IDFA Special 2014/5 (English) by IDFA International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

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Producers Alexandre Cornu and Christian Popp at the Co-Producers Summit photo: Ruud Jonkers

Forum spotlights co-productions The Forum launched its first ever Co-Producers Summit in collaboration with the European Documentary Network (EDN) on Wednesday. By Melanie Goodfellow

Reaching for the doc stars As she sits at a table in a very crowded Café Jaren, IDFA director Ally Derks is weary but exultant. With three days of screenings still remaining, this year’s festival is on target to rack up sales of 250,000 tickets, up from 235,000 last year. By Goeffrey Macnab

EDN’s head of studies Mikael Opstrup kicked off the event with a rundown of the body’s recently launched EDN Co-production Guide, which he edited. “We launched the guide this summer. It’s available only online on our site and uniquely to EDN members,” explained Opstrup. “The idea is to give a practical hands-on tool to help producers when they are considering embarking on a coproduction.” The extensive study provides information on the co-production stipulations and histories of 30 territories in Europe. Although co-production is commonplace in the fiction feature scene, it is less prevalent in the documentary world.

Heart A rough roundup by Opstrup of the situation in 2013 revealed large disparities in how European nations approach co-production. According to his rough tally, there were 86 co-productions, with combined budgets of €189m, in Europe in 2013. The most proactive co-producing nations were Norway, Sweden Denmark and Ireland, while nations like Spain and Italy were relatively inactive in the field. Pieter Fleury, head of documentary at the Netherlands Film Fund, said co-producing lay at the heart of the body’s strategy for the future and also noted the fund had lowered the local spend criteria for documentaries to qualify for the tax incentive to €100,000.

Trust Other speakers on the panel included Harmen Jalvingh of Amsterdam-based Bonanza Films, German producer Christian Beetz and French producer Alexandre Cornu, whose recent films include Wrestling in Dakar and With Our Eyes. Beetz, executive director of prolific Germany documentary company Gebreuder Beetz, said he loved working on co-productions but that it was important for producers to work with people they knew and trusted. “I love to produce with companies. I am really more into co-production with independent producers than directly making deals with broadcasters because if you go through a co-production partner you get access to the funds in their countries. I’m not talking only about film funds, but also funds related to the topic,” said Beetz. “We’ve never ended up in a mess. Of course you have to find the right partner who you trust. We’re all in the business of trust and if you build up this trust, it’s always one plus one equals three.”

“It’s amazing, amazing,” Derks enthuses of the latest surge in admissions. “I am so proud and we all should be very proud – the whole documentary community – because we were worried if we would hit the target. Since I’ve been doing this festival, every year it grew.”

Organic fit To Derks’ delight, IDFA-goers continue to come in all shapes and sizes. The festival has attracted kids, elderly people, rowdy football fans and music lovers (for docs like Messi and We Are Twisted Fucking Sister!) and refined art lovers keen to see films like Oeke Hoogendijk’s The New Rijksmuseum – The Film or Heddy Honigmann’s festival opener, Around the World in 50 Concerts. The Festival director is happy with IDFA’s new base in De Jaren (“a venue that organically fits IDFA”) and with the extra locations like De Kleine Komedie and old IDFA home De Balie. “The only thing is I wish EYE was a little closer,” she says of the museum in the sleek, modernist building a few miles away on the other side of the River IJ, where several IDFA screenings and events take place.

Female Gaze One of the key strands at IDFA 2014 has been the Female Gaze debate, exploring the position of women in documentary. This year’s IDFA juries have been comprised of mainly women. Derks is heartened that around 50% of the nominations have gone to women. (After all, statistics show that male-dominated juries give more awards to men than women.) Occasionally, debates around the Female Gaze grew fractious. “The discussion the first day at De Brakke Grond, was not the best,” Derks acknowledges. “I think the setting was wrong... and there were some women who had been in the business for a long time who were upset that they didn’t get enough of the mic.” Derks points to the clash between women from the United States (“very tough, very feminist, very strong and ambitious”) and their “less militant” counterparts from Asia, Europe and Africa.

Theatre-driven Historically, documentaries have been reliant on TV for funding. Derks, though, sees this year’s festival as “more theatre-driven that ever before. On the table at The Forum, there is an increasing interest in films for the cinema. Also, the financiers behind the table – there were four or five that really focused on cinematic distribution,” Derks notes. “But, of course, documentary – let’s be honest – you cannot show 300 documentaries throughout the year in the cinema.”

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The festival will continue to use EYE, especially for hybrid films and docs about cinema (for example, From Caligari To Hitler). “It is, I think, the only venue in Amsterdam right now where we can still show 35mm and 16mm.” In today’s new digital era, Derks admits to a certain nostalgia for the old days of nitrate. “When you think about it, when we started IDFA, we had all these 16mm copies – all these huge boxes that had to be distributed round the different theatres. Life is much easier now.”

Derks is too immersed in this year’s festival to give much thought to IDFA 2015. However, she is mulling over introducing a new section to be called IDFA Classics, themed archival screenings showcasing the best work from festivals gone by. Asked about her own highlights, Derks cites a dinner with George Takei. Not that she was able to spend too much time with the old Star Trek actor. “When he is somewhere, Continues on page 3

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Handling the handler Israeli filmmaker Nadav Schirman made a flying 24hour visit to IDFA this week with his awarding-winning The Green Prince about the intriguing relationship between a Palestinian informer and his Israeli intelligence handler. By Melanie Goodfellow

Schirman recounts how he came out in goose bumps the first time he heard the tale of Palestinian informer Mosab Hassan Yousef and Israeli Gonen Ben-Yitzhak, which is at the heart of the film. Ben-Yitzhak, a high-flyer at security agency Shin Bet, had initially been assigned to simply interrogate Mosab – son of a top Hamas leader – but ended up recruiting the impressionable youngster as a spy. “All my films have human dramas and relationships at their heart. I was fascinated by what happened between these two men,” says Schirman. “You see the transformation they went through.” The film, screening in Best of Fests, revolves around a series of intense interviews with the two men using the Interrotron camera rig devised by Errol Morris to achieve shots of the subject looking directly into the camera, when in fact they are doing face-to-face interviews. “We shot them for nine days, ten hours a day, on a set that looked like an interrogation room. It had five-metre high walls. It was very intimidating,” explains Schirman. “They are masters of deceit, master spies. We had to get them off their game and really connect them with the emotional core of their own narrative.” “When we finished this very arduous process the Shin Bet agent came to me and said this is the first time in my life that I feel like I’ve been handled,” continues Schirman. “There is this similarity between being a film director and a handler in the way you need to establish this bond of trust with your protagonist to lead them into their own cathartic experiences.” It has been an eventful year for Schirman. The film won the audience award at the Sundance Film Festival in January and since then has enjoyed box office success in the US (Music Box Films) and in Israel (Shani Films). Releases are also scheduled for Germany (Rapid Eye Movies) and UK (Curzon/

Artificial Eye) and a number of European territories over the coming months. “It was huge in Israel. It did fantastically well at the cinema. It appealed to both sides of the political spectrum,” says Schirman. The Green Prince is the third film in Schirman’s trilogy including The Champagne Spy and In The Dark Room, about “relationships that are put under tremendous pressure taking viewers into dangerous, normally hidden worlds.”

