IDFA 2016 Program Guide

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Welcome to the 29th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam! Over the course of 12 days, IDFA is once again celebrating the creative documentary in the heart of Amsterdam. The festival is screening over 300 documentaries, ranging from the latest films from all over the world to carefully selected classics. The program is divided into three categories. The competitions showcase IDFA’s discoveries: the best new films that are having their World or European Premiere at the festival. Our annual non-competitive sections include the best new films by the grand masters of documentary and the cream of the crop from the international festival circuit. While these two main sections give a bird’s-eye view of today’s world, several theme programs ask how we look at the world, questioning the documentary genre in various ways. For a brief overview of the various program sections, turn to page 16. And of course IDFA isn’t only screening documentaries; the festival also plays an active role in the documentary industry, working hard to bring new films to fruition and support new documentary talent. It does this through its two markets: Docs for Sale for completed documentaries, and the IDFA Forum for projects that are seeking finance and co-production partners. Through the IDFA Bertha Fund, we offer assistance to documentary filmmakers in developing countries so they can find their voice and tell their stories. And with the IDFAcademy program, we help up-and-coming filmmakers to hone their skills. During the festival, many of these activities come together at the Industry Office, a one-stop service center for all IDFA guests.

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Table of Contents 3 Introduction

6 Festival Information

6 Staff 8 Festival Venues 11 Tickets

14 Industry Office 16 Program

16 Program Sections 19 Industry Screenings 25 Program Day by Day 73 Films A to Z

104 Talks, Concerts and Events

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Special Events DocLab: Elastic Reality Extended Q&As IDFA Selections

122 Industry Activities

122 124 126 128

Industry Talks Industry Sessions In Conversation with... Social Events

132 Markets, Funding and Training

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Docs for Sale IDFA Forum IDFA Bertha Fund IDFAcademy DocLab Immersive Network

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Design Sjoukje van Gool, Gerald Zevenboom Editor Joost Broeren Copy editor Andrew Maggiore Production Hidde Bisschop, Joost Daamen, Martijn van Dijk, Martijn van Dussen, Isabel Arrate Fernandez, Laura van Halsema, Jasper Hokken, Eveline Kaethoven, Viktoriya Kalashnikova, Sasja Koetsier, Stien Meesters, Maik Mirkovic, Silvie van Oost, Martijn te Pas, Dymme Plomp, Brigitte Ravensbergen, Caspar Sonnen, Chia-Wei Tung, Wotienke Vermeer, Cathalijne de Wilde, Raul NiĂąo Zambrano, Michael Zbieranowski, Jelte Zonneveld Staff Photography Pieter Jan Van Damme, Lauren Murphy Print Drukkerij Damen, Werkendam International Sales Nick Cunningham International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam Frederiksplein 52 | 1017 XN Amsterdam | info@idfa.nl | www.idfa.nl

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FESTIVAL INFORMATION

Partners of IDFA Premium partner of the 29th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

Main Partners

Partners

IDFA is subsidized and funded by

IDFA-Mediafonds Workshop is supported by

IDFA Forum is supported by

IDFA Bertha Fund is supported by

Club IDFA

ABN AMRO Bank NV, Being There, Brand New Telly, De Breij Evers Boon, Houthoff Buruma, JBR, Jean Mineur Mediavision, M.N. Léons BV, Rabobank Amsterdam, Rotaform, Weekbladpers Media

Donations to IDFA

AVROTROS, BNNVARA, EYE International, Embassy of the United States of America, EO, Goethe-Institut, Happinez, HUMAN, Institut Français des Pays-Bas, KRO-NCRV, NPO Sales, OUTtv, Pauwhof-fonds, P.W. Janssen’s Friesche Stichting, Stichting Elise Mathilde Fonds, Stichting VEVAM Fonds

Suppliers

3PO, Arti and Amicitiae, Art Support BV Theaterproductiebureau, Bijlmer Parktheater, Booking.com, Café de Jaren, Citroën, Compagnietheater, De Balie, De Kleine Komedie, DeLaMar Theater, Event Engineers, EYE Film Instituut, FestivalTickets, Haghefilm Digitaal, Hampshire Hotel Prinsengracht, Het Ketelhuis, IndyVideo, Koninklijk Theater Carré, Le Club Accor Hotels, Lichtwerk, MacBike, Melkweg, MeneM Systemen, NH Hotel Group, Podium Mozaïek, Rex International, The Screening Factory, Sluizer Restaurants, Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Tolhuistuin, VBVB Cultuurautomatisering, Volkshotel, Vlaams Cultuurhuis De Brakke Grond, Zuiderkerk

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Ally Derks Director

Cees van ‘t Hullenaar Managing Director

Martijn te Pas Head of Program Department

Joost Daamen Senior Programmer

Raul Niño Zambrano – Senior Programmer

Caspar Sonnen Head of New Media & IDFA DocLab

Wotienke Vermeer New Media Researcher & Producer

Mikey Zbieranowski New Media Assistant

Lieven Heeremans Immersive Network Producer

Adriek van Nieuwenhuijzen Head of IDFA Industry

Nadine Maaraba Docs for Sale Producer

Janske Stoop Docs for Sale Producer

Jelte Zonneveld Industry Office Coordinator

Maik Mirkovic Industry Office Producer

Hanna Mattes Industry Office Matchmaker

Florina Vilgertshof Guest Services Producer

Isabel Arrate Fernandez Managing Director IDFA Bertha Fund

Mélanie de Vocht IDFA Bertha Fund Project Manager

Meike Statema Head of Education

Marije Veenstra Education Producer

Cathalijne de Wilde Head of Communication

Joost Broeren Editor Industry Office

Dirk Blikkendaal Head of Production & IT

Annabet Langkamp Production & HR Coordinator

Clarissa Riemersma Financial Controller

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Jasper Hokken Junior Programmer | Producer IDFA.tv

Eveline Kaethoven Junior Programmer

Viktoriya Kalashnikova Program Assistant

Chia-Wei Tung Program Assistant

Yorinde Segal IDFA Forum Coordinator

Marloes den Hoed IDFA Forum Producer

Duygu Özer de Kruijf – IDFA Forum Producer

Charlotte Reekers IDFA Forum Producer

Laurien ten Houten Docs for Sale & Guest Services Coordinator

David Leenders Guest Services Manager

Maaike Allard Guest Services Producer

Clémence Girard Guest Services Producer

Anneleen Naudts Guest Services Producer

Lara Sitruk Guest Services Producer

Dymme Plomp IDFAcademy Producer

Martijn van Dussen Assistant Producers IDFAcademy

Martijn van Dijk Senior Sponsoring & Fundraising

Suze van Bohemen Sponsoring & Fundraising

Brigitte Ravensbergen Sponsoring & Fundraising Producer

Ans van de Weerdhof Talks Coordinator

Hidde Bisschop Talks Producer

Rada Sesic Jury Coordinator

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Laura van Halsema Special Programs & Press Coordinator

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Festival Venues Cinemas/Theatres 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

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Pathé Tuschinski – Reguliersbreestraat 26 Pathé de Munt – Vijzelstraat 15 EYE – IJpromenade 1 Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond – Nes 45 Melkweg – Lijnbaansgracht 234a Kleine Komedie – Amstel 56-58 Stedelijk Museum – Museumplein 10 Koninklijk Theater Carré – Amstel 115-125 Het Ketelhuis – Pazzanistraat 4 De Balie – Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10 Podium Mozaïek – Bos en Lommerweg 191 Tolhuistuin – IJpromenade 2 Bijlmer Parktheater – Anton de Komplein 240 DeLaMar Theater – Marnixstraat 402

Industry Venues 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25

Café de Jaren – Nieuwe Doelenstraat 20 Festival Cafe & Restaurant/Guests Meet Guests Zuiderkerk – Zuiderkerkhof 72 Guests Meet Guests/IDFA Forum Lunches Hotel NH Carlton – Vijzelstraat 4, 1st floor Industry Office/Guest Services/Guest Box Office Compagnietheater – Kloveniersburgwal 50 IDFA Forum/IDFAcademy Arti et Amicitiae – Rokin 112 | Docs for Sale Sluizer – Utrechtsestraat 45 Filmmakers Dinners Netherlands Film Academy – Markenplein 1 IDFA Film Academy Day / NBF talk V laams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond – Nes 45 IDFA DocLab Koninklijk Theater Carré – Amstel 115-125 Opening Night Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam – Leidseplein 26 Awards Ceremony & Documentary Ball IDFA Office – Frederiksplein 52

Getting around

The closest public transport stop to the Industry Office is Muntplein. From there all primary screening locations, industry venues and most hotels are within walking distance. Please take note of the new locations for several of the Guests Meet Guests receptions ( 16 Zuiderkerk) as well as the Awards Ceremony ( 24 ­Stads­schouwburg). Trams (denoted by yellow lines on the map) and metros (with stops noted with M) operate until approximately 12:30 a.m. The Buiksloterweg ferries between Central Station and EYE/­Tol­ huistuin go all night long. Both taxis and Uber are easily available. An OV-Chip Card is necessary to use all public transport in the Netherlands. You can purchase an anonymous card at all train stations, subway stations, as well as many tobacco shops and supermarkets. See idfa.nl/gettingaround for more information on transport to and in Amsterdam.

Hotels 26 27 28 29

Hotel NH Carlton – Vijzelstraat 4 Volkshotel – Wibautstraat 150 Hotel Ibis Amsterdam Centre Stopera Valkenburgerstraat 68 Mercure Amsterdam Centre Canal District Noorderstraat 46

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Access to screenings

Tickets for all screenings and events can be obtained on our website, through the IDFA App and at the festival box offices during the festival. Pass holders can also acquire tickets at the Guest Box Office at the Industry Office.

Tickets

• Holders of all passes except the Docs for Sale Participant Pass have access to the Industry Screenings (see page 19), Industry Talks and Sessions (see page 122), various social events (see page 128), and other services of the Industry Office. No ticket is needed; first come, first served. You will need tickets for all other paid screenings and events. • Pass holders (except Guest Pass Light and both Docs for Sale passes) can get free tickets for regular screenings on the same day or the following day. Tickets for any day thereafter can be purchased by these pass holders at a €5.00 discount. • Holders of the Guest Pass Light can purchase tickets at a €2.50 discount. • Tickets for special screenings (such as those including concerts) can be obtained at a €2.50

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discount by all pass holders (except both Docs for Sale passes). • Tickets will be uploaded to your pass. Please have your pass ready for inspection when entering screenings. • To avoid empty seats, please cancel your tickets if you can’t make it to a screening. You can cancel tickets on our website using your MyIDFA account or at the Guest Box Office. • If a screening is sold out, pass holders (except Guest Pass Light and Docs for Sale passes) can line up at the entrance to fill any “no show” seats. There are signs at every entrance indicating where to wait. No ticket is needed; first come, first served. • There will be no admission after the start time that is indicated on the ticket.

Discounts

• All IDFA pass holders get a €7.50 discount on entry at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, which is screening several works related to IDFA’s Paradocs program. • All IDFA pass holders get a €2.50 discount on entry to EYE Film Institute’s exhibition “Celluloid”.

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News Globus

FESTIVAL INFORMATION

Follow Us IDFA Special

Newsletter

www.idfa.nl/daily

www.idfa.nl/newsletter

Every other day, a new print edition of the IDFA Special will be available for your perusal, full of news, interviews and reviews. The Special includes an extensive English section, which is also available online.

IDFA app

Download the IDFA app for your iPhone (iOS 8 and 9 only) and Android smartphone for up-todate program information, film trailers and the latest festival news. It is also possible to purchase tickets directly on the app, after logging in with your MyIDFA account. www.idfa.nl/app-english

Are you signed up for the IDFA Newsletter yet? This monthly update keeps you informed about all of IDFA’s activities throughout the year and includes reminders for our festival deadlines, such as film entry and accreditation.

IDFA.tv

IDFA’s online documentary channel showcases full documentaries, festival reports, interviews and master classes. The current selection includes a number of films related to this year’s special focus programs. www.idfa.tv/en

Social Media

Follow us on Facebook (IDFA Industry and Press) and Twitter (@IDFAindustry and #IDFA), and we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest industry events during the festival and all industry news throughout the year.

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Industry Office Last year, the Industry Office successfully gathered all of IDFA’s existing festival services under one roof and introduced a few new ones to boot. The Industry Office is back this year, offering an extensive program of services, sessions, talks and consultancies to inspire our professional festival guests and to keep them up-to-date on the latest developments in the documentary industry.

Industry Desk

The Industry Office is open to all pass holders to meet up, network and do business.

NH Carlton first floor

Location NH Carlton Hotel (opposite Pathé De Munt cinema) Vijzelstraat 4 1017 HK Amsterdam

Nov 17-23, 9:30-13:00 & 14:00-18:00 |

Writing Room A Wi-Fi connection and computers are available at this workspace for all accredited guests. Nov 17-25, 9:00-21:00 | NH Carlton Puccini

Meeting Room with screening facilities

Nov 15, 12:00-21:00

All accredited guests have the opportunity to reserve a meeting/screening room for small groups of up to 15 people. Reservations can be made in advance by emailing maik@idfa.nl and during the festival at the Industry Desk. Additionally, six viewing booths are available for holders of a press pass at Docs for Sale.

Nov 27, 10:00-14:00 | NH Carlton first floor

Nov 24, 10:00-20:00 | Arti et Amicitiae

Services Guest Desk and Guest Box Office Here, accredited guests can pick up their festival pass, obtain tickets and get general information about the festival. Nov 16-26, 9:00-21:00

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At the Industry Desk, we can help you with any questions regarding the program for professionals. We guide you through the industry side of the festival, connect you with other professionals on various topics, and keep you informed about various talks, meetings and sessions. Members of the press can also request a room to hold interviews.

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Industry Talks and Sessions

Various types of talks and sessions bring you up to speed on the latest developments in the industry. The Industry Sessions at the NH Carlton Hotel cover a broad range of topics in an intimate setting. Six Industry Talks at De Brakke Grond address bigger trends and developments. And the newly introduced mini-series In Conversation With... puts three renowned filmmakers in the spotlight with hour-long conversations about their work. See pages 122-127 for full program details.

Meet the Experts

Various experts share their knowledge in hourlong sessions for small groups of participants, guided by a moderator. These sessions offer professionals knowledge on different subjects and create networking opportunities. Accredited guests can register for the sessions one day in advance at the Industry Desk. See idfa.nl/industryoffice for full details. Nov 20-23, 13:30-14:30 | NH Carlton Caruso

Consultancies

The Industry Office offers two types of consultancies: preregistered one-on-one meetings with experts in a specific field, and walk-in consultancies offering general advice. Detailed information and availability for all consultants is available at the Industry Desk and at idfa.nl/industryoffice.

Preregistered Consultancies Renowned industry experts are on hand for consultancies focusing on a different subject every day, such as handling film rights, impact producing, educational distribution and many more. Book your one-on-one meeting a day in advance at the Industry Desk. Nov 18-23, 10:00-18:00 | NH Carlton Paganini

Walk-in Consultancies Documentary experts Jannie Langbroek and Marijke Rawie are on hand for daily walk-in consultancies, answering questions about various aspects of the documentary industry, such as potential co-production partners, funding possibilities or finding a sales agent. Nov 17-24, 10:00-17:00 | NH Carlton Rossini

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Program Sections IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary

Documentaries longer than 60 minutes.

IDFA Competition for First Appearance

Documentaries by first-time filmmakers.

IDFA Competition for Mid-Length Documentary Documentaries between 40 and 60 minutes.

IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling The best digital and interactive documentaries.

IDFA Competition for Dutch Documentary The best films by Dutch documentary filmmakers. Supported by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision.

Masters

ew works by renowned N documentary auteurs.

Best of Fests

ocumentaries that have made an D impact on this year’s international festival circuit.

Panorama

hought-provoking films about T urgent and current topics from all over the world.

Paradocs

ocumentaries on the cutting D edge of film and art, truth and fiction, narrative and design.

Music Documentary

ocumentaries that live for D music, capturing a band, an orchestra or a musician.

IDFA Competition for Student Documentary Student documentaries from film academies around the world. Supported by ARRI.

IDFA Competition for Kids & Docs The best new international youth documentaries. All competition programs are supported by Ammodo.

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This year’s guest of honor Sergei

Films pitched at IDFA Forum in previous years (see page 133).

Loznitsa presents his Top 10 favorite documentaries. IDFA is also screening a retrospective of his work. Supported by the Dutch Cultural Media Fund.

DocLab: Elastic Reality special program of interactive instalA lations, live cinema events and industry talks, presented in collaboration with De Brakke Grond. Supported by the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (AFK) and Creative Industries Fund NL.

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Top 10 and Sergei Loznitsa Retrospective

Films from developing countries that were made possible with a grant from the IBF (see page 136).

IDFAcademy Results

Films resulting from one of IDFAcademy’s four workshops (see page 139).

Films broadcast by Dutch public broadcaster NPO after IDFA.

Shifting Perspectives theme program investigating how A we think about race and identity, as well as the perspectives from which we do so. Supported by the Democracy & Media Foundation.

Assembling Reality theme program that focuses on A ­editing in documentary.

The Quiet Eye n examination of the “slow documenA tary,” which starts with the experience of time as it goes by in reality. Supported by Stichting Zabawas. Media partner: Happinez.

Paradocs: Amsterdam Art Weekend New works of video art shown on the big screen.

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Films from the IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary, the IDFA Competition for First Appearance, the IDFA Competition for Mid-Length Documentary and the IDFA Competition for Dutch Documentary get an Industry Screening, accessible to holders of all passes except the Docs for Sale Participant Pass. No ticket or reservation is required – all you have to do is present your pass at the door (first come, first served). November 17-21 | Tuschinski 3, Munt 12, Munt 13

First Appearance Competition

First Appearance Competition

Jacqueline Zünd

Areum Parkkang

Almost There WP

Switzerland, 2016, DCP, 83 min A moving portrait of three men in the autumn of their lives, all of whom are searching for meaning and dignity. sa 19 17:30 Tuschinski 3

Feature-Length Competition

Areum IP

South Korea, 2016, DCP, 93 min When blind dates lead nowhere, Areum decides to drastically change her appearance in this film about the merciless gaze of the outside world. su 20 15:45 Tuschinski 3

Amateurs in Space IP

Mid-Length Competition

Denmark, 2016, DCP, 90 min A boys’ adventure tale come true for two Danish friends who dream of building a rocket for the first amateur manned flight into space. mo 21 16:00 Munt 12

Horungen Knutte Wester

Max Kestner

First Appearance Competition

Amazona WP Clare Weiskopf

Colombia, 2016, DCP, 82 min Clare was 11 years old when her mother swapped family life for seclusion in the jungle. 30 years later, she decides to confront her mother with the choices she made. fr 18 12:45 Munt 12

First Appearance Competition

Anuktatop: The Metamorphosis IP

Anuktatop: la métamorphose Nicolas Pradal, Pierre Selvini

France, Frans Guyana, 2016, DCP, 112 min Dreamy docufiction showing how members of the Wayana tribe in French Guyana deal with the changing world around them. sa 19 10:45 Tuschinski 3

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A Bastard Child WP Sweden, Norway, 2016, DCP, 57 min In an exceptional mix of animation and archive footage, artist Knutte Wester tells the story of his grandmother, who grew up with the stigma of being illegitimate. th 17 13:15 Munt 12

Mid-Length Competition

Bolingo. The Forest of Love WP Bolingo. El bosque del amor Alejandro G. Salgado

Spain, 2016, DCP, 55 min These testimonies of five African women making the perilous journey from Africa to Europe are celebrations of motherhood, capturing their courage, hope and resilience. su 20 12:15 Munt 12

Feature-Length Competition

Dutch Competition

The Claim, the Search for Stolen Art from WWII WP

De claim, zoektocht naar roofkunst uit WOII Ditteke Mensink

The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 91 min The Dutch Restitutions Committee investigates the claims of Dutch Holocaust survivors on art treasures stolen by the Nazis. How do you prove a painting really did belong to your grandfather? sa 19 13:15 Tuschinski 3

Mid-Length Competition

Coeurope WP Giovanni Troilo

Italy, 2016, DCP, 61 min Beneath an unchanging gray blanket of clouds, inhabitants of the once flourishing industrial city of Charleroi, Belgium try to keep it together in a changing world. sa 19 10:30 Munt 12

Mid-Length Competition

Come Back Free WP Ksenia Okhapkina

Estonia, 2016, DCP, 51 min Beautifully filmed observations of daily life in a Chechen village, where a community has learnt how to survive the wounds of war. th 17 16:45 Munt 12

Burning Out WP

Dutch Competition

Belgium, France, Switzerland, 2016, DCP, 85 min Doctors in a Parisian hospital are fighting a life-and-death battle. Everything’s got to be cheaper, quicker and more efficient. A glimpse of imminent burnout in the healthcare system. fr 18 17:30 Munt 13

De erfenis Joris Postema

Jérôme le Maire

Daan’s Inheritance WP The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 85 min Trying to get a handle on his life and depression, Daan enters into a confrontation with his father, photographer Ed van der Elsken, who died in 1990. sa 19 13:45 Munt 12

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Mid-Length Competition

Feature-Length Competition

Mid-Length Competition

Mavet be Be’er Sheba Tali Shemesh, Asaf Sudry

Gogitas akhali tckovreba Levan Koguashvili

Bikur bayit Neta Shoshani, David Ofek

Death in the Terminal IP Israel, 2016, DCP, 52 min A reconstruction of an attack on an Israeli bus terminal in 2015 and the tragedy that developed from it. fr 18 10:00 Tuschinski 3

Gogita’s New Life WP

First Appearance Competition

Georgian Republic, Croatia, 2016, DCP, 72 min After a lengthy stint in prison, all Gogita wants to do is get married. His mother lobbies for a pretty, slim girl in this tragicomic quest for love and happiness. sa 19 16:15 Munt 13

IDFAcademy Results

Feature-Length Competition

Dream Empire WP

Tonislav Hristov

David Borenstein

Denmark, 2016, DCP, 73 min A Chinese entrepreneur tries to stay afloat in China’s surreal property sector with an agency for foreign talent. su 20 10:00 Tuschinski 3

Dutch Competition

The European WP De Europeaan Dirk-Jan Roeleven

The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 90 min A unique inside view of the hectic life of Dutch politician and diplomat Frans Timmermans, Vice-President of the European Commission in Brussells since 2014. th 17 12:00 Tuschinski 3

Dutch Competition

Fallen Flowers Thick Leaves WP Laetitia Schoofs

The Netherlands, Germany, 2016, DCP, 85 min Chinese women of various ages talk frankly about sex and love, shame, taboos and the prevailing traditional mores surrounding sexuality. mo 21 16:45 Munt 13

First Appearance Competition

The Girl down Loch Änzi WP

Das Mädchen vom Änziloch Alice Schmid

Switzerland, 2016, DCP, 87 min Twelve-year-old Laura feels lonely during the summer on her family’s farm in Switzerland. A poetic portrait of loneliness, growing up, friendship and imagination. th 17 14:15 Munt 13

The Good Postman WP Finland, Bulgaria, 2016, DCP, 82 min In a Bulgarian border village, the postman runs for mayor with a plan to combat depopulation by offering homes to Syrian refugees. th 17 14:00 Tuschinski 3

Dutch Competition

A Greek Winter WP Griekse winter Ingeborg Jansen

The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 70 min In the winter, Tasosand his sister Evdokiasupply fuel oil to dozens of apartments in Greece, but the economic crisis means fewer and fewer people are able to pay for it. fr 18 14:30 Munt 12

Feature-Length Competition

The Grown-Ups WP Los niños Maite Alberdi

Chile, The Netherlands, France, 2016, DCP, 80 min A moving, confrontational portrait of four Chilean adults with Down syndrome. Although they feel ready for adult life, society doesn’t agree. sa 19 10:00 Munt 13

Mid-Length Competition

Hotel Sunrise WP Hotel Úsvit Maria Rumanova

Slovakia, 2016, DCP, 49 min A portrait of a small Slovakian border town where local people are facing the harsh consequences of life in a post-Soviet society. su 20 10:30 Munt 12

House Call IP

Israel, 2016, DCP, 62 min A team consisting of a nurse, a doctor and a social worker do everything they can to support a terminally ill young mother at home with her loved ones in her last days of life. sa 19 15:30 Munt 12

Feature-Length & Dutch Competition

How to Meet a Mermaid WP Coco Schrijber

The Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, 2016, DCP, 90 min In an essay-like reflection on the beauty and destructive power of the ocean, filmmaker Coco Schrijber investigates the disappearance of her brother. mo 21 11:45 Munt 12

Mid-Length Competition

Icon IP

Ikona Wojciech Kasperski

Poland, 2016, DCP, 52 min Never before has a camera filmed inside the walls of this remote psychiatric hospital in Siberia, where the medical staff is doing its best despite the difficult conditions. sa 19 12:15 Munt 12

Feature-Length Competition

In Loco Parentis WP Neasa Ní Chianáin

Ireland, Spain, 2016, DCP, 103 min A year in the life of two dedicated and passionate teachers at an Irish boarding school for young children, captured in affectionate observational scenes. su 20 16:15 Munt 13

Mid-Length Competition

It’s Getting Dark WP Olga Kravets

France, 2016, DCP, 48 min The everyday domestic life of four families in Russia offers a poignant perspective on our notions of the “political prisoner.” su 20 15:45 Munt 12


The Joy of Sound IP La felicidad del sonido Ana Endara

Panama, 2016, DCP, 61 min An ode to sound, that mysterious, invisible and intangible phenomenon that brings pleasure and togetherness—and sometimes irritation. th 17 14:45 Munt 12

Feature-Length Competition

Like Dew in the Sun IP Comme la rosée au soleil Peter Entell

Switzerland, 2016, DCP, 108 min Documentary filmmaker Peter Entell is the engaged outsider as he asks why Ukraine, the land of his forebears, is so often embroiled in war. th 17 16:00 Tuschinski 3

Mid-Length Competition

Long Live Benjamin WP Jimm Lasser, Biff Butler

USA, 2016, DCP, 60 min Life changes forever for artist Allen Hirsch when he adopts an orphaned monkey. A dramatic story about the deep bond between man and ape. su 20 17:15 Munt 12

Feature-Length & Assembling Reality

Machines WP Rahul Jain

India, Germany, Finland, 2016, DCP, 71 min A mesmerizing, rhythmic portrait of everyday life for workers at a textile factory in India. There is enchanting beauty here, but the film also reveals deplorable conditions. fr 18 14:00 Munt 13

First Appearance & Shifting Perspectives

IDFAcademy Results

A Memory in Three Acts WP

Uma memória em três atos Inadelso Cossa

Mozambique, 2016, DCP, 64 min In a poetic tale, different people who were involved in the bloody struggle for independence in Mozambique tell their side of the story. mo 21 11:00 Munt 13

Feature-Length & Dutch & Assembling Reality

Miss Kiet’s Children WP

De kinderen van juf Kiet Petra Lataster-Czisch, Peter Lataster

The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 115 min A moving portrait of a class of migrant children at a primary school in a Dutch village. Under the wing of their teacher Miss Kiet, they learn Dutch, fight, fall in love and process their traumas. fr 18 10:00 Munt 13

Feature-Length & Assembling Reality

Mogadishu Soldier WP Torstein Grude

Norway, Finland, Denmark, 2016, DCP, 88 min For a year, two soldiers filmed the danger, banality, humanity and inhumanity of their peacekeeping mission in the Somali capital of Mogadishu. sa 19 11:45 Munt 13

Feature-Length Competition

Nowhere to Hide WP Zaradasht Ahmed

Norway, Sweden, 2016, DCP, 86 min A disturbing war report by an Iraqi father and male nurse who is forced to flee when his home city is occupied by IS. su 20 11:45 Munt 13

Dutch Competition

Passage – A Boatmovie WP Jascha de Wilde, Ben Hendriks

The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 55 min Hitch a ride on a cargoship to the south of France in this playful, ever-changing “boat movie” on three screens. fr 18 12:30 Munt 13

First Appearance Competition

Planeta Petrila WP Andrei Dascalescu

Romania, 2016, DCP, 90 min In a Romanian mining town, an artist and ex-miner uses art and absurdism in a struggle to keep history alive. sa 19 15:30 Tuschinski 3

First Appearance Competition

Plastic China WP Su liao wang guo Jiu-liang Wang

China, 2016, DCP, 81 min Yi Jie and her family live next to a primitive recycling plant. Her world consists of mountains of plastic waste from Europe, the United States and Asia. su 20 11:45 Tuschinski 3

Dutch Competition

IDFAcademy Results

A Quiet Place WP Hier is het nooit stil Sjoerd Oostrik

The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 81 min Three boys in a juvenile detention center try to survive as they grapple with themselves and the prison rules. fr 18 13:15 Tuschinski 3

Dutch Competition

Radio Kobanî WP Reber Dosky

The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 72 min After the liberationfights against IS, youngKurdischreporter Dilovanstarts a radiostationamidst the ruins of her hometownKobani. th 17 10:45 Munt 13

First Appearance Competition

Resurrecting Hassan IP Carlo Guillermo Proto

Canada, Chile, 2016, DCP, 100 min An intimate portrait of a blind family struggling with the loss of their son Hassan. The one thing they long for is to bring him back to life. th 17 16:15 Munt 13

Mid-Length Competition

The Return WP Zahavi Sanjavi

Sweden, 2016, DCP, 54 min In this portrait of perseverance in the midst of insurmountable grief, a nurse named Shilan returns to a refugee camp for Yezidis in Iraqi Kurdistan. fr 18 16:30 Tuschinski 3

First Appearance Competition

The Road Movie WP Dmitrii Kalashnikov

Belarus, Russia, Serbia, BosniaHerzegovina, Croatia, 2016, DCP, 67 min Adventures on the Russian highway as recorded by dashboard cameras reveal the nature of Russia, which is both absurd and frightening. fr 18 18:15 Munt 12

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IDFAcademy Results

Sealers – One Last Hunt WP

Trude Berge Ottersen, Gry Elisabeth Mortensen

Norway, 2016, DCP, 98 min A seasoned Norwegian skipper defies the decline in Norwegian seal hunting and sets off as usual on a treacherous journey through the ice floes. fr 18 10:45 Munt 12

Mid-Length Competition

Site of Sites WP

El sitio de los sitios Natalia Cabral, Oriol Estrada

Dominican Republic, 2016, DCP, 61 min In a luxury vacation paradise in the Caribbean, minor disruptions create flaws in the illusion of happiness. fr 18 11:30 Tuschinski 3

Feature-Length Competition

Still Tomorrow WP

Dutch & Music Documentary

Unknown Brood WP Dennis Alink

The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 90 min Throughvideo footage shot by Brood himself and moving reminiscences from people who knew him well, welook back at the turbulent life of rock musician and artist Herman Brood. th 17 11:15 Munt 12

First Appearance Competition

Venus WP

Lea Glob, Mette Carla Albrechtsen

Denmark, Norway, 2016, DCP, 80 min During casting sessions, young women from Copenhagen talk candidly about their sexual experiences and frustrations. fr 18 16:15 Munt 12

Dutch Competition

Waiting for Giraffes WP Als de giraffes komen Marco de Stefanis

China, 2016, DCP, 88 min Disabled by cerebral palsy and unhappily married, the painfully frank XiuhuaYu makes a dramatic breakthrough as a poet. Will fame solve her problems? sa 19 18:00 Munt 13

The Netherlands, Belgium, 2016, DCP, 84 min Replacing thegiraffes that died during the last intifada is one of the challenges met by veterinarian Dr. Sami, who works in the world’s only zoo in occupied territory. sa 19 14:15 Munt 13

First Appearance & Dutch Competition

Feature-Length Competition

Guido Hendrikx

Quelque chose de grand Fanny Tondre

Jian Fan

Stranger in Paradise WP

The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 72 min A political essay on the absurd dilemmas presented by asylum policies. In a classroom, migrants’ illusions are dashed against the rocks of European arrogance. th 17 12:30 Munt 13

Mid-Length & Dutch Competition

What We Have Made WP France, 2016, DCP, 71 min A beautiful portrait of a huge construction site where thousands of men work long days among the scaffolding, concrete mixers and their coworkers, sharing good times and bad. su 20 10:00 Munt 13

To Stay Alive – A Method WP

First Appearance Competition

The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 60 min Iggy Pop reads from Michel Houellebecq’s essay on insanity, survival and art. sa 19 17:00 Munt 12

Denmark, 2015, DCP, 82 min A Danish couple’s relationship is put to the test by a sudden stroke. Can Kristian and MetteLinemake it through the demanding rehabilitation process together? mo 21 12:30 Munt 13

Overleven – een handleiding Erik Lieshout

Who We Were IP Dem vi var Sine Skibsholt

Mid-Length Competition

Woman and the Glacier WP Moteris ir ledynas Audrius Stonys

Lithuania, Estonia, 2016, DCP, 56 min A filmic ode to a woman’s choice to live in solitude. For 30 years, a Lithuanian scientist has been conducting climate research at the Tuyuksu Glacier in Kazakhstan. fr 18 15:00 Tuschinski 3

Feature-Length Competition

You Have No Idea How Much I Love You IP Nawet nie wiesz, jak bardzo cie kocham Pawel Lozinski

Poland, 2016, DCP, 80 min During a mother and daughter’s intimately filmed sessions with a psychotherapist, blame, grief and anger gradually make way for reconciliation. fr 18 15:45 Munt 13

Dutch Competition

Zaatari Djinn WP Catherine van Campen

The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 80 min Syrian children try to find their footing in the world’s largest refugee camp. A poetic account of their dreams, triumphs and setbacks. su 20 14:15 Munt 13

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Program Guide

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Wednesday 16 November TUSCHINSKI 1

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9:00

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10:00 VPRO Preview

Compilation program put up by main partner VPRO. For tickets see www.vpro.nl/evenementen.

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12:00

12:30

Santoalla

Andrew Becker, Daniel Mehrer Best of Fests, 82’

13:00

Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four Best of Fests, 91’

One screening only, for free. Ticket required

14:30 14:45

Wrong Elements Jonathan Littell

15:30 16:00

On Call

Alice Diop

Sergei Loznitsa

Sergei Loznitsa Retrospective, 74’

15:00

From the East

Chantal Akerman

Hissein Habré, a Chadian Tragedy

16:45

Letter

17:00

Reflections. Director’s Cut

Susanne Regina Meures

Nikolaus Geyrhalter Masters, 94’

Sergei Loznitsa Retrospective, 17’

18:15

The Rock

Hamid Jafari

The Graduation

Raving Iran Best of Fests, 84’

Sergei Loznitsa

Homo Sapiens

The Old Jewish Cemetery

18:00

Sergei Loznitsa Retrospective, 20’

Sergei Loznitsa Retrospective, 82’

Sergei Loznitsa

Revue

Sergei Loznitsa

Panorama, 25’

Claire Simon

Whose Country?

Masters, 119’

Mohamed Siam Best of Fests, 58’

19:15

19:15

Events in a Cloud Chamber

LoveTrue

Alma Har’el

Best of Fests, 82’

Ashim Ahluwalia Paradocs, 20’

Welcome

20:15

Rikun Zhu

The Promise

Paradocs, 63’

Marcus Vetter, Karin Steinberger Masters, 117’

Who’s Gonna Love Me Now?

22:00

Toby Oppenheimer, Dana Flor Panorama, 91’

Tomer Heymann, Barak Heymann

20:30

Voices

Miguel Peres Dos Santos

21:00

Shifting Perspectives, 18’

Check It 21:30

21:30

Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You

The Colonial Misunderstanding Jean-Marie Teno

Shifting Perspectives, 75’

Rachel Grady, Heidi Ewing Masters, 91’

Masters, 86’

23:00

24:00

1:00

26

Best of Fests, 108’

Masters, 82’

17:45

21:00

Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbat

Mahamat Saleh Haroun

Sergei Loznitsa, 21’

20:00

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

Sergei Loznitsa's Top 10, 115’

17:00

19:00

14:30

The Event

Best of Fests, 133’

Best of Fests, 97’

18:30

Best of Fests, 88’

Sergei Loznitsa's Top 10, 48’

Masters, 78’

15:00

Ziga Virc

Peter Watkins

Rithy Panh

18:00

13:00

The War Game

Exile

16:00

Houston, We Have a Problem!

Deborah Esquenazi

13:30

14:00

12:15

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

WOENSDAG 16 NOVEMBER

21:30

The Last Laugh Ferne Pearlstein Best of Fests, 89’


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9:00

PROGRAM DAY BY DAY

TUSCHINSKI 6

9:00

10:00 10:00

11:00

12:00 Sara Jordenö

Houston, We Have a Problem! 13:00

The War Game

Best of Fests, 94’

Ziga Virc

Best of Fests, 88’

Peter Watkins

13:15

13:15

Jean Carper

Anna Zamecka

Monster in the Mind

Sergei Loznitsa's Top 10, 48’

One screening only, for free. Ticket required

From the East

Chantal Akerman

13:45

The Father, the Son and the Holy Jihad

14:00 14:00

Stéphane Malterre Panorama, 120’

Life, Animated

Roger Ross Williams Best of Fests, 91’

Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato Best of Fests, 108’

Sergei Loznitsa's Top 10, 115’

Best of Fests, 72’

14:30

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

13:00 13:00

Communion

Best of Fests, 87’

14:30 15:00

12:00 12:00

Kiki

12:15

11:00

15:00 15:00

15:30

15:30

Shirley Abraham, Amit Madheshiya

Claudio Capanna

The Cinema Travellers

Life to Come Panorama, 75’

Best of Fests, 96’

16:00 16:00 16:45

17:00

17:00

Susanne Regina Meures

Shimon Dotan

Raving Iran Best of Fests, 84’

Best of Fests, 110’

18:00

18:00

Sergei Loznitsa

Tatiana Huezo

Revue

Gilles Laurent

17:00 17:00

Panorama, 73’

17:45

We’ll Be Alright

Alexander Kuznetsov

Tempestad

Sergei Loznitsa Retrospective, 82’

Abandoned Land

The Settlers

18:00 18:00

Panorama, 77’

Best of Fests, 105’

18:45

The Beast Is Still Alive

Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova

19:15

Alma Har’el

19:45

Best of Fests, 82’

The War Show

20:00

Andreas Dalsgaard, Obaidah Zytoon

20:30

20:30

Miguel Peres Dos Santos

Keith Maitland

Voices

The Colonial Misunderstanding Jean-Marie Teno

Shifting Perspectives, 75’

Best of Fests, 100’

Tower

Shifting Perspectives, 18’

19:00 19:00

Panorama, 90’

LoveTrue

20:30

First Appearance & Dutch Competition 72’

Kaouther Ben Hania

By invitation.

Panorama, 94’

21:30

20:00 20:00

Guido Hendrikx

Zaineb Hates the Snow

Best of Fests, 82’

21:00 21:00 21:30

The Last Laugh

Solitary

Ferne Pearlstein Best of Fests, 89’

IDFA Opening Night: Stranger in Paradise

Kristi Jacobson

22:15

France

Panorama, 82’

22:00 22:00

Raymond Depardon Masters, 83’

23:00 23:00

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Thursday 17 November TUSCHINSKI 1

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11:00

The Cinema Travellers Shirley Abraham, Amit Madheshiya Best of Fests, 96’

Exile

Rithy Panh Masters, 78’

12:00

The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography

11:30

Errol Morris Masters, 76’

12:00 Industry Screening

The European

Santoalla 11:45

Houston, We Have a Problem!

On Call 13:45

Mahamat Saleh Haroun Masters, 82’

The Settlers Shimon Dotan

Ambulance

Mohamed Jabaly Best of Fests, 78’

Best of Fests, 110’

Conscience

Best of Fests, 97’

Vladimir Denisenko

14:00 Industry Screening

14:00

Tonislav Hristov

Andreas Dalsgaard, Obaidah Zytoon

The Good Postman

Sergei Loznitsa's Top 10, 78’

Check It

Toby Oppenheimer, Dana Fl

Best of Fests, 100’

15:15

I dimenticati

15:30

Vittorio De Seta

American Shorts

Compilation of short films about contemporary USA. With: The Ride of their Lives, Wolvesmouth and Raised by Krump.

16:00 Industry Screening 16:15 16:30

Forever Pure

with Extended Q&A

Communion Anna Zamecka

Like Dew in the Sun Peter Entell

Feature-Length Competition, 108’

Best of Fests, 72’

Sergei Loznitsa's Top 10, 20’

A Little Monastery in Tuscany 16:30

1Minute Nature IDFA Competition for Kids & Docs, 4’

17:30

Daniel

The Eagle Huntress Otto Bell

IDFA Competition for Kids & Docs, 87’

Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee

Zaatari Djinn

Catherine van Campen Dutch Competition, 80’

Student Competition, 41’

Compilation of short films about Cuba in transition. With: Motriz, House for Sale, Connection and Great Muy Bien.

Michal Marczak

Masters, 98’

Paradocs, 69’

Tower

Keith Maitland Best of Fests, 82’

Silent Wilderness Mathijs Vleugels

The Pearl of Africa

Panorama, 60’

Jonny von Wallström

22:00

22:00 Zero Days Alex Gibney Masters, 114’

Lea Glob, Mette Carla Albrechtsen

First Appearance Competition, 80’

21:00

21:00

Rachel Grady, Heidi Ewing

Sébastien Rist, Aude Leroux-Lévesque

Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You

20:00

A Memory in Three Ac Inadelso Cossa

First Appearance Competition, Shifting Perspectives, 64’

Panorama, 75’

Venus

The Challenge Yuri Ancarani

18:45

20:00

21:30

18:00

19:45

Nanette Burstein

21:00

Panorama, 83’

All These Sleepless Nights

Inna Omelchenko

Cuban Shorts 19:15

Lucija Stojevic

17:15

Paper Stars

18:30 19:00

La Chana

Sergei Loznitsa's Top 10, 54’

Paradocs, 100’

Student Competition, 24’

18:00

Otar Iosseliani

15:45

Stefanie Visjager, Katinka Baehr

Followed by an in-depth conversation between TV host Bahram Sadeghi and director Maya Zinshtein. See page 114

Anastazja Dabrowska

Living with Giants Best of Fests, 78’

Masters, 91’

22:00

Gaza Surf Club

21:30

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

Philip Gnadt, Mickey Yamine Best of Fests, 87’

23:00

24:00

1:00

28

13:30

Panorama, 91’

The War Show

15:00

20:00

Hissein Habré, a Chadian Tragedy

13:15

Alice Diop

Feature-Length Competition, 82’

19:00

11:30

13:00 13:30

17:00

Best of Fests, 82’

Best of Fests, 88’

13:00

16:00

Andrew Becker, Daniel Mehrer

Ziga Virc

Dirk-Jan Roeleven Dutch Competition, 90’

14:00

11:15

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

DONDERDAG 17 NOVEMBER

22:00

Beauties of the Night Maria José Cuevas Best of Fests, 91’


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9:00

10:00

Claudio Capanna Panorama, 75’

10:45 Industry Screening 11:00

Santoalla

Rodnye (Close Relations) 11:15 Industry Screening Vitaly Mansky Unknown Brood Masters, 112’

Andrew Becker, Daniel Mehrer Best of Fests, 82’

11:30

Hissein Habré, a Chadian Tragedy

Mahamat Saleh Haroun Masters, 82’

Sergei Loznitsa's Top 10, 78’

Estephan Wagner, Moritz Siebert, Abou Bakar Sidibé

12:30 Industry Screening

Check It

Toby Oppenheimer, Dana Flor

14:00 Panorama, 104’

14:45 Industry Screening Ana Endara

Lucija Stojevic

Resurrecting Hassan

16:30

My Daughter Nora Rem

Tomas Koolhaas Best of Fests, 75’

Paul Salahadin Refs Best of Fests, 58’

14:15

Seed: The Untol

Taggart Siegel, Jon B Best of Fests, 94’

Jasna Krajinovic Panorama, 16’

ISIS, Deserters Speak Out

16:45 Industry Screening

Come Back Free Ksenia Okhapkina

I Made You, I Kill You 18:45 19:15

4.1 Miles

Rahul Jain

Feature-Length Competition, Assembling Reality, 71’

Alexandru Petru Badelita Student Competition, 14’

18:45

Maayan Schwartz

Khushboo Ranka, Vinay Shukla

My Friend, Yaniv Student Competition, 45’

Daphne Matziaraki

A Memory in Three Acts Inadelso Cossa

First Appearance Competition, Shifting Perspectives, 64’

We’ll Be Alright

Beauties of the Night Maria José Cuevas Best of Fests, 91’

Panorama, 77’

21:15

Joris Postema

Music Shorts

Dutch Competition, 85’

22:15

Solitary

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

21:00 21:00

Mid-Length Competition, 5

21:00

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail Steve James Masters, 90’

22:00 22:00

Kristi Jacobson Panorama, 82’

23:00 23:00

24:00 24:00

1:00

Program Guide

Xavier Marrades

Alexander Kuznetsov

Irene Taylor Brodsky Best of Fests, 114’

Cucli

Audrius Stonys

Mid-Length Competition, 55’

Beware the Slenderman

19:00 Panorama, 17’

20:00 20:00

20:15

Alejandro G. Salgado

21:30 22:00

Best of Fests, 96’

19:00 19:00

Woman and the

Bolingo. The Forest of Love

Daan’s Inheritance Shalom Italia

An Insignificant Man

Panorama, 22’

21:00 21:30

Panorama, 70’

18:00 18:00

18:15

Machines

20:00

Chairun Nissa

17:00 17:00

Mid-Length Competition, 51’

16:30

Cuts

First Appearance Competition, 100’

Thomas Dandois, Francois-Xavier Tregan

The Challenge

19:45

16:00 16:00

Carlo Guillermo Proto

Panorama, 53’

18:00

Paradocs, 69’

Best of Fests, 71’

Dugma: The But

15:00 15:00

16:15 Industry Screening

Panorama, 83’

Yuri Ancarani

Tamar Tal-Anati

14:00 14:00

First Appearance Competition, 87’

La Chana

All These Sleepless Nights

Panorama, 60’

13:00 13:00

15:45

17:15

Mathijs Vleugels

12:45

Alice Schmid

Mid-Length Competition, 61’

17:00

Silent Wilderness

The Girl down Loch Änzi The Joy of Sound

Masters, 83’

Sergei Loznitsa's Top 10, 54’

Paradocs, 100’

14:15 Industry Screening

Mustafa Ünlü

I dimenticati

Michal Marczak

First Appearance Competition, Dutch Competition, 72’

Mid-Length Competition, 57’

Ah Raymond Depardon

Otar Iosseliani

12:00 12:00

Knutte Wester

France

A Little Monastery in Tuscany

11:00

Guido Hendrikx

A Bastard Child

14:30

Sergei Loznitsa's Top 10, 20’

11:00

Stranger in Paradise

13:30

Panorama, 91’

Vittorio De Seta

Dutch Competition, 72’

Those Who Jump

13:15 Industry Screening

15:15

Reber Dosky

Dutch Competition, Music Documentary, 90’

12:00

13:15

Vladimir Denisenko

Radio Kobanî

Dennis Alink

Best of Fests, 80’

Conscience

9:00

10:00 10:00

Life to Come

11:15

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MELKWEG CINEMA

9:00

9:00

10:00

Eat That Question Frank Zappa in His Own Words Thorsten Schütte

Music Documentary, 90’

11:00

12:00

14:00

12:15

12:15

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Hamid Jafari

I Don’t Know 12:45

13:00

10:00

10:15

Dugma: The Button Paul Salahadin Refsdal Best of Fests, 58’

Sergei Loznitsa's Top 10, 47’

Koma

Nijole Adomenaite, Boris Gorlov

Sergei Loznitsa's Top 10, 62’

11:00

12:00 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal 12:00 IDFAcademy Welcome & Reset Introduction: Meet the Participants

The Rock

IDFAcademy passholders & Invitees

Panorama, 25’

Whose Country? Mohamed Siam Best of Fests, 58’

Alban Teurlai, Thierry Demaizière

13:00

13:30 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal Industry Talk: Between Director and Editor

Talented director Maite Alberdi and seasoned editor Menno Boerema discuss their collaboration. See page 122

14:15

Seed: The Untold Story

14:30

Taggart Siegel, Jon Betz Best of Fests, 94’

LoveTrue

In cooperation with The School of Life.

15:00

Lullaby

15:00

12:00

Best of Fests, 110’

Dziga Vertov

Sergei Loznitsa's Top 10, 58’

Admission for all passholders

14:00 15:00

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

15:00

Bob Hercules, Rita Coburn Whack Best of Fests, 114’

16:00

16:00 16:30 Chairun Nissa Panorama, 70’

17:00

18:00

18:00

Shot! The PsychoSpiritual Mantra of Rock

18:00

Barnaby Clay

Music Documentary, 98’

19:00

19:00

Cucli

19:00

Xavier Marrades Panorama, 17’

Woman and the Glacier Audrius Stonys

20:00

21:00

Mid-Length Competition, 56’

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail Steve James Masters, 90’

22:00

20:00

Shadow World

with Extended Q&A 21:00

After the screening, film critic Dana Linssen speaks at length with visual artist Johan Grimonprez. See page 114

Shadow World

Johan Grimonprez Paradocs, 90’

20:00

20:00

DocLab Live: Elastic Reality Opening Night

A festive introduction to the DocLab: Elastic Reality program of IDFA and De Brakke Grond, with presentations and performances unraveling reality in the digital age. Supported by Dutch Cultural Media Fund. See page 111

21:00

We Are X + Live: Yoshiki

21:00

Stephen Kijak

Music Documentary, 93’

The story of the hard rock act X, hugely popular in their home country Japan, followed by a performance by front man Yoshiki. See page 105

22:00

23:00

23:00

24:00

24:00

1:00

1:00

30

Presentation of Mediafonds Wo

By invitation

Cuts 17:00

15:30 de Ba Project Prese IDFA-Mediaf Workshop

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

DONDERDAG 17 NOVEMBER


DE BALIE

PROGRAM DAY BY DAY

MELKWEG CINEMA

OTHER VENUES

KLEINE KOMEDIE

9:00

09:30 Filmacademie IDFA Film Academy Day Kick off with all international film students.

10:00

By invitation

11:00

12:00

12:15

Handsworth Songs John Akomfrah

Shifting Perspectives, 59’

13:00

14:00

14:15

Lumumba: Death of a Prophet Raoul Peck

Shifting Perspectives, 69’

15:00

16:00

15:30 de Balie – Salon Project Presentation IDFA-Mediafonds Workshop

Presentation of the IDFAMediafonds Workshop projects.

By invitation

17:00

16:15

Men of Gold

with Extended Q&A

After the screening journalist Wim Bossema (de Volkskrant) and director Vincent Moloi discuss South Africa after Apartheid. See page 117

DAILY SERVICES

NH Carlton Puccini 9:00 – 21:00 IDFA Writing Room

Workspace for all accredited guests. Wifi connection and computers available.

NH Carlton Rossini 10:00 – 17:00 Walk-in consultancies

Walk in and book your one-on-one consultancy.

18:00 18:30

The Colonial Misunderstanding Jean-Marie Teno

19:00

Shifting Perspectives, 75’

SOCIAL EVENTS

De Jaren Café – 18:00 Guests Meet Guests

All IDFA guests are invited to meet and exchange ideas at the daily Guests Meet Guests cocktail hour.

Admission for all passholders

20:00 20:45

The Giant is Falling

with Extended Q&A

21:00

After the screening journalist Wim Bossema (de Volkskrant) and director Rehad Desai discuss South Africa’s young democracy. See page 117

22:00

De Jaren Café – 22:00 IDFA Lounge

DJ Ed Rock. A regular at IDFA Cafe and host of the DJ nights. Ed plays vinyl singles from way back as well as brand new tracks. Many genres, from 1956 till 2016, including soul, rock, new wave, reggae, hiphop and beyond.

