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IDFA Announces First Competition Lineups; Taps ‘No Other Land,’ ‘Sugarcane’ And More For Prestigious “Best Of Fests” Section
IDFA has announced the first competition titles for the festival's 37th edition, plus the first films selected for its "Best of Fests" program.
Among the Youth Documentary highlights, IDFA cites My Homeland: “Moving beyond one-dimensional stereotypes, Tabarak Allah Abbas replaces people with cyborgs in her imaginative animation that tells the story of how her parents overcame fleeing Iraq, packed as a superhero adventure.” Heading into its 37 th edition, the festival released the first details on several of other high-profile sections: Signed, a showcase for “the latest cinematic adventures of some of the most original filmmakers of our time,” and Paradocs, which puts the spotlight on “the year’s experimental documentary art.” Among them, award-winning filmmaker Radu Jude presents found-footage documentary Eight Postcards from Utopia, showing the commercials from Romania’s transition to a capitalist democracy, and impressionist desktop film Sleep #2, capturing live stream recordings of Andy Warhol’s grave.
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