IDFA x De Balie
The best of IDFA selected by De Balie from November 14 till 24
Overwhelmed by the vast selection of documentaries at IDFA? De Balie curates a selection of six remarkable films that together cover a wide range of burning contemporary issues. Each of these documentaries has been chosen for its outspoken artistic vision. But most importantly, we’ve selected these films because they provoke conversation. We invite thinkers, artists and experts on stage after the screening to deepen our understanding of what we’ve seen.
IDFA will take place from November 14 till November 24. De Balie organises special screenings around Apocalypse in the Tropics (Petra Costa), Black Box Diaries (Shiori Ito), Life & Other Problems (Max Kestner), Agent of Happines (Arun Bhattarai, Dorottya Zurbo), The Propagandist (Luuk Bouwman) and De Gloeiige (Erik van Lieshout). In addition, we host more than 20 regular IDFA-screenings.
Ticket sale starts at October 30.
IDFA x De Balie
Terrifying account of the rise and enormous political influence of evangelical fundamentalism in Brazil.
When journalist Shiori Ito is raped by a colleague, she decides to seek justice, in the face of a Japanese culture of silence.
What is life? This film is a nuanced and playful philosophical reflection on that question.
Survey interviewer Amber Kumar Gurung travels through the heart of Bhutan with a questionnaire, assessing the well-being of his compatriots.
As the head of the Nazi film guild in the Netherlands during the Second World War, filmmaker Jan Teunissen became known as ‘the Dutch Leni Riefenstahl.’
Met Erik van Lieshout, Joke de Wolf en Geertjan Lassche
Met gretig enthousiasme banjert Erik van Lieshout over het Brabantse land van zijn jeugd. Boeren, burgers en natuur zitten er in het nauw tussen stikstof en stankoverlast. Voor de kunst
Reguliere IDFA-vertoningen
Nasreen wants to become a singer — a far from obvious choice for a woman in Iran.
Twenty-five years after a renowned ethno-botanical study in the Ecuadorian Amazon region inhabited by the Waorani, the central figures involved reunite.
A documentary filmmaker dives into the nightlife of the Israeli city of Tel Aviv with a simple, yet thorny, political and deeply loaded question: would you have sex with an Arab?
As New York drag queen and human rights activist, Amichai has a complex relationship with his prominent Orthodox Jewish family, his religious faith and native country of Israel.
As a child, filmmaker Inadelso Cossa was shielded from the cruel reality of Mozambique’s civil war. Now he visits the village of his youth.
This shocking but hopeful report from Ukraine follows the makeshift relief network that has emerged in the middle of wartime violence.
Artist couple Lynn Cruz and Miguel Coyula deploy a string of secret audio recordings to expose the control and intimidation that independent artists in Cuba have to suffer.
A behind-the-scenes account of the 1968 televised debates between Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr., and their rancorous disagreements about politics, God, and sex.
A warm and attentive film capturing the lives of fishermen on an island in the US facing the threat of rising sea levels.
The election of the current Brazilian president Lula da Silva led to the storming of Congress by supporters of his opponent Bolsonaro.
An unraveling of the murder of 49 Palestinian villagers by the Israeli Border Police in 1956.
Climate change and desertification force a Mongolian herder and his family to move from the Gobi desert to the big city. The loss of their animals severs their connection with nature.
