Short Film News (SFN) - Austrian filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter has chosen films which have impressed him and have played a role in his own development for Top 10 program of IDFA 2008.
The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam will also screen Geyrhalter's films and he gives a masterclass during the festival.
His choices include Good News: von Kolporteuren, toten Hunden und anderen Wienern by Ulrich Seidl, Koyaanisqatsi by Godfrey Reggio, Gambling, Gods and LSD by Peter Mettler, and Terrence Malick's The New World.
His latest film 7915km, about the people who live along the route of the Dakar Rally, will compete in the Joris Ivens Competition.
This year, IDFA has dedicated a special program to the work of Dutch documentary maker and cameraman Frans Bromet, and will screen a selection of 16 films.
The 21st IDFA is going to be held November 20-30. For more information visit festival website: www.idfa.nl.
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Iran with 7 Representatives in IDFA
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"Episode 3" to Open IDFA 2008
Short Film News (SFN) - The 21st edition of International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) will open with Dutch artist Renzo Martens' Episode 3 on November 20, 2008. The documentary shows that how suppliers of African export product themselves hardly profit at all from the huge amounts of money made from their poverty.
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