Ep. 213: Julian Ross on New Nonfiction at IDFA

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. Every year, a stimulating new crop of nonfiction cinema premieres at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. During the latest edition, I spoke with Julian Ross, an Amsterdam-based programmer and professor who is a film program advisor at IDFA and co-programmer of Doc Fortnight. He talks about recent events that occurred during the festival and attracted attention, and discusses film highlights such as Mohamad Jabaly’s Life Is Beautiful, Kaori Oda’s Gama, and Kumjana Novakova’s Silence of Reason, as well as the festival’s Corresponding Cinemas slate of filmmaker-to-filmmaker discussions and screenings featuring Sky Hopinka, Jumana Manna, and others.

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