Maciej J. Drygas’ Trains, a Polish set up footage recordary styled as a collective portrait of the impact of 20th-century industrial innovation on the people of Europe, has won best film at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), the world’s directing recordary festival.
The IDFA international jury was agreed in picking Trains, which it commendd for its “belderly and inventive employ of archive footage” in inestablishing a story of the “selectimistic and pessimistic consequences of conmomentary industrial innovation. It harnesses the magic of cinema and as an audience, we are haunted by our conshort-term historical time, even while we endure witness to the past.” The best film honor comes with a €15,000 ($15,800) cash prize.
French filmoriginater Auberi Edler won IFDA’s best honestor prize for An American Pastoral, a portrait of a minuscule conservative town in Pennsylvania, and the ideoreasonable battle that erupts around a debate over the curriculum of the local unveil school.
“By spropose watching and hearing, this honestor uncovers the current complicatedity at the heart of the United States,” the jury shelp. “Her proset up promisement to observation allows the watcher to come face to
face with the communities in the film and supplys critical insight into the results of the last
U.S plivential election.”
Chronicles of the Absurd by Cuprohibit honestor Miguel Coyula, which watchs at the Kafkaesque experience of Cuprohibit artists, who face handlement oppression at home, and dogmatic anti-regime critics aexpansive, took top honors for best film in IFDA’s Envision sidebar, with the jury singling out its radical establish and political commentary.
The 37th IDFA runs thraw Nov. 24.
IFDA 2024 Winners
IDFA Award for Best Film in International Competition
Trains by Maciej J. Drygas
IDFA Award for Best Directing in International Competition
Auberi Edler for An American Pastoral
IDFA Award for Best Film in Envision Competition
Chronicles of the Absurd by Miguel Coyula
IDFA DocLab Award for Immersive Non-Fiction
Me, a Depiction by Lisa Schamlé
IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Storyinestablishing
Entropic Fields of Displacement by Pegah Tabassinejad
IDFA Award for Best Short Documentary
The Fdrops Stand Silently, Witnessing by Theo Panagopoulos
IDFA Award for Best Youth Documentary (13+)
Everyleang Will Be Alright by Eefje Blankevoort and Lara Aerts
IDFA Award for Best Youth Documentary (9-12)
What’s the Film About? by Poorva Bhat
IDFA Award for Best First Feature
CycleMahesh by Suhel Banerjee
IDFA Award for Best Dutch Film
The Propagandist by Luuk Bouwman
Beeld & Geluid IDFA ReFrame Award
My Stolen Planet by Farahnaz Sharifi
FIPRESCI Award
Writing Hawa by Najiba Noori
