riyadh, Ayman Ayman El Amir El Amir

La Chana La Chana

Pawel Pawel Lozinski Lozinski

Feature-Length Feature-Length Competition, Competition, 80’ 80’

15:00 15:00

In Loco In Loco Parentis Parentis Tonislav Tonislav Hristov Hristov

Happily Happily EverEver After After

14:00 14:00

Waiting Waiting for Giraffes for Giraffes

15:15 15:15

Neasa Neasa Ní Chianáin Ní Chianáin

17:00 17:00 17:15 17:15

13:00 13:00

DutchDutch Competition, Competition, 84’ 84’

Feature-Length Feature-Length Competition, Competition, 103’ 103’

Chairun Chairun NissaNissa

14:15 14:15 Industry Industry Screening Screening

The screening The screening is followed is followed by a by a conversation conversation between between fashion fashion journalist journalist and curator and curator Aynouk Aynouk Tan, director Tan, director Andrew Andrew RossiRossi and and moderator moderator ArnoArno Kantelberg Kantelberg (editor-in-chief (editor-in-chief of Esquire). of Esquire).

See page See page 107 107

Marco Marco de Stefanis de Stefanis

16:15 16:15

YouYou Have Have No Idea No Idea HowHow Much Much I Love I Love YouYou

Maite Maite Alberdi Alberdi

18:00

DutchDutch Competition, Competition, 85’ 85’

Woman Woman andand the the Glacier Glacier

Panorama Panorama , 88’ , 88’

18:30 18:30

Grown-Ups Grown-Ups 19:00 19:00TheThe

eening, journalist n discusses f the film with Jan Roeleven. 17:00

JorisJoris Postema Postema

Cucli Cucli

First Appearance First Appearance Competition, Competition, 83’ 83’

19:00 19:00

uest

Daan’s Daan’s Inheritance Inheritance 14:15 14:15

12:00 12:00

12:30 12:30

TheThe FirstFirst Monday Monday in in + Special + Special Guests Guests MayMay

13:45 13:45 Industry Industry Screening Screening

Panorama Panorama , 17’ , 17’

My My Father Father andand My Mother Mother TheThe Beast Beast Is Still Is Still Alive Alive My Bo Jiao Bo Jiao MinaMina Mileva, Mileva, Vesela Vesela Kazakova Kazakova

Feature-Length Feature-Length Competition, Competition, , 88’ , 88’ Assembling Assembling RealityReality

Mid-Length Mid-Length Competition, Competition, 52’ 52’

Xavier Xavier Marrades Marrades

15:00 15:00

Torstein Torstein Grude Grude

Best ofBest Fests of, 110’ Fests, 110’

14:00 14:00

Student Student Competition, Competition, 45’ 45’

CutsCuts

Jacqueline Jacqueline ZündZünd

18:00 18:00

12:45 12:45

Reset Reset Alban Teurlai, Teurlai, Beauties Beauties of the of the Night Night Alban Thierry Thierry Demaizière Demaizière Maria Maria José José Cuevas Cuevas

My My Friend, Friend, Yaniv Yaniv

Panorama Panorama , 90’ , 90’

IconIcon 13:00 13:00

Student Student Competition, Competition, 14’ 14’

Kesang Kesang Tseten Tseten

Almost Almost There There

16:00

Wojciech Wojciech Kasperski Kasperski

Panorama Panorama , 75’ , 75’

Trembling Trembling Mountain Mountain

17:30 17:30 Industry Industry Screening Screening

a: ean

Claudio Claudio Capanna Capanna

LifeLife to Come to Come

Alexandru Alexandru PetruPetru Badelita Badelita

16:30 16:30 Panorama Panorama , 70’ , 70’

17:00 17:00

15:00

12:15 12:15 Industry Industry Screening Screening

Panorama Panorama , 90’ , 90’

First Appearance First Appearance Competition, Competition, 90’ 90’

PetraPetra Lataster-Czisch, Lataster-Czisch, PeterPeter Lataster Lataster

14:00

12:15 12:15

Andrei Andrei Dascalescu Dascalescu

16:00 16:00

Kiet’s Kiet’s Children Children 16:00 16:00MissMiss

cial Guests

11:00 11:00 Industry Industry Screening Screening 11:45 11:45

Andrew Andrew SheaShea

13:00 13:00 13:15 13:15 Industry Industry Screening Screening

15:00 15:00

g is followed by a between fashion13:00 d curator Aynouk Andrew Rossi and rno Kantelberg ef of Esquire).

Mid-Length Mid-Length Competition, Competition, 61’ 61’

Best ofBest Fests of, 133’ Fests, 133’

Wrestling Wrestling Alligators Alligators

TheThe Claim, Claim, the the conversation conversation between between 13:30 13:30 journalist journalist TwanTwan HuysHuys and and Search Search for Stolen for Stolen KidsKids & Docs & Docs director director Bernard-Henri Bernard-Henri Lévy.Lévy.

See See Art Art from from WWII WWII Competition Competition 2 2 pagepage 114 114 Ditteke Mensink Mensink Children’s Children’s documentaries: documentaries: Ditteke DutchDutch Competition, Competition, 91’ 91’ Peshmerga 1Minute 1Minute Nature, Nature, Che!,Che!, RocknrolRocknrol14:00 14:00Peshmerga Bernard-Henri Bernard-Henri LévyLévy lers, Jesser lers, Jesser and the andSugarcane, the Sugarcane, Best ofBest Fests of, 92’ Fests, 92’ Naomi’s Naomi’s Secret, Secret, Spotlight Spotlight on on Merna Merna 150’. This 150’. screening This screening is Dutch is Dutch spoken spoken or Dutch or Dutch subtitled. subtitled.

