DREAMING ARIZONA

'DREAMING ARIZONA' & 'A HOUSE MADE OF SPLINTERS' SCREENING AT IDFA 2022 /  by Maria Kristensen

At this year’s IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) we are proud and happy to have two of our latest films screening.

Jon Bang Carlsen’s Dreaming Arizona is selected for the Main Competition where it will be having its World Premiere. The film has the following screening times:

13 Nov 09:00 - 10:19 - Pathé City 1 press & Industry​ only​
13 Nov 18:30 - 20:01 - Munt 12 official world premiere, film team present​
14 Nov 15:15 - 16:51 - Tuschinski 6 Q&A with the director​
17 Nov 15:45 - 17:21 - Tuschinski 5
19 Nov 10:00 - 11:19 - Munt 13

Simon Lereng Wilmon’s A House Made of Splinters is screening in the Best of Fests section, and has the following screening times:

11 Nov 20:30 - 22:17​ - Munt 11 Q&A after the screening
12 Nov 21:30 - 23:17​ - Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal Q&A after the screening
17 Nov 14:45 - 16:15​ - Ketelhuis: Zaal 1
18 Nov 18:30 - 20:00​ - DeLaMar: Wim Sonneveld Zaal

For the screenings of A House Made of Splinters we are teaming up with ShareDoc, a new platform that enables audiences to donate directly to the participants of documentary films.

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'DREAMING ARIZONA' WORLD PREMIERE AT IDFA /  by Maria Kristensen

Festival news: We are so proud to announce that ‘Dreaming Arizona’ by Jon Bang Carlsen will have its world premiere at IDFA, where it has been selected for the main competition!

‘Dreaming Arizona’ takes place in a small town called Winslow. At the town’s high school, we meet five teenagers, each with their own dream of the future. Like all teenagers around the world, they are in a transition where they have to shape their own lives, find a way out of childhood and create a new identity as adults. Their desire for freedom is strong, and there are consequences when parents, society or their own conscience restrict it. Film director, Jon Bang Carlsen, examines the teenagers’ basic need to stage their own lives as the documentary imperceptibly seeps into fiction. Together with the main characters, the director has created some imaginary life paths and thereby our teenagers comment on their own situation, the audiences’ anticipations and the director's vision.

The film is produced by Heidi Elise Christensen and Signe Byrge Sørensen.

Click here to see the full festival program.