The Iranian film A Fox Under a Pink Moon by Mehrdad Oskouei has won the Award for Best Film in the International Competition at the 38th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA).
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA)
Since its launch in 1988, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) has been one of the world’s leading documentary film festivals, dedicated to the exhibition and promotion of ground-breaking creative documentaries.
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) started in 1988 and takes place in Amsterdam, Netherlands
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‘A Fox Under a Pink Moon’ Takes Top Prize at 38th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA)
A Fox Under a Pink Moon by Mehrdad Oskouei (IDFA)
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38th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) Unveils Competition Lineups
As I Lay Dying by Mohammadreza Farzad, Pegah Ahangarani, Intersecting Memory by Shayma’ Awawdeh, and happiness by Firat Yücel. (courtesy IDFA) The 38th edition of International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) taking place in Amsterdam from November 13 to 23, 2025 unveiled the main competition lineups.
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Maciej J. Drygas’ ‘Trains’ Wins Best Film at 37th IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) | Complete list of Winners
(Photo credit Roger Cremers) The Polish film Trains by Maciej J. Drygas won the Award for Best Film and Best Editing in the International Competition at the 37th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). The found footage documentary created a collective portrait of people in 20th century Europe, capturing their hopes, desires, dramas, and tragedies.
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37th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) Unveils Main Competition Lineup, Opens with Piotr Winiewicz’s ‘About a Hero’
About a Hero by Piotr Winiewicz (courtesy IDFA) Celebrating its 37th edition, the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) held in Amsterdam from November 14-24, 2024, revealed the main competition lineup.
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Ukrainian Doc ‘A Picture to Remember’ to Open 36th IDFA Intl Documentary Film Fest Amsterdam
A Picture to Remember by Olga Chernykh The world premiere of A Picture to Remember by Olga Chernykh will open the upcoming 36th edition of International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) taking place in Amsterdam from November 8 to 19, 2023.
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IDFA Awards – Apolonia, Apolonia Wins Best Film in International Competition
Award winners of 35th IDFA competition. [IDFA/Coen Dijkstra] Apolonia, Apolonia by Lea Glob is the winner of the IDFA Award for Best Film and the €15,000 cash prize in the International Competition at the 35th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). Spanning 13 years, the film is a fascinating portrait of a young woman trying to find her place in the art world. “This film has characters who breathe life and take us on a journey, opening us up to the worlds of culture and art, of business and politics, of the mechanics of a success story. It is infused with love. The Award for Best Film goes to Lea Glob for her film Apolonia, Apolonia,” the jury reported.
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IDFA 2022 to Open with Niki Padidar’s ALL YOU SEE, Announces Main Competition Lineup
All You See by Niki Padidar International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2022 will open with the world premiere of All You See by Niki Padidar. Padidar’s multi-layered feature powerfully foregrounds the sensation of being looked at. Honest, painful, and even humorous encounters with three other immigrants to the Netherlands are stylistically interwoven between Padidar’s own personal history, opening up a vulnerable space of articulation with global resonance. A confessional collage with no simple outs, All You See turns the spotlight on all of us, while simultaneously asking: who is “us”?
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IDFA 2022 Unveils Film Selections for Luminous, Frontlight, IDFA on Stage, and Paradocs Programs
Kenya directed by Gisela Delgadillo The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2022 unveiled the selections for Luminous and Frontlight, two premiere-only cornerstones of the program, in addition to the lineups for live cinema section IDFA on Stage and experimental section Paradocs. The 35th edition of IDFA takes place in person from November 9 to 20, 2022.
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IDFA 2022 Announces Masters and Best of Fests + Premiere of Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi’s Personality Crisis: One Night Only
Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi’s Personality Crisis: One Night Only The 35th edition of International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) running from November 9 to 20 in Amsterdam announced its first competition lineups: the IDFA Competition for Short Documentary and the IDFA Competition for Youth Documentary, in addition to the Masters and Best of Fests selections.
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Laura Poitras is Guest of Honor at IDFA with Retrospective and Top 10 Programs
Laura Poitras (Credit – Jan Stürmann) Academy Award-winning director Laura Poitras will be honored with the Retrospective and Top 10 programs at the 35th edition of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam taking place in person from November 9 to 20, 2022. The festival will host two curated focus programs, Around Masculinity and Playing Reality, in addition to the IDFA DocLab theme of Nervous Systems – IDFA’s new media section of in-person digital and XR programming.
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‘Mr. Landsbergis’ and ‘Octopus’ Win Top IDFA 2021 Prizes
Winners of the 34th International Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). Credit: Coen Dijkstra Mr. Landsbergis (Lithuania, Netherlands) by Sergei Loznitsa won the IDFA Award for Best Film in the International Competition at the 34th edition of International Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). In the documentary, Lithuanian politician Vytautas Landsbergis looks back on his country’s independence struggle in this captivating masterclass on the collapse of the Soviet Union by the great chronicler Sergei Loznitsa.
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Louis Hothothot’s Personal Documentary ‘Four Journeys’ to Open 2021 IDFA Slate of 264 Documentary Films
Four Journeys directed by Louis Hothothot Four Journeys, the lyrical and intensely personal debut feature by Louis Hothothot (Louis Yi Liu) will open the 34th edition of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). A first-person narrative of a filmmaker born in China in 1986 as an “illegal” second child, Louis and his family suffered devastating consequences at the hands of the authorities, with painful reverberations still felt to this day. After relocating to Amsterdam in his twenties, the filmmaker returns home to reunite with his parents and sister after a five-year hiatus, where he attempts to disentangle his densely knotted family history. Unfolding as a soft and sorrowful stream of memories, absences, and lingering shadows, Four Journeys premieres at IDFA bearing the mark of a new documentary poetics to come—one laden with wonder, nuance, and spirit.