- Independent film festival to showcase filmmakers in online event and physical events
- April 11th-12th Indy Film Library will host international streaming event
- April 13th will see IFL return to Amsterdam’s Filmhuis Cavia with physical event
Indy Film Library (IFL) will be hosting its fifth annual awards festival, starting on the 11th of April 2024. As with the previous two events, screenings will take place digitally and in cinemas.
Jack Benjamin, Chief Editor of Indy Film Library, commented, “Our hybrid events have been an important part of Indy Film Library for years now. While it has been great to return to cinemas in London and Amsterdam in the time since lockdown, introducing international audiences to the films we review is also a core part of our plans. That’s why our digital theatre will return for our 2024 programme – to help us show some fantastic films on both the big and small screens this April!”
As was the case for the last two years, IFL will be showing a special showcase of Benelux-based artists in its Amsterdam cinema event. But in order to help a diverse range of artists publicise their work, films from further afield will be shown online.
Taking place each evening on the 11th and 12th of April, an expanded programme of top cinematic talent will be screened via IFL’s online theatre platform. Films selected include Greek experimental short film Blue Coast, US social-commentary drama Moon Students, and Danish historical documentary The Captain’s Heart.
The digital programme can be found here. Meanwhile, tickets for each event can be purchased via FilmFreeway.
Following that, IFL is also offering the chance to see films at a physical screening. On the 13th of April, Amsterdam arthouse venue Filmhuis Cavia will host a half-day event, showcasing the finest films from the Netherlands that IFL has received in its 2023-24 season.
Among the movies featured, cinema lovers will have a chance to witness breath-taking experimental, documentary and narrative films. These include Lavinia Xausa’s pulsating football fandom documentary So Loud the Sky Can Hear Us, Melle Posthuma de Boer and Ramses van Hall’s acerbic family satire Johnny, and Victoria Warmerdam’s existential sci-fi Ik ben geen robot.
The full programme for that event is available here, while tickets can also be purchased via FilmFreeway.
While a full programme and running order of films is available on the IFL website, the productions featuring at the event are spread across nominations for six categories:
Short Documentary
Drauff!
Para Esteban
So Loud the Sky Can Hear Us
Unite for Bissau
Short Narrative
Always Summer
Doe Eens Mens
Eighteen
Flash/Crash
Hirofumi’s Suitcase
Ik ben geen robot
Johnny
LOST
Secret Santa
Shall We Dance
The Metamorphosis
Feature Documentary
Dinoman
The Captain’s Heart
The Model Maker: Constant Willems
Feature Narrative
Experimental
Blue Coast
Das Kulturgespräch im Radio
Laaggedij
Waar Thuis Was
Music Video