IDFA - Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

37. Edition

when:	November 13^th - 24^th, 2024
address:	Vondelpark 3 1071 AA Amsterdam The Netherlands
tel:	+31(0)20 - 627 3329
email:	info@idfa.nl
website:	festival.idfa.nl/
deadline:	July 11^th, 2024
entry form:	Online submission

The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam offers an independent and inspiring meeting place for audiences and professionals to see a diverse and high-quality program. The diverse nature of the event applies to the form and content of the films as well as to the cultural backgrounds of the filmmakers. IDFA offers an alternative to mass entertainment and uniformity, confirming that there is an increasing need in audiences for high-quality films that delve deep and urge us to reflect. Since 2007, the festival's New Media program IDFA DocLab showcases the best interactive non-fiction storytelling and explores how the digital revolution is reshaping documentary art.
In addition to the festival, IDFA has developed several professional activities, contributing to the development of filmmakers and their films at all stages. At co-financing and co-production market IDFA Forum filmmakers and producers pitch their plans to financiers; at Docs for Sale new documentaries are on offer to programmers and distributors; the IDFA Bertha Fund supports filmmakers and documentary projects in developing countries; and the IDFAcademy offers a international training programs for up-and-coming doc talents.

participations

2024	Bestiari, erbari, lapidari by Massimo D’Anolfi, Martina Parenti: Envision Competition - Award for Best Directing The golden age by Camilla Iannetti: International Competition Personale by Carmen Trocker: Luminous Real by Adele Tulli: Best of Fests Things that happen on Earth by Michele Cinque: Luminous Valentina and the MUOSters by Francesca Scalisi: Best of Fests
2023	Amor by Virginia Eleuteri Serpieri: Luminous L'expérience Zola by Gianluca Matarrese: Luminous The trial by Ulises de La Orden: Best of Fests
2022	The adventures of Gigi the Law by Alessandro Comodin: Best of Fests Caesar Must Die by Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani: Around Masculinity The Fabulous Ones by Roberta Torre: Envision Competition - Best Directing Award In viaggio by Gianfranco Rosi: Masters The March on Rome by Mark Cousins: Masters We're to try by Greta De Lazzaris, Jacopo Quadri: Masters
2021	After a Revolution by Giovanni Buccomino: International Competition Atlantide by Yuri Ancarani: Masters Bella ciao – The story beyond the myth by Giulia Giapponesi: Frontlight Ennio by Giuseppe Tornatore: Masters Futura by Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi, Alice Rohrwacher: Masters The Home Front – A Journey in Italy with Domenico Quirico by Paola Piacenza: Frontlight The Last Chapter by Gianluca Matarrese: Luminous Marx Can Wait by Marco Bellocchio: Masters The Moment of Transition by Chiara Marotta: Luminous
2020	Below Sea Level by Gianfranco Rosi: Gianfranco Rosi Retrospective Divinazioni by Leandro Picarella: Competition for First Appearance El Father Plays Himself by Mo Scarpelli: Best of Festivals Fire at Sea by Gianfranco Rosi: Gianfranco Rosi Retrospective Guerra e pace by Massimo D'Anolfi, Martina Parenti: Competition for Feature-Length Documentary Il mio corpo by Michele Pennetta: Best of Fests The Mouth of the Wolf by Pietro Marcello: Top 10 Notturno by Gianfranco Rosi: Gianfranco Rosi Retrospective Our Road by Pierfrancesco Li Donni: Competition for Kids & Docs Puntasacra by Francesca Mazzoleni: Best of Fests Sacro GRA by Gianfranco Rosi: Gianfranco Rosi Retrospective El Sicario - Room 164 by Gianfranco Rosi: Gianfranco Rosi Retrospective Ultimina by Jacopo Quadri: Competition for Mid-Length Documentary We are the Thousand by Anita Rivaroli: Frontlight
