Experience IDFA with De Balie
A selection of the best films, followed by thought-provoking conversations
Six impressive documentaries followed by engaging converstations with filmmakers and notable guests. Experience IDFA with De Balie
De Balie has selected six of the best films featured at IDFA. Documentaries on a wide range of subjects, taking you from the intimacy of the therapy room to the microscopic world of fungi. Despite their diversity, these films share a common thread: they are auteur-driven works, created with a distinct artistic vision. Films that use the camera as a tool of expression, rather than mere registration. Join us after each screening for a conversation hosted by De Balie, with filmmakers and notable guests.
Film screening and conversation with Sien Versteyhe and Sara Alaoui
A young student undergoes trauma therapy for an act of sexual violence committed by someone she trusted.
Film screening and conversation with director Vladlena Sandu
Vladlena Sandu, who lived through the war in Chechnya as a child, studies her traumatic memories in order to transcend and transform them via cinema.
Film screening and conversation with director Aiste Žegulytė and Wim van Egmond
While humans try to prevent matter from decaying, microfungi remind us that everything must perish in order to continue to exist.
Film screening and conversation with director David Bernet
Over more than two years, Democracy follows the laborious process of drafting the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation. A rare glimpse into the opaque mechanism of EU politics.
Film screening and conversation with philosopher Eva van der Graaf
A woman who has fled Iran asks her aging parents, who stayed behind, to install cameras throughout their home so she can remain connected from afar.
Film screening and conversation with director Amalie Atkins
Bent over but self-assured, 90-year-old Agatha is still hard at work in the large garden of her old family farm in Manitoba, Canada. Captured on 16mm film, this is a sumptuous portrait
