Geoffrey MaCnab

After the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia in February 2022, many Ukrainian refugees arrived in Amsterdam.

When Lidija Zelovic was growing up in Sarajevo, she decided at one stage to become a vegetarian. This was a radical decision for someone living in the Balkans where everyone eats meat all the time.

Egyptian filmmaker Bassam Mortada was still a young boy when his father Mahmoud was taken away to Cairo's notorious and brutal Abo Zaabal jail in the late 1980s.

Screen profiles a selection of key titles available across IDFA.

UK sales outfit Journeyman Pictures has added Amy Hardie's feature documentary Love & Trouble t o its IDFA slate.

International festival heads came together at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) to debate their role at a time of increasing political pressures over the films they select.

European group Mediawan is increasingly making waves in the documentary sphere through its sales division Mediawan Rights, which has has its own boutique operation handling upscale auteur-driven docs.

Best rough cut was awarded to Do You Love Me, an archive-based movie about Beirut.

When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, artist and filmmaker Alina Maksimenko was living in a new apartment in Irpin.

David Fincher’s disturbing crime drama is about to turn 30. Geoffrey Macnab looks at the making of an unlikely modern classic