Overview
- Mehrdad Oskouei’s A Fox Under a Pink Moon and Morteza Ahmadvand and Firouzeh Khosrovani’s Past Future Continuous won €15,000 Best Film awards in the International and Envision competitions.
- The NPO Doc Audience Award will be announced Friday, with the festival continuing in Amsterdam through Sunday.
- Dawood Hilmandi’s Paikar earned Best First Feature, which includes €5,000, and also received the FIPRESCI critics’ award.
- Jury citations highlighted reclamation of identity in exile and an inventive use of home and security-camera footage to probe diaspora, surveillance and memory.
- IDFA published outcomes from a symposium on protests and debate as new artistic director Isabel Arrate Fernandez oversaw a lineup confronting Gaza and Ukraine, mistrust of media and the rise of AI.