Admission Free

DOCLAB EXPO: ELASTIC REALITY

Brakke Grond 9:00 – 23:00

How does it feel to have someone follow you in the physical world, instead of just on social media? Or to look for love with your nose, rather than swiping profile pictures on Tinder? What would a computer brain say when it secretly takes a peek at your instagram pictures? Trigger your senses and experience thirty of the world's best interactive documentaries, virtual reality experiences and physical installations in the ten-day DocLab: Elastic Reality exhibition. Some installations have varying opening hours (11:00 – 21:00). On-site reservation may be required.

23:00

24:00

Admission Free

1:00

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9:00

10:00

10:00 Industry Screening

Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography

Tali Shemesh, Asaf Sudry

10:00 The B-Side:

Death in the Terminal Mid-Length Competition, 52’

Errol Morris Masters, 76’

11:00

11:15

LoveTrue

Alma Har’el

Best of Fests, 82’

14:00

Natalia Cabral, Oriol Estrada

John Akomfrah

Site of Sites

Handsworth Songs

The Offended

Marcela Zamora Chamorro Panorama, 83’

Shifting Perspectives, 59’

13:00

Director Sergei Loznitsa will talk with Hans Maarten van den Brink about his own films, his Top 10 selection and sound design in documentary. Supported by the Dutch Cultural Media Fund. See page 122

13:45

The Father, the Son and the Holy Jihad

Paradocs, 90’

Sjoerd Oostrik

Keith Maitland

Followed by an in-depth conversation between journalist Harm Ede Botje and director Stéphane Malterre. See page 114

Dutch Competition, 81’

16:45

Hissein Habré, a Chadian Tragedy

Audrius Stonys

Mid-Length Competition, 56’

Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four

Shalom Italia

Thomas Lennon Panorama, 86’

Tamar Tal-Anati

16:30

Anna Zamecka Best of Fests, 72’

17:30

Daniel

Anastazja Dabrowska

18:00

Inna Omelchenko

Jan Ijäs

Time Capsule

Student Competition, 41’

Paradocs, 21’

18:30

Melanie Bonajo

Remo Scherrer

Like Dew in the Sun

Progress vs Regress

Whatever the Weather

Paradocs, 54’

Student Competition, 11’

To Be a Miss

Edward Ellis, Flor Salcedo, Aaron Woolf

Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbat Best of Fests, 108’

A Bastard Child Knutte Wester

19:30 19:45

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

Paper Stars

19:00

with Extended Q&A

17:45

Student Competition, 24’

Mid-Length Competition, 57’

El patio

Elvira Diaz

Panorama, 82’

20:15

20:15

Coco Cabasa

Panorama, 84’

Almost There

Klara Til

Student Competition, 53’

Feature-Length Competition, 108’

Jacqueline Zünd

21:00

First Appearance Competition, 83’

Minispectacles Albuquerque Straight

21:00

Maarit Suomi-Väänänen Paradocs, 7’

21:45

Hotel Sunrise

22:00 22:30

Rats

With an introduction by filmmaker Jan Doense.

All These Sleepless Nights Michal Marczak Paradocs, 100’

22:15

Houston, We Have a Problem! Ziga Virc

Best of Fests, 88’

Maria Rumanova

Mid-Length Competition, 49’

Come Back Free Ksenia Okhapkina

22:00

Shingal, Where Are You? Angelos Rallis

Craigslist Allstars Samira Elagoz Paradocs, 65’

Panorama, 103’

Mid-Length Competition, 51’

22:30

The War Show

Andreas Dalsgaard, Obaidah Zytoon Best of Fests, 100’

24:00

1:00

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Best of Fests, 71’

Communion

Mid-Length Competition, 54’

Mid-Length Competition, 60’

Peter Entell

15:45

Sacred

Zahavi Sanjavi

Jimm Lasser, Biff Butler

Feature-Length Competition, Dutch Competition, 90’

15:45

The Return

18:00

Like Dew in the Sun

Dutch Competition, 80’

15:15

Deborah Esquenazi

Long Live Benjamin

Coco Schrijber

Catherine van Campen

Best of Fests, 78’

Woman and the Glacier

Masters, 82’

a Mermaid

Zaatari Djinn Sébastien Rist, Aude Leroux-Lévesque

15:00 Industry Screening

Mahamat Saleh Haroun

Followed by an in-depth conversation between journalist and entrepreneur Derk Sauer, director Peter Entell and director of photography Jón Björgvinsson. See page 114

13:45

Living with Giants

16:30 Industry Screening

18:00

20:00 How to Meet

Maria José Cuevas Best of Fests, 91’

Best of Fests, 91’

Sergei Loznitsa Retrospective, 94’

20:00

Best of Fests, 82’

Beauties of the Night

14:15

Panorama, 120’

Sergei Loznitsa

19:00

Tower

13:15

with Extended Q&A

with Extended Q&A

Austerlitz

Johan Grimonprez

A Quiet Place

16:00 Austerlitz

Followed by an in-depth conversation between journalist Max van Weezel, director Sergei Loznitsa and Joël J. Cahen of the National Holocaust Museum. See page 114

Shadow World

13:15 Industry Screening

The Father, the Son and the Holy Jihad 16:00

23:00

11:45

Tatiana Huezo

Tempestad

13:00

Masterclass Sergei Loznitsa

Stéphane Malterre

22:00

11:45

Best of Fests, 105’

15:00

17:00

11:30

Mid-Length Competition, 61’

12:00

13:00

11:15 11:30 Industry Screening

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9:00

10:00 Industry Screening

Miss Kiet’s Children 10:45 Industry Screening

Sealers – One Last Hunt Wrong Elements 11:45

Tatiana Huezo

Keith Maitland

Tempestad Best of Fests, 105’

Tower

Best of Fests, 133’

11:00

First Appearance Competition, 98’

Jonathan Littell

12:00

Seed: The Untold Story

Best of Fests, 82’

Taggart Siegel, Jon Betz Best of Fests, 94’

12:30 Industry Screening 12:45 Industry Screening

Amazona

Clare Weiskopf

9:00

10:00 10:00

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

Trude Berge Ottersen, Gry Elisabeth Mortensen

11:15 11:45

Petra Lataster-Czisch, Peter Lataster

PROGRAM DAY BY DAY

TUSCHINSKI 6

11:00

12:00 12:00

12:00

The Settlers Shimon Dotan Best of Fests, 110’

Passage – A Boatmovie

Jascha de Wilde, Ben Hendriks Dutch Competition, 55’

First Appearance Competition, 82’

13:00 13:00

13:45

Zaatari Djinn 14:15

Living with Giants

14:00 Industry Screening

Catherine van Campen Dutch Competition, 80’

Sébastien Rist, Aude Leroux-Lévesque

Machines 14:30 Industry Screening

14:30

I Made You, I Kill You Alexandru Petru Badelita

Best of Fests, 78’

15:45

A Greek Winter

Student Competition, 14’

15:00

Maayan Schwartz

Todd Wider, Jedd Wider

My Friend, Yaniv

God Knows Where I Am

Student Competition, 45’

Best of Fests, 99’

Dutch Competition, 70’

16:30

Communion

Venus

Lea Glob, Mette Carla Albrechtsen

16:45

Anna Zamecka

Robinù

Best of Fests, 72’

Marcus Vetter, Karin Steinberger

Feature-Length Competition, 80’

Masters, 117’

16:00 16:00

17:00 17:00 Jérôme le Maire

18:00

Radio Kobanî

Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato

Reber Dosky

Best of Fests, 108’

Dutch Competition, 72’

18:15 Industry Screening

Feature-Length Competition, 85’

The Road Movie

18:00 18:00

Dmitrii Kalashnikov

A Bastard Child

On the Bridge of Death and Life

Mid-Length Competition, 57’

Lola Jia Liu

Panorama, 98’

20:15

First Appearance Competit

19:30

Wrestling Alligators Sacred Water Panorama, 56’

Jacqueline Zünd

First Appearance Competition, 83’

Minispectacles Albuquerque Straight

Andrew Shea

20:00

Olivier Jourdain

Almost There

Dream Empire

19:00 19:00

19:15

Knutte Wester

18:15

David Borenstein

First Appearance Competition, 67’

Remo Scherrer

Student Competition, 11’

After the screening, N Fraser (Yaddo) discus the making of the fil director Marcus Vett

Burning Out

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

21:00

Pawel Lozinski

VPRO Extra: The Promise

17:30 Industry Screening

17:45

Whatever the Weather

You Have No Idea How Much I Love You

15:00

First Appearance Competition, 80’

Michele Santoro Best of Fests, 97’

18:30

15:00 15:00 15:45 Industry Screening

16:15 Industry Screening

Best of Fests, 71’

14:00 14:00

Feature-Length Competition, Assembling Reality, 71’

Ingeborg Jansen

Shalom Italia Tamar Tal-Anati

Rahul Jain

20:15

Panorama, 90’

Anuktatop: The Metamorphosis

20:00 20:00

20:15

Amazona

Clare Weiskopf

Nicolas Pradal, Pierre Selvini

First Appearance Competit

First Appearance Competition, 112’

21:00 21:00

Maarit Suomi-Väänänen

21:30

Craigslist Allstars

Compilation of short films about Cuba in transition. With: Motriz, House for Sale, Connection and Great Muy Bien.

Cuban Shorts

Paradocs, 7’

Samira Elagoz Paradocs, 65’

22:30

The War Show

Andreas Dalsgaard, Obaidah Zytoon Best of Fests, 100’

21:45 22:00

Waiting for Giraffes Marco de Stefanis

The Girl down Loch Änzi Alice Schmid

First Appearance Competition, 87’

22:00 22:00

Dutch Competition, 84’

Gaza Surf Club

Philip Gnadt, Micke

23:00 23:00

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Best of Fests, 87’


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EYE CINEMA

2

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MELKWEG RABOZAAL

BRAKKE GROND RODE ZAAL

MELKWEG CINEMA

GR

9:00

9:00

10:00

10:00 11:00

On Call

11:00

11:00

Alice Diop

Best of Fests, 97’

12:00

12:00 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

12:00

The Settlers Shimon Dotan Best of Fests, 110’

In Conversation with Coco Schrijber

12:30

Rithy Panh

Admission for all passholders

Guido Hendrikx

Moderated by Ryan Harrington.

Exile

See page 126

Masters, 78’

13:00

12:00

12:30

Stranger in Paradise First Appearance Competition, Dutch Competition, 72’

13:00

13:30

Forever Pure

Maya Zinshtein Best of Fests, 85’

14:00

14:00

14:30

France 15:00

15:00

VPRO Extra: The Promise

Raymond Depardon

15:00 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal 15:00 The Man from Mo’Wax Industry Talk:

Masters, 83’

Why Would You Need a Publicist?

Marcus Vetter, Karin Steinberger Masters, 117’

16:00

After the screening, Nick Fraser (Yaddo) discusses the making of the film with director Marcus Vetter.

16:00 16:30

Peshmerga

Bernard-Henri Lévy

Matt Tyrnauer Best of Fests, 97’

Selling your documentary and implementing the right communication strategy with US-based publicist David Magdael. See page 122

17:00

18:00

Dream Empire

18:30

Where You’re Meant to Be + Live: Aidan Moffat

18:45

First Appearance Competition, 73’

Far Western

A Scottish road movie about the roots of Celtic culture with Arab Strap singer Aidan Moffat, followed by a performance. See page 105

James Payne

19:00 19:30

Music Documentary, 82’

Machines

Where You’re Meant to Be

with Extended Q&A

20:15

Amazona

Clare Weiskopf

First Appearance Competition, 82’

22:30

Philip Gnadt, Mickey Yamine

Paul Fegan

Music Documentary, 77’

Machines

Feature-Length Competition, Assembling Reality, 71’

21:15

22:00

Brenda Greene Mitchell, Sam Wainwright Douglas

The Cinema Travellers Gaza Surf Club

23:00

Director/editor Rahul Jain and editor Yael Bitton discuss the editing of the visually stunning film Machines with film critic Nicolas Rapold. See page 119 Rahul Jain

21:00

22:00

16:00

Admission for all passholders

18:15

David Borenstein

20:00

15:00

Music Documentary, 108’

Best of Fests, 92’

17:00

18:00

Citizen Jane: Battle for the City

Matthew Jones

Shirley Abraham, Amit Madheshiya

Honky Tonk Heaven: The Legend of the Broken Spoke Music Documentary, 75’

An exclusive live performance event in which the audience if all goes well merges into one virtual individual. See page 111

20:00

21:00

21:15

DocLab Live: Orchestrated Individuals

19:00

21:30

Contemporary Color Turner Ross, Bill Ross Music Documentary, 96’

22:00

Best of Fests, 96’

Best of Fests, 87’

23:00

24:00

24:00

1:00

1:00

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20:00

Fullscreen &

A special docum of music video e Fullscreen, hoste by Job de Wit.


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DE BALIE GROTE ZAAL

KLEINE KOMEDIE

PODIUM MOZAÏEK

OTHER VENUES

9:00

10:00 Compagnie – Grote Zaal 10:00 NH Carlton Paganini IDFAcademy Plenary Industry Session: Session: Editing Matters Using Archive Footage

10:00 10:45

A Memory in Three Acts

with Extended Q&A

11:00

After the screening journalist Claire Diao and director Inadelso Cossa discuss the open wounds of Mozambique’s history. See page 117

12:00

13:00

A Letter to Nelson Mandela

13:00

with Extended Q&A

After the screening, journalist Wim Bossema (de Volkskrant) talks to director Khalo Matabane about his personal assessment of Nelson Mandela’s heritage. See page 117

14:00

The dream team of Amateurs in Space will talk about editing obstacles and issues they conquered in the production process.

By Elif Rongen-Kaynakci. See page 124

Admission for all passholders

IDFAcademy passholders & Invitees

Book your one-one-one consultancy with with Peter Jaeger (Jaeger Creative) at the Industry Desk.

For all passholders (upon registration*)

13:00 Compagnie – Grote Zaal You Are Here: Immersive Storytelling Masterclass with Jessica Brillhart Join Jessica Brillhart, principal filmmaker for VR at Google, for a masterclass on VR and Immersive Storytelling its promises, constraints and vast complexities.

IDFAcademy passholders & Invitees

15:00

DOCLAB EXPO: ELASTIC REALITY

Brakke Grond 9:00 – 23:00 15:45

Voices & A Trip to the Country

16:00

with Extended Q&A

After the screening Ikenna Azuike discusses both films with directors Miguel Peres Dos Santos and Jean-Marie Teno. See page 118

17:00

15:30 Comp. – Grote Zaal & Foyer IDFAcademy Meet the Professionals Round table meetings and one-on-one meetings with renowned professionals.

IDFAcademy passholders

17:30 Compagnie – Café Opening drinks IDFAcademy and DocLab Academy

18:00

IDFAcademy passholders & Invitees 18:45

with Extended Q&A

20:00

Fullscreen & IDFA

After the screening Ikenna Azuike will talk with director Vincent Moloi and protagonist Esther Muinjangue. See page 118

A special documentary edition of music video evening Fullscreen, hosted and curated by Job de Wit.

NH Carlton Puccini 9:00 – 21:00 IDFA Writing Room

Workspace for all accredited guests. Wifi connection and computers available.

Walk in and book your one-on-one consultancy.

21:30

Too Black to Be French? with Extended Q&A

& The Danton’s Death

22:00

DAILY SERVICES

NH Carlton Rossini 10:00 – 17:00 Walk-in consultancies

21:00

After the screening journalist Claire Diao and director Isabelle Boni-Claverie discuss the deep-seated, hidden racism in France. See page 118

Arti et Amicitiae 10:00 – 22:00 Meeting Room with screening facilities

All accredited guests have the opportunity to reserve a meeting/screening room for small groups of up to 15 people. Reservations can be made at the Industry Desk. Additionally, six viewing booths are available for holders of a Press Pass at Docs for Sale. Both services are located in Arti et Amicitiae.

23:00

EXHIBITION

Stedelijk Museum 10:00 – 22:00 Johan Grimonprez in Stedelijk Museum

24:00

How does it feel to have someone follow you in the physical world, instead of just on social media? Or to look for love with your nose, rather than swiping profile pictures on Tinder? What would a computer brain say when it secretly takes a peek at your instagram pictures? Trigger your senses and experience thirty of the world's best interactive documentaries, virtual reality experiences and physical installations in the ten-day DocLab: Elastic Reality exhibition. Some installations have varying opening hours (11:00 – 21:00). On-site reservation may be required.

Admission Free

SOCIAL EVENTS

Arti et Amicitiae – 17:00 - 18:00 Docs for Sale Happy Hour

Skulls, of My People

19:00

20:00

in Documentaries

10:00 NH Carlton Verdi Preregistered consultancies

Ongoing exhibitions of two video works by Johan Grimonprez from the Stedelijk Museum collection, dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y and Kobarweng or Where Is Your Helicopter?

Hosted by NPO Sales, EYE International, Films Transit, Autlook Filmsales, CAT&Docs and Rise and Shine.

Docs for Sale & IDFA Forum passholders

Compagnie Café – 17:30 - 18:30 Opening drinks IDFAcademy and DocLab Academy

Drinks together with the participants from IDFAcademy & DocLab Academy

IDFAcademy passholders & Invitees

De Jaren Café – 18:00 Guests Meet Guests

All IDFA guests are invited to meet and exchange ideas at the daily Guests Meet Guests cocktail hour, supported by IMCINE.

Admission for all passholders

De Jaren Café – 22:00 IDFA Lounge

DJ duo Mr. & Mrs. Koot come with their suitcase full of indie-7”s, but are also specialists in 80’s hits and funky breaks. As a couple they host a string of nights in Amsterdam bars.

Admission Free

Volkshotel Canvas – 23:00 More Bounce X IDFA

Party along with Funky music At Club Canvas Volkshotel, free entrance for hotel guests and IDFA Guest Badges until 24:00.

1:00

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TUSCHINSKI 2

TUSCHINSKI 3

TUSCHINSKI 4

TUSCHINSKI 5

TUSCHINSKI 6

DE MUNT

9

9:00

10:00

10:00

10:00

Roger Ross Williams

Thomas Lennon

Philip Gnadt, Mickey Yamin

10:00 Life, Animated Best of Fests, 91’

Sacred 10:30

Weiner

Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg

11:00

Best of Fests, 100’

10:30

1Minute Nature & The Eagle Huntress

10:45 Industry Screening

Anuktatop: The Metamorphosis

Nicolas Pradal, Pierre Selvini First Appearance Competition, 112’

13:00

with Extended Q&A

Followed by an in-depth conversation between journalist Twan Huys and director Bernard-Henri Lévy. See page 114 Best of Fests, 92’

15:00

I Made You, I Kill You

13:15 Industry Screening 13:30

Kids & Docs Competition 2

Life to Come

Children’s documentaries: 1Minute Nature, Che!, Rocknrollers, Jesser and the Sugarcane, Naomi’s Secret, Spotlight on Merna 150’. This screening is Dutch spoken or Dutch subtitled.

My Friend, Yaniv Maayan Schwartz

Ditteke Mensink

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

Waiting for Giraffes Marco de Stefanis

14:45 15:00

The Beast Is Still Alive

Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova Panorama, 90’

Dutch Competition, 84’

Cucli

Xavier Marrades

Woman and the Glacie Audrius Stonys

Bo Jiao

Mid-Length Competition, 56’

Panorama, 88’

16:15

Trembling Mountain

16:30

Kesang Tseten

Cuts

Chairun Nissa

17:00 17:15

La Chana

17:30 Industry Screening

Lucija Stojevic

Almost There

Panorama, 84’

16:30

House Call

Neta Shoshani, David Ofek Mid-Length Competition, 62’

Happily Ever After

Nada Riyadh, Ayman El Amir Panorama, 68’

Panorama, 83’

Jacqueline Zünd

First Appearance Competition, 83’

18:00

18:30 19:00

The Grown-Ups Maite Alberdi

You Have No Idea How Much I Love You

19:00

Ambulance

Feature-Length Competition, 80’

19:30

19:30

Elvira Diaz

Nir Dvortchin

El patio

Turn Over the Stones

Panorama, 82’

20:00

18:30

18:30

Dylan Williams, Erik Pauser

Zaradasht Ahmed

The Borneo Case

Pawel Lozinski

Feature-Length Competition, 80’

Masters, 78’

Nowhere to Hide Feature-Length Competition, 86’

Mohamed Jabaly Best of Fests, 78’

Student Competition, 29’

It’s Getting Dark Olga Kravets

Mid-Length Competition, 48’

20:45

Mogadishu Soldier 21:30

21:15

Feature-Length Competition, Assembling Reality, 88’

Amateurs in Space

The Graduation Claire Simon

21:45

Max Kestner

The Man from Mo’Wax

Feature-Length Competition, 90’

Matthew Jones

Music Documentary, 108’

22:00

Citizen Jane: Battle for the City Matt Tyrnauer

20:45

Bruno Jorge

Andrei Dascalescu

Masters, 119’

Paradocs, 23’

Smoke

Planeta Petrila

First Appearance Competition, 90’

Roy Villevoye Paradocs, 45’

Raised by Krump Maceo Frost Panorama, 21’

23:00

20:45

November December

Torstein Grude

21:00

Contemporary Color

22:45

Music Documentary, 96’

Edward Ellis, Flor Salcedo, Aaron Woolf

Turner Ross, Bill Ross

To Be a Miss

23:00

Panorama, 84’

Gilles Laurent

Best of Fests, 97’

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My Father and My Mother

First Appearance Competition, 90’

Panorama, 70’

17:00

14:00

Student Competition, 45’

Dutch Competition, 91’

Andrei Dascalescu

16:00

Petra Lataster-Czisch, Peter Lataster

Panorama, 75’

Panorama, 90’

Student Competition, 14’

Planeta Petrila

16:00 Miss Kiet’s Children

Claudio Capanna

Andrew Shea

Alexandru Petru Badelita

The Claim, the Search for Stolen Art from WWII

15:30 Industry Screening

23:00

Best of Fests, 133’

Wrestling Alligators

Peshmerga

Bernard-Henri Lévy

22:00

Jonathan Littell

12:15

14:00 Peshmerga

19:00

Wrong Elements

12:30 12:45

13:00

Best of Fests, 87’

11:00

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

12:00

Gaza Surf Club

Panorama, 86’

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

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10:00

Gaza Surf Club

Philip Gnadt, Mickey Yamine Best of Fests, 87’

10:30

Homo Sapiens

Nikolaus Geyrhalter

11:00

Masters, 94’

Wrong Elements

Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee Nanette Burstein Masters, 98’

10:30 Industry Screening

Coeurope

Maite Alberdi

Feature-Length Competition, 80’

Giovanni Troilo

Mid-Length Competition, 61’

11:00

Jonathan Littell Best of Fests, 133’

11:45 Industry Screening

Mogadishu Soldier 12:15

12:15 Industry Screening

Claudio Capanna

Wojciech Kasperski

Life to Come Panorama, 75’

Icon 12:45 13:00

Reset

Maria José Cuevas

Best of Fests, 110’

Beauties of the Night Best of Fests, 91’

Marco de Stefanis

13:45 Industry Screening

Daan’s Inheritance

Dutch Competition, 84’

Joris Postema

14:15

Dutch Competition, 85’

Cucli

Xavier Marrades Audrius Stonys

Mid-Length Competition, 56’

15:45

The Good Postman

16:30

Neta Shoshani, David Ofek Mid-Length Competition, 62’

Gogita’s New Life

House Call

Neta Shoshani, David Ofek

17:00 Industry Screening

Dylan Williams, Erik Pauser

Zaradasht Ahmed

Erik Lieshout

An Insignificant Man

18:00

Best of Fests, 96’

Paul Salahadin Refsdal

Nowhere to Hide

Mid-Length Competition, Dutch Competition, 60’

Dugma: The Button Best of Fests, 58’

Dil Leyla

20:00

Siberian Love 20:45

Bruno Jorge

Andrei Dascalescu

November December Paradocs, 23’

Smoke

Planeta Petrila

Olga Delane

Feature-Length Competition, 85’

Feature-Length Competition, 88’

19:00

Panorama, 80’

Sealers – One Last Hunt Trude Berge Ottersen, Gry Elisabeth Mortensen First Appearance Competition, 98’

First Appearance Competition, 90’

Unknown Brood + Live: Dany Lademacher’s Wild Romance

Student Competition, 19’

The screening is followed by a performance by Dany Lademacher’s Wild Romance, Herman Brood’s legendary former band. In collaboration with KPN Presents. See page 107

Giovanni Troilo

Dennis Alink

Close Ties 20:30

17:00 17:00

18:00 18:00

Jian Fan

20:00

Burning Out

Jérôme le Maire

After the screening, journalist Marcia Luyten discusses the making of the film with director Dirk-Jan Roeleven. See page 107

Still Tomorrow 18:30

16:00 16:00

+ Special Guest

17:45

Student Competition, 72’

20:15

VPRO Extra: The European

18:00 Industry Screening

Asli Özarslan

Feature-Length Competition, 86’

20:45

Feature-Length Competition, 72’

To Stay Alive – A Method

Khushboo Ranka, Vinay Shukla

18:30

16:00

16:15 Industry Screening Levan Koguashvili

17:45

Masters, 78’

House Call

Feature-Length Competition, 82’

Mid-Length Competition, 62’

The Borneo Case

14:00 14:00

15:30 Industry Screening Tonislav Hristov

18:30

13:00 13:00

15:00 15:00

In Loco Parentis

16:15

Panorama, 84’

Waiting for Giraffes

15:15

Feature-Length Competition, 103’

Kesang Tseten

14:15 Industry Screening

The screening is followed by a conversation between fashion journalist and curator Aynouk Tan, director Andrew Rossi and moderator Arno Kantelberg (editor-in-chief of Esquire). See page 107

Dutch Competition, 84’

Neasa Ní Chianáin

Trembling Mountain

12:00 12:00

Marco de Stefanis

Panorama, 17’

Woman and the Glacier

12:30

11:00

The First Monday in May + Special Guests

Mid-Length Competition, 52’

Alban Teurlai, Thierry Demaizière

14:00

Waiting for Giraffes

Torstein Grude

Feature-Length Competition, Assembling Reality, 88’

9:00

10:00 10:00

The Grown-Ups

10:15

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Zofia Kowalewska

Coeurope

Mid-Length Competition, 61’

19:00 19:00

20:00 20:00

with Extended Q&

Followed by an in-de conversation with di Zahavi Sanjavi, prota Shilan and writer Ch mans. See page 114

20:30

To Stay Alive – A Method

Unknown Brood Dutch Competition, Music Documentary, 90’

Yezidi Girls & Th Return

21:00 21:00

Erik Lieshout

Mid-Length Competition, Dutch Competition, 60’

Roy Villevoye Paradocs, 45’

22:15 22:30

Cameraperson

22:45

To Be a Miss

23:00

Panorama, 84’

Gilles Laurent

Edward Ellis, Flor Salcedo, Aaron Woolf

Abandoned Land

Kirsten Johnson

Best of Fests, Assembling Reality, 102’

Panorama, 73’

22:45 23:00

Zero Days Alex Gibney Masters, 114’

Where You’re Meant to Be Paul Fegan

Music Documentary, 77’

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

22:15

The Rolling Stones Olé Olé Olé!: A Trip Across Latin America + Live: Douwe Bob

The screening is preceded by a performance of Rolling Stones songs covered by Dutch singer-songwriter Douwe Bob. See page 107

22:00 22:00

The Challenge Yuri Ancarani Paradocs, 69’

23:00 23:00

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9:00

9:00

10:00

God Knows Where I Am Todd Wider, Jedd Wider Best of Fests, 99’

12:00 Brakke Grond Expozaal Immersive Network Summit

12:00

rst Monday in

+ Special Guests

13:00 13:30

13 Days. Industrial Party Process Yakov Poselsky

14:00

Sergei Loznitsa's Top 10, 62’

Hospital

with Extended Q&A

17:45

own Brood + Live: Lademacher’s Romance

eening is followed by a mance by Dany LademaWild Romance, Herman legendary former band. boration with KPN s. See page 107

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mpetition, Music tary, 90’

eening is preceded formance of Rolling songs covered by Dutch ongwriter Douwe Bob. e 107

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Best of Fests, 84’

12:00

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Brenda Greene Mitchell, Sam Wainwright Douglas Music Documentary, 75’

15:00

Walking in the Opposite 15:15 – Direction + Live: Felix Far Western Maginn + The Citizens James Payne

14:00

15:00

16:00

Music Documentary, 96’

17:00

KETELHUIS 19:00

Estephan Wagner, Moritz Siebert, Abou Bakar Sidibé Best of Fests, 80’

Followed by an in-depth conversation between journalist Liddie Austin and director Yann Coridian. See page 115

21:30 21:45

The Promise

Morgan Spurlock

Masters, 117’

Rats

Masters, 89’

Stranger in Paradise 19:30

with Extended Q&A

Erik Lieshout

Mid-Length Competition, Dutch Competition, 60’

19:00

A Young Girl in Her Nineties

20:30

Paradocs, 69’

Liberation Day +

20:00

DocLab Live: The Best of Awkward Tech

A playful evening during which digital artists present absurd inventions that expand our existing notions of reality and confront us with our tech-obsessed everyday lives. See page 111

Live: Laibach

Guido Hendrikx

Artist Renzo Ma his enterprise to critical art mach beneficial on a f plantation in Co In collaboration

A documentary about the ex-Yugoslavian cult band Laibach, the first Western band to perform in North Korea, followed by a concert by the band. See page 106

Liberation Day

Morten Traavik, Ugis Olte Music Documentary, 100’

19:00

First Appearance Competition, Dutch Competition, 72’

20:00

21:15

Daan’s Inheritance

21:00

Joris Postema

Dutch Competition, 85’

Marcus Vetter, Karin Steinberger

22:00 23:00

Eat That Question Frank Zappa in His Own Words

23:00

Thorsten Schütte

Music Documentary, 90’

24:00

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Beeldbepale Renzo Marte

18:00

Yuri Ancarani

23:00

16:00

Assembling Reality, 84’

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

The Challenge

13:00

Music Documentary, 82’

with Extended Q&A

22:15

Honky Tonk Heaven: The Legend of the Broken Spoke

Marc Waltman

To Stay Alive – A Method

Alink

Susanne Regina Meures

Frederick Wiseman

Those Who Jump

20:00

Raving Iran

11:00

Hospital

19:30

own Brood

olling Stones lé Olé!: A Trip s Latin America Douwe Bob

Yezidi Girls & The Return

11:30

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

Walking in the Opposite Direction

An in-depth conversation between film critic Nicolas Rapold and filmmaker Frederick Wiseman about the editing of his 1970 classic film Hospital. See page 119

17:00

Music Shorts

The life story of Adrian Borland of The Sound, followed by a performance of the band’s songs by Moke’s Felix Maginn and The Citizens. See page 106

16:00

ial Guest

18:00

Admission for all passholders

Admission for all passholders

16:00

e screening, journalist Luyten discusses king of the film with Dirk-Jan Roeleven. e 107

Scandinavia's most influential and internationally recognized editor discusses his vision and ongoing search for the "authentic moment".

10:45

The Immersive Network Summit brings together experts from all corners of the interactive and immersive storytelling industry to formulate the next steps in develo13:30 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal ping the medium. Supported by ministry of Economic Affairs of Industry Talk: the Netherlands. See page 141 Assembling Reality Four renowned documentary By invitation editors take you on a journey through their work and the creative editing process behind it. See page 122

15:00

Extra: uropean

10:00

10:30 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal NCE presents: Order in Chaos, Niels Pagh Andersen Master Class

11:00

11:00

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20:00

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Based on the wo Andrew Feinstei Grimonprez ma World. After the Feinstein and Gr join Bahram Sad


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INDUSTRY OFFICE

9:00

10:00 10:30

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O.J.: Made in America (Part I, II & III)

sic Shorts

pilation of short films ut classical music. With: Pit, Right Side of Cello and Violin.

with Extended Q&A

11:00

After the screening of this epic investigation of the O.J. Simpson trial, journalist Claire Diao will have an in-depth conversation with director Ezra Edelman. See page 118

12:00

15

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nda Greene Mitchell, Wainwright Douglas Documentary, 75’

15

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10:00 Compagnie – Grote Zaal IDFAcademy Plenary Session: Pitch & 10:30 Arti et Amicitiae Trailer Workshop Docs for Sale Meet The Pitch & Trailer Workshop, one of last year’s biggest hits at the Professionals IDFAcademy, featuring Mikael Opstrup (EDN) and editor Jesper Osmund.

IDFAcademy passholders & Invitees

Register for short meetings with various professionals for advice on general matters and specific questions.

Docs for Sale passholders only

13.35-15.00 Lunch Break

15.00-18.05 O.J.: Made in America Part II

20.00-22.30 O.J.: Made in America Part III and Extended Q&A

14:00

13:00 Compagnie – Grote Zaal IDFAcademy Small Session: Insights into co-production Two renowned producers will share their experience on the risks and benefits of co-financing and co-producing.

IDFAcademy passholders

17:00

16:00

Beeldbepalers: Renzo Martens

Artist Renzo Martens shares his enterprise to redress the critical art machine and make it beneficial on a former Unilever plantation in Congo. In collaboration with De Balie.

IDFAcademy passholders

Admission for all passholders See page 124

Find out about the various funding schemes offered by the IDFA Bertha Fund. See page 124

Admission for all passholders

Peter Broderick will take participants on a quick illustrated tour of the distribution frontier.

IDFAcademy passholders

15:30 Comp. – Grote Zaal & Foyer 15:30 Compagnie – Zuilenzaal IDFAcademy Meet IDFAcademy Meet the the Professionals Professionals Special: Round table meetings and Nikolaus Geyrhalter one-on-one meetings with renowned professionals.

Industry Session: VOD with Wendy Bernfeld

12:00 NH Carlton Paganini Industry Session: IDFA Bertha Fund

13:00 Compagnie – Zuilenzaal IDFAcademy Small Session: Seize Your Future Maximize Your Audience and Your Distribution

15:00

es Payne

10:00 NH Carlton Paganini

For all passholders (upon registration*)

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

18.05-20.00 Diner Break

16:00

Book your one-one-one consultancy with with Claire Aguilar (Claire Aguilar Consultation) at the Industry Desk.

Shifting Perspectives, 467’

13:00

Documentary, 82’

10:00 NH Carlton Verdi Preregistered consultancies

Award-winning filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter will talk about ways of finding and creating your own signature as a filmmaker.

14:45 NH Carlton Verdi & Vivaldi Preregistered consultancies Book your one-one-one consultancy with with Catherine Olsen (Passionate 4 Docs) at the Industry Desk.

For all passholders (upon registration*)

IDFAcademy passholders

SOCIAL EVENTS

KETELHUIS

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anger in Paradise

do Hendrikx

Arti et Amicitiae – 17:00 - 18:00

18:00

Docs for Sale Happy Hour

Hosted by NPO Sales, EYE International, Films Transit, Autlook Filmsales, CAT&Docs and Rise and Shine.

Docs for Sale & IDFA Forum passholders

19:00

Zuiderkerk – 18:00

DAILY SERVICES

ppearance Competition, Competition, 72’

20:00

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an’s Inheritance

21:00

20:00

IDFA in De Balie: Shadow World

Based on the works of writer Andrew Feinstein, Johan Grimonprez made Shadow World. After the screening both Feinstein and Grimonprez will join Bahram Sadeghi for a talk.

Postema

h Competition, 85’

NH Carlton Puccini 9:00 – 21:00 IDFA Writing Room

Workspace for all accredited guests. Wifi connection and computers available.

NH Carlton Rossini 10:00 – 17:00 Walk-in consultancies

Walk in and book your one-on-one consultancy.

Arti et Amicitiae 10:00 – 22:00 Meeting Room with screening facilities

All accredited guests have the opportunity to reserve a meeting/screening room for small groups of up to 15 people. Reservations can be made at the Industry Desk. Additionally, six viewing booths are available for holders of a Press Pass at Docs for Sale. Both services are located in Arti et Amicitiae.

22:00

23:00

EXHIBITION

Stedelijk Museum 10:00 – 18:00 Johan Grimonprez in Stedelijk Museum

24:00

Ongoing exhibitions of two video works by Johan Grimonprez from the Stedelijk Museum collection, dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y and Kobarweng or Where Is Your Helicopter?

Guests Meet Guests

All IDFA guests are invited to meet and exchange ideas at the daily Guests Meet Guests cocktail hour, supported by Doc/it.

Admission for all passholders

De Jaren Café – 22:00 IDFA Dance Night

DJ Ed Rock. A regular at IDFA Cafe and host of the DJ nights. Ed plays vinyl singles from way back as well as brand new tracks. Many genres, from 1956 till 2016, including soul, rock, new wave, reggae, hip hop and beyond.

Admission Free

DOCLAB EXPO: ELASTIC REALITY

Brakke Grond 9:00 – 23:00

How does it feel to have someone follow you in the physical world, instead of just on social media? Or to look for love with your nose, rather than swiping profile pictures on Tinder? What would a computer brain say when it secretly takes a peek at your instagram pictures? Trigger your senses and experience thirty of the world's best interactive documentaries, virtual reality experiences and physical installations in the ten-day DocLab: Elastic Reality exhibition. Some installations have varying opening hours (11:00 – 21:00). On-site reservation may be required.

Admission Free

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10:00 Industry Screening

10:00

Dream Empire 10:30

Communion 11:00

11:00

Those Who Jump

David Borenstein

First Appearance Competition, 73’

Anna Zamecka Best of Fests, 72’

10:15 10:30

A Young Girl in Her Nineties

Best of Fests, 80’

12:30

13:00

Solitary

Kristi Jacobson

13:30

Letters from Baghdad

13:45

with Extended Q&A

14:00

Followed by an in-depth conversation between journalist 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

16:00

Followed by an in-depth conversation between Xandra Schutte (editor-in-chief of De Groene Amsterdammer), director Fred Peabody and producer Peter Raymont. See page 115

Panorama, 82’

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’.

Shingal, Where Are You?

12:30

Music Shorts

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

Angelos Rallis Panorama, 103’

Aniela Astrid Gabryel Student Competition, 66’

14:45

with Extended Q&A

16:30

Panorama, 83’

When Will This Wind Stop

the Spirit of I.F. Stone

15:00

Lucija Stojevic

Kids & Docs Competition 1

Silent Wilderness Panorama, 60’

Sergei Loznitsa Retrospective, 94’

12:00

First Appearance Competition, 81’

Mathijs Vleugels

Sergei Loznitsa

11:00

La Chana

11:45 Industry Screening Jiu-liang Wang

13:00

Mid-Length Competition, 62’

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Yann Coridian

Plastic China

12:00

Austerlitz

Neta Shoshani, David Ofek

Best of Fests, 85’

Estephan Wagner, Moritz Siebert, Abou Bakar Sidibé

10:15

House Call

15:15

Almost There 15:45 Industry Screening

Areum

Jacqueline Zünd

First Appearance Competition, 83’

Minispectacles Albuquerque Straight

Peshmerga

Bernard-Henri Lévy

Paradocs, 7’

Craigslist Allstars Samira Elagoz Paradocs, 65’

Areum Parkkang

15:00

Maarit Suomi-Väänänen

First Appearance Competition, 93’

15:45

Best of Fests, 92’

Dream Empire David Borenstein

First Appearance Competition, 73’

The Passing Years John Albert Jansen

17:00

17:00

Panorama, 78’

17:30

17:30

Sonia Kennebeck

Jean Carper

National Bird Best of Fests, 92’

18:00

Monster in the Mind 18:00

The Wait

Anuktatop: The Metamorphosis

Nicolas Pradal, Pierre Selvini First Appearance Competition, 112’

Best of Fests, 87’

17:15

Venus 17:45

The Girl down Loch Änzi Alice Schmid

Lea Glob, Mette Carla Albrechtsen

First Appearance Competition, 80’

First Appearance Competition, 87’

Emil Langballe Panorama, 55’

19:00

19:00

Cameraperson Kirsten Johnson

Best of Fests, Assembling Reality, 102’

19:45 20:00

20:00

Plastic China Jiu-liang Wang

First Appearance Competition, 81’

The Hanging

Geoffrey Feinberg Panorama, 15’

The Road Movie Dmitrii Kalashnikov

19:45 20:00

Who We Were Sine Skibsholt

19:45

The Challenge Yuri Ancarani Paradocs, 69’

First Appearance Competition, 82’

20:15

Planeta Petrila

Andrei Dascalescu

Fallen Flowers Thick Leaves Laetitia Schoofs

Dutch Competition, 85’

First Appearance Competition, 90’

First Appearance Competition, 67’

21:00 21:45

22:00

21:45

Reset

Alban Teurlai, Thierry Demaizière Best of Fests, 110’

22:00 22:15

We’ll Be Alright

Alexander Kuznetsov Panorama, 77’

23:00

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

Clare Weiskopf

First Appearance Competition, 82’

Priorat

22:00

David Fernandez de Castro Panorama, 69’

My Daughter Nora 22:30

Ambulance

Mohamed Jabaly Best of Fests, 78’

Jasna Krajinovic Panorama, 16’

ISIS, Deserters Speak Out

Thomas Dandois, Francois-Xavier Tregan Panorama, 53’

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10:00 Industry Screening

10:00

De Groene Amsterdammer Day

10:15

Austerlitz

Sergei Loznitsa

11:00

Sergei Loznitsa Retrospective, 94’

10:45

Daan’s Inheritance

Compilation program put up by editors of De Groene Amsterdammer.

Joris Postema

La Chana

What We Have Made 10:30 Industry Screening

Hotel Sunrise

Fanny Tondre

Lucija Stojevic

Maria Rumanova

Mid-Length Competition, 49’

Panorama, 83’

11:00 11:45 Industry Screening

Nowhere to Hide 12:15 Industry Screening

Bolingo. The Forest of Love

12:30

Music Shorts 13:15

Shingal, Where Are You?

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

Angelos Rallis

Zaradasht Ahmed

Feature-Length Competition, 86’

9:00

10:00 10:00

Feature-Length Competition, 71’

Dutch Competition, 85’

PROGRAM DAY BY DAY

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11:00

12:00 12:00

Max Kestner

Mid-Length Competition, 55’

13:00

Robinù

13:00 13:00

Michele Santoro Best of Fests, 97’

12:30

Amateurs in Spa

Alejandro G. Salgado

Feature-Length Competitio

13:45

Panorama, 103’

Abandoned Land Gilles Laurent Panorama, 73’

14:15 Industry Screening

Zaatari Djinn

14:00 14:00

Catherine van Campen Dutch Competition, 80’

15:00

Peshmerga

Bernard-Henri Lévy

15:45

Best of Fests, 92’

15:00 15:00 15:30

1Minute Nature

15:45 Industry Screening

IDFA Competition for Kids & Docs, 4’

Olga Kravets

Stefanie Visjager, Katinka Baehr

Dream Empire David Borenstein

First Appearance Competition, 73’

Mid-Length Competition, 48’

Anna Koch

Alice Schmid

17:15

17:15 Industry Screening

Lea Glob, Mette Carla Albrechtsen

Jimm Lasser, Biff Butler

First Appearance Competition, 80’

First Appearance Competition, 87’

16:15 Industry Screening

In Loco Parentis

16:00 16:00

Feature-Length Competition, 103’

Venus The Girl down Loch Änzi

Jascha de Wilde, Be

Neasa Ní Chianáin

IDFA Competition for Kids & Docs, 82’

17:45

Passage – A Boa Dutch Competition, 55’

It’s Getting Dark

Win by Fall

15:00

17:00 17:00

Long Live Benjamin 17:45

Dutch Competition, 91’

Haibo Yu, Kiki Tianqi Yu Panorama, 81’

The Claim, the Search for Stole Art from WWII Ditteke Mensink

Mid-Length Competition, 60’

China’s Van Goghs

17:00

18:30

18:00 18:00

Santoalla 19:00

Liberation Day

Andrew Becker, Daniel Mehrer Best of Fests, 82’

Morten Traavik, Ugis Olte

19:45 20:15

Planeta Petrila

Andrei Dascalescu

Fallen Flowers Thick Leaves Laetitia Schoofs

Dutch Competition, 85’

First Appearance Competition, 90’

20:00 20:00

20:15

Frame 394

Rich Williamson Panorama, 30’

Singing with Angry Bird

Death in the Terminal

Hyewon Jee

Mid-Length Competition, 52’

21:30

Stéphane Malterre

My Daughter Nora Ambulance

Mohamed Jabaly Best of Fests, 78’

Panorama, 16’

ISIS, Deserters Speak Out

Thomas Dandois, Francois-Xavier Tregan Panorama, 53’

Panorama, 120’

22:30

22:00 22:00

Shalom Italia Best of Fests, 71’

Jimm Lasser, Biff Butler Mid-Length Competition, 60’

22:15

Tamar Tal-Anati

Long Live Benjamin 23:00 23:00

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Program Guide

Dirk-Jan Roeleven

21:00 21:00

24:00 24:00

20 NOVEMBER

The European

The Father, the Son and the Holy Jihad

22:00

Jasna Krajinovic

Panorama, 88’

20:00

Dutch Competition, 90’

20:45

Tali Shemesh, Asaf Sudry

22:30

19:00 19:00

Music Documentary, 100’

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Sunday 20 November EYE CINEMA

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1

EYE CINEMA

2

BRAKKE GROND EXPOZAAL

MELKWEG RABOZAAL

BRAKKE GROND RODE ZAAL

KETELHUIS

9:00

9:00

10:00 Brakke Grond Expozaal DocLab: Interactive Conference

10:00

Now in its fourth year, the annual DocLab Interactive Conference brings together leading artists and thinkers from the world of art, technology, science and documentary. Supported by Dutch Cultural Media Fund.

11:00

Daniel

11:00

Anastazja Dabrowska Student Competition, 24’

Paper Stars

Inna Omelchenko

12:00

GR

10:00 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal DocLab: Interactive Conference Live Stream Live Stream of the DocLab: Interactive Conference. Open for IDFA passholders only.

10:00 11:00

Weiner

11:00

Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg Best of Fests, 100’

Student Competition, 41’

12:00

12:30

Amateurs in Space Max Kestner

13:00

Feature-Length Competition, 90’

13:00

1Minute Nature & The Eagle Huntress

13:00

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

14:00

14:00

15:00

This screening of the definitive documentary of out-of-the-box thinker John Coltrane and his groundbreaking music is followed by a performance by Yaniv Nachum. See page 106

15:00

Passage – A Boatmovie

Jascha de Wilde, Ben Hendriks Dutch Competition, 55’

15:30

Miss Kiet’s Children

16:00 17:00

The Claim, the Search for Stolen Art from WWII Ditteke Mensink

Dutch Competition, 91’

Filmmaking couple Petra and Peter Lataster and editor Mario Steenbergen discuss the editing of Miss Kiet’s Children with film critic Nicolas Rapold. See page 119

John Scheinfeld

Miss Kiet’s Children

17:00

Petra Lataster-Czisch, Peter Lataster

17:30

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

Unknown Brood + Live: Breaking Levees + David Hollestelle 18:30

DocLab Live: Dreams

20:00

Mogadishu Soldier with Extended Q&A

The European

Dirk-Jan Roeleven Dutch Competition, 90’

Editor Niels Pagh Andersen and film critic Nicolas Rapold discuss the editing of Mogadishu Soldier, which was created from hundreds of hours of raw footage. See page 119

Mogadishu Soldier Torstein Grude

Feature-Length Competition, Assembling Reality, 88’

21:00

21:45

22:00

Step into a comfortable dream space and let your thoughts be translated into sounds and images that become part of a continuous live performance by sound artist Philippe Lambert and the National Film Board of Canada. This one-off live installation is freely accessible throughout the evening. Free admission. See page 111

19:00

20:00

Sho(r)t in Japan 22:15

Shalom Italia Tamar Tal-Anati

16:00

Music Documentary, 99’

18:00

19:00

15:00

Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary

with Extended Q&A

17:00

14:00

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

Compilation of shorts about Japan. With: Uzu and Gatekeeper.

21:00 Brakke Grond Expozaal IDFA Forum & DocLab Drinks Celebrating the future of documentary storytelling. Hosted by BCPF.

A look back at the turbulent life of Dutch rocker Herman Brood, followed by a performance by Breaking Levees featuring David Hollestelle. In collaboration with KPN Presents. See page 106

18:00 19:00

Unknown Brood

How to Meet a Mermaid

Dutch Competition, Music Documentary, 90’

Feature-Length Competition, Dutch Competition, 90’

Dennis Alink

19:00

Coco Schrijber

20:00 21:00

The Rolling Stones Olé Olé Olé!: A Trip Across Latin America Paul Dugdale

Music Documentary, 105’

By invitation

21:00 21:30

Radio Kobanî

DOCL

Reber Dosky

Dutch Competition, 72’

22:00

Best of Fests, 71’

23:00

23:00

24:00

24:00

1:00

1:00

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ZONDAG 20 NOVEMBER

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

Brakke G

How does it physical wo look for love pictures on when it sec Trigger your best interac and physica Reality exhi hours (11:00

Admission


00

w to Meet Mermaid

KLEINE KOMEDIE COMPAGNIE

PODIUM MOZAÏEK

OTHER VENUES INDUSTRY OFFICE

9:00

10:00 Compagnie – Grote Zaal IDFAcademy Plenary Session: Blending Impact and Distribution

10:00

10:00 NH Carlton Paganini 10:00 NH Carlton Vivaldi Industry Session: Preregistered Educational Distribution Consultancies By Elinor Kowarsky. See page 124

Experts on impact strategies describe new exciting models to create impact with concrete case studies.

11:00

Admission for all passholders

Docs for Sale passholders only

11:45 Arti et Amicitiae Rough Cut Presentations

12:00 NH Carlton Paganini

12:00 13:00 Compagnie – Grote Zaal IDFAcademy Small Session: Storytelling on Digital Platforms

13:00

Producer Kahane Cooperman, director Jos de Putter and director Reber Dosky will share their experience in finding effective and creative ways to present documentaries online.

14:00

IDFAcademy passholders

Industry Session: How to Create an Impact and Funding Campaign for Your Film

13:00 Compagnie – Kleine Zaal By Sandi DuBoswki. See page 124 Admission for all passholders IDFAcademy Small Session: Festival and 13:30 NH Carlton Caruso Sales Strategies Meet the Experts Sales agent Salma Abdalla,

Book your group round table meeting at the Industry desk.

distributor Debra Zimmerman and director Tom Fassaert will share their strategies and secrets on getting films out in the world.

For all passholders (upon registration*)

Round table meetings and one-on-one meetings with renowned professionals.

16:00

IDFAcademy passholders

17:00 Compagnie – Café IDFAcademy Closing Drinks

17:00

A 35 minute rough cut presentation of the following projects: 11.45 State Vs. Shuai 12.30 Shadowman 13.15 Constructing Albert 14.00 After Inez 14.45 Obstinate 15.30 Bullet Catcher 16.15 Ripples on the Shore

DfS & IDFA Forum Decision Makers only

14:45 NH Carlton Verdi & Vivaldi Preregistered consultancies

IDFAcademy passholders

15:00

15:30 Comp. – Grote Zaal & Foyer IDFAcademy Meet the Professionals

10:30 Arti et Amicitiae

Book your one-one-one Docs for Sale Meet consultancy with Catherine Olsen (Passionate 4 Docs) at the the Professionals Industry Desk. Register for short meetings with various professionals. For all passholders

(upon registration*)

IDFAcademy passholders & Invitees

15:30 NH Carlton Paganini Where the Girls Are...or Aren’t? Ally Derks and Debra Zimmerman open up the conversation about gender equality in film festival programming.

Book your one-one-one consultancy with Rough Cut Service or Sigrid Dyekjær (Danish Documentary at the Industry Desk.

For all passholders (upon registration*)

By invitation

IDFAcademy 2016 concludes with closing drinks.

