Producers at the Forum meet over coffee to kick-start the day together. The pre-arranged table seating ensures that participants meet colleagues from countries they're interested in learning more about.

Docs for Sale is IDFA's sales market and distribution market incubator for creative documentary cinema. Visit Docs for Sale website for more information.

The Forum Info Desk, located on the ground floor of ITA, operates as a reception, providing support to all IDFA Forum guests with questions about the venue, schedule, and navigating the wider festival offering.

Docs for Sale is IDFA's sales market and distribution market incubator for creative documentary cinema. Visit Docs for Sale website for more information.

The place for IDFA Forum passholders to take a break and connect with one another. Come enjoy a coffee and a chat with fellow participants.

Twelve immersive and interactive projects in development or production will be presented, in an intimate setting, to an audience of industry representatives.

On the first day, 6 Producers Connection and 10 Forum Pitch projects in development or production will be pitched. If ITA Studio 1 is full, or you are joining later, you can watch the live stream in ITA Plein Foyer.

On the first day, 6 Producers Connection and 10 Forum Pitch projects in development or production will be pitched. If ITA Studio 1 is full, or you are joining later, you can watch the live stream in ITA Plein Foyer.

The place for IDFA passholders to take a break, work and connect with each other.

A magical Macedonian folktale comes to life when a wounded white stork is rescued from a landfill by an unlikely savior, which transforms both of their lives for the better.

Inside a groundbreaking new behavioral program, people who are at the end of their rope find hope that life is worth living again.

Hosted by LaScam, this talk dives into the career of the Armenian-born, French-based filmmaker who uses her personal experience, often leaning on archive footage, to tackle identity in exile.

A collaboration between Film In Mind therapist Rebecca Day and Amsterdam’s Three Cups Tea, co-founded by IDFA alumna & producer Ruoyao Jane Yao. Blending mindfulness and culture, this tea gathering offers storytellers a calm space to pause and reconnect.First come, first served event with limited capacity up to 38 passholders.

This hour-long session is conducted with a small number of participants, creating networking opportunities and time to ask Marion Schmidt questions about the #DocSafe initiative.

Visit the DocLab exhibition and discover new interactive documentary projects. Featuring installations, VR, games, digital art, DocLab Playrooms, and special performances — all at De Brakke Grond.

American Sons follows Cpl. JV Villarreal, a Latino Marine from Texas killed in Afghanistan, through his own combat footage and his family’s decade-long journey, revealing the enduring human cost of war on those who return and those left behind.

A welcome break from your busy pitch schedule, the daily lunch offers an informal setting where you can meet, greet, and eat.Hosted by Chiledoc.

Organized within the framework of the Polish Delegation, Polish Docs Pro Showcase presents Polish creative documentary projects in progress. This consists of pitches for these projects, followed by individual meetings with decision-makers.

This hour-long session is conducted with a small number of participants, creating networking opportunities and time to ask Paul Bouchard from Diversion XR questions about new media, immersive storytelling and distribution.

With traditional models of documentary distribution crumbling, this talk takes us a step back to look at cinema as a communal experience, a space where audiences gather to share opinions and ideas and where curators listen to their input. 

What's on the internet that you would like to save? Create your own zine and explore how we can preserve virtual worlds. From DIY archiving to the future of immersive preservation. Ongoing event, live in the DocLab exhibition.

This hour-long session is conducted with a small number of participants, creating networking opportunities and time to ask Diego Herguera Acosta questions about the craft of documentary animation and his work at Sultana Films.

The Arctic Film Showcase presents six diverse projects from filmmakers focusing on life on the outer edges of Europe. 

IDFA Forum introduces a series of thematic Funding Sessions curated around specific financing models, offering filmmakers practical insights into navigating today’s documentary financing landscape.

IDFA Forum introduces a series of thematic Funding Sessions curated around specific financing models, offering filmmakers practical insights into navigating today’s documentary financing landscape.

IDFA Forum introduces a series of thematic Funding Sessions curated around specific financing models, offering filmmakers practical insights into navigating today’s documentary financing landscape.

At just three years old, Mariska Hargitay lost her mother, Jayne Mansfield. My Mom Jayne follows her emotional journey to understand Jayne through private interviews, unseen footage, and personal reflections on her complex legacy.

A mother’s search for her son accelerates the defeat of a dictatorship and inspires a new global generation of women fighting for their freedoms.

All Docs for Sale and IDFA Forum passholders are invited to this daily happy hour. Thank you to Autlook Filmsales, Lightdox, Millennium Against Gravity, Rise and Shine World Sales and See NL for sponsoring the Happy Hours.

The untold story of art collector, Ginny Williams (1927-2019), who championed women artists to record-breaking auction sales including Louise Bourgeois, Yayoi Kusama, Helen Frankenthaler and Joan Mitchell.

Guests Meet Guests cocktail events offer daily networking opportunities for IDFA passholders and festival updates.ARTE, a key European public media, plays a major role in documentaries. Its diverse editorial content fosters democratic culture. Through TV, digital, and social media, ARTE offers insightful, investigative coverage focused on current affairs and innovation.Hosted by ARTE

The simple task of delivering bottles of milk spirals out of control in the theatrical computer game MILKMAN ZERO. A faceless narrator manipulates the player, normalizing violence and sacrificing humanity on the altar of efficiency.