International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA)

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

IDFA

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Best of Fests

2073Agent of HappinessSoul of the DesertAm I the Skinniest Person You’ve Ever Seen?The Battle for LaikipiaBlack Box DiariesBlack ButterfliesThe Fabulous Gold Harvesting MachineA Family50 films

Dead Angle: Borders

The Battle for LaikipiaThe Diary of a SkyIn the OpenEl Mar La MarMuttsRespiteBlack HarvestBloodlineThe Great Wall17 films

Envision Competition

Bestiaries, Herbaria, LapidariesHigher than Acidic CloudsLoss AdjustmentChronicles of the AbsurdCycleMaheshThe Fen-fireA Frown Gone MadGaranti 100% KréolHuaquero12 films

Frontlight

The White House EffectThe 1957 TranscriptsThe BanBlowing in the WindThe Building and Burning of a Refugee CampEyes of GazaMissing Rio DoceOn the BorderThe Shadow Scholars13 films

IDFA Competition for Short Documentary

Archipelago of Earthen Bones - To BunyaBloodlineCohabitantsEchoes WithinEntretierraThe Flowers Stand Silently, WitnessingHow to Suture the Soil?IronLanawaru16 films

IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling

AncestorsBurn from AbsenceDriftEntropic Fields of DisplacementFuture BotanicaGoogle Volume 2Oryza: Healing GroundSena, and Their GardenSincerely, Victor Pike11 films

IDFA DocLab Competition for Immersive Non-Fiction

Ancestral Secret VRDOLLHOUSE for Queer ImaginariesDrinking Brecht: An Automated Laboratory PerformanceLimbophobiaThe LiminalMe, a DepictionRAPTURE II – PortalROAManceSpeechless Witness of a Wandering Tree10 films

IDFA Competition for Youth Documentary

Hard to BreakMy HomelandCrushedThe Daughter of Both WomenThe Flower by the RoadSimply DivineWith GraceEverything Will Be AlrightHey Dad13 films

IDFA DocLab Program & Competition

Bad TripFragile HomeLimbophobiaMe, a DepictionSincerely, Victor PikeSpeechless Witness of a Wandering TreeThanks for Being HereAI & MeAll I Know About Teacher Li27 films

IDFA DocLab Spotlight

IDFA Junior

International Competition

Light MemoriesShe Dances by the SeaA Want in HerAbout a HeroThe GuestHome GameWriting HawaAn American PastoralThe Golden Age11 films

Luminous

At All KostsMake It Look RealThe Last ExpeditionNeshomaSilent ObserversAbo Zaabal 89Edhi & AliceThe JacketLift Lady23 films

Paradocs

Being John SmithRevolving Rounds7 Walks with Mark BrownThe Diary of a SkyMachine BoysMan Number 4Like the Glitch of a GhostMisty ManWhen the Body Says Yes10 films

Retrospective: Johan Grimonprez

Blue OrchidsSoundtrack to a Coup D'etatWhat I WillRaymond Tallis | on ticklingdial H-I-S-T-O-R-Yevery day words disappear | Michael Hardt on the Politics of LoveShadow WorldTwo Travellers to a RiverDouble Take10 films

Signed

The Landscape and the FuryOnce Upon a Time in a ForestArchitectonAt Averroes & Rosa ParksBoganclochThe Cats of Gokogu ShrineDahomeyDirect ActionEight Postcards From Utopia29 films

Special Screenings

Spotlight on Cuba

The EnemyThe Wolf KidsTraces of the InscribedThe FarewellThe TreeABC'sLa BonitaThe Sugar Workers’ QuartersOne Way or Another19 films

IDFA on Stage

Top 10

Theremin: An Electronic OdysseyAlternative 3Best of Enemies: Buckley vs. VidalClose-upOff Frame aka Revolution Until VictoryRed Army/PFLP: Declaration of World WarSpace Is the PlaceSpiritual VoicesStarfilm10 films