Documentary filmmakers and industry leaders gathered at this year’s International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam to discuss “independence and resistance in times of repressive populism” at the festival’s yearly Europe Conference in partnership with French public broadcaster Arte. IDFA’s artistic director Orwa Nyrabia introduced the conference by highlighting the “rising success” of populist movements in Europe and across the world and how they recognise filmmakers “as their enemy.”
“They very quickly realize that culture is not their friend and that documentary people are their main enemy because we tend to criticize immediately. They should not have the power to stop us,” he said.
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