This week, IDFA, the world’s largest documentary film festival, and WePresent, WeTransfer’s online publication that aims at celebrating “the weird and wonderful ways that creative minds work, and how they shape the world around us,” have announced the launch of IDFAxWePresent, a special selection of films whose protagonists use their creativity to make an impact on the world, all in eclectic and captivating ways. IDFAxWePresent includes seven non-fiction films from Europe, Asia and the USA. Three of these titles are shorts, four are features.

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The first film is Haibo Yu and Kiki Tianqi Yu’s Chinese-Dutch feature China’s Van Goghs (2016), an intimate portrait of a peasant turned oil painter transitioning from making copies of iconic Western paintings to creating his own authentic works of art. The second title is Jan Rothuizen and Sara Kolster’s Dutch 360 degree short Drawing Room (2015), inspired by the tower room on the roof of the De Bijenkorf department store in Amsterdam.

Next, Nitesh Anjaan’s Dreaming Murakami [+lee también:
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Marta Prus’ feature Over the Limit [+lee también:
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