Monday in

Giovanni Giovanni TroiloTroilo

Masters Masters , 98’ , 98’

Jonathan Jonathan Littell Littell

12:30 12:30

12:45 12:45

12:00

Nanette Nanette Burstein Burstein

Mogadishu Mogadishu Soldier Soldier

Peshmerga Peshmerga with Extended Extended Q&AQ&A 13:00 13:00with Followed Followed by anbyin-depth an in-depth

11:00

Homo Homo Sapiens Sapiens

11:00 11:00

10:00 10:00

TheThe Grown-Ups Grown-Ups Maite Maite Alberdi Alberdi Gringo: Gringo: TheThe Dangerous Dangerous10:30 10:30 Industry Industry Screening Screening Feature-Length Feature-Length Competition, Competition, 80’ 80’ LifeLife of John of John McAfee McAfee Coeurope Coeurope 10:15 10:15

10:30 10:30

Best ofBest Fests of, 87’ Fests, 87’

This film This is film subtitled is subtitled in English in English and will andbe willdubbed be dubbed in Dutch in Dutch live during live during this screening. this screening.

12:00 12:00

10:00

10:00 10:00 Industry Industry Screening Screening

10:00 10:00

Sacred Sacred

Roger Roger RossRoss Williams Williams

9:00

1

9:00 9:00

Animated Animated 10:00 10:00Life,Life,

ARRÉ

k

Saturday 19 November

DOCLAB EXPO: DOCLAB ELASTIC EXPO: REALITY ELASTIC REALITY

EXHIBITION EXHIBITION

1:00

22:15

The Challenge Yuri Ancarani Paradocs, 69’

Program TUSCHINSKI TUSCHINSKI 1 1

Sunday 20 November

TUSCHINSKI TUSCHINSKI 2 2

TUSCHINSKI TUSCHINSKI 3 3

TUSCHINSKI TUSCHINSKI 4 4

TUSCHINSKI TUSCHINSKI 5 5

TUSCHINSKI TUSCHINSKI 66

DE MUNT DE MUNT 9

9

DE MUNT DE MUNT 10 10

DE MUNT DE MUNT 11

11

DE MUNT DE MUNT 12 12

DE MUNT DE MUNT 13 13

9:00 9:00

10:00 10:00 Industry Industry Screening Screening David David Borenstein Borenstein

First Appearance First Appearance Competition, Competition, 73’ 73’

AnnaAnna Zamecka Zamecka

11:00 11:00

Those Who Who Jump Jump 11:00 11:00Those

Best ofBest Fests of, 72’ Fests, 72’

10:15 10:15

Mid-Length Mid-Length Competition, Competition, 62’ 62’

Mathijs Mathijs Vleugels Vleugels

13:00 13:00

Panorama Panorama , 60’ , 60’

Solitary Solitary

KristiKristi Jacobson Jacobson

13:30 13:30

Panorama Panorama , 82’ , 82’

13:45 13:45

the the Spirit Spirit of I.F. ofStone I.F. Stone withwith Extended Extended Q&AQ&A

Followed Followed by anbyin-depth an in-depth conversation conversation between between Xandra Xandra Schutte Schutte (editor-in-chief (editor-in-chief of of 15:45 15:45 Industry Industry Screening Screening De Groene De Groene Amsterdammer), Amsterdammer), Areum Areum director director Fred Fred Peabody Peabody and and Areum Areum Parkkang Parkkang producer producer PeterPeter Raymont.

Raymont.

See See First Appearance First Appearance Competition, Competition, 93’ 93’ pagepage 115 115

16:00 16:00

16:30 16:30

Bolingo.

Bolingo.

TheThe Forest Forest of Love of Love

12:30 12:30

Music Music Shorts Shorts

Best ofBest Fests of, 97’ Fests, 97’

Craigslist Craigslist Allstars Allstars Samira Samira Elagoz Elagoz Paradocs Paradocs , 65’ , 65’

DutchDutch Competition, Competition, 80’ 80’

Bernard-Henri Bernard-Henri LévyLévy Best ofBest Fests of, 92’ Fests, 92’

15:45 15:45

Jascha Jascha de Wilde, de Wilde, Ben Hendriks Ben Hend

1Minute 1Minute Nature Nature

15:45 15:45 Industry Industry Screening Screening

IDFA Competition IDFA Competition for Kids for&Kids Docs&, 4’ Docs, 4’

OlgaOlga Kravets Kravets

Stefanie Stefanie Visjager, Visjager, Katinka Katinka Baehr Baehr

Dream Dream Empire Empire David David Borenstein Borenstein

First Appearance First Appearance Competition, Competition, 73’ 73’

Anuktatop: Anuktatop: TheThe Metamorphosis Metamorphosis

Monster Monster in the in the Mind Mind JeanJean Carper Carper

Nicolas Nicolas Pradal, Pradal, Pierre Pierre Selvini Selvini First Appearance First Appearance Competition, Competition, 112’ 112’

Best ofBest Fests of, 87’ Fests, 87’

Mid-Length Mid-Length Competition, Competition, 48’ 48’

WinWin

by Fall

by Fall

TheThe Wait Wait

AliceAlice Schmid Schmid

Lea Glob, Lea Glob, Mette Mette CarlaCarla Albrechtsen Albrechtsen

First Appearance First Appearance Competition, Competition, 80’ 80’

First Appearance First Appearance Competition, Competition, 87’ 87’

EmilEmil Langballe Langballe

Feature-Length Feature-Length Competition, Competition, 103’ 103’

JimmJimm Lasser, Lasser, Biff Butler Biff Butler

Panorama Panorama , 81’ , 81’

Santoalla Santoalla

Kirsten Kirsten Johnson Johnson

Morten Morten Traavik, Traavik, UgisUgis Olte Olte

19:45 19:45

19:45 19:45

TheThe Hanging Hanging

Geoffrey Geoffrey Feinberg Feinberg Panorama Panorama , 15’ , 15’

First Appearance First Appearance Competition, Competition, 81’ 81’

TheThe Road Road Movie Movie Dmitrii Dmitrii Kalashnikov Kalashnikov

Yuri Ancarani Yuri Ancarani

Who Who We We Were Were

Paradocs Paradocs , 69’ , 69’

Sine Sine Skibsholt Skibsholt

Fallen Fallen Flowers Flowers Thick Thick Leaves Leaves

20:15 20:15

Laetitia Laetitia Schoofs Schoofs

Planeta Planeta Petrila Petrila

First Appearance First Appearance Competition, Competition, 82’ 82’

DutchDutch Competition, Competition, 85’ 85’

