Yearly Harvest
IBF Films at IDFA
2018
In 2018, 10 new documentaries supported by IBF were presented at IDFA and in total 15 new IBF films were presented at IDFA's documentary market Docs for Sale. The IDFA 2018 festival saw a lot of extra attention for IBF-supported films and filmmakers. Kabul, City in the Wind was the opening film of the festival and received the Special Jury Award in the First Appearance Competition. In total, five IBF films celebrated their world premiere at IDFA and all other five had their world premieres at other prestigious film festivals around the world, such as the Cannes Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival and the Berlinale. Two IBF-supported documentaries were selected to participate in one of IDFA's competition programs and four IBF documentaries were programmed with a special Doc Talk, an extended discussion after the screening. Besides the regular screenings, IBF documentaries were screened in the special sponsor selections of the VPRO and the Volkskrant and special IDFA programs, such as the Best of IDFA.
Opening Film IDFA 2018
Kabul, City in the Wind by Aboozar Amini (Afghanistan, Japan, The Netherlands, Germany)
Trailer Kabul, City in the Wind
World Premieres at IDFA
IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary:
Los Reyes by Bettina Perut, Iván Osnovikoff (Chile, Germany)
IDFA Competition for First Appearance:
Kabul, City in the Wind by Aboozar Amini (Afghanistan, Japan, The Netherlands, Germany)
Paradocs:
Big Characters by Ju Anqi (China, Switzerland)
Luminous:
How Big is the Galaxy? by Ksenia Elyan (Russia, Estonia)
The Sound of Masks by Sara de Gouveia (South Africa, Portugal)
Trailer How Big is the Galaxy?
Dutch Premieres at IDFA
Masters:
Dead Souls by Wang Bing (Hong Kong, Switzerland, France)
Best of Fests:
Freedom Fields by Naziha Arebi (Libya/Canada/Lebanon/The Netherlands/Qatar/UK/USA)
Home Games by Alisa Kovalenko (Ukraine/France/Poland)
Theatre of War by Lola Arias (Argentina/Spain/Germany)
A Thousand Girls Like Me by Sahra Mani (Afghanistan/France)
Trailer Theatre of War
Awards at IDFA
IDFA Special Jury Award for Feature-Length Documentary
Los Reyes by Bettina Perut, Iván Osnovikoff (Chile, Germany)
IDFA Special Jury Award for First Appearance
Kabul, City in the Wind by Aboozar Amini (Afghanistan, Japan, The Netherlands, Germany)
Trailer Los Reyes
Audience Award Ranking
At IDFA 2018, 194 films participated in the audience competition. A total of 33,156 people voted.
A Thousand Girls Like Me by Sahra Mani charted 4th in the Audience Top Ten list.
Trailer A Thousand Girls Like Me
Doc Talks at IDFA 2018
Wang Bing about Dead Souls
Naziha Arebi about Freedom Fields
Bettina Perut & Iván Osnovikoff about Los Reyes
Aboozar Amini about Kabul, City in the Wind (close reading)
Doc Talk Los Reyes with directors Bettina Perut (middle) and Iván Osnovikoff (right)
IBF Projects at Docs for Sale 2018
All the IBF supported films selected for IDFA 2018 were in IDFA’s documentary market Docs for Sale (except for Dead Souls). On top of that there was a selection of other IBF films available in Docs for Sale 2018:
Dreamaway by Marouan Omara & Johanna Domke (Egypt/Germany)
Insomnia by Valeria Latypova (Russia/France)
Kinshasa Makambo by Dieudo Hamadi (DRC/France/Switzerland/Germany/ Norway)
Laila at the Bridge by Gulistan Mirzaei & Elizabeth Mirzaei (Afghanistan/Canada)
Los Viejos by Rosana Matecki (Venezuela/Cuba/UK)
The Son of the Hunter by Germán Scelso & Federico Robles (Argentina)
In the top 10 most watched films at Docs for Sale 2 IBF documentaries were present: Kabul, City in the Wind and Los Reyes.
Trailer Los Viejos