Doc Talk travels to Amsterdam for IDFA, the world's biggest docmentary festival. We speak with new Artistic Director Isabel Arrate Fernandez about assuming leadership of the festival after many years heading up the IDFA Bertha Fund. Arrate Fernandez discusses reaction to the festival's controversial decision to ban Israeli organiations that accept money from Israel's government to support their activities. We also visit with Brazilian filmmaker Petra Costa in Amsterdam. Her Oscar-contendng Netflix documentary, Apocalypse in the Tropics, explores the rise of Christian nationalism in Brazil. Costa tells us her film has directly led to the launch of an investigation into her protagonist, fiery televangelist Sila Malafaia, a key backer of former right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro.

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