FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
Professionals Program & Public Screenings
THE OFFICIAL IDFA 2023 SELECTION IN NUMBERS SUBMISSIONS GENDER EVALUATION
TOTAL SUBMISSIONS
3787
MAN
WOMAN
NEITHER
NON-DISCLOSED
1759
FILMS
3528
105
NEW MEDIA PROJECTS
1438 277
MIXED CO-DIRECTIONS
229
187
SELECTION
270 SELECTED FILMS 32 SELECTED NEW MEDIA PROJECTS
WORLD PREMIERES
77
AFRICA 7.6% ASIA 15.9% EASTERN EUROPE 8.1% NORTH AMERICA 14.5% OCEANIA 0.4% SOUTH AMERICA 8.7% WESTERN EUROPE 44.8%
39
GENDER EVALUATION MAN
WOMAN
NEITHER
NON-DISCLOSED
128
137 COUNTRIES OF PRODUCTION
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERES
6
MIXED CO-DIRECTIONS
29
122 17
Industry Wednesday program 8 November 09:00 10:00
10:00 11:00
11:00 12:00
Wednesday 8 November 12:00 13:00
13:00 14:00
14:00 15:00
15:00 16:00
16:00 17:00
17:00 18:00
18:00 19:00
19:00 20:00 20:00
Carré
20:00 21:00
IDFA Opening Night
21:00 22:00
22:00 23:00
EC
A Picture to Remember
LEGEND What do the labels mean?
Abbreviations for program sections
The colors used in the schedules and A to Z lists provide more information about the films, projects, and events.
In the schedule you will find abbreviations indicating the IDFA program sections a film is selected for.
All screenings of films that have their European, international, or world premiere at IDFA are listed in red, as well as Press & Industry and Market Screenings. All screenings of films that have previously screened in Europe or the Netherlands are listed in blue. All new media projects are listed in yellow. All events are listed in grey.
IC International Competition EC Envision Competition SC IDFA Competition for Short Documentary YC IDFA Competition for Youth Documentary LM Luminous FLT Frontlight OS IDFA on Stage PD Paradocs S Signed BF Best of Fests T10 Top 10 CC Corresponding Cinemas RS Retrospective: Wang Bing RS Retrospective: Peter Greenaway F16 Focus: 16 Worlds on 16 FF Focus: Fabrications INF IDFA DocLab Competition for Immersive Non-Fiction DST IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling DS IDFA DocLab Spotlight 3
Thursday 9 November 10:00
11:00
12:00
Public screenings 13:00
11:45
15:00
11:00
The Castle
17:00
The Connection
Our Body
11:45
Munt 9
S
They Shot the Piano Player
F16
S
16:00
14:45
T10
13:45
12:15
Munt 13
Magic Mountain
Mixtape La Pampa
17:00
S
The Mission
14:30
BF
14:00
The Last Year of Darkness
Eye: Cinema 1
20:45
20:30
BF
Joan Baez: I Am a Noise
The Eternal Memory
20:30
BF
Free admission for Cineville passholders. 19:30
21:45
BF
20 Days in Mariupol
Free admission for Cineville passholders. 18:00
BF
Kokomo City
IDFA Shorts 4
Free admission for Cineville passholders.
18:30
4
17:30
T10
Breaking Social
Free admission for Cineville passholders.
Alone
RS
21:15
BF
Mrs. Fang
RS
BF
We Will Not Fade Away
Free admission for Cineville passholders. 20:30
S
Coconut Head Generation
Free admission for Cineville passholders. 16:30
S
Free admission for Cineville passholders.
Free admission for Cineville passholders.
13:30
Vondelpark: Cinema
Facing Darkness
My Worst Enemy
Last Train Home
BF
Free admission for Cineville passholders.
20:45
SC
Free admission for Cineville passholders.
Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal 15:00
S
PD
Dearest Fiona
The Cemetery of Cinema
De Balie: Grote Zaal
BF
21:45
BF
Milisuthando
Eye: Cinema 2
Kriterion 1
S
On the Adamant
Free admission for Cineville passholders.
