All IDFA articles
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Reviews‘Tehachapi’: IDFA Review
French artist JR mounts a large-scale project at the maximum security California Correctional Centre
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News‘20 Days In Mariupol’ scoops IDFA audience award
Mstyslav Chernov’s unflinching account of the early days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine wins the public vote at the documentary festival
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Reviews‘1489’: IDFA Review
IDFA winner from Armenia is an intensely personal portrait of a family coping with the loss of a brother and son in the 2020 Artsakh war
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NewsIDFA head Orwa Nyrabia to organise symposium to help festivals navigate turbulent political times
The documentary festival has experienced protests, open letters and film withdrawals this week.
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Features“We screen 440 hours of new content a year:” How Al Jazeera is becoming a major documentary player
“We are a bridge between filmmakers to the north and to the south.”
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Reviews‘Life Is Beautiful’: IDFA Review
Palestinian filmmaker Mohamed Jabaly documents his fight to return to Gaza
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News‘1489’ leads 2023 IDFA winners
Documentary chronicles the Armenian director’s search for her missing soldier brother.
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NewsPalestinian doc ‘Son Of Streets’ wins best pitch at IDFA Forum
Mohammed Almughanni’s film about a boy coming of age in a Beirut refugee camp won the €1,500 cash prize.
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FeaturesJoe Houlberg Silva explains how his debut feature doc ‘Ozogoche’ took flight
’Ozogoche’, a world premiere at IDFA, is about a species of sandpiper bird and the community who live around their lake.
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News“We made this film to be shown,” says Palestinian director of IDFA competition title ‘Life Is Beautiful’
“Standing here and talking about my film is the only way I can feel I am doing something,” said Mohamed Jabaly.
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NewsPeriscoop swoops on five docs at IDFA for the Netherlands
Periscoop is run by San Fu Maltha and Bruno Felix.
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Reviews‘Hiding Saddam Hussein’: IDFA Review
Iraqi farmer Alaa Namiq explains how and why he hid Saddam Hussein from US forces in 2003
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NewsPeter Greenaway talks ‘Lucca Mortis’ starring Dustin Hoffman, living in the Netherlands and his eccentric concerns
Greenaway is being honoured at this week’s IDFA festival in Amsterdam.
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Reviews‘The World Is Family’: IDFA Review
Veteran documentarian Anand Patwardhan turns the camera on his own parents to reflect on India’s turbulent history
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NewsNeon distribution head Elissa Federoff delivers upbeat doc forecast in IDFA keynote
“We have seen titles doing the best they’ve ever done before in this ‘unhealthy’ marketplace.”
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Reviews‘As The Tide Comes In’: IDFA Review
Residents on the tiny Danish island of Mando confront the realities of climate change in this immersive documentary
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Reviews‘The Last’: IDFA Review
Paraguayan filmmaker Sebastian Pena Escobar takes a personal trip to the country’s threatened forests
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NewsPalestine Film Institute welcomes latest statement from IDFA
Festival statement followed a PFI statement lambasting IDFA’s earlier statement.
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Reviews‘Selling A Colonial War’: IDFA Review
An examination of Dutch attempts to reframe the Indonesian War Of Independence
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NewsUS ‘Billy Elliot’-style doc ‘Call Me Dancer’ sells to Toei for Japan for First Hand Films (exclusive)
First Hand Films is at IDFA with a busy slate including portmanteau project ’The Ten Commandments’.