IDFAcademy passholders & Invitees

18:00

SOCIAL EVENTS

Compagnie Café – 17:00 - 18:00 IDFAcademy Closing Drinks

19:00

IDFAcademy 2016 concludes with closing drinks.

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

o Schrijber

e-Length Competition, Competition, 90’

Docs for Sale Happy Hour

20:00

Hosted by NPO Sales, EYE International, Films Transit, Autlook Filmsales, CAT&Docs and Rise and Shine.

DAILY SERVICES

21:00

NH Carlton Puccini 9:00 – 21:00 IDFA Writing Room

30

dio Kobanî

DOCLAB EXPO: ELASTIC REALITY

er Dosky

h Competition, 72’

ARTI ET AMICITIAE

22:00

23:00

24:00

Brakke Grond 9:00 – 23:00

How does it feel to have someone follow you in the physical world, instead of just on social media? Or to look for love with your nose, rather than swiping profile pictures on Tinder? What would a computer brain say when it secretly takes a peek at your instagram pictures? Trigger your senses and experience thirty of the world's best interactive documentaries, virtual reality experiences and physical installations in the ten-day DocLab: Elastic Reality exhibition. Some installations have varying opening hours (11:00 – 21:00). On-site reservation may be required.

Admission Free

Workspace for all accredited guests. Wifi connection and computers available.

NH Carlton Rossini 10:00 – 17:00 Walk-in consultancies

Walk in and book your one-on-one consultancy.

Arti et Amicitiae 10:00 – 22:00 Meeting Room with screening facilities

All accredited guests have the opportunity to reserve a meeting/screening room for small groups of up to 15 people. Reservations can be made at the Industry Desk. Additionally, six viewing booths are available for holders of a Press Pass at Docs for Sale. Both services are located in Arti et Amicitiae.

Docs for Sale & IDFA Forum passholders

Zuiderkerk – 18:00

Guests Meet Guests

All IDFA guests are invited to meet and exchange ideas at the daily Guests Meet Guests cocktail hour, supported by Polish Docs and HBO Europe.

Admission for all passholders

Brakke Grond Expozaal – 21:00 IDFA Forum & DocLab Drinks

Celebrating the future of documentary storytelling. Hosted by BCPF.

By invitation

De Jaren Café – 22:00 IDFA Lounge

DJ Berry van Diepen. The disc jockey gardener owns a huge collection of 7’’ singles. He hosts pop quizzes with his records and is a busy DJ. Berry knows his 70’s music best but plays timeless classics from every era.

Admission Free

1:00

= IDFA Industry activities = Forum activities = Docs for Sale activities = IDFAcademy activities

Program Guide

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PROGRAM DAY BY DAY

DE BALIE GROTE ZAAL

KETELHUIS


Monday 21 November TUSCHINSKI 1

TUSCHINSKI 2

TUSCHINSKI 3

TUSCHINSKI 4

TUSCHINSKI 5

TUSCHINSKI 6

DE MUNT

9

9:00

10:00 10:45

11:00

11:15 11:45

12:00

National Bird

Sonia Kennebeck

Fallen Flowers Thick Leaves Laetitia Schoofs

Dutch Competition, 85’

Best of Fests, 92’

11:15 11:30

Kids & Docs Competition 1

Waiting for Giraffes

11:30

Marco de Stefanis

The Giant Is Falling

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

Dutch Competition, 84’

Rehad Desai

The European

Dirk-Jan Roeleven Dutch Competition, 90’

13:15

Cuban Shorts

Close Ties

14:00 China’s Van Goghs

Haibo Yu, Kiki Tianqi Yu Panorama, 81’

with Extended Q&A

Followed by an in-depth conversation between journalist Nadia Moussaïd and director Jean Carper. See page 115

14:15

Trembling Mountain Kesang Tseten Panorama, 84’

16:45

17:00

Mid-Length Competition, 61’

Resurrecting Hassan Carlo Guillermo Proto

First Appearance Competition, 100’

Followed by an in-depth conversation between journalist and anthropologist Özgür Canel and director Mustafa Ünlü. See page 115

14:45

1Minute Nature

Where You’re Meant to Be Paul Fegan

IDFA Competition for Kids & Docs, 4’

Anna Koch

IDFA Competition for Kids & Docs, 82’

Who We Were Sine Skibsholt

Death in the Terminal Oxfam Novib Selection: Delicate Balance

20:00

Guillermo García López Panorama, 81’

Screening followed by a talk with Marcia Luyten and special guests. See page 120

with Extended Q&A

Followed by an in-depth conversation between documentary filmmaker Tessa Boerman and the film’s directors Tali Shemesh and Asaf Sudry. See page 116

Nima Sarvestani Masters, 90’

22:00

22:00 Radio Kobanî Reber Dosky

Dutch Competition, 72’

23:00

Melanie Bonajo Paradocs, 54’

Mid-Length Competition, 51’

18:00

18:00

Asli Özarslan

Maite Alberdi

Dil Leyla

Student Competition, 72’

The Grown-Ups Feature-Length Competition, 80’

Remember Me?

Ragnhild Nøst Bergem Student Competition, 35’

Icon

19:30

Long Live Benjamin

Wojciech Kasperski

Mid-Length Competition, 52’

Jimm Lasser, Biff Butler

20:15

Mid-Length Competition, 60’

What We Have Made

20:00

20:00

Neta Shoshani, David Ofek

Levan Koguashvili

House Call

Mid-Length Competition, 62’

Gogita’s New Life Feature-Length Competition, 72’

Feature-Length Competition, 71’

21:15

21:15

Lea Glob, Mette Carla Albrechtsen

Daphne Matziaraki

Venus

4.1 Miles Panorama, 22’

First Appearance Competition, 80’

22:15

All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone

Bolingo. The Forest of Love

22:00

22:00

Mid-Length Competition, 55’

Paul Salahadin Refsdal Best of Fests, 58’

Andrew Shea

Alejandro G. Salgado

Dugma: The Button

Fred Peabody Best of Fests, 92’

24:00

1:00

44

Ksenia Okhapkina

Paradocs, 21’

Fanny Tondre

Prison Sisters

Come Back Free

Jan Ijäs

Rodnye (Close Relations) Progress vs Regress

21:00

21:00

Mid-Length Competition, 49’

Time Capsule 17:30

18:45

19:30

Maria Rumanova

17:00

First Appearance Competition, 82’

Masters, 112’

19:00

per song

Student Competition, 73’

Vitaly Mansky

19:00

Hotel Sunrise 16:00

Shuchang Xie

16:30

18:00

15:30

Win by Fall

Music Documentary, 77’

16:15

Ah

Best of Fests, 89’

Giovanni Troilo

15:30

Best of Fests, 87’

with Extended Q&A

Ferne Pearlstein

Coeurope

Compilation of short films about Cuba in transition. Wit Motriz, House for Sale, Connec tion and Great Muy Bien.

Stefanie Visjager, Katinka Baehr

Jean Carper

16:00

The Last Laugh

Student Competition, 19’

Monster in the Mind

15:00

13:45

Zofia Kowalewska

Monster in the Mind

Music Documentary, 90’

12:30

13:30 14:00

Thorsten Schütte

Panorama, Shifting Perspectives, 77’

13:00 13:45

Eat That Question Frank Zappa in His Own Words

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

Wrestling Alligators Panorama, 90’


DE MUNT

9

DE MUNT

10

DE MUNT

11

DE MUNT

12

DE MUNT

13

TUSCHINSKI 1 EYE CINEMA

CARRÉ

9:00

PROGRAM DAY BY DAY

TUSCHINSKI 6

9:00

10:00 10:00 10:45 11:15

Waiting for Giraffes Marco de Stefanis Dutch Competition, 84’

Eat That Question Frank Zappa in His Own Words

11:00 Industry Screening

Tomas Koolhaas

Inadelso Cossa

Rem

Thorsten Schütte

Music Documentary, 90’

11:00

11:45

Best of Fests, 75’

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

A Memory in Three Acts 11:45 Industry Screening

First Appearance Competition, Shifting Perspectives, 64’

How to Meet a Mermaid

Bob Hercules, Rita Coburn Whack

Coco Schrijber

Feature-Length Competition, Dutch Competition, 90’

Best of Fests, 114’

11:00

12:30 Industry Screening

11:00

12:00 12:00

11:00

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictu

Fenton Bailey, Rand Best of Fests, 108’

Queer Day, see pa

Who We Were Sine Skibsholt

13:15

13:15

Compilation of short films about Cuba in transition. With: Motriz, House for Sale, Connection and Great Muy Bien.

Khushboo Ranka, Vinay Shukla

Cuban Shorts 13:45

The Last Laugh Ferne Pearlstein Best of Fests, 89’

First Appearance Competition, 82’

An Insignificant Man Best of Fests, 96’

13:45 14:00

Happily Ever After

Nada Riyadh, Ayman El Amir Panorama, 68’

14:45

Panorama, 82’

Hotel Sunrise per song

Shuchang Xie

Student Competition, 73’

Sacred Water

Mid-Length Competition, 49’

Olivier Jourdain

Come Back Free

Panorama, 56’

Ksenia Okhapkina

16:00 Industry Screening Max Kestner

Coco Cabasa Klara Til

Student Competition, 53’

Asli Özarslan

Maite Alberdi

Student Competition, 72’

Feature-Length Competition, 80’

A Greek Winter Ingeborg Jansen

Dutch Competition, 70’

20:00

Neta Shoshani, David Ofek

Levan Koguashvili

House Call

Mid-Length Competition, 62’

19:30

John Scheinfeld

Music Documentary, 99’

Paul Salahadin Refsdal

Andrew Shea

Best of Fests, 58’

The Pearl of Afri

Followed by an in-de conversation betwee and gay rights activi de Bruijn, director Jo Wallström and prota Cleopatra Kambugu Kasaija.

18:45

Roy Villevoye

Areum Parkkang

Smoke

Areum

Paradocs, 45’

First Appearance Competition, 93’

18:30

Who’s Gonna Lo Now? 19:00 19:00

20:00 20:00

with Extended Q&

After the screening a conversation with di Barak Heymann. And performance of Ams Gay Men Choir Mano and drinks.

Queer Day, see pa

Ana Endara

Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary

Dugma: The Button

Paradocs, 23’

The Joy of Sound Mid-Length Competition, 61’

21:00

22:00

November December

20:15

Feature-Length Competition, 72’

22:00

18:00 18:00

18:15

To Stay Alive – A Method

Gogita’s New Life

16:00

with Extended Q&

Queer Day, see pa

Bruno Jorge

19:00

17:00 17:00

Dutch Competition, 85’

You Have No Idea How Much I Love You

Feature-Length Competition, 80’

20:00

Laetitia Schoofs

17:30

Pawel Lozinski

The Grown-Ups

16:45 Industry Screening

Fallen Flowers Thick Leaves

17:00

Dil Leyla

Panorama, 91’

15:00 15:00

16:00 16:00

Amateurs in Space

Feature-Length Competition, 90’

Mid-Length Competition, 51’

18:00

Toby Oppenheimer,

15:45

Maria Rumanova

18:00

Check It

Queer Day, see pa

Skulls, of My People Panorama, Shifting Perspectives, 67’

Elvira Diaz

16:00

14:30

14:00 14:00

Vincent Moloi

El patio 15:30

13:00 13:00

Wrestling Alligators Panorama, 90’

21:15

The Man Without a Mask

21:30

A Quiet Place Sjoerd Oostrik

Dutch Competition, 81’

22:00

Cuts

Chairun Nissa Panorama, 70’

21:00 21:00 21:30

Kiki

Roger Ross Williams Panorama, 14’

Site of Sites

Natalia Cabral, Oriol Estrada

with Extended Q&

22:00 22:00

Mid-Length Competition, 61’

23:00 23:00

24:00 24:00

1:00

Program Guide

45

1:00

Followed by an in-de conversation betwee rights activist Wilfre Bruijn, director Sara J and representatives Dutch drag houses.

Queer Day, see pa


Monday 21 November EYE CINEMA

CARRÉ

1

EYE CINEMA

2

BRAKKE GROND EXPOZAAL

BRAKKE GROND RODE ZAAL

MELKWEG RABOZAAL

KETELHUIS

9:00

9:00

09:30 Brakke Grond Expozaal Expert Meeting: Interactive Documentary Preservation

10:00

11:00

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato

11:30

Queer Day, see page 120

Claire Simon

The Graduation

12:00 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal In Conversation with Kirsten Johnson

Masters, 119’

Santoalla

Check It

Toby Oppenheimer, Dana Flor Panorama, 91’

14:00

14:15

Hospital

Frederick Wiseman

15:00 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

15:00

15:15

Letters from Baghdad Sabine Krayenbühl, Zeva Oelbaum Panorama, 95’

16:00

The Pearl of Africa

16:30 Followed by an in-depth The Borneo Case conversation between host Dylan Williams, Erik Pauser and gay rights activist Wilfred Masters, 78’ de Bruijn, director Jonny von Wallström and protagonists Cleopatra Kambugu and Nelson Kasaija.

Nick Fraser introduces his new documentary VOD and pitching platform Yaddo. See page 122

17:00 17:45

Jacqueline Zünd

with Extended Q&A

After the screening a conversation with director Barak Heymann. And a special performance of Amsterdam Gay Men Choir Manoeuvre and drinks.

Queer Day, see page 120

18:00

First Appearance Competition, 83’

19:00

19:00

with Extended Q&A

Dennis Alink

Cameraperson

Unknown Brood

Film critic Nicolas Rapold talks to editor Nels Bangerter and director Kirsten Johnson about her visual autobiography Came- 20:00 raperson. See page 119 Robinù Michele Santoro Best of Fests, 97’

21:00 21:30

23:00

Followed by an in-depth conversation between gay rights activist Wilfred de Bruijn, director Sara Jordenö and representatives of several Dutch drag houses.

Queer Day, see page 120

19:00

Dutch Competition, Music Documentary, 90’

20:00

20:00

DocLab Live: The Art of Following

An evening exploring the narrative potential of privacy, intimacy and following, organized in collaboration with the VPRO Medialab Meet Up series. See page 111

Kiki

with Extended Q&A

22:00

16:00

Almost There

18:30

Who’s Gonna Love Me Now?

20:00

15:00

Industry Talk: The Future of Documentaries and How They Are Created

Admission for all passholders

with Extended Q&A

Queer Day, see page 120

19:00

13:00

Best of Fests, 82’

Assembling Reality, 84’

18:00

Admission for all passholders

Andrew Becker, Daniel Mehrer

Queer Day, see page 120

17:00

12:00

Moderated by Orwa Nyrabia. See page 126

13:00

13:45

16:00

11:00

By invitation

13:00

14:00

10:00

Invite-only expert session on the preservation of interactive documentary art, organized by DocLab and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision.

11:00

Best of Fests, 108’

12:00

GR

21:00 21:30

Zaatari Djinn Honky Tonk Heaven: The Legend of the Broken Spoke

Brenda Greene Mitchell, Sam Wainwright Douglas Music Documentary, 75’

DOCL

Catherine van Campen

22:00

Dutch Competition, 80’

22:15

The First Monday in May

22:00

Andrew Rossi Best of Fests, 90’

23:00

24:00

24:00

1:00

1:00

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MAANDAG 21 NOVEMBER

Brakke G

How does it physical wo look for love pictures on when it sec Trigger your best interac and physica Reality exhi hours (11:00

Admission


00

known Brood

nis Alink

KLEINE KOMEDIE COMPAGNIE 08:30 Compagnie Foyer Upstairs

PODIUM MOZAÏEK

OTHER VENUES INDUSTRY OFFICE

IDFA Forum Producer’s Breakfast

9:00

By invitation

09:30 Compagnie – Grote Zaal IDFA Forum Central Pitch

10:00 NH Carlton Paganini

6 Projects will be pitched for the gathered financiers and other delegates.

10:00

Industry Session: Can an Authors’ Organization Help you Make a Living?

IDFA Forum passholders only

By Cecile Despringre. See page 125

Admission for all passholders

11:00

11:45 Compagnie – Grote Zaal IDFA Forum Crossmedia Central Pitch

12:00

10:00 NH Carlton Verdi & Vivaldi Preregistered consultancies 10:30 Arti et Amicitiae Book your one-one-one consulDocs for Sale Meet tancy with Peter Broderick (Paradigm Consulting) or the Professionals Mélanie de Vocht (IDFA Bertha Fund) at the Industry Desk.

For all passholders (upon registration*)

Register for short meetings with various professionals for advice on general matters and specific questions.

Docs for Sale passholders only

3 Crossmedia projects will be pitched for the gathered financiers and other delegates.

IDFA Forum passholders only

13:00

13:30 NH Carlton Caruso Meet the Experts

Book your group round table meeting at the Industry desk.

14:00

For all passholders (upon registration*)

14:45 Compagnie – Zuilenzaal 14:45 Compagnie – Kleine Zaal IDFA Forum Crossmedia IDFA Forum Round Round Table Pitch Table Pitch (3 Arts & In this genre specific pitch Culture and 3 regular)

15:00

session 7 crossmedia projects will be pitched in an intimate setting for an audience of potential financiers.

16:00

IDFA Forum passholders only

14:45 NH Carlton Paganini Preregistered consultancies

Book your one-one-one consultancy with Cecilie Bolvinkel (EDN), Jessica Edwards (BRITDOC), Maria Paola Lussana (Creative Europe), Sandi DuBowski (BRITDOC'S Good Pitch) and Heino Deckert IDFA Forum passholders only (Ma.ja.de) at the Industry Desk. In this Round Table pitch session 3 arts & culture and 3 regular projects will be pitched in an intimate setting for an audience of potential financiers.

For all passholders (upon registration*)

SOCIAL EVENTS

Compagnie Foyer Upstairs – 08:30 IDFA Forum Producer’s Breakfast

An informal setting to meet producers, advanced sign-up required. Hosted by Future Logic and the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture.

By invitation

17:00

Zuiderkerk – 12:45 IDFA Forum Lunch

Hosted by Chicken & Egg Pictures.

18:00

IDFA Forum passholders only Arti et Amicitiae – 17:00 - 18:00

Docs for Sale Happy Hour

Hosted by NPO Sales, EYE International, Films Transit, Autlook Filmsales, CAT&Docs and Rise and Shine.

19:00

Docs for Sale & IDFA Forum passholders

h Competition, Music mentary, 90’

Zuiderkerk – 18:00

Guests Meet Guests

All IDFA guests are invited to meet and exchange ideas at the daily Guests Meet Guests cocktail hour, supported by ARTE.

20:00

Admission for all passholders

DAILY SERVICES

21:00

NH Carlton Puccini 9:00 – 21:00 IDFA Writing Room

30

atari Djinn

DOCLAB EXPO: ELASTIC REALITY

herine van Campen

h Competition, 80’

ARTI ET AMICITIAE

22:00

23:00

24:00

Brakke Grond 9:00 – 23:00

How does it feel to have someone follow you in the physical world, instead of just on social media? Or to look for love with your nose, rather than swiping profile pictures on Tinder? What would a computer brain say when it secretly takes a peek at your instagram pictures? Trigger your senses and experience thirty of the world's best interactive documentaries, virtual reality experiences and physical installations in the ten-day DocLab: Elastic Reality exhibition. Some installations have varying opening hours (11:00 – 21:00). On-site reservation may be required.

Admission Free

Workspace for all accredited guests. Wifi connection and computers available.

NH Carlton Rossini 10:00 – 17:00 Walk-in consultancies

Walk in and book your one-on-one consultancy.

Arti et Amicitiae 10:00 – 22:00 Meeting Room with screening facilities

All accredited guests have the opportunity to reserve a meeting/screening room for small groups of up to 15 people. Reservations can be made at the Industry Desk. Additionally, six viewing booths are available for holders of a Press Pass at Docs for Sale. Both services are located in Arti et Amicitiae.

De Jaren Café – 20:00 IDFA Quiz in De Jaren Café Are you eager to test your IDFA-knowledge? Show your friends how much you know about the festival, documentary’s, films, Amsterdam and (film)music. You can sign up with a team of maximum 5 people, or alone. Send an email with your team name and amount of participants to idfaquiz@idfa.nl.

Admission Free

De Jaren Café – 23:00 IDFA Lounge

DJ Ed Rock. A regular at IDFA Cafe and host of the DJ nights. Ed plays vinyl singles from way back as well as brand new tracks. Many genres, from 1956 till 2016, including soul, rock, new wave, reggae, hiphop and beyond.

Admission Free

1:00

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Program Guide

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PROGRAM DAY BY DAY

DE BALIE GROTE ZAAL

KETELHUIS


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TUSCHINSKI 2

TUSCHINSKI 3

TUSCHINSKI 4

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DE MUNT

9

9:00

10:00

10:00 Kiki

Sara Jordenö Best of Fests, 94’

11:00

11:15

12:00

12:30

A Young Girl in Her Nineties 13:00

Followed by an in-depth conversation between journalist Casper Thomas (De Groene Amsterdammer) and filmmakers Khusboo Ranka and Vinay Shukla. See page 116

A Greek Winter 11:45

To Stay Alive – A Method

Plastic China

with Extended Q&A

Jean Carper

From the East 12:00

Hillsborough

Followed by an in-depth conversation between TV host Bahram Sadeghi and director Wang Jiu Liang. See page 116

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

Reber Dosky

16:00

Panorama, 14’

14:00

Natalia Cabral, Oriol Estrada

Alice Schmid

Site of Sites

The Girl down Loch Änzi

Mid-Length Competition, 61’

Siberian Love

Feature-Length Competition, 80’

18:00

God Knows Where I Am 16:15

Areum

Joris Postema

Dutch Competition, 85’

Areum Parkkang

17:45

17:45

Best of Fests, 114’

Fanny Tondre

Tomas Koolhaas

First Appearance Competition, 93’

What We Have Made Feature-Length Competition, 71’

Rem

18:00

Turn Over the Stones

Best of Fests, 75’

18:30

Zaradasht Ahmed

19:00

19:15

Bolingo. The Forest of Love Mid-Length & 55’

Dutch Competition, 91’

Panorama, 22’

Alejandro G. Salgado

21:00

22:00

Screening followed by a talk with Bahram Sadeghi and several guests at the table. See page 120

Sacred

Thomas Lennon Panorama, 86’

23:00

Ditteke Mensink

20:00

Welcome to the Heavenly Earth Judith de Leeuw Panorama, 55’

20:00

Olga Kravets

Mid-Length Competition, 48’

20:15

Otto Bell

Still Tomorrow

IDFA Competition for Kids & Docs, 87’

20:45

The Rock

See page 121

21:15

The Good Postman Tonislav Hristov

Feature-Length Competition, 82’

NTR Avond van de Wolf: Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

22:30

Best of Fests, 108’

Panorama, 75’

Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato

Jian Fan

Feature-Length Competition, 88’

Hamid Jafari Panorama, 25’

Whose Country? Mohamed Siam Best of Fests, 58’

22:15

Life to Come

Claudio Capanna

Solitary

Kristi Jacobson Panorama, 82’

22:30

Living with Giants Sébastien Rist, Aude Leroux-Lévesque Best of Fests, 78’

See page 121

24:00

1:00

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It’s Getting Dark

Panorama, 76’

The Eagle Huntress

22:00 22:15

Student Competition, 29’

Hollie Fifer

19:45

NTR Avond van de Wolf: The Claim, the Search for Stolen Art from WWII

Daphne Matziaraki

Feature-Length Competition, 86’

Nir Dvortchin

The Opposition

19:30

20:00

Best of Fests, 99’

Daan’s Inheritance

Nowhere to Hide

Oxfam Novib Selection: 4.1 Miles

Panorama, 55’

Todd Wider, Jedd Wider

Panorama, 80’

NTR Avond van de Wolf: Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise See page 121

Emil Langballe

15:30

Olga Delane

17:00

Bob Hercules, Rita Coburn Whack

The Wait

First Appearance Competition, 87’

Pawel Lozinski

16:45

Feature-Length Competition, Assembling Reality, 71’

David Fernandez de Castro

13:45

Roger Ross Williams

Dutch Competition, 72’

Rahul Jain

Priorat

Panorama, 69’

The Man Without a Mask

15:30

Radio Kobanî

Machines

11:45

You Have No Idea How Much I Love You

Best of Fests, 87’

17:15

Sergei Loznitsa's Top 10, 115’

Masters, 122’

14:45

15:45

17:00

Chantal Akerman

Daniel Gordon

Mid-Length Competition, Dutch Competition, 60’

13:30 14:00

Monster in the Mind

Dutch Competition, 70’

13:15

Best of Fests, 85’

14:45

11:30

Ingeborg Jansen

Erik Lieshout

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Yann Coridian

14:00

15:00

11:15

An Insignificant Man

with Extended Q&A

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9

DE MUNT

10

DE MUNT

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DE MUNT

12

DE MUNT

13

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9:00

PROGRAM DAY BY DAY

TUSCHINSKI 6

9:00

10:00 10:00

11:15

The Passing Years

11:30

From the East

Chantal Akerman

Sergei Loznitsa's Top 10, 115’

11:45

Priorat

John Albert Jansen Panorama, 78’

Delicate Balance

Guillermo García López

We’ll Be Alright

Alexander Kuznetsov Panorama, 77’

Panorama, 81’

David Fernandez de Castro

11:00

11:15 11:30

Panorama, 69’

11:45

Anuktatop: The Metamorphosis

12:00 12:00

Nicolas Pradal, Pierre Selvini First Appearance Competition, 112’

13:00 13:00

13:15

Sugar & Spice 13:45 14:00

The Girl down Loch Änzi Alice Schmid

The Wait

Emil Langballe Panorama, 55’

First Appearance Competition, 87’

13:30

Mi Mi Lwin

Student Competition, 16’

A Memory in Three Acts

Passage – A Boatmovie

14:00

Dutch Competition, 55’

Tatiana Huezo

Jascha de Wilde, Ben Hendriks

11:00

Tempestad

13:45

Inadelso Cossa

First Appearance Competition, Shifting Perspectives, 64’

14:00 14:00

14:30

Best of Fests, 105’

Sacred Water Olivier Jourdain Panorama, 56’

per song

Shuchang Xie

15:15

Vincent Moloi

God Knows Where I Am 16:15

Best of Fests, 99’

Joris Postema

Dutch Competition, 85’

16:30

Knutte Wester

Peter Entell

A Bastard Child

Like Dew in the Sun

Mid-Length Competition, 57’

Feature-Length Competition, 108’

16:00 16:00

16:30

Zaineb Hates the Snow Kaouther Ben Hania

17:15

Panorama, 94’

17:00 17:00

When Will This Wind Stop

Student Competition, 66’

Turn Over the Stones 18:30

Nowhere to Hide Zaradasht Ahmed

Feature-Length Competition, 86’

Nir Dvortchin

Student Competition, 29’

It’s Getting Dark Olga Kravets

Mid-Length Competition, 48’

How to Meet a Mermaid Coco Schrijber

Feature-Length Competition, Dutch Competition, 90’

19:00

Happily Ever After

19:15

Dream Empire First Appearance Competition, 73’

20:15

Still Tomorrow The Rock

18:00 18:00

18:30

David Borenstein

20:45

17:30

Aniela Astrid Gabryel

18:00

19:30

Sho(r)t in Japan

Nada Riyadh, Ayman El Amir Panorama, 68’

Compilation of shorts about Japan. With: Uzu and Gatekeeper.

Hamid Jafari Mohamed Siam Best of Fests, 58’

Best of Fests, 92’

Voices

Shifting Perspectives, 18’

19:45

Skulls, of My People

20:00 20:00

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail Steve James Masters, 90’

Panorama, Shifting Perspectives, 67’

21:00

Ragnhild Nøst Bergem

Whose Country?

Fred Peabody

19:00 19:00

Vincent Moloi

21:00

Remember Me?

Panorama, 25’

All Government Truth, Deception the Spirit of I.F. S

19:30

Miguel Peres Dos Santos

Jian Fan

Feature-Length Competition, 88’

Planeta Petrila

First Appearance Competit

Whatever the Weather Student Competition, 11’

15:15

Andrei Dascalescu

Shifting Perspectives, 54’

16:00

Remo Scherrer

Daan’s Inheritance

15:00 15:00

Men of Gold

15:30

Todd Wider, Jedd Wider

Student Competition, 73’

Who We Were

Student Competition, 35’

21:30

Wojciech Kasperski

Mustafa Ünlü

Icon

Ah

Mid-Length Competition, 52’

Panorama, 104’

22:30

21:00 21:00

Sine Skibsholt

21:45

First Appearance Competition, 82’

The Last Laugh Ferne Pearlstein

22:00 22:00

Best of Fests, 89’

Living with Giants

22:45

Best of Fests, 78’

Isabelle Boni-Claverie

Sébastien Rist, Aude Leroux-Lévesque

Too Black to Be French? Shifting Perspectives, 52’

Resurrecting Ha

Carlo Guillermo Pro

First Appearance Competit

23:00 23:00

24:00 24:00

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Tuesday 22 November

BIJLMER ARKTHEATER

EYE CINEMA

1

EYE CINEMA

2

BRAKKE GROND EXPOZAAL

BRAKKE GROND RODE ZAAL

NEDERLANDSE FILMACADEMIE

KETELHUIS

9:00

9:00

10:00

10:00

10:00

Oxfam Novib Sessions: Humans on the Move Part II

A special program in which we are using film clips to discuss the issues around people on the move. The session is led by Bahram Sadeghi. Limited seating, ticket required. See page 120

11:00

11:00

12:00

12:00

13:00

13:15 13:45

14:00

GR

Sacred Water Olivier Jourdain

Facing the Judgement of History Fridrikh Ermler

Sergei Loznitsa's Top 10, 93’

Panorama, 56’

13:00

13:15

My Daughter Nora Jasna Krajinovic Panorama, 16’

ISIS, Deserters Speak Out

14:00

Thomas Dandois, Francois-Xavier Tregan Panorama, 53’

15:00

15:00 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal 15:15

15:15

Andrei Dascalescu

Paul Salahadin Refsdal

Planeta Petrila

First Appearance Competition, 90’

This talk explores future developments of interactive storytelling and how to fund it. See page 123

Best of Fests, 58’

16:00 17:00

A Quiet Place

erspectives, 18’

, of My People

t Moloi

18:00

Fred Peabody Best of Fests, 92’

18:30

The Challenge Abacus: Small Enough to Jail

Yuri Ancarani Paradocs, 69’

ack to Be French?

e Boni-Claverie

erspectives, 52’

19:30

Burning Out

with Extended Q&A

Followed by an in-depth conversation between journalist Sander Heijne and director Jérôme le Maire. See page 116

Steve James Masters, 90’

a, Shifting Perspectives, 67’

Burning Out

Jérôme le Maire

Feature-Length Competition, 85’

21:00 21:30

I Don’t Know

22:00

19:00 Filmacademie NBF presents: High Dynamic Range (HDR)

19:15 19:45

20:00

Dutch Competition, 81’

All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone

19:00 Peres Dos Santos

17:00

Sjoerd Oostrik

17:30

s

16:00

Admission for all passholders

17:00

18:00

15:00

Industry Talk: The (Un)defined Business of Interactive

Dugma: The Button

22:00

Resurrecting Hassan Carlo Guillermo Proto

First Appearance Competition, 100’

Krzysztof Kieslowski Sergei Loznitsa's Top 10, 47’

22:00

Nijole Adomenaite, Boris Gorlov

Dennis Alink

Koma

Sergei Loznitsa's Top 10, 62’

Unknown Brood

20:00

DocLab Live: Immersive Showcase

Virtual reality and immersive storytelling (from augmented to mixed reality) are going through an unprecedented evolution. But where does the hype end and do new art forms take shape?

This seminar hosted by NBF takes a closer look at the HDR production chain and how it will change your film workflow. See page 127

19:00

Waiting for Giraffes Marco de Stefanis

IDFA in De B Rodnye (Clos 19:00

Dutch Competition, 84’

20:00

Admission for all passholders

21:00 21:30

Miss Kiet’s Children Petra Lataster-Czisch, Peter Lataster

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

22:00

Dutch Competition, Music Documentary, 90’

23:00

23:00

24:00

24:00

1:00

1:00

50

With Close Relat Mansky investig post-Maidan an Ukrainian family by the revolutio

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

DINSDAG 22 NOVEMBER

21:15

IDFA in De B The Road Mo

The Road Movie board-camera’ i a portrait of the Russian nation.


00

iting for Giraffes

co de Stefanis

09:30 Compagnie – Grote Zaal IDFA Forum Central Pitch

10:00 NH Carlton Paganini

8 Projects will be pitched for the gathered financiers and other delegates.

Industry Session: Your Roadmap for Navigating the New World of Distribution

IDFA Forum passholders only

10:30 Arti et Amicitiae Docs for Sale Meet the Professionals

By Peter Broderick. See page 125

Register for short meetings with various professionals for advice on general matters and specific questions.

Admission for all passholders

11:00

Docs for Sale passholders only

12:00 NH Carlton Paganini

12:00

Industry Session: Putting Your Audience in the Story: Storytelling in 360 and CGI By Zillah Watson. See page 125

Admission for all passholders

13:00

13:30 NH Carlton Caruso Meet the Experts

Book your group round table meeting at the Industry desk.

14:00

For all passholders (upon registration*)

14:45 Compagnie – Zuilenzaal IDFA Forum Round Table Pitch (3 Arts & Culture and 4 regular)

15:00

In this Round Table pitch session 3 arts & culture and 4 regular projects will be pitched in an intimate setting for an audience of potential financiers.

16:00

14:45 Compagnie – Kleine Zaal 14:45 NH Carlton Paganini IDFA Forum Round Preregistered Table Pitch consultancies 6 Projects will be pitched in an intimate setting for an audience of potential financiers.

IDFA Forum passholders only

IDFA Forum passholders only

DAILY SERVICES

18:00

NH Carlton Puccini 9:00 – 21:00 IDFA Writing Room

18:30

IDFA in De Balie: Rodnye (Close Relations) 19:00

22:00

Workspace for all accredited guests. Wifi connection and computers available.

With Close Relations Vitaly Mansky investigates Ukraine post-Maidan and how his own Ukrainian family is conflicted by the revolution.

20:00

21:00

15:00 Arti et Amicitiae Screening Room: Dutch Children Docs for Sale

Book your one-on-one consultancy with Ove Rishøj Jensen (EDN), Jessica Edwards (BRITDOC), Maria Paola Lussana (Creative Europe), Sandi DuBowski (BRITDOC'S Good Pitch), Isabel Arrate Fernandez (IDFA Bertha Fund), Milton Tabbot (IFP) at the Industry Desk.

NPO Sales, producers and broadcasters from the Netherlands, will present a selection of children documentaries.

DfS Acquisition passholders or by invitation

For all passholders (upon registration*)

17:00

ss Kiet’s Children

ER

ARTI ET AMICITIAE

By invitation

10:00

30

e-Length Competition, Dutch etition, Assembling Reality, 115’

INDUSTRY OFFICE

IDFA Forum Producer’s Breakfast

9:00

h Competition, 84’

a Lataster-Czisch, r Lataster

COMPAGNIE 08:30 Compagnie Foyer Upstairs

NH Carlton Rossini 10:00 – 17:00 Walk-in consultancies

Walk in and book your one-on-one consultancy.

20:30 Compagnie – Grote Zaal The Guardian and Bertha Foundation Presents 21:15

IDFA in De Balie: The Road Movie

The Road Movie uses ‘dashboard-camera’ imagery to paint a portrait of the contemporary Russian nation.

Charlie Phillips (Guardian) and Rebecca Lichtenfeld (Bertha) will show clips, talk about the films being commissioned and released in the next year, and invite you to join them for informal drinks and snacks. See page 127

By invitation

Arti et Amicitiae 10:00 – 22:00 Meeting Room with screening facilities

All accredited guests have the opportunity to reserve a meeting/screening room for small groups of up to 15 people. Reservations can be made at the Industry Desk. Additionally, six viewing booths are available for holders of a Press Pass at Docs for Sale. Both services are located in Arti et Amicitiae.

DOCLAB EXPO: ELASTIC REALITY

Brakke Grond 9:00 – 23:00

How does it feel to have someone follow you in the physical world, instead of just on social media? Or to look for love with your nose, rather than swiping profile pictures on Tinder? What would a computer brain say when it secretly takes a peek at your instagram pictures? Trigger your senses and experience thirty of the world's best interactive documentaries, virtual reality experiences and physical installations in the ten-day DocLab: Elastic Reality exhibition. Some installations have varying opening hours (11:00 – 21:00). On-site reservation may be required.

23:00

24:00

Admission Free

SOCIAL EVENTS

Compagnie Foyer Upstairs – 08:30 IDFA Forum Producer’s Breakfast

An informal setting to meet producers, advanced sign-up required. Hosted by Future Logic and the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture.

By invitation

Zuiderkerk – 12:45 IDFA Forum Lunch

Hosted by Catalan Films & TV and DocsBarcelona.

IDFA Forum passholders only

Arti et Amicitiae – 17:00 - 18:00 Docs for Sale Happy Hour

Hosted by NPO Sales, EYE International, Films Transit, Autlook Filmsales, CAT&Docs and Rise and Shine.

Docs for Sale & IDFA Forum passholders

Zuiderkerk – 18:00

Guests Meet Guests

All IDFA guests are invited to meet and exchange ideas at the daily Guests Meet Guests cocktail hour, supported by ChileDoc. During this event the winner of the IDFA AWFJ EDA Award for Best Female-Directed Documentary will be announced.

Admission for all passholders

De Jaren Café – 22:00 IDFA Lounge

DJ Trish Trash. Organizer of postpunk and new wave festival Grauzone and a collector of underground music. She’ll dig deep in obscure and alternative rock, new wave, electro and punk.

Admission Free

1:00

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PROGRAM DAY BY DAY

DE BALIE GROTE ZAAL

KETELHUIS


Wednesday 23 November TUSCHINSKI 1

TUSCHINSKI 2

TUSCHINSKI 3

TUSCHINSKI 4

TUSCHINSKI 5

TUSCHINSKI 6

DE MUNT

9

9:00

10:00

10:00

1 0:00

A Quiet Place

Letter

Sjoerd Oostrik

10:30

Dutch Competition, 81’

11:00

Turn Over the Stones Nir Dvortchin

France

Masters, 83’

12:00

It’s Getting Dark

The Good Postman

Sergei Loznitsa Retrospective, 17’

Mid-Length Competition, 48’

Feature-Length Competition, 82’

14:00

13:15

Sealers – One Last Hunt

Ana Endara

First Appearance Competition, 98’

Trude Berge Ottersen, Gry Elisabeth Mortensen

The Joy of Sound 13:45

Mid-Length Competition, 61’

Best of Fests, 97’

with Extended Q&A

16:00

with Extended Q&A

17:00

18:00

Followed by an in-depth conversation between writer and journalist Hans Maarten van den Brink and director David Borenstein about the Chinese real estate boom. See page 116

Oxfam Novib Selection: Seed: The Untold Story

LoveTrue

Jérôme le Maire

In cooperation with The School of Life.

Feature-Length Competition, 85’

15:15

15:15

Jian Fan

Jiu-liang Wang

Tower

Keith Maitland Best of Fests, 82’

Best of Fests, 91’

Kaouther Ben Hania Panorama, 94’

17:30

Singing with Angry Bird

17:30

17:30

Laetitia Schoofs

Petra Lataster-Czisch, Peter Lataster

Fallen Flowers Thick Leaves

Hyewon Jee Panorama, 88’

Miss Kiet’s Children

Dutch Competition, 85’

Levan Koguashvili

Feature-Length Competition, 72’

19:45

Minispectacles Albuquerque Straight

20:15

Maarit Suomi-Väänänen

The Opposition

Paradocs, 7’

Hollie Fifer

Craigslist Allstars Samira Elagoz Paradocs, 65’

21:15

Knutte Wester

Maya Zinshtein

19:45

The Offended Panorama, 83’

A Bastard Child Forever Pure

Feature-Length Competition, 103’

Panorama, 88’

21:15

Whatever the Weather

22:30

Neasa Ní Chianáin

Bo Jiao

Marcela Zamora Chamorro

Best of Fests, 94’

Mid-Length Competition, 57’

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

In Loco Parentis

My Father and My Mother

Gogita’s New Life

Student Competition, 11’

23:00

First Appearance Competition, 81’

16:15

Deborah Esquenazi

Zaineb Hates the Snow

Plastic China

Feature-Length Competition, 88’

Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four

Yezidi Girls

Remo Scherrer

22:00

Masters, 89’

Burning Out

Still Tomorrow 16:00

16:45

Taggart Siegel, Jon Betz

Screening followed by a talk with Isolde Hallensleben, Sacha de Boer and several guests at the table. See page 120

Rats

IDFA Competition for Kids & Docs, 82’

15:00

19:15 19:30

13:15 Morgan Spurlock

18:30

19:00

21:00

Mid-Length Competition, 56’

IDFA Competition for Kids & Docs, 4’

18:45

20:00

Audrius Stonys

Anna Koch

16:30

Dream Empire

Woman and the Glacier

14:00

Win by Fall

14:45

Followed by an in-depth conversation between host Katinka Baehr and director Mohamed Siam. See page 116

First Appearance Competition, 82’

Panorama, 17’

1Minute Nature Stefanie Visjager, Katinka Baehr

Whose Country?

Clare Weiskopf

Xavier Marrades

13:00

Matt Tyrnauer

15:00

Amazona

Cucli

Best of Fests, 84’

Citizen Jane: Battle for the City

11:00

12:15

Susanne Regina Meures

13:30

The Old Jewish Cemetery

Sergei Loznitsa Retrospective, 20’

Raving Iran

13:00

Sergei Loznitsa

Sergei Loznitsa

Tonislav Hristov

Olga Kravets

12:15

First Appearance Competition, 93’

11:30

Student Competition, 29’

Raymond Depardon

Reflections. Director’s Cut

Areum Parkkang

11:00 11:15

Sergei Loznitsa, 21’

Areum

Reber Dosky

22:00

On the Bridge of Death and Life Lola Jia Liu

Panorama, 98’

Panorama, 14’

The Return

Zahavi Sanjavi

Mid-Length Competition, 54’

21:45

A Young Girl in Her Nineties

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Yann Coridian

21:00

Panorama, 76’

Events in a Cloud Chamber Ashim Ahluwalia Paradocs, 20’

Welcome Rikun Zhu Paradocs, 63’

Best of Fests, 85’

22:15

The Man Without a Mask Roger Ross Williams Panorama, 14’

Best of Fests, 85’

Site of Sites

Natalia Cabral, Oriol Estrada Mid-Length Competition, 61’

24:00

1:00

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10:00

10:00

Sergei Loznitsa, 21’

Tamar Tal-Anati

Klara Til

Letter

Shalom Italia

Reflections. Director’s Cut Sergei Loznitsa

Sergei Loznitsa Retrospective, 17’

The Old Jewish Cemetery Sergei Loznitsa

Student Competition, 53’

11:00

11:00

Amazona

First Appearance Competition, 82’

Sergei Loznitsa Retrospective, 20’

12:00

Zero Days

12:15

The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography Errol Morris Masters, 76’

Alex Gibney

Cucli

When Will This Wind Stop

11:15

Clare Weiskopf

11:45

Sacred Water

Mid-Length Competition, 56’

13:15

12:45

Rats

Where You’re Meant to Be

Masters, 89’

Jérôme le Maire

Cuts

13:15

Paul Fegan

Music Documentary, 77’

Burning Out

13:30

Resurrecting Hassan

13:00 13:00

Chairun Nissa

Walking in the Opposite Direct Marc Waltman

Music Documentary, 96’

Panorama, 70’

Carlo Guillermo Proto

First Appearance Competition, 100’

14:00 14:00

14:30

Feature-Length Competition, 85’

Homo Sapiens

Nikolaus Geyrhalter

15:15

Masters, 94’

Plastic China

15:00

Siberian Love

15:15

First Appearance Competition, 81’

Rachel Grady, Heidi Ewing Masters, 91’

16:15

Tower

15:00 15:00

Olga Delane

Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You

Jiu-liang Wang

15:30

Panorama, 80’

16:00

16:00 16:00

Welcome to the Heavenly Earth Judith de Leeuw

Keith Maitland

Panorama, 55’

Best of Fests, 82’

17:00

What We Have Made 17:30

Miss Kiet’s Children

Fanny Tondre

Feature-Length Competition, 71’

Petra Lataster-Czisch, Peter Lataster

18:30

11:00

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Panorama, 56’

13:00

Morgan Spurlock

14:00

Student Competition, 66’

Olivier Jourdain

Panorama, 17’

Audrius Stonys

11:00

Aniela Astrid Gabryel

Masters, 114’

Xavier Marrades

Woman and the Glacier

9:00

10:00 10:00

Coco Cabasa

Best of Fests, 71’

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Zaatari Djinn

Catherine van Campen Dutch Competition, 80’

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

17:00 17:00

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The Pearl of Africa

17:30

17:45

Shingal, Where Are You?

Jonny von Wallström Panorama, 75’

Coco Schrijber

Feature-Length Competition Dutch Competition, 90’

After the screening, G Busch (VPRO Cinema the making of the fil director Coco Schrijb

17:30

Dil Leyla

Asli Özarslan

Student Competition, 72’

Angelos Rallis

VPRO Extra How to Meet a Mermaid

Panorama, 103’

18:00 18:00

18:00

We Are X

Stephen Kijak

Music Documentary, 93’

In Loco Parentis Neasa Ní Chianáin

Feature-Length Competition, 103’

19:15

Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee

Kesang Tseten Panorama, 84’

Geoffrey Feinberg

The Opposition

Panorama, 15’

Hollie Fifer

21:00

The Road Movie

Panorama, 76’

Masters, 98’

Dmitrii Kalashnikov

20:15

The Beast Is Still Alive

20:30

Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova

Ashim Ahluwalia

21:30

Welcome

Roger Ross Williams

Paradocs, 20’

Life, Animated

Rikun Zhu

Best of Fests, 91’

22:15

The Man Without a Mask Roger Ross Williams Panorama, 14’

Site of Sites

Natalia Cabral, Oriol Estrada

20:00 20:00

Peshmerga

Panorama, 90’

Best of Fests, 92’

21:00 21:00

21:45

The Father, the Son and the Holy Jihad

22:15

Prison Sisters

Nima Sarvestani Masters, 90’

22:30

A Greek Winter

Stéphane Malterre Panorama, 120’

22:00 22:00

Ingeborg Jansen

Dutch Competition, 70’

23:00 23:00

Mid-Length Competition, 61’

24:00 24:00

1:00

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20:30

Shot! The Psych Spiritual Mantra

Bernard-Henri Lévy

First Appearance Competition, 67’

Events in a Cloud Chamber

Paradocs, 63’

Nanette Burstein

20:00

The Hanging

20:15

19:00 19:00

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Trembling Mountain

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11:00

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Conscience

Vladimir Denisenko

Sergei Loznitsa's Top 10, 78’

12:00

11:45

Hillsborough

12:00 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal In Conversation with Steve James

Daniel Gordon Masters, 122’

12:45

13:00

12:00

Moderated by Claire Aguilar. See page 126

Walking in the Opposite Direction

Admission for all passholders

13:00

Marc Waltman

Music Documentary, 96’

14:00

14:00

Kids & Docs Competition 2

15:00 15:30

16:00

17:00

VPRO Extra How to Meet a Mermaid

Children’s documentaries: 1Minute Nature, Che!, Rocknrollers, Jesser and the Sugarcane, Naomi’s Secret, Spotlight on Merna 135’. These films are subtitled in English and will be dubbed in Dutch live during this screening.

arslan

18:00

After the screening, Gerhard Busch (VPRO Cinema) discusses the making of the film with director Coco Schrijber.

Nowhere to Hide Zaradasht Ahmed

Feature-Length Competition, 86’

21:00

22:00

15:00

Industry Talk: Shifting Perspectives

Gatekeepers from different countries discuss practice and policy around representation and inclusion. See page 123

16:00

17:00

The Borneo Case

17:00

with Extended Q&A

With an introduction by Els Rientjes (Green Film Making) and a conversation with special guests.

We Are X

The Borneo Case

Stephen Kijak

Dylan Williams, Erik Pauser Masters, 78’

17:30 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal VICE Pitch Award The VICE documentary pitch at IDFA offers filmmakers the chance to pitch their best ideas to the experienced crew at VICE. See page 121

Admission for all passholders

All These Sleepless Nights Paradocs, 100’

19:30

Abandoned Land

18:30 19:00

IDFA in De B National Bir 19:00

Ditteke Mensink

with Extended Q&A

With an introduction by Els Rientjes (Green Film Making) and a conversation with special guests.

20:30

18:00

The Claim, the Search for Stolen Art from WWII

19:15

Shot! The PsychoSpiritual Mantra of Rock

sts, 92’

15:00 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

Panorama, 81’

16:45

Michal Marczak

d-Henri Lévy

Guillermo García López

Admission for all passholders

18:00

19:00

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Delicate Balance

Feature-Length Competition, Dutch Competition, 90’

Music Documentary, 93’

20:00

14:00 14:30

Coco Schrijber

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BRAKKE GROND EXPOZAAL

Dutch Competition, 91’

20:00

Abandoned Land Gilles Laurent

Barnaby Clay

Panorama, 73’

Music Documentary, 98’

21:15

Sugar & Spice 21:45

21:45

Compilation of short films about contemporary USA. With: The Ride of their Lives, Wolvesmouth and Raised by Krump.

Tatiana Huezo

American Shorts

21:00

Mi Mi Lwin

Student Competition, 16’

Tempestad

Passage – A Boatmovie

Jascha de Wilde, Ben Hendriks

Best of Fests, 105’

Dutch Competition, 55’

22:00

23:00

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By invitation

09:30 Compagnie – Zuilenzaal 09:30 Compagnie – Kleine Zaal IDFA Forum Round IDFA Forum Round Table Pitch Table Pitch 10:00 NH Carlton Paganini 2 Youth pitches and 5 regular pitches will be held in an intimate setting for an audience of potential financiers.

10:00

11:00

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consultancy with Maria Paola Lussana (Creative Europe), Sue Turley (ro*co Films Productions), Jessica Edwards (BRITDOC) or Wendy Bernfeld (Rights Stuff) and Anaïs Clanet (Wide House) at the Industry Desk.

For all passholders (upon registration*)

10:30 Arti et Amicitiae Docs for Sale Meet the Professionals

Register for short meetings with various professionals for advice on general matters and specific questions.

Docs for Sale passholders only

13:00

13:30 NH Carlton Caruso Meet the Experts

Book your group round table meeting at the Industry desk.

14:00

For all passholders (upon registration*)

14:45 NH Carlton Paganini Preregistered consultancies

15:00

Book your one-on-one consultancy with Cecilie Bolvinkel (EDN), Jessica Edwards (BRITDOC), Sandi DuBowski (BRITDOC's Good Pitch), Milton Tabbot (IFP) and Sue Turley (ro*co Films Productions) at the Industry Desk.

16:00 17:00 Compagnie – Café

17:00

For all passholders (upon registration*)

IDFA Forum Closing Drinks

IDFA Forum passholders only

18:00 18:30

IDFA in De Balie: National Bird 19:00

Additionally to National Bird we will discuss ‘surveillance aesthetics’ and the bird’s eye view of military drones.

DAILY SERVICES

NH Carlton Puccini 9:00 – 21:00 IDFA Writing Room

Workspace for all accredited guests. Wifi connection and computers available.

NH Carlton Rossini 10:00 – 17:00 Walk-in consultancies

Walk in and book your one-on-one consultancy.

