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Filmmakers Speak About Making Documentaries During the Rise of Populism, and the Dangers of Making Films Critical of Repressive Regimes
Documentary filmmakers speak on using film as a tool to fight ‘rise of populism.’
IDFA ’s artistic director Orwa Nyrabia introduced the conference by highlighting the “rising success” of populist movements in Europe and across the world and how they recognise filmmakers “as their enemy.” “The 1957 Transcripts” chronicles the massacre of 49 residents of the Palestinian village of Kafr Qasim who were murdered in cold blood by soldiers of the Israeli Border Police in October of 1956. Brazilian director Petra Costa, Oscar-nominated in 2020 for “The Edge of Democracy” and at IDFA this year with “Apocalypse in the Tropics,” recalled how during the Jair Bolsonaro presidency from 2016 to 2020, the national film agency would “punish the progressives by investigating and finding ridiculous problems with filmmakers who had opposed the government.
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