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At World’s Largest Documentary Festival, IDFA Artistic Director Orwa Nyrabia Promises “Instant Classics… Some Really Brilliant Films”
IDFA chief Orwa Nyrabia is promising "instant classics" at the 37th edition of the world's biggest documentary film festival.
The result is a story about a possible suicide or murder of a man in a German industrial town who worked at a firm developing a mysterious “infinity machine.” A supporting character has a passionate affair with a toaster (not sure what that says about Werner Herzog or the “mind” of AI). IDFA could have played it safe this year by steering clear of content from that part of the world, but in fact the 2024 program abounds with films from Israel, Palestine, and Lebanon. “If people watched the great documentary works done by different filmmakers of different backgrounds about this history of the Arab-Israeli conflict or of Palestine-Israel, I think, to say the least, what happened last year [on October 7 th] wouldn’t have been a surprise, if not avoided in the first place,” Nyrabia comments.
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