Andrei Andrei Dascalescu Dascalescu

First Appearance First Appearance Competition, Competition, 90’ 90’

Alban Alban Teurlai, Teurlai, Best ofBest Fests of, 110’ Fests, 110’

Priorat Priorat

22:00 22:00 22:15 22:15

We’ll We’ll Be Alright Be Alright

Alexander Alexander Kuznetsov Kuznetsov

Panorama Panorama , 69’ , 69’

ClareClare Weiskopf Weiskopf

Panorama Panorama , 77’ , 77’

Death Death in the in the Terminal Terminal

First Appearance First Appearance Competition, Competition, 82’ 82’

GROND BRAKKE BRAKKE GROND BRAKKE TUSCHINSKI 3 GROND TUSCHINSKI 4GROND MELKWEG TUSCHINSKIMELKWEG 5 KETELHUIS TUSCHINSKI 6 2BRAKKE KETELHUIS EXPOZAAL EXPOZAALRODE ZAAL RODE ZAAL RABOZAAL RABOZAAL

10:00 Industry Screening 10:00 Brakke Grond 10:00 Expozaal Brakke Grond 10:00 Expozaal Brakke Grond 10:00 RodeBrakke Zaal Grond Rode Zaal

Dream Empire DocLab: Interactive DocLab: Interactive DocLab: Interactive DocLab: Interactive 10:15 DavidConference Borenstein Conference Conference Live Conference Stream Live StreamHouse Call 10:30 First Appearance Competition, 73’

10:30

Now in its fourth Now year, the in its fourthLive year,Stream the of theLive DocLab: Stream of the DocLab: Neta Shoshani, David Ofek Communion A Young GirlConference. in annual DocLab Interactive annual DocLab Interactive Interactive Conference.

Interactive Open Open Mid-Length Competition, 62’ Anna Zamecka Her for Nineties Conference bringsConference together bringsfortogether IDFA passholders IDFA only. passholders only.

11:00 11:00 11:00 11:00 Best of11:00 Fests, 72’ leading artists andleading thinkers artists and thinkers Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Daniel Weiner Weiner 11:00 11:00Those Who JumpDaniel from the world offrom art, technothe world of art, techno-Yann Coridian Best of Fests, 85’ Estephan Wagner, Moritz Anastazja Dabrowska Anastazja Dabrowska Josh Kriegman, Josh Kriegman, logy, science and documentary. logy, science and documentary.

Siebert, Abou Bakar Sidibé Elyse Steinberg Elyse Steinberg Student Competition, 24’ Student Competition, 24’ Supported by Dutch Supported Culturalby Dutch Cultural Best of Fests, 80’ Best of Fests, 100’ Best of Fests, 100’ Industry Media Fund.Screening Paper Stars Paper Stars Media Fund. 11:45 Inna Omelchenko Inna Omelchenko Plastic China 12:00 Student Competition, 41’ Student Competition, 41’ Jiu-liang Wang

12:00 12:00

12:30

12:30

12:30

Max Kestner

Max Kestner

Mathijs Vleugels

13:0090’ Feature-Length Competition, Feature-Length 90’ Competition,

13:00 13:00

13:00 Panorama , 60’

13:00

Solitary

This film is subtitled Thisinfilm English is subtitled in English

14:00 14:00

nalist Irene van der Linde (De 14:30 Groene Amsterdammer) and directors Sabine Krayenbühl All Governments Lie: and Zeva Oelbaum. See page 115 Truth, Deception, and

Panorama, 82’

17:00

Student Competition, 66’

15:15

Almost There Jacqueline Zünd

18:00 18:00

Sonia Kennebeck

The Wait

Emil Langballe

19:00

19:00

19:00

Kirsten Johnson

with Extendedwith Q&AExtended Q&A

Mogadishu Soldier 19:00 19:00Cameraperson Mogadishu Soldier Best of Fests, Assembling Reality , 102’Niels Pagh Andersen Editor Editor Niels Pagh Andersen

20:00

20:00

and film critic Nicolas and film Rapold critic Nicolas Rapold 19:45 discuss the editingdiscuss of Mogathe editing of MogaThe Hanging dishu Soldier,20:00 which dishu wasSoldier, createdwhich was created Geoffrey Feinberg

offrom hours hundreds of raw of hours of rawPanorama, 15’ The20:00 EuropeanThe Europeanfrom hundreds Plastic China 20:00 20:00 footage. See Jiu-liang pagefootage.

119 Wang See page 119 Dirk-Jan RoelevenDirk-Jan Roeleven Dutch Competition, 90’Dutch Competition, 90’

First Appearance Competition, 81’

Mogadishu Soldier Mogadishu Soldier Torstein Grude Torstein Grude

Music Documentary, 99’ Music Documentary, 99’

24:00 24:00 24:00

1:001:00

Panorama, 77’

Panorama, 83’

12:00

12:00 12:30

Music Shorts

14:00

David Borenstein

15:00

Compilation of short films about classical music. With: The Pit,13:00 Right Side of Cello and Joe’s Violin.

14:00

16:00

First Appearance Competition, 73’

Groene IDFAcademy Plenary IDFAcademy De Plenary Amsterdammer Day Session: Blending Session: Blending Compilation program put Impact and Distribution Impact and Distribution

upstrategies by editors of De Groene 10:45 Experts on impactExperts strategies on impact Amsterdammer. describe new exciting describe models new exciting models Daan’s Inheritance to create impact with to create concrete impact with concrete Joris Postema case Competition, studies. 85’case studies.

Dutch

IDFAcademy passholders IDFAcademy passholders & Invitees & Invitees

17:30

Anuktatop: The Metamorphosis

17:00

17:30 Nicolas Pradal, Pierre Selvini

A look back at theAturbulent look backlife at the turbulent life First Appearance Competition, 87’18:00 of Dutch rocker Herman of Dutch Brood, rocker Herman Brood, 18:30 18:30 followed by a performance followed by a performance DocLab Live: Dreams DocLab Live: Dreams

by Breaking Levees byfeaturing Breaking Levees featuring Step into a comfortable Step into dream a comfortable dream David David Hollestelle.

