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The professional programme includes IDFA Forum, a co-production and financing market for projects in development, and Docs for Sale, where completed documentaries and series connect with buyers, distributors and festival programmers. The 39th edition runs from 12–22 November 2026. Its Common Ground focus programme explores community, shared spaces and collective resistance through documentary films and discussions.",false,[16,19],{"year":17,"hasAwards":18,"hasSelection":18},"2025",true,{"year":20,"hasAwards":18,"hasSelection":18},"2024",[22],"Amsterdam hosted the 38th IDFA from November 13 to 23, 2025, with Portuguese filmmaker Susana de Sousa Dias as Guest of Honor. The awards ceremony at Eye Filmmuseum on November 20 brought two very different visions of documentary cinema into the spotlight: Mehrdad Oskouei’s A Fox Under a Pink Moon won the International Competition, while Morteza Ahmadvand and Firouzeh Khosrovani’s Past Future Continuous took the top Envision prize. The international jury brought together Eric Hynes, Isabelle Glachant, Maya Daisy Hawke, Michel K. Zongo and Myriam Sassine.\n\nDawood Hilmandi’s Paikar collected the Best First Feature and FIPRESCI awards, alongside a special mention in the Dutch competition. Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni’s Cutting Through Rocks was the audience favourite, winning the NPO Doc Audience Award. The DocLab Immersive Non-Fiction Award went to Claudix Vanesix’s Feedback VR, an anti-futurist musical, with a special mention for Khalil Ashawi and Hadeel Arja’s Under the Same Sky. 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