2019	Anbessa by Mo Scarpelli: Competition for Kids & Docs Bellissime by Elisa Amoruso: Luminous Faith by Valentina Pedicini: Competition for Feature-Length Documentary For one more hour with you by Alina Marazzi: Focus: Re-releasing History Mafia is not what it used to be by Franco Maresco: Masters Men are hungry too by Francesco Lorusso, Gabriele Licchelli, Andrea Settembrini: Competition for Student Documentary San Vittore by Yuri Ancarani: Paradocs Selfie by Agostino Ferrente: Best of Fests El Sicario - Room 164 by Gianfranco Rosi: Focus: The Villain Tarkovskij, Cinema Prayer by Andrej Andreevich Tarkovskij Jr: Luminous
2018	Butterfly by Alessandro Cassigoli, Casey Kauffman: Luminous Camorra by Francesco Patierno: Competition for Feature-Length Documentary Dark corner by Fabio Caramaschi: Luminous First movement of the immovable by Sebastiano d'Ayala Valva: Competition for First Appearance - Best First Appearance Samouni Road by Stefano Savona: Best of Fests Soyalism by Stefano Liberti, Enrico Parenti: Frontlight
2017	The Call (La convocazione) by Enrico Maisto: Competition for Mid-Length Documentary Happy Winter by Giovanni Totaro: Competition for First Appearance The Sailor by Giovanni Giaretta: Paradocs Two by Riccardo Giacconi: Paradocs
2016	The Challenge by Yuri Ancarani: Paradocs Coeurope - The Dark Heart of Europe by Giovanni Troilo: Official selection Robinù by Michele Santoro: Best of Fests
2015	From the Depths by Valentina Pedicini: Sounds Real Irrawaddy Mon Amour by Andrea Zambelli, Nicola Grignani, Valeria Testagrossa: Competition for Mid-Length Documentary NapolIslam by Ernesto Pagano: Panorama The successor by Mattia Epifani: Competition for Mid-Length Documentary Thy Father’s Chair by Alex Lora, Antonio Tibaldi: Official selection
2014	The State-Mafia Pact by Sabina Guzzanti: Best of Fests
2013	The Director by Christina Voros: Panorama The Special Need by Carlo Zoratti: Best of Fests
2012	All'ombra della croce by Alessandro Pugno: Docs for Sale Lovebirds – Rebel Lovers in India by Gianpaolo Bigoli: Competition for Mid-Length Documentary
2011	Antonio + Silvana = 2 by Vanni Gandolfo, Simone Aleandri, Luca Onorati: Reflecting Images: Panorama
2010	Letters from the desert (eulogy to slowness) by Michela Occhipinti: In Competition My Reincarnation by Jennifer Fox: Top 20 Audience Award Napoli, Napoli, Napoli by Abel Ferrara: Reflecting Images: Masters
2009	The Cambodian Room by Tommaso Lusena, Giuseppe Schillaci From Zero by Giotto Barbieri, Alessia De Ninno, Davide Barletti Girls on the Air by Valentina Monti: In Competition Videocracy - Basta apparire by Erik Gandini: Reflecting Images - Best of Fests
2008	Back Home Tomorrow by Fabrizio Lazzaretti, Paolo Santolini: In Competition Below Sea Level by Gianfranco Rosi: Reflecting Images - Best of the Fests - Out of Competition Hair India by Raffaele Brunetti, Marco Leopardi: In Competition Mostar United by Claudia Tosi: In Competition Pinuccio Lovero – Sogno di una morte di mezza estate by Pippo Mezzapesa: In Competition
2007	Vogliamo anche le rose by Alina Marazzi: Panorama
2006	Life as a corporate holiday by Paolo Muran: In Competition Pasolini prossimo nostro by Giuseppe Bertolucci: In Competition Primo Levi’s Journey by Davide Ferrario: In Competition
2005	El Barrilete by Alessandro Angelini: First Appearance The Person De Leo N. by Alberto Vendemmiati: Joris Ivens Competition
2003	Domá - Case a San Pietroburgo by Michele Mellara, Alessandro Rossi: Joris Ivens Competition
2002	Don Vitaliano by Paolo Pisanelli: In Competition
2001	Sanpeet (poison) by Giuseppe Petitto, Enrico Pitzianti, Gianluca Pulcini: Silver Wolf Competition