Voracious London-based world sales and production outfit Taskovski Films has been on an acquisition drive, picking up four new docs at IDFA, all by strong women directors. By Geoffrey Macnab

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Paris-based distributor and sales company Jour2Fête debuted at IDFA 2014 presenting Noma, My Perfect Storm at the Forum, as well as sell its slate and to scout for new titles. By Melanie Goodfellow

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he is surrounded by groupies, trekkies!” She also points to how Martin Armstrong, the financial analyst whose story is told in The Forecaster, was mobbed at his screening in Tuchinski. “He was a real doc star!” As for the rest of the festival, Derks was expecting the sparks to fly at Thursday night’s screening of Sunny Bergman’s Our Colonial Hangover, looking at racist aspects of the Dutch ‘Black Peter’ character. “That is a huge debate in the Netherlands. It reminds me a little bit of what is going on in Ferguson right now…”

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Jour2Fête makes IDFA debut Founded in 2006 by Sarah Chazelle and Etienne Ollagnier, the company distributes some eight to nine features per year in France and also runs a thriving DVD label covering both current and library titles. Recent titles on its distribution slate include French titles Les chevres de

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ma mère and Paul Lacoste’s Step Up to the Plate, Steak (R)evolution as well as international acquisitions such as More Than Honey and the Pina Bausch documentary Dancing Dreams. “We placed Dancing Dreams and More Than Honey into more than 850 theatres

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each and ended up generating respectively 320,000 and 143,000 admissions just in France. Les chèvres de ma mère, opened in April, screened in 480 theatres and continues,” says Chazelle. “We got More Than Honey into 850 theatres and ended up generating 115,000 admissions which is good for a documentary like this. Chevres screened in 300 theatres,” she continues. The company is set to release Austrian director Johannes Holzhausen’s The Great Museum, screening in the Best of Fests sidebar, in March 2015. The international sales slate – handled by Samuel Blanc – includes Because I Was A Painter (Art That Survived Nazi Camps), Step Up to the Plate, Steak (R) evolution, which recently sold to Kino Lorber, and Pierre Deschamps’ Noma, My Perfect Storm, which was presented at the Forum this year. “We’ve been building up our slate over the last two years. We thought it made sense to work internationally on some of the titles that we acquired for France,” says Blanc. Revolving around master chef and Noma founder René Redzepi, Noma, My Perfect Storm joins a growing number of food-related titles on the Jour2Fête’s line-up. “It’s one of the themes that definitely works well for us and the idea is more widely to build up a catalogue of strong titles that we can work on with care, both on the French and international markets,” says Chazelle.

The company has signed up Nick and Chai, a new doc from new Philippines-based Hiraya Pictures. Directed by Charena Escala and Rowena Sanchez, the film screens at IDFA fresh from its premiere at Busan. It tells the story of Nick and Chai Quieta, a couple whose four children were killed in last year’s Typhoon Haiyan. In spite of their devastating loss, they manage to stave off despair and keep on living positively. Hiraya is handling distribution in the Philippines. The company is to handle Sugar Blues by Andrea Culikova (Czech Republic), a world premiere in CPH: DOX and in Docs For Sale. Developed through DOK.Incubator, it explores its director’s battles with diabetes after giving birth to her first child. Trying to live without sugar, she discovers it is almost impossible, because “sugar is in everything.” Shot on four continents, the film has the tag line: ‘one mother against the sugar mafia.’ At IDFA, Taskovski has boarded Oxfam Global Justice Award winner Fest of Duty, directed by Iranian director Firouzeh Khosrovani and supported by IDFA Bertha Fund. The story of two young girls in Iran who are given the chance at the age of 9 to decide whether they want their faces covered or not. One says yes, the other no. Their lives then develop in very different directions. Also new on the Taskovski slate is A Lullaby Under the Nuclear Sky from Japanese director Kana Tomoko. The film (a premiere in Busan) tells the story of the director’s own pregnancy during the meltdown at the nuclear power plant in Fukushima. Irena Taskovski, CEO of the company, comments: “We are very proud to be representing creative women directors and their films from four very different parts of the world with very personal but globally important subjects like religion, tolerance, motherhood, health, effects of nuclear disasters, et cetera.” Taskvoski’s production arm, Taskovski Films Production, launched two years ago, is also pushing on. One of its projects, Istanbul United, has already finished shooting. The film tells the story of how the fans of the three main football clubs in Istanbul, generally bitter and violent rivals, stood together during the protests in Turkey in 2013. Made by Olli Waldhauer and Farid Eslam it is produced by Nippes Yard Productions Cologne, Mind Riot Media Prague, Port au Prince Film Berlin, Taskovski Films Production Berlin, and in coproduction with Sam AG, Pixiu Films, Vox Films. It had a world premiere at the International Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2014 and went into theatrical distribution in Germany by Port-au-P rince film Berlin. Also co-produced by Taskovski is long-gestating Chilean doc Surire, directed by Bettina Perut and Ivan Osnovikoff and currently in post-production, produced by Perut & Osnovikoff, Dirk Manthey Film and Taskovski Films Production Berlin. The film is financed and supported by COFRO and CAIA, IDFA Bertha Fund and its post-production was supported by Film Fund Hamburg. A third project backed by Taskovski’s production arm is Ukrainian Sheriffs, by Dar’ya Averchenko and Roman Bondarchuk, produced by SOUTH Ukraine, VFS Films Latvia and Taskovski Films Production Berlin. ZDF/ARTE has come on board and it is supported by IDFA Bertha Fund. Producer Uldis Cekulis has already worked with Taskovski Films Sales London on two films – Ramin by Audrius Stonies and Documentarian.

