heady during a Saturday IDFA Dialogue talk featuring the fest’s artistic director, Orwa Nyrabia,

Raul Niño Zambrano created IDFA’s Queer Day – a program of screenings, panel discussions, and

left IDFA in January to serve as head of film programs at Sheffield DocFest, Nyrabia

fan of the program’s title, this year’s IDFA’s Queer Day is called

Yes) approaches film not for its story lines, but for its potential to be a

like the title (‘Queer Day’) because of the categorical of it,” van Saarloos said

through the categorical we now know which themes we are going to engage with

ways I’m more interested in queer as a contagious push or pull or movement

of containing queer in the Queer Day, (I wanted it) to be present in different

Saarloos’s “Not Yet Yes” essay, which appeared in IDFA’s “Notes on a Festival”