20:00

21:00

nt Competition, 16’

h Competition, 55’

10:00 NH Carlton Verdi & Vivaldi

Preregistered Industry Session: Marketing Documentaries consultancies in the Age of Social Media Book your one-on-one

12:00

Mi Lwin

sage – A Boatmovie

4 Projects will be pitched in an intimate setting for an audience of potential financiers.

IDFA Forum passholders only By Mathias Noschis. See page 125 IDFA Forum passholders only Admission for all passholders

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gar & Spice

ARTI ET AMICITIAE

IDFA Forum Producer’s Breakfast

9:00

eke Mensink

15

INDUSTRY OFFICE

08:30 Compagnie Foyer Upstairs

22:00

Arti et Amicitiae 10:00 – 22:00 Meeting Room with screening facilities 21:15

IDFA in De Balie: Death in the Terminal

Additionally to Death in the Terminal we will discuss ‘surveillance aesthetics’ and the dreadful intimacy of security camera images.

All accredited guests have the opportunity to reserve a meeting/screening room for small groups of up to 15 people. Reservations can be made at the Industry Desk. Additionally, six viewing booths are available for holders of a Press Pass at Docs for Sale. Both services are located in Arti et Amicitiae.

DOCLAB EXPO: ELASTIC REALITY

Admission Free

1:00

An informal setting to meet producers, advanced sign-up required. Hosted by Future Logic and the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture.

By invitation

Zuiderkerk – 12:45 IDFA Forum Lunch

Hosted by the Netherlands Film Fund.

IDFA Forum passholders only Compagnie Café – 17:00

IDFA Forum Closing Drinks Supported by DOCTV.

IDFA Forum passholders only

Arti et Amicitiae – 17:00 - 18:00 Docs for Sale Happy Hour

Hosted by NPO Sales, EYE International, Films Transit, Autlook Filmsales, CAT&Docs and Rise and Shine.

Docs for Sale & IDFA Forum passholders

Zuiderkerk – 18:00 Guests Meet Guests

All IDFA guests are invited to meet and exchange ideas at the daily Guests Meet Guests cocktail hour.

For all passholders

Stadsschouwburg Grote Zaal – 20:30 The highly anticipated IDFA Awards Ceremony will start at 8:30 p.m. As of 10:00 p.m. we can toast to the winners.

How does it feel to have someone follow you in the physical world, instead of just on social media? Or to look for love with your nose, rather than swiping profile pictures on Tinder? What would a computer brain say when it secretly takes a peek at your instagram pictures? Trigger your senses and experience thirty of the world's best interactive documentaries, virtual reality experiences and physical installations in the ten-day DocLab: Elastic Reality exhibition. Some installations have varying opening hours (11:00 – 21:00). On-site reservation may be required.

24:00

IDFA Forum Producer’s Breakfast

Awards Ceremony

Brakke Grond 9:00 – 23:00 23:00

SOCIAL EVENTS

Compagnie Foyer Upstairs – 08:30

By invitation

Stadsschouwburg Grote Zaal – 22:00 Documentary Ball

A night full of entertainment, music and drinks to celebrate documentary & the award winners of IDFA 2016.

By invitation

De Jaren Café – 22:00 IDFA Lounge

DJ duo Mr. & Mrs. Koot come with their suitcase full of indie-7”s, but are also specialists in 80’s hits and funky breaks. As a couple they host a string of nights in Amsterdam bars.

Admission Free

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10:00

10:00

Vittorio De Seta

Cuban Shorts 10:45

11:00

I dimenticati

10:15

11:00

The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography

Burning Out

Jérôme le Maire

Feature-Length Competition, 85’

Compilation of short films about Cuba in transition. With: Motriz, House for Sale, Connection and Great Muy Bien.

11:00

The Opposition Hollie Fifer

A Little Monastery in Tuscany

Best of Fests, 97’

Sergei Loznitsa's Top 10, 54’

Alice Diop

Panorama, 76’

Errol Morris

Hotel Sunrise

Introduced by Barbara Visser.

The Passing Years John Albert Jansen

Hillsborough Daniel Gordon Masters, 122’

Panorama, 78’

14:00

The Rolling Stones Olé Olé Olé!: A Trip Across Latin America Paul Dugdale

Music Documentary, 105’

Mid-Length Competition, 49’

13:00 13:15

11:00

Maria Rumanova

Come Back Free Ksenia Okhapkina

12:45

13:00

Otar Iosseliani

11:45

Masters, 76’

12:00

Sergei Loznitsa's Top 10, 20’

On Call

10:45

Music Shorts

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

13:00 13:15

Welcome to the Heavenly Earth Judith de Leeuw Panorama, 55’

Introduced by Kees van Kooten.

Mid-Length Competition, 51’

Kids & Docs Competition 2

Children’s documentaries: 1Minute Nature, Che!, Rocknrollers, Jesser and the Sugarcane, Naomi’s Secret, Spotlight on Merna 135’

13:15

Houston, We Have a Problem! 14:00

Gaza Surf Club

Ziga Virc

Best of Fests, 88’

Philip Gnadt, Mickey Yamine Best of Fests, 87’

15:00

The Beast Is Still Alive

15:00

Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova

15:30 15:45 16:00

16:00 Eat That Question Frank Zappa in His Own Words

Santoalla

Andrew Becker, Daniel Mehrer Best of Fests, 82’

Thorsten Schütte

Music Documentary, 90’

Panorama, 90’

Sho(r)t in America

Compilation of short films about contemporary USA. With: The Ride of their Lives, Wolvesmouth, Raised by Krump and Minispectacles Albuquerque Straight.

17:00

15:15

Citizen Jane: Battle for the City Matt Tyrnauer Best of Fests, 97’

Swingin’ Shorts 18:00

18:00

My Father and My Mother Bo Jiao

Masters, 117’

The Man Without a Mask Panorama, 14’

Site of Sites

Natalia Cabral, Oriol Estrada Mid-Length Competition, 61’

Rodnye (Close Relations) Vitaly Mansky

Compilation of three energetic shorts. With: The Hanging, The Man Without a Mask and Rocknrollers.

Marcus Vetter, Karin Steinberger

16:00

Roger Ross Williams

17:15 17:30

The Promise

15:30

17:45

Masters, 112’

Close Ties 18:15

November December Bruno Jorge

Panorama, 88’

Paradocs, 23’

Smoke

Zofia Kowalewska

Student Competition, 19’

Coeurope

Giovanni Troilo

18:00

Like Dew in the Sun Peter Entell

Feature-Length Competition, 108’

Mid-Length Competition, 61’

Roy Villevoye

19:00

Paradocs, 45’

19:45

DocLab Shorts

A compilation of shorts and multimedia projects that would 20:15 never have existed without the Tempestad internet. Tatiana Huezo

20:00

Best of Fests, 105’

20:00

Time Capsule 20:30

Silent Wilderness Mathijs Vleugels Panorama, 60’

21:00

Jan Ijäs

Paradocs, 21’

20:30

Melanie Bonajo

Hyewon Jee

Progress vs Regress

Singing with Angry Bir

Paradocs, 54’

Panorama, 88’

21:45

22:00

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato Best of Fests, 108’

Introduced by Erwin Olaf.

23:00

22:00

22:00

Sho(r)t in Japan

Compilation of shorts about Japan. With: Uzu and Gatekeeper.

Still Tomorrow 22:30 22:45

Machines Rahul Jain

Feature-Length Competition, Assembling Reality, 71’

You Have No Idea How Much I Love You

Jian Fan

Feature-Length Competition, 88’

Pawel Lozinski

Feature-Length Competition, 80’

24:00

1:00

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Vittorio De Seta

Sergei Loznitsa's Top 10, 20’

Otar Iosseliani

Sergei Loznitsa's Top 10, 54’

11:45

Hotel Sunrise

9:00

10:00 10:00

I dimenticati

A Little Monastery in Tuscany

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11:00

The Rolling Stones Olé Olé Olé!: A Trip Across Latin America Paul Dugdale

Music Documentary, 105’

Maria Rumanova

11:00

Amateurs in Space 11:30

Ambulance

Feature-Length Competition, 90’

Mohamed Jabaly

11:45

Walking in the Opposite Direction

Best of Fests, 78’

Mid-Length Competition, 49’

11:00

11:15

Max Kestner

Hissein Habré, a Chadian Tragedy

Mahamat Saleh Haroun Masters, 82’

11:15

The Cinema Trav Shirley Abraham, Amit Madheshiya Best of Fests, 96’

12:00 12:00

Marc Waltman

Music Documentary, 96’

Come Back Free

11:00

Ksenia Okhapkina

Mid-Length Competition, 51’

13:15

Houston, We Have a Problem! 14:00

Gaza Surf Club

Ziga Virc

Best of Fests, 88’

13:15

13:15

Guido Hendrikx

Sabine Krayenbühl, Zeva Oelbaum

Stranger in Paradise 13:45

Contemporary Color

First Appearance Competition, Dutch Competition, 72’

Turner Ross, Bill Ross

Philip Gnadt, Mickey Yamine

Panorama, 95’

Prison Sisters

Best of Fests, 87’

15:15

Marcus Vetter, Karin Steinberger

Sébastien Rist, Aude Leroux-Lévesque

16:00

Masters, 117’

The Man Without a Mask

16:00

15:30

Best of Fests, 78’

Andrei Dascalescu

Panorama, 14’

First Appearance Competition, 90’

A Memory in Three Acts

16:00 16:00

The Last Laugh Ferne Pearlstein Best of Fests, 89’

First Appearance Competition, Shifting Perspectives, 64’

Lucija Stojevic Panorama, 83’

Site of Sites

15:45 16:00

Inadelso Cossa

La Chana

Music Documentary, 82’

Roger Ross Williams

Planeta Petrila 16:15

James Payne

Feature-Length Competitio

15:00 15:00

Living with Giants

Far Western

Maite Alberdi

14:00 14:00

Shifting Perspectives, 69’

Masters, 90’

The Promise

The Grown-Ups 14:00

Raoul Peck

Nima Sarvestani

15:15

13:30

Lumumba: Death of a Prophet

14:15

Music Documentary, 96’

13:00 13:00

Letters from Baghdad

Natalia Cabral, Oriol Estrada

17:00 17:00

Mid-Length Competition, 61’

17:30

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail

17:45

Close Ties

Zofia Kowalewska

Student Competition, 19’

Coeurope

Giovanni Troilo

18:00

Like Dew in the Sun Peter Entell

Feature-Length Competition, 108’

Mid-Length Competition, 61’

17:45

Resurrecting Hassan

Steve James

Carlo Guillermo Proto

Masters, 90’

18:30

18:30

Liberation Day

Music Documentary, 100’

19:00

Lola Jia Liu

A Letter to Nelson Mandela

Panorama, 98’

Jan Ijäs

Stephen Kijak

Paradocs, 21’

20:30

Melanie Bonajo

Hyewon Jee

Progress vs Regress

Singing with Angry Bird

Paradocs, 54’

Panorama, 88’

20:00 20:00

20:15

Music Documentary, 93’

Frame 394

Rich Williamson

21:00

21:00

Matthew Jones

Dylan Williams, Erik Pauser

The Man from Mo’Wax

The Borneo Case

Music Documentary, 108’

22:00

Masters, 78’

Panorama, 30’

Death in the Terminal Tali Shemesh, Asaf Sudry Mid-Length Competition, 52’

Jian Fan

22:15

Best of Fests, 80’

Long Live Benjamin

Daphne Matziaraki

Jimm Lasser, Biff Butler Mid-Length Competition, 60’

4.1 Miles

Panorama, Shifting Perspectives, 77’

Alejandro G. Salgado

23:00 23:00

Mid-Length Competition, 55’

24:00 24:00

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Wrong Element Best of Fests, 133’

22:00 22:00

Panorama, 22’

Bolingo. The Forest of Love

21:15

Jonathan Littell

Rehad Desai

Those Who Jump

Estephan Wagner, Moritz Siebert, Abou Bakar Sidibé

22:45

21:00 21:00 21:30

The Giant Is Falling

22:00

Still Tomorrow Feature-Length Competition, 88’

Best of Fests, 110’

19:00 19:00

Shifting Perspectives, 85’

We Are X

Time Capsule

The Settlers

Khalo Matabane

19:45 20:00

18:15

Shimon Dotan

On the Bridge of Death and Life

Morten Traavik, Ugis Olte

18:00 18:00

First Appearance Competition, 100’

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Shirley Abraham, Amit Madheshiya

Irene Taylor Brodsky

The Cinema Travellers Best of Fests, 96’

12:00

11:00

Beware the Slenderman 11:45

When Will This Wind Stop

Best of Fests, 114’

12:00

Aniela Astrid Gabryel Student Competition, 66’

13:00

13:00 13:30

The Grown-Ups Maite Alberdi

14:00

Feature-Length Competition, 80’

14:00

14:00

Alban Teurlai, Thierry Demaizière

Maria José Cuevas

Reset

Best of Fests, 110’

14:00

Beauties of the Night Best of Fests, 91’

15:00

15:00 15:45

16:00

The Last Laugh

16:00

Ferne Pearlstein Best of Fests, 89’

16:30

All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone

17:00

Lullaby

17:00

Dziga Vertov

Sergei Loznitsa's Top 10, 58’

18:00

Fred Peabody Best of Fests, 92’

Best of Fests, 110’

19:00

18:30

13 Days. Industrial Party Process Yakov Poselsky

19:00

Rem

Woorden Worden Zinnen: A Trip to the Country

Tomas Koolhaas Best of Fests, 75’

20:00

Invention 20:45

The War Show Wrong Elements Jonathan Littell Best of Fests, 133’

22:00

19:00

20:00

21:15

IDFA in De B Coco Cabasa

18:45

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iant Is Falling

17:00

18:00

Sergei Loznitsa's Top 10, 62’

Desai

Carl Honoré, ambassador for the Slow Movement, gives a keynote entitled “In Praise of Slowness,” followed by drinks. Free tickets can be obtained at www.idfa.nl. See page 108

The Settlers Shimon Dotan

21:00

16:00

The Quiet Eye: Keynote Carl Honoré

18:15

Matabane

a, Shifting Perspectives, 77’

BRAKKE GROND RODE ZAAL

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Andreas Dalsgaard, Obaidah Zytoon Best of Fests, 100’

21:15

France

Raymond Depardon Masters, 83’

Several spoken word artists will perform new work reflecting on the film.

19:00

Fallen Flowers Thick Leaves

19:00

Laetitia Schoofs

Dutch Competition, 85’

20:00

Introduced by visual artist Sarah van Sonsbeeck, who discusses the power of silence, and followed by a Q&A with director Mark Lewis. See page 108

21:00 21:30

Woorden Worden Zinnen: Voices

Several spoken word artists will perform new work reflecting on the film. Including a Q&A with Miguel Peres dos Santos.

21:30

A Greek Winter Ingeborg Jansen

Dutch Competition, 70’

22:00

23:00

23:00

24:00

24:00

1:00

1:00

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9:00

10:00

11:00

12:00

13:00

14:00

15:00

16:00

SOCIAL EVENTS

Arti et Amicitiae – 17:00 - 18:00

17:00

Docs for Sale Happy Hour

Hosted by NPO Sales, EYE International, Films Transit, Autlook Filmsales, CAT&Docs and Rise and Shine.

Docs for Sale & IDFA Forum passholders

18:00 18:30

De Jaren Café – 18:00 Guests Meet Guests

A film and a talk about dance, choosing to be free, (erotic) power, and being a woman – in Tunisia and the Netherlands.

For all passholders

IDFA in De Balie: Coco Cabasa 19:00

itia Schoofs

h Competition, 85’

All IDFA guests are invited to meet and exchange ideas at the daily Guests Meet Guests cocktail hour, supported by Inside a Chinese Life.

De Jaren Café – 22:00 IDFA Lounge

Next to playing percussion in afrobeat-band Jungle By Night, Tien Son searches the globe for a funky selection of music from all over the world. Expect African, Latin and groovy world music like you never heard before.

20:00

Admission Free

21:00

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21:15

IDFA in De Balie: Kiki

Through dance, love, fierceness and respect, LGBTQ-youths create and claim their place in this world. Fierce, fierce, fierce!

DAILY SERVICES

NH Carlton Puccini 9:00 – 21:00 IDFA Writing Room

DOCLAB EXPO: ELASTIC REALITY

Brakke Grond 9:00 – 23:00

How does it feel to have someone follow you in the physical world, instead of just on social media? Or to look for love with your nose, rather than swiping profile pictures on Tinder? What would a computer brain say when it secretly takes a peek at your instagram pictures? Trigger your senses and experience thirty of the world's best interactive documentaries, virtual reality experiences and physical installations in the ten-day DocLab: Elastic Reality exhibition. Some installations have varying opening hours (11:00 – 21:00). On-site reservation may be required.

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1:00

Program Guide

Workspace for all accredited guests. Wifi connection and computers available.

NH Carlton Rossini 10:00 – 17:00 Walk-in consultancies

Walk in and book your one-on-one consultancy.

Arti et Amicitiae 10:00 – 20:00 Meeting Room with screening facilities

All accredited guests have the opportunity to reserve a meeting/screening room for small groups of up to 15 people. Reservations can be made at the Industry Desk. Additionally, six viewing booths are available for holders of a Press Pass at Docs for Sale. Both services are located in Arti et Amicitiae.

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The Event

Sergei Loznitsa

Sergei Loznitsa Retrospective, 74’

11:00

Siberian Love

11:00 11:30

Austerlitz

Olga Delane Panorama, 80’

Sergei Loznitsa

Sergei Loznitsa Retrospective, 94’

12:00

13:00

11:15 11:30

Kids & Docs Competition 1

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

On the Bridge of Death and Life

13:00 13:45

The Promise

Solitary

Shuchang Xie

Student Competition, 73’

Kristi Jacobson

12:00

Alexandru Petru Badelita Student Competition, 14’

13:00

My Friend, Yaniv Maayan Schwartz

Student Competition, 45’

Mi Mi Lwin

Panorama, 98’

Passage – A Boatmovie

Jascha de Wilde, Ben Hendriks Dutch Competition, 55’

Edward Ellis, Flor Salcedo, Aaron Woolf

14:00

Kaouther Ben Hania

Masters, 117’

Panorama, 94’

15:15 15:30

Ashim Ahluwalia

16:45

Feature-Length Competition, 86’

16:15

Rikun Zhu

Jiu-liang Wang

Paradocs, 63’

Nowhere to Hide

Plastic China First Appearance Competition, 81’

17:15

Hillsborough Daniel Gordon Masters, 122’

17:15

18:45

Mogadishu Soldier

Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four

17:30

TV5MONDE Day: Burning Out

TV5MONDE, the French broadcaster with Dutch subtitled quality documentaries, will host a special TV5MONDE day during IDFA 2016. See page 121

18:00

17:45

Time Capsule Jan Ijäs

Deborah Esquenazi

Paradocs, 21’

18:15

Melanie Bonajo

Trude Berge Ottersen, Gry Elisabeth Mortensen

Progress vs Regress Paradocs, 54’

Torstein Grude

19:00

Panorama, 90’

Paradocs, 20’

Welcome

Music Documentary, 75’

17:00

Andrew Shea

Events in a Cloud Chamber

Brenda Greene Mitchell, Sam Wainwright Douglas

Zaradasht Ahmed

Wrestling Alligators

15:30

Honky Tonk Heaven: The Legend of the Broken Spoke

16:00

First Appearance Competition, 98’

Feature-Length Competition, Assembling Reality, 88’

19:30 20:00

20:00

20:30 21:00

Docs around the Clock

21:00

A documentary marathon featuring the highest rated films in the Audience Award Competition. Until 9.00am, with breakfast for the diehards.

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail Steve James Masters, 90’

Long Live Benjamin

Extra screening of a festival hit sponsored by de BankGiro Loterij. For more info and tickets check www.idfa.nl.

TV5MONDE Day: Hissein Habré, a Chadian Tragedy

TV5MONDE, the French broadcaster with Dutch subtitled quality documentaries, will host a special TV5MONDE day during IDFA 2016. See page 121

Jimm Lasser, Biff Butler

The Joy of Sound Ana Endara

Mid-Length Competition, 61’

20:15

Keith Maitland Best of Fests, 82’

Amateurs in Space 22:45

Rats

Max Kestner

Feature-Length Competition, 90’

Lea Glob, Mette Carla Albrechtsen

First Appearance Competition, 80’

Feature-Length Competition, 108’

22:30

What We Have Made Fanny Tondre

Feature-Length Competition, 71’

Morgan Spurlock Masters, 89’

24:00

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Peter Entell

22:15

Mid-Length Competition, 60’

Tower

Like Dew in the Sun

22:30

IDFA Surprise Film

Best of Fests, 91’

Sealers – One Last Hunt

19:45

23:00

Panorama, 84’

Zaineb Hates the Snow

15:00

22:00

13:15

To Be a Miss

Student Competition, 16’

Lola Jia Liu

Panorama, 82’

I Made You, I Kill You

Sugar & Spice

Marcus Vetter, Karin Steinberger

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Jonny von Wallström

Nima Sarvestani

The Pearl of Africa

10:15

The Event

Masters, 90’

Sergei Loznitsa Retrospective, 74’

11:15

Panorama, 82’

I Made You, I Kill You

Alexander Kuznetsov

Student Competition, 14’

Sabine Krayenbühl, Zeva Oelbaum Panorama, 95’

Panorama, 77’

My Friend, Yaniv

Angelos Rallis

Letters from Baghdad 12:00

We’ll Be Alright

Alexandru Petru Badelita

Shingal, Where Are You?

11:30

Kristi Jacobson

12:00

11:00

11:15

Solitary

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Prison Sisters

Panorama, 75’

Sergei Loznitsa

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11:00

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Delicate Balance

Guillermo García López

11:45

The Good Postm Tonislav Hristov

Feature-Length Competitio

Panorama, 81’

Maayan Schwartz

Student Competition, 45’

13:00 13:00

13:15

To Be a Miss

Edward Ellis, Flor Salcedo, Aaron Woolf

14:00

Panorama, 84’

Zaineb Hates the Snow

13:45 14:00

The Borneo Case

Kaouther Ben Hania

Dylan Williams, Erik Pauser

Panorama, 94’

13:45

The Wait

Emil Langballe Panorama, 55’

Masters, 78’

Trembling Mountain 14:15

El patio

Kesang Tseten Panorama, 84’

14:00

Skulls, of My People Vincent Moloi

14:00 14:00

Panorama, Shifting Perspectives, 67’

Elvira Diaz

14:00

Zero Days Alex Gibney Masters, 114’

Panorama, 82’

15:00 15:00

15:15

Wrestling Alligators

15:30

Andrew Shea

Forever Pure

Panorama, 90’

16:15

16:15

Jiu-liang Wang

David Fernandez de Castro

Plastic China

The Man from Mo’Wax

Best of Fests, 85’

Matthew Jones

Music Documentary, 108’

Priorat

First Appearance Competition, 81’

Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four Deborah Esquenazi Best of Fests, 91’

17:30 18:00

Kiki

Andrew Rossi Best of Fests, 90’

19:30

19:30

Jimm Lasser, Biff Butler

Extra screening of a festival hit sponsored by de BankGiro Loterij. For more info and tickets check www.idfa.nl.

Tower

Seed: The Untold Story

Keith Maitland Best of Fests, 82’

IDFA Surprise Film 20:15

18:00 18:00

18:15

Eat That Question Frank Zappa in His Own Words

Best of Fests, 97’

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

20:00 20:00

20:15

Contemporary Color

Tomas Koolhaas

21:00 21:00

Raised by Krump 22:00

22:00

Extra screening of a festival hit sponsored by de BankGiro Loterij. For more info and tickets check www.idfa.nl.

Ragnhild Nøst Bergem

IDFA Surprise Film

Feature-Length Competition, 71’

Best of Fests, 75’

21:30

First Appearance Competition, 80’

Fanny Tondre

20:30

Rem

Music Documentary, 96’

Lea Glob, Mette Carla Albrechtsen

What We Have Made

Panorama, 88’

19:00 19:00

Turner Ross, Bill Ross

Best of Fests, 94’

Singing with An

Best of Fests, 114’

On Call

Alice Diop

18:15

Hyewon Jee

19:00

Venus

22:30

Feature-Length Competitio

Bob Hercules, Rita Coburn Whack

19:45

Taggart Siegel, Jon Betz

21:00

Gogita’s New Li

The First Monday in May

Music Documentary, 90’

Mid-Length Competition, 60’

16:30

Levan Koguashvili

Thorsten Schütte

Long Live Benjamin

16:00 16:00

17:00 17:00

Best of Fests, 110’

First Appearance Competition, 98’

20:15

Isabelle Boni-Claverie

The Settlers

Best of Fests, 94’

Trude Berge Ottersen, Gry Elisabeth Mortensen

Too Black to Be French?

Shimon Dotan

Sara Jordenö

Sealers – One Last Hunt

16:00

Shifting Perspectives, 52’

16:45

Panorama, 69’

17:15

18:15

15:45

Maya Zinshtein

22:30

Monster in the Mind Jean Carper

Best of Fests, 87’

Maceo Frost Panorama, 21’

Remember Me? Student Competition, 35’

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Wojciech Kasperski

Mid-Length Competition, 52’

22:30

Sho(r)t in Japan

Compilation of shorts about Japan. With: Uzu and Gatekeeper.

Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary

22:00 22:00

John Scheinfeld

Michele Santoro

23:00 23:00

24:00 24:00

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Robinù

Music Documentary, 99’

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The Good Postman Tonislav Hristov

Facing the Judgement of History Fridrikh Ermler

Sergei Loznitsa's Top 10, 93’

11:30

God Knows Where I Am Todd Wider, Jedd Wider

12:00

Best of Fests, 99’

12:00

Shepherds’ Journey into the Third Millennium

Feature-Length Competition, 82’

Introduced by psychologist Jaap Duin, who organizes expeditions to remote areas without mobile phones or cameras. See page 108

13:00

13:00

13:30

14:00

14:00

Zero Days Alex Gibney

Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You Rachel Grady, Heidi Ewing Masters, 91’

13:45

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14:00

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Masters, 114’

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16:00 16:30

Gogita’s New Life Levan Koguashvili

17:00

18:00

Feature-Length Competition, 72’

Amsterdam Art Weekend at IDFA: Welcome to the Other Side

Compilation of video art in collaboration with Amsterdam Art Weekend: Borrowed Time, WTC, Promise Prohibited, Work Horse, Establishing Eden, 120’

16:00

16:00

Houston, We Have a Problem!

Food journalist Janno Lanjouw introduces the film with a spoken column about Slow Food followed by a culinary surprise from Tosao van Coevorden (restaurant De Japanner). See page 108

Best of Fests, 88’

18:00

Check It

Toby Oppenheimer, Dana Flor

Singing with Angry Bird Panorama, 88’

18:45

18:30

Panorama, 91’

In Loco Parentis

19:00

Neasa Ní Chianáin

19:00

Alkebulan: The Giant Is Falling

Feature-Length Competition, 103’

20:00

Two Years at Sea 20:30

20:30

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21:00

Best of Fests, 75’

VICE Night at IDFA 21:00

Still Tomorrow Jian Fan

Feature-Length Competition, 88’

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Introduced by acclaimed writer and philosopher Joke J. Hermsen about ‘time’ followed by a slow conversation with director Ben Rivers moderated by Dana Linssen (Filmkrant). See page 108

A DJ will be spinning all kinds of African records and there will be a discussion about the political situation in Africa in the past, the present and the future.

19:00

The Passing Years John Albert Jansen

Lumumba: Death of a Prophet

19:00

Panorama, 78’

The European

21:00

Dirk-Jan Roeleven Dutch Competition, 90’

Raoul Peck

Shifting Perspectives, 69’

22:00

22:30

Robinù

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Michele Santoro

23:00

Best of Fests, 97’

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The Best of IDFA

At least four award winners in one continuous program. Supported by BankGiro Loterij.

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SOCIAL EVENTS

De Jaren Café – 22:00 IDFA Lounge

DJ Dab. This veteran DJ and chef from the town of Utrecht’s cooks up a warm blend of soul, reggae and roots music from his vast collection of 45’s.

Admission Free

20:00

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NH Carlton Puccini 9:00 – 21:00 IDFA Writing Room 21:00

-Jan Roeleven

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22:00

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IDFA in De Balie: Miss Kiet’s Children

Back to school! What do kids know? About being a refugee, about what a good teacher is, about love? The children of Miss Kiet teach us.

23:00

24:00

Workspace for all accredited guests. Wifi connection and computers available.

DOCLAB EXPO: ELASTIC REALITY

Brakke Grond 9:00 – 23:00

How does it feel to have someone follow you in the physical world, instead of just on social media? Or to look for love with your nose, rather than swiping profile pictures on Tinder? What would a computer brain say when it secretly takes a peek at your instagram pictures? Trigger your senses and experience thirty of the world's best interactive documentaries, virtual reality experiences and physical installations in the ten-day DocLab: Elastic Reality exhibition. Some installations have varying opening hours (11:00 – 21:00). On-site reservation may be required.

Admission Free

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Compilation program put up by editors of de Volkskrant. Tickets available on www.idfa.nl/volkskrant.

10:00 Volkskrant IDFA Day

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Volkskrant IDFA Day

11:00

Revue

10:15

Remember Me?

10:30

Ragnhild Nøst Bergem

In Loco Parentis

Student Competition, 35’

Neasa Ní Chianáin

Icon

Feature-Length Competition, 103’

Wojciech Kasperski

Mid-Length Competition, 52’

12:00

10:30

Kids & Docs Competition 2

Children’s documentaries: 1Minute Nature, Che!, Rocknrollers, Jesser and the Sugarcane, Naomi’s Secret, Spotlight on Merna 135’. These films are subtitled in English and will be dubbed in Dutch live during this screening.

12:30

First Appearance Competition, 87’

Jacqueline Zünd

13:00

First Appearance Competition, 83’

13:15

Whatever the Weather

10:30

Sacred

Thomas Lennon Panorama, 86’

12:15

Cucli

Panorama, 17’

Alice Schmid

Almost There

Sergei Loznitsa Retrospective, 82’

Xavier Marrades

The Girl down Loch Änzi

12:45

Sergei Loznitsa

Woman and the Glacier Audrius Stonys

12:30

Seed: The Untold Story Taggart Siegel, Jon Betz Best of Fests, 94’

Mid-Length Competition, 56’

Remo Scherrer

Student Competition, 11’

14:00

A Bastard Child

14:00

Mid-Length Competition, 57’

Clare Weiskopf

Knutte Wester

14:45

The Hanging

15:00

Geoffrey Feinberg

Close Ties

15:00

Panorama, 15’

Zofia Kowalewska

The Road Movie

Student Competition, 19’

Dmitrii Kalashnikov

Coeurope

First Appearance Competition, 67’

Giovanni Troilo

Mid-Length Competition, 61’

16:00

Feature-Length Competition, 80’

17:30

Coco Cabasa

Panorama, 14’

Site of Sites

19:00

Best of Fests, 90’

The Father, the Son and the Holy Jihad

19:00

Feature-Length Competition, 90’

Gogita’s New Life Feature-Length Competition, 72’

Daniel

Anastazja Dabrowska

19:15

Stéphane Malterre

Austerlitz

Panorama, 120’

Sergei Loznitsa

18:15

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Mustafa Ünlü

18:45

Max Kestner

16:45

Levan Koguashvili

17:15

Student Competition, 41’

Amateurs in Space

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail Masters, 90’

Inna Omelchenko

18:30

Andrew Rossi

16:00

Steve James

Paper Stars

Student Competition, 53’

The First Monday in May

Feature-Length Competition, 82’

Student Competition, 24’

Klara Til

18:00

Tonislav Hristov

Roger Ross Williams

16:45

Pawel Lozinski

14:45

The Good Postman

The Man Without a Mask

Mid-Length Competition, 61’

17:00

First Appearance Competition, 82’

15:00

Natalia Cabral, Oriol Estrada

You Have No Idea How Much I Love You

Amazona

19:00

Panorama, 104’

18:30

Machines Rahul Jain

Feature-Length Competition, Assembling Reality, 71’

Dil Leyla

Asli Özarslan

Student Competition, 72’

Sergei Loznitsa Retrospective, 94’

20:00

20:15 20:30

20:30

LoveTrue

Alma Har’el

21:00

Best of Fests, 82’

21:00

Still Tomorrow Jian Fan

Feature-Length Competition, 88’

22:00

23:00

November December

21:15

21:30

Happily Ever After

21:30

Nada Riyadh, Ayman El Amir Panorama, 68’

Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary John Scheinfeld

Music Documentary, 99’

Bruno Jorge Paradocs, 23’

Smoke

Roy Villevoye

Events in a Cloud Chamber

Toby Oppenheimer, Dana Fl Panorama, 91’

Ashim Ahluwalia Paradocs, 20’

Welcome Rikun Zhu Paradocs, 63’

Paradocs, 45’

22:30

22:30

The Rolling Stones Olé Olé Olé!: A Trip Across Latin America

22:45

My Daughter Nora Jasna Krajinovic, 16’

Paul Dugdale

ISIS, Deserters Speak Out

Music Documentary, 105’

Thomas Dandois, Francois-Xavier Tregan Panorama, 53’

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Sergei Loznitsa

Sergei Loznitsa Retrospective, 82’

4.1 Miles 10:30

Sacred

Thomas Lennon Panorama, 86’

Daphne Matziaraki Panorama, 22’

Bolingo. The Forest of Love

Frame 394

Mid-Length Competition, 55’

Death in the Terminal

Alejandro G. Salgado

Rich Williamson Panorama, 30’

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

Xavier Marrades Panorama, 17’

Woman and the Glacier Audrius Stonys

12:30

Seed: The Untold Story

11:00

Nicolas Pradal, Pierre Selvini First Appearance Competition, 112’

12:00

Shuchang Xie

Feature-Length Competition, Assembling Reality, 88’

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Fred Peabody Best of Fests, 92’

14:00

14:00

Clare Weiskopf

Areum Parkkang

Student Competition, 73’

12:45

All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone

Best of Fests, 94’

12:30

13:15

Planeta Petrila

Andrei Dascalescu

First Appearance Competition, 90’

God Knows Where I Am Todd Wider, Jedd Wider Best of Fests, 99’

14:00

The War Show

Andreas Dalsgaard, Obaidah Zytoon

Gaza Surf Club

Philip Gnadt, Mickey Yamine Best of Fests, 87’

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail Steve James Masters, 90’

Hamid Jafari

Best of Fests, 58’

First Appearance Competition, 100’

Levan Koguashvili

A Young Girl in Her Nineties Ah

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Yann Coridian

Mustafa Ünlü Panorama, 104’

Best of Fests, 85’

18:30

Feature-Length Competition, Assembling Reality, 71’

Panorama, Shifting Perspectives, 67’

The Grown-Ups

Panorama, 14’

Radio Kobanî Reber Dosky

17:00 17:00 17:30

Yuri Ancarani

18:00 18:00

18:15

The Offended

Paradocs, 69’

Panorama, 94’

Lea Glob, Mette Carla Albrechtsen

20:30

Hillsborough Masters, 122’

Kaouther Ben Hania

Venus

19:15

Daniel Gordon

Zaineb Hates the Snow

19:45

First Appearance Competition, 80’

20:00 20:00

Far Western James Payne

Rikun Zhu

Claire Simon

Music Documentary, 82’

The Graduation

La Chana

Masters, 119’

22:30

Beauties of the Night Maria José Cuevas Best of Fests, 91’

ISIS, Deserters Speak Out

21:00 21:00 21:30

Lucija Stojevic

22:00

Who’s Gonna Me Now? Beware the Slenderman Love Tomer Heymann,

Panorama, 83’

22:15

Jasna Krajinovic, 16’

16:00 16:00

Reber Dosky

19:30

Panorama, 91’

21:15

My Daughter Nora

Yezidi Girls

19:00 19:00

Toby Oppenheimer, Dana Flor

Paradocs, 20’

22:45

Bernard-Henri Lévy

The Challenge

19:30

Check It

Paradocs, 63’

Peshmerga

Panorama, 83’

Feature-Length Competition, 80’

20:15

Welcome

16:15

Plastic China Maite Alberdi

Ashim Ahluwalia

Compilation of short films about contemporary USA. With: The Ride of their Lives, Wolvesmouth and Raised by Krump.

Skulls, of My People Vincent Moloi

15:00

Marcela Zamora Chamorro

First Appearance Competition, 81’

Events in a Cloud Chamber

American Shorts

17:45

19:00

Jiu-liang Wang

20:30

16:00

Dutch Competition, 72’

Machines Rahul Jain

Feature-Length Competitio

Best of Fests, 92’

17:30

18:15

12:30

14:00 14:00

The Rock

Mohamed Siam

Carlo Guillermo Proto

Feature-Length Competition, 72’

Best of Fests, 85’

Peter Entell

13:00 13:00

15:30

Whose Country?

Resurrecting Hassan Gogita’s New Life

Maya Zinshtein

Like Dew in the

15:00 15:00

Panorama, 25’

16:15 16:45

Forever Pure

Best of Fests, 100’

15:15

16:00

10:30

13:45

The Good Postman Feature-Length Competition, 82’

12:00 12:00

The Return

Mid-Length Competition, 54’

First Appearance Competition, 93’

Tonislav Hristov

11:00

Zahavi Sanjavi

Areum 14:45

Mid-Length Competition, 61’

Torstein Grude

Taggart Siegel, Jon Betz

Amazona

Ana Endara

12:00

Mid-Length Competition, 56’

First Appearance Competition, 82’

Anuktatop: The Metamorphosis

Mogadishu Soldier

12:15

Cucli

The Joy of Sound 10:45

9:00

10:00 10:00

10:15 10:30

PROGRAM DAY BY DAY

TUSCHINSKI 6

Irene Taylor Brodsky Best of Fests, 114’

Barak Heymann Masters, 86’

22:30

22:00 22:00

Paradocs, 100’

Neta Shoshani, David Ofek

23:00 23:00

Thomas Dandois, Francois-Xavier Tregan Panorama, 53’

24:00 24:00

1:00

Program Guide

All These Sleeple Nights Michal Marczak

House Call

Mid-Length Competition, 62’

22:00

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BRAKKE GROND RODE ZAAL

TOLHUISTUIN

KETELHUIS

9:00

9:00

10:00

10:00

10:00

Compilation of shorts about Japan. With: Uzu and Gatekeeper.

Sébastien Rist, Aude Leroux-Lévesque

Sho(r)t in Japan 10:30

Forever Pure

Maya Zinshtein

11:00

GR

10:00

Living with Giants Best of Fests, 78’

Best of Fests, 85’

11:00 11:45

12:00

eturn

s Dalsgaard, h Zytoon

12:30

13:00

Hyewon Jee Panorama, 88’

15:00

Peshmerga

Bernard-Henri Lévy

Welcome to the Heavenly Earth

Compilation of video art in collaboration with Amsterdam Art Weekend: Jokes, Kapitalism, The New Dress, Selfies aan Zee, Mothership Goes to Brazil, 120’

Silent Wilderness

Panorama, 55’

Mathijs Vleugels Panorama, 60’

15:00

Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee

16:30

Homo Sapiens

Nanette Burstein

Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Masters, 98’

Masters, 94’

17:00

14:00

Judith de Leeuw

16:00

a, 14’

mpetition, 72’

13:00

14:30

16:15

Dosky

Dosky

Introduced by acclaimed award-winning writer, broadcaster and TED speaker Carl Honoré, the guest of honor for The Quiet Eye and followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Sebastian Cordes. See page 109

14:00

Amsterdam Art Weekend at IDFA: Familiar Strangers

16:00

Kobanî

12:00

A Place Called Lloyd

14:00

Best of Fests, 92’

Dead Slow Ahead

16:15

The screening is preceded by a presentation about the art of sound in film by sound designer Michel Schöpping. See page 109

Walking in the Opposite Direction

16:00

Marc Waltman

Music Documentary, 96’

17:00

17:30

The Challenge Yuri Ancarani

18:00

19:00

Paradocs, 69’

18:00 18:30 18:45

An Insignificant Man

Haibo Yu, Kiki Tianqi Yu

Best of Fests, 96’

Khushboo Ranka, Vinay Shukla

China’s Van Goghs 19:15

Hillsborough

Panorama, 81’

Alexei and the Spring

Masters, 122’

er Ben Hania

With an Introduction by Dutch filmmaker Ineke Smits followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Seiichi Motohashi. See page 109

20:00 21:00

Minispectacles Albuquerque Straight

21:00

Maarit Suomi-Väänänen

ana

Paradocs, 7’

tojevic

22:00

22:00

All These Sleepless Nights Michal Marczak Paradocs, 100’

19:00 19:30

Daniel Gordon

b Hates the Snow

a, 83’

Singing with Angry Bird

Feature-Length Competition, 108’

14:00

15:00

a, 94’

12:15

Panorama, 84’

Peter Entell

sts, 100’

Girls

12:00

Edward Ellis, Flor Salcedo, Aaron Woolf

Like Dew in the Sun

Sanjavi

th Competition, 54’

War Show

To Be a Miss

Craigslist Allstars Samira Elagoz Paradocs, 65’

Lost Project: The Danton’s Death

With theater, music and dialogue by Lost Project – a collective of young theater makers and performers from Amsterdam.

19:00

A Quiet Place Sjoerd Oostrik

20:00

21:00

Life, Animated

Roger Ross Williams Best of Fests, 91’

19:00

Dutch Competition, 81’

21:00 21:30

21:30

With theater, music and dialogue by Lost Project – a collective of young theater makers and performers from Amsterdam.

Erik Lieshout

Lost Project: Too Black to Be French?

To Stay Alive – A Method Mid-Length Competition, Dutch Competition, 60’

22:00

23:00

23:00

24:00

24:00

1:00

1:00

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KLEINEDELAMAR KOMEDIE THEATER

PROGRAM DAY BY DAY

DE BALIE GROTE ZAAL

KETELHUIS

OTHER VENUES

9:00

10:00

10:00

The Best of IDFA

At least four award winners in one continuous program. Supported by BankGiro Loterij.

11:00

12:00

13:00

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lcome to the avenly Earth

14:00

th de Leeuw

ama, 55’

15:00

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lking in the posite Direction

16:00

c Waltman

Documentary, 96’

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uiet Place

rd Oostrik

17:00

18:00

19:00

h Competition, 81’

SOCIAL EVENTS

20:00

De Jaren Café – 22:00 IDFA Dance Night

DJ Ed Rock. A regular at IDFA Cafe and host of the DJ nights. Ed plays vinyl singles from way back as well as brand new tracks. Many genres, from 1956 till 2016, including soul, rock, new wave, reggae, hip hop and beyond.

21:00

Admission Free

30

Stay Alive – Method

Lieshout

ength Competition, h Competition, 60’

DOCLAB EXPO: ELASTIC REALITY

22:00

Brakke Grond 9:00 – 23:00

How does it feel to have someone follow you in the physical world, instead of just on social media? Or to look for love with your nose, rather than swiping profile pictures on Tinder? What would a computer brain say when it secretly takes a peek at your instagram pictures? Trigger your senses and experience thirty of the world's best interactive documentaries, virtual reality experiences and physical installations in the ten-day DocLab: Elastic Reality exhibition. Some installations have varying opening hours (11:00 – 21:00). On-site reservation may be required.

23:00

24:00

Admission Free

1:00

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TUSCHINSKI 4

TUSCHINSKI 5

TUSCHINSKI 6

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9:00

10:00

10:00 IDFA Audience Favorites

A program consisting of IDFA 2016 Audience Favorites and the announcement of the VPRO IDFA Audience Award.

11:00

10:00 10:15 10:30

Hotel Sunrise

Maria Rumanova

House Call

Neta Shoshani, David Ofek

China’s Van Goghs

10:15

Haibo Yu, Kiki Tianqi Yu Panorama, 81’

Mid-Length Competition, 62’

1Minute Nature 10:45

Stefanie Visjager, Katinka Baehr

Sine Skibsholt

Win by Fall

Who We Were

Mid-Length Competition, 49’

Come Back Free

First Appearance Competition, 82’

Ksenia Okhapkina

Mid-Length Competition, 51’

12:00

12:00

Matt Tyrnauer

Trude Berge Ottersen, Gry Elisabeth Mortensen

Citizen Jane: Battle for the City 12:45

13:00

12:00

Cameraperson

Best of Fests, 97’

Sealers – One Last Hunt First Appearance Competition, 98’

Anna Koch

IDFA Competition for Kids & Docs, 82’

Prison Sisters 12:45

Nima Sarvestani Masters, 90’

The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrai Photography Errol Morris Masters, 76’

12:30

The Opposition Hollie Fifer Panorama, 76’

Nir Dvortchin

Best of Fests, Assembling Reality, 102’

10:30

12:15

Turn Over the Stones

Kirsten Johnson

IDFA Competition for Kids & Docs, 4’

Student Competition, 29’

It’s Getting Dark Olga Kravets

14:00

14:00

14:15

Those Who Jump

Estephan Wagner, Moritz Siebert, Abou Bakar Sidibé

15:00

15:00

Best of Fests, 80’

The Claim, the Search for Stolen Art from WWII Ditteke Mensink

Dutch Competition, 91’

The Cinema Travellers

14:45

Yezidi Girls Panorama, 14’

Shirley Abraham, Amit Madheshiya

1Minute Nature & The Eagle Huntress

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

We Are X

Stephen Kijak

Music Documentary, 93’

Zahavi Sanjavi

Mid-Length Competition, 54’

16:15

16:15

Barnaby Clay

Music Documentary, 100’

Shot! The PsychoLiberation Day Spiritual Mantra of Rock Morten Traavik, Ugis Olte

16:30 16:45

Priorat

David Fernandez de Castro

Ambulance

Mohamed Jabaly Best of Fests, 78’

Panorama, 69’

18:00

19:00

20:00

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22:00

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The Return

Music Documentary, 98’

17:00

14:15

Reber Dosky

Best of Fests, 96’

16:00

Mid-Length Competition, 48’

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


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DE MUNT

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DE MUNT

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DE MUNT

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DE MUNT

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10:00

El patio

10:15

1Minute Nature Stefanie Visjager, Katinka Baehr

IDFA Competition for Kids & Docs, 4’

Win by Fall Anna Koch

IDFA Competition for Kids & Docs, 82’

10:30

The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography

Elvira Diaz

Panorama, 82’

10:00

What We Have Made

10:15

Zero Days Alex Gibney Masters, 114’

10:30

Gogita’s New Life

Fanny Tondre

Levan Koguashvili

11:00

Masters, 76’

11:45

Nowhere to Hide

12:00 12:15

Prison Sisters

Nima Sarvestani Masters, 90’

12:30

The Opposition Hollie Fifer

Where You’re Meant to Be Paul Fegan

Music Documentary, 77’

Panorama, 76’

12:15

Rodnye (Close Relations) 12:45

Reset

Zaradasht Ahmed

Feature-Length Competition, 86’

9:00

10:00 10:00

Feature-Length Competition, 71’

Feature-Length Competition, 72’

Errol Morris

PROGRAM DAY BY DAY

TUSCHINSKI 6

11:00

12:00 12:00

Vitaly Mansky Masters, 112’

Alban Teurlai, Thierry Demaizière

13:00 13:00

Best of Fests, 110’

13:45

In Loco Parentis

14:00

1Minute Nature & The Eagle Huntress

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

Neasa Ní Chianáin

The Offended

14:15

14:30

We Are X

Feature-Length Competition, 103’

Marcela Zamora Chamorro Panorama, 83’

14:45

Stephen Kijak

The Joy of Sound

Music Documentary, 93’

15:15

The First Monday in May

Ana Endara

Andrew Rossi Best of Fests, 90’

Ambulance

Mohamed Jabaly Best of Fests, 78’

16:45

Shalom Italia Tamar Tal-Anati

Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee Nanette Burstein Masters, 98’

Best of Fests, 71’

15:00 15:00

Mid-Length Competition, 61’

16:00

The Grown-Ups

16:15 16:30

14:00 14:00

16:30

My Father and My Mother Bo Jiao

Panorama, 88’

Maite Alberdi

16:00 16:00

Feature-Length Competition, 80’

16:45

17:00 17:00

18:00 18:00

19:00 19:00

20:00 20:00

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Communion Anna Zamecka Best of Fests, 72’


Sunday 27 November PODIUM MOZAÏEK

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BRAKKE GROND EXPOZAAL

BRAKKE GROND RODE ZAAL

TOLHUISTUIN

KETELHUIS

GR

9:00

9:00

10:00

10:00

10:00

The Wait

Emil Langballe

10:30

Panorama, 55’

IDFA Surprise Films

Extra screenings of festival hits. For more info and tickets check www.idfa.nl.

11:00

11:00

11:45

Mogadishu Soldier Torstein Grude

12:00

Feature-Length Competition, Assembling Reality, 88’

13:00

Light Year

Accompanied by a unique live score by renowned German electronic composers Robert Lippok and Barbara Morgenstern, commissioned and produced by CineSonic. See page 109

14:00

14:00

Compilation of video art in collaboration with Amsterdam Art Weekend: What Is Community?, Alter Senator, The Island, 120’

16:15 16:45

Communion Anna Zamecka Best of Fests, 72’

How to Meet a Mermaid Coco Schrijber

Feature-Length Competition, Dutch Competition, 90’

13:00

15:00

16:00

16:00

12:00

14:00

Amsterdam Art Weekend at IDFA: Let Me Do the Talking

15:00

17:00

12:00

South to North Cine-Concert

Yannis Kyriakides & Andy Moor composed the original soundtrack of Sud eau nord deplacer. A new cut of the film is accompanied by a live soundtrack by Kyriakides and Moor, produced by CineSonic. See page 109

16:00

17:00

18:00

18:00

19:00

19:00

20:00

20:00

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22:00

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OTHER VENUES OTHER VENUES

9:00

10:00

10:00

The Best of IDFA

At least four award winners in one continuous program. Supported by BankGiro Loterij.

30

A Surprise Films

a screenings of festival hits. more info and tickets check w.idfa.nl.

KLEINEDELAMAR KOMEDIE THEATER

PROGRAM DAY BY DAY

DE BALIE GROTE ZAAL

KETELHUIS

11:00

12:00

13:00

14:00

15:00

16:00

17:00

18:00

19:00

20:00

21:00

DOCLAB EXPO: ELASTIC REALITY

22:00

Brakke Grond 9:00 – 18:00

How does it feel to have someone follow you in the physical world, instead of just on social media? Or to look for love with your nose, rather than swiping profile pictures on Tinder? What would a computer brain say when it secretly takes a peek at your instagram pictures? Trigger your senses and experience thirty of the world's best interactive documentaries, virtual reality experiences and physical installations in the ten-day DocLab: Elastic Reality exhibition. Some installations have varying opening hours (11:00 – 21:00). On-site reservation may be required.

23:00

24:00

Admission Free

1:00

Program Guide

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1Minute Nature WP

1Minuutje natuur Stefanie Visjager, Katinka Baehr

The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 4 min In short, imaginative animated documentaries, children talk about their relationship with nature.

Before each screening of The Eagle Huntress, Win by Fall, Kids & Docs Competition 1 and Kids & Docs Competition 2 one of the four selected 1Minute Nature animations will be screened.