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Laying the Golden Egg Golden Egg, the Swiss production outfit run by Gabriela Bussmann (ex-Visions du Réel), has announced details of its latest documentary projects. By Geoffrey Macnab

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Van Nunen Sp#aks Hasse van Nunen of Dutch production outfit Een van de jongens (One of the Lads) will present two short films in IDFA Junior on Sunday 30 November. In Astrid Bussink’s Giovanni and the Water Ballet, the eponymous 10-year-old hero wants to be the first boy to compete in the Dutch Synchronised Swimming Championships, while Eef Hilgers’ My Dearest F#cking Phone is a study of the teenage love/ hate relationship with the smartphone. “After a couple of days of research on Giovanni, we realised Giovanni is really into synchronised swimming only because of the girls. We really loved that idea in the film,” comments Van Nunen. “For My Dearest F#cking Phone the teenage Claudia responded to a request by the director to write a letter to her phone. She wrote ‘I really love you because you are with me all the time but I want to throw you on the

ground sometimes because I really fucking hate you.’ That was the start of the film, because we felt that was really the point.” Van Nunen produces mainly Media Fundbacked ‘tough’ projects for Dutch public broadcasters VPRO, NCRV, Ikon and HUMAN. Her first film A Goat for a Vote (Jeroen van Velzen), about the 2013 Kenyan election, was nominated for a Golden Calf at the Netherlands Film Festival 2014. She is currently producing a raft of projects that include Five Days, about the days between a death and a funeral, when the family has to deal not only with the funeral but with each other, and Nothing Left Unsaid, about locked-in syndrome. “But I love to do children’s films,” she adds. “And we would love to do feature-length in the future, but only when a good idea comes along.” Nick Cunningham

IDFA Awards expand to Sarajevo Serbian director Mila Turajlic, whose Cinema Komunisto premiered in the First Appearance Competition in 2010, was among the filmmakers attending the festival this year as part of the IDFA Awards scheme. By Melanie Goodfellow

Under the initiative, IDFA selects one project presented at events run by the Durban International Film Festival, the Prague-based Institute of Documentary Film (IDF), Doculab Guadalajara and, for the first time, the Sarajevo Film Festival. “The idea is to help these filmmakers connect to the rest of the world and help them not just with their current projects but the rest of their career,” says IDFA’s industry chief Adriek van Nieuwenhuyzen.

Unique archive Turajlic’s project The Other Side of Everything, which was presented at Sarajevo’s Rough Cut Boutique this August, explores Serbia’s political turmoil and her own family history, which is tied up in these events, through the conduit of her family’s long-owned apartment in central Belgrade. “This is rather a unique documentary project in that the archive for it has been

shot over the past ten years. We’re at the end of shooting and have just started editing,” says Turajlic. “We showed 50 minutes of our material at the DOCU Rough Cut Boutique and got a very enthusiastic response and useful feedback. We hope to complete the film by the autumn of 2015.”

Attendees “At IDFA, we are hoping to connect with broadcasting and distribution partners from Scandinavia and North America, as well as to put our project on the radar of a number of film festivals, particularly the ones we achieved a strong collaboration with on my previous film, Cinema Komunisto”, she adds. Other IDFA Award attendees this year included South African Kofi Zwana and Sara Gouveia who won the IDFA Award for Most Promising Documentary Pitch and were invited for The Sound of Masks at the Durban FilmMart in July. Chilean Israel Ahumada was also at IDFA with Leaving Your Skin, selected out of Doculab Guadalajara selection, and Romanian filmmakers Alexandru Belc and Tudor Giurgiu attended with Cinema Mon Amour, which was presented at the IDF project event this spring.

Here at IDFA, Bussmann has been promoting new doc The Men of Tadmor, on which Golden Egg is partnering with Umam Productions (Lebanon) and Les Films de L’Étranger. The film, which has just finished shooting, is directed by Monika Borgmann and Lokman Slim. It tells the stories of eight former Lebanese detainees in Syria’s notorious Tadmor prison where the jailers have one goal – the physical and psychological destruction of the detainees. The film is due to be released in the autumn of 2015. According to Bussmann, Doc & Film is to handle sales.

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Another new title being laid by Golden Egg is Warm Glow, a doc shot on an iPhone about a group of politicians, journalists and tourists who travel to Chernobyl, site of the nuclear disaster. They speak with local residents, visit the town hall, take part in a mourning ceremony and inspect the ‘ghost town’ of Pripyat. For 5 days, director Marina Belobrovaja accompanies and interviews the travellers. The film has already premiered in Switzerland. Bussmann herself has been handling sales. Bussmann is also serving as a consultant on Broken Land, the new doc by Stephanie Barbey and Luc Peter being sold by Deckert Distribution. Golden Egg made its debut with Colombian feature doc Tacacho. The company is involved in dramatic features as well as docs.

Docs for Sale posts record year As predicted, this year’s Docs for Sale proved to be one of the busiest editions in recent years in terms of attendance and videotheque screenings. Melanie Goodfellow reports

“It’s been very busy this year. Both the café downstairs and the market space have been packed with people holding meetings,” says Docs for Sale coordinator Laurien ten Houten. The market handed out 330 acquisition passes, against 305 in 2013. The number of sellers attending increased to 249, against 228 last year. Viewings were also up. According to data for the first five days from Nov 19-26, there were 11,305 viewings at the videotheque, against 10,119 for the same period in 2013. The number of viewings of the catalogue on DfS Online, featuring all 460 titles in this year’s Docs for Sale selection, also increased.

Top titles Top titles in terms of videotheque viewing included Australian actor and director Damon Gameau’s Super Size Me-style challenge That Sugar Film, in which he ups his sugar intake by consuming supposedly healthy foods; The Queen of Silence, exploring the Roma

community through the tale of a deaf and mute girl; Hip Hop-eration, about a group of senior citizens who take up hip-hop, and the late Ossie von Richthofen’s 35 Cows and a Kalashnikov.

Excellent foundation “We couldn’t have wished for a better response. IDFA has provided an excellent foundation for the start of our sales campaign,” says Will Machin of London-based Metro International, which is handling sales on That Sugar Film. “We had engaged audiences in sold-out public screenings and lively Q&As with Damon and have had a unanimous positive response from distributors who screened the film both in cinemas and at Docs For Sale so we look forward to announcing sales in the near future,” he added.

Busy market Other sales agents were also reporting busy markets although they had no concrete deals as yet. “We’ve had a great festival in terms of nominations,” says Catherine Le Clef of CAT&Docs, which is representing four nominated titles including Of Men and War and Tea Time. “I can’t comment on the market yet, but if you’ve got good films you’ll do business.”

