IDFA , the world’s largest documentary film festival, wrapped in Amsterdam over the weekend after presenting a program of more than 250 films, many of them world and international premieres.

The 38th edition of IDFA marked the debut of Isabel Arrate Fernandez as artistic director, a position she assumed in July after the resignation of Orwa Nyrabia, who had led the festival for the previous seven years. This year’s festival attracted some of the greatest talents in documentary including Gianfranco Rosi, Raoul Peck, Laura Poitras, Tia Lessin, Carl Deal, Susana de Sousa Dias, Mstyslav Chernov, Victor Kossakovsky, Stanley Nelson, David France and many others. But the event didn’t pass without controversy .

On the new edition of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast, Arrate Fernandez addresse

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