Ep. 214: Eric Hynes on award-winner "1489" and more documentary highlights at IDFA + bonus selections with Edo Choi

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. A special double episode wraps up our coverage of notable new nonfiction at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. Eric Hynes, curator of film at the Museum of the Moving Image, discusses the IDFA Best Film award-winner, Shoghakat Vardanyan’s 1489, a harrowing and personal look at a family looking for a son missing in military action, and we cover other highlights including A Picture to Remember (Olga Chernykh), Chasing the Dazzling Light (Yaser Kassab), The Last (Sebastian Peña Escobar), and Behind Closed Doors (João Pedro Bim). And then, the podcast concludes with a quick bonus track: a chat with recent guest Edo Choi about a few more IDFA docs—Limitation, The Clinic, World Is Family, and Danger Zone.

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