Right said Fred “I said last year I’d be back,” says Fred de Haas who for nearly two decades was the fixer at Docs for Sale, before cashing in his chips in 2013. “IDFA invited me back in 2014 and, for the first time in 19 years I saw the opening film in Tuschinski, I got badges for everywhere, it feels like a very nice family to come back to.” This year he is working with the South African delegation in Arti et Amicitiae, and continues to help Jan Rofekamp from Films Transit and Autlook’s Peter Jäger with film submissions to markets and festivals. “That will continue I am sure, unless Jan plans to stop. He is always planning to stop but never does,” Fred comments. Nick Cunningham

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The Dream of Shahrazad South African François Verster’s multi-layered The Dream of Shahrazad, co-produced by Dutch Volya Films and screening in Masters, was many years in development, but the recent Arab Spring was the catalyst to its realization. The film’s inspiration is the mythical tale of the murderous Sultan whose wife retains her life every morning by leaving open-ended the tale of beauty, adventure or mystery that she had spun the night before. Against this dramatic backdrop (we see a series of delicately animated etchings that depict the fabled 1,001 Nights), Verster examines the contemporary tradition of story-telling in the Middle East, counterpointed with an orchestral rendition of Rimsky-Korsakov’s themed symphonic poem. In the film, his camera follows a troupe of actor/comedians who retell the tragic tale of a Cairo mother whose son was killed in the uprising. Meanwhile, the conductor of the Istanbul-based youth orchestra that supplies the film’s soundtrack attempts to raise the musicians’ level of political consciousness and engagement. A contemporary artist finds the physical embodiment of his idealized Shahrazad. And all the time we see the developing Spring crisis as it develops from idealism to cynicism in Cairo’s Tahrir Square and Taksim Gezi Park

in Istanbul. “It is such a super-complex project with so many layers that can only come together in the edit,” stresses Volya Films’ Fleur Knopperts. “And the film is daring and subtle in how it speaks about the Arab Spring, and the fact that François approaches it through art and storytelling is very special,” she continues. “It isn’t about the Arab Spring but about how people process what happens, how art is a way to deal with the harshness of life.” “Without the Arab Spring, it would have been a very different film for sure – this I do think,” she concedes. “But there was already a lot of turmoil before it took off so yes, maybe you would have missed that sense of urgency in a way, but on the other hand there has been so much going on in the region that I am not sure that the film wouldn’t have been relevant anyway.” Nick Cunningham Masters Pitched at the Forum in 2012 IDFA Bertha Fund Harvest 2014

See the schedule in this paper for screening information.

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Emerging from pitching her latest project The Grown-ups (about adults with Down’s syndrome) at The Forum, Chilean director Maite Alberdi is brimming with enthusiasm. “We have had a great response, again. I am very confident,” she says. And justly so, if past experience is anything to go by – Alberdi’s First Appearance contender Tea Time, for which she received The Alliance of Women Film Journalists’ EDA Award for Best Female-Directed Documentary on Wednesday, is also the result of a successful Forum pitch, in 2011. Alberdi’s second feature doc (following The Lifeguard, IDFA 2011), Tea Time was a long-gestating project. “The idea for Tea Time came about when my grandmother missed the premiere of my first short film to go to this regular tea party she has been having with her old school friends for many, many years,” Alberdi says. Fascinated by this enduring ritual – which has now been going for more than 60 years – Alberdi started filming the annual get-togethers of her grandmother and her old school friends. “I realized how incredibly important this ritual must be to them,” the director says. “I spent six years filming these women at the tea table. I wanted to show how they spend their last years. I like the fact that Tea Time shows a different model of older woman – not dying alone in a hospital bed, but living and enjoying life, right up until the end.” Being the granddaughter of one of the protagonists gave Alberdi “privileged access”, she reveals. “They completely forgot I was there while I was filming. They discussed everything as if I wasn’t there.” The topics discussed range from malefemale relations and family matters to lesbianism. “These women grew up in a completely different society,” Alberdi says. “They have seen so many changes during their lifetimes – they couldn’t even vote when they left school, for example. I don’t know if I will see such great changes in my lifetime. So I can’t judge them. The film is also about friendship – that your true friends are not the people who are like you, who think like you, but the ones you share important experiences in life with.” Mark Baker IDFA Competition or First Appearance Pitched at The Forum in 2011 IDFA Bertha Fund Harvest 2014

See the schedule in this paper for screening information.

The New Rijksmuseum – The Film

Kamchatka – The Cure for Hatred

Oeke Hoogendijk spent a decade completing her epic documentary about the multi-million Euro renovation of Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum. She acknowledges she felt withdrawal symptoms after finally completing a project which took up such a large part of her life. As her film makes clear, the renovation of the museum was anything but straightforward. Costs soared, senior staff left the organisation. The Dutch Cyclist’s Union protested against the original plans on the grounds that the building work would cause them to make a detour. Now, Hoogendijk says the controversy is all but forgotten. Visitors have been flocking to the museum in record numbers, and even President Obama popped in. Everyone is happy, even Amsterdam’s notoriously stubborn cyclists. However, if you want to be reminded of the 10 years of stress and grief the renovation involved, her film is the place to start. The New Rijksmuseum – The Film will be released in 36 cinemas by Cinema Delicatessen next month and is bound to jog memories.

Julia Mironova’s film, nominated for Best Mid-length Documentary, is a study of a man addicted both to war and alcohol in equal measure. Vyacheslav Nemyshev is a war reporter who covered in depth, and at close quarters, the Chechnya conflict back in 2002. He is handsome, charismatic and seemingly persuasive. In early footage we see him trying to elicit comment from a Russian military office on the basis that his journalism “is guided by honour and conscience”. But the Nemyshev of Mironova’s film is very different. He lives on a remote island with his girlfriend, keeping a video diary that shows the beauty of the stark surroundings. They have a son, and curious fox cubs venture furtively through their door looking for scraps. In one sequence, he dons a swimsuit to film spawning salmon underwater. It sounds idyllic, but the doggedness that defined his war reporting remains, as does his cynicism and an ugly tendency towards bullying. Can this new-found bucolic existence offer enough stimulation to a hardened warzone veteran? His story is one Mironova is all too familiar with. Her husband, a news cameraman imprisoned in Egypt three years ago, returned to Russia with severe psychological scars. The director’s desire therefore was to present Nemyshev as a man battling to overcome his own past traumas. But he proved very difficult to pin down. “I thought the character should transform somehow to create a whole story, but from his first reaction on

