IDFA in the press
Selected highlights of IDFA in the media, ranging from in-depth articles, reviews and interviews with filmmakers. Read below. This overview is updated weekly.
Variety
‘A Fox Under a Pink Moon’ Wins at IDFA, Artistic Director Talks Sensitive Political Times - by Rafa Sales Ross
‘All Fixed Up,’ ‘Four Comrades, One Echo’ and ‘The Cord’ Win IDFA Forum Awards - by Rafa Sales Ross
‘Trillion’ Review: Victor Kossakovsky’s Latest Environmental Doc Is an Enigma With a Gradual Call to Action - by Guy Lodge
Academy Director on How the Oscars Are Working to Get Its First-Ever Doc Nominated for Best Picture ‘Without Opening the Floodgates’ - by Rafa Sales Ross
Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus on ‘Cover-Up,’ ‘Lack of Trust’ in Media, Trump’s BBC Lawsuit - by Rafa Sales Ross
IDFA Stands for ‘Artistic, Bold Filmmaking,’ Chiefs Say, but ‘That’s Not Always What’s Celebrated at Some TV Stations and Streamers’ - by Leo Barraclough
New IDFA Bertha Fund Head Selin Murat Talks Supporting Documentaries That ‘Defy Easy Consumption’ Like Those Coming From Ukraine and Palestine - by Rafa Sales Ross
Screen International
‘A Fox Under A Pink Moon’ wins best international film at IDFA 2025 - by Geoffrey Macnab
‘A Fox Under A Pink Moon’ review: Strong Afghan migrant doc blends phone footage and animation - by Lee Marshall
"We enable filmmakers to tell creative stories on their own terms,” says IDFA Bertha Fund’s Selin Murat - by Geoffrey Macnab
‘All Fixed Up’, ‘Four Comrades, One Echo’ and ‘The Cord’ lead IDFA Forum winners - by Tim Dams
“No one stands alone,” says IDFA’s industry head of the festival’s sense of community - by Geoffrey Macnab
IDFA’s Isabel Arrate Fernandez talks about her first edition, opening with three short films and her first controversy - by Geoffrey Macnab
Why IDFA DocLab 2025 is exploring the dark side of online technology - by Geoffrey Macnab
The Film Verdict
IDFA 2025: The Verdict - by Stephen Dalton
A Fox Under a Pink Moon: Review - by Stephen Dalton
“In the end, it’s about ethics”: an interview with Isabel Arrate Fernandez - by Stephen Dalton
Synthetic Sincerity: Review - by Oris Aigbokhaevbolo
Mohammed & Paul – Once Upon a Time in Tangier: Review - by Oris Aigbokhaevbolo
Coexistence, My Ass!: Review - by Stephen Dalton
Matabeleland: Review - by Oris Aigbokhaevbolo
Deadline
‘A Fox Under A Pink Moon,’ ‘Past Future Continuous’ Take Top Awards At IDFA, World’s Biggest Documentary Festival - by Matthew Carey
IDFA Announces Forum Awards Winners: Prizes (And €) Go To ‘All Fixed Up,’ ‘Four Comrades, One Echo,’ ‘The Cord,’ ‘Body Count’ - by Matthew Carey
Interview with IDFA's Isabel Arrate Fernandez - by Matthew Carey
IDFA International Competition Film ‘The Kartli Kingdom’ Unveils First Teaser-Trailer - by Matthew Carey
‘Free Leonard Peltier’ Heads To IDFA With New Footage Of American Indian Movement Leader’s Release From Prison; Watch Clip - by Matthew Carey
‘Confessions Of A Mole’ Trailer: Director’s Beauty Mark Triggers Family Crisis In Serio-Comic World Premiere Documentary — IDFA - by Matthew Carey
The Hollywood Reporter
IDFA: ‘A Fox Under a Pink Moon,’ ‘Past Future Continuous’ Win Amsterdam Doc Fest Awards - by Georg Szalai
IDFA Forum Awards Winners Unveiled in Amsterdam - by Georg Szalai
‘Outliving Shakespeare’: Characters Confront the Bard in a Play Staged at an Armenian Retirement Home (Exclusive Trailer) - by Georg Szalai
‘Synthetic Sincerity’ Explores if AI Characters Can Be Taught Authenticity: IDFA - by Georg Szalai
‘Trillion’: What’s the Joaquin Phoenix Exec-Produced Film About? You’ll Only Find Out at the Very End - by Georg Szalai
‘Gaza’s Twins, Come Back to Me’ Follows a Mother and Her Babies Separated by War (Exclusive IDFA Clips) - by Georg Szalai
One in 10 People Hears Voices: In IDFA Film ‘My Word Against Mine,’ We Meet Five of Them - by Georg Szalai
Indiewire
Cineuropa
EXCLUSIVE: Trailer and poster for IDFA Luminous entry Paikar - by Davide Abbatescianni
The Spanish Showcase presents five Spanish documentary projects at IDFA
EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for IDFA Luminous entry We Were Left Alone - by Alfonso Rivera
IDFA reveals its competition titles - by Savina Petkova
IDFA unveils its Forum line-up - by Savina Petkova
Business Doc Europe
IDFA 2025: Head of Programme Joost Daamen on ‘Dead Angle: Institutions’ - by Davide Abbatescianni
IDFA 2025 interview: Artistic Director Isabel Arrate Fernandez - by Nick Cunningham
Trillion: Interview with Victor Kossakovsky - by Geoffrey Macnab
Trillion: Review - by Kees Driessen
Flana: Interview with Zahraa Ghandour - by Geoffrey Macnab
The Sessions: Interview with Sien Versteyhe - by Geoffrey Macnab
Confessions of a Mole: Review - by Kees Driessen
Synthetic Sincerity: Review - by by Kees Driessen
Steal This Story, Please! - by Nicole Santé
All My Sisters: Review - by Nicole Santé
Outliving Shakespeare: Review - by Mark Adams
Elon Musk Unveiled – The Tesla Experiment: Review - by Mark Adams
Realscreen
IDA
Exclusive: Trailer for The Shipwrecked - Davide Abbatescianni
*Silent Flood - A Pure act of Faith - by Sonya Vseliubska
WePresent
Autobiographical film “Memory” is a recollection of a childhood under siege - by Anna Bogutskaya
Filmmaker Magazine
“We Are an Accumulation of These Encounters”: Lynne Sachs on Her IDFA-Debuting Every Contact Leaves a Trace - by Lauren Wissot
“The Film Is a Portrait of Amy Goodman, But It’s Also a Celebration of Resistance”: Carl Deal and Tia Lessin on their DOC NYC and IDFA-debuting Steal This Story, Please! - by Lauren Wissot
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