Experience the festival in a compact format with Best of IDFA: Award Winners. Four award-winning films in one day, November 21–23 at Pathé Noord. Comfortable seating, lunch options, and films in or subtitled in English. 

In the DocLab VR Gallery, you get fifty minutes to explore multiple virtual reality projects of your choice. To experience all the available works, you'll need to reserve four time slots.

During this screening, the film The New Policy Regarding Homeless Asylum Seekers will be followed by The Travelers.

In the DocLab VR Gallery, you get fifty minutes to explore multiple virtual reality projects of your choice. To experience all the available works, you'll need to reserve four time slots.

Attend an extra, surprise screening of a film that was a resounding success during the festival.

In the DocLab VR Gallery, you get fifty minutes to explore multiple virtual reality projects of your choice. To experience all the available works, you'll need to reserve four time slots.

The neighborhood in Dakar where filmmaker Mamadou Khouma Gueye’s mother lived for decades has to make way for a new train line. As Gueye documents the forced relocation of the community, he also creates a sensitive, poetic portrait of his mother.

In the DocLab VR Gallery, you get fifty minutes to explore multiple virtual reality projects of your choice. To experience all the available works, you'll need to reserve four time slots.

Subtly textured self-portrait of Soraya, a free-spirited 16-year-old artist in Iran who has been trying for years to flee to Europe—chilling trips she captures on her phone, while pouring all her fears and worries into extraordinary works of art. Current Future: Age suggestion 14+

In these tender and poignant films, a volcano, a sea, and a field carry the tangible memories of disasters that still resonate deeply today. This compilation program consists of Pedro Tomás Explains the World, Blue Silence, and An Open Field.

In the DocLab VR Gallery, you get fifty minutes to explore multiple virtual reality projects of your choice. To experience all the available works, you'll need to reserve four time slots.

In this personal and loving journey into the audiovisual history of Lebanon and Beirut—composed entirely of archival footage spanning the past 70 years—Lana Daher tells a powerfully moving story about her homeland.

From secret recordings to interviews with former heads of state, this account leaves no stone unturned in showing how Julian Assange made enemies at the highest levels. Tense, detailed and disturbing.

In the DocLab VR Gallery, you get fifty minutes to explore multiple virtual reality projects of your choice. To experience all the available works, you'll need to reserve four time slots.

The fictional Ministry of Not Forgetting finds an ideal subject in singer Marianne Faithfull for its ambition to document “cultural legacies,” in this hybrid portrait that is as measured and captivating as its protagonist.

In the DocLab VR Gallery, you get fifty minutes to explore multiple virtual reality projects of your choice. To experience all the available works, you'll need to reserve four time slots.

IDFA Meets is a partner program curated by the new generation within IDFA. This edition, IDFA Meets Steppin’ Into Tomorrow: a platform and community dedicated to uncovering contemporary music rooted in the Netherlands and representing the local underground scene.

An obsessed zoologist searches the high plains of Angola for the last descendants of a mysterious, giant elephant species. A mission that is scientific as well as poetic, accompanied by the distinctive voice of Werner Herzog.

IDFA Meets is a partner program curated by the new generation within IDFA. This edition, IDFA Meets Steppin’ Into Tomorrow: a platform and community dedicated to uncovering contemporary music rooted in the Netherlands and representing the local underground scene.