IDFA 2020

Madagascan Nantenaina Lova’s story of protecting sacred land from foreign mining interests hits just the right tone: no sentimentality, no voyeurism, just honesty.

In Let My Body Speak Madonna Adib reflects on growing up in Damascus in a repressive and deeply patriarchal society in which the very idea of queerness seemed hardly to exist.

War and Peace is no simplistic reinforcement about the horrors of conflict, but rather an examination of how imagery of war can and perhaps should be used.

Water buffaloes in the Carpathians and a hero who wants to settle down - but on his own terms. Ukrainian producer Aliona Kachkan discusses her Docs For Sale selection As Far As Possible, about to complete post-production and ripe for a festival debut in 2021.

In 'Here we move, here we groove', director Sergej Kreso asks of Balkan Beats founder DJ Robert Soko, what next? The answer is creative and compassionate, and appropriate for our age.

Milo Rau’s restaging of Christ’s Passion makes for a heart-felt and at times profoundly angry film set against the backdrop of workers campaigning for basic living conditions and rights in Italy.

Buyers are beginning to pick up the aroma of 'Growth', Russian sales outfit Antipode Sales and Distribution’s hot new Iranian feature doc, which tells the story of one of the world’s most popular drinks…coffee.

Like an X-ray, this documentary gets under your skin to touch invisible points both in the body and the mind.

Femke Wolting has revealed further details of her galactic plans. Co-founder of Amsterdam/LA-based film and transmedia outfit Submarine, she is one of the producers on Richard Linklater’s new project 'Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Adventure', described as a hybrid of live action in a fully animated world.

Cinematic boundaries are boozily and blissfully blurred in brothers Bill and Turner Ross’s absorbing and intoxicating film.