Every year, IDFA audiences select their favorites by rating films for the NPO Doc IDFA Audience Award. A selection of these top-rated films will be showcased in an exclusive day-long program. The films are English spoken or subtitled in English.
See the full program here.
Things That Happen on Earth
A family of Italian cowboys are doing everything they can to make their cattle ranch climate-proof, animal-friendly and ecologically responsible. But regulations, shareholders and especially the encroaching wolves don’t make it easy for them.
Writing Hawa
An intimate portrait of Najiba Noori’s Afghan mother, who was married off at the age of 13, and 40 years later wants to learn to read and write to start her own business. Meanwhile, a new Taliban takeover is looming.
Apocalypse in the Tropics
Terrifying account of the rise and enormous political influence of evangelical fundamentalism in Brazil. TV evangelists and ultraconservative politicians seem to be leading the country toward a theocracy, with sometimes fatal consequences.
No Other Land
An award-winning documentary about the ceaseless Israeli attacks on a network of Palestinian villages in the West Bank, heroically documented by a collective of Palestinian and Israeli journalists.