Panorama

4.1 Miles

Daphne Matziaraki

USA, 2016, DCP, 22 min Ride along with Lesbos coast guard captain Kyriakos and his fellow coastguardsmen, who save thousands of refugees from the sea each day. th 17 19:15 Munt 10 mo 21 21:15 Tuschinski 5 tu 22 19:30 Tuschinski 1

[ Oxfam-Novib Selection]

th 24 22:15 Munt 13 sa 26 10:00 Munt 10

Sergei Loznitsa’s Top 10

13 Days. Industrial Party Process Yakov Poselsky

Russia, 1930, ProRes, 62 min A dozen men are on trial for crimes against the Russian Revolution in 1930. They confess, but what are we really watching here? sa 19 13:30 EYE Cinema 2 th 24 18:45 EYE Cinema 2

DocLab: Elastic Reality

100 Photographs: The Most Influential Images of All Time WP Kira Pollack, Paul Moakley

USA, 2016, cross‑platform A multimedia project by Time magazine on the hundred photos that have shaped our world. Short films, essays and stories from those who have made the news explain why. Installation in DocLab Expo: Elastic Reality th 17 t/m sa 26 9:00-23:00 Brakke Grond su 27 9:00-18:00 Brakke Grond

Masters

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail EP

Best of Fests

Steve James

All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone IP

Panorama

Canada, USA, 2016, DCP, 92 min Independent, investigative, adversarial journalists, including Glenn Greenwald, allow the camera to follow them, as they use government documents to expose deception. su 20 14:30 Tuschinski 2 [Extended Q&A] mo 21 22:15 Tuschinski 4 tu 22 17:30 EYE Cinema 1 th 24 16:30 Brakke Grond Expozaal sa 26 12:45 Munt 11

USA, 2016, DCP, 90 min Not all bankers escaped prosecution in the U.S. mortgage crisis: a small Chinese-American family bank spent years fighting in the courts. th 17 21:00 EYE Cinema 1 tu 22 19:45 EYE Cinema 1 th 24 17:30 Munt 11 fr 25 20:30 Tuschinski 3 sa 26 16:00 Tuschinski 6

Abandoned Land La terre abandonnée Gilles Laurent

Belgium, 2016, DCP, 73 min A thoughtful portrait of the people who have returned to their homes in the evacuated zone around the Fukushima nuclear power station, despite the radioactivity. we 16 16:45 Munt 13 sa 19 23:00 Munt 9 su 20 13:45 Munt 12 we 23 19:30 Brakke Grond Expozaal [Ext. Q&A]

Fred Peabody

Paradocs

All These Sleepless Nights Wszystkie nieprzespane noce Michal Marczak

Poland, 2016, DCP, 100 min A coming-of-age portrait about alcohol, drugs, girls and house music, balancing between fact and fiction. th 17 17:15 Tuschinski 6 fr 18 22:00 Tuschinski 2 we 23 19:15 EYE Cinema 2 sa 26 22:00 EYE Cinema 1

Panorama

First Appearance Competition

Mustafa Ünlü

Jacqueline Zünd

Ah IP

Turkey, 2016, DCP, 104 min Eyewitness accounts of the deadliest suicide attack in modern Turkish history, which occurred in Ankara during a march for peace on October 10, 2015. th 17 14:00 Munt 11 mo 21 16:15 Tuschinski 2 [Extended Q&A] tu 22 21:30 Munt 11 fr 25 13:45 Brakke Grond Expozaal sa 26 18:15 Tuschinski 6

The Quiet Eye

Alexei and the Spring Alexei to izumi Seiichi Motohashi

Japan, 2002, ProRes, 104 min Life in Budische calmly carries on for 55 elderly locals and the younger Alexei, all of whom refused to be evacuated after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. sa 26 19:30 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

Almost There WP

Switzerland, 2016, DCP, 83 min A moving portrait of three men in the autumn of their lives, all of whom are searching for meaning and dignity. fr 18 20:15 Munt 9 sa 19 17:30 Tuschinski 3 [ Industry Screening] su 20 15:15 Tuschinski 4 mo 21 17:45 Brakke Grond Expozaal sa 26 12:45 Tuschinski 3

Paradocs: Amsterdam Art Weekend

Alter Senator Willehad Eilers

Germany, The Netherlands, 2015, DCP, 13 min A week in the life of a non-stop drinker— through his alcohol-addled eyes, dreary gray reality is transformed into a wonderland filled with gorgeous women. su 27 14:00 EYE Cinema 2

Feature-Length Competition

Amateurs in Space IP Max Kestner

Denmark, 2016, DCP, 90 min A boys’ adventure tale come true for two Danish friends who dream of building a rocket for the first amateur manned flight into space. sa 19 21:30 Tuschinski 1 su 20 12:30 EYE Cinema 1 mo 21 16:00 Munt 12 [ Industry Screening] th 24 11:00 Munt 11 fr 25 22:15 Tuschinski 4 sa 26 19:00 Tuschinski 2

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First Appearance Competition

Amazona WP Clare Weiskopf

Colombia, 2016, DCP, 82 min Clare was 11 years old when her mother swapped family life for seclusion in the jungle. 30 years later, she decides to confront her mother with the choices she made. fr 18 12:45 Munt 12 [ Industry Screening] fr 18 20:15 EYE Cinema 1 su 20 22:15 Tuschinski 4 we 23 11:00 Munt 9 sa 26 14:00 Tuschinski 6

Best of Fests

Ambulance

Mohamed Jabaly

Norway, Palestine, 2016, DCP, 78 min A raw and personal report from wartorn Gaza in 2014, most of it filmed on nail-biting ambulance rides, racing around to save lives. th 17 13:30 Tuschinski 2 sa 19 19:00 Tuschinski 5 su 20 22:30 Tuschinski 6 th 24 11:30 Munt 10 su 27 16:30 Tuschinski 6

Shorts

American Shorts

Compilation of short films about contemporary USA. With: The Ride of their Lives, Wolvesmouth and Raised by Krump, 90 min. th 17 15:30 Tuschinski 4 we 23 21:45 EYE Cinema 2 sa 26 16:00 Munt 13

Amsterdam Art Weekend

Amsterdam Art Weekend at IDFA: Familiar Strangers Compilation of video art in collaboration with Amsterdam Art Weekend: Jokes, Kapitalism, The New Dress, Selfies aan Zee, Mothership Goes to Brazil, 120’ sa 26 14:00 EYE Cinema 2

Amsterdam Art Weekend

Amsterdam Art Weekend at IDFA: Let Me Do the Talking

Compilation of video art in collaboration with Amsterdam Art Weekend: What Is Community?, Alter Senator, The Island, 120’ su 27 14:00 EYE Cinema 2

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Masters

Compilation of video art in collaboration with Amsterdam Art Weekend: Borrowed Time, WTC, Promise Prohibited, Work Horse, Establishing Eden, 120’ fr 25 16:00 EYE Cinema 2

Errol Morris

Amsterdam Art Weekend at IDFA: Welcome to the Other Side

First Appearance Competition

Anuktatop: The Metamorphosis IP

Anuktatop: la métamorphose Nicolas Pradal, Pierre Selvini

France, Frans Guyana, 2016, DCP, 112 min Dreamy docufiction showing how members of the Wayana tribe in French Guyana deal with the changing world around them. fr 18 20:15 Munt 12 sa 19 10:45 Tuschinski 3 [ Industry Screening] su 20 17:00 Tuschinski 5 tu 22 11:45 Munt 13 sa 26 10:45 Munt 12

First Appearance Competition

Areum IP

Areum Parkkang

South Korea, 2016, DCP, 93 min When blind dates lead nowhere, Areum decides to drastically change her appearance in this film about the merciless gaze of the outside world. su 20 15:45 Tuschinski 3 [ Industry Screening] mo 21 18:45 Munt 13 tu 22 16:45 Tuschinski 5 we 23 10:30 Tuschinski 5 sa 26 14:00 Munt 10

Sergei Loznitsa Retrospective

Austerlitz

Sergei Loznitsa

Germany, 2016, DCP, 94 min Sergei Loznitsa observes the torrents of tourists flooding though a concentration camp. Has the commemoration of the Holocaust become a spectacle? fr 18 16:00 Tuschinski 1 [Extended Q&A] su 20 10:15 Munt 9 fr 25 11:30 Tuschinski 2 sa 26 19:15 Tuschinski 3

The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography EP USA, 2016, DCP, 76 min A portrait of the photographer Elsa Dorfman (b. 1937), who captured thousands of famous and unknown subjects using a rare large-format Polaroid camera. th 17 11:00 Tuschinski 4 fr 18 10:00 Tuschinski 1 we 23 11:15 Munt 11 th 24 11:00 Tuschinski 1 su 27 10:30 Munt 9

Mid-Length Competition

A Bastard Child WP Horungen Knutte Wester

Sweden, Norway, 2016, DCP, 57 min In an exceptional mix of animation and archive footage, artist Knutte Wester tells the story of his grandmother, who grew up with the stigma of being illegitimate. th 17 13:15 Munt 12 [ Industry Screening] fr 18 18:30 Tuschinski 6 tu 22 16:00 Munt 10 we 23 21:15 Tuschinski 2 sa 26 13:15 Tuschinski 5

DocLab: Elastic Reality

Bear 71 VR WP

National Film Board of Canada

Canada, 2016, cross‑platform A seminal piece in the history of interactive documentary, reimagined and re-released as a VR piece for the 10-year anniversary of IDFA DocLab. On-site reservation required Screening during DocLab Live: Immersive Showcase tu 22 20:00 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal [Live] Installation in DocLab Expo: Elastic Reality th 17 t/m sa 26 9:00-23:00 Brakke Grond su 27 9:00-18:00 Brakke Grond

Panorama

The Beast Is Still Alive Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova

Bulgaria, 2016, DCP, 90 min In a fictional dialogue with her dead grandfather, a young woman takes a critical look at communist ideology. we 16 18:45 Munt 13 sa 19 15:00 Tuschinski 4 we 23 20:15 Munt 12 th 24 15:00 Tuschinski 4

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Masters

Paradocs

Bellas de noche Maria José Cuevas

Dylan Williams, Erik Pauser

Yuri Ancarani

Beauties of the Night EP Mexico, 2016, DCP, 91 min These older Mexican showgirls had their heyday in the 1970s, but they are still celebrating their love of beauty— and the spotlight. th 17 22:00 Munt 9 fr 18 13:15 Tuschinski 5 sa 19 13:00 Munt 10 th 24 14:00 Brakke Grond Expozaal sa 26 22:30 Munt 9

Paradocs

Beeldbepalers: Renzo Martens Artist Renzo Martens shares his enterprise to redress the critical art machine and make it beneficial on a former Unilever plantation in Congo. In collaboration with De Balie. sa 19 16:00 De Balie – Grote Zaal

Best of Fests

Beware the Slenderman EP Irene Taylor Brodsky

USA, 2016, DCP, 114 min A chilling true crime report about two teenage girls who fall under the spell of a fictional internet bogeyman and decide to stab their friend to death. th 17 21:30 Munt 10 su 20 22:00 Tuschinski 3 th 24 11:15 Brakke Grond Expozaal sa 26 22:15 Munt 11

Kids & Docs Competition

Black Sheep Christian Cerami

England, 2015, DCP, 16 min A raw directorial debut about two impressionable brothers who attend a far-right anti-Islam protest in Britain. Their reactions are very different. su 20 12:00 Tuschinski 5 mo 21 11:30 Tuschinski 3 fr 25 11:30 Tuschinski 4

Mid-Length Competition

Bolingo. The Forest of Love WP Bolingo. El bosque del amor Alejandro G. Salgado

Spain, 2016, DCP, 55 min These testimonies of five African women making the perilous journey from Africa to Europe are celebrations of motherhood, capturing their courage, hope and resilience. th 17 19:15 Munt 10 su 20 12:15 Munt 12 [ Industry Screening] mo 21 21:15 Tuschinski 5 tu 22 19:30 Tuschinski 1

The Borneo Case EP Sweden, Germany, Wales, 2016, DCP, 78 min Following years of research, four highly motivated activists expose the chief minister of the state of Sarawak, who earned billions of dollars from illegal logging in Borneo. sa 19 18:30 Tuschinski 6 mo 21 16:30 EYE Cinema 2 we 23 17:00 Brakke Grond Expozaal [Ext. Q&A] th 24 21:00 Munt 12 fr 25 14:00 Munt 10

Paradocs: Amsterdam Art Weekend

Borrowed Time Semâ Bekirovic

The Netherlands, 2014, DCP, 10 min A spellbinding record of a freedive in which calmness makes way for desperation. Nine minutes feel like an eternity, and you’ll never take breathing for granted again. fr 25 16:00 EYE Cinema 2

Feature-Length Competition

Burning Out WP Jérôme le Maire

Belgium, France, Switzerland, 2016, DCP, 85 min Doctors in a Parisian hospital are fighting a life-and-death battle. Everything’s got to be cheaper, quicker and more efficient. A glimpse of imminent burnout in the healthcare system. fr 18 17:30 Munt 13 [ Industry Screening] sa 19 20:00 Munt 11 tu 22 19:30 Brakke Grond Expozaal [Ext. Q&A] we 23 14:00 Tuschinski 6 th 24 10:45 Tuschinski 2 [TV5MONDE Day] fr 25 17:30 Tuschinski 4

Best of Fests, Assembling Reality

Cameraperson Kirsten Johnson

USA, 2016, DCP, 102 min A visual autobiography, compiled from the impressive visual archive of Kirsten Johnson, “cameraperson” on films such as Fahrenheit 9/11, Pray the Devil Back to Hell and Citizenfour. sa 19 22:30 Munt 10 su 20 19:00 Tuschinski 1 mo 21 19:00 EYE Cinema 2 [Extended Q&A] su 27 12:45 Tuschinski 2

The Challenge Italy, France, 2016, DCP, 69 min Falconry is not a medieval sport in the Qatari desert, where tradition and high tech come together, resulting in images of hypnotic beauty. th 17 18:00 Munt 9 sa 19 22:15 EYE Cinema 1 su 20 19:45 Tuschinski 5 tu 22 19:15 EYE Cinema 2 sa 26 17:30 EYE Cinema 1

DocLab: Elastic Reality

Chameleon WP

Robin McNicholas, Barney Steel, Ersin Han Ersin

Mexico, England, 2016, cross‑platform, 5 min An immersive and sensory portrait of Mexico City, created by 12 Mexican artists from various disciplines together with the British collective Marshmallow Laser Feast. On-site reservation required.

Installation in DocLab Expo: Elastic Reality th 17 t/m sa 26 9:00-23:00 Brakke Grond su 27 9:00-18:00 Brakke Grond

Panorama

La Chana WP Lucija Stojevic

Spain, Iceland, USA, 2016, DCP, 83 min A portrait of flamenco queen “La Chana” as she takes to the stage for the first time in 23 years. th 17 15:45 Munt 9 sa 19 17:15 Tuschinski 4 su 20 11:00 Tuschinski 6 th 24 16:15 Munt 12 sa 26 21:30 Podium Mozaïek

Music Documentary

Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary EP John Scheinfeld

USA, 2016, DCP, 99 min With his inquisitive playing, intense solos and original compositions, saxophonist John Coltrane (1926-1967) rejuvenated jazz. After he kicked drugs, his playing became even freer. su 20 14:00 Melkweg Rabozaal [ +Live Performance] mo 21 21:00 Munt 10 fr 25 21:30 Podium Mozaïek sa 26 21:30 Tuschinski 4

[ Oxfam-Novib Selection]

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Kids & Docs Competition

Best of Fests

Elsbeth Fraanje

Matt Tyrnauer

IDFAcademy Results Che! The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 14 min A peek into the world of a tough kid named Che, which has changed radically since his parents’ divorce. sa 19 13:30 Tuschinski 2 Dutch audience only we 23 14:00 EYE Cinema 2 Live dubbing th 24 13:00 Tuschinski 5 sa 26 10:30 Tuschinski 5 Live dubbing

Panorama

Check It

Toby Oppenheimer, Dana Flor

USA, 2016, DCP, 91 min Getting involved in a major fashion project offers members of Check It, a gay gang in Washington, D.C., a chance to escape the spiral of prostitution and violence. we 16 21:00 Tuschinski 4 th 17 13:30 Munt 9 mo 21 13:45 EYE Cinema 1 [ Queer Day] fr 25 18:00 Brakke Grond Expozaal sa 26 20:15 Munt 9

Panorama

China’s Van Goghs WP

Zhongguo Fangao Haibo Yu, Kiki Tianqi Yu

China, The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 81 min A Chinese replica painter feels a deep affinity with Van Gogh and travels to Amsterdam to find the spirit of his own work. su 20 17:45 Munt 10 mo 21 14:00 Tuschinski 1 sa 26 18:45 EYE Cinema 2 su 27 10:00 Tuschinski 4

Best of Fests

The Cinema Travellers

Shirley Abraham, Amit Madheshiya

India, 2016, DCP, 96 min An affectionate, melancholy ode to a vanishing phenomenon in rural India: the traveling cinema. Can the ancient projector compete with TV? we 16 15:30 Munt 10 th 17 11:00 Tuschinski 1 fr 18 22:00 EYE Cinema 2 th 24 11:15 EYE Cinema 1 su 27 15:00 Tuschinski 2

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Citizen Jane: Battle for the City IP USA, 2016, DCP, 97 min This portrait of journalist and activist Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) uses a treasure trove of archive material and interviews with contemporaries and experts to present her vision of the modern city. fr 18 16:00 Brakke Grond Expozaal sa 19 23:00 Tuschinski 2 we 23 13:30 Tuschinski 1 th 24 15:30 Tuschinski 5 su 27 12:00 Tuschinski 3

Dutch Competition

The Claim, the Search for Stolen Art from WWII WP De claim, zoektocht naar roofkunst uit WOII Ditteke Mensink

The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 91 min The Dutch Restitutions Committee investigates the claims of Dutch Holocaust survivors on art treasures stolen by the Nazis. How do you prove a painting really did belong to your grandfather? sa 19 13:15 Tuschinski 3 [ Industry Screening] su 20 17:00 EYE Cinema 1 tu 22 19:45 Tuschinski 2 [NTR Avond van de Wolf] we 23 19:00 Ketelhuis Zaal 1 su 27 14:00 Tuschinski 4

IDFA DocLab Competition

Clickclickclick.click WP Roel Wouters, Luna Maurer

The Netherlands, 2016, cross‑platform In a likeable, playful clickbait experience, you are rewarded for exploring all the interactive possibilities of your mouse.

Screening during DocLab Live: The Art of Following fr 18 21:15 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal [Live] Installation in DocLab Expo: Elastic Reality th 17 t/m sa 26 9:00-23:00 Brakke Grond su 27 9:00-18:00 Brakke Grond

Student Competition

Close Ties

Wiezi Zofia Kowalewska

Poland, 2016, DCP, 19 min A loving portrait of a bickering couple who seems to have weathered every storm life has thrown at them. Everything falls into place during a family dinner. sa 19 20:00 Munt 13 mo 21 13:30 Tuschinski 4 th 24 17:45 Tuschinski 6 sa 26 15:00 Tuschinski 3

Student Competition

Coco Cabasa WP Klara Til

The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 53 min In her free time, a university lecturer in gender studies teaches belly dance to women all over the world to free them from their inhibitions. fr 18 20:15 Tuschinski 5 mo 21 17:00 Munt 10 we 23 10:00 Munt 12 th 24 18:30 De Balie – Grote Zaal sa 26 17:30 Tuschinski 3

Mid-Length Competition

Coeurope WP Giovanni Troilo

Italy, 2016, DCP, 61 min Beneath an unchanging gray blanket of clouds, inhabitants of the once flourishing industrial city of Charleroi, Belgium try to keep it together in a changing world. sa 19 10:30 Munt 12 [ Industry Screening] sa 19 20:00 Munt 13 mo 21 13:30 Tuschinski 4 th 24 17:45 Tuschinski 6 sa 26 15:00 Tuschinski 3

Shifting Perspectives

The Colonial Misunderstanding Le malentendu colonial Jean-Marie Teno

Cameroon, France, Germany, 2004, DCP, 75 min Before colonization, the missionaries came to Africa. Documentary filmmaker Jean-Marie Teno shows how they paved the way for European rule. we 16 20:30 Tuschinski 6 th 17 18:30 Kleine Komedie

Mid-Length Competition

Come Back Free WP Ksenia Okhapkina

Estonia, 2016, DCP, 51 min Beautifully filmed observations of daily life in a Chechen village, where a community has learnt how to survive the wounds of war. th 17 16:45 Munt 12 [ Industry Screening] fr 18 21:45 Tuschinski 4 mo 21 15:30 Munt 9 th 24 11:45 Tuschinski 6 su 27 10:30 Tuschinski 2

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam


Communion Komunia Anna Zamecka

Poland, 2016, DCP, 72 min Tragic, in parts humorous and even cautiously optimistic portrait of Ola, a combative 14-year-old who takes care of her autistic brother almost all by herself. we 16 13:15 Munt 12 th 17 16:15 Tuschinski 2 fr 18 16:30 Tuschinski 6 su 20 10:30 Tuschinski 2 su 27 16:45 EYE Cinema 1

Panorama

Connection WP Conectifai Horizoe Garcia

Cuba, 2016, DCP, 18 min A portrait of a park in Havana where, thanks to public Wi-Fi, a new kind of meeting place has arisen. th 17 18:30 Tuschinski 3 fr 18 21:30 Munt 10 mo 21 13:15 Munt 9 th 24 10:15 Tuschinski 3

Sergei Loznitsa’s Top 10

Conscience

Sovest Vladimir Denisenko

Ukraine, 1989, ProRes, 78 min What would your conscience tell you to do if the choice was between your own life and that of an entire village? th 17 13:15 Tuschinski 6 we 23 11:30 EYE Cinema 2

Music Documentary

Contemporary Color EP Turner Ross, Bill Ross

USA, 2016, DCP, 96 min A beautifully filmed concert featuring 10 pop acts and color guard dancers performing synchronized choreographies with flags, rifles and swords. fr 18 21:30 Melkweg Rabozaal sa 19 22:00 Tuschinski 4 th 24 13:45 Munt 10 fr 25 20:15 Munt 13

Paradocs

Craigslist Allstars WP Samira Elagoz

Finland, The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 65 min A female perspective on how men look at women in an intimate and sometimes shocking chronicle of first dates made on Craigslist. fr 18 21:00 Tuschinski 6 su 20 14:45 Tuschinski 5 we 23 19:45 Tuschinski 5 sa 26 21:00 EYE Cinema 2

Program Guide

Kids & Docs

Crowley – Every Cowboy Needs His Horse Andre Hörmann

Germany, 2015, DCP, 16 min All 11-year-old Crowley wants is to be a cowboy. He’s determined to prove to his parents that he can break a horse. su 20 12:00 Tuschinski 5 mo 21 11:30 Tuschinski 3 fr 25 11:30 Tuschinski 4

Shorts

Cuban Shorts

Compilation of short films about Cuba in transition. With: Motriz, House for Sale, Connection and Great Muy Bien, 105 min. th 17 18:30 Tuschinski 3 fr 18 21:30 Munt 10 mo 21 13:15 Munt 9 th 24 10:15 Tuschinski 3

Panorama

Cucli WP

Xavier Marrades

Spain, 2016, DCP, 17 min An atmospheric short film about a lonely truck driver who finds a new life companion in the form of a white dove. th 17 19:00 EYE Cinema 1 sa 19 14:15 Munt 9 we 23 12:15 Tuschinski 6 sa 26 12:15 Tuschinski 6

Panorama

Cuts WP

Potongan Chairun Nissa

Indonesia, 2016, DCP, 70 min Two filmmakers decide to look into the opaque world of Indonesian film censorship after their film is rejected for regular distribution. th 17 16:30 EYE Cinema 1 sa 19 16:30 Tuschinski 2 mo 21 22:00 Munt 12 we 23 13:00 Munt 13

Dutch Competition

Daan’s Inheritance WP De erfenis Joris Postema

The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 85 min Trying to get a handle on his life and depression, Daan enters into a confrontation with his father, photographer Ed van der Elsken, who died in 1990. th 17 21:00 Munt 11 sa 19 13:45 Munt 12 [ Industry Screening] sa 19 21:15 Ketelhuis Zaal 1 su 20 10:45 Munt 10 tu 22 16:15 Tuschinski 6

Student Competition

Daniel

Anastazja Dabrowska

Poland, 2016, DCP, 24 min At a summer camp for young people with Down syndrome, Daniel tries to express his feelings in a poem. A film about universal desires, friendship and brotherly love. th 17 17:30 Tuschinski 4 fr 18 17:30 Tuschinski 4 su 20 11:00 EYE Cinema 2 sa 26 17:15 Tuschinski 5

Shifting Perspectives

Danton’s Death La mort de Danton Alice Diop

France, 2010, video, 60 min Steve is a young black man from a poor Parisian suburb. His dream is to become an actor, but he encounters plenty of obstacles and prejudice along the way. fr 18 21:30 Kleine Komedie [Extended Q&A] sa 26 19:00 Tolhuistuin

The Quiet Eye

Dead Slow Ahead Mauro Herce

Spain, France, 2015, ProRes, 74 min An intoxicating sea voyage on a freighter that is more like a futuristic machine cast adrift, on a trip to the end of the world. sa 26 16:00 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

Mid-Length Competition

Death in the Terminal IP Mavet be Be’er Sheba Tali Shemesh, Asaf Sudry

Israel, 2016, DCP, 52 min A reconstruction of an attack on an Israeli bus terminal in 2015 and the tragedy that developed from it. fr 18 10:00 Tuschinski 3 [ Industry Screening] su 20 20:15 Munt 10 mo 21 19:00 Tuschinski 2 [Extended Q&A] we 23 21:15 De Balie – Grote Zaal th 24 20:15 Munt 13 sa 26 10:30 Munt 11

IDFA DocLab Competition

DeathTolls Experience Ali Eslami

Iran, 2016, cross‑platform A virtual journey from the refugee crisis in Europe to the bloodbath in Syria, placing the dry “data reality” of the news in an emotional perspective. On-site reservation required.

Installation in DocLab Expo: Elastic Reality th 17 t/m sa 26 9:00-23:00 Brakke Grond su 27 9:00-18:00 Brakke Grond

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Delicate Balance IP Frágil equilibrio Guillermo García López

Spain, 2016, DCP, 81 min An interview with former president of Uruguay José Alberto Mujica connects three stories from three continents about the future of humanity. mo 21 19:30 Tuschinski 1

[ Oxfam-Novib Selection]

tu 22 11:30 Munt 11 we 23 14:30 Brakke Grond Expozaal fr 25 12:00 Munt 12

IDFA DocLab Competition

Deprogrammed WP Mia Donovan

Canada, 2016, cross‑platform A meditative virtual walk through the mental worlds of a former member of the Unification Church, a skinhead and a jihadist. On-site reservation required. Installation in DocLab Expo: Elastic Reality th 17 t/m sa 26 9:00-23:00 Brakke Grond su 27 9:00-18:00 Brakke Grond

IDFA DocLab Competition

The Dig WP

Topaz Adizes, Mike Knowlton, Julia Gorbach, Carla Tramullas, Mark Harris USA, 2016, cross‑platform Modern relationships bring new dilemmas.This interactive web series present you with different couplesand the choices they should make. What would youadvise?

Installation in DocLab Expo: Elastic Reality th 17 t/m sa 26 9:00-23:00 Brakke Grond su 27 9:00-18:00 Brakke Grond

Student Competition

Dil Leyla WP Asli Özarslan

Germany, 2016, DCP, 72 min Leyla Imret is only 26 and has just been elected mayor of the Turkish town of Cizre—the heart of Kurdish resistance—when a new civil war starts to loom. sa 19 18:30 Munt 12 mo 21 18:00 Tuschinski 6 we 23 17:30 Podium Mozaïek sa 26 19:00 Tuschinski 5

Sergei Loznitsa’s Top 10

I dimenticati Vittorio De Seta

Italy, 1959, 35mm, 20 min As winter recedes, life returns to an isolated Italian mountain village. The locals prepare for the “Spar Ceremony.” th 17 15:15 Tuschinski 6 th 24 10:00 Tuschinski 6

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DocLab: Elastic Reality

DocLab: Elastic Reality

How does it feel to have someone follow you in the physical world, instead of just on social media? Or to look for love with your nose, rather than swiping profile pictures on Tinder? What would a computer brain say when it secretly takes a peek at your instagram pictures? Trigger your senses and experience thirty of the world’s best interactive documentaries, virtual reality experiences and physical installations in the ten-day DocLab: Elastic Reality exhibition. Some installations have varying opening hours (11:00 - 21:00). On-site reservation may be required. th 17 t/m sa 26 9:00-23:00 Brakke Grond su 27 9:00-18:00 Brakke Grond

An exclusive live performance event in which the audience, if all goes well, merges into one virtual individual. fr 18 21:15 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

DocLab Expo: Elastic Reality

DocLab: Elastic Reality

DocLab Live: Dreams

Step into a comfortable dream space and let your thoughts be translated into sounds and images that become part of a continuous live performance by sound artist Philippe Lambert and the National Film Board of Canada. This one-off live installation is freely accessible throughout the evening. Free admission. su 20 18:30 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

DocLab: Elastic Reality

DocLab Live: Elastic Reality Opening Night

A festive introduction to the DocLab: Elastic Reality program of IDFA and De Brakke Grond, with presentations and performances unraveling reality in the digital age. Supported by Dutch Cultural Media Fund. th 17 20:00 Brakke Grond Expozaal

DocLab: Elastic Reality

DocLab Live: Immersive Showcase

Virtual reality and immersive storytelling (from augmented to mixed reality) are going through an unprecedented evolution. But where does the hype end and do new art forms take shape? tu 22 20:00 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

DocLab Live: Orchestrated Individuals

DocLab: Elastic Reality

DocLab Live: The Best of Awkward Tech

A playful evening during which digital artists present absurd inventions that expand our existing notions of reality and confront us with our tech-obsessed everyday lives. sa 19 20:00 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

DocLab: Elastic Reality

DocLab Live: The Art of Following

An evening exploring the narrative potential of privacy, intimacy and following, organized in collaboration with the VPRO Medialab Meet Up series. mo 21 20:00 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

Shorts

DocLab Shorts

A compilation of shorts and multimedia projects that would never have existed without the internet, 105 min. th 24 19:45 Tuschinski 3

First Appearance Competition

IDFAcademy Results Dream Empire WP David Borenstein

Denmark, 2016, DCP, 73 min A Chinese entrepreneur tries to stay afloat in China’s surreal property sector with an agency for foreign talent. fr 18 18:15 EYE Cinema 1 su 20 10:00 Tuschinski 3 [ Industry Screening] su 20 15:45 Tuschinski 6 tu 22 19:15 Munt 11 we 23 16:30 Tuschinski 1 [Extended Q&A]

Best of Fests

Dugma: The Button Paul Salahadin Refsdal

Norway, 2016, DCP, 58 min In this intimate portrait, two jihadists awaiting a suicide mission for the Syrian branch of Al-Qaeda talk about themselves and their loved ones. th 17 12:45 EYE Cinema 1 sa 19 18:00 Munt 11 mo 21 22:00 Tuschinski 6 tu 22 15:15 Brakke Grond Expozaal

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam


Sergei Loznitsa Retrospective

Otto Bell

Sobytie Sergei Loznitsa

The Eagle Huntress USA, 2016, DCP, 87 min When a 13-year-old Mongolian girl decides to become the world’s first female eagle hunter, she meets some resistance. th 17 16:30 Tuschinski 5 Live dubbing sa 19 10:30 Tuschinski 4 Live dubbing su 20 13:00 EYE Cinema 2 Live dubbing tu 22 20:00 Tuschinski 4 su 27 14:15 Tuschinski 6 Live dubbing

Music Documentary

Eat That Question – Frank Zappa in His Own Words Thorsten Schütte

Germany, France, 2016, DCP, 90 min Frank Zappa’s “obscene” lyrics and confrontational statements about such things as “the stupidity of America” always made him a welcome talk show guest. th 17 10:15 Brakke Grond Expozaal sa 19 23:00 Melkweg Rabozaal mo 21 10:45 Munt 9 th 24 16:00 Tuschinski 1 fr 25 18:15 Munt 13

Paradocs: Amsterdam Art Weekend

Establishing Eden

Margit Lukács, Persijn Broersen

The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 11 min The paradise of Avatar and Lord of the Rings is transformed into a false reality, fractured and flattened before becoming a paradise once more. fr 25 16:00 EYE Cinema 2

Dutch Competition

The European WP De Europeaan Dirk-Jan Roeleven

The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 90 min A unique inside view of the hectic life of Dutch politician and diplomat Frans Timmermans, Vice-President of the European Commission in Brussells since 2014. th 17 12:00 Tuschinski 3 [ Industry Screening] sa 19 16:00 Carré [VPRO Extra] su 20 20:00 EYE Cinema 1 mo 21 12:30 Tuschinski 5 fr 25 21:15 Ketelhuis Zaal 1

Program Guide

The Event

The Netherlands, Belgium, 2015, DCP, 74 min Archiveimages from eight cameras reconstruct the 1991 mass protest on Palace Square in Saint Petersburg against the coup taking place in Moscow at that moment. we 16 14:30 Tuschinski 5 fr 25 10:15 Tuschinski 6

Paradocs

Events in a Cloud Chamber Ashim Ahluwalia

India, 2016, DCP, 20 min This reconstruction of the first experimental Indian film is a concentrated imaginative exercise, a modern history lesson and an intimate portrait of the artist. we 16 19:15 Tuschinski 5 we 23 21:00 Tuschinski 6 fr 25 15:30 Tuschinski 5 sa 26 20:30 Tuschinski 6

IDFA DocLab Competition

Everyday Everywhere WP Bjarke Myrthu, Austin Merrill, Peter DiCampo

Denmark, Sweden, USA, 2016, cross‑platform By uploading photos of everyday life, ordinary people from all over the world show the place they live from a different perspective.

Installation in DocLab Expo: Elastic Reality th 17 t/m sa 26 9:00-23:00 Brakke Grond su 27 9:00-18:00 Brakke Grond

Masters

Exile

Exil Rithy Panh

France, Cambodia, 2016, DCP, 78 min A poetic, artistic recreation of the early memories of director Rithy Panh, the only member of his family to survive the genocide in Cambodia. we 16 13:30 Tuschinski 3 th 17 11:30 Tuschinski 2 fr 18 12:30 EYE Cinema 2

Sergei Loznitsa’s Top 10

Facing the Judgement of History Pered sudom istorii Fridrikh Ermler

Russia, 1965, ProRes, 93 min A dialogue between a Soviet historian and Vasily Shulgin, a key figure of the White movement, reveals the complexity behind Shulgin’s ideals and the evolution of his thought. tu 22 13:15 EYE Cinema 2 fr 25 11:15 EYE Cinema 2

Dutch Competition

Fallen Flowers Thick Leaves WP Laetitia Schoofs

The Netherlands, Germany, 2016, DCP, 85 min Chinese women of various ages talk frankly about sex and love, shame, taboos and the prevailing traditional mores surrounding sexuality. su 20 19:45 Munt 9 mo 21 11:15 Tuschinski 2 mo 21 16:45 Munt 13 [ Industry Screening] we 23 17:30 Tuschinski 5 th 24 19:00 Ketelhuis Zaal 1

Music Documentary

Far Western WP James Payne

USA, Japan, 2016, DCP, 82 min A group of elderly musicians form the heart of the remarkable Japanese country and bluegrass scene, which dates back to the U.S. occupation of Japan. fr 18 18:45 Brakke Grond Expozaal sa 19 15:15 Melkweg – Cinema th 24 16:00 Munt 10 sa 26 20:30 Munt 13

Panorama

The Father, the Son and the Holy Jihad

Au nom du père, du fils et du djihad Stéphane Malterre

France, 2016, DCP, 120 min The controversial, tragic tale of the Ayachis, a French-Syrian family. First the son and then the father are drawn into the jihad in Syria. we 16 13:45 Munt 13 fr 18 13:45 Tuschinski 2 [Extended Q&A] su 20 21:30 Munt 12 we 23 21:45 Munt 13 sa 26 18:45 Tuschinski 4

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Best of Fests

Panorama

Panorama

Andrew Rossi

Rich Williamson

Yung Chang

The First Monday in May USA, 2016, DCP, 90 min Intensive preparations for a major fashion exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art expose tensions and common ground between East and West, and between art and fashion. sa 19 12:30 Carré mo 21 22:15 Brakke Grond Expozaal fr 25 17:30 Munt 11 sa 26 18:30 Tuschinski 1 su 27 15:15 Munt 11

DocLab: Elastic Reality

Flint Is a Place WP Zackary Canepari

USA, 2016, cross‑platform A powerful, stylized portrayal of the pride, hope and pent-up anger felt by the people of Flint, Michigan, a symbol of all that can go wrong with the American Dream. Installation in DocLab Expo: Elastic Reality th 17 t/m sa 26 9:00-23:00 Brakke Grond su 27 9:00-18:00 Brakke Grond

IDFA DocLab Competition

Frame 394

Gatekeeper

Canada, 2016, DCP, 30 min A young Canadian man entangles himself in one of the most high-profile police shootings in the United States, when he posts his own 3-D analysis of the event on the internet. su 20 20:15 Munt 10 th 24 20:15 Munt 13 sa 26 10:30 Munt 11

Masters

Best of Fests

France

Gaza Surf Club EP

Les habitants Raymond Depardon

France, 2016, DCP, 83 min Contemporary provincial France viewed from the inside of a caravan. Raymond Depardon crosses the country, carefully documenting his frank conversations with the locals. we 16 22:15 Munt 11 th 17 14:30 Munt 10 fr 18 14:30 EYE Cinema 2 we 23 11:15 Tuschinski 1 th 24 21:15 Brakke Grond Expozaal

Follower IP

Sergei Loznitsa’s Top 10

USA, 2016, cross‑platform Follower is a service providing you for just a few hours with your own real-life follower—an invisible companion who watches over you attentively. On-site reservation required.

D’Est Chantal Akerman

From the East

Screening during DocLab Live: The Art of Following fr 18 21:15 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal [Live] Installation in DocLab Expo: Elastic Reality th 17 t/m sa 26 9:00-23:00 Brakke Grond su 27 9:00-18:00 Brakke Grond

Belgium, France, Portugal, 1993, DCP, 115 min Slow cinema at its best, this is a visual account of travels through Eastern Europe shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union—a world about to undergo radical changes. we 16 15:00 Tuschinski 6 tu 22 11:30 Tuschinski 6

Best of Fests

Music Documentary

Beitar Maya Zinshtein

Throughout the year curator and host Job de Wit brings music videos to the big screen of De Balie cinema. At IDFA Job will present a specially curated documentary program solely consisting of music videos or vice versa, it’s all a matter of perspective. Fans of both art forms can expect to be surprised. fr 18 20:00 De Balie – Grote Zaal

Ireland, The Netherlands, Israel, England, Norway, 2016, DCP, 85 min Two Muslim players join Beitar Jerusalem, an otherwise exclusively Jewish Israeli soccer team. The consequences are colossal for theplayers and fans alike. th 17 16:30 Tuschinski 1 [Extended Q&A] fr 18 13:30 Brakke Grond Expozaal we 23 22:30 Tuschinski 1 fr 25 15:30 Munt 11 sa 26 10:30 EYE Cinema 1

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Philip Gnadt, Mickey Yamine

Germany, 2016, DCP, 87 min Young surfers cut off from the outside world in war-torn Gaza try to make their dreams come true. th 17 22:00 Tuschinski 4 fr 18 22:30 EYE Cinema 1 sa 19 10:00 Munt 9 th 24 14:00 Tuschinski 6 sa 26 15:15 Munt 11

Panorama, Shifting Perspectives

The Giant Is Falling IP Rehad Desai

Lauren McCarthy

Forever Pure

Canada, USA, 2016, DCP, 39 min Former police detective Yukio Shige patrols along the rocky coast of Tojinbo, to stop potential jumpers from carrying out a desperate act. su 20 21:45 EYE Cinema 2 tu 22 19:30 Munt 12 th 24 22:00 Tuschinski 3 fr 25 22:30 Munt 13 sa 26 10:00 EYE Cinema 2

Fullscreen & IDFA

South Africa, Germany, 2016, DCP, 77 min A critical look at more than 20 years of the African National Congress party in South Africa. Why is a party that was once invincible now the big loser? th 17 20:45 Kleine Komedie [Extended Q&A] mo 21 11:30 Tuschinski 4 th 24 21:30 Podium Mozaïek fr 25 19:00 Tolhuistuin

First Appearance Competition

The Girl down Loch Änzi WP

Das Mädchen vom Änziloch Alice Schmid

Switzerland, 2016, DCP, 87 min Twelve-year-old Laura feels lonely during the summer on her family’s farm in Switzerland. A poetic portrait of loneliness, growing up, friendship and imagination. th 17 14:15 Munt 13 [ Industry Screening] fr 18 21:45 Munt 13 su 20 17:45 Tuschinski 6 tu 22 14:00 Tuschinski 6 sa 26 12:30 Tuschinski 4

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam


God Knows Where I Am EP Todd Wider, Jedd Wider

USA, 2016, DCP, 99 min A meticulous reconstruction of the last months in the life of a bipolar woman who was abandoned by the healthcare system. fr 18 15:00 Munt 11 sa 19 11:00 EYE Cinema 2 tu 22 15:30 Munt 9 fr 25 11:30 Brakke Grond Expozaal sa 26 13:45 Munt 13

Feature-Length Competition

Gogita’s New Life WP Gogitas akhali tckovreba Levan Koguashvili

Georgian Republic, Croatia, 2016, DCP, 72 min After a lengthy stint in prison, all Gogita wants to do is get married. His mother lobbies for a pretty, slim girl in this tragicomic quest for love and happiness. sa 19 16:15 Munt 13 [ Industry Screening] mo 21 20:00 Munt 9 we 23 19:15 Tuschinski 2 fr 25 16:30 EYE Cinema 1 sa 26 16:45 Munt 9 su 27 10:30 Munt 12

Feature-Length Competition

The Good Postman WP Tonislav Hristov

Finland, Bulgaria, 2016, DCP, 82 min In a Bulgarian border village, the postman runs for mayor with a plan to combat depopulation by offering homes to Syrian refugees. th 17 14:00 Tuschinski 3 [ Industry Screening] sa 19 15:45 Munt 11 tu 22 21:15 Tuschinski 5 we 23 11:30 Tuschinski 4 fr 25 11:45 EYE Cinema 1 sa 26 14:45 Munt 9

Masters

The Graduation Le concours Claire Simon

France, 2016, DCP, 119 min The rigorous selection procedure for new students at the prestigious Parisian film school La Fémis sparks heated exchanges among the examiners. we 16 18:30 Tuschinski 2 sa 19 21:15 Tuschinski 5 mo 21 11:30 EYE Cinema 2 sa 26 21:15 Munt 10

Program Guide

IDFA DocLab Competition

The Great Animal Orchestra IP

Le grand orchestre des animaux Thomas Deyriès

France, 2016, cross‑platform Imagine you are the conductor of an animal orchestra in this interactive and incredibly detailed natural soundscape, compiled by artist and nature recordist Bernie Krause. Installation in DocLab Expo: Elastic Reality th 17 t/m sa 26 9:00-23:00 Brakke Grond su 27 9:00-18:00 Brakke Grond

Panorama

Feature-Length Competition

The Grown-Ups WP Los niños Maite Alberdi

Chile, The Netherlands, France, 2016, DCP, 80 min A moving, confrontational portrait of four Chilean adults with Down syndrome. Although they feel ready for adult life, society doesn’t agree. sa 19 10:00 Munt 13 [ Industry Screening] sa 19 19:00 Tuschinski 1 mo 21 18:00 Munt 9 th 24 13:30 EYE Cinema 1 sa 26 19:30 Munt 11 su 27 16:00 Munt 13

Great Muy Bien WP

Shifting Perspectives

Cuba, 2016, DCP, 16 min English lessons at a private language school in Cuba reveal the students’ dreams of America. th 17 18:30 Tuschinski 3 fr 18 21:30 Munt 10 mo 21 13:15 Munt 9 th 24 10:15 Tuschinski 3

John Akomfrah

Sheyla Pool Pástor

Dutch Competition

A Greek Winter WP Griekse winter Ingeborg Jansen

The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 70 min In the winter, Tasosand his sister Evdokiasupply fuel oil to dozens of apartments in Greece, but the economic crisis means fewer and fewer people are able to pay for it. fr 18 14:30 Munt 12 [ Industry Screening] mo 21 19:00 Munt 10 tu 22 11:15 Tuschinski 4 we 23 22:30 Munt 12 th 24 21:30 Ketelhuis Zaal 1

Handsworth Songs England, 1987, DCP, 59 min This hard-hitting, critical and poetic film essay places the UK race riots of the 1980s in a broader perspective, exploring the optimism and dashed hopes of black immigrants. th 17 12:15 Kleine Komedie fr 18 11:30 Tuschinski 4

Panorama

The Hanging EP Geoffrey Feinberg

USA, Russia, Germany, 2016, DCP, 15 min Nineteen-year-old Kirill hangs out on the rooftops of apartment blocks, where his brazen stunts have earned him the nickname “Russian Spiderman.” su 20 19:45 Tuschinski 3 we 23 20:00 Munt 11 th 24 17:30 Tuschinski 3 sa 26 14:45 Tuschinski 4

Masters

Panorama

Nanette Burstein

Nada Riyadh, Ayman El Amir

Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee IP USA, 2016, DCP, 98 min Revealing portrait of successful internet entrepreneur, yogi, murder suspect and prospective presidential candidate John McAfee. th 17 19:15 Tuschinski 1 sa 19 10:15 Munt 11 we 23 19:15 Munt 13 sa 26 16:15 Brakke Grond Expozaal su 27 16:15 Munt 10

Happily Ever After WP

Egypt, 2016, DCP, 68 min An unrelenting personal report of a faltering relationship in the aftermath of Egypt’s Arab Spring. sa 19 17:00 Tuschinski 5 mo 21 14:00 Munt 12 tu 22 19:00 Munt 13 sa 26 21:30 Tuschinski 3

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Hillsborough EP Daniel Gordon

England, 2016, DCP, 122 min A meticulous reconstruction of the disastrous soccer match on April 15, 1989 in Sheffield, England, when 96 fans were crushed to death, and of the lengthy legal battle that followed. tu 22 12:00 Tuschinski 5 we 23 11:45 Brakke Grond Expozaal th 24 13:00 Tuschinski 2 fr 25 17:15 Tuschinski 3 sa 26 19:15 EYE Cinema 1

Masters

Hissein Habré, a Chadian Tragedy Hissein Habré, une tragédie tchadienne Mahamat Saleh Haroun

France, Chad, 2016, DCP, 82 min An emotional encounter with victims of the Chadian dictator Hissein Habré and his reign of terror thatlasted from 1982 to 1990—with American and French support. we 16 15:30 Tuschinski 3 th 17 11:30 Munt 9 fr 18 16:45 Tuschinski 2 th 24 11:15 Munt 13 [TV5MONDE Day] fr 25 20:00 Tuschinski 4

IDFA DocLab Competition

Home: Aamir IP Rufus Norris

England, 2016, cross‑platform, 13 min Experience the inhumane conditions of the Calais Jungle and travel with Aamir from South Sudan via Libya and across the Mediterranean to his new “home.” On-site reservation required. Installation in DocLab Expo: Elastic Reality th 17 t/m sa 26 9:00-23:00 Brakke Grond su 27 9:00-18:00 Brakke Grond

Masters

Homo Sapiens Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Austria, 2016, DCP, 94 min There’s not a soul to be seen in this intriguing sequence of abandoned locations—symbols of our ephemerality. we 16 17:45 Tuschinski 3 sa 19 10:30 Munt 10 we 23 14:30 Munt 10 sa 26 16:30 EYE Cinema 2

Program Guide

Music Documentary

Honky Tonk Heaven: The Legend of the Broken Spoke EP Brenda Greene Mitchell, Sam Wainwright Douglas

USA, 2016, DCP, 75 min The colorful history of Broken Spoke, the legendary honky-tonk in Austin, Texas, where folks come to hear country music and dance the two-step. fr 18 21:15 Brakke Grond Expozaal sa 19 13:15 Melkweg – Cinema mo 21 22:00 EYE Cinema 2 fr 25 15:30 Tuschinski 3

Assembling Reality

Hospital

Frederick Wiseman

USA, 1970, 16mm, 84 min In this classic, award-winning documentary about a New York hospital, Frederick Wiseman juxtaposes daily routine with personal emotions in order paint a portrait of human dignity. sa 19 16:00 EYE Cinema 2 [Extended Q&A] mo 21 14:15 EYE Cinema 2

Mid-Length Competition

Hotel Sunrise WP Hotel Úsvit Maria Rumanova

Slovakia, 2016, DCP, 49 min A portrait of a small Slovakian border town where local people are facing the harsh consequences of life in a post-Soviet society. fr 18 21:45 Tuschinski 4 su 20 10:30 Munt 12 [ Industry Screening] mo 21 15:30 Munt 9 th 24 11:45 Tuschinski 6 su 27 10:30 Tuschinski 2

Mid-Length Competition

House Call IP

Bikur bayit Neta Shoshani, David Ofek

Israel, 2016, DCP, 62 min A team consisting of a nurse, a doctor and a social worker do everything they can to support a terminally ill young mother at home with her loved ones in her last days of life. sa 19 15:30 Munt 12 [ Industry Screening] sa 19 16:30 Munt 9 su 20 10:15 Tuschinski 5 mo 21 20:00 Tuschinski 6 sa 26 22:30 Munt 13 su 27 10:15 Tuschinski 3

Panorama

House for Sale WP Casa en venta Emanuel Giraldo

Cuba, Colombia, 2016, DCP, 13 min A moving triptych in which Cubans show off their homes and contents as valuable treasures—something they were not able to do during the 50-year ban on property transactions. th 17 18:30 Tuschinski 3 fr 18 21:30 Munt 10 mo 21 13:15 Munt 9 th 24 10:15 Tuschinski 3

Best of Fests

Houston, We Have a Problem! Houston, imamo problem! Ziga Virc

Slovenia, Croatia, Germany, 2016, DCP, 88 min According to this virtuoso docu-fiction, the United States secretly bought a wildly expensive Yugoslavian space program during the Cold War. we 16 12:15 Munt 9 th 17 11:45 Tuschinski 5 fr 18 22:15 Tuschinski 3 th 24 13:15 Munt 9 fr 25 16:00 Brakke Grond Expozaal

Feature-Length & Dutch Competition

How to Meet a Mermaid WP Coco Schrijber

The Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, 2016, DCP, 90 min In an essay-like reflection on the beauty and destructive power of the ocean, filmmaker Coco Schrijber investigates the disappearance of her brother. fr 18 20:00 Tuschinski 1 su 20 19:00 Ketelhuis Zaal 1 mo 21 11:45 Munt 12 [ Industry Screening] tu 22 18:30 Munt 10 we 23 15:30 EYE Cinema 1 [VPRO Extra] su 27 16:15 EYE Cinema 2

IDFA DocLab Competition

I Am Not Home Video WP Bert Hana

The Netherlands, 2016, cross‑platform A virtual experience of forgotten answering machine messages and a very special videotape that director and found footage fanatic Bert Hana picked up in a second-hand store. On-site reservation required. Installation in DocLab Expo: Elastic Reality th 17 t/m sa 26 9:00-23:00 Brakke Grond su 27 9:00-18:00 Brakke Grond

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The Grown-Ups

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I Don’t Know

Nie wiem Krzysztof Kieslowski

Poland, 1977, 35mm, 47 min A Polish whistleblower revealed corruption at a leather factory. This is the testimony of a man who turned against the system he was once part of. th 17 12:15 EYE Cinema 2 tu 22 21:30 EYE Cinema 2

Student Competition

I Made You, I Kill You WP Alexandru Petru Badelita

Romania, France, 2016, DCP, 14 min In a colorful mix of video, animation and music, filmmaker Alexandru Petru Badelita criticizes his unhappy youth in Romania. Television and film offered him a way out. th 17 18:15 Munt 12 fr 18 14:30 Munt 10 sa 19 13:00 Tuschinski 4 fr 25 12:00 Tuschinski 6

Mid-Length Competition

Icon IP

Ikona Wojciech Kasperski

Poland, 2016, DCP, 52 min Never before has a camera filmed inside the walls of this remote psychiatric hospital in Siberia, where the medical staff is doing its best despite the difficult conditions. sa 19 12:15 Munt 12 [ Industry Screening] mo 21 18:45 Tuschinski 3 tu 22 21:00 Munt 10 fr 25 22:00 Munt 12 sa 26 10:15 Tuschinski 4

Feature-Length Competition

In Loco Parentis WP Neasa Ní Chianáin

Ireland, Spain, 2016, DCP, 103 min A year in the life of two dedicated and passionate teachers at an Irish boarding school for young children, captured in affectionate observational scenes. sa 19 15:15 Munt 10 su 20 16:15 Munt 13 [ Industry Screening] we 23 18:30 Tuschinski 6 fr 25 18:45 EYE Cinema 2 sa 26 10:30 Tuschinski 3 su 27 13:45 Munt 13

Best of Fests

IDFAcademy Results An Insignificant Man

Khushboo Ranka, Vinay Shukla

India, 2016, DCP, 96 min The spectacular rise of the Common Man’s Party. The party logo, a broom, symbolizes their battle against the political establishment in India. th 17 18:45 Munt 13 sa 19 17:45 Munt 10 mo 21 13:15 Munt 11 tu 22 11:15 Tuschinski 2 [Extended Q&A] sa 26 18:30 Brakke Grond Expozaal

The Quiet Eye

Invention Mark Lewis

Canada, England, 2015, ProRes, 87 min From famous corners of the Louvre to modernist buildings in Brazil and Canada, this film anthology offers homage to the City Symphony films of the 1920s. th 24 20:00 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

Panorama

ISIS, Deserters Speak Out Daesh, paroles de déserteurs Thomas Dandois, FrancoisXavier Tregan

France, 2016, DCP, 53 min Islamic State soldiers who want to desert can get help from southern Turkey. Several speak anonymously, but candidly, about why they joined up, and the disillusionment that followed. th 17 16:30 Munt 11 su 20 22:00 Munt 9 tu 22 13:15 Brakke Grond Expozaal sa 26 22:45 Tuschinski 6

DocLab: Elastic Reality

The Island of the Colorblind WP Sanne De Wilde

The Netherlands, 2015, cross‑platform Catch a glimpse of a world where flames light up in black and white, trees have turned pink and a rainbow holds a thousand shades of grey.