When the doc (also made as a TV series) was finished and the museum re-opened, Hoogendijk felt at first as if she had “lost” her job. “It’s like a love affair,” she switches metaphors. “If you want to get over somebody, you find a new one.” That’s why she has already started a new doc. The latest Hoogendijk project, Treasures of the Crimea, promises to be every bit as fraught as its predecessor. “It’s a complicated story, but I will try to be brief,” the director declares. The subject matter this time is a ‘The Crimea – Gold and the Secrets of the Black Sea’, an exhibition held last summer at Amsterdam’s archaeological Allard Pierson Museum. During the time the Crimean treasures were on display, relations between the Ukraine and Russia fell to an all-time low. “This whole collection cannot be sent back to the Crimea. Ukraine says it is state property, ‘Give it back to us. Send it to Kiev.’” Russia, though, insists the artefacts should be sent to the museums that originally displayed them. At present, the treasures are being stored at a secret location in Amsterdam. “I am trying to imagine what it would be like if we sent our Nightwatch by Rembrandt to a museum somewhere and then learned we’re not going to get it back because of the political dangers.” Geoffrey Macnab IDFA Competition for Dutch Documentary

See the schedule in this paper for screening information.

the island he was unhappy – it was very hard to find moments where he was happy,” she stresses. “It was very difficult for me because I lived with him for some time and he was always drunk. I just couldn’t interview him because he kept promising me, ‘Tomorrow, we will do an interview’, then tomorrow it was the same. It was very hard, but interesting as well.” It also took the director a long time to gain Nemyshev’s consent to use his footage. “He didn’t want to give it to me. He didn’t want to talk to me at all. Then I gave him the link to my first documentary Khalmer-U, about an isolated village in the north of Russia, and he said, ‘Ok I will give you the material, you should make a film’. He recognized maybe a close soul.” Nick Cunningham IDFA Competition for Mid-Length Documentary

See the schedule in this paper for screening information.

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VPRO Review VPRO Review 10:00 10:00

Best of Fests, Best 89’ of Fests, 89’

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The Circus TheDynasty Circus Dynasty Anders Riis-Hansen Anders Riis-Hansen

Franco’sFranco’s PromisePromise

12:00

Panorama, 90’ Panorama, 90’

11:30

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Rehearsal Rehearsal

11:45

Marc Weymuller Marc Weymuller

Feature-Length Feature-Length Competition,Competition 123’ , 123’

12:15

Elie Grappe Elie Grappe

Oscar Pérez Oscar Pérez

Mid-Length Competition Mid-Length,Competition 58’ , 58’

NausheenNausheen DadabhoyDadabhoy 11:45

First Appearance FirstCompetition Appearance,Competition 72’ , 72’ Rio 50°

13:45

Paradocs: Curated Paradocs: by Aernout CuratedMik by,Aernout 90’ Mik, 90’

Of Media andOf Men Media , 72’ and Men, 72’

15:00

14:15

Pepe Mujica Pepe–Mujica Lessons – Lessons from thefrom Flowerbed the Flowerbed

Ali Akbarzadeh Ali Akbarzadeh

11:30

CAPTIVATED CAPTIVATED The Trials The Trials of Pamela of Pamela Smart Smart Jeremiah Zagar Jeremiah Zagar

Of Media andOf Men Media , 98’and Men, 98’

14:45

Heidi Specogna Heidi Specogna

I Am Here I Am Here 12:00

Profession: Profession: Documentarist Documentarist

Sandra Madi Sandra Madi

13:45

James Spione James Spione

Of Media andOf Men Media , 104’and Men, 104’

Panorama, 90’ Panorama, 90’

Johan Grimonprez Johan Grimonprez

14:15

A Wee Night A WeeInNight In Stuart Edwards Stuart Edwards

Student Competition Student,Competition 11’ , 11’

Paradocs: Curated Paradocs: by Aernout CuratedMik by,Aernout 68’ Mik, 68’

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Lucy Walker Lucy Walker

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Panorama, 27’Panorama, 27’

Rich HillRich Hill

Student Competition Student,Competition 58’ , 58’

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18:15

The Green ThePrince Green Prince Nadav Schirman Nadav Schirman

18:45

SilveredSilvered Water, Water, Syria Self-portrait Syria Self-portrait

19:00 19:00

Best of Fests, Best 95’ of Fests, 95’

First Appearance FirstCompetition, Appearance Competition, 89’ , 89’ IDFA DOC U Competition IDFA DOC U,Competition

Phie Ambo Phie Ambo

20:30

The Female Gaze The ,Female 90’ Gaze, 90’

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Svitlana Shymko Svitlana Shymko

21:00

Student Competition Student,Competition 26’ , 26’

Panorama, 115’ Panorama, 115’

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A documentary A documentary marathon marathon Roman Bondarchuk Roman Bondarchuk featuring the featuring highest the rated highest rated Best of Fests, Best 60’ of Fests, 60’ films in thefilms Audience in the Award Audience Award Competition. Competition. Until 9.00am, Until 9.00am, with breakfast with for breakfast the diehards. for the diehards.

Mireia Pujol Mireia Pujol

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

Laura Poitras Laura Poitras

23:00

Of Media andOf Men Media , 112’and Men, 112’

Craft Craft

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9:00 9:00

TUSCHINSKI EYE CINEMA EYE EYE CINEMA CINEMA 24

12:00 12:00

Feature-Length Competition, 123’

Maria Elie Grappe Tarantino Maria MariaTarantino Tarantino Panorama Student Competition , 83’ Panorama Panorama , 11’ ,,83’ 83’

Oscar Pérez

Mid-Length Competition, 58’

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Placebo 14:00 14:00 14:00

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Act and Wind Act Act and and Wind Wind 12:15 Marcelo Masagão Marcelo Marcelo Masagão Kids & Docs 1 72’Masagão Masters, 72’ Masters Masters,,72’

International children’s documentaries: Malek Means Angel, Haiduc, Solitary Plains and The Fencing Champion, 120’

The Final Stretch

RODE ZAAL RODE ZAAL

19:30

Kids & Docs Kids Kids3& & Docs Docs 33 Ballet Boys Ballet Ballet Boys Boys

Student Competition Student,Competition 25’ , 25’

Mid-Length Competition Mid-Length,Competition 53’ , 53’

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Starting Point Starting Starting Point Point 16:00 16:00

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Michal Szczesniak Michal Michal Szczesniak Szczesniak Panorama, 26’ Panorama Panorama,,26’ 26’

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Chameleon

The LookThe of Look Silence of Silence20:45 20:45 20:45 Joshua Oppenheimer Joshua Oppenheimer The State-Mafia The State-Mafia Pact Pact In the Shadow In the Shadow of War of War Masters, 98’ Masters, 98’

Georgia Scott, Georgia Sophia Scott, Scott Sophia Scott

21:15 First Appearance FirstCompetition Appearance,Competition 81’ , 81’

