First Hand Fund
First Hand Films’ managing director Esther van Messel has given details of the new fund the company is establishing.
iHuman – the shape of things to come?
Tonje Hessen Schei’s iHuman offers a sobering, some may argue terrifying, assessment of AI and its seemingly inevitable trajectory towards a state of self-sufficiency.
IDFA Review: opening film ...
With admirable dedication, filmmaker Mehrdad Oskouei has made his fourth documentary on Iranian youth detention.
An exile speaks
For a man living in exile, who has spent several years in prison and who is on the wrong side of Vladimir Putin, former oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky cuts a surprisingly cheerful figure.
Dogwoof barks loudest for IDFA titles
Leading European doc outfit announces pick-up of competition selections King Of The Cruise and La Mami
Oleg Sentsov in London
After five years, the Ukrainian is ready to resume his filmmaking career, he says.
Orwa Nyrabia: seeking parity
IDFA Creative Director Orwa Nyrabia is in buoyant mood and, it seems, justifiably so.



