In collaboraHollestelle. In collabora19:00 19:00 space and let yourspace thoughts and let yourtion thoughts with KPN Presents. tion with KPN Presents. be translated intobe sounds translated and intoSee sounds pageand 106 See page 106 How to Meet How to Meet 19:00 images that become images partthat of a become part of a Brood a Mermaid a Mermaid Unknown Unknown Brood continuous live performance continuous by live performance Dennis Alinkby Dennis Alink Coco Schrijber Coco Schrijber Feature-Length Competition, Feature-Length Competition, DutchLambert Competition, Music Dutch Competition, Music sound artist Philippe sound Lambert artist Philippe 19:45 and the National Film and the Board NationalDocumentary Film Board, 90’ Documentary, 90’ Dutch Competition, 90’Dutch Competition, 90’ 20:00 of Canada. This one-off of Canada. live This one-off live The Challenge installation is freely installation accessibleis freely accessible Yuri Ancarani

Who We Were

throughout the evening. throughout Free the evening. Free Sine Skibsholt

The Road Movie admission. See admission.

111 Competition, See page82’111 Firstpage Appearance

20:15

Paradocs, 69’

Planeta Petrila

Andrei Dascalescu

Dmitrii Kalashnikov

First Appearance Competition, 67’

22:15

21:00

Clare Weiskopf

21:00

Bernard-Henri Lévy

16:00

First Appearance Competition, 82’

David Fernandez de Castro Panorama, 69’

17:1517:00

Venus

Lea Glob, Mette Carla Albrechtsen

First Appearance Competition, 80’

18:00

Zaradasht Ahmed

15:30 15:30 Comp. – Grote 15:30 Zaal &Comp.

Foyer – Grote Zaal & Foyer

22:00

22:30

Ambulance

Mohamed Jabaly Best of Fests, 78’

23:00

24:00

1:00

11:45 Arti et Amicitiae 11:45 Arti et Amicitiae Rough Cut Rough Cut PresentationsPresentations

12:00

1Minute Nature IDFAcademy Meet IDFAcademy Meet Stefanie Visjager,the Professionals the Professionals Katinka Baehr

Round table meetings Round and table meetings and one-on-one meetings one-on-one with meetings with

IDFA Competition for Kids & Docs, 4’

Win

by Fall renowned professionals. renowned professionals.

17:00 Compagnie 17:00 – CaféCompagnie – Café

PreregisteredPreregistered consultanciesconsultancies

Book your one-one-one Book your one-one-one

Service or Sigrid Dyekjær Service or Sigrid Dyekjær 15:45 Industry Screening Where the Girls Where the Girls (Danish Documentary (Danish at the Documentary at the Are...or Aren’t?

Are...or Aren’t?

It’s Getting Dark Industry Desk. Industry Desk.

Ally Derks and Debra Ally Derks and Debra Olga Kravets For For all passholders 16:15 Industry Screening Zimmerman openZimmerman up open upall thepassholders Mid-Length Competition, 48’the (upon registration*) (upon registration*) conversation about conversation gender about genderParentis In Loco equality in film festival equality in film festival Neasa Ní Chianáin programming. programming. Feature-Length Competition, 103’

By invitation By invitation

IDFAcademy IDFAcademy Closing DrinksClosing Drinks

17:15 Industry Screening

17:45 with closing drinks. with closing drinks.

China’s Van Goghs IDFAcademy passholders IDFAcademy passholders & Invitees & Invitees Haibo Yu, Kiki Tianqi Yu

Mid-Length Competition, 60’

IDFAcademy 2016IDFAcademy concludes 2016 concludes

14:45 NH Carlton Verdi & Vivaldi NH Carlton Verdi & Vivaldi Dutch Competition, 80’14:45

Morten Traavik, Ugis Olte

Rich Williamson

Death in the Terminal

DAILY SERVICES DAILY SERVICES

15:00

Passage – A Boatmovie

Jascha de Wilde, Ben Hendriks

17:00

The Claim, the Search for Stolen Art from WWII Dutch Competition, 91’

SOCIAL EVENTS SOCIAL EVENTS

Andrew Becker, DanielCafé Mehrer Compagnie Compagnie – 17:00 - 18:00 Café – 17:00 - 18:00 Best of Fests, 82’

IDFAcademy Closing IDFAcademy DrinksClosing Drinks

IDFAcademy 2016IDFAcademy concludes with 2016 closing concludes drinks. with closing drinks.

19:00

IDFAcademy passholders IDFAcademy &passholders Invitees & Invitees Arti et Amicitiae Arti–et17:00 Amicitiae - 18:00 – 17:00 - 18:00

Hosted by NPO Sales, Hosted EYE International,

by NPO Sales,Films EYE International, Transit, Autlook Films Transit, Autlook 20:00 Filmsales, CAT&Docs Filmsales, and RiseCAT&Docs and Shine.and Rise and Shine.

Frame 394

Feature-Length Competition, 90’

18:00

Docs for Sale Happy Docs for Hour Sale Happy Hour 20:15

Max Kestner

Ditteke Mensink

18:30

Liberation Day

Amateurs in Space

16:00

Jimm Lasser, Biff Butler

19:00

12:30

Dutch Competition, 55’

17:00

Long Live Benjamin

Panorama, 81’

19:45

15:00

15:30 NH Carlton 15:30 Paganini NH Carlton Paganini with consultancy consultancy Rough Cut with Rough Cut

Music Documentary, 100’

Dutch Competition, 85’

10:00

A 35 minute roughAcut 35 minute rough cut presentation of the presentation following of the following projects: projects: 11.45 State Vs. Shuai 11.45 State Vs. Shuai Competition, 55’ By –Sandi DuBoswki.

Sandi page DuBoswki.

