Tatiana Huezo will be the guest of honour at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), taking place from November 12-22 in the Netherlands, which will also shine the spotlight on the late US filmmaker William Greaves.
Huezo first gained recognition for her 2011 documentary The Tiniest Place, about a Salvadoran village impacted by memories of the civil war, After making her fiction feature debut, Prayers For The Stolen (2021), about two girls growing up in the Mexican mountains under the threat of human trafficking, she went on to win the best documentary award at the Berlinale in 2023 for her IDFA Bertha fund - supported documentary feature The Echo about a childhood in a rural Mexican village.
IDFA will present a retrospective of Huezo’s work, alongside her personal top 10 film selection and will host a Q& A during the festival.
Greaves, who died in 2014, will also be honoured, with a retrospective of his work exploring Black history and culture and collective action.
It will include screenings of Once Upon a Time in Harlem, the documentary completed posthumously by his son David Greaves that captures a 1972 reunion of key Harlem Renaissance figures. Also screening are Greaves’ 1971 cult classic Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: TakeOne (1971) and The Fight [The William Greaves Director’s Cut] (1973) about the Joe Frazier- Muhammad Ali rivalry.
Dead Angle
The 2026 edition of the festival will see the conclusion of IDFA’s three-year programme, Dead Angle, which will this year explore the theme of Common Ground, showcasing documentaries about people coming together in times of crisis.
Confirmed titles include Shinsuke Ogawa’s 1968 film The Battle Front For The Liberation Of Japan – Summer In Sanrizuka, about farmers and students protesting over the expansion of Tokyo’s Narita Airport and Barbara Kopple’s Oscar-winning American Dream (1990) about a strike in a meat packing plant in Minnesota.
Also screening is Paweł Łoziński’s The Balcony Movie, which centres around a Warsaw sidewalk, José Luis Guerín’s 2001 title Work in Progress about the gentrification of a Barcelona neighbourhood and Felipe Bustos Sierra’s 2026 film Everybody to Kenmure Street, which follows Glasgow residents protesting the deportation of two of their neighbours.
Meanwhile, this year will see the 20th edition of IDFA DocLab, the festival’s digital platform celebrating immersive and interactive documentary art. It will also see the launch of a new consortium – Shared Realities – which aims to bring together artists, researchers and cultural organisations to investigate new ways of creating and sustaining immersive art.
The final competition titles and full selection will be announced on October 13.
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