From leadership training with horses to learning emotional growth with pigs, the self-improvement industry is coolly scrutinised in this enigmatic documentary
Menna Laura Meijer’s documentary is an intriguing, if distinctly refrigerated, look at the various ways in which people in the Netherlands are coached in personal growth and mindfulness. The movie is a series of tableaux, with the various study sessions and encounter groups shot from a distance in a fixed camera position, very rarely cutting to a closeup. The movie washes every scene with an invigoratingly cold, clear light and there is an elegant visual and compositional sense in every frame.
We see quarterlife crisis coaching and leadership training with horses; people learn emotional focus and centredness by lying down in a barnyard stroking some very clean-looking pigs. Cops learn not to react to provocation through role-playing. People learn how to take ownership of their emotions so their...
Menna Laura Meijer’s documentary is an intriguing, if distinctly refrigerated, look at the various ways in which people in the Netherlands are coached in personal growth and mindfulness. The movie is a series of tableaux, with the various study sessions and encounter groups shot from a distance in a fixed camera position, very rarely cutting to a closeup. The movie washes every scene with an invigoratingly cold, clear light and there is an elegant visual and compositional sense in every frame.
We see quarterlife crisis coaching and leadership training with horses; people learn emotional focus and centredness by lying down in a barnyard stroking some very clean-looking pigs. Cops learn not to react to provocation through role-playing. People learn how to take ownership of their emotions so their...
- 12/26/2022
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Dutch-Iranian director’s documentary is the opening film of IDFA.
“What do you like in Amsterdam?,” a little girl called Sophia recently arrived in the Netherlands, is asked at the start of Niki Padidar’s All You See. “Nothing,” she replies.
A Somalian woman who has been in the Netherlands for “25 ‘frickin’ years” (as she puts it) talks about the questions she is always asked. “Where is she from?” is one. The locals struggle to accept her as Dutch. “Are you used to the cold?” is another
“I recognise things in what they say or who they are,” says Padidar,...
“What do you like in Amsterdam?,” a little girl called Sophia recently arrived in the Netherlands, is asked at the start of Niki Padidar’s All You See. “Nothing,” she replies.
A Somalian woman who has been in the Netherlands for “25 ‘frickin’ years” (as she puts it) talks about the questions she is always asked. “Where is she from?” is one. The locals struggle to accept her as Dutch. “Are you used to the cold?” is another
“I recognise things in what they say or who they are,” says Padidar,...
- 11/9/2022
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Opening this year’s International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), “All You See” explores what it feels like to no longer be seen, but stared at. Told through four parallel stories of immigrants in the Netherlands, the film investigates what it feels like to be a foreigner in the country. It is a deeply personal project for director Niki Padidar, who makes her feature debut after taking home the IDFA Best Children’s Documentary Award for her short film “Ninoc” in 2015.
Nominated for the IDFA Award for Best Dutch Film and the IDFA Award for Best First Feature, “All You See” is produced by director Menna Laura Meijer. English musician Fink pens both the film’s score and original song, “Beforever Like a Curse.”
Padidar sat down with Variety ahead of the film’s world premiere to discuss cinema’s approach to diaspora, collaborative working and how she feels about...
Nominated for the IDFA Award for Best Dutch Film and the IDFA Award for Best First Feature, “All You See” is produced by director Menna Laura Meijer. English musician Fink pens both the film’s score and original song, “Beforever Like a Curse.”
Padidar sat down with Variety ahead of the film’s world premiere to discuss cinema’s approach to diaspora, collaborative working and how she feels about...
- 11/9/2022
- by Rafa Sales Ross
- Variety Film + TV
The nominations in the various competition sections have been announced at the documentary festival.
Idfa (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) has announced the nominees for its 26th edition. Winners will be named on Friday evening in Amsterdam.
The jury of the Idfa Competition for First Appearance will also present an extra Award in memory of Peter Wintonick, who died earlier this month.
The BankGiro Loterij Idfa Audience Award, worth €5,000, and the Idfa Music Audience Award, worth €2,500, will then also be presented.
In addition, the Mediafonds Kids & Docs Award 2013, which consists of € 15,000 with which to develop a new youth documentary, will be presented by a youth jury.
Idfa Competition for Feature-Length Documentary (€12,500)
Ai Weiwei The Fake Case by Andreas Johnson (Denmark);Ne Me Quitte Pas by Sabine Lubbe Bakker and Niels van Koevorden (the Netherlands / Belgium);Song from the Forest by Michael Obert (Germany).
Idfa Competition for Mid-Length Documentary (€10,000)
Kismet by Nina Maria Paschalidou (Greece / Cyprus);Pussy Versus...
Idfa (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) has announced the nominees for its 26th edition. Winners will be named on Friday evening in Amsterdam.
The jury of the Idfa Competition for First Appearance will also present an extra Award in memory of Peter Wintonick, who died earlier this month.
The BankGiro Loterij Idfa Audience Award, worth €5,000, and the Idfa Music Audience Award, worth €2,500, will then also be presented.
In addition, the Mediafonds Kids & Docs Award 2013, which consists of € 15,000 with which to develop a new youth documentary, will be presented by a youth jury.
Idfa Competition for Feature-Length Documentary (€12,500)
Ai Weiwei The Fake Case by Andreas Johnson (Denmark);Ne Me Quitte Pas by Sabine Lubbe Bakker and Niels van Koevorden (the Netherlands / Belgium);Song from the Forest by Michael Obert (Germany).
Idfa Competition for Mid-Length Documentary (€10,000)
Kismet by Nina Maria Paschalidou (Greece / Cyprus);Pussy Versus...
- 11/27/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Though not exactly a true crime film Hanro Smitsman's Schemer should strike a chord with anyone familiar with the case of young Maja Bradaric's murder. A sixteen year old girl killed by her high school friends, Bradaric's story has already been given the documentary treatment with Menna Laura Meijer's Sweety and now Smitsman is using the case as the basis for his fictional Schemer.
The haunting search to discover why fifteen-year old Jessie was murdered by her closest friends.
After a group of teenagers discover one of their friends lying dead on a river bank on one of the hottest days of summer, a story of jealousy, insecurity and peer pressure gradually unfolds. Group leader Caesar is able to magnify - out of all proportion - the small grievances that each of Jessie's friends bear towards her and transforms them into a general and pervasive hatred that leads ultimately to her horrible,...
The haunting search to discover why fifteen-year old Jessie was murdered by her closest friends.
After a group of teenagers discover one of their friends lying dead on a river bank on one of the hottest days of summer, a story of jealousy, insecurity and peer pressure gradually unfolds. Group leader Caesar is able to magnify - out of all proportion - the small grievances that each of Jessie's friends bear towards her and transforms them into a general and pervasive hatred that leads ultimately to her horrible,...
- 6/21/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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