124 See page 124 13:00 13:00 Compagnie 13:00 – Grote Compagnie Zaal 13:00 – Grote Compagnie Zaal 13:00 – Kleine Compagnie Zaal Mid-Length Kleine Zaal BySee 12.30 Shadowman 12.30 Shadowman Admission for allAdmission passholders for all passholders 13.15 Constructing 13.15Albert Constructing Albert 13:00 Robinù IDFAcademy Small IDFAcademy Small IDFAcademy Small IDFAcademy Small 14.00 After Inez 14.00 After Inez Michele Santoro Session: Storytelling Session: Storytelling Session: Festival Session: and Festival and 13:30 NH Carlton 13:30 CarusoNH Carlton Caruso 14.45 Obstinate 14.45 Obstinate Best of Fests, 97’ on Digital Platforms on Digital Platforms Sales Strategies Sales Strategies 15.30 Bullet Catcher 15.30 Bullet Catcher 13:45 Meet the Experts Meet the Experts Producer Kahane Cooperman, Producer KahaneSales Cooperman, agent SalmaSales Abdalla, agent Salma Abdalla, 16.15 Ripples on16.15 the Shore Ripples on the Shore Book your group round Book your tablegroup round table director Jos de Putter director and Jos de Putter distributor and Debra distributor Zimmerman DebraAbandoned Zimmerman Land DfS & desk.

IDFA Forum DfS & IDFA Forum meeting at the Industry meeting desk. at the Industry director Reber Dosky director will share Reber Dosky and will director shareTom Fassaert and director TomGilles Fassaert Laurent Decision Makers Decision only Makers only 14:00 14:15 Industry Screening their experience intheir finding experience in will finding share their strategies will share and their strategies and Panorama, 73’ For all passholders For all passholders (upon registration*) effective and creative effective waysand to creative secrets ways on to gettingsecrets films out on in getting films out in Zaatari Djinn (upon registration*) present documentaries present online. documentaries the world. online. the world.

Catherine van Campen

How to CreateHow an to Create an Bolingo.

Impact andofFunding Impact and Funding The Forest Love Campaign for Campaign Your Film for Your Film Alejandro G. Salgado

Santoalla

20:00 Laetitia Schoofs

Docs for Sale &Docs IDFAfor Forum Sale & passholders IDFA Forum passholders 20:45 Zuiderkerk – Zuiderkerk 18:00 – 18:00 Singing with Angry Bird

20:00

The European

Dirk-Jan Roeleven Dutch Competition, 90’

Guests Meet Guests Guests Meet Guests 21:00 Panorama , 88’ All IDFA guests areAllinvited IDFA guests to meet areand invited exchange to meet ideas andatexchange ideas at IDFA Writing Room IDFA Writing the daily Guests Meet the daily Guests Guests cocktail Meet hour, Guests supported cocktailbyhour, supported by 21:30Room Workspace for all Workspace accredited guests. for all accredited Wifi connection guests.and Wifi connection and Polish Docs and HBO Polish Europe.

Docs and HBO Europe.

The Father, the Son computers available. computers available.

Admission for allAdmission passholders for all passholders DOCLAB EXPO: DOCLAB ELASTIC EXPO: REALITY ELASTIC REALITY and the Holy Jihad 21:00

Tali Shemesh, Asaf Sudry Mid-Length Competition, 52’

22:00

Brakke GrondBrakke 9:00 – 23:00 Grond 9:00 – 23:00

My 22:00 Daughter Nora

NH Carlton Puccini NH Carlton 9:00 – Puccini 21:00 9:00 – 21:00

NH Carlton Rossini NH Carlton 10:00 –Rossini 17:00Malterre 10:00 – 17:00 Stéphane Panorama, 120’

Hyewon Jee

Brakke GrondBrakke Expozaal Grond – 21:00 Expozaal – 21:00

22:00

Walk-in consultancies Jasna Krajinovic How does it feel to How have does someone it feel to follow haveyou someone in the follow you in the Walk-in consultancies IDFA Forum &IDFA DocLab Forum Drinks & DocLab Drinks Walk in and book Walk your one-on-one in and book consultancy. your one-on-one consultancy.

Panorama , 16’ world, instead physical physical of just world, oninstead social media? of justOr onto social media? 22:30 Or to Celebrating the future Celebrating of documentary the futurestorytelling. of documentary storytelling. for love with look yourfor nose, loverather with than your nose, swiping rather profile than swipingLong profileLive Benjamin Hosted by BCPF. Hosted by BCPF. ISIS,look Deserters Jimm Lasser, Biff Butler Arti et Amicitiae Arti 10:00 et Amicitiae – 22:00 10:00 – 22:00 Speak Outon Tinder?pictures pictures What would on Tinder? a computer What would brain asay computer brain say By invitation By invitation Mid-Length Competition, 60’ Thomas whenDandois, it secretly takes whena itpeek secretly at your takes instagram a peek atpictures? your instagram pictures?

Meeting Room Meeting with screening Room with facilities screening facilities 23:00 23:00 Francois-Xavier – 22:00 Jaren Café – 22:00 All accredited guests All accredited have the opportunity guests havetothe reserve opportunity to reserveDe Jaren CaféDe Trigger yourTregan senses Trigger and experience your sensesthirty and experience of the world's thirty of the world's Panorama, 53’ a meeting/screening a meeting/screening room for small groups roomof forupsmall to 15groups of up to 15 best interactive documentaries, best interactivevirtual documentaries, reality experiences virtual reality experiences IDFA Lounge IDFA Lounge people. Reservations people. can be Reservations made at the can Industry be made Desk. at the Industry Desk. and physical installations and physical in theinstallations ten-day DocLab: in theElastic ten-day DocLab: Elastic DJ Berry van Diepen.

DJ Berry The disc vanjockey Diepen. gardener The discowns jockey a gardener owns a Additionally, six viewing Additionally, boothssixare viewing available booths for holders are available for holders huge collection ofhuge 7’’ singles. collection He hosts of 7’’pop singles. quizzes He hosts with his pop quizzes with his Reality exhibition.Reality Some installations exhibition. Some have installations varying opening have varying opening of a Press Pass at Docs of a Press for Sale.

PassBoth at Docs services for Sale. are located Both services in are located in and is a busy records records DJ. Berry and isknows a busyhis DJ.70’s Berry music knows besthis 70’s music best hours (11:00 – 21:00). hours On-site (11:00reservation – 21:00). On-site may bereservation required. may be required.

Arti et Amicitiae. Arti et Amicitiae. but plays timelessbut classics playsfrom timeless everyclassics era. from every era.