Best of Fests, Best 104’ of Fests, 104’

My Life My Lesson Åsa Ekman

Mid-Length Competition, 58’

17:00 17:00

18:15 18:00 18:00

The Green Prince Nadav Schirman

Silvered Water, Syria Self-portrait19:00 Ossama Mohammed, Wiam Simav Bedirxan

Best of Fests, 95’

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

The Doctor Leaves Last Svitlana Shymko

Alexander Gentelev Alexander Alexander Gentelev Gentelev

Abner Benaim Panorama, 94’

The One Minutes Jr Awards: Nominees 2014 & On the Bride’s Side 17:45 17:45 17:45

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Patricio Henriquez Patricio Patricio Henriquez Henriquez

Mid-Length Competition, 60’

Haiduc 23:00 23:00 23:15 23:15 23:15

War of Lies War War of of Lies Lies

Matthias Bittner Matthias Matthias Bittner Bittner Albert Maysles

First Appearance First First Competition Appearance Appearance , 93’ Competition Competition,Masters ,93’ 93’ , 80’

Nick and Chai

Rowena Sanchez, Mid-Length Competition, 60’

22:00 22:00

Masters, 100’

23:00 23:00 23:15 23:15 Hip Hop-eration Hip Hop-eration

Heddy Honigmann Heddy Honigmann

Bryn Evans Bryn Evans

First Appearance FirstCompetition Appearance,Competit 93’

Music Documentary Music Documentary , 86’ , 86’

24:00 24:00

EYE CINEMA 1 THEEYE CINEMA THROUGHOUT THROUGHOUT DAY THE DAY2

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Aleksei Pivovarov, Alexander Rastorguev, Pavel Kostomarov Best of Fests, 83’

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Art and Craft

Sam Cullman, Jennifer Grausman

11:00 11:00

CAPTIVATED The Trials of Pamela Smart Jeremiah Zagar

Of Media and 12:00 Men, 98’ 12:00

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I Am Here 12:00

Profession: Documentarist

Lixin Fan

Masters, 88’

12:15

The Great Museum

Saken

Sandra Madi

EXHIBITIONS EXHIBITIONS & INSTALLATIONS & INSTALLATIONS

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Best of Fests, 94’

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A Wee Night In Stuart Edwards

Student Competition, 58’

16:15

Paul Lazarus

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Gilbert Ndahayo Panorama, 115’

23:00

Tristia – A Black Sea Odyssey Stanislaw Mucha Panorama, 98’

Act and Wind Masters, 72’

DocLab Expo: DocLab DocLab Immersive Expo: Expo: Immersive Immersive Reality Reality Reality Discover latest web the thedocumentaries, latest latest web web documentaries, documentaries, explore interexplore explore interinter13:00Discover theDiscover Kids & Docs 3 Ballet Boys

Masters, 65’

13:45

Kenneth Elvebakk

Kids &11:00 Docs, IDFA DOC U Competition, 75’ BeatsGrond of the Witte Antonov 14:00Brakke Brakke Brakke Grond Grond Zaal Witte Witte 11:00Zaal Zaal – 21:00 11:00 –– 21:00 21:00

Hajooj Kuka

14:30

National Gallery Frederick Wiseman Masters, 180’

15:30

DocLab: Virtual DocLab: DocLab: Reality Virtual VirtualScreening Reality Reality Screening Screening Room Room Room Best of Fests , 66’

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Emergency Call – A Murder Mystery Pekka Lehto Masters, 83’

15:30

StedelijkStedelijk Stedelijk MuseumMuseum Museum 11:00 11:00 11:00Starting Point

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Michal Szczesniak

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First Appearance Competition, 90’

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35 Cows and a Kalashnikov

Panorama, 93’

Feature-Length Competition, 142’

Oswald von Richthofen

Feature-Length Competition, 87’

17:00

12:00

Marcelo Masagão

Panorama, 83’

14:00

Ryley Grunenwald

SlingShot 16:00 16:00

17:00 17:00

Raiders

Alexander Gentelev Masters, 89’

Mid-Length Competition, 56’

DAILY SERVICES DAILY SERVICES

17:00 17:30

The Last Days of Peter Bergmann

17:45

Who the Fuck Is Jett Rebel

PODIUM PODIUM KETELHUIS KETELHUIS MOZAÏEK MOZAÏEK 18:30

Linda Hakeboom

Music Documentary, 57’

Cotton

Zhou Hao

19:00 19:00 19:00 Panorama , 83’

Those Who Those Those FeelWho Who Feel Feel the Fire Burning the the Fire Fire Burning Burning

Ciaran Cassidy

18:00 18:15 18:00

The NewsroomDE – BALIE DE18:30 BALIE Off the Record Die Before Blossom Mikala Krogh

Ariani Djalal

Of Media and Men, 96’

19:00

First Appearance Competition, 89’

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Stealing Socialism Manfred Vainokivi

20:30

Mid-Length Competition, 53’

Misconception Misconception Misconception Jessica Yu Jessica JessicaYu Yu

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Mid-Length Competition, 60’

Songs for Alexis Elvira Nana Lind

Panorama, IDFA DOC U Competition, 78’

23:30

Print the Legend Clay Tweel, Luis Lopez 23:00 23:00 23:00 Best of Fests, 98’

The Female Gaze, 70’

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20:15

Uyghurs, Prisoners of the Absurd

Music Documentary, 86’

1:00 1:00

Regarding Susan Sontag Nancy Kates

Best of Fests, 100’

20:00

Red Army

Gabe Polsky

Best of Fests, 85’

Patricio Henriquez

Feature-Length Competition, 98’

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Facundo Marguery

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24:00 24:00

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Dutch Competition, 130’

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First Appearance Competition, 100’

Love Is All: 100 Years of Love & Courtship Kim Longinotto

Oeke Hoogendijk

Awards Ceremony Awards Awards Ceremony Ceremony Metal Bread

22:45 23:00

The New Rijksmuseum – The Film

Alejandro Alonso Estrella 20:00 20:00 20:00 Compagnie Compagnie - Grote Zaal-- Grote Grote Zaal Zaal Student Competition , 25’Compagnie

22:00 22:00

Mid-Length Competition, 59’

NH Doelen NH NHSchutterzaal Doelen Doelen Schutterzaal Schutterzaal 10:00 – 23:00 10:00 10:00 –– 23:00 23:00 18:00

The Farewell 20:00

Music Documentary Student Music Competition Music, Documentary 92’ Documentary , 16’ ,,92’ 92’

Panorama, 19’

