The film examines how a mother keeps herself and her family going even though everything around her is an almost unbearable chaos with a daugther seriously ill of cancer. How she tries to displace the brutal realities, because she so much wants to live a normal life with her three girls.
The mother wants to distribute her love and care equally among her girls, but suffers from living in a constant state of emergency. He sets out to discover if, and how, it is possible to physically change the brain using only the power of thought. Sales and distribution DR IS. Poster design by Anders Ladegaard freethemindthemovie. Within one year, Neil Platt becomes paralysed from the neck down.
As his body fails, he tries to make sense of his life in order to communicate who he is in a letter to his one year old son. The challenge of this small blank white sheet of paper is a lot like the challenge of the large blank white cinema screens we have to fill with films each year.
But what should I write now? How does one do justice to the story of how a little event born so long ago grew into the largest documentary festival in the world? To the 50, professionals who have come and gone and come back again? To the 10, staff members, volunteers and sponsors who have kept IDFA afloat for a quarter of a century?
To the over 1. As for myself, I will try to pack 25 years of experience into a few paragraphs of reflection for this Foreword. A group of dedicated women — Adriek, Willemien, Miryam, Annelot and myself — along with some very dedicated guys and a few believing sponsors put that first edition together.
