Docs @ Amsterdam Independent Film Festival
At the Amsterdam Independent Film Festival, we focus on film. This year's edition will bring independent artistic visions to an audience that demands a more fulfilling experience than the latest Hollywood fare.
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Distant Shores (Deux rives) (France) by Thibault Verneret
"The director engages in a dialogue with his older brother, once convicted of drug trafficking in French Guiana. Oscillating between the present and past recorded in his diary, the film opens the door to a rapprochement between the two men. But the older brother remains mysterious and elusive, an...
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60 Pounds of Home (Germany) by Michael Eibl
Christl Eibl, born in 1940 in Chodský Újezd (Heiligenkreuz) in the Czech Republic, tells of loss. A traumatic experience – especially for a six-year-old child: the loss of familiar surroundings, of home. In the film "60 Pounds of Home" (30 Kilo Heimat), she, the grandmother, tells her grandson, t...
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Forced Renewables (Spain) by Francisco Javier Fernández Bordonada
In Lopera, a small town in Jaén, the promise of ecological transition turns into a nightmare. Centuries-old olive groves, the legacy of generations of farmers, are being uprooted to make way for massive photovoltaic plants, in an unfair battle between powerful corporations and a community fightin...
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Anchor Points (Canada) by Victor Quijada, Samuel Greffe
Anchor Points is a documentary-style art film by Rubberband that retraces the trajectory of Victor Quijada from street dancer to contemporary choreographer. Through archival footage and visual effects, it examines his personal and artistic evolution and introduces the foundational Rubberband Meth...