19:30

Morgan Knibbe Morgan Morgan Knibbe Knibbe

Francisco Anastasia Sanchez Francisco Francisco Kirillova Varela Sanchez SanchezVarela Varela

The Rwandan Night

Gina Leibrecht, Les Blank

Marisa Middleton

Feature-Length Feature-Length & Feature-Length Dutch Competition & &Dutch Dutch , 74’Competition Competition,,74’ 74’ PacoSleepers’ de Lucía: Paco PacoBeat de de A Journey Lucía: Lucía: A A Journey Journey

20:15

How to Smell a Rose: A Visit with Ricky Leacock in Normandy

The Future Is Ours

15:00 15:00

Masters, 94’

Feature-Length Panorama, 25’Feature-Length Feature-Length Competition, 100’ Competition Competition,,100’ 100’

Constantin Wulff

James Spione

The Shore Break

Andreas Koefoed

19:30 19:3019:30 19:30

22:00 22:00

Ulrich Seidl – A Director at Work

Silenced

16:00

The Arms Drop

Maria Tarantino

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Student Competition, 11’

16:15

Our City

13:45

Panorama, 90’

Best of Fests, 100’

BRAKKE GROND EXPOZAAL

9:00

Johannes Holzhausen

13:00 13:00

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Various Directors

Paradocs, 71’

Wind The Water on Wind Wind the and Moon on on thethe the Wall Moon Moon

23:15 , 52’ First Appearance First First Competition Appearance Appearance , 89’ Competition Competition,Panorama ,89’ 89’

Annelies Kruk, Anneke de Hip Hip Hip Hop-eration Hop-eration Iris Lind Hop-eration van Wijngaarden

Julien Temple

Phillip Warnell

Seung-Jun Alice Fargier Seung-Jun Yi Seung-JunYi Yi

22:45 22:45

Rio 50°

Paradocs 2 Ming of Harlem Twenty One Storeys in the Air

Panorama, 15’

Guillaume Suon

23:00

16:15

Diary of Hunger

The Storm Makers

11:45

Mikael Wiström

19:45

Mireia Pujol

Best of Fests, 60’

Charena Escala 24:00 24:00

1:00

23:30

Doris Dörrie Doris Dörrie

De JarenDe De Café Jaren Jaren – 09:00 Café Café –– 09:00 09:00

9:00 9:00

Storm in the Andes

Good Things 20:00 20:00 20:00Await

Roman Bondarchuk

Bryn Bryn Bryn Evans Evans Kids &Evans Docs, 20’

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23:00

Around Around the World the World in 50 Concerts in 50 Concerts

Feature-Length Feature-Length & Dutch Competition & Dutch, 94’ Competition, 94’ This Lovely ThisShitty LovelyLife Shitty Life

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15:30

Gabriele Del Grande, Regarding Regarding Regarding Susan Sontag Susan Susan Sontag Sontag 18:00 18:00 Antonio Augugliaro, Khaled Kates Nancy Kates Kates Soliman AlNancy Nassiry Amsterdam Amsterdam Amsterdam Art Art Art Nancy 18:15 Best of Fests, 100’ Best Best of ofFests Fests,,100’ 100’ Appearance Competition, WeekendWeekend Weekend at IDFA: at at IDFA: IDFA:First IDFA DOC U Competition, 89’ Somboon The ArtistThe The Is Present Artist Artist Is Is Present Present Krisda Tipchaimeta

20:15

11:00

15:00

18:00

22:45

23:00

DOC U

Student Competition, 26’

21:00 21:00 Euromaidan. Rough Cut

Masters Masters,,89’ 89’

17:00

Feature-Length Feature-Length Competition, 98’ Competition Competition,,98’ 98’ 21:00 Feature-Length

22:00 22:00

nigmann nigmann

23:00

Facundo Marguery Facundo Marguery

Love Is All: Love 100 Is All: Years 100 Years of Love & ofCourtship Love & Courtship

DE MUNT

21:00

First Appearance FirstCompetition Appearance,Competition 70’ , 70’

23:00

Paradocs: Curated by Aernout Mik, 68’

15:45 15:45

Invasion

Julia Mironova

88’ 8’

21:00

Best of Fests, Best 88’ of Fests, 88’

22:00 22:00

23:30 Panorama, IDFA Panorama, DOC U Competition IDFA DOC U,Competition 78’ , 78’

13:00

Raiders Raiders Raiders

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

Kamchatka – The Cure for Hatred

Best of Fests, 92’

he he Last Last 21:00 Falls Falls Docs around the Clock 21:00 Wallner allner

20:45

Thomas Wallner Thomas Wallner

Tea TimeTea Time

The Female Gaze, 80’

Feature-Length Competition, 78’

16:30 Feature-Length Panorama, 27’Feature-Length Feature-Length Competition, 142’ Competition Competition,,142’ 142’

ition ition ,,130’ 130’ 18:45

20:45

Before the Before Lastthe Last Curtain Curtain Falls Falls

21:15

Maite Alberdi Maite Alberdi

11:30

Ryan Mullins

Laurent Lucy Walker Bécue-Renard Laurent Laurent Bécue-Renard Bécue-RenardWanda Koscia Wanda Wanda Koscia Koscia

gendijk gendijk

Mid-Length Competition Mid-Length,Competition 45’ , 45’

13:30

Of TheMen Lion’s and Of OfMouth Men Men War and and Opens War War My Friend 16:00 16:00 My My the Friend Friend Enemy the the Enemy Enemy Masters, 89’

17:00

Chingiz Narynov Chingiz Narynov

20:45

21:30

20:00 20:00

Metal Bread Metal Bread

20:30

Best of Fests, 89’

Paradocs: Curated by Aernout Mik, 90’

Kenneth Elvebakk Kenneth Kenneth Elvebakk Elvebakk

Panorama, 94’

Tracy Droz Tragos, Andrew Droz Palermo

19:00 19:00

19:30

AlejandroAlejandro Alonso Estrella Alonso Estrella

StealingStealing Socialism Socialism

10:00 10:00

Nine-hour meditative Nine-hour Nine-hour meditative mastermeditative mastermasterpiece to be screened piece piece to to be be inscreened screened 4 parts. in in 44 parts. parts. 11:15 10:00 Rust10:00 10:00 I Rust Rust II 12:05 Lunch 12:05 12:05 breakLunch Lunch (40 min) break break (40 (40 min) min) The Ground Beneath 12:45 Rust12:45 12:45 II Rust Rust IIII Their Feet 11:45 Break 14:40 14:40 14:40 (10 min) Break Break (10 (10 min) min) Nausheen Dadabhoy 14:50 14:50 14:50 Remnants Remnants First Appearance Competition, 72’ 1974, Remnants une partie 17:45 Dinner 17:45 17:45(60 min) Dinner Dinner (60 (60 min) min) de campagne 18:45 Rails 18:45 18:45 Rails Rails Raymond Depardon

