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The Czech fest’s programme will offer over 270 films, Q&As, Inspiration Forum discussions and a programme for children. The festival also features tributes to Roberto Minervini and Karel Vachek and the audience will be granted a preview of a new documentary about Milan Kundera.

This evening, FILM PLATFORM and ProQuest invite students, faculties and academics to a live dialogue with the founders of Partners In Health, the subject of the award-winning documentary Bending the Arc (whose exec producers include Ben Affleck/Matt Damon). Panel hosted by Tabitha Jackson of Sundance FF.

Amsterdam doc fest reveals Dutch, short, student, and young audience competition programmes, as well as selections within non-competitive sections Luminous, Frontlight, and IDFA on Stage. 90 films and performances have now been added to the festival program.

“IDFA will not stop.” Joint statement issued by festival staff underlines that, “as long as cinemas are open, every IDFA 2020 film will first screen in theaters, no matter how limited the capacity.”

Running November 11-19, festival goes online for 2020 and available nationwide for first time; 23 world prems, 12 International/North American prems and seven US premieres among 200+ films and events.

Despite the recent shift to the digital space, the programme features more than 220 films with 59 world and 26 international premieres including latest of Czech and international docs, a South Korean film retrospective, comprehensive showcase of Afro- American documentaries.

Sixty-three projects selected for festival’s co-production and co-financing market, plus new award for best pitch (worth €2,500) and additional category designed to support filmmakers through the pandemic.

Nathan Grossman’s doc 'Greta', about Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, that premiered in Venice joins Roy Andersson’s Venice winner About Endlessness and Amanda Kernell’s Sundance hit Charter.

2020 online ceremony to be hosted from Berlin on 12 December. Reykjavik to host the EFA Ceremony in 2022.

Programme features 206 films, 31 world premieres and 30 international premieres, spread over six ‘moments’ of the festival, all commencing October 22 and concluding March 10 2021.