Reason by Indian director Anand Patwardhan won the Idfa Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary at the 31st International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (14-25 November). The film, told in eight parts, charts the rise of religious and nationalist fundamentalism in Indian society.
At the prestigious European doc festival, Los Reyes by Bettina Perut and Iván Osnovikoff won the Idfa Special Jury Award for Feature-Length Documentary. The First Motion Of The Immovable by Sebastiano d’Ayala Valva picked up the Idfa Award for Best First Appearance, and opening film Kabul, City In The Wind by Aboozar Amini won the Idfa Special Jury Award for First Appearance. The winners were revealed last night [Wednesday 21 November].
Select winners below:
Idfa Competition for Feature-Length Documentary
Best feature-length documentary
Reason
Special Jury Award for feature-length documentary
Los Reyes
Idfa Competition for First Appearance
Best first appearance
Giacinto Scelsi.
At the prestigious European doc festival, Los Reyes by Bettina Perut and Iván Osnovikoff won the Idfa Special Jury Award for Feature-Length Documentary. The First Motion Of The Immovable by Sebastiano d’Ayala Valva picked up the Idfa Award for Best First Appearance, and opening film Kabul, City In The Wind by Aboozar Amini won the Idfa Special Jury Award for First Appearance. The winners were revealed last night [Wednesday 21 November].
Select winners below:
Idfa Competition for Feature-Length Documentary
Best feature-length documentary
Reason
Special Jury Award for feature-length documentary
Los Reyes
Idfa Competition for First Appearance
Best first appearance
Giacinto Scelsi.
- 11/22/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Amsterdam — Under the banner of ‘The Humanoid Cookbook.’ this year’s DocLab is going back to the basics of human interaction.
In the Brakke Grond, a table and chair are set in front of a TV monitor. There’s a white tablecloth, a place setting and even a little bunch of decorative flowers. But the woman seated there isn’t tucking into a gourmet meal, she’s watching a short, interactive film that involves pressing a couple of buttons that are clearly labelled in front her. The idea is just one of the many ideas feeding into this year’s theme at DocLab, Idfa’s experimental wing: The Humanoid Cookbook.
“The title has several meanings,” explains Caspar Sonnen, Idfa’s Head of New Media, “and one of them is to explore new forms of exhibiting emerging media. The context of a cinema is not necessarily the best one for interactive work,...
In the Brakke Grond, a table and chair are set in front of a TV monitor. There’s a white tablecloth, a place setting and even a little bunch of decorative flowers. But the woman seated there isn’t tucking into a gourmet meal, she’s watching a short, interactive film that involves pressing a couple of buttons that are clearly labelled in front her. The idea is just one of the many ideas feeding into this year’s theme at DocLab, Idfa’s experimental wing: The Humanoid Cookbook.
“The title has several meanings,” explains Caspar Sonnen, Idfa’s Head of New Media, “and one of them is to explore new forms of exhibiting emerging media. The context of a cinema is not necessarily the best one for interactive work,...
- 11/22/2018
- by Damon Wise
- Variety Film + TV
Amsterdam — Delivering on new artistic director Orwa Nyrabia’s commitment to giving space to documentaries from the global south, this year’s Idfa festival handed its main prize to Anand Patwardhan’s “Reason”, described by the festival as “a broad-ranging examination of Indian society, in which secular rationalists are hunted down as they attempt to stem the rising tide of religious and nationalist fundamentalism.”
At a ceremony held at the International Theater Amsterdam, jury members Daniela Elstner, Jean-Michel Frodon, Tala Hadid, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, and Alina Marazzi voted “unanimously” for Patwardhan’s 261-minute film, praising its “epic storytelling of the rise of the far right in one of the most populated countries of this planet … in a way that acknowledges the complexity of the situation but puts it in a very understandable shape.”
In second place, the Special Jury Award went to the crowd-pleasing dogs-in-a-skatepark doc “Los Reyes” by Bettina Perut and Iván Osnivikoff.
At a ceremony held at the International Theater Amsterdam, jury members Daniela Elstner, Jean-Michel Frodon, Tala Hadid, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, and Alina Marazzi voted “unanimously” for Patwardhan’s 261-minute film, praising its “epic storytelling of the rise of the far right in one of the most populated countries of this planet … in a way that acknowledges the complexity of the situation but puts it in a very understandable shape.”
In second place, the Special Jury Award went to the crowd-pleasing dogs-in-a-skatepark doc “Los Reyes” by Bettina Perut and Iván Osnivikoff.
- 11/21/2018
- by Damon Wise
- Variety Film + TV
David, Devindra, and Russ Fischer discuss James Wan’s The Conjuring 2. In the After Dark, they discuss the AI-scripted film, Sunspring and list their most anticipated films of the summer. Then, in an impromptu After After Dark, Oscar Sharp and Ross Goodwin, the creators of Sunspring, join the conversation! You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(At)gmail(Dot)com, or call and […]
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- 6/15/2016
- by David Chen
- Slash Film
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