15:00
BF
In the Rearview
BF
18:30
BF
The Trial
21:15
BF
Queendom
18:00
BF
Machtat
18:30
BF, FF
The Island
20:30
S
Bye Bye Tiberias
EC
21:30
FLT
17:45
BF
The Wasp and the Orchid
2G
BF
S
21:00
EC
18:45
BF
PD
15:00
Tehachapi
Munt 12
Thermodielectric
15:15
Let the Canary Sing
The Klezmer Project
18:00
Samsara
BF
Hollywoodgate
20:00
FF, IC
waking up in silence & Three Promises
BF
This Woman
12:00
Munt 11
14:45
Old Men
12:30
Munt 10
RS
Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros
The Clinic
Fogo île de feu & On the Other Island
12:00
Tuschinski 6
23:00
19:00
S
17:15
BF
FF
22:00
Youth (Spring)
Orlando, My Political Biography
11:30
21:00
19:30
Arsenie. An Amazing Afterlife
14:00
20:00
FLT
They and Them
16:00
Tuschinski 4
19:00
F16
From the East
Tuschinski 3
Tuschinski 5
18:00 18:00
EC
A Picture to Remember
13:30
BF
16:00
15:00
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
Tuschinski 1
Tuschinski 2
14:00
BF
BF
Free admission for Cineville passholders. 19:30
Born in Beijing
T10
Industry Thursdayprogram 9 November 09:00 10:00
10:00 11:00
11:00 12:00
Thursday 9 November 12:00 13:00
13:00 14:00
14:00 15:00
15:00 16:00
16:00 17:00
17:00 18:00
18:00 19:00
19:00 20:00
20:00 21:00
21:00 22:00
22:00 23:00
18:00
Café Kuyl
Guests Meet Guests
Arsenie. An Amazing Afterlife
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
5
Friday 10 November 10:00 10:00
Tuschinski 1
11:00
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
Public screenings
12:00
13:00
12:30
BF
Man in Black 12:00
15:00
11:30
13:45
14:15
Goodbye CP
12:00
Letter from My Village
11:15
The Wasp and the Orchid
11:45
Red Herring
Munt 12
Mambar Pierrette
11:30
20:45
Youth 13+ Un�iltered Reality
17:00
14:30
Eye: Cinema 1
Tehran Has No More Pomegranates!
14:00
17:30
18:00
16:45
21:15
Where Zebus Speak French
20:15
LM
S
20:45
EC
GAMA
BF
EC
20:30
Alreadymade
18:30
16 Worlds on 16: American Experimental
Time Bomb Y2K
21:00
EC
S
21:30
BF
Paragate
S
The Echo + Talk
FF, LM
Background
BF
Silence of Reason
EC
A Band of Dreamers and a Judge
SC
Against the Tide
FF
20:45
EC
18:15
BF
RS
Tales of Oblivion
Joan Baez: I Am a Noise
BF
LM
21:15
YC
Red Flag & Postcards from the Verge
BF
Great Photo, Lovely Life
Where God Is Not
20:45
18:30
BF
15:00
FF, S
F16
17:45
Motherland
LM
’Til Madness Do Us Part
The Tuba Thieves
BF
Omi Nobu
19:30
Canuto’s Transformation
14:00
Eye: Cinema 2
They and Them
23:00
FLT
NPO 2Doc Primeur
Another Day
EC
BF
22:00
21:15
BF
Thermodielectric
15:30
BF
Munt 13
11:45
16:45
F16
BF
Al Djanat, the Original Paradise
Feet in Water, Head on Fire
17:15
21:00
S
EC
Knit’s Island + Talk
Choose Me
14:00
Munt 11
20:00
Gerlach
S
14:45
FF
EC
12:30
Munt 10
19:00 18:45
18:15
FLT
2G
Munt 9
18:00
Guest of Honor Talk: Wang Bing
Pictures of Ghosts
Tuschinski 6
17:00
Chasing the Dazzling Light
Tuschinski 4
Tuschinski 5
16:00
15:30
PD, S
And How Miserable Is the Home of Evil & Talking with Rivers
Tuschinski 2
14:00
RS
S
Songs of Earth
10:30
Eye: Room at the Top
Shadowtime
14:30
Kriterion 1
17:45
PD
Dearest Fiona
