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Open your eyes, watch and reflect, engage in conversation. Opening IDFA 2019 showcases the sublime extremes of documentary.

The 32nd edition of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam opened last night in Theater Carré with the screening of Sunless Shadows. This penetrating documentary by Mehrdad Oskouei takes you to a place you would rather not be at first glance. A small juvenile prison in Iran, where young women are locked up for complicity in the murder of their father or another male relative.

Straight in-camera outpourings of those women, so...

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Leo Bankersen

Leo Bankersen has been writing about film since Chinatown and Night of the Living Dead. Reviewed as a freelance film journalist for the GPD for a long time. Is now, among other things, one of the regular contributors to De Filmkrant. Likes to break a lance for children's films, documentaries and films from non-Western countries. Other specialities: digital issues and film education.View Author posts

The 32nd edition of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam opened last night in Theater Carré with the screening of Sunless Shadows. This penetrating documentary by Mehrdad Oskouei takes you to a place you would rather not be at first glance. A small juvenile prison in Iran, where young women are locked up for complicity in the murder of their father or another male relative.

Straight in-camera outpourings of those women, so...

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