IDFA 2022

The Amsterdam docfest, running 9-20 November, will open with Dutch/Iranian Niki Padidar’s All You See. The complete programme comprises 277 titles. “The diversity of artistic forms is astonishing, and there are no boundaries when it comes to tackling the biggest powers or inventing new grammar,” commented IDFA Artistic Director Orwa Nyrabia during the October 20 announcement.

Eighty-one more titles have been added to the program, shaping “an increasingly international selection” that covers much of the globe,” say IDFA staff. Luminous and Frontlight are the two premiere-only cornerstones of the programme. The 35th edition of IDFA takes place in person from November 9 to 20.

The festival’s co-production and co-financing market will be presented in person in 2022, with all selected project teams slated to physically attend the event in Amsterdam. 22 projects are selected for the market’s flagship Forum Pitch, 6 projects for the annual Rough Cut Presentations, 12 for Producers Connection, and 20 interactive and XR projects for the two-day IDFA DocLab Forum.

Selections for IDFA Competition for Short Documentary and the IDFA Competition for Youth Documentary were presented Sept 27. The festival also announced the international premiere of Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi’s Personality Crisis: One Night Only, and a special tribute to the late Lithuanian filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravičius.

Academy Award-winning director Laura Poitras will be honored at IDFA this November with the Retrospective and Top 10 programs. Two curated focus programs, Around Masculinity and Playing Reality, were also announced in addition to the IDFA DocLab theme of Nervous Systems. IDFA will take place in person from November 9 to 20 2022.