IDFA Unveils Line Up for ‘05; Spotlights Global Terrorism Docs
by Brian Brooks (October 14, 2005)
A scene from Doug Block's "51 Birch Street," which will screen in the Joris Ivens Competition at the upcoming International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA).
Global terrorism will be a main theme this year for the 2005 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) taking place in Amsterdam November 24 - December 4. A significant number of films relating to current events have been programmed for this year’s festival, one of the largest of its kind in the world. Among the docs set to screen exploring the theme of international terrorism is Shelley Saywell‘s “Hamas Behind the Mask” (Canada) and fellow Canadian film “Our Own Private Bin Laden” by Samira Goetschel, about the elusive Al Queda chief’s rise in notoriety aided by the media. The film will screen in the festival’s First Appearance section, which includes 20 titles reserved for films making their initial debuts. Also screening in the section is Taghred Elsanhouri‘s look at the conflict in the Sudan “All About Darfur,” (England) which screened at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival and Marshall Curry‘s look at the controversial 2002 mayoral campaign in Newark, New Jersey, “Street Fight,” which won the best international documentary award earlier this year at Hot Docs. IDFA also has two other awarded sections including the Joris Ivens Competition for other feature-length documentaries, including Doug Block‘s Toronto ‘05 family portrait “51 Birch Street,” and John Kirby‘s look at the United State’s elite, “American Ruling Class.” Also screening in the section is Slamdance ‘05 audience award-winner “The Real Dirt on Farmer John” by Taggart Siegel, about a Midwestern farmer who became hated in his local community for his revolutionary agricultural methods. Additionally, IDFA will present the Silver Wolf competition for ten films with lengths up to 60 minutes. Among other themes in this year’s line up, IDFA will devote extensive attention to image-creation during World War II. In the “Docs at War Film” program, historians from fourteen countries - at war, occupied or neutral- have been asked to present three films shown in cinemas in their countries during World War II. A Dutch selection committee including David Barnouw (Netherlands Institute for War Documentation, NIOD) and Bert Hogenkamp (Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision) made a selection from a broad range, primarily of propaganda films, some of which have been included in the program. These include classics such as “Der ewige Jude” (1940) and several episodes of Frank Capra‘s series “Why We Fight.” The selection also includes a number of less well-known, but revealing films.
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