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Guest of Honor
This year's Guest of Honour: Wang Bing
Every year, IDFA invites a Guest of Honor to the festival. These are people who have left an important mark in the world of documentary film. They are invited to share their own personal Top 10 documentary films as well as a retroperspective of their own work. Previous Guests of Honor have included (Oscar winner) Laura Poitras, Artavazd Peleshyan, Gianfranco Rosi and Patricio Guzmán. This year's Guest of Honor is Wang Bing. Bing is an uncompromising voice of present-day Chinese filmmaking and IDFA is honored to have him as part of our program this year. Below, you can see some of the selections made by him for this years festival.
Film series by these 'master-filmmakers' have great potential to be presented together with a partner, such as Cartier. Together, we can present a stunning film selection by an extraordinary filmmaker during multiple screenings in Amsterdam.
Wang Bing's Top 10: Last Train Home
China, Canada - 2009 - Lixin Fan - 86 min.
Keeping the family together is the hardest work for the workers in the factories of the new China, who see their children only at New Year. While the parents long for their village, the children, on the contrary, dream of the city.
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Wang Bing's Retrospective: Youth (Spring)
Wang Bing - France, Luxemburg, Netherlands - 2023 - 212 min.
In this monumental documentary, Wang Bing observes the daily lives of several young Chinese textile workers who celebrate their youth and try to build a future among rattling sewing machines and cluttered dormitories.
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Gues of Honor Talk: Wang Bing
This year's Guest of Honor at IDFA, renowned and celebrated filmmaker Wang Bing, will give an extended Talk led by IDFA's artistic director, Orwa Nyrabia. This talk will take place in Pathé Tuschinski on November 10th.
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