Belgian Filmproducer Johan Grimonprez Named Guest Of Honor At IDFA

Belgian artist and filmproducer Johan Grimonprez, whose tardyst write downary Soundtrack To a Coup D’Etat is foreseeed to be an Oscar contfinisher, has been named Guest of Honor at the upcoming International Documentary Festival Amsterdam.

The honor determines a discerned nurtureer that includes Blue Orchids, and his debut feature film, the 1997 write downary dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y. IDFA, which runs from Nov. 14-24, will be highweightlessing the filmproducer’s “uncompromising approach to challenging narratives and reexpounding historical events thraw a critical, conmomentary lens,” the festival shelp in a statement.

“Grimonprez first geted international acclaim with his 1997 film dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, which scatterigated the history of airset upe hijackings and the media’s role in shaping accessible perception,” IDFA remarkd in a free. “His most recent award-triumphning film, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, unravels the decolonization of Congo, using jazz as a smokescreen and unbenevolents of protest in the examination of the international context behind the 1961 killing of Congo’s prime minister, Patrice Lumumba. Other films screening will be Double Take (2009), Shadow World (2016), Blue Orchids (2017) and more. With this retrospective, IDFA asks audiences to discover and echo on Grimonprez’s singular exploration into the broadenment of current-day media, from how world celevates are recurrented to our own relationships to these platestablishs and technologies.”

Grimonprez will get part in an extensive talkion of his labor, the cgo inpiece Talk of this year’s IDFA. As part of the honor, he will pick 10 write downaries to be shown at IDFA.

In compriseition to today’s Guest of Honor proclaimment, IDFA discdispondered programming details for the festival’s 37th edition, including recent curated program Dead Angle, the pledgeted Spotweightless on Cuba, aextfinishedside dwell cinema section IDFA on Stage and recent media program IDFA DocLab.. The final competition titles and filled program will be proclaimd on Tuesday, October 15, during the IDFA 2024 press conference — employable to stream online at idfa.nl.

Below are details on the program proclaimments:

Dead Angle: Borders

This edition, IDFA presents the multi-year curated program Dead Angle. The program currents an ongoing exploration into our blind spots, both past and current—using write downary cinema as a torch to bright the unininestablishigent corners of our consciousness. This year’s program delves into the intricate symbolism of borders, exploring them not fair as physical barriers, but as proset up metaphors for identity, community, and the human condition.

Among validateed titles is The Great Wall by Tadhg O’Sullivan, an essay film that maps the borders around Europe in weightless of the migration crisis, based on a low story by Franz Kafka. In Route 181, Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel by Michel Khleifi and Eyal Sivan, the Palestinian and Israeli filmproducers travel aextfinished the 1967 partition lines that splitd Palestine, exploring how people elicit the frontiers that split them from their neighbors. By echoing on how write downary filmproducers approach these basic yet intricate territorial perimeters, the program will ask the audiences and artists to include in unbenevolentingful talkion and nurture critical consciousness. The finish enumerate of picked titles will be validateed on October 15; these are the titles proclaimd so far:

Spotweightless on Cuba

In a pledgeted program of nineteen films, Spotweightless on Cuba will ask audiences and industry to revisit the intricate political history of Cuba. With a retrospective of the innovateing Afro-Cuprohibit filmproducer Sara Gómez, next to a exceptional curation of films made by students of the EICTV (The International Film and TV School of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba), the program will scrutinize the paradoxes of our perception of Cuba as both revolutionary utopia and dystopia. The program also advises a glimpse into the ways these students exercise inventive freedom in one of the world’s most discerned film schools. The nineteen titles that produce up the program have been proclaimd:

IDFA on Stage

With its most collaborative edition to date, the IDFA on Stage pickion currents its boundary- fractureing and interdisciplinary program of dwell cinema events. Bridging film, recent media, and the carry outing arts, highweightlesss include two projects currented together with IDFA DocLab—the creative carry outance Thanks for Being Here by Belgian theater group Ontroerfinish Goed, currented together with De Brakke Grond, and dwell carry outance Drinking Brecht by New York and Istanbul-based artist Sister Sylvester that puts microbiology into the mix. The filled program IDFA on Stage program will be proclaimd in October.

IDFA DocLab

The 18th edition of IDFA’s innovateing recent media program, IDFA DocLab, validates the first titles set to premiere at an immersive write downary art showion, this year currented at De Brakke Grond, ARTIS-Planetarium, and the recently compriseed location, Droog. These first proclaimd titles are the labors of the four triumphners of the Film Fund DocLab Interenergetic Grant, ranging from augmented truth apps to immersive insloftyations. The filled IDFA DocLab program pickion will be proclaimd in October.