IDFA To Host Int’l Premiere of Martin Scorsese ‘Persona Disaster” – Deadline

The Worldwide Documentary Movie Competition Amsterdam (IDFA) has teased 100 movies that will likely be showcased in its thirty fifth version, working November 9–20

First highlights embrace the worldwide premiere of Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi’s Persona Disaster: One Night time Solely, about New York Dolls lead singer-songwriter David Johansen.

The work will premiere within the Masters part which may also function the worldwide premiere of Barbara Kopple’s Gumbo Coalition, and the world premiere of Coco Schrijber’s Look What You Made Me Do.

Different titles within the part embrace Patricio Guzmán’s My Imaginary Nation and Gianfranco Rosi’s In Viaggio, following Pope Francis’ travels, and Sergei Lotznitsa’s The Kiev Trial, Jorgen Leth and Andreas Koefoed’s Music For Black Pigeons, a mirrored image on ageing by means of jazz music.

The competition may also be placing the highlight on Ukraine.

There will likely be a particular tribute to Lithuanian filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravičius, who was killed earlier this yr in the course of the Mariupol siege, with screenings of his movies Mariupolis and Mariupolis 2.

The Greatest Of Fest sections may also function Simon Lereng Wilmont’s A Home Made Of Splinters, a portrait of a Ukrainian kids’s dwelling on the frontlines, and The Hamlet Syndrome, a couple of Ukrainian theater group recreating the Shakespearean play in dialogue with their very own traumatic actuality.