All IDFA articles
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Reviews‘Mailin’ review: Lyrical Argentinian doc explores the nature of memory in the aftermath of abuse
Maria Silvia Esteve’s visceral second feature makes its bow in IDFA competition
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FeaturesDocumentary sellers and distributors at IDFA call for new ways to engage audiences
Maria Vera of Kino Rebelde and Martina Droandi of Odd Slice Films are energised by doing things differently.
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Reviews‘Past Future Continuous’ review: IDFA Envision winner is poignant, formally daring family portrait
Directors Firouzeh Khosrovani and Morteza Ahmadvand explore the link between a US-based woman and her parents in Tehran
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News‘A Fox Under A Pink Moon’ wins best international film at IDFA 2025
Iranian directors win the top two best film awards at IDFA 2025.
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Features"We enable filmmakers to tell creative stories on their own terms,” says IDFA Bertha Fund’s Selin Murat
Selin Murat, former IDFA markets manager, took over the IDFA Bertha Fund earlier this year.
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News‘All Fixed Up’, ‘Four Comrades, One Echo’ and ‘The Cord’ lead IDFA Forum winners
Projects win key prizes at IDFA’s international co-production and co-financing market for documentaries.
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FeaturesWhy Victor Kossakovsky wants ‘Trillion’, about a woman throwing tiny objects into the sea, to only be seen in cinemas
”Documentary as a form of art will exist only when we respect image, not story,” he says.
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Reviews‘A Fox Under A Pink Moon’ review: Strong Afghan migrant doc blends phone footage and animation
Iranian filmmaker Mehrdad Oskouei’s IDFA competition title follows a young Afghan artist attempting to journey to Europe
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NewsProducers should unlearn old bad habits to make collaborations fairer, say IDFA filmmakers
Directors from the Global South who work with European producers can often feel short-changed by the lack of budget transparency.
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NewsSusana de Sousa Dias reflects on the highs and lows of her archive-based documentary career
Exploring the political archives of Portugal’s dictatorship has taken its toll, she admits.
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FeaturesWhy IDFA DocLab 2025 is exploring the dark side of online technology
DocLab’s Caspar Sonnen explains why this year’s theme is “logging off”.
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NewsPluto Film boards Covid-19 vaccine doc ‘The Man Who Healed The World’
EXCLUSIVE: The film is the story of the accidental discovery of the vaccine technology by doctoral student Ingmar Hoerr.
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Reviews‘Silent Flood’ review: Lyrical portrait of a religious community in Ukraine is new angle on conflict
Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk’s thoughtful docmentary plays IDFA competition
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NewsZahraa Gandour’s IDFA title ‘Flana’ picked up for sales in boost for Iraqi filmmaking
EXCLUSIVE: Ghandour was the first female Iraqi director to be selected for a major film festival following the TIFF selection of ‘Flana’.
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Reviews‘Amilcar’ review: Impressionistic study of Guinea-Bissau-born poet and revolutionary Amilcar Cabral
IDFA premiere uses archive footage and Cabral’s personal writings to paint a compelling portrait
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Reviews‘Gaza’s Twins, Come Back To Me’ review: Impassioned doc follows a family trying to reunite in Gaza
Mohammed Sawwaf’s emotional second feature premieres at IDFA
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Reviews‘Flood’ review: Impactful exploration of family and faith is exec produced by Laura Poitras
Debut director Katy Scoggin’s emotional study of her relationship with her fundamentalist father now plays IDFA
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Features“No one stands alone,” says IDFA’s industry head of the festival’s sense of community
Source: Courtesy of IDFA Adriek van Nieuwenhuyzen Ask Adriek van Nieuwenhuyzen, head of industry at International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), about the mood among professionals on the eve of this year’s industry programme (November 15-19) and she says there is some wariness but also ” incredible ...
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Reviews‘The Prince Of Nanawa’ review: Rich, rewarding doc follows a Paraguayan boy from adolescence to adulthood
Clarisa Navas’s fascinating feature plays IDFA following its Visions du Reel Grand Jury prize win
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FeaturesIDFA’s Isabel Arrate Fernandez talks about her first edition, opening with three short films and her first controversy
Arrate Fernandez explains the decision not to accredit members of Israeli state organisations.