13:30 13:30

Heidi Specogna

Rich Hill

18:00 18:00

Dutch Competition Dutch,Competition 130’ , 130’

The Farewell The Farewell

Student Competition Student,Competition 16’ , 16’

9:00

10:00 10:00

Emergency Emergency Emergency Call – Call Call –– La Rabbia (Part One) A Murder A AMystery Murder Murder Mystery MysteryPier Paolo Pasolini Kids & Docs, IDFA Kids Kids DOC & &Docs, Docs, U Competition IDFA IDFADOC DOCU ,U75’ Competition Competition,,75’ 75’ Beats of the Beats Beats Antonov of of the the Antonov Antonov 14:15 14:00 14:00 First Appearance Competition, 96’ Paradocs: Curated by Aernout Mik, 52’ Pekka LehtoPekka Pekka Lehto Lehto Hajooj Kuka Hajooj Hajooj Kuka Kuka Masters, 83’ Masters Masters,,83’ 83’ Pepe Mujica – Lessons dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y Best of Fests, 66’ Best Bestof ofFests Fests,,66’ 66’ from the Flowerbed Johan Grimonprez Abhay Kumar

15:00

Mid-Length Competition Mid-Length,Competition 60’ , 60’ First Appearance FirstCompetition Appearance,Competition 89’ , 89’

19:30

18:00

Oeke Hoogendijk Oeke Hoogendijk

Ariani Djalal Ariani Djalal

The Female Gaze The ,Female 70’ Gaze, 70’

EXPOZAAL EXPOZAAL

Franco’s Promise 12:00 12:00

13:00

dthe he World World ncerts ncerts

Of Media andOf Men Media , 96’and Men, 96’

18:00

The NewThe Rijksmuseum New Rijksmuseum – The Film – The Film

Panorama, 19’Panorama, 19’

Kim Longinotto Kim Longinotto

BRAKKEBRAKKE GROND BRAKKEBRAKKE GROND TUSCHINSKI 5 GROND TUSCHINSKI 6 GROND DE MUNTOTHER 9 OTHER DE MUNT 10 VENUES VENUES

11:00 11:00

Our Rehearsal City Our Our City City 12:00 12:00

94’ 4’

wseum Rijksmuseum Rijksmuseum m m

Panorama, 83’Panorama, 83’

Heddy Honigmann’s Heddy HeddyTop Honigmann’s Honigmann’s 10, 554’ Top Top10 10,,554’ 554’

Marc Weymuller

Best of Fests, 92’

Panorama, 98’ Panorama, 98’

Tie Xi Qu:Tie Tie Xi Xi Qu: Qu: West of the West West Tracks of of the the Tracks Tracks

Anders Riis-Hansen

16:30

Zhou HaoZhou Hao

17:00

17:30

Ciaran Cassidy Ciaran Cassidy

18:15

Wang BingWang Wang Bing Bing

n Holzhausen Holzhausen

Feature-Length Feature-Length Competition,Competitio 142’

Vast Vast The Newsroom The Newsroom – – 18:30 18:30 Christian Christian Delgado, Delgado, Off the Record Off the Record Die Before DieBlossom Before BlossomNicolás Testoni Nicolás Testoni Mikala Krogh Mikala Krogh

22:45 23:00

StanislawStanislaw Mucha Mucha

Masters, 80’ Masters, 80’

10:00

The Circus Dynasty

Wiseman Wiseman

Cotton Cotton

Tristia –Tristia – Songs for Songs Alexis for Alexis Elvira LindNana Lind A Black A Sea Black Odyssey Sea Odyssey Elvira Nana

Panorama, 52’Panorama, 52’

VRIJDAG VRIJDAG 2828 NOVEMBER NOVEMBER 11:30

Killswitch Ali Akbarzadeh l Gallery Gallery Of Media and Men, 72’

Constantin Constantin Wulff Wulff

23:15

Laurent Bécue-Renard Laurent Bécue-Rena

1:00

10:00 10:00

11:00

14:15

18:30

16:00

Of Men Of andMen Warand Wa 16:00 16:00

1:00

11:30

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18:30

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

89’ 9’

Panorama, 90’

18:15

Music Documentary Music Documentary , 57’ , 57’

Rowena Sanchez, Rowena Sanchez, Charena Escala Charena Escala

TUSCHINSKI EYE CINEMA EYE EYE CINEMA CINEMA 13

9:00

23:15

Annelies Kruk, Annelies Anneke Kruk, deAnneke de Iris Lind van Wijngaarden Lind van Wijngaarden Iris Albert Maysles Albert Maysles Kids & Docs, 20’ Kids & Docs, 20’

24:00 24:00

1:00

Ulrich Seidl Ulrich – Seidl – A Director A Director at Workat Work 23:00

23:00

Haiduc Haiduc

Nick andNick Chaiand Chai

WEG MELKWEG TUSCHINSKI 2 ZAAL RABOZAAL

Who theWho Fuckthe Fuck Is Jett Rebel Is Jett Rebel Linda Hakeboom Linda Hakeboom

15:00

16:00

First Appearance FirstCompetition Appearance,Competition 90’ , 90’

17:00

Panorama, 25’Panorama, 25’

23:00 23:00

15:00

15:30

Mid-Length Competition Mid-Length,Competition 59’ , 59’

Alice Fargier Alice Fargier

22:30

CITIZENFOUR CITIZENFOUR

Masters, 180’Masters, 180’

15:30

The LastThe Days Last of Days of Peter Bergmann Peter Bergmann

Søren Steen Søren Jespersen, Steen Jespersen, Nasib Farah Nasib Farah

22:00

The Water Theand Water theand Wallthe Wall

Best of Fests, Best 66’ of Fests, 66’

Feature-Length Feature-Length Competition,Competition 87’ , 87’

WarriorsWarriors from thefrom North the North 22:00

14:30

NationalNational Gallery Gallery Frederick Wiseman Frederick Wiseman

17:30

21:30

Panorama, 15’Panorama, 15’

GuillaumeGuillaume Suon Suon

Masters, 65’ Masters, 65’

14:00

Hajooj Kuka Hajooj Kuka

Oswald von Oswald Richthofen von Richthofen

Sabina Guzzanti Sabina Guzzanti

The Storm TheMakers Storm Makers

Gina Leibrecht, Gina Leibrecht, Les Blank Les Blank 14:30