Installation in DocLab Expo: Elastic Reality th 17 t/m sa 26 9:00-23:00 Brakke Grond su 27 9:00-18:00 Brakke Grond

Paradocs: Amsterdam Art Weekend

The Island

Die Insel Erik van Lieshout

Program Guide

The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 38 min Society keeps pulling at you, even when you live on a deserted island. That’s the conclusion of this chaotic and highly amusing monologue by the artist Erik van Lieshout. su 27 14:00 EYE Cinema 2

Mid-Length Competition

It’s Getting Dark WP Olga Kravets

France, 2016, DCP, 48 min The everyday domestic life of four families in Russia offers a poignant perspective on our notions of the “political prisoner.” sa 19 19:30 Tuschinski 4 su 20 15:45 Munt 12 [ Industry Screening] tu 22 18:00 Munt 9 we 23 11:00 Tuschinski 3 su 27 12:45 Tuschinski 5

Kids & Docs Competition

Jesser and the Sugarcane WP

Jesser en het suikerriet Godelieve Eijsink

The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 15 min Jesser knows one thing for sure: when he grows up, he will never work with sugar cane—the stealthy killer than has made his father incurably ill. sa 19 13:30 Tuschinski 2 Dutch audience only we 23 14:00 EYE Cinema 2 Live dubbing th 24 13:00 Tuschinski 5 sa 26 10:30 Tuschinski 5 Live dubbing

Music Documentary

Joe’s Violin EP

Kahane Cooperman

USA, 2016, DCP, 24 min A Holocaust survivor donates his violin to a girl from a destitute neighborhood in New York, and the instrument offers her a new opportunity in life. th 17 21:15 Munt 13 sa 19 10:45 Melkweg – Cinema su 20 12:30 Munt 9 th 24 12:45 Tuschinski 3

Paradocs: Amsterdam Art Weekend

Jokes

Jean-Baptiste Maitre

The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 7 min The form of these four short stories, each ending with the same punch line, recalls the experimentalism of early cinema. sa 26 14:00 EYE Cinema 2

Mid-Length Competition

The Joy of Sound IP La felicidad del sonido Ana Endara

Panama, 2016, DCP, 61 min An ode to sound, that mysterious, invisible and intangible phenomenon that brings pleasure and togetherness—and sometimes irritation. th 17 14:45 Munt 12 [ Industry Screening] mo 21 20:15 Munt 12 we 23 13:15 Tuschinski 3 fr 25 19:45 Tuschinski 5 sa 26 10:15 Munt 13 su 27 14:45 Munt 12

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Paradocs: Amsterdam Art Weekend

Best of Fests

Panorama

Paulien Oltheten

Ferne Pearlstein

La vie à venir Claudio Capanna

Kapitalism

The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 6 min If you look closely enough, even something as mundane as morning exercises can convey a germ of political resistance. sa 26 14:00 EYE Cinema 2

Kids & Docs Competition

Kids & Docs Competition 1 International children’s documentaries: 1Minute Nature, Lutwi, When I Hear the Birds Sing, Thea, Black Sheep, Crowley Every Cowboy Needs His Horse 135’. The films are English subtitled or English spoken. su 20 12:00 Tuschinski 5 mo 21 11:30 Tuschinski 3 fr 25 11:30 Tuschinski 4

Kids & Docs Competition

Kids & Docs Competition 2

Children’s documentaries: 1Minute Nature, Che!, Rocknrollers, Jesser and the Sugarcane, Naomi’s Secret, Spotlight on Merna 150’. sa 19 13:30 Tuschinski 2 Dutch audience only we 23 14:00 EYE Cinema 2 Live dubbing th 24 13:00 Tuschinski 5 sa 26 10:30 Tuschinski 5 Live dubbing

Best of Fests

Kiki

Sara Jordenö

Sweden, USA, 2016, DCP, 94 min This peek into New York’s extravagant Kiki scene, where young LGBTQ people fight for respect and acceptance, is a feast for the eyes. we 16 12:00 Munt 11 mo 21 21:30 EYE Cinema 1 [Ext. Q&A, Queer Day] tu 22 10:00 Tuschinski 1 th 24 21:15 De Balie – Grote Zaal fr 25 18:00 Munt 10

Sergei Loznitsa’s Top 10

Koma

Nijole Adomenaite, Boris Gorlov

Russia, 1989, 35mm, 62 min In the inhumane Gulag camps, which are depicted with brutal realism, Maria will have to choose between her child and the man she loves. th 17 12:15 EYE Cinema 2 tu 22 21:30 EYE Cinema 2

The Last Laugh

Life to Come

USA, 2016, DCP, 89 min When does a joke go too far? Leading comedy writers, producers and comics discuss the boundaries of good humor. we 16 21:30 Munt 9 mo 21 13:45 Tuschinski 6 tu 22 21:45 Munt 12 th 24 15:45 EYE Cinema 1

Sergei Loznitsa Retrospective

Letter

Best of Fests

Pismo Sergei Loznitsa

Russia, The Netherlands, 2012, DCP, 21 min The sound is muted, the images out of focus. The inhabitants move like ghosts across the fields in this impression of a psychiatric institution ina Russian village. we 16 16:45 Tuschinski 5 we 23 10:00 Tuschinski 6

Shifting Perspectives

A Letter to Nelson Mandela Khalo Matabane

South Africa, Germany, 2013, DCP, 85 min In an open letter to Nelson Mandela, South African filmmaker Khalo Matabane examines the leader’s status and role in the reforms that took place in South Africa in the 1990s. fr 18 13:00 Kleine Komedie [Extended Q&A] th 24 19:00 Podium Mozaïek

Panorama

Letters from Baghdad

Sabine Krayenbühl, Zeva Oelbaum

USA, England, France, 2016, DCP, 95 min A documentary about Gertrude Bell, an influential British archeologist who played a key role in redrawing Middle Eastern borders in the aftermath of World War I. su 20 13:30 Tuschinski 1 [Extended Q&A] mo 21 15:15 Brakke Grond Expozaal th 24 13:15 Munt 13 fr 25 11:30 Munt 11

Music Documentary

Life, Animated Roger Ross Williams

USA, 2016, DCP, 91 min The inspirational story of an autistic boy named Owen, who learns to understand the world around him through Disney cartoons. we 16 14:30 Munt 11 sa 19 10:00 Tuschinski 1 we 23 21:30 Munt 10 sa 26 21:00 Brakke Grond Expozaal

The Quiet Eye

Light Year

Ljusår Mikael Kristersson

Sweden, 2008, ProRes, 101 min Nature documentary filmmaker Mikael Kristersson captures the four seasons in his lush Swedish garden, allowing us to make new discoveries amid the bustle. su 27 12:00 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

Feature-Length Competition

Like Dew in the Sun IP Comme la rosée au soleil Peter Entell

Switzerland, 2016, DCP, 108 min Documentary filmmaker Peter Entell is the engaged outsider as he asks why Ukraine, the land of his forebears, is so often embroiled in war. th 17 16:00 Tuschinski 3 [ Industry Screening] fr 18 19:00 Tuschinski 2 [Extended Q&A] tu 22 16:30 Munt 11 th 24 18:00 Munt 9 fr 25 21:30 Tuschinski 5 sa 26 12:30 EYE Cinema 1

Sergei Loznitsa’s Top 10

Liberation Day IP

Morten Traavik, Ugis Olte

Norway, Latvia, 2016, DCP, 100 min A documentary musical about the first ever rock concert in North Korea, performed by the perhaps least expected stars—ex-Yugoslavian art-rockers Laibach. sa 19 19:30 Melkweg Rabozaal [ +Live Performance] su 20 19:00 Munt 12 th 24 18:30 Munt 10 su 27 16:15 Tuschinski 4

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Belgium, 2016, DCP, 75 min While the medical staff does all it can to save the premature twins Eden and Léandro, their mother Laurence steers a course between hope and despair. we 16 15:30 Munt 12 th 17 10:00 Munt 10 sa 19 12:15 Munt 9 tu 22 22:30 Tuschinski 3

A Little Monastery in Tuscany

Un petit monastère en Toscane Otar Iosseliani

France, 1988, Betacam SP PAL, 54 min A portrait of the everyday lives of five Augustinian monks in a small monastery, the inhabitants of the surrounding countryside and residents of a nearby town in Tuscany. th 17 15:15 Tuschinski 6 th 24 10:00 Tuschinski 6

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam


Living with Giants IP

Shifting Perspectives

Sébastien Rist, Aude Leroux-Lévesque

Lumumba: Death of a Prophet

Mid-Length Competition

France, Switzerland, Germany, 1990, video, 69 min A personal, groundbreaking analysis of the way politicians and the Western media manipulated the public image of Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba. th 17 14:15 Kleine Komedie th 24 14:00 Podium Mozaïek fr 25 21:30 Tolhuistuin

Canada, 2016, DCP, 78 min Paulusie is a 17-year-old Inuit who longs for independence. A sudden mistake leads to tragic developments in this dreamy coming-of-age story. th 17 21:00 Tuschinski 5 fr 18 14:15 Tuschinski 6 tu 22 22:30 Munt 9 th 24 15:15 Munt 11 sa 26 10:00 Brakke Grond Expozaal

Long Live Benjamin WP Jimm Lasser, Biff Butler

USA, 2016, DCP, 60 min Life changes forever for artist Allen Hirsch when he adopts an orphaned monkey. A dramatic story about the deep bond between man and ape. fr 18 18:00 Tuschinski 3 su 20 17:15 Munt 12 [ Industry Screening] su 20 22:30 Munt 11 mo 21 19:30 Tuschinski 5 th 24 22:45 Munt 9 fr 25 19:30 Munt 9

Best of Fests

LoveTrue Alma Har’el

Israel, USA, 2016, DCP, 82 min A poetic portrait of three young Americans who discover in different ways that true love is an illusion. we 16 19:15 Munt 9 th 17 14:30 Brakke Grond Expozaal fr 18 11:15 Tuschinski 2 we 23 15:00 Tuschinski 3 sa 26 20:30 Tuschinski 1

Sergei Loznitsa’s Top 10

Lullaby

Dziga Vertov

Russia, 1937, 35mm, 58 min One of the last films by editing maestro Dziga Vertov, this documentary is dedicated to “the women of the Soviet Union”—it features both radiant mothers, and of course Stalin. th 17 15:00 EYE Cinema 2 th 24 17:00 EYE Cinema 2

Lumumba: la mort du prophète Raoul Peck

Kids & Docs Competition

Lutwi

Jürgen Brügger, Jörg Haaßengier

Germany, 2016, DCP, 29 min For the last four years, 12-year-old Lutwi has been living in Germany, but no one knows whether he’ll be allowed to stay. su 20 12:00 Tuschinski 5 mo 21 11:30 Tuschinski 3 fr 25 11:30 Tuschinski 4

Feature-Length & Assembling Reality

Machines WP Rahul Jain

India, Germany, Finland, 2016, DCP, 71 min A mesmerizing, rhythmic portrait of everyday life for workers at a textile factory in India. There is enchanting beauty here, but the film also reveals deplorable conditions. th 17 18:45 Munt 11 fr 18 14:00 Munt 13 [ Industry Screening] fr 18 19:30 EYE Cinema 2 [Extended Q&A] tu 22 17:15 Tuschinski 1 th 24 22:45 Tuschinski 4 sa 26 18:30 Munt 9

Music Documentary

The Man from Mo’Wax Matthew Jones

England, 2016, DCP, 108 min A dazzling documentary about the rise, fall and resurrection of James Lavelle, the argumentative Mo’ Wax label boss, talent scout,deejay and all-around troublemaker. fr 18 15:00 Melkweg Rabozaal sa 19 21:45 Tuschinski 3 th 24 21:00 Munt 10 fr 25 15:45 Munt 13

Panorama

The Man Without a Mask Roger Ross Williams

USA, 2016, DCP, 14 min A moving portrait of Cassandro, a flamboyant lucha libre wrestler who found salvation from a turbulent past in this extremely tough sport. mo 21 21:15 Munt 13 tu 22 13:15 Tuschinski 4 we 23 22:15 Munt 9 th 24 16:00 Tuschinski 6 th 24 17:30 Tuschinski 3 sa 26 15:00 Tuschinski 5

Best of Fests

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato

USA, 2016, DCP, 108 min The only thing more controversial than the work of world-famous homoerotic photographer Robert Mapplethorpe was his life. we 16 14:30 Munt 9 fr 18 17:45 Munt 9 mo 21 11:00 EYE Cinema 1 [ Queer Day] tu 22 22:00 Tuschinski 2 [NTR Avond van de Wolf] th 24 21:45 Tuschinski 1

Masterclass

Masterclass Sergei Loznitsa Director Sergei Loznitsa will talk with Hans Maarten van den Brink about his own films, his Top 10 selection and sound design in documentary. Supported by the Dutch Cultural Media Fund. fr 18 13:00 Tuschinski 1

Best of Fests

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

Bob Hercules, Rita Coburn Whack

USA, 2016, DCP, 114 min Poet, author and civil rights activist Maya Angelou (1928-2014), a champion of equal rights for African Americans, looks back on her turbulent life. th 17 15:00 Melkweg Rabozaal mo 21 11:45 Munt 10 tu 22 17:00 Tuschinski 2 [NTR Avond van de Wolf] fr 25 19:00 Podium Mozaïek

IDFA DocLab Competition

Meat Puppet Arcade WP Matt Romein, Joseph Mango

USA, 2016, cross‑platform The 3-D scanner as a portal to the virtual space. Play with true-to-life replicas of the artist’s body.

Screening during DocLab Live: The Best of Awkward Tech sa 19 20:00 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal [Live] Installation in DocLab Expo: Elastic Reality th 17 t/m sa 26 9:00-23:00 Brakke Grond su 27 9:00-18:00 Brakke Grond

Program Guide

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IDFAcademy Results A Memory in Three Acts WP Uma memória em três atos Inadelso Cossa

Mozambique, 2016, DCP, 64 min In a poetic tale, different people who were involved in the bloody struggle for independence in Mozambique tell their side of the story. th 17 20:00 Munt 9 fr 18 10:45 Kleine Komedie [Extended Q&A] mo 21 11:00 Munt 13 [ Industry Screening] tu 22 13:30 Munt 12 th 24 16:00 Podium Mozaïek

Shifting Perspectives

Men of Gold Vincent Moloi

South Africa, 2006, DCP, 54 min A melancholy portrait of a white South African scrounger surviving on the streets of Johannesburg. th 17 16:15 Kleine Komedie [Extended Q&A] tu 22 15:15 Munt 12

Paradocs

Minispectacles Albuquerque Straight EP Maarit Suomi-Väänänen

Finland, USA, 2016, DCP, 7 min Six cinematographic haikus about a man with a lynx in his motel room. Less a story than a sequence of hints, it is nonetheless complete. fr 18 21:00 Tuschinski 6 su 20 14:45 Tuschinski 5 we 23 19:45 Tuschinski 5 th 24 15:30 Tuschinski 3 sa 26 21:00 EYE Cinema 2

Feature-Length & Dutch & Assembling Reality

Miss Kiet’s Children WP

De kinderen van juf Kiet Petra Lataster-Czisch, Peter Lataster

The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 115 min A moving portrait of a class of migrant children at a primary school in a Dutch village. Under the wing of their teacher Miss Kiet, they learn Dutch, fight, fall in love and process their traumas. fr 18 10:00 Munt 13 [ Industry Screening] sa 19 16:00 Tuschinski 1 su 20 15:30 EYE Cinema 2 [Extended Q&A] tu 22 21:30 Ketelhuis Zaal 1 we 23 17:30 Munt 9 fr 25 21:15 De Balie – Grote Zaal

Program Guide

DocLab: Elastic Reality

Student Competition

Floris Kaayk

Celina Escher

The Modular Body The Netherlands, 2016, cross‑platform Marvel at this science fiction perspective. You can assemble this story about a biologist who clicks organs together by clicking on the different elements online.

Screening during DocLab Live: Orchestrated Individuals ma 21 20:00 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal [Live] Installation in DocLab Expo: Elastic Reality th 17 t/m sa 26 9:00-23:00 Brakke Grond su 27 9:00-18:00 Brakke Grond

Feature-Length & Assembling Reality

Mogadishu Soldier WP Torstein Grude

Norway, Finland, Denmark, 2016, DCP, 88 min For a year, two soldiers filmed the danger, banality, humanity and inhumanity of their peacekeeping mission in the Somali capital of Mogadishu. sa 19 11:45 Munt 13 [ Industry Screening] sa 19 20:45 Tuschinski 2 su 20 19:00 EYE Cinema 2 [Extended Q&A] fr 25 18:45 Tuschinski 2 sa 26 12:00 Munt 10 su 27 11:45 EYE Cinema 2

Best of Fests

Monster in the Mind Jean Carper

USA, 2016, DCP, 87 min With a sense of perspective, octogenarian medical journalist Jean Carper investigates the state of research into Alzheimer’s disease and her own chances of developing this feared condition. we 16 13:15 Munt 10 su 20 17:30 Tuschinski 4 mo 21 13:45 Tuschinski 2 [Extended Q&A] tu 22 14:45 Tuschinski 1 fr 25 22:30 Munt 10

Paradocs: Amsterdam Art Weekend

Mothership Goes to Brazil Josefin Arnell

Sweden, The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 28 min In this candid portrait of a loving but abrasive relationship, filmmaker Josefin Arnell takes her alcoholic mother to a healer in Brazil, but he turns out to be hospitalized. sa 26 14:00 EYE Cinema 2

Motriz WP

Cuba, 2016, DCP, 13 min In her tiny Cuban shop, Maria repairs household appliances and chats to her customers and neighbors about her life and work. th 17 18:30 Tuschinski 3 fr 18 21:30 Munt 10 mo 21 13:15 Munt 9 th 24 10:15 Tuschinski 3

Shorts

Music Shorts

Compilation of short films about classical music. With: The Pit, Right Side of Cello and Joe’s Violin, 120 min. th 17 21:15 Munt 13 sa 19 10:45 Melkweg – Cinema su 20 12:30 Munt 9 th 24 12:45 Tuschinski 3

Panorama

My Daughter Nora Ma fille Nora Jasna Krajinovic

Belgium, France, 2016, DCP, 16 min The testimony of a mother, filmed to persuade young people not to go to Syria—as Samira’s eldest daughter did. th 17 16:30 Munt 11 su 20 22:00 Munt 9 tu 22 13:15 Brakke Grond Expozaal fr 25 20:30 Brakke Grond Expozaal [ Vice Night] sa 26 22:45 Tuschinski 6

Panorama

My Father and My Mother WP An die an niang Bo Jiao

China, 2016, DCP, 88 min The life of a simple Chinese couple, documented in thousands of photographs and many hours of video footage taken over a 30-year period by their son, a well-known photographer. sa 19 14:45 Tuschinski 5 we 23 18:45 Tuschinski 4 th 24 18:00 Tuschinski 2 su 27 16:30 Munt 12

Student Competition

My Friend, Yaniv WP Maayan Schwartz

Israel, 2016, DCP, 45 min A funny but acerbic portrait of 28-year-old Yaniv, whose fragile, wheelchair-bound frame harbors a lively, rebellious spirit. th 17 18:15 Munt 12 fr 18 14:30 Munt 10 sa 19 13:00 Tuschinski 4 fr 25 12:00 Tuschinski 6

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Kids & Docs Competition

DocLab: Elastic Reality

Sergei Loznitsa Retrospective

Naomi’s geheim Saskia Gubbels

Arnaud Colinart, Amaury La Burthe, Peter Middleton, James Spinney

Sergei Loznitsa

Naomi’s Secret WP

Notes on Blindness VR

France, England, 2016, cross‑platform, 25 min What’s it like to be blind? Notes on Blindless is an enchanting, award-winning interactive VR experience, based on the audio diary of author and theologian John Hull. On-site reservation required.

The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 15 min Naomi is an optimistic teenager who faithfully visits her mother at the mental health unit where she lives. For the first time, she decides to bring her best friend Sam along with her. sa 19 13:30 Tuschinski 2 Dutch audience only we 23 14:00 EYE Cinema 2 Live dubbing th 24 13:00 Tuschinski 5 sa 26 10:30 Tuschinski 5 Live dubbing

Installation in DocLab Expo: Elastic Reality th 17 t/m sa 26 9:00-23:00 Brakke Grond su 27 9:00-18:00 Brakke Grond

Best of Fests

Paradocs

Sonia Kennebeck

Novembro dezembro Bruno Jorge

National Bird USA, Germany, 2016, DCP, 92 min Three American veterans tell all about the drone attacks in which they participated. They are traumatized, angry and racked with guilt. su 20 17:30 Tuschinski 2 mo 21 11:45 Tuschinski 1 we 23 18:30 De Balie – Grote Zaal

Paradocs: Amsterdam Art Weekend

November December WP

Brazil, 2016, DCP, 23 min In this portrait of a young couple in a crumbling relationship, the atmosphere is as hallucinatory as it is oppressive. sa 19 20:45 Tuschinski 6 mo 21 18:15 Munt 12 th 24 18:15 Tuschinski 5 sa 26 21:00 Tuschinski 5

The New Dress

Feature-Length Competition

The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 21 min An elderly missionary looks back on her time withthe Asmat peoplein New Guinea, seeming only now to realize the impact of these experiences. sa 26 14:00 EYE Cinema 2

Zaradasht Ahmed

Roy Villevoye, Jan Dietvorst

IDFA DocLab Competition

News Globus IP

Charles Gedeon, Sena Partal, Mikio Kiura, Bjørn Karmann

Denmark, 2016, cross‑platform Travel the globe and let the world news help you discover surprising connections between places that are close together or far apart.

Installation in DocLab Expo: Elastic Reality th 17 t/m sa 26 9:00-23:00 Brakke Grond su 27 9:00-18:00 Brakke Grond

Masters

Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You Rachel Grady, Heidi Ewing

USA, 2016, DCP, 91 min A biographical portrait of Norman Lear, whose popular sitcoms such as All in the Family dealt with sensitive issues in 1970s America. we 16 21:30 Tuschinski 5 th 17 21:00 Tuschinski 3 we 23 15:15 Munt 11 fr 25 13:30 EYE Cinema 2

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Nowhere to Hide WP Norway, Sweden, 2016, DCP, 86 min A disturbing war report by an Iraqi father and male nurse who is forced to flee when his home city is occupied by IS. sa 19 18:30 Munt 9 su 20 11:45 Munt 13 [ Industry Screening] tu 22 18:30 Tuschinski 6 we 23 16:45 EYE Cinema 2 fr 25 16:45 Tuschinski 2 su 27 11:45 Munt 13

The Old Jewish Cemetery The Netherlands, Latvia, 2015, DCP, 20 min An homage to the vanished Jewish cemetery in Riga. Loznitsa is returning to this place its memory and history by showing what’s no longer there. we 16 16:45 Tuschinski 5 we 23 10:00 Tuschinski 6

Best of Fests

On Call

La permanence Alice Diop

France, 2016, DCP, 97 min At the consulting service for immigrants at the Avicenne Hospital in suburban Paris, we observe the sorrow and powerlessness of the immigrants who come here. we 16 16:00 Tuschinski 2 th 17 13:00 Tuschinski 4 fr 18 11:00 Brakke Grond Expozaal th 24 10:45 Tuschinski 5 fr 25 19:45 Munt 12

Panorama

On the Bridge of Death and Life WP

Auf der Brücke von Tod und Leben Lola Jia Liu

Germany, 2016, DCP, 98 min On a bridge on the Yangtze River, Chen Si saves people from committing suicide. They tell their stories with rare candor. fr 18 19:15 Munt 10 we 23 22:00 Tuschinski 3 th 24 18:30 Munt 12 fr 25 13:00 Tuschinski 3

Shifting Perspectives

Panorama

Ezra Edelman

Hollie Fifer

O.J.: Made in America

USA, 2016, DCP, 468 min An American tragedy involving race, fame, the media and justice, based on the rise and fall of the legendary American football player O.J. Simpson. sa 19 10:30 Kleine Komedie [Extended Q&A]

Panorama

The Offended IP

Los ofendidos Marcela Zamora Chamorro

El Salvador, Mexico, 2016, DCP, 83 min An urgent, personal story of the mistreatment of so-called subversive elements in 1980s El Salvador that breaks the silence of two generations. fr 18 11:15 Tuschinski 5 we 23 19:45 Tuschinski 3 sa 26 18:15 Munt 13 su 27 14:00 Munt 10

The Opposition WP Australia, 2016, DCP, 76 min A self-sufficient community in Papua New Guinea fights to block the construction of a luxury resort, but is thwarted by a baffling web of corruption scandals. tu 22 19:15 Tuschinski 5 we 23 20:15 Munt 9 th 24 11:00 Tuschinski 4 su 27 12:30 Munt 9

Oxfam Novib Selection

Oxfam Novib Selection: 4.1 Miles & Bolingo. The Forest of Love

Screening followed by a talk with Bahram Sadeghi and several guests at the table. tu 22 19:30 Tuschinski 1 [ Oxfam-Novib Lecture]

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam


Oxfam Novib Selection: Delicate Balance

Screening followed by talk with Marcia Luyten. mo 21 19:30 Tuschinski 1 [ Oxfam-Novib Lecture]

Oxfam Novib Selection

Oxfam Novib Selection: Seed: the Untold Story

Screening followed by a talk with Isolde Hallensleben, Sacha de Boer and several guests at the table. we 23 19:30 Tuschinski 1 [ Oxfam-Novib Lecture]

Oxfam Novib Sessions

Oxfam Novib Sessions: Humans on the Move Part II

A special program in which we are using film clips to discuss the issues around people on the move. The session is led by Bahram Sadeghi. Limited seating, ticket required. tu 22 10:00 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

Student Competition

Paper Stars WP Inna Omelchenko

Russia, 2016, DCP, 41 min Thirteen-year-old Alina makes new friends at summer camp, falls in love and shares secrets. But bonding doesn’t come as easily to everyone. th 17 17:30 Tuschinski 4 fr 18 17:30 Tuschinski 4 su 20 11:00 EYE Cinema 2 sa 26 17:15 Tuschinski 5

Dutch Competition

Passage – A Boatmovie WP Jascha de Wilde, Ben Hendriks

The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 55 min Hitch a ride on a cargoship to the south of France in this playful, ever-changing “boat movie” on three screens. fr 18 12:30 Munt 13 [ Industry Screening] su 20 15:00 EYE Cinema 1 tu 22 13:15 Munt 10 we 23 21:15 Ketelhuis Zaal 1 fr 25 13:00 Tuschinski 5

Panorama

The Passing Years WP Verloop van jaren John Albert Jansen

The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 78 min Dutch author and poet Remco Campertallowed the cameras to film his everyday life for a year.Daily habits alternate with reflections on life, love and death. su 20 16:30 Tuschinski 1 tu 22 11:15 Munt 10 th 24 13:15 Tuschinski 1 fr 25 19:00 Ketelhuis Zaal 1

Program Guide

Panorama

The Quiet Eye

Elvira Diaz

Un lugar llamado Lloyd Sebastian Cordes

El patio WP France, Chile, 2016, DCP, 82 min In the 1970s, Chilean gravediggers had to bury hundreds of desaparecidos in secret. Two of them tell their story to a younger colleague. fr 18 19:30 Tuschinski 4 sa 19 19:30 Tuschinski 3 mo 21 14:45 Munt 10 fr 25 14:15 Munt 12 su 27 10:00 Munt 10

Panorama

The Pearl of Africa EP Jonny von Wallström

Sweden, 2016, DCP, 75 min The cheerful, courageous Cleo undergoes the physically and emotionally drastic transition from man to woman in spite of the deadly situation in Uganda. th 17 20:00 Tuschinski 4 mo 21 16:00 EYE Cinema 1 [Ext. Q&A, Queer Day] we 23 17:15 Munt 13 fr 25 10:00 Munt 10

Student Competition

per song

Dongwu yuan Shuchang Xie

Germany, 2016, DCP, 73 min A pensive black-and-white film based on the intimate conversations of five Chinese friends, who wish each other well but are also each other’s competitors. mo 21 16:00 Tuschinski 6 tu 22 14:30 Munt 13 fr 25 11:15 Tuschinski 5 sa 26 12:00 Munt 13

Best of Fests

Peshmerga

Bernard-Henri Lévy

France, 2016, DCP, 92 min In an unlikely pairing, a prominent French intellectual joins a battalion of fearless Kurdish freedom fighters as they go to war against IS in Iraq. fr 18 16:30 EYE Cinema 2 sa 19 12:45 Tuschinski 1 [Extended Q&A] su 20 15:00 Munt 9 we 23 20:30 Podium Mozaïek sa 26 15:00 EYE Cinema 1

Music Documentary

The Pit WP

Yama Anton Yaremchuk

Ukraine, 2016, DCP, 26 min A critical teacher and an out-of-time orchestra cause headaches for an aspiring conductor named Denis: will he graduate successfully from Ukraine’s National Music Academy? th 17 21:15 Munt 13 sa 19 10:45 Melkweg – Cinema su 20 12:30 Munt 9 th 24 12:45 Tuschinski 3

FILMS A TO Z

Oxfam Novib Selection

A Place Called Lloyd IP Denmark, 2015, ProRes, 80 min A quiet portrait of a bankrupt airline and its employees, who faithfully continue to turn up for work. sa 26 12:00 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

First Appearance Competition

Planeta Petrila WP Andrei Dascalescu

Romania, 2016, DCP, 90 min In a Romanian mining town, an artist and ex-miner uses art and absurdism in a struggle to keep history alive. sa 19 15:30 Tuschinski 3 [ Industry Screening] sa 19 20:45 Munt 9 su 20 20:15 Tuschinski 6 tu 22 15:15 EYE Cinema 1 th 24 15:30 Munt 13 sa 26 13:15 Munt 12

First Appearance Competition

Plastic China WP Su liao wang guo Jiu-liang Wang

China, 2016, DCP, 81 min Yi Jie and her family live next to a primitive recycling plant. Her world consists of mountains of plastic waste from Europe, the United States and Asia. su 20 11:45 Tuschinski 3 [ Industry Screening] su 20 20:00 Tuschinski 2 tu 22 14:00 Tuschinski 2 [Extended Q&A] we 23 15:15 Munt 9 fr 25 16:15 Tuschinski 6 sa 26 19:00 Munt 10

Panorama

Priorat IP

David Fernandez de Castro

Spain, 2016, DCP, 69 min How five idealists made the poor, underprivileged Catalan region of Priorat into one of the best wine regions in the world. su 20 21:45 Tuschinski 5 tu 22 11:45 Munt 9 fr 25 16:15 Munt 10 su 27 16:45 Tuschinski 5

Masters

Prison Sisters WP Nima Sarvestani

Sweden, 2016, DCP, 90 min After being released from prison in Afghanistan, Sara seeks asylum in Sweden amid concerns for her best friend and former cellmate Najibeh back home. mo 21 21:00 Tuschinski 2 we 23 22:15 Munt 11 th 24 14:15 Munt 12 fr 25 10:00 Munt 12 su 27 12:15 Tuschinski 6

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Dutch Competition

Best of Fests

Melanie Bonajo

Reber Dosky

Tomas Koolhaas

Progress vs Regress WP The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 54 min Sometimes serious, usually with light-hearted humor, Bonajo questions a group ofcentenarianabout their lives, new inventions, selfiesand technology. fr 18 18:00 Tuschinski 5 mo 21 17:00 Tuschinski 5 th 24 20:00 Tuschinski 6 fr 25 17:45 Tuschinski 5

Paradocs: Amsterdam Art Weekend

Promise Prohibited Promesa prohibida Mauricio Limón

Mexico, 2014, DCP, 20 min Captured in slow shots, this story of a love triangle is as unclear as the hybrid landscape it takes place in. fr 25 16:00 EYE Cinema 2

Masters

The Promise

Marcus Vetter, Karin Steinberger

Germany, USA, 2016, DCP, 117 min A fascinating analysis of the love between two students in Virginia and the horrific murder of the woman’s parents in 1985. Who fell into whose trap? we 16 20:15 Tuschinski 3 fr 18 15:00 EYE Cinema 1 [VPRO Extra] sa 19 21:30 Brakke Grond Expozaal th 24 15:15 Munt 9 fr 25 13:45 Tuschinski 2

Dutch Competition

IDFAcademy Results A Quiet Place WP Hier is het nooit stil Sjoerd Oostrik

The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 81 min Three boys in a juvenile detention center try to survive as they grapple with themselves and the prison rules. fr 18 13:15 Tuschinski 3 [ Industry Screening] mo 21 21:30 Munt 11 tu 22 17:00 Brakke Grond Expozaal we 23 10:00 Tuschinski 2 sa 26 19:00 Ketelhuis Zaal 1

DocLab: Elastic Reality

Radical Love

Heather Dewey-Hagborg

USA, 2016, cross‑platform On the basis of her DNA, artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg created two life-size 3-D portraits of jailed WikiLeaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning. Installation in DocLab Expo: Elastic Reality th 17 t/m sa 26 9:00-23:00 Brakke Grond su 27 9:00-18:00 Brakke Grond

Program Guide

Radio Kobanî WP The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 72 min After the liberationfights against IS, youngKurdischreporter Dilovanstarts a radiostationamidst the ruins of her hometownKobani. th 17 10:45 Munt 13 [ Industry Screening] fr 18 18:00 Munt 11 su 20 21:30 Ketelhuis Zaal 1 mo 21 22:00 Tuschinski 1 tu 22 15:45 Tuschinski 3 sa 26 16:15 Podium Mozaïek

Rem

USA, The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 75 min Tomas Koolhaas presents a portrait of his famous father, the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, and some of the iconic buildings he has designed around the world. th 17 17:00 Munt 10 mo 21 11:00 Munt 11 tu 22 17:45 Tuschinski 4 th 24 19:00 Brakke Grond Expozaal fr 25 20:30 EYE Cinema 1

Panorama

Student Competition

Maceo Frost

Husker du meg? Ragnhild Nøst Bergem

Raised by Krump USA, 2016, DCP, 21 min A fascinating and gorgeous journey into krumping, the street dance with which dancers channel their anger, frustration and aggression. th 17 15:30 Tuschinski 4 sa 19 22:00 Tuschinski 4 we 23 21:45 EYE Cinema 2 th 24 15:30 Tuschinski 3 fr 25 21:30 Podium Mozaïek sa 26 16:00 Munt 13

Masters

Rats EP

Morgan Spurlock

USA, 2016, DCP, 89 min An investigative horror-doc about our hostile relationship with rats. How should we go about eradicating these spreaders of disease? Is there anyone who values them? fr 18 22:30 Tuschinski 1 sa 19 21:45 EYE Cinema 2 we 23 13:15 Munt 9 fr 25 22:45 Tuschinski 3

Best of Fests

Raving Iran

Susanne Regina Meures

Switzerland, 2016, DCP, 84 min “Underground” isn’t a hip term in Iran but a bitter reality, as we learn in this raw, poetic reportage on a crucial phase in the lives of two techno deejays from Tehran. we 16 17:00 Munt 9 sa 19 11:30 Melkweg Rabozaal we 23 12:15 Tuschinski 2

Sergei Loznitsa Retrospective

Remember Me? IP Norway, 2016, DCP, 35 min Siri is in her early forties and has early-onset dementia. What’s left when your memories are gone? mo 21 18:45 Tuschinski 3 tu 22 21:00 Munt 10 fr 25 22:00 Munt 12 sa 26 10:15 Tuschinski 4

Best of Fests

Reset

Relève Alban Teurlai, Thierry Demaizière

France, 2015, DCP, 110 min Passion under pressure of time—the creation of a new, innovative dance piece at the revered Paris Opera. th 17 12:00 Melkweg Rabozaal sa 19 12:45 Munt 11 su 20 21:45 Tuschinski 1 th 24 14:00 EYE Cinema 2 su 27 12:45 Munt 11

IDFA DocLab Competition

The Resistance of Honey WP Peter Boyd Maclean

England, 2016, cross‑platform, 9 min Bioni Samp’s bees don’t just make honey—they also make music. A fascinating, mind-expanding glimpse into the exceptional world inside the beehive. On-site reservation required.

Screening during DocLab Live: Immersive Showcase tu 22 20:00 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal [Live] Installation in DocLab Expo: Elastic Reality th 17 t/m sa 26 9:00-23:00 Brakke Grond su 27 9:00-18:00 Brakke Grond

Reflections. Director’s Cut Sergei Loznitsa

France, The Netherlands, 2014, DCP, 17 min Photographs of Sarajevo during the siege in 1992 are superimposed on footage of the city in 2014. Past and present, war and peace are brought face to face. we 16 16:45 Tuschinski 5 we 23 10:00 Tuschinski 6

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First Appearance Competition

First Appearance Competition

Carlo Guillermo Proto

Dmitrii Kalashnikov

Resurrecting Hassan IP Canada, Chile, 2016, DCP, 100 min An intimate portrait of a blind family struggling with the loss of their son Hassan. The one thing they long for is to bring him back to life. th 17 16:15 Munt 13 [ Industry Screening] mo 21 16:45 Tuschinski 1 tu 22 22:00 EYE Cinema 1 we 23 13:30 Munt 12 th 24 17:45 Munt 13 sa 26 16:15 Munt 10

The Road Movie WP

Belarus, Russia, Serbia, BosniaHerzegovina, Croatia, 2016, DCP, 67 min Adventures on the Russian highway as recorded by dashboard cameras reveal the nature of Russia, which is both absurd and frightening. fr 18 18:15 Munt 12 [ Industry Screening] su 20 19:45 Tuschinski 3 tu 22 21:15 De Balie – Grote Zaal we 23 20:00 Munt 11 sa 26 14:45 Tuschinski 4

Mid-Length Competition

Best of Fests

Zahavi Sanjavi

Michele Santoro

The Return WP

Sweden, 2016, DCP, 54 min In this portrait of perseverance in the midst of insurmountable grief, a nurse named Shilan returns to a refugee camp for Yezidis in Iraqi Kurdistan. fr 18 16:30 Tuschinski 3 [ Industry Screening] sa 19 17:45 EYE Cinema 1 [Extended Q&A] we 23 21:15 Tuschinski 4 sa 26 12:30 Podium Mozaïek su 27 14:45 Tuschinski 5

Sergei Loznitsa Retrospective

Revue

Sergei Loznitsa

Germany, Russia, Ukraine, 2008, 35mm, 82 min The glorious Soviet utopia of 1960 is brought to life in a montage of propaganda footage celebrating smiling workers, poetry readings and rocket launches. we 16 18:00 Tuschinski 6 sa 26 10:00 Tuschinski 6

Masters

The Ride of Their Lives Steve James

USA, 2016, DCP, 15 min Rhyder is only eight years old, but is already taking part in the rodeo world championship—a perilous sport. th 17 15:30 Tuschinski 4 we 23 21:45 EYE Cinema 2 th 24 15:30 Tuschinski 3 sa 26 16:00 Munt 13

Music Documentary

Right Side of Cello IP Wariacja na wiolonczele solo Aleksandra Rek

Poland, 2016, DCP, 37 min A portrait of the successful young Polish cellist Dominik Polonski, who after several brain surgeries builds a new life around his family and his beloved instrument. th 17 21:15 Munt 13 sa 19 10:45 Melkweg – Cinema su 20 12:30 Munt 9 th 24 12:45 Tuschinski 3

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The Rolling Stones Olé Olé Olé!: A Trip Across Latin America Paul Dugdale

USA, England, 2016, DCP, 105 min A sparkling recording of the recent Rolling Stones tour of Latin America and Cuba—one of the few places the rockers hadn’t yet played. sa 19 22:15 Carré[ +Live Performance] su 20 21:00 Melkweg Rabozaal th 24 11:00 Munt 9 sa 26 22:30 Tuschinski 1

Robinù IP

Panorama

Italy, 2016, DCP, 97 min An atmospheric, beautifully shot portrait of the poor, gang-ridden neighborhoods of Naples and the families who struggle there. fr 18 16:45 Munt 10 su 20 13:00 Munt 10 mo 21 20:00 Brakke Grond Expozaal fr 25 22:30 EYE Cinema 1

Thomas Lennon

Panorama

Sacred EP

USA, Japan, 2016, DCP, 86 min Shot by more than 40 filmmaking teams around the world, this isa global exploration of the role of prayer and ritual as they relate to the life cycle. fr 18 15:45 Tuschinski 5 sa 19 10:00 Tuschinski 5 tu 22 22:15 Tuschinski 1 sa 26 10:30 Munt 9

Panorama

The Rock

Sacred Water

Bard Hamid Jafari

Iran, 2015, DCP, 25 min A serene visual poem about a woman who runs a primitive quarry in the desolate Iranian desert. we 16 18:15 Tuschinski 4 th 17 12:15 Brakke Grond Expozaal tu 22 20:45 Tuschinski 6 sa 26 15:30 Munt 12

Kids & Docs & Music Documentary

IDFAcademy Results Rocknrollers Rocknrollertjes Daan Bol

L’Eau sacrée Olivier Jourdain

Belgium, 2016, DCP, 56 min A playful ode to the female orgasm in Rwanda from the perspective of a radiodeejay with a mission. fr 18 20:00 Munt 11 mo 21 15:45 Munt 11 tu 22 13:45 EYE Cinema 1 we 23 11:45 Munt 12

Best of Fests

Santoalla

Andrew Becker, Daniel Mehrer

The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 25 min A moving coming-of-age story about depression and the beneficial, healing effects of music and friendship. sa 19 13:30 Tuschinski 2 Dutch audience only we 23 14:00 EYE Cinema 2 Live dubbing th 24 13:00 Tuschinski 5 th 24 17:30 Tuschinski 3 sa 26 10:30 Tuschinski 5 Live dubbing

USA, 2016, DCP, 82 min A true crime film investigating the mysterious disappearance of Dutchman Martin Verfondern in the Galician hamlet of Santoalla. we 16 12:30 Tuschinski 4 th 17 11:15 Tuschinski 6 su 20 18:30 Munt 13 mo 21 13:00 Brakke Grond Expozaal th 24 15:45 Tuschinski 2

Masters

IDFA DocLab Competition

Vitaly Mansky

Eyal Weizman

Rodnye (Close Relations) Latvia, Germany, Estonia, Ukraine, 2016, DCP, 112 min Filmmaker Vitaly Mansky investigates the influence of political unrest in Ukraine, Crimea and Donetsk on his own family. th 17 11:00 Munt 11 mo 21 17:30 Tuschinski 4 tu 22 18:30 De Balie – Grote Zaal th 24 17:15 Tuschinski 4 su 27 12:15 Munt 12

Saydnaya IP

England, 2016, cross‑platform A 3-D reconstruction of the notorious Saydnaya prison in Syria, on the basis of testimony from former prisoners who were held there in fear and darkness. Installation in DocLab Expo: Elastic Reality th 17 t/m sa 26 9:00-23:00 Brakke Grond su 27 9:00-18:00 Brakke Grond

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam


IDFAcademy Results Sealers – One Last Hunt WP Trude Berge Ottersen, Gry Elisabeth Mortensen

Norway, 2016, DCP, 98 min A seasoned Norwegian skipper defies the decline in Norwegian seal hunting and sets off as usual on a treacherous journey through the ice floes. fr 18 10:45 Munt 12 [ Industry Screening] sa 19 20:30 Munt 12 we 23 13:00 Tuschinski 5 fr 25 18:15 Tuschinski 6 su 27 12:00 Tuschinski 4

Best of Fests

Seed: The Untold Story Taggart Siegel, Jon Betz

USA, 2016, DCP, 94 min A celebration of the vitality, diversity and beauty of seeds, and a warning against the powerful forces that threaten this rich heritage. th 17 14:15 EYE Cinema 1 fr 18 12:00 Munt 11 we 23 19:30 Tuschinski 1

[ Oxfam-Novib Selection]

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Paradocs: Amsterdam Art Weekend

Selfies aan zee Paulien Oltheten

The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 1 min This anthropological miniature provides ironic commentary on the phenomenon of the selfie: what’s meant to affirm existence ends in disappearance. sa 26 14:00 EYE Cinema 2

Best of Fests

The Settlers Shimon Dotan

Israel, France, Canada, Germany, 2016, DCP, 110 min The colonists on the West Bank of the Jordan River see themselves as leaders of Israel, but filmmaker Shimon Dotan wonders: where are they leading it? we 16 17:00 Munt 11 th 17 13:45 Tuschinski 1 fr 18 12:00 EYE Cinema 1 th 24 18:15 EYE Cinema 1 fr 25 16:45 Munt 12

Paradocs

Shorts

Johan Grimonprez

Compilation of shorts about Japan. With: Uzu and Gatekeeper, 75 min. su 20 21:45 EYE Cinema 2 tu 22 19:30 Munt 12 th 24 22:00 Tuschinski 3 fr 25 22:30 Munt 13 sa 26 10:00 EYE Cinema 2

Shadow World USA, Belgium, Denmark, 2016, DCP, 90 min Ashocking analysis of the international weapons trade andan emphatic appeal for the courage to go against the prevailing moral grain. th 17 20:00 EYE Cinema 2 [Extended Q&A] fr 18 13:00 Tuschinski 4 sa 19 20:00 De Balie – Grote Zaal

Best of Fests

Shalom Italia EP Tamar Tal-Anati

Israel, Germany, 2016, DCP, 71 min Seventy years later, three Jewish-Italian brothers meet to search in a Tuscan forest for the shelter where they and their parents hid during World War II. th 17 21:30 Tuschinski 6 fr 18 15:45 Munt 9 su 20 22:15 EYE Cinema 1 we 23 10:00 Munt 10 su 27 16:45 Munt 9

The Quiet Eye

Shepherds’ Journey into the Third Millennium Hirtenreise ins Dritte Jahrtausend Erich Langjahr

Switzerland, 2002, ProRes, 124 min Erich Langjahr follows some of the last shepherds in Switzerland. How does this old way of life continue into the modern age? fr 25 12:00 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

Panorama

Shingal, Where Are You? WP Kani Shingal? Angelos Rallis

Greece, Austria, Belgium, 2016, DCP, 103 min Driven from their city by IS, a group of Yezidis desperately try to ransom their kidnapped daughters and hope to return to their home territory. fr 18 22:00 Tuschinski 5 su 20 13:15 Tuschinski 6 we 23 17:45 Munt 12 fr 25 11:15 Munt 13

Shorts

Sho(r)t in America

Compilation of short films about contemporary USA. With: The Ride of their Lives, Wolvesmouth, Raised by Krump and Minispectacles Albuquerque Straight, 90 min. th 24 15:30 Tuschinski 3

Program Guide

FILMS A TO Z

First Appearance Competition

Sho(r)t in Japan

Music Documentary

Shot! The PsychoSpiritual Mantra of Rock Barnaby Clay

USA, 2016, DCP, 98 min Mick Rock is “the man who shot the 1970s.” His famous photos and iconic album covers were largely responsible for establishing the images of David Bowie, Iggy Pop and Lou Reed. th 17 18:00 Melkweg Rabozaal we 23 20:30 EYE Cinema 1 fr 25 20:30 Brakke Grond Expozaal [ Vice Night] su 27 16:15 Tuschinski 3

Panorama

Siberian Love WP Olga Delane

Germany, 2016, DCP, 80 min Filmmaker Olga Delane, a single woman from Berlin, returns to the Siberian village where she was born to ask her family what they understand by “love.” sa 19 20:15 Munt 10 tu 22 15:30 Tuschinski 4 we 23 15:00 Munt 13 fr 25 11:00 Tuschinski 3

Panorama

IDFAcademy Results Silent Wilderness WP Stille wildernis Mathijs Vleugels

Belgium, 2016, DCP, 60 min A Belgian couple’s unstinting search for their adopted son Tim, who disappeared without a trace at the age of 26. th 17 19:45 Tuschinski 6 su 20 12:30 Tuschinski 2 th 24 20:30 Tuschinski 5 sa 26 14:30 Brakke Grond Expozaal

Panorama

IDFAcademy Results Singing with Angry Bird WP Hyewon Jee

South Korea, 2016, DCP, 88 min Atemperamental Korean opera singer leads a choir for children from the slumsin the Indian city of Pune. su 20 20:45 Munt 13 we 23 17:30 Tuschinski 3 th 24 20:30 Munt 9 fr 25 18:15 EYE Cinema 1 sa 26 12:15 Brakke Grond Expozaal

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Site of Sites WP

El sitio de los sitios Natalia Cabral, Oriol Estrada

Dominican Republic, 2016, DCP, 61 min In a luxury vacation paradise in the Caribbean, minor disruptions create flaws in the illusion of happiness. fr 18 11:30 Tuschinski 3 [ Industry Screening] mo 21 21:15 Munt 13 tu 22 13:15 Tuschinski 4 we 23 22:15 Munt 9 th 24 16:00 Tuschinski 6 sa 26 15:00 Tuschinski 5

Panorama, Shifting Perspectives

Skulls, of My People WP Vincent Moloi

South Africa, 2016, DCP, 67 min Descendants of Namibian tribes that were deeply affected by German colonial rule fight for the return of their ancestors’ skulls. fr 18 18:45 Kleine Komedie [Extended Q&A] mo 21 14:30 Munt 13 tu 22 19:30 Bijlmer Parktheater fr 25 14:00 Podium Mozaïek sa 26 17:45 Munt 12

IDFA DocLab Competition

Smell Dating

IDFA DocLab Competition

So You Still Sort of Have the Same Number WP Blijkbaar heb je nog ongeveer hetzelfde nummer Nele Eeckhout, Siona Houthuys, Mirke Kist

The Netherlands, Belgium, 2016, cross‑platform, 50 min In this intimate and comforting audio walk, strangers become friends and the people we once knew become strangers. On-site reservation required.

