The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) selected Kamar Ahmad Simon’s ‘Anyadin…’ (Day after…) for its 2021 international competition.
The announcement came from the Artistic Director Orwa Nyrabia at a live press conference held in Amsterdam at 5pm Bangladesh Time.
IDFA is a globally renowned international film festival that showcases the recently released non-fiction films. The 12-day long festival screens more than three hundred films for a vast audience.
Kamar Ahmad Simon's 'Day after...' will have its world premiere in IDFA’s International Competition section at the Tuschinski Theater, on Sunday, November 20 at 9 pm.
"Anyadin," a hybrid of the fiction-non-fiction genre, is one of the 14 films from 21 countries including France, Russia, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Argentina and Portugal, which will compete for the prestigious award for best non-fiction feature film.
Kamar’s latest film, which is the second installment to his “Water Trilogy,” will compete alongside the films by Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa, Portugal’s Susana de Sousa Dias, Russia’s Aliona van der Horst and others.
Earlier in 2016, Kamar received the top honour at Open Doors Hub in Locarno for the script of ‘Day after…’ and was featured as the Red Carpet Director on the Piazza Grande, Locarno’s 8,000 seat open-air theater. The film also won the ARTE international prize at the same festival.
The director said, “Though not many of us may not have heard of IDFA in Dhaka, but it is one of the largest international film festivals, and this was my first ever submission! What else I could expect from a film! I feel it's a crucial moment for Asian filmmakers who are trying to narrate a story in their own language and style.”
The winners will be announced at a gala event on October 25 at the famous Eye Film Museum in Amsterdam.
The city of Amsterdam prepares for one of the world's biggest film festivals, IDFA, every year from November 17 to 28.