IDFA lines up first 50 titles for 2023 edition, including focus on East and Southeast Asian cinema

Programme includes ‘top 10’ films selected by director Wang Bing and selection of Peter Greenaway films.The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) has revealed the first 50 titles for this year’s edition, running Nov 8 to Nov 19.As part of a previously announced Wang Bing retrospective, the director has been invited to programme his “top 10”.

The films he has selected are all Chinese and all date from 1999 or later.They are: Before the Flood (2005) directed by Yifan Li, Yu YanBing’ai (2007) by Yan Feng; Born in Beijing (2011) by Li Ma; Last Train Home (2009) by Lixin Fan; The Next Life (2011) by Jian Fan…

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