24:00 Admission FreeAdmission Free

1:00

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

ZONDAG ZONDAG 20 NOVEMBER 20 NOVEMBER ZONDAG 20 NOVEMBER

1

(upon registration*) (upon registration*) Docs for Sale passholders Docs for Sale onlypassholders only

11:45 Industry Screening

12:15 Industry Screening Industry Session: Industry Session: Feature-Length Competition, 86’

19:00

Fallen Flowers Thick Leaves

EYE CINEMA

Fanny Tondre

By Elinor Kowarsky.

By Elinor Kowarsky.

Book your one-one-one Book your one-one-one Hotel Sunrise for Sale Meet Docs for Sale Meet See page 124 See page 124 consultancy with consultancy Catherine withDocs Catherine Maria Rumanova (PassionateOlsen 4 Docs) (Passionate at the the 4 Docs) at the the Professionals Professionals Admission for allAdmission passholders for allOlsen passholders Mid-Length Competition, 49’ Industry Desk. Industry Desk. Register for short Register meetingsfor short meetings with various professionals. with various professionals. 11:00 For all passholders For all passholders

Nowhere 12:00 NH Carlton 12:00 Paganini NH Carlton Paganini to Hide

Panorama, 30’

21:00

What We Have Made Industry Session: Industry Session: Preregistered Preregistered

Peshmerga 15:00

First Appearance Competition, 90’

The Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones Olé Olé Olé!: AOlé Trip Olé Olé!: A Trip 21:30 21:30 Across Latin America Across Latin America Paul Dugdale Paul Dugdale Radio Kobanî Radio Kobanî 21:45 Music Documentary, 105’ Music Documentary, 105’ Reber Dosky Reber Dosky Priorat Dutch Competition, 72’Dutch Competition, 72’

Amazona

20:00

10:00 Industry Screening 10:00 NH Carlton 10:00 Paganini NH Carlton 10:00 Paganini NH Carlton 10:00 VivaldiNH Carlton Vivaldi

Educational Educational Distribution ConsultanciesConsultancies10:30 Arti et Amicitiae 10:30 Industry Distribution Screening 10:30 Arti et Amicitiae Feature-Length Competition, 71’

IDFAcademy passholders IDFAcademy passholders IDFAcademy passholders IDFAcademy passholders

15:00

Best of Fests, 92’

Appearance 112’ + Monster in the Mind UnknownFirst Brood Unknown + Competition, Brood 17:45 Jean Carper Live: Breaking Live: Levees Breaking Levees The Girl down Loch Änzi Best of Fests, 87’ + David Hollestelle + David Hollestelle Alice Schmid

Celebrating the future Celebrating of the future of 21:45 21:45 documentary storytelling. documentary storytelling.

Hosted by BCPF. Hosted by BCPF. Sho(r)t in Japan Sho(r)t in Japan 22:00 Alban Teurlai, Compilation of shorts Compilation of shorts By invitation By invitation Beware the Slenderman 22:15 22:15 22:00 22:00Thierry Demaizière about Japan.22:15 With:about Uzu and Japan. With: Uzu and Irene Taylor Brodsky Best ofShalom Fests, 110’ ItaliaGatekeeper. We’ll Gatekeeper.

Shalom Italia Be Alright Best of Fests, 114’ Tamar Tal-Anati Tamar Tal-Anati Alexander Kuznetsov

11:00

10:00 Compagnie 10:00 – Grote Compagnie Zaal 10:00 – Grote Zaal

IDFA Competition for Kids & Docs, 82’

IDFA Forum &IDFA Forum & DocLab DrinksDocLab Drinks

Best of Fests, 71’

Lucija Stojevic

17:00

Reset

23:00 23:00

12 DE MUNTVENUES 13OFFICE CARRÉ OTHER OTHER VENUES INDUSTRY INDUSTRY OFFICE ARTI ET AMICITIAE ARTI ET AMICITIAE 9:00

Anna Koch IDFAcademy passholders IDFAcademy passholders

21:45

Best of Fests, 71’

11:00

Panorama, 103’

14:00

Paradocs , 65’ Scheinfeld John Scheinfeld John

Feature-Length Competition, Feature-Length Competition, 21:00 Brakke Grond 21:00 Expozaal Brakke Grond Expozaal Assembling Reality, 88’Assembling Reality, 88’

21:00 21:00

La Chana

Craigslist Allstars Chasing Trane: Chasing The John Trane: The John 15:45 First Appearance Competition, 83’ Samira Elagoz Documentary Coltrane Documentary Coltrane Dream Empire

17:30 18:00

Best of Fests, 92’

Austerlitz

Sergei Loznitsa Retrospective, 94’

11:00

This screening of the Thisdefinitive screening of the definitive 14:45 documentaryMinispectacles of out-of-the-box documentary of out-of-the-box thinker John Coltrane thinker andJohn Coltrane and Albuquerque Straight his groundbreaking hismusic groundbreaking is music is Maarit Suomi-Väänänen followed by aParadocs performance followed by bya performance by , 7’ Yaniv Nachum. See Yaniv pageNachum.

106 See page 106

17:00

Panorama, 78’ Miss Kiet’s Children Miss Kiet’s Children The Claim, 17:00 17:00 theThe Claim, the Petra Lataster-Czisch, Petra Lataster-Czisch, Search for Stolen Search for Stolen Peter Lataster Peter Lataster 17:30 Feature-Length Competition, Feature-Length Dutch Competition, Dutch Art from WWII Art from WWII RealityBird , 115’Assembling Reality, 115’ Competition, National Ditteke MensinkDitteke MensinkCompetition, Assembling

10:00 10:15 Sergei Loznitsa

Chasing Trane: Chasing The John Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary Coltrane Documentary + Live: Yaniv Nachum + Live: Yaniv Nachum

Aniela Astrid Gabryel

Jascha de Wilde, Jascha Ben Hendriks de Wilde, Ben Hendriks Followed by an in-depth 15:30 between Xandra Dutch Competition, 55’Dutch Competition, 55’15:30 conversation Miss Kiet’sSchutte Children Miss Kiet’s Children (editor-in-chief of 15:45 Industry Screening with Extended with Q&AExtended Q&A De Groene Amsterdammer), Areum Filmmaking couple Filmmaking Petra couple Petra director Fred Peabody and Areum Parkkang and Peter Lataster and andPeter editor Lataster producer Raymont.and Seeeditor First Appearance Competition, 93’ 16:00 16:00 Mario Steenbergen Steenbergen the discuss the pageMario 115discuss 16:30 editing of Miss Kiet’s editing Children of Miss Kiet’s Children with film Rapold. critic Nicolas Rapold.

