IDFA Doc Fest To Honor Wang Bing, Peter Greenaway At thirty sixth Version – Deadline

Chinese language documentarian Wang Bing and UK filmmaker and artist Peter Greenaway will likely be honored on the thirty sixth Worldwide Documentary Pageant Amsterdam (IDFA), working from November 8 to 19.

Wang has been invited because the version’s Visitor of Honor, whereas Greenaway (The Cook dinner, The Thief, His Spouse And Her Lover, Eisenstein in Guanajuato) will obtain a Lifetime Achievement Award.

As a part of its celebration of Wang, IDFA will display his ground-breaking 2002 work Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks in addition to his more moderen movies Man in Black and Youth (Spring), which each premiered to acclaim in Cannes this 12 months. The latter title, which revolves round Chinese language garment staff, was lately acquired by Icarus for North America.

The Wang program additionally consists of Alone (2012), ’Til Insanity Do Us Half (2013), and Mrs. Fang (2017).

The director will give a masterclass and has additionally been invited to compile the competition’s annual High 10, which is able to encompass 10 up to date movies by Chinese language filmmakers. The choice will likely be introduced at later date.

The Greenaway Lifetime Achievement tribute will display six movies from his huge filmography, exhibiting how his strategy transcends genres by fiction works made with a documentary eye and vice-versa.

IDFA additionally revealed that it’s placing collectively a particular program paying homage to 16mm movie, which celebrates its one hundredth anniversary this 12 months.

Different packages will embrace, Fabrications, investigating the distinction between actuality and realism, and one other deal with how filmmakers and documentary makers encourage and affect each other.