A Fox Under a Pink Moon and Past Future Continuous are among the winners of the top awards at the 38th edition of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), unveiled […]
‘Outliving Shakespeare’: Characters Confront the Bard in a Play Staged at an Armenian Retirement Home (Exclusive Trailer)
To be, or not to be? That is the question echoing through a derelict Soviet-era retirement home in Armenia, where a group of residents rehearse for an original play that may […]
‘Synthetic Sincerity’ Explores if AI Characters Can Be Taught Authenticity: IDFA
“Film begins with the human face,” Ingmar Bergman famously said. But that may be changing in the age of generative AI. One of the hot-button questions these days is what […]
‘Gaza’s Twins, Come Back to Me’ Follows a Mother and Her Babies Separated by War (Exclusive IDFA Clips)
Gaza’s Twins, Come Back to Me, a new documentary from Mohammed Sawwaf (Eleven Days in May) tells one of the many human stories in the Israel-Hamas war. “When the Israeli […]
Doc ‘Holy Destructors’ Zooms in on a Cosmos of Blooming Microfungi (Exclusive IDFA Trailer)
Microfungi take the spotlight in Holy Destructors, the sophomore documentary from Lithuanian director Aistė Žegulytė (Animus Animalis), which will world premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), which runs […]
Amsterdam Doc Fest IDFA to Celebrate Susana deSousa Dias, Explore Institutions, Disconnection
IDFA, the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, will celebrate Portuguese documentary filmmaker Susana de Sousa Dias as its guest of honor for its 2025 edition, which takes place Nov. 13-23. […]