The Passing Yearswith film critic Nicolas See page 119 John Albert Jansen See page 119

10:00

Angelos Rallis

14:00

15:00 the Spirit of I.F. Stone Passage – A Boatmovie Passage – A Boatmoviewith Extended Q&A 15:00 15:00

9:00

13:00 Shingal, Where Are You?

Kristi Jacobson

Letters from Baghdad and will be dubbed and in will Dutch be dubbed in Dutch 13:45 When Will This Followed by an in-depth Wind Stop conversation between jour-

15:00

PODIUM DEDEBALIE MUNT KOMEDIE 10COMPAGNIE DECOMPAGNIE MUNT PODIUM 11 DE MUNT KLEINE KLEINE KOMEDIE MOZAÏEK MOZAÏEK GROTE ZAALGROTE ZAAL

International children’s documentaries: 1Minute Nature, Lutwi, When I Hear the Birds Sing, Thea, Black Sheep, Crowley Every Cowboy Needs His Horse 13:15 135’.

Silent Wilderness

Panorama, 55’

1:00

Best ofBest Fests of, 71’ Fests, 71’

23:00 23:00

DE MUNT DE 9 BALIE

9:00

Kids & Docs Competition 1

First Appearance Competition, 81’

1Minute Nature 1Minute & Nature & The Eagle Huntress The Eagle Huntress

Dutch Competition, 91’Dutch Competition, 91’

23:00

Thomas Thomas Dandois, Dandois, Francois-Xavier Francois-Xavier Tregan Tregan

ZONDAG ZONDAG20 20NOVEMBER NOVEMBER

13:30

22:00

Tamar Tamar Tal-Anati Tal-Anati

Mid-Length Mid-Length Competition, Competition, 60’ 60’

1:001:00

live during this screening. live during this screening. with Extended Q&A

21:00

Shalom Shalom Italia Italia

JimmJimm Lasser, Lasser, Biff Butler Biff Butler

Panorama Panorama , 53’ , 53’

Amateurs in Space Amateurs in Space

19:00

ISIS,ISIS, Deserters Deserters Speak Speak OutOut

1:001:00

10:00 10:00

18:00

22:15 22:00 22:0022:15

Panorama Panorama , 120’ , 120’

Long Long LiveLive Benjamin Benjamin

24:00 24:00

10:00

17:00

21:00 21:00

24:00 24:00

9:00 9:00

16:00

Stéphane Stéphane Malterre Malterre

22:30 22:30

Panorama Panorama , 16’ , 16’

Mohamed Mohamed Jabaly Jabaly

Panorama Panorama , 88’ , 88’

TheThe Father, Father, the the SonSon andand the the HolyHoly Jihad Jihad

JasnaJasna Krajinovic Krajinovic

22:30 22:30

Best ofBest Fests of, 78’ Fests, 78’

TUSCHINSKI 1 EYE TUSCHINSKI 2 EYE CINEMA EYE 1 CINEMA 1 CINEMA EYE 2 CINEMA

15:00

Hyewon Hyewon Jee Jee

21:30 21:30

My My Daughter Daughter Nora Nora Ambulance Ambulance

23:00 23:00

14:00

Singing Singing withwith Angry Angry BirdBird

22:00 22:00

David David Fernandez Fernandez de Castro de Castro

Beware Beware the the Slenderman Slenderman 22:15 22:15 IreneIrene Taylor Taylor Brodsky Brodsky Amazona Amazona Best ofBest Fests of, 114’ Fests, 114’

DutchDutch Competition, Competition, 90’ 90’

20:45 20:45

21:45 21:45

Reset Reset

13:00

Dirk-Jan Dirk-Jan Roeleven Roeleven

Rich Rich Williamson Williamson

Mid-Length Mid-Length Competition, Competition, 52’ 52’

21:45 21:45

12:00

20:00 20:00

European European 20:00 20:00TheThe

Frame Frame 394394

Tali Shemesh, Tali Shemesh, AsafAsaf Sudry Sudry

22:00 22:00Thierry Thierry Demaizière Demaizière

19:00 19:00

20:15 20:15

Panorama Panorama , 30’ , 30’

21:00 21:00

Best ofBest Fests of, 82’ Fests, 82’

MusicMusic Documentary Documentary , 100’ , 100’

19:45 19:45

TheThe Challenge Challenge

20:00 20:00

First Appearance First Appearance Competition, Competition, 67’ 67’

11:00

Andrew Andrew Becker, Becker, Daniel Daniel Mehrer Mehrer

Liberation Liberation DayDay

Jiu-liang Jiu-liang Wang Wang

18:00 18:00

18:30 18:30

Cameraperson 19:00 19:00Cameraperson

Plastic Plastic China China

DutchDutch Competition, Competition, 91’ 91’

Haibo Haibo Yu, Kiki Yu,Tianqi Kiki Tianqi Yu Yu

19:00 19:00

20:00 20:00

Ditteke Ditteke Mensink Mensink

Mid-Length Mid-Length Competition, Competition, 60’ 60’

China’s China’s VanVan Goghs Goghs

Panorama Panorama , 55’ , 55’

20:00 20:00

17:00 17:00

Claim, Claim, the the 17:00 17:00TheThe Search Search for Stolen for Stolen Art Art from from WWII WWII

Long Long LiveLive Benjamin Benjamin 17:45 17:45

19:00 19:00

Best ofBest Fests, of Assembling Fests, Assembling RealityReality , 102’ , 102’

In Loco In Loco Parentis Parentis

17:15 17:15 Industry Industry Screening Screening

Venus Venus TheThe GirlGirl down down LochLoch ÄnziÄnzi

16:00 16:00

16:15 16:15 Industry Industry Screening Screening Neasa Neasa Ní Chianáin Ní Chianáin