Q&A hosted by Simulacrum
18:30
Daguerréotypes
Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal 15:00
Bushman
De Balie: Grote Zaal
FF
21:00
BF
Orlando, My Political Biography
17:15
Malqueridas
PD, SC, S, FLT
IDFA Shorts 5
21:15
F16
20:30
BF
12:45
Rembrandt’s J’Accuse
Vondelpark: Cinema
RS
15:30
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
21:30
RS
20:30
DocLab Exhibition: Phenomenal Friction
Opening Night DocLab:
Play, discover and experience a selection of groundbreaking interactive and multi-sensory XR documentaries in the Phenome- Phenomenal Friction nal Friction exhibition. Register online for a free ticket. exhibition By invitation. 19:00 OS
de Brakke Grond: Rode Zaal 11:30
DocLab: Traversing the Mist, One Two, VR Gallery
RS
The Greenaway Alphabet
11:30
6
OS
IDFA on Stage Simple as ABC #7: The Voice of Fingers
Frascati 1
Arti et Amicitiae
BF
Bad Press + Talk
20:30
de Brakke Grond
BF
The Disappearance of Shere Hite
(this conversation is) Off the Record
Experience an immersive dance performance with night vision goggles in total darkness (One Two), explore a surreal gay sauna together in VR (Traversing the Mist), and experience the best virtual reality in the IDFA DocLab VR Gallery.
Industry Friday 10program November 09:00 10:00
10:00 11:00
11:00 12:00
11:15
09:45
10:00
EC
Press & Industry GAMA
09:30
Market
Pathé City 4 Screening
13:00 14:00
14:00 15:00
16:00 17:00
17:00 18:00
18:00 19:00
S
Press & Industry Alreadymade
12:30
11:30
FLT
Press & Industry A Picture to Remember
Press & Industry They and Them 11:45
15:00 16:00
17:00
EC
Press & Industry Canuto’s Transformation
Pathé City 3
12:00 13:00
S
Press & Industry Manu: A Visual Album
Tuschinski 3
Pathé City 2
Friday 10 November
Press & Industry The World Is Family
14:15
EC
13:30
Press & Industry Silence of Reason
Press & Industry 2G IC
14:00
19:00 20:00 20:00
20:00 21:00
Press & Industry Selling a Colonial War
21:00 22:00
22:00 23:00
IC
EC
FLT
IC, FF
Press & Industry The Clinic
18:00
Café Kuyl
Guests Meet Guests – hosted by Net�lix
Orlando My Political Biography
7
Saturday 11 November 10:00
11:00
10:00
Tuschinski 1
Public screenings
12:00
13:00
Songs of Earth
Presented jointly by Saeco and IDFA 13:00
EC
Tuschinski 2
Paragate
Tuschinski 4
Bye Bye Tiberias + Talk
10:00
12:30
11:00
10:30
10:45
10:15
Munt 10
Youth 13+ Un�iltered Reality
10:00
Munt 11
13:00
11:00
10:30
10:00
Eye: Cinema 1
15:30
LM
The Clinic
13:30
RS
13:15
The Disappearance of Shere Hite + Talk hosted by
11:00
GAMA + Talk
Eye: Cinema 2
14:00
EC
20:00
Rejeito
S
21:15
IC
Arsenie. An Amazing Afterlife
21:00
S, EC
Before Sandstorm & Mud
19:00
Youth 13+ Where Am I From? & Boyz 18:00
17:00
21:45
YC
My Worst Enemy
21:00
SC, BF
BF
Hollywoodgate
20:30
S, FF
Mambar Pierrette
LM
Amor
10:30
Shadowtime
Eye: Room at the Top
20:30
11:00
10:00
10:45
Magic Mountain
Rialto VU: Zaal 4
Let the Canary Sing
LM, FF
16:00
S
16:00
A Band of Dreamers and a Judge 13:30
BF
This Blessed Plot
10:30
This Woman
Tales of Oblivion 18:45
SC
Al Djanat, the Original Paradise
