Every year since 1988, at International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, more than 250 international documentaries are screened. Filmmakers, producers, distributors, tv channel representatives, decision makers and festival programmers from all over the world come to this most important event in the documentary cinema. IDFA offers amazingly rich and diverse programme – competitive as well as non-competitive – and presents the creative documentaries from the highest level.
All in all, IDFA is the great opportunity for every film, screened in Amsterdam, to begin the promotional way on the international stage. During this year’s edition Polish documentaries will have this chance as well. Two Polish titles are qualified for the student competition program: “A Screening At The Tatry Cinema” by Igor Chojna and “Viva Maria!” by Agnieszka Smoczyńska. In the non-competitve section there are also two Polish documentaries: “The Work of The Machines”, directed by Michał Mądracki, Maciej Mądracki and Gilles Lepore (in the section called “Paradocs”), and “The Declaration of Immortality” by Marcin Koszałka (in the section called „Reflecting Images: Panorama”).
IDFA is not only the event full of film screening, but also includes the wide range of accompanying tasks. One of the biggest is Docs for Sale, the film market and the great platform for professionals to exchange the ideas and experience.
At this year’s Docs for Sale there is a large amount of Polish films as well, presented as a part of the “Polish Docs” project – that is the mutual initiative of Krakow Film Foundation and Polish Film Institute whose aim is the promotion of Polish documentary films abroad and assistance to the Polish filmmakers to present their films to the wide audience.
The list of the Polish documentary films that will appear at Docs for Sale:
„H2O”, dir. Tomasz Wolski
„Inventory”, dir. Paweł Łoziński
„A Piece of Summer”, dir. Marta Minorowicz
„The Dog Hill”, dir. Grzegorz Zariczny
„Little Bride”, dir. Lesław Dobrucki
„Honeymoon”, dir. Grzegorz Krawiec
„Out of reach”, dir. Jakub Stożek
„Let’s run away from her”, dir. Marcin Koszałka
„The Declaration of Immortality”, dir. Marcin Koszałka
„Viva Maria!”, dir. Agnieszka Smoczyńska
„A Screening At The Tatry Cinema”, dir. Igor Chojna
„The Work of The Machines”, dir. Michał Mądracki, Maciej Mądracki, Gilles Lepore
Polish documentary films were present at the festival as well as in the market in Amsterdam many times. Last year in the competition programme several Polish titles appeared, such as: “War Games and the Man who stopped them” by Dariusz Jabłoński, “Where the sun doesn’t rush” by Matej Bobrik and “Six Weeks” by Marcin Janos Krawczyk, who, in addition to this, was given the main prize in the short film competition. It is worth to say that this year the competition for short documentaries is canceled.
23rd International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) will be held from the 17th to the 28th of November. Docs for Sale will take place from the 19th to the 26th of November.
More on the website: www.idfa.nl