17:15 17:15 17:45 17:45

DutchDutch Competition, Competition, 55’ 55’

It’s Getting It’s Getting Dark Dark

AnnaAnna KochKoch

17:30 17:30 18:00 18:00

Best ofBest Fests of, 92’ Fests, 92’

15:00 15:00

Passage – A –Boatmovie A Boatmov 15:00 15:00Passage 15:30 15:30

IDFA Competition IDFA Competition for Kids for&Kids Docs&, 82’ Docs, 82’

Sonia Sonia Kennebeck Kennebeck

14:00 14:00

14:15 14:15 Industry Industry Screening Screening

Zaatari Zaatari Djinn Djinn

17:00 17:00

National National BirdBird

Feature-Length Feature-Length Competition, Competition, 90’ 90’

Peshmerga Peshmerga

TheThe Passing Passing Years Years

17:30 17:30

MaxMax Kestner Kestner

13:45 13:45

15:00 15:00

Paradocs Paradocs , 7’ , 7’

Panorama Panorama , 78’ , 78’

Amateurs Amateurs in Space in Space

Catherine Catherine van Campen van Campen

Maarit Maarit Suomi-Väänänen Suomi-Väänänen

JohnJohn Albert Albert Jansen Jansen

12:30 12:30

Abandoned Abandoned Land Land

Minispectacles Minispectacles Albuquerque Albuquerque Straight Straight

First Appearance First Appearance Competition, Competition, 83’ 83’

12:00 12:00

Feature-Length Feature-Length Competition, Competition, 86’ 86’

13:00 13:00

Panorama Panorama , 73’ , 73’

Jacqueline Jacqueline ZündZünd

Zaradasht Zaradasht Ahmed Ahmed

Mid-Length Mid-Length Competition, Competition, 55’ 55’

14:45 14:45

Almost Almost There There

11:00 11:00

Alejandro Alejandro G. Salgado G. Salgado

Compilation Compilation of short of short filmsfilms 13:00 about about classical classical music. music.

With:With: 13:00 The Pit, TheRight Pit, Right Side of Side Cello of Cello and and Robinù Robinù Joe’s Joe’s Violin.

Violin.

Michele Michele Santoro Santoro

GillesGilles Laurent Laurent

17:00 17:00

18:00 18:00

Mid-Length Mid-Length Competition, Competition, 49’ 49’

Nowhere Nowhere to Hide to Hide

Panorama Panorama , 103’ , 103’

15:15 15:15

Feature-Length Feature-Length Competition, Competition, 71’ 71’

11:45 11:45 Industry Industry Screening Screening

Angelos Angelos RallisRallis

When When WillWill ThisThis

10:00 10:00

Fanny Fanny Tondre Tondre

Maria Maria Rumanova Rumanova

12:15 12:15 Industry Industry Screening Screening

Shingal, Shingal, Where Where Are Are You?You?

Followed Followed by anbyin-depth an in-depth Wind Wind StopStop conversation between between jour-jour14:00 14:00conversation Aniela Aniela Astrid Astrid Gabryel Gabryel nalistnalist IreneIrene van der vanLinde der Linde (De (De Student Student Competition, Competition, 66’ 66’ 14:30 Groene Groene Amsterdammer) Amsterdammer) and and 14:30 directors directors Sabine Sabine Krayenbühl Krayenbühl All Governments All Governments Lie: Lie: and Zeva and Zeva Oelbaum.

Oelbaum.

See page See page 115 115 Truth, Truth, Deception, Deception, andand

15:00 15:00

Hotel Hotel Sunrise Sunrise

DutchDutch Competition, Competition, 85’ 85’

International International children’s children’s documentaries: documentaries: 1Minute 1Minute Nature, Nature, Lutwi, Lutwi, WhenWhen I HearI Hear the Birds the Birds Sing,Sing, Thea,Thea, BlackBlack Sheep, Sheep, Crowley Crowley EveryEvery Cowboy Cowboy NeedsNeeds His Horse His Horse13:15 13:15 135’. 135’.

Silent Silent Wilderness Wilderness

Letters Letters from from Baghdad Baghdad

Daan’s Daan’s Inheritance Inheritance JorisJoris Postema Postema

KidsKids & Docs & Docs Competition Competition 1 1

First Appearance First Appearance Competition, Competition, 81’ 81’

withwith Extended Extended Q&AQ&A

10:45 10:45

What What We We Have Have Made Made

12:00 12:00

Jiu-liang Jiu-liang Wang Wang

13:00 13:00

11:00 11:00

Lucija Lucija Stojevic Stojevic

11:45 11:45 Industry Industry Screening Screening

12:30 12:30

SergeiSergei Loznitsa Loznitsa Retrospective Retrospective , 94’ , 94’

Compilation Compilation program program put put up byupeditors by editors of DeofGroene De Groene Amsterdammer.

Amsterdammer.

10:30 10:30 Industry Industry Screening Screening

Panorama Panorama , 83’ , 83’

Plastic Plastic China China

12:00 12:00

Sergei Sergei Loznitsa Loznitsa

La Chana La Chana

Best ofBest Fests of, 85’ Fests, 85’

Best ofBest Fests of, 80’ Fests, 80’

Austerlitz Austerlitz

NetaNeta Shoshani, Shoshani, David David OfekOfek

A Young A Young GirlGirl in in HerHer Nineties Nineties

De Groene De Groene Amsterdammer Amsterdammer DayDay

10:15 10:15

House House CallCall

10:30 10:30

Valeria Valeria BruniBruni Tedeschi, Tedeschi, YannYann Coridian Coridian

Estephan Estephan Wagner, Wagner, Moritz Moritz Siebert, Siebert, AbouAbou Bakar Bakar Sidibé Sidibé

10:00 10:00 Industry Industry Screening Screening

10:00 10:00

Dream Dream Empire Empire 10:30 10:30

Communion Communion

9:00

1

9:00 9:00

10:00 10:00

ARRÉ

EYEEYE CINEMA CINEMA 1

CARRÉ CARRÉ

Admission FreeAdmission Free

24:00

1:00

22:15

Shalom Italia Tamar Tal-Anati Best of Fests, 71’