Installation in DocLab Expo: Elastic Reality th 17 t/m sa 26 9:00-23:00 Brakke Grond su 27 9:00-18:00 Brakke Grond

Panorama

Solitary

Kristi Jacobson

USA, 2016, DCP, 82 min A shocking report on life in the permanent isolation cells at one of the strictest prisons in the United States. we 16 21:30 Munt 13 th 17 22:15 Munt 12 su 20 13:00 Tuschinski 4 tu 22 22:15 Tuschinski 4 fr 25 11:15 Munt 9

The Quiet Eye

Tega Brain, Sam Lavigne

South to North Cine-Concert IP

Installation in DocLab Expo: Elastic Reality th 17 t/m sa 26 9:00-23:00 Brakke Grond su 27 9:00-18:00 Brakke Grond

France, 2015, ProRes, 75 min A meditative recording of the surreal Chinese South-North Water Transfer Project, aimed at diverting 200 billion liters of water annually. su 27 16:00 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

Paradocs

Best of Fests

USA, 2015, cross‑platform An online dating service matches subscribers on the basis of their scent. Use your molecular intuition to find out who you really find attractive.

Smoke WP Roy Villevoye

The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 45 min Filmmaker Roy Villevoye follows his blind friend Ndo, a member of the Asmat people from New Guinea, as he undergoes an eye operation in Germany. sa 19 20:45 Tuschinski 6 mo 21 18:15 Munt 12 th 24 18:15 Tuschinski 5 sa 26 21:00 Tuschinski 5

Antoine Boutet

Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four Deborah Esquenazi

USA, 2016, DCP, 91 min Four lesbian women were wrongfully jailed for child rape. Now free, they fight to clear their names. we 16 12:00 Tuschinski 5 fr 18 15:15 Tuschinski 4 we 23 16:00 Tuschinski 4 fr 25 17:15 Munt 9

Kids & Docs

Spotlight on Merna WP Merna in de spotlight Mirjam Marks

Program Guide

The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 15 min Since participating in The Voice Kids, Merna—a refugee from Iraq—has become world famous in her temporary home of Lebanon. sa 19 13:30 Tuschinski 2 Dutch audience only we 23 14:00 EYE Cinema 2 Live dubbing th 24 13:00 Tuschinski 5 sa 26 10:30 Tuschinski 5 Live dubbing

Feature-Length Competition

Still Tomorrow WP Jian Fan

China, 2016, DCP, 88 min Disabled by cerebral palsy and unhappily married, the painfully frank XiuhuaYu makes a dramatic breakthrough as a poet. Will fame solve her problems? sa 19 18:00 Munt 13 [ Industry Screening] tu 22 20:15 Munt 9 we 23 15:15 Tuschinski 5 th 24 22:00 Tuschinski 6 fr 25 21:00 EYE Cinema 2 sa 26 21:15 Tuschinski 2

First Appearance & Dutch Competition

Stranger in Paradise WP Guido Hendrikx

The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 72 min A political essay on the absurd dilemmas presented by asylum policies. In a classroom, migrants’ illusions are dashed against the rocks of European arrogance. we 16 20:00 Carré [ by invitation] th 17 12:30 Munt 13 [ Industry Screening] fr 18 12:30 Melkweg Rabozaal sa 19 19:00 Ketelhuis Zaal 1 th 24 13:15 Munt 11 fr 25 18:30 De Balie – Grote Zaal

Student Competition

Sugar & Spice IP Mi Mi Lwin

Germany, Myanmar, 2016, DCP, 16 min A tender portrait of an elderly married couple—the filmmaker’s parents—in rural Myanmar. They bear their poverty together, each in their own way. tu 22 13:15 Munt 10 we 23 21:15 Ketelhuis Zaal 1 fr 25 13:00 Tuschinski 5

Shorts

Swingin’ Shorts

Compilation of three energetic shorts. With: The Hanging, The Man Without a Mask and Rocknrollers, 105 min. th 24 17:30 Tuschinski 3

The Quiet Eye

Taimagura Grandma Taimagura baachan Yoshihiko Sumikawa

Japan, 2004, ProRes, 110 min A touching glimpse into the modest life of an elderly but indefatigable couple living high in the mountains of northern Japan. fr 25 16:00 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

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Mid-Length Competition


Best of Fests

Panorama

Shifting Perspectives

Tatiana Huezo

Edward Ellis, Flor Salcedo, Aaron Woolf

Vacances au pays Jean-Marie Teno

Tempestad Mexico, 2016, DCP, 105 min A poetic reconstruction of the stories of two women who fall victim to a corrupt system in which people are a commodity. we 16 18:00 Munt 10 fr 18 11:45 Tuschinski 6 tu 22 14:00 Munt 11 we 23 21:45 Brakke Grond Expozaal th 24 20:15 Tuschinski 4

Kids & Docs Competition

Thea IP

Halvor Nitteberg

Norway, 2016, DCP, 13 min Black-and-white stills tell the story of Thea, a 12-year-old girl who has severe epileptic seizures. su 20 12:00 Tuschinski 5 mo 21 11:30 Tuschinski 3 fr 25 11:30 Tuschinski 4

IDFA DocLab Competition

These Memories Won’t Last Stu Campbell

Australia, 2015, cross‑platform An interactive web animation in which a grandson relates in words and drawn images the eventful life of his grandfather, who is starting to suffer from dementia. Installation in DocLab Expo: Elastic Reality th 17 t/m sa 26 9:00-23:00 Brakke Grond su 27 9:00-18:00 Brakke Grond

Best of Fests

Those Who Jump

Les sauteurs Estephan Wagner, Moritz Siebert, Abou Bakar Sidibé

Denmark, 2016, DCP, 80 min The brutal reality of life for African migrants trying to cross into the Spanish enclave of Melilla, as filmed from within by one of the group. th 17 12:00 Munt 10 sa 19 19:30 EYE Cinema 2 su 20 11:00 Tuschinski 1 th 24 22:00 Munt 11 su 27 14:15 Tuschinski 3

Paradocs

Time Capsule Jan Ijäs

Finland, 2016, DCP, 21 min Artist Louis de Cordierpreserves the samples ofour cultureinan underground library in the Spanish Sierra Nevada. fr 18 18:00 Tuschinski 5 mo 21 17:00 Tuschinski 5 th 24 20:00 Tuschinski 6 fr 25 17:45 Tuschinski 5

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To Be a Miss IP

Venezuela, USA, 2016, DCP, 84 min Young Venezuelan women hope that beauty contests will offer them an escape from poverty. For everyone else involved, it’s just big business. fr 18 19:45 Tuschinski 3 sa 19 22:45 Tuschinski 6 fr 25 13:15 Munt 9 sa 26 11:45 EYE Cinema 2

Mid-Length & Dutch Competition

To Stay Alive – A Method WP

Overleven – een handleiding Erik Lieshout

The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 60 min Iggy Pop reads from Michel Houellebecq’s essay on insanity, survival and art. sa 19 17:00 Munt 12 [ Industry Screening] sa 19 20:30 EYE Cinema 1 mo 21 19:30 Munt 11 tu 22 11:45 Tuschinski 3 sa 26 21:30 Ketelhuis Zaal 1

Shifting Perspectives

Too Black to Be French? Trop noire pour être française? Isabelle Boni-Claverie

France, 2015, DCP, 52 min Filmmaker Isabelle Boni-Claverie examines racism in France on the basis of herlife story and the history of colonialism. fr 18 21:30 Kleine Komedie [Extended Q&A] tu 22 22:45 Bijlmer Parktheater fr 25 16:00 Podium Mozaïek sa 26 21:30 Tolhuistuin

Cameroon, France, Germany, 2000, DCP, 75 min Director Jean-Marie Teno travels to Cameroon and sees how the free market economy is supplanting traditional values. fr 18 15:45 Kleine Komedie [Extended Q&A] th 24 19:00 Tolhuistuin

Student Competition

Turn Over the Stones IP Nir Dvortchin

Israel, 2016, DCP, 29 min Sami lives in a tiny container in the desert. He reads from the countless sensitive letters heonce wrotefrom prison. sa 19 19:30 Tuschinski 4 tu 22 18:00 Munt 9 we 23 11:00 Tuschinski 3 su 27 12:45 Tuschinski 5

The Quiet Eye

Two Years at Sea Ben Rivers

England, 2011, ProRes, 88 min Subtle shifts in light and shade are more important than words in this portrait of a self-sufficient life in the Scottish Highlands. fr 25 20:00 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

IDFA DocLab Competition

Tzina: Symphony of Longing WP Shirin Anlen

Best of Fests

Tower

Keith Maitland

USA, 2016, DCP, 82 min A compelling, mainly animated reconstruction of the first ever school shooting, which claimed dozens of victims at Texas University in 1966. we 16 20:30 Munt 10 th 17 18:45 Tuschinski 5 fr 18 11:45 Munt 9 we 23 16:15 Tuschinski 6 fr 25 20:15 Tuschinski 6

Panorama

Trembling Mountain WP Kesang Tseten

A Trip to the Country

Nepal, 2016, DCP, 84 min In the magnificent Langtang Valley in Nepal, survivors of the devastating 2015 earthquakeattempt to rebuild their lives. sa 19 16:15 Tuschinski 6 mo 21 14:15 Tuschinski 3 we 23 19:15 Munt 10 fr 25 13:45 Munt 13

Israel, 2016, cross‑platform A poetic, interactive VR documentary in which the residents of the run-down Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv muse on their lives, loves, longing and loneliness. On-site reservation required. Installation in DocLab Expo: Elastic Reality th 17 t/m sa 26 9:00-23:00 Brakke Grond su 27 9:00-18:00 Brakke Grond

Dutch & Music Documentary

Unknown Brood WP Dennis Alink

The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 90 min Throughvideo footage shot by Brood himself and moving reminiscences from people who knew him well, welook back at the turbulent life of rock musician and artist Herman Brood. th 17 11:15 Munt 12 [ Industry Screening] sa 19 19:00 Carré [+Live Performance] KPN Presents su 20 17:30 Melkweg Rabozaal [+Live Performance] KPN Presents mo 21 19:00 Ketelhuis Zaal 1 tu 22 22:00 Brakke Grond Expozaal

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam


Dutch Competition

Panorama

Gaspard Kuentz

Als de giraffes komen Marco de Stefanis

Bref manuel de liberation Alexander Kuznetsov

Uzu

Japan, 2015, DCP, 27 min A beautifully framed impression of an astonishing religiousritual that takes place each year in Matsuyama, Japan. su 20 21:45 EYE Cinema 2 tu 22 19:30 Munt 12 th 24 22:00 Tuschinski 3 fr 25 22:30 Munt 13 sa 26 10:00 EYE Cinema 2

First Appearance Competition

Venus WP

Lea Glob, Mette Carla Albrechtsen

Denmark, Norway, 2016, DCP, 80 min During casting sessions, young women from Copenhagen talk candidly about their sexual experiences and frustrations. th 17 21:30 Tuschinski 2 fr 18 16:15 Munt 12 [ Industry Screening] su 20 17:15 Munt 9 mo 21 21:15 Tuschinski 3 fr 25 21:00 Munt 9 sa 26 19:45 Munt 12

Waiting for Giraffes WP The Netherlands, Belgium, 2016, DCP, 84 min Replacing thegiraffes that died during the last intifada is one of the challenges met by veterinarian Dr. Sami, who works in the world’s only zoo in occupied territory. fr 18 22:00 Munt 11 sa 19 14:00 Tuschinski 6 sa 19 14:15 Munt 13 [ Industry Screening] mo 21 11:15 Tuschinski 6 tu 22 19:00 Ketelhuis Zaal 1

Music Documentary

Walking in the Opposite Direction WP Marc Waltman

The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 96 min Adrian Borland, front man of post-punk band The Sound, suffered from depression for years. Here his life story is told. sa 19 15:00 Melkweg Rabozaal

We’ll Be Alright

France, 2016, DCP, 77 min Yulia and Katia were moved from an orphanage to a psychiatric hospital in Siberia. Now they are trying to gain their freedom. we 16 17:45 Munt 12 th 17 20:15 Munt 12 su 20 22:15 Tuschinski 2 tu 22 11:15 Munt 12 fr 25 12:00 Munt 10

Best of Fests

Weiner

Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg

USA, 2016, DCP, 100 min A fly-on-the-wall portrait of ambitious, charismatic American politician Anthony Weiner, whose racy Twitter posts led to political suicide. sa 19 10:30 Tuschinski 2 su 20 11:00 Melkweg Rabozaal

[ +Live Performance] we 23 12:45 EYE Cinema 1 th 24 11:45 Munt 12 sa 26 16:15 Ketelhuis Zaal 1

Paradocs

Screening of films from the VICE Guide to IDFA, followed by drinks. fr 25 20:30 Brakke Grond Expozaal

Sergei Loznitsa’s Top 10

Shifting Perspectives

England, 1965, video, 48 min A fictional account of a nuclear attack on southern England, which in 1965 abruptly awakened its audience to the threat of nuclear war. we 16 13:00 Tuschinski 6

China, 2016, DCP, 63 min A raw and disturbing document that exposes the methods of the Chinese authorities by allowing them to speak uncensored. we 16 19:15 Tuschinski 5 we 23 21:00 Tuschinski 6 fr 25 15:30 Tuschinski 5 sa 26 20:30 Tuschinski 6

VICE Night

VICE Night at IDFA

Voices

Miguel Peres Dos Santos

The Netherlands, 2015, DCP, 18 min Forgotten images of a black uprising in Curacao form the starting point of this experimental film essay on suppressed Dutch racism. we 16 20:30 Tuschinski 6 fr 18 15:45 Kleine Komedie [Extended Q&A] tu 22 19:30 Bijlmer Parktheater th 24 21:30 Tolhuistuin

Panorama

The Wait WP Emil Langballe

Denmark, 2016, DCP, 55 min The strict Danish asylum policy has very personal consequences when Rokhsar, a fully integrated high school student, is threatened with deportation back to Afghanistan. su 20 18:00 Tuschinski 3 tu 22 13:45 Munt 9 fr 25 13:45 Munt 11 su 27 10:00 EYE Cinema 2

Program Guide

The War Game Peter Watkins

Best of Fests

The War Show

Andreas Dalsgaard, Obaidah Zytoon Denmark, 2016, DCP, 100 min The war in Syria seen through the eyes of a courageous radio host and her friends, whom we get to know as playful, free spirits. we 16 19:45 Munt 11 th 17 14:00 Tuschinski 5 fr 18 22:30 Munt 9 th 24 20:45 EYE Cinema 2 sa 26 14:00 Podium Mozaïek

Welcome Huan ying Rikun Zhu

Panorama

IDFAcademy Results Welcome to the Heavenly Earth WP

Welkom op de hemelse aarde Judith de Leeuw

The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 55 min Scenes from the life of a marvelous group of friends leading a parallel existence full of wonder, away from society. tu 22 20:00 Tuschinski 3 we 23 16:00 Munt 12 th 24 13:15 Tuschinski 4 sa 26 14:00 Ketelhuis Zaal 1

Music Documentary

Paradocs: Amsterdam Art Weekend

Stephen Kijak

Erkka Nissinen

We Are X

England, Japan, USA, 2016, DCP, 93 min The turbulent history of the incredibly popular Japanese hard rock band X Japan, which paved the way for a subculture of androgynous musicians with colorful hair. th 17 21:00 Melkweg Rabozaal [ +Live Performance] we 23 18:00 EYE Cinema 1 th 24 19:45 Munt 11 su 27 14:30 Munt 9

What Is Community?

Finland, 2016, DCP, 13 min This hilarious social research ends up as a criticism of reality TV. The protagonist-cum-narrator of this stop-motion film ends up on the bonfire. su 27 14:00 EYE Cinema 2

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Panorama


Feature-Length Competition

What We Have Made WP Quelque chose de grand Fanny Tondre

France, 2016, DCP, 71 min A beautiful portrait of a huge construction site where thousands of men work long days among the scaffolding, concrete mixers and their coworkers, sharing good times and bad. su 20 10:00 Munt 13 [ Industry Screening] mo 21 20:15 Tuschinski 4 tu 22 17:45 Tuschinski 3 we 23 17:00 Munt 10 fr 25 22:30 Tuschinski 6 su 27 10:00 Munt 13

Student Competition

Whatever the Weather Bei Wind und Wetter Remo Scherrer

Switzerland, 2015, DCP, 11 min In this sensitive animated movie, Wally looks back at her childhood with an alcoholic mother. fr 18 18:30 Tuschinski 6 tu 22 16:00 Munt 10 we 23 21:15 Tuschinski 2 sa 26 13:15 Tuschinski 5

Kids & Docs Competition

When I Hear the Birds Sing IP

Når jeg hører fuglene synge Trine Vallevik Håbjørg

Norway, 2016, DCP, 8 min A bittersweet animated film in which five children who have fled the Ivory Coast talk about their lives in a refugee camp and their dreams of the future. su 20 12:00 Tuschinski 5 mo 21 11:30 Tuschinski 3 fr 25 11:30 Tuschinski 4

Student Competition

When Will This Wind Stop WP

Kiedy ten wiatr ustanie Aniela Astrid Gabryel

Poland, 2016, DCP, 66 min Four stories of a Crimean Tartar family overlap in this documentary about the Russian occupation of the Crimea. su 20 13:45 Tuschinski 3 tu 22 17:15 Munt 12 we 23 11:00 Munt 13 th 24 11:45 EYE Cinema 2

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Music Documentary

Best of Fests

Paul Fegan

Balad meen? Mohamed Siam

IDFAcademy Results Whose Country?

Where You’re Meant to Be EP Scotland, 2016, DCP, 77 min Arab Strap singer Aidan Moffat travels through beautiful Scotland searching for the roots of Celtic culture and arguing about whether folk songs should be updated. fr 18 18:30 Melkweg Rabozaal [ +Live Performance] sa 19 22:45 Munt 12 mo 21 15:30 Tuschinski 4 we 23 13:15 Munt 11 su 27 12:00 Munt 10

DocLab: Elastic Reality

White Spots, a Journey to the Edge of the Internet WP

Bregtje van der Haak, Richard Vijgen

The Netherlands, 2016, cross‑platform A surprising journey away from the connected world and into the lives of people living in “white spots” without internet or cell phone reception all over the world. On-site reservation required.

Egypt, France, USA, 2016, DCP, 58 min Against the backdrop of revolution, Mohamed Siam gets to knowan officer in Egypt’s feared police force. we 16 18:15 Tuschinski 4 th 17 12:15 Brakke Grond Expozaal tu 22 20:45 Tuschinski 6 we 23 14:45 Tuschinski 2 [Extended Q&A] sa 26 15:30 Munt 12

IDFA DocLab Competition

Wifi Whisperer IP Kyle McDonald

USA, 2016, cross‑platform An installation on the Wi-Fi Whisperer, who in a robot-like voice intones information from Wi-Fi networks, giving a scarily complete impression of us.

Screening during DocLab Live: The Art of Following fr 18 21:15 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal [Live] Installation in DocLab Expo: Elastic Reality th 17 t/m sa 26 9:00-23:00 Brakke Grond su 27 9:00-18:00 Brakke Grond

Installation in DocLab Expo: Elastic Reality th 17 t/m sa 26 9:00-23:00 Brakke Grond su 27 9:00-18:00 Brakke Grond

Kids & Docs Competition

First Appearance Competition

Schultersieg Anna Koch

Who We Were IP Dem vi var Sine Skibsholt

Denmark, 2015, DCP, 82 min A Danish couple’s relationship is put to the test by a sudden stroke. Can Kristian and MetteLinemake it through the demanding rehabilitation process together? su 20 20:00 Tuschinski 4 mo 21 12:30 Munt 13 [ Industry Screening] mo 21 16:30 Tuschinski 3 tu 22 21:00 Munt 13 su 27 10:45 Tuschinski 5

Masters

Who’s Gonna Love Me Now?

Mi yohav oti achshav Tomer Heymann, Barak Heymann

Israel, England, 2016, DCP, 86 min When Saar finds out he is HIV positive, he decides to reconnect with his family in Israel, who turned their backs on him years ago. we 16 21:30 Tuschinski 2 sa 19 22:15 Munt 13 mo 21 18:30 EYE Cinema 1 [Ext. Q&A, Queer Day] tu 22 13:30 Tuschinski 3 sa 26 22:00 Munt 12

Win by Fall IP

Germany, 2016, DCP, 82 min For four teenage female wrestlers preparing for competition at a German training boarding school, the path is long and tough. su 20 15:30 Munt 10 mo 21 14:45 Tuschinski 5 we 23 13:45 Tuschinski 4 su 27 10:15 Tuschinski 6

Masters

Wolvesmouth Lucy Walker

USA, 2016, DCP, 15 min A beautiful portrait of Craig Thornton, who overcame a traumatic childhood to become a culinary genius with the prestige of an artist. th 17 15:30 Tuschinski 4 we 23 21:45 EYE Cinema 2 th 24 15:30 Tuschinski 3 sa 26 16:00 Munt 13

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam


Woman and the Glacier WP Moteris ir ledynas Audrius Stonys

Lithuania, Estonia, 2016, DCP, 56 min A filmic ode to a woman’s choice to live in solitude. For 30 years, a Lithuanian scientist has been conducting climate research at the Tuyuksu Glacier in Kazakhstan. th 17 19:00 EYE Cinema 1 fr 18 15:00 Tuschinski 3 [ Industry Screening] sa 19 14:15 Munt 9 we 23 12:15 Tuschinski 6 sa 26 12:15 Tuschinski 6

Paradocs: Amsterdam Art Weekend

Work Horse Charlotte Dumas

The Netherlands, 2015, DCP, 13 min An intimate portrait of a pair of draft horses that avoids attributing human qualities to animals, but rather encourages us to imagine life as an animal. fr 25 16:00 EYE Cinema 2

Panorama

Wrestling Alligators IP Andrew Shea

USA, 2016, DCP, 90 min A colorful portrait of James Billie: poet, hunter and charismatic leader of the Seminole Native Americans of Florida. fr 18 19:30 Munt 13 sa 19 12:30 Tuschinski 5 mo 21 22:00 Munt 9 fr 25 15:15 Munt 9

Best of Fests

Wrong Elements Jonathan Littell

France, Germany, Belgium, 2016, DCP, 133 min Three former child soldiers who foughtwith Ugandan rebels return home to rebuild their lives and come to terms with their pasts and their memories. we 16 14:45 Tuschinski 4 fr 18 11:15 Munt 10 sa 19 11:00 Tuschinski 6 th 24 21:15 EYE Cinema 1

Paradocs: Amsterdam Art Weekend

WTC

Emma van der Put

The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 8 min A dispassionate record of rising tensions in the Noordwijk neighborhood of Brussels as refugees set up a tent camp in front of the World Trade Center. fr 25 16:00 EYE Cinema 2

Program Guide

Panorama

Yezidi Girls WP Reber Dosky

The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 14 min A close-up reportage in which three Yezidi adolescent girls talk about their experiences as prisoners of IS. sa 19 17:45 EYE Cinema 1 [Extended Q&A] we 23 21:15 Tuschinski 4 sa 26 16:15 Podium Mozaïek su 27 14:45 Tuschinski 5

Feature-Length Competition

You Have No Idea How Much I Love You IP Nawet nie wiesz, jak bardzo cie kocham Pawel Lozinski

Poland, 2016, DCP, 80 min During a mother and daughter’s intimately filmed sessions with a psychotherapist, blame, grief and anger gradually make way for reconciliation. fr 18 15:45 Munt 13 [ Industry Screening] sa 19 18:30 Tuschinski 2 mo 21 17:30 Munt 11 tu 22 14:45 Tuschinski 5 th 24 22:30 Tuschinski 5 sa 26 16:45 Tuschinski 4

Best of Fests

A Young Girl in Her Nineties

Une jeune fille de 90 ans Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Yann Coridian

France, 2016, DCP, 85 min The famous choreographer Thierry Thieû Niang gives dance lessons to a group of Alzheimer’s patients, bringing hope and rekindling love. sa 19 19:00 Brakke Grond Expozaal [Ext. Q&A] su 20 10:30 Tuschinski 4 tu 22 12:30 Tuschinski 1 we 23 21:45 Tuschinski 5 sa 26 17:30 Munt 11

Panorama

Zaineb Hates the Snow

Zaineb takrahou athalj Kaouther Ben Hania

Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, France, Qatar, Lebanon, 2016, DCP, 94 min In this intimate portrait of adolescence, a Tunisian girl named Zaineb loses her father in a car accident, and has to get used to a new family in the Canadian snow. we 16 20:30 Munt 12 tu 22 16:30 Munt 13 we 23 16:45 Tuschinski 2 fr 25 14:00 Tuschinski 6 sa 26 19:30 Podium Mozaïek

IDFA DocLab Competition

Zeki Müren Hotline WP Zeki Müren hatti Beyza Boyacioglu, Jeff Soyk

USA, Turkey, 2016, cross‑platform Spoken messages to the popular Turkish artist Zeki Müren (1931-1996) speak of an underlying nostalgia for a Turkey of bygone days.

Installation in DocLab Expo: Elastic Reality th 17 t/m sa 26 9:00-23:00 Brakke Grond su 27 9:00-18:00 Brakke Grond

Masters

Zero Days Alex Gibney

USA, 2016, DCP, 114 min An exciting and disturbing thriller about the Stuxnet computer virus and the real possibility of a worldwide cyber war. th 17 22:00 Tuschinski 1 sa 19 23:00 Munt 11 we 23 12:00 Munt 10 fr 25 14:00 EYE Cinema 1 su 27 10:15 Munt 11

Dutch Competition

Zaatari Djinn WP Catherine van Campen

The Netherlands, 2016, DCP, 80 min Syrian children try to find their footing in the world’s largest refugee camp. A poetic account of their dreams, triumphs and setbacks. th 17 19:00 Tuschinski 2 fr 18 13:45 Munt 9 su 20 14:15 Munt 13 [ Industry Screening] mo 21 21:30 Ketelhuis Zaal 1 we 23 17:30 Munt 11

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Mid-Length Competition


Industry Session – November 21, 2016 – 10:00-11:00

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Special Events

Sergei Loznitsa Master Class

Director Sergei Loznitsa and moderator Hans Maarten van den Brink will discuss Loznitsa’s own films and the insights offered by his Top 10 selection, which contains rarely shown, timeless classics that all take place in the 20th century but speak volumes about the world we live in today. There will be a special focus on sound in documentary. Using several clips Loznitsa will discuss his method and the important role sound design plays in his films. Nov 18, 13:00 | Tuschinski 1

Coco Schrijber Master Class

How does a film become your film? When is an idea your idea? How do you know what the right choice is? Making a film is making decisions every second. After that second, the moment is gone forever. Using examples from her work, director Coco Schijber (How to Meet a Mermaid) talks about how to keep your balance in a world made up of billions of shots. In Dutch.

Johan Grimonprez

To celebrate the premiere of Johan Grimonprez’s Shadow World at IDFA, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam is exhibiting two video works by this visual artist from its collection: dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y and Kobarweng or Where Is Your Helicopter?. Nov 18, 10:00-22:00

Nov 19, 10:00-18:00 | Stedelijk Museum

Amsterdam Art Weekend at IDFA The closing weekend of IDFA coincides with ­Amsterdam Art Weekend. As part of IDFA’s Paradocs program, AAW is screening a selection of recent video works by Amsterdam art galleries, the Rijksakademie and De Ateliers, including new works by Erik van Lieshout, Erkka Nissinen, ­Charlotte Dumas and others. Nov 25-27 | EYE Cinema 2 Amsterdam Art

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Nov 17, 13:00 | Tuschinski 2

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Walking in the Opposite Direction

Put on your dancing shoes and join us for IDFA’s infamous Dance Nights!

Film + Concert We Are X + Live: Yoshiki

Party along with funky music at Club Canvas ­Volkshotel. Free admission until midnight (if there’s room) for hotel guests and all IDFA pass holders!

Replete with beautiful archive material and c­ andid interviews, We Are X tells the tumultuous story of the hard rock act X Japan, hugely popular in their home country. In the late 1980s, they were the trailblazers of visual kei, a subculture of flamboyantly dressed, androgynous musicians with lots of makeup and colorful hairdos. The screening is followed by a performance by co-founder, drummer, pianist and protagonist Yoshiki.

Awards Ceremony & Documentary Ball

Where You’re Meant to Be + Live: Aidan Moffat (Arab Strap)

Nov 19, 26, 22:00-late | Café De Jaren

Free admission.

More Bounce X IDFA

Nov 18, 23:00-4:00 | Volkshotel

The highly anticipated Awards Ceremony is ­followed by the first Documentary Ball, a night full of entertainment, music and drinks to ­celebrate documentary and the award winners. Awards Ceremony:

Nov 23, 20:30-22:00 Documentary Ball:

Nov 23, 22:00-1:00 | Stadsschouwburg – Grote Zaal

By invitation.

Program Guide

Nov 17, 21:00 | Melkweg Rabozaal

Arab Strap singer Aidan Moffat travels the Scottish countryside looking for the roots of Celtic culture and arguing about whether it’s allowed to update folk songs. The screening is followed by a Q&A with director Paul Fegan and Moffat and a performance of his trio, playing songs from the film. Musicians: Aidan Moffat (vocals & percussion), Jenny Reeves (vocals & violin), Stevie Jones (piano & guitar). Nov 18, 18:30 | Melkweg Rabozaal

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Chasing Trane

Walking in the Opposite Direction + Live: Felix Maginn & The Citizens Adrian Borland’s song “I Can’t Escape Myself” has taken on a whole new meaning in retrospect. The British songwriter, singer and guitarist, who was best known as the front man for post-punk band The Sound, suffered from depression and committed suicide in 1999. After the screening of this documentary telling his life story, Moke front man will perform songs by The Sound, accompanied by The Citizens, Borland’s band in his solo days. Nov 19, 15:00 | Melkweg Rabozaal

Liberation Day + Live: Laibach The ex-Yugoslavian cult band Laibach became the first Western band to perform in North Korea in August 2015. In the days leading up to the Independence Day concert, the band faces censorship and culture clashes. The screening is followed by Q&A with directors Ugis Olte and Morten Traavik, and a performance by Laibach. Nov 19, 19:30 | Melkweg Rabozaal

Chasing Trane + Live: Yaniv Nachum This definitive documentary on John Coltrane shows how the groundbreaking music of this outof-the-box thinker touches and influences people all over the world to this day. This portrait of a unique artist shows the defining moments, experiences and challenges Coltrane faced in developing his revolutionary sound. After the screening, Israeli saxophone player Yanic Nachim will perform several of Coltrane’s pieces with his project The Amsterdam Conservatory Coltrane Group. Nov 20, 14:00 | Melkweg Rabozaal

Unknown Brood + Live: Breaking Levees featuring David Hollestelle This look back at the turbulent life of Dutch rocker Herman Brood boasts unseen video shot by Brood himself, and eyewitness accounts by the people closest to him. After the screening, Amsterdam-based rock band Breaking Levees performs several of Brood’s songs, accompanied by David Hollestelle, the father of one of the band members and a member of Brood’s band The Wild Romance from 1981 to 2001. Nov 20, 17:30 | Melkweg Rabozaal

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The Rolling Stones Olé Olé Ole´

The First Monday in May + Special Guests In 2015, in the presence of a cavalcade of celebrities attending the Met Gala, curator Andrew Bolton opened fashion exhibition China: Through the Looking Glass. The exhilarating but exhausting preparations expose the gulfs and common ground between cultures: between East and West, and between art and fashion. The screening is followed by a conversation between fashion journalist and curator Aynouk Tan, director Andrew Rossi and moderator Arno Kantelberg (editor-in-chief of Esquire). Nov 19, 12:30 | Carré

VPRO Extra: The European + Special Guest Frans Timmermans A behind-the-scenes portrait of Frans Timmermans. Filmmaker Dirk Jan Roeleven follows him for nearly two years, from his appointment as Vice-President of the European Commission in 2014 to the Brexit referendum. As he is filmed in taxis, planes and cheerless hotel rooms, he talks openly about his assertiveness, his own father’s absence and the qualities of a good diplomat. After the screening, journalist Marcia Luyten discusses the making of the film with director Dirk-Jan Roeleven.

Unknown Brood + Live: Dany Lademacher’s Wild Romance “When I do my suicide for you, I hope you’ll miss me too”, Herman Brood sang in his song “Rock ‘n’ Roll Junkie,” one of many announcements of his own death that Brood worked into his songs. In Unknown Brood, those closest to him reflect on his turbulent life. The screening is followed by a performance by Dany Lademacher’s Wild Romance, Brood’s legendary former band. Nov 19, 19:00 | Carré

The Rolling Stones Olé Olé Olé! + Live: Douwe Bob A sparkling account of the Rolling Stones’ tour through Latin America and Cuba, one of the few places they had not yet played during their incredible career. The camera follows the band on visits with local musicians, into the dressing rooms and above all on stage, where they shine as always. The screening is preceded by a performance of three Rolling Stones songs covered by Dutch singer-songwriter Douwe Bob. Nov 19, 22:15 | Carré

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Shepherd’s Journey

The Quiet Eye Keynote: Carl Honoré Faster is not necessarily better or more efficient; the key is to find the right speed. Often it’s better to do things a little slower, for better quality. Carl Honoré is an award-winning writer, broadcaster and TED speaker, and a globetrotting ambassador for the Slow Movement. The Wall Street Journal called him an “in-demand spokesman on slowness.” To open the theme program The Quiet Eye, Honoré is giving a keynote entitled “In Praise of Slowness,” referring to the nine films that are part the program. Drinks follow the talk. Nov 24, 16:00-18:00 | Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

Free tickets can be obtained at www.idfa.nl.

Invention This creative homage to the City Symphony films of the 1920s, offering a searching love letter to urban spaces, art and cinema, is introduced by visual artist Sarah van Sonsbeeck on the power of silence and followed by a Q&A with director Mark Lewis. Nov 24, 20:00 | Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

Shepherds’ Journey into the Third Millenium Erich Langjahr follows some of the last shepherds in Switzerland. How does this old way of life continue into the modern age? Introduced by psychologist Jaap Duin who organizes expeditions to remote areas - without mobile phones or cameras. Nov 25, 12:00 | Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

Taimagura Grandma A touching glimpse into the modest life of an elderly but indefatigable couple living high in the mountains of northern Japan. Food journalist Janno Lanjouw introduces the film with a spoken column about Slow Food followed by a culinary surprise from Tosao van Coevorden (restaurant De Japanner). Nov 25, 16:00 | Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

Two Years at Sea Acclaimed writer and philosopher Joke J. Hermsen talks about time before a unique screening of this black-and-white, impressionistic, almost wordless and quietly extraordinary film, which follows the life and dreams of a recluse in the Scottish Cairngorms. Followed by a slow conversation with director Ben Rivers, moderated by film critic Dana Linssen (de Filmkrant). Nov 25, 20:00 | Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

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A Place Called Lloyd

Light Year

A quiet portrait of a bankrupt airline and its employees, who faithfully continue to turn up for work. The screening is introduced by award-winning writer, broadcaster and TED speaker Carl HonorĂŠ, the guest of honor for The Quiet Eye theme program, and followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Sebastian Cordes.

Light Year captures four seasons in a lush Swedish garden, allowing us to make new discoveries amid the bucolic bustle. CineSonic commissioned and produced a new score to the film by renowned German electronic composers Robert Lippok and Barbara Morgenstern, who perform the score live.

Nov 26, 12:00 | Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

Dead Slow Ahead An intoxicating sea voyage on a freighter that is more like a futuristic machine cast adrift, on a trip to the end of the world. The screening is preceded by a presentation about the art of sound in film by sound designer Michel SchĂśpping. Nov 26, 16:00 | Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

Alexei and the Spring An unhurried portrait of how life in the town of Budische calmly carries on for 55 elderly locals and a young man named Alexei, all of whom refused to be evacuated after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. With an introduction by Dutch filmmaker Ineke Smits and followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Seiichi Motohashi. Nov 26, 19:30 | Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

Nov 27, 12:00 | Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

South to North Cine-Concert Amsterdam-based musicians Yannis Kyriakides and Andy Moor composed the original soundtrack for the film Sud eau nord deplacer. For this special event, a new cut of the film now called South to North is accompanied by a new live soundtrack by Kyriakides and Moor, based on their original compositions and produced by CineSonic. The film maps the ever-changing state of a territory redesigned by engineers, where cement reaches beyond the grasslands, rivers leave their beds, deserts become forests, and where voices gradually grow stronger. Nov 27, 16:00 | Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

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DocLab: Elastic Reality

How does it feel to have someone follow you in the physical world, instead of just on social media? Or to look for love with your nose, rather than swiping profile pictures on Tinder? What would a computer brain say when it secretly takes a peek at your Instagram pictures? And what happens when we digitize our bodies or try to merge into one collective individual? You can experience it all in the DocLab: Elastic Reality program. With the DocLab: Elastic Reality program, IDFA and De Brakke Grond are presenting a 11-day exhibition, a conference and a series of live cinema events that unravel today’s digital world: from the loss of our online innocence to the rise of virtual worlds, biometric technology and artificial intelligence. IDFA’s new media program DocLab is also celebrating its 10th anniversary. Through the recent past, we look ahead to the future of interactive and immersive storytelling and art. Where do we stand, and where could we be in 10 years’ time as the internet continues to seamlessly merge with our physical reality? Where will the tech hype end and new realities and art forms begin? DocLab: Elastic Reality is a co-production of IDFA DocLab and De Brakke Grond, supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL and AFK (the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts).

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Trigger your senses and experience 30 of the world’s best interactive documentaries, virtual reality experiences and physical installations in the 10-day DocLab: Elastic Reality exhibition. With a two-person audio walk about lost friendships (So You Still Sort of Have the Same Number), 3-D-printed portraits based on DNA of imprisoned whistleblower Chelsea Manning (Radical Love), disruptive data visualizations by Iranian media artist Ali Eslami (DeathTolls Experience) and a virtual journey into the lost intimacy of the answering machine (I Am Not Home Video). Nov 17-26, 9:00-23:00

Nov 27, 9:00-18:00 | Brakke Grond

Free admission. Some installations have varying opening hours (11:00-21:00). On-site reservation may be required.

Interactive Conference

Now in its fourth year, the annual DocLab Interactive Conference brings together leading artists and thinkers from the world of art, technology, science and documentary. With Rem Koolhaas, Bregtje van der Haak, Toby Coffey (National Theatre), Saschka Unseld and Yelena Rachitsky (Oculus Story Studio), Lauren McCarthy (Follower), Ali Eslami (DeathTolls Experience) and a live performance by sound ecologist Bernie Krause (The Great Animal Orchestra). Nov 20, 10:00-18:00 | Brakke Grond Expozaal

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A series of unpredictable live cinema events where artists perform and experiment with their own work, often inviting the audience to participate and interact.

DocLab Live: Elastic Reality Opening Night A festive introduction to the DocLab: Elastic Reality program with the program’s artists and curators, featuring presentations and live performances unraveling reality in the digital age: from the loss of our online innocence to the rise of virtual worlds, artificial intelligence and undefined forms of documentary art. Nov 17, 20:00 | Brakke Grond Expozaal

DocLab Live: Orchestrated Individuals Exclusive live performance event in which the audience – if all goes well – merges into one virtual individual. With a presentation by digital artist Floris Kaayk (The Modular Body) and the world premiere of Shared Individual, this is a collective audience experiment exploring the possibility of teletransportation, created by Makropol, Bombina Bombast and Diversion. Nov 18, 21:15 | Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

DocLab Live: The Art of Awkward Tech A playful evening during which digital artists present absurd inventions that expand our existing notions of reality and confront us with our tech-obsessed everyday lives. With presentations by Matt Romein and Joe Mango (Meat Puppet Arcade), Thijs Van Vuure and Dries Depoorter. Nov 19, 20:00 | Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

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Live Cinema Events

DocLab Live: Dreams Sound artist Philippe Lambert and the National Film Board of Canada present a new live performance experience, inviting the audience to share their dreams and turn them into music. Step inside a comfortable space, listen and dream away as it fills up with the images and thoughts of other visitors. Write or draw your own thoughts, and let a scanner upload your dreams and translate them into electronic sounds that automatically become part of the musical performance. Nov 20, 18:30-23:00 | Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

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DocLab Live: The Art of Following An evening exploring the narrative potential of privacy, intimacy and following, organized in collaboration with the VPRO Medialab Meet Up series. With presentations and live experiments by Bregtje van der Haak (White Spots), Lauren McCarthy (Follower), Kyle McDonald (Wifi Whisperer), Moniker (clickclickclick.click) and Bert Hana (I Am Not Home Video). Followed by a VPRO Medialab Meet Up. Nov 21, 20:00 | Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

DocLab Live: Immersive Showcase Virtual reality and immersive storytelling (from augmented to mixed reality) are going through an unprecedented evolution. But where does the hype end and do new art forms take shape? An evening with live presentations and tech demos, a performances by sound artist Duncan Speakman, and the new VR version of interactive documentary classic Bear 71, commissioned by IDFA DocLab as part of its 10-year anniversary. Nov 22, 20:00 | Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

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DocLab Anniversary program

In 2007, IDFA started the new media program DocLab. Social media and smartphones were just taking off, and all around the world new forms of interactive storytelling and digital art were emerging – often with documentary artists leading the way. Since then, isolated experiments became emerging genres, from multimedia journalism to interactive documentary, data art and VR. Many timeless masterpieces were created along the way, such as Bear 71, Gaza/ Sderot and We Feel Fine. But they didn’t always reach the audience they deserved, and without serious attention to preservation we risk losing these projects forever, similar to what happened with early cinema a century ago. That’s why IDFA

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DocLab is unveiling the Canon of Interactive Documentary, an anniversary publication with 100 of the most important interactive documentary projects created in the last decade, available at the festival and online at www. doclab.org/100. Together with the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, DocLab is also presenting an expert session on preservation of interactive documentaries and has commissioned the National Film Board of Canada to reimagine the classic Bear 71 as a VR installation, presented in the DocLab: Elastic Reality exhibition. See also IDFA DocLab Immersive Network. Pauwhof Fonds

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DocLab Shorts

For its 10th anniversary edition, IDFA’s new media program DocLab has compiled a special anniversary program of shorts. See the world’s most awkward family photos, a neurological love competition and other short stories that would never have existed without the internet. Nov 24, 19:45 | Tuschinksi 3

DocLab Academy

DocLab Academy is an international program for new talent in the field of documentary storytelling and interactive media. The program addresses a variety of challenges and opportunities through exclusive workshops on virtual reality and interactive storytelling by international new media pioneers, portfolio reviews and one-onone meetings. This year’s program includes master classes and presentations by Jessica Brillhart, Brian Chirls, Bjarke Myrthu and Hackastory. Nov 17-21 | Brakke Grond

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Extended Q&As Forever Pure A look back at a tumultuous season for the Beitar Jerusalem soccer team, which hired two Muslim players in January 2013 for the first time in its history. Racist chants and choruses of whistles quickly spiraled into popular revolt and a total boycott. After the screening, TV host Bahram Sadeghi and director Maya Zinshtein discuss this extreme form of soccer violence and what can be done about it. Nov 17, 16:30 | Tuschinski 1

Shadow World Based on the book The Shadow World by Andrew Feinstein, visual artist Johan Grimonprez made this eponymous documentary, a shocking analysis of the international weapons trade. In an extensive discussion with film critic Dana Linssen (de Filmkrant) after the screening, Grimonprez uses several additional excerpts to make his plea for humanity, truth and love, and for having the courage to go against the prevailing morality. Nov 17, 20:00 | EYE Cinema 2

The Father, the Son and the Holy Jihad Both tragic and controversial, the film tells the story of the French-Syrian Ayachi family, of which first the son and then the father are drawn to the Syrian resistance. Filmmaker Stéphane Malterre follows the young jihadist on several campaigns, until he and several comrades are killed in an attack. Following his son’s death as a martyr, Bassam decides that it’s his turn to go to Syria. After the screening, journalist Harm Ede Botje and director Stéphane Malterre have an in-depth conversation dealing with integration, fundamentalism and identity. Nov 18, 13:45 | Tuschinski 2

Austerlitz Have concentration camps become a spectacle? Sergei Loznitsa positioned his camera among the stream of tourists who visit the Dachau and

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Sachsenhausen concentration camps: couples taking selfies in front of the entrance gate bearing the legend “Arbeit macht frei”; a woman posing gracefully in front of one of the ovens. After the screening, journalist Max van Weezel, director Sergei Loznitsa and Joël Cahen of the National Holocaust Museum discuss whether it’s still possible to commemorate the Holocaust in a fitting way. Nov 18, 16:00 | Tuschinski 1

Like Dew in the Sun Documentary filmmaker Peter Entell travels to Ukraine, the country his Jewish ancestors fled during the pogroms in 1914. One hundred years later, Entell faces the same destructive disunity, a country divided along ethnic and religious lines. Every group keeps its own traumas alive and amasses new ones. After the screening, journalist and entrepreneur Derk Sauer, director Peter Entell and director of photography Jón Björgvinsson discuss this country that seems perpetually at war. How can this cycle of violence be broken? Nov 18, 19:00 | Tuschinski 2

Peshmerga It’s an unlikely story: a battalion of fearless Kurdish freedom fighters and a prominent French intellectual go to war against IS in Iraqi Kurdistan. Director Bernard-Henri Lévy travels south towards Mosul with these Peshmerga, the military forces of Iraqi Kurdistan. Mere kilometers from the enemy, he delves into their motivations for fighting. After the screening, journalist Twan Huys and Lévy discuss modern warfare and the Peshmerga’s ideals. Nov 19, 12:45 | Tuschinski 1

The Return (screening with Yezidi Girls) What can you say to people who tell terrifying, heartrending stories about what happened to them when members of IS came into their homes? This is an empathic and emotional portrait of Shilan, a young Kurdish nurse in a refugee

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Monster in the Mind

All Governments Lie

A Young Girl in her Nineties

Nov 20, 14:30 | Tuschinski 2

Nov 19, 17:45 | EYE Cinema 1

In a hospital’s geriatrics department, choreographer Thierry Thieû Niang hosts dance workshops for Alzheimer’s patients. Through dance, they relive forgotten memories and in some cases even fall in love again. After the screening, journalist Liddie Austin and director Yann Coridain discuss Thieû Niang’s loving approach and the residents’ devotion. Nov 19, 19:00 | Brakke Grond Expozaal

Letters from Baghdad Explorer Gertrude Bell was ahead of her time. As a young archaeologist she traveled throughout the Middle East, making records of the many tribes and cultures she encountered along the way. Her knowledge proved invaluable after World War I, when the borders of this complex region were being redrawn. After the screening, journalist Irene van der Linde (De Groene Amsterdammer) and director Sabine Krayenbühl discuss this remarkable and influential woman. Nov 20, 13:30 | Tuschinski 1

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Impartiality was the watchword of legendary American investigative journalist I.F. Stone, who published his newsletter I.F. Stone’s Weekly from 1953 to 1971. “All governments lie” was his motto – and the reason why you have to use their own evidence against them. This is a lesson that inspires reporters to this day. After the screening, Xandra Schutte (editor-in-chief of De Groene Amsterdammer) and director Fred Peabody discuss investigative journalism and conflicts of interest.

Monster in the Mind Thirty years ago, medical journalist Jean Carper made a CNN documentary about Alzheimer’s, a disease that still poses one of the biggest threats to the aging Western population. Carper, who is now over 80 and carries the gene found in Alzheimer’s patients, travels the world to see how research is progressing. After the screening, journalist Nadia Moussaïd and director Jean Carper discuss the search for the origins of and possible cures for the dreaded disease. Nov 21, 13:45 | Tuschinski 2

Ah A suicide attack during a peace rally in Ankara on October 15, 2015 was the deadliest attack in Turkish history, claiming over 100 fatalities and more than 500 injured. Through the accounts of 25 eyewitnesses, director Mustafa Ünlü meticulously investigates what happened that day.

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camp in Iraqi Kurdistan. She distributes medication, lends a sympathetic ear and plays with the children in the muddy camp. Through the conversations she has with a traumatized young woman, Shilan’s own story gradually takes shape. After the screening, writer Chris Keulemans moderates an in-depth conversation with director Zahavi Sanjavi and protagonist Shilan about these stories of loss, violence and hardship.


After the screening, journalist and anthropologist Özgür Canel and Ünlü discuss the role of the Turkish police and the current political situation in the country.

will never have. After the screening, journalist Bahram Sadeghi and director Jiu-Liang Wang discuss social inequality and the hopelessness of the family’s existence.

Death in the Terminal

Burning Out

On October 18, 2015, a terrorist started shooting at the bus terminal in the Israeli town of Be’er Sheva, killing an Israeli soldier. Just seconds later, an Eritrean asylum seeker was mistakenly assumed to be the terrorist, and the enraged mob lynched him. This intricate documentary investigates the crucial 18 minutes following the attack through footage from various sources and eyewitness accounts. After the screening, documentary filmmaker Tessa Boerman and the film’s director Tali Shemesh discuss this intricate reconstruction and the questions is raises.

Over a two-year period, filmmaker Jérôme le Maire captured everyday life in the surgical department of a Parisian hospital. A combination of heavy workloads, intense stress, low staffing levels and budget cuts has deeply undermined the atmosphere. A disconcerting picture of the imminent burnout threatening the entire healthcare system. After the screening, journalist Sander Heijne (De Correspondent) and director Jérôme le Maire discuss the whether it’s wise to manage a hospital like a factory.

Nov 21, 16:15 | Tuschinski 2

Nov 21, 19:00 | Tuschinski 2

An Insignificant Man A chronicle of the spectacular rise of the Common Man’s Party (AAP) in India, established in 2012 by activist Arvind Kejriwal. The party’s logo, a broom, symbolizes its battle against the political establishment. The increasing popularity of the party is matched by a growing ferocity in the campaign. The screening is followed by an in-depth conversation between journalist Casper Thomas (De Groene Amsterdammer) and filmmakers Khushboo Ranka and Vinay Shukla, who followed the campaign from its early beginnings and documented the transformation of a grassroots movement into a significant political force – with all the internal conflicts that can entail. Nov 22, 11:15 | Tuschinski 2

Plastic China Yi Lie’s parents left their ancestral home in search of employment. Now, they sort and recycle plastic waste that is shipped to China from all over the world. Living among mountains of plastic, the family is engulfed by the incinerator’s fumes. ­Nevertheless, the children manage to dig up hidden treasures – the ephemera of another, much richer life, full of opportunities they

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Nov 22, 19:30 | Brakke Grond Expozaal

Whose Country? Corruption and impunity make all Egyptians fear their country’s police force. In January of 2011, this fear turned to anger and revolution broke out in Cairo. In Whose Country?, Mohamed Siam gets talking to a plain-clothes officer, who has his own reasons to draw hope from the revolution. After the screening, host Katinka Baehr and director Mohamed Siam discuss the future of Egypt. Nov 23, 14:45 | Tuschinski 2

Dream Empire A Chinese entrepreneur named Yana starts a talent agency for foreigners. Director David Borenstein is one of her “white monkeys”, who are supposed to give international allure to the massive amounts of real estate being built in China. But when sales don’t live up to expectations, Yana is forced to make a decision: keep going or close the agency. After the screening, journalist Hans Maarten van den Brink and director David Borenstein discuss the Chinese real estate boom and the resulting ghost towns, as well as the country’s endless obsession with economic growth. Nov 23, 16:30 | Tuschinski 1

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Men of Gold

A Memory in Three Acts

Following the screening of Men of Gold (2005), journalist Wim Bossema (editor at Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant and author of its blog on Africa) has an in-depth conversation with the film’s director Vincent Moloi about South Africa after apartheid. The film lays bare the multiple layers of power relationships among the inhabitants of Johannesburg, once known as the “City of Gold.”

How does a country deal with its colonial past? Forty years after Mozambique’s bloody struggle for independence, some of those who lived through it tell their stories. After the screening, journalist Claire Diao and director Inadelso Cossa discuss the open wounds of Mozambique’s history.

Nov 17, 16:15 | Kleine Komedie

The Giant Is Falling Premiering at IDFA, The Giant Is Falling points its gaze at the current situation in South Africa, some 20 years after the end of apartheid. After the screening, journalist Wim Bossema and director Rehad Desai discuss the new phase that South Africa’s young democracy has entered, and the role that a new generation can play. Nov 17, 20:45 | Kleine Komedie

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A Letter to Nelson Mandela In this personal odyssey made in 2013, filmmaker Khalo Matabane uses an imaginary letter to Nelson Mandela to investigate his status, role and actions during the reforms in South Africa in the 1990s. After the screening, journalist Wim Bossema talks to director Khalo Matabane about his personal assessment of Mandela’s heritage. Nov 18, 13:00 | Kleine Komedie

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Skulls, of My People

Voices + A Trip to the Country A post-colonial double bill. Ikenna Azuike, host of What’s Up Africa? (BBC/RNW Media), first talks to director Miguel Peres Dos Santos about his experimental short film Voices, which uncovers a blind spot of Dutch history in the Antilles. After A Trip to the Country (2000), Azuike continues the discussion with Jean-Marie Teno, talking about his trip through Cameroon, looking for the cultural identity of his home country in the post-colonial era. Nov 18, 15:45 | Kleine Komedie

Skulls, of My People The latest film by director Vincent Moloi (whose 2005 film Men of Gold is also featured in the Shifting Perspectives program) will have its world premiere at IDFA in the presence of protagonist Esther Muinjangue, a member of the Herero Genocide Committee. After the screening, Ikenna Azuike will talk to Moloi and Muinjangue about the Herero tribe’s fights against the German government for recognition of the genocide and repatriation of their ancestors’ skulls.

Too Black to Be French? (screening with The Danton’s Death) Although filmmaker Isabelle Boni-Claverie comes from a privileged background, she still faces discrimination because of the color of her skin. After the screening of her film Too Black to Be French?, she and journalist Claire Diao discuss the deep-seated hidden racism in France. Nov 18, 21:30 | Kleine Komedie

O.J.: Made in America Hardly any trials got as much media attention as that of American football player O.J. Simpson when he was accused of a double homicide in 1994. This epic documentary lays bare the complex history surrounding the trial. Following the screening of the 7,5 hour documentary, which is as riveting as it is shocking, journalist Claire Diao holds an in-depth conversation with director Ezra Edelman, allowing room for questions from the audience. Nov 19, 10:30-22:30 | Kleine Komedie

Nov 18, 18:45 | Kleine Komedie

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Machines

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Extended Q&As: Assembling Reality

Machines Director/editor Rahul Jain and editor Yael Bitton discuss the editing process of Machines in a talk with film critic Nicolas Rapold. Jain envisioned this visually stunning portrait of the grueling daily routine in an Indian textile factory as a film without an emphatic narrative structure. In this in-depth conversation, he talks about the challenges he faced during the editing process and how he overcame them working with Bitton. Nov 18, 19:30 | EYE Cinema 2

Hospital In a 90-minute, in-depth conversation, moderator Nicolas Rapold and filmmaker Frederick Wiseman discuss the editing of his classic film Hospital (1970). Throughout his career, the legendary 86-year-old filmmaker has remained loyal to observational cinema, in which editing plays a prominent role in forming the films’ dramatic structure. Wiseman shares his methods through detailed analyses of several clips from the film. Nov 19, 16:00 | EYE Cinema 2

Miss Kiet’s Children Filmmaking couple Petra and Peter Lataster and editor Mario Steenbergen discuss the editing of Miss Kiet’s Children with moderator Nicolas Rapold. In creating the film, the directors chose to

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make the editor part of the process from the very start. How did this method of working influence the final results? Nov 20, 15:30 | EYE Cinema 2

Mogadishu Soldier Editor Niels Pagh Andersen and film critic Nicolas Rapold discuss the editing of Mogadishu Soldier. The film tells the story of two Burundian soldiers who filmed their two-year UN mission to Mogadishu, accumulating 523 tapes of raw material. Starting with this undirected eyewitness account, Pagh Andersen created an impressionistic documentary that shows the madness of this war and the hopelessness of these soldiers’ peace mission. Nov 20, 19:00 | EYE Cinema 2

Cameraperson Film critic Nicolas Rapold talks to editor Nels Bangerter and director Kirsten Johnson about Cameraperson. This visual autobiography was created from unused film images, created by Johnson as a director of photography for various documentaries over the years. Aside from being a self-portrait, the film questions the way in which documentary filmmakers direct reality – a question that takes center stage in the conversation after the screening. Nov 21, 19:00 | EYE Cinema 2

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IDFA Selections

IDFA at De Balie

For six nights during the festival, IDFA is returning to its old home De Balie. During the first days of the festival, De Balie is offering three special programs: Fullscreen, about music videos and documentary; the afternoon program Beeldbepalers, featuring artist and filmmaker Renzo Martens; and an evening program on the international arms trade, with filmmaker Johan Grimonprez and investigative journalist Andrew Feinstein (Shadow World). Later in the week, De Balie has programmed four double bills of films that question each other or shine a different light on the same issue. Accompanying talks with thinkers, writers, journalists and professionals open up new ways of experiencing film as investigative journalism. Nov 18-19, 22-25 | De Balie – Grote Zaal

Queer Day

The fourth edition of IDFA’s Queer Day features five films about personal struggles around the world. The program includes a portrait of renowned fetish photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, as well as gay and transgender teens fighting back against bullying. The screenings of The Pearl of Africa and Kiki are all followed by Extended Q&As; Who’s Gonna Love Me Now? is accompanied by a performance by the men’s choir Manoeuvre. Queer Day 2016 is organized

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in collaboration with media partner OUTtv, the gay lifestyle TV channel for the Netherlands and Belgium (www.out.tv). Nov 21 | EYE Cinema 1

Oxfam Novib Selection

A selection of films from the IDFA program that tie in to Oxfam Novib’s work: Delicate Balance, a film essay structured around an interview with former president of Uruguay “Pepe” Mujica; 4.1 Miles and Bolingo. The Forest of Love, both focusing on migration from Africa to Europe; and Seed: The Untold Story, a warning against the powerful forces that threaten the rich heritage of seeds. All screenings are followed by talks and the program also encompasses a session entitled “Humans on the Move Part II”, in which moderator Bahram Sadeghi elucidates this theme using film clips. Film screenings:

Nov 21-23, 19:30 | Tuschinski 1

Session “Humans on the Move Part II”:

Nov 22, 10:00 | Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

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IDFA SELECTIONS

NTR Evening of the Wolf

For over 20 years, the Dutch documentary TV series Het Uur van de Wolf (The Hour of the Wolf) has been screening distinctive art documentaries. During the Evening of the Wolf, broadcaster NTR and IDFA present a cinematic journey through three new documentaries about art, as diverse and distinctive as the program itself. The program starts with the emotional story of writer Maya ­Angelou, whose intimate personal history is captured in Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise. Next up, Dutch documentary The Claim, the Search for Stolen Art from WWII by Ditteke Mensink follows Jewish survivors on an urgent quest for justice. The program is capped by the remarkable life of charismatic photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and his controversial, explicit works, which take center stage in Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures. Nov 22, 17:00-00:00 | Tuschinski 2

VICE at IDFA

The VICE Guide to IDFA (available at idfa.nl) features a selection of documentaries made by filmmakers across the globe, that have captured the global youth media company’s attention. Two of these will be screened during the VICE Night, followed by drinks: My Daughter Nora and Shot! The Program Guide

Psycho-Spiritual Mantra of Rock. In addition, VICE will announce the winner of the VICE documentary pitch at IDFA, which offered filmmakers the chance to pitch their best ideas to the experienced crew at VICE. VICE is looking for unique insights into underexplored cultures and places, that teach the viewers something new about the Benelux. VICE Pitch Award:

Nov 23, 17:30 | Brakke Grond Rode Zaal VICE Night:

Nov 25, 20:30 | Brakke Grond Expozaal

TV5MONDE day

The French TV channel TV5MONDE is organizing a special TV5MONDE Day during IDFA 2016. The selection includes a special screening of short French documentaries for high-school students, as well as two French documentaries in the IDFA program. Dutch viewers can continue to enjoy quality documentaries after the festival on ­T V5MONDE, which screens French documentaries with Dutch subtitles every Monday and Wednesday at 21:00 and every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 18:30. europe.tv5monde.com. Nov 25 | Tuschinski 4

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Industry Talks Between Director and Editor

Assembling Reality

The Industry Talks and the IDFAcademy program kick off together with an inspiring conversation between talented filmmaker Maite Alberdi and renowned editor Menno Boerema. The two first got to know each other during the IDFAcademy Summer School in 2014, where Boerema’s coaching on Alberdi’s Tea Time laid the groundwork for their collaboration on The Grown Ups, Alberdi’s latest documentary, which has been selected for the IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary this year. Their talk deals with the symbiosis between directing and editing, sharing expertise and making sure you work in a complementary way. Based on their own films and experiences, Alberdi and Boerema share their views on picking the “right” editor, bringing rough material to the next level through editing and balancing a narrative between several characters. Guests: Maite Alberdi, Menno Boerema Moderator: Cecilia Lidin

In documentary filmmaking, the editor is crucial. They’re the ones who create the actual narrative, constructing a reality from the bits and pieces provided by the director. This year, IDFA focuses on the art of editing in its theme program Assembling Reality. This Industry Talk invites renowned documentary editors Anne Fabini, Sara Kolster, Per Kirkegaard and Claudio Hughes to discuss their craftsmanship, constructing reality, the importance and possibilities of editing, engaging an audience and translating a director’s point of view. They also discuss new technologies, documentary formats and distribution platforms that have changed the editor’s creative process in recent years. Guests: Anne Fabini, Sara Kolster, Per Kirkegaard, Claudio Hughes Moderator: Nicolas Rapold

Nov 17, 13:30-15:00 I Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

Why Would You Need a Publicist? A good documentary sells itself, right? Well, not according to renowned L.A.-based publicist David Magdael. Standing out among the huge number of good and interesting stories is a job in itself. It’s hard to get your film in front of an audience, especially if you’re trying to get your documentary into American territory. In this talk, Magdael explains what a publicist can do for your film. How can you assemble a team to propel your film to success, attract helpful ambassadors and highlight your film’s key selling points? And how can you do all of this within your budget? Don’t miss the chance to learn from this experienced publicist. Guest: David Magdael Moderator: Peter Jaeger Nov 18, 15:00-16:30 I Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

Nov 19, 13:30-15:00 I Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

The Future of Documentaries and How They Are Created The ways in which documentaries are commissioned are changing: in an evolving media landscape and a globalizing world, good stories can come from anywhere. But how to develop documentaries out of these stories, is another thing. In this talk, Nick Fraser will introduce his new online documentary platform Yaddo, a subscription-based streaming service that will co-finance films as well as show them. Unlike its big VOD brothers Amazon and Netflix, who are increasingly active in the documentary market, Yaddo is also a pitching platform for short films. Filmmakers can pitch their stories online – even by Twitter or email – and attract investors to fully commission their ideas. In what sense do VOD-­ services, big and small, open up opportunities and access for filmmakers who want to tell their stories? Will online pitching platforms change the future of documentaries and how they are created? Nick Fraser will tell you all about Yaddo and what it can mean for developing filmmakers’ stories. Guest: Nick Fraser Moderator: Doug Block Nov 21, 15:00-16:30 I Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

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The (Un)defined Business of Interactive

Shifting Perspectives

Over the past decade, the internet has given rise to all sorts of new digital art forms and business models. This Industry Talk explores different ways pioneers have funded and created undefined non-fiction art. Now that the digital dust has settled, what should we take with us moving forward into the next decade? The ways of finding funding are as open and multifaceted as the forms of interactive art, but this doesn’t mean it’s easy. How can crowdfunding, traditional public funds, VOD platforms and money from venture capital be (re)defined and be used by other ­creators? A diverse panel shares its experiences on both financing and constructive business models for future work. Guests: Gary Hustwit, Margaux Missaka, Amelia Winger-Bearskin Moderator: Anna Higgs

Inspired by this year’s special focus program Shifting Perspectives, this Industry Talk examines issues of diversity, representation and inclusion. In recent years, public discussions on diversity in media have come to the fore internationally, often centered on policy and daily practice that are specific for each country. As an art form that enables audiences to see society from a different perspective, documentaries play a significant role in tackling these issues. In this talk, key players in the international documentary industry discuss the role documentary plays in fostering diverse storytelling. They give insight into current policies and their effects, striving for an inclusive approach to diversity, both on-screen and behind the scenes. How can documentary continue to be relevant on this issue in the current media landscape? Guests: Aaqil Ahmed, Tabitha Jackson, Alexandre Michelin Moderator: Loira Limbal

Nov 22, 15:00-16:30 I Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

Nov 23, 15:00-16:30 I Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

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Industry Sessions Using Archive Footage in Documentaries Historical documentaries rely heavily on well-researched and documented archive footage from national heritage institutes. Nonetheless, film archives often don’t hold the rights to the footage they keep. Reusing archive material in various ways, through broadcasting, websites and apps, offers new opportunities to reinvent footage. These rapidly changing possibilities require everyone dealing with archive footage to adapt and revise their procedures quickly and continuously. In this session, archive expert Elif Rongen-Kaynakci (EYE Film Institute) presents some practical cases of reusing archive footage to shed light on various matters concerning the collaboration between filmmakers and film archives, rights and the use of this material. She is joined by Zeva Oelbaum and Sabine ­Krayenbuehl, the directors of Letters from ­Baghdad, who share their own experiences. Nov 18, 10:00-11:00 | NH Carlton Paganini

VOD with Wendy Bernfeld Wendy Bernfeld gives an updated overview of the evolving opportunities in video-on-demand, both in general and specifically for the documentary sector. Different VOD platforms (tvod, svod, advod, etc.) and various middlemen/aggregators are at the table: they can be subsidized or commercial, and involve a variety of business models and regions. Many buy and some even fund. How do they work, and how can you, as a filmmaker or producer, benefit from them? Bernfeld, founder and managing director of international content consultancy Rights Stuff, provides an overview of these opportunities and various angles around creating windowing and “hybrid” distribution possibilities, and answers any other questions you may have. Nov 19, 10:00-11:00 | NH Carlton Paganini

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IDFA Bertha Fund The IDFA Bertha Fund (IBF) supports filmmakers of creative documentaries from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and parts of Eastern Europe. Over the last 19 years, IBF has supported over 600 film projects with funding for development and production. In 2015, the Fund expanded its funding opportunities, launching IBF Europe, which supports the production and distribution of documentaries realized through co-productions between European producers and producers from developing countries. The Fund’s Managing Director Isabel Arrate Fernandez and Project Manager Mélanie de Vocht explain the different funding opportunities the Fund offers. Nov 19, 12:00-13:00 | NH Carlton Paganini

Educational Distribution Documentary is one of the most powerful educational tools for sparking debate and shaping our understanding of the world around us. With the vast number of professors, librarians and students seeking documentaries, it can often be hard to navigate the educational market and understand where to begin. While the U.S. represents the most developed market, Europe also offers great opportunities for unlocking a film’s educational potential. Elinor Kowarsky, CEO of Film Platform, explains the international educational market and the myriad opportunities currently available to documentary filmmakers. Nov 20, 10:00-11:00 | NH Carlton Paganini

How to Create an Impact and Funding Campaign for Your Film Sandi DuBowski has been Good Pitch Outreach Director for BRITDOC for the last seven years and has successfully worked with numerous directors to craft innovative outreach, funding and impact campaigns for their films. He will tell you all about the opportunities of this rapidly growing working field which can enlarge the impact, love, and life of your film and your long-term sustainability as a filmmaker and changemaker who is International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam


Nov 20, 12:00-13:00 | NH Carlton Paganini

Can an Authors’ Organization Help you Make a Living? What is happening at a European level in terms of harmonizing authors’ rights laws? While new distribution models and VOD platforms are mushrooming, in many countries appropriate legislation to guarantee author royalties is a step behind. While filmmakers are making films, European collective management organizations are working to secure rights for the creators of these audiovisual works in the future. What does the single digital market concept mean for film­makers? Cecile Despringre of the Society of Audiovisual Authors sets the scene on European legislation in a talk moderated by Martijn ­Winkler, president of the Dutch Directors Guild. Nov 21, 10:00-11:00 | NH Carlton Paganini

In collaboration with LaScam

Putting Your Audience in the Story: Storytelling in 360 and CGI VR has been proven to change attitudes and provide powerful visceral experiences in labbased experiments, but can that power apply to storytelling? And how does that work in the real world? Zillah Watson, a former journalist and BBC pioneer in Virtual Reality, discusses these questions as well as recent examples of the BBC’s story-led VR, which embrace emerging consumer technology and set out to demonstrate the power of 360 films and CGI-based VR. Nov 22, 12:00-13:00 | NH Carlton Paganini

Marketing Documentaries in the Age of Social Media Getting a documentary noticed in a heavily crowded market requires a solid marketing strategy and creative solutions. This session by Mathias Noschis (Alphapanda) provides the main tools to identify a film’s target audiences and to reach them through clear positioning. Two practical case studies show how the strategy can be translated into promotional activities, in particular in the digital space. Nov 23, 10:00-11:00 | NH Carlton Paginini

Your Roadmap for Navigating the New World of Distribution Leading distribution strategist Peter Broderick (Paradigm Consulting) gives an up-to-theminute overview of the lay of the land and the perils to avoid in documentary distribution. He reviews possible destinations and explains the importance of beginning with clearly defined goals. Then he shows the old routes that have turned into dead ends – including wide theatrical distribution – and highlights promising new paths such as semi-theatrical campaigns. He also explains how essential windows are to be found in marking the legs of the journey. This session is designed to empower participants to design the best roadmaps for their distribution. Nov 22, 10:00-11:00 | NH Carlton Paganini

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truly making a difference. DuBowski will share tips from his work in the field and his own films Trembling Before G-d and his film-in-progress Rabbi as a case study.


In Conversation with… This year, the Industry Office is introducing a new series of talks putting three inspiring filmmakers in the spotlight, with hour-long conversations about their careers, films, methods and inspirations.

In Conversation with Coco Schrijber Coco Schrijber studied at the Rietveld Fine Arts Academy in Amsterdam, majoring in audiovisual studies. Her first feature-length documentary First Kill dealt with addiction to killing. It won the critics’ prize at the Netherlands Film Festival and was selected for the IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary in 2001. Her film Wonderful World won six international awards and Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies earned her a Golden Calf award, the Dutch equivalent of the Academy Awards; it was also the official Dutch entry for the Oscars. In her internationally praised documentaries, Schrijber is known for approaching her subjects from unexpected angles and tackling abstract subjects such as the beauty of war or the upsides of boredom, resulting in essay-like films with a bite. Her unbridled imagination and cinematic instinct can result in disturbing stories that turn the viewer into an uneasy voyeur. Schrijber’s latest film How to Meet a Mermaid has been selected for this year’s IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary. Moderator: Ryan Harrington. Nov 18, 12:00-13:00 I Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

In Conversation with Kirsten Johnson Kirsten Johnson is an award-winning New Yorkbased documentary filmmaker and cinematographer who started working on local fiction and documentary film projects in West Africa before graduating from the FEMIS (the French National Film School) in Paris. Asylum, a short documentary she shot in Ghana, was nominated for an Oscar in 2004. Since then, she has shot some of the most powerful documentaries in recent years, including A Place at the Table, the Oscar-nominated The Invisible War and most recently Laura Poitras’s Citizenfour, which won Best Documen-

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tary at last year’s Oscars. Traveling the globe with leading documentary filmmakers for 25 years, the many subjects she has covered range from Bosnian genocide to impoverished Nigerian maternity wards to Edward Snowden. She made her directorial debut with Cameraperson, drawing on footage she has shot over the course of her career and earning her the Sheffield Doc/Fest’s Grand Jury Award. Cameraperson is screening in IDFA’s special focus program Assembling Reality this year. Moderator: Orwa Nyrabia. Nov 21, 12:00-13:00 I Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

In Conversation with Steve James Steve James is one of America’s most acclaimed documentary directors. With Hoop Dreams, the story of two inner-city Chicago teens striving to make it out of their neighborhoods and into the NBA, he won every major critics’ award as well as the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival, the Peabody and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, awards from the Directors Guild of America, and hundreds of other awards and accolades, making the film the most awarded film of the year. It was his first affiliation with Kartemquin Films, a collaborative center for documentary media makers who seek to foster a more engaged and empowered society, celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. After Hoop Dreams, James became one of the most acclaimed documentary makers of his generation, with noted works including Stevie, The New Americans, The War Tapes, At the Death House Door, The Interrupters and Life Itself. IDFA is screening his new films Abacus: Small Enough to Jail and The Ride of their Lives in this year’s Masters section. Moderator: Claire Aguilar. Nov 23, 12:00-13:00 I Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

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Additional Talks NCE Presents: Order in Chaos, Niels Pagh Andersen Master Class The NCE (Netherlands Association of Cinema Editors) is organizing a master class about documentary editing by Niels Pagh Andersen, one of Scandinavia’s most influential and internationally recognized editors. Andersen has worked on over 250 films, including the Oscar-nominated The Pathfinder as well as The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence and The 3 Rooms of Melancholia. In addition to his work as an editor, he has lectured and taught at film schools and universities around the world, works as a dramaturge and a supervising editor, and is writing a book about storytelling from the editor’s point of view. Using clips from his films, he elucidates his vision, development and ongoing search for the “authentic moment.” Guest: Niels Pagh Andersen Moderator: Jos Driessen Nov 19, 10:30-12:30 | Brakke Grond Rode Zaal

NBF presents: High Dynamic Range (HDR) This seminar hosted by the Dutch Association of Film and TV Professionals (NBF) takes a closer look at the HDR production chain, followed by a Q&A. Once you’ve seen an HDR TV-screen, you won’t need any further convincing: images look better, fresher and more exciting. While 3-D was interesting for its novelty and the advantages of 4K weren’t really apparent, it’s clear that HDR

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is here to stay. But how long will it take before “premium” becomes the norm? This NBF seminar showcases HDR content and supplies information on how to create and deliver a production in HDR. Manufacturers show some of their latest ­products, and attendees get a closer look at how HDR can affect their workflow, both on set and in post-production. Nov 22, 19:00-22:30 | Netherlands Film Academy

The Guardian and Bertha Foundation Presents Come and hear about the Guardian Bertha documentary partnership. The Guardian and the Bertha Foundation are commissioning a series of 12 short documentary films from independent filmmakers that address contemporary issues and raise awareness of people and movements making a difference in the world. Charlie Phillips (The Guardian) and Rebecca Lichtenfeld (Bertha Foundation) show clips, talk about the films being commissioned and released in the next year, and invite you to join them for drinks and snacks. www.theguardian.com | www.berthafoundation.org Nov 22, 20:30-22:00 | Compagnietheater – Grote Zaal

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Social Events Guests Meet Guests

All IDFA guests are invited to meet and exchange ideas at the daily Guests Meet Guests cocktail hour. Please note that this year, the Guests Meet Guests receptions are held at two different locations. Nov 17, 18 and 24, 18:00-19:30 | Café De Jaren Nov 19-23, 18:00-19:30 | Zuiderkerk

Open to all pass holders.

IMCINE cordially invites you to the Guests Meet Guests reception on November 18. IMCINE, the Mexican Film Institute, is a decentra­ lized public agency with the mandate to promote the development of national cinematic activity through programs for the support of creators; the production of feature, short and documentary films; the encouragement of the audiovisual industry; and the promotion and distribution of Mexican cinema. IMCINE celebrates the presence of Mexican documentary producers and directors at IDFA. www.imcine.gob.mx

Polish Docs and HBO Europe cordially invite you to the Guests Meet Guests reception on November 20. During this Guests Meet Guests reception, Polish Docs and HBO Europe are treating you to drinks. Polish Docs and HBO Europe invite you to celebrate together the presence of Polish documentary films at IDFA, including You Have No Idea How Much I Love You by Paweł Łoziński in the IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary and Icon by Wojciech Kasperski in the IDFA Competition for Midlength Documentary. Within the framework of the Polish Docs project, the Krakow Film Foundation promotes Polish documentary films at international festivals and film markets, bringing them to the attention of festival programmers, sales agents and decision makers. HBO Europe is one of the most important documentary film producers in Poland. The latest productions include Communion by Anna Zamecka, winner of the Semaine de la Critique at the Locarno Film Festival and presented at IDFA 2016 in the Best of Fests section. www.polishdocs.pl | www.hbo-europe.com

Doc/it cordially invites you to the Guests Meet Guests reception on November 19. Doc/it is the official association of Italian documentary producers and filmmakers. Its mandate is to promote the documentary genre in all its forms through a host of activities: organizing delegations in markets and festivals; producing Italian Doc Screenings, the most important international market for Italian documentary; managing Italiandoc, the online platform of Italian documentaries; producing Il Mese del Documentario, the Doc/ it Professional Award, the Doc/it Women Award and the training program IDS Academy; taking part in Moving Docs, an EDN project supported by Creative Europe; building a network among professionals; and improving institutional awareness. www.italiandoc.it

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ARTE, the European culture channel, cordially invites you to the Guests Meet Guests reception on November 21. During this Guests Meet Guests reception, ARTE is treating you to drinks. ARTE is a public service television channel. Its exceptional creativity and the high quality of its programs are the foundation of ARTE’s s success and uniqueness. The channel builds bridges between television and the internet and can be seen by everyone, anywhere and at any time. ARTE is now available in five languages. In addition to French and German versions, it offers a selection of programs on the web with English, Spanish and Polish subtitles. arte.tv | arte.tv/en | arte.tv/es | arte.tv/pl

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ChileDoc cordially invites you to the Guests Meet Guests reception on November 22. ChileDoc was created in 2010 to help producers get access to the international market to sell their projects and films. To do this, ChileDoc focuses primarily on four areas: training for producers, networking and research, news, and distribution. Since 2013, it has presented the distribution program Miradoc, which theatrically distributes eight local films each year through a network of more than 20 small theaters in 17 cities in Chile, pushing to build an audience where people were not used to watching documentaries in the cinema. In the last few years, Chilean documentary production has strengthened, with new projects and new viewpoints emerging. This year the organization has launched ChileDoc Conecta, the first documentary industry meeting in Santiago de Chile. Our work includes spreading festival calls as well as funding and pitching possibilities through our website and social media. www.chiledoc.cl

During the Guests Meet Guests reception on November 22, the winner of the IDFA AWFJ EDA Award for Best Female-Directed Documentary will be announced. The Alliance of Women Film Journalists (AWFJ) is an international nonprofit organization of leading women film critics and journalists. Our mandate is to promote women’s achievements in cinema Program Guide

by presenting juried EDA Awards to women filmmakers at film festivals and during awards season. The AWFJ provides vital commentaries and information about women in film on our website, in our weekly e-newsletter and on The Female Gaze Forum. For additional information, contact us at awfjinc@gmail.com. The jurors for this year’s IDFA AWJF EDA Award for Best FemaleDirected Film are Jennifer Merin (U.S., film critic for Women’s eNews and Cinema Citizen Blog), Julide Tanriverdi (Germany/Turkey, film critic and features writer for publications in Germany, Austria and Hungary) and Dorothy Woodend (Canada, film critic for The Tyee and programmer for DOXA Film Festival). www.awfj.org

Inside a Chinese Life (produced by CCTV) cordially invites you to the Guests Meet Guests reception on November 24. The documentary series Inside a Chinese Life tell stories of several ordinary Chinese people who do not accept their status quo. These truthful stories from China, a country undergoing breathtaking changes, bring you to the essence of Chinese lives. The creators of Inside a Chinese Life are looking for buyers and distributors for the current series and collaborators for future projects.

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Filmmakers’ Dinners

IDFA Forum & DocLab Drinks

Nov 19 & 21, 20:00 | Restaurant Sluizer

Nov 20, 21:00-22:30 | Brakke Grond Expozaal

ARRI is inviting selected filmmakers with a film in the program to two special dinners. By invitation only.

The Filmmakers’ Dinners are presented by ARRI. Headquartered in Munich since 1917, ARRI is the world’s leading manufacturer of motion picture camera, lighting and DI equipment. The global ARRI Group covers every facet of the industry, from equipment rental to postproduction, VFX and distribution. Manufactured products include the ALEXA and AMIRA cameras, Master Anamorphic lenses, SkyPanel LED lights, Pro Camera Accessories and ARRISCAN Archive Technologies. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has recognized ARRI with 18 Scientific and Technical Awards. www.arri.com

Docs for Sale Happy Hour

On behalf of NPO Sales, Films Transit, CAT&Docs, Autlook Filmsales, Rise & Shine World Sales and Eye International, all Docs for Sale and Forum attendees are invited for Happy Hour. Nov 18-24, 17:00-18:00 | Arti et Amicitiae

Docs for Sale and Forum pass holders only.

IDFA Forum and IDFA DocLab celebrate the future of documentary storytelling together. By invitation only.

IDFA Forum & DocLab Drinks are supported by BCPF. The nonprofit organization Broadcasting Content Promotion Foundation (BCPF) was established in 2007 to support excellent documentary filmmakers and distinguished broadcasting content in Korea. Since then, BCPF has supported internationally acclaimed documentaries such as Planet of Snail, Wind on the Moon, Here Comes Uncle Joe, With or Without You, Captain Kang, Tour of Duty, Mrs. B., a North Korean Woman, Singing with Angry Bird, My Love, Don’t Cross That River and many more. www.bcpf.or.kr

IDFA Forum Producers’ Breakfasts

The Producers’ Breakfasts provide an informal setting for producers to meet. Pre-arranged table settings ensure attendees meet colleagues they would like to collaborate with. Nov 21-23, 8:30-9:15 | Compagnietheater – Foyer Upstairs

Forum pass holders only, by pre-arranged enrollment. The Forum Producers’ Breakfasts are presented by Future Logic and AFAC. Future Logic is the international development platform of Palestinian cinema, seeking to reimagine a collective Palestinian identity by fostering practical and conceptual discourse focused on the future. To achieve this, it functions as a communication hub, linking Palestinian filmmakers while increasing the exposure of their films within the film industry at large, and connecting them to potential producers and distributors. Future Logic is proud to present a spectrum of the Palestinian mosaic from across the globe. www.futurelogic.org

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IDFA Forum Lunches

A welcome break from the busy pitch schedule, the daily lunches offer an informal setting to meet, greet and eat. Nov 21-23, 12:35-14:45 | Zuiderkerk

Forum pass holders only.

The Forum Lunch on November 21 is supported by Chicken & Egg Pictures. Chicken & Egg Pictures supports female non-­ fiction filmmakers whose artful and innovative storytelling catalyzes social change. We empower women directors from a range of diverse backgrounds and experiences to realize their artistic goals and visions, build sustainable careers and achieve parity in all areas of the film industry. www.chickeneggpics.org

The Forum Lunch on November 22 is supported by Catalan Films & TV and DocsBarcelona. Catalan Films & TV supports the Catalan audiovisual industry worldwide. Its goal is to increase the participation of the Catalan film industry in international markets and support Catalan creations and talents at major film festivals. DocsBarcelona is a consolidated project devoted to documentary. Born 20 years ago, today it encompasses an international competitive festival and industry market in three cities (Barcelona, Medellín and Valparaíso), PINK C76 M38 / BLACK K17

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an international documentary school and an international distribution brand and network.

www.catalanfilms.cat | www.docsbarcelona.com

The Forum Lunch on November 23 is supported by the Netherlands Film Fund. The Netherlands Film Fund is the national agency responsible for supporting film production in the Netherlands and activities such as festivals and training. Its focus is to develop and strengthen Dutch cinema and film culture both domestically and internationally. The Film Fund also oversees the activities of the Netherlands Film Commission. The fund operates a Film Production Incentive based on a 30% cash rebate system. Thirteen films backed by the Netherlands Film Fund are screening at IDFA 2016, including Stranger in Paradise (Opening film, First Appearance Competition), Miss Kiet’s Children (Feature-Length Competition), How to Meet a Mermaid (Feature-Length Competition), and To Stay Alive – A Method (Mid-Length Competition). www.filmfund.nl

IDFA Forum Closing Drinks

The Forum wraps up with closing drinks on Wednesday afternoon. Last chance to seal the deal! Nov 23, 17:00-17:45 | Compagnietheater

Forum pass holders only.

The Forum Closing Drinks are supported by DOCTV. DOCTV Latin America is a fund of the Conference of Ibero-American Cinematographic Authorities (CACI), which promotes the production and distribution of documentary films. The fund has two selection rounds each year in 17 countries of the region, with a stimulus of $70,000 and a project development workshop for each. After their development, the resulting films are broadcast on 21 Latin American TV channels and VOD platforms. www.doctvlatinoamerica.org

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The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) is an independent regional initiative that offers financial and professional support to emerging and established artists from the Arab region, and to cultural institutions in the fields of film, literature, performing arts, photography, visual arts, music and research/training/regional events. AFAC has had a special program for documentary films since 2009, and has supported more than 100 documentary films thus far.


Docs for Sale

Established in 1996, Docs for Sale is the world’s leading marketplace for creative documentaries. It offers streaming video all year round and excellent networking opportunities for buyers and sellers of quality documentaries during the festival. Now in its 21st year, Docs for Sale is an extensive, internationally oriented market for documentaries. Featuring more than 450 titles this year, all of which have undergone a strict selection process, the market offers viewing services backed by an extensive database and catalogue. Through the Docs for Sale Online platform, established in 2008 and accessible by subscription only, buyers and exhibitors can view documentaries whenever they want and from wherever they are.

Meet the Professionals at Docs for Sale

Docs for Sale is organizing Meet the Professionals, allowing Docs for Sale participants to register for 15-minute meetings with industry professionals. Filmmakers whose film has been selected for Docs for Sale can book meetings a day in advance with sales agents, festival programmers and TV buyers – for advice, to network or to sell their film. Nov 19-23, 10:30-12:00 | Arti et Amicitiae (Docs for Sale Lounge)

Preregistration required. Docs for Sale is supported by

Nov 18-24 | Arti et Amicitiae

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Projects in various stages of funding get a platform at IDFA Forum. In its 24 years, the Forum has grown to be the largest and most influential meeting place for documentary filmmakers, producers, commissioning editors, funds, private financiers and other documentary stakeholders in Europe. Over the course of three days, 60 projects are being pitched to commissioning editors and other decision makers from around the world in a variety of pitch setups. Thirty-seven filmmakers are presenting their projects in the smaller halls of Compagnie Theater to groups of funders who have indicated interest in specific projects. This includes three genre-specific roundtable sessions with focus on crossmedia, arts & culture and documentaries for children. In addition, 12 linear and 3 cross-media projects in various stages of production are presented in the big hall of the Compagnietheater.

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MARKETS, FUNDING AND TRAINING

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Hundreds of One-on-One Meetings are held parallel to and following these public pitch sessions. In addition, the Rough Cut Project section organized in collaboration with Docs for Sale (see opposite page) offers selected filmmakers the opportunity to present work-in-progress edits online to commissioning editors, buyers, distributors and festival programmers. The Forum offers various services aimed at furthering the possibilities for co-production, including matchmakers who facilitate meetings between participants, consultancies with experts in various fields, and a daily Producers’ Breakfast. Nov 21-23 | Compagnietheater

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Dream Empire

Previous IDFA Forum projects at IDFA 2016 Ambulance Mohamed Jabaly (Norway/Palestine, 2016) Pitched at IDFA Forum in 2015. Screening in Best of Fests. See page 74.

The Borneo Case Dylan Williams/Erik Pauser (Sweden/Germany/ Wales, 2016) Pitched at IDFA Forum in 2014. Screening in Masters. See page 75.

China’s Van Goghs Haibo Yu/Kiki Tianqi Yu (China/The Netherlands, 2016) Pitched at IDFA Forum in 2014. Screening in Panorama. See page 76.

Dream Empire David Borenstein (Denmark, 2016) Pitched at IDFA Forum in 2013. Selected for the IDFA Competition for First Appearance. See page 78.

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Eat That Question – Frank Zappa in His Own Words Thorsten Schütte (Germany/France, 2016) Pitched at IDFA Forum in 2011. Screening in Music Documentary. See page 79.

The Grown-Ups Maite Alberdi (Chile/The Netherlands/ France, 2016) Pitched at IDFA Forum in 2014. Selected for the IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary. See page 81.

Prison Sisters Nima Sarvestani (Sweden, 2016) Pitched at IDFA Forum in 2015. Screening in Masters. See page 91.

The Promise Marcus Vetter (Germany/USA, 2016) Pitched at IDFA Forum in 2013. Screening in Masters. See page 93.

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Singing with Angry Bird

Still Tomorrow

Vitaly Mansky (Germany/Ukraine/Estonia/ Latvia, 2016) Pitched at IDFA Forum in 2014. Screening in Masters. See page 94.

Jian Fan (China, 2016) Pitched at IDFA Forum in 2015. Selected for the IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary. See page 97.

Shadow World

White Spots, a Journey to the Edge of the Internet

Johan Grimonprez (USA/Belgium, 2016) Pitched at IDFA Forum in 2012. Screening in Paradocs. See page 95.

Singing with Angry Bird Hyewon Jee (South Korea, 2016) Pitched at IDFA Forum in 2015. Screening in Panorama. See page 95.

Solitary Kristi Jacobson (USA, 2016) Pitched at IDFA Forum in 2014. Screening in Panorama. See page 97.

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Bregtje van der Haak (The Netherlands, 2016) Pitched at IDFA Forum in 2015. Selected for DocLab: Elastic Reality. See page 100.

Whose Country? Mohamed Siam (Egypt/France/Kuwait/USA, 2016) Pitched at IDFA Forum in 2011. Screening in Best of Fests. See page 100.

Zaineb Hates the Snow Kaouther Ben Hania (Tunisia/United Arab Emirates/France/Qatar/Lebanon, 2016) Pitched at IDFA Forum Online in 2012. Screening in Panorama. See page 101.

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IDFA Bertha Fund

The IDFA Bertha Fund (IBF) supports documentary filmmakers in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and parts of Eastern Europe. The Fund seeks to stimulate and offer new perspectives by enabling these filmmakers to realize their projects and by promoting the screenings of their documentaries. For years, the IDFA Bertha Fund has offered support for the development and production of documentaries. In 2015, the Fund introduced the new program IDFA Bertha Fund Europe, which supports co-productions between European producers and producers from developing countries. The new program aims to increase cross-continental collaboration and includes a section for distribution support as well.

IDFA Bertha Fund Projects at IDFA

The IDFA Bertha Fund not only provides financial support to filmmakers, but it also plays a crucial advisory role. To that end, the Fund sees to it that supported filmmakers participate in IDFA’s various industry activities. Five projects are pitching at IDFA Forum, and a variety of filmmakers are participating in IDFAcademy or attending IDFA Forum as an observer to present their projects. Furthermore, the fund is teaming up with the Bertha Foundation in organizing consultancies on outreach for a select group of filmmakers.

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An Insignificant Man

Central Pitch Veterans, Gema Films (Argentina), Bettina Walter Productions (Spain)

Round Table pitches All About Amal, ArtKhana (Egypt), Abbout Productions (Lebanon), Detail Film (Germany) Raghu Rai, an Unframed Portrait, IV Films (Finland), Anurag Kashyap, CRCI India Pvt Ltd (India)

Rough Cut projects Bullet Catcher, Batytskyi production (Ukraine), Pomegranate Studios Inc. (USA), Volt Film AS (Norway) Obstinate, Les Films du Tambour de Soie (France), Afghan Doc House (Afghanistan)

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Observers The Last Year of Congo Mirador, Sancocho Publico (Venezuela), Spiraleye Productions (UK), Polo de Imagem (Brazil) Home Games, Studio Garmata Film (Ukraine), East Roads Films (France),

IBF participants at IDFAcademy

Brother on Paper, Carlos Hernรกndez & Anna Casals, Colombia The Belly of the Whale, Horizoe Garcia, Cuba Home Games, Alisa Kovalenko & Maksym Vasyanovych, Ukraine Insomnia, Lera Latypova & Marusya Syroechkovskaya, Russia Obstinate, Sahra Mosawi, Afghanistan Off Khartoum Sides, Marwa Zein, Sudan Turkana: Race for Resources, Jackie Lebo & Chelagat Lebo, Kenya Written on Your Face, Simon Lokwang, South Sudan

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IBF at IDFA Forum


IBF Harvest screening at IDFA

Fifteen new documentaries supported by the IDFA Bertha Fund are part of this year’s festival program.

Amazona Clare Weiskopf (Colombia, 2016) Supported by IBF in 2014. Selected for the IDFA Competition for First Appearance. See page 74.

Ambulance Mohamed Jabaly (Norway/Palestine, 2016) Supported by IBF in 2015. Screening in Best of Fests. See page 74.

China’s Van Goghs Haibo Yu/Kiki Tianqi Yu (China/The Netherlands/ France, 2016) Supported with IBF Europe production and distribution grants in 2016. Screening in Panorama. See page 76.

The Grown-Ups Maite Alberdi (Chile/The Netherlands/France, 2016) Supported with an IBF Europe production grant in 2015 and a distribution grant in 2016. Selected for the IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary. See page 81.

Rahul Jain (India/Germany/Finland, 2016) Supported with an IBF Europe distribution grant in 2016. Selected for the IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary and screening in Assembling Reality. See page 87.

A Memory in Three Acts Inadelso Cossa (Mozambique, 2016) Supported by IBF in 2014. Selected for the IDFA Competition for First Appearance and screening in Shifting Perspectives. See page 89.

Plastic China Jiu-Liang Wang (China, 2016) Supported by IBF in 2013. Selected for the IDFA Competition for First Appearance. See page 91.

Skulls, of My People Vincent Moloi (South Africa, 2016) Supported by IBF in 2009. Screening in Panorama and Shifting Perspectives. See page 97.

Tempestad Tatiana Huezo (Mexico, 2016) Supported by IBF in 2013. Screening in Best of Fests. See page 98.

Happily Ever After

Trembling Mountain

Nada Riyadh/Ayman El Amir (Egypt, 2016) Supported by IBF in 2016. Screening in Panorama. See page 81.

Kesang Tseten (Nepal, 2016) Supported by IBF in 2015. Screening in Panorama. See page 98.

Hissein Habré, a Chadian Tragedy

Whose Country?

Mahamat Saleh Haroun (France/Chad, 2016) Supported by IBF in 2014 and supported with an IBF Europe production grant in 2015. Screening in Masters. See page 83.

Mohamed Siam (Egypt/France/Kuwait/USA, 2016) Supported by IBF in 2011 and 2012. Screening in Best of Fests. See page 100.

An Insignificant Man

Kaouther Ben Hania (Tunisia/United Arab Emirates/France/Qatar/Lebanon, 2016) Supported by IBF in 2012. Screening in Panorama. See page 101.

Khushboo Ranka/Vinay Shukla (India, 2016) Supported by IBF in 2013. Screening in Best of Fests. See page 85.

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Zaineb Hates the Snow

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IDFA is invested in fostering new documentary talent through the IDFAcademy program during the festival as well as in several workshops and training programs throughout the year. The resulting films are shown at the festival, along with other creative documentaries by new talents, most notably in the festival’s First Appearance and Student Competitions. During the festival, IDFAcademy offers an intensive four-day training program for emerging filmmakers and producers. In a range of plenary sessions, workshops and master classes, renowned experts from the documentary field discuss subjects like how to build an effective trailer or festival strategies. This year’s program kicks off with an Industry Talk by talented filmmaker Maite Alberdi and renowned editor Menno Boerema (see page 122), who worked together on The Grown-Ups, selected for the IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary. It also includes the now legendary Pitch and Trailer Workshop and a session on editing in VR, featuring Google’s Jessica Brillhart.

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IDFAcademy

In addition, three initiatives held throughout the year focus on the development of specific film projects. In both the IDFA-Mediafonds Workshop and the Kids & Docs Workshop (which was held for the last time in 2015), aspiring Dutch film­ makers develop a rough idea into a ready-to-shoot film plan. In the intensive six-day program of the IDFAcademy Summer School, upcoming international talents – including several whose films have been supported by the IDFA Bertha Fund – develop projects at the script or editing stage. These various initiatives form part of a continuous whole, which comes to fruition during the festival. Participants from the various workshops meet each other and continue their ongoing conversation about the documentary form. Projects that originated or were developed at one of the workshop programs are screened at the festival, bringing the importance of IDFA’s dedication to developing talent into clear focus. IDFAcademy is supported by

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Rocknrollers

Elsbeth Fraanje (The Netherlands, 2016) Developed at the Kids & Docs Workshop in 2014. Selected for the IDFA Competition for Kids & Docs. See page 76.

Daan Bol (The Netherlands, 2016) Developed at the Kids & Docs Workshop in 2015. Selected for the IDFA Competition for Kids & Docs and screening in Music Documentary. See page 94.

Dream Empire

Sealers – One Last Hunt

David Borenstein (Denmark, 2016) Developed at the IDFAcademy Summer School in 2015. Selected for the IDFA Competition for First Appearance. See page 78.

Trude Berge Ottersen/Gry Elisabeth Mortensen (Norway, 2016) Developed at the IDFAcademy Summer School in 2016. Selected for the IDFA Competition for First Appearance. See page 95.

An Insignificant Man Khushboo Ranka/Vinay Shukla (India, 2016) Developed at the IDFAcademy Summer School in 2014. Screening in Best of Fests. See page 85.

A Memory in Three Acts

Mathijs Vleugels (Belgium, 2016) Developed at the IDFA-Mediafonds Workshop in 2014. Screening in Panorama. See page 95.

Inadelso Cossa (Mozambique, 2016) Developed at the IDFAcademy Summer School in 2014 and 2015. Selected for the IDFA Competition for First Appearance and screening in Shifting Perspectives. See page 89.

Singing with Angry Bird

A Quiet Place

Judith de Leeuw (The Netherlands, 2016) Developed at the IDFA-Mediafonds Workshop in 2012. Screening in Panorama. See page 99.

Sjoerd Oostrik (The Netherlands, 2016) Developed at the IDFA-Mediafonds Workshop in 2014. Selected for the IDFA Competition for Dutch Documentary. See page 93.

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Hyewon Jee (South Korea, 2016) Developed at the IDFAcademy Summer School in 2016. Screening in Panorama. See page 95.

Welcome to the Heavenly Earth

Whose Country? Mohamed Siam (Egypt/France/Kuwait/USA, 2016) Developed at the IDFAcademy Summer School in 2012. Screening in Best of Fests. See page 100.

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Recent developments in immersive technology – like virtual reality, as well as AR, MR and AI – have introduced an explosive new growth industry for contemporary mediamakers. But while VR consumer devices are already reaching the masses, many questions still exist around the true potential of immersive media. Just like a decade ago, when the internet began to converge with traditional media, the future of interactive and immersive media is once again unknown and being shaped by pioneers working in very different disciplines, ranging from art to technology, and from business development to science.

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DocLab: Immersive Network

With the Immersive Network program, IDFA DocLab brings interactive and immersive communities together to create, research, showcase and network. Throughout this year’s IDFA festival and future events, different activities are being presented. The Immersive Network activities are organized in collaboration with a wide range of participants, including the National Film Board of Canada, ARTE, Google, Oculus Story Studio, VRbase Amsterdam, The Guardian, the New York Times, Tribeca Film Festival, the Dutch Institute for Sound and Vision, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, MIT, Diversion and many others. DocLab: Immersive Network is supported by

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Immersive Network Summit

The Immersive Network Summit is a new international think tank event bringing together experts from all corners of the interactive and immersive storytelling industry to formulate the next steps in developing the medium. The program includes presentations of new platforms, audience research and groundbreaking interactive and immersive storytelling experiments, followed by a networking lunch and cross-sector roundtable discussions of topics ranging from technology to artistic practices, distribution and exhibition. Nov 19, 11:30-17:00 | Brakke Grond

By invitation only.

Expert Meeting: Interactive Documentary Preservation

DocLab’s 10th anniversary calls for serious reflection on the future of the past. Over the past decade, we have seen a vast number of interactive masterpieces, but how can we preserve them as the technology and the internet that they were created for disappears? To answer these questions, DocLab and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision are organizing an invite-only expert session on the preservation of interactive documentary art, in which different case studies and preservation techniques are explored. Nov 21, 9:30-11:00 | Brakke Grond

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Commissioned Projects

As part of the Immersive Network, IDFA DocLab invites artists, producers and market players to create new works, test new artistic concepts and explore technological developments such as multi-user VR, live streaming, volumetric video and webVR. Several projects resulting from this can be experienced during the festival: Bear 71, I Am Not Home Video, Shared Individual and White Spots. These projects were the result of ­collaborations between a wide variety of artists and organizations, including the National Film Board of Canada, VRbase Amsterdam, Purple Pill, Spook.FM, Flying Dutchman, Lab4242, Google, VPRO Television, Makropol, the Netherlands ­Institute for Sound and Vision and Diversion.

Immersive Network Audience Research

The place to test and fine-tune works-in-progress. How does the audience respond to different interactions setups or voice-over styles, and where do they actually look in VR? In collaboration with the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, among others.

Immersive Knowledge Base

Reports and case studies from the different Immersive Network activities will be published and made available for free after the festival via the Immersive Knowledge Base. This online platform will also function as a hub to share research findings and best practices from other interactive and immersive projects.

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MACHINES by Rahul Jain (IN/DE/FI)

IDFA Competition for Mid-Length Documentary

IT’S GETTING DARK

IDFA Competition for Student Documentary

DIL LEYLA by Aslı Özarslan PER SONG by Shuchang Xie (DE/CN) SUGAR & SPICE by Mi Mi Lwin (DE/MM)

by Philip Gnadt and Mickey Yamine

HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM

ON THE BRIDGE OF DEATH AND LIFE by Lola Jia Liu SIBERIAN LOVE by Olga Delane

NATIONAL BIRD by Sonia Kennebeck (US/DE) Music Documentary EAT THAT QUESTION – FRANK ZAPPA IN THE SETTLERS by Shimon Dotan (FR/CA/IL/DE) HIS OWN WORDS by Thorsten Schütte (FR/DE) SHALOM ITALIA by Tamar Tal-Anati (IL/DE) Paradocs: Amsterdam Art Weekend at IDFA WRONG ELEMENTS ALTER SENATOR by Willehad Eilers by Jonathan Littell (FR/DE/BE) Sergei Loznitsa Retrospective

IDFA Competition for Kids & Docs

CROWLEY – EVERY COWBOY NEEDS HIS HORSE by Andre Hörmann LUTWI by Jürgen Brügger, Jörg Haaßengier WIN BY FALL by Anna Koch FALLEN FLOWERS THICK LEAVES by Laetitia Schoofs (NL/DE)

Panorama

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by Olga Kravets (FR/RU/DE)

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GAZA SURF CLUB

THE BORNEO CASE

AUSTERLITZ by Sergei Loznitsa REVUE by Sergei Loznitsa (DE/UA/RU)

THE PROMISE by Marcus Vetter (DE/US) RODNYE (CLOSE RELATIONS)

THE COLONIAL MISUNDERSTANDING

Masters

by Dylan Williams, Erik Pauser (SE/UK/DE)

by Vitaly Mansky (LV/DE/EE/UA)

Shifting Perspectives

by Jean-Marie Teno (CM/FR/DE)

A LETTER TO NELSON MANDELA

Panorama

by Khalo Matabane (ZA/DE)

by Rehad Desai (ZA/DE)

by Raoul Peck (FR/BL/HT/DE)

THE GIANT IS FALLING

LUMUMBA: DEATH OF A PROPHET

THE HANGING

A TRIP TO THE COUNTRY

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by Jean-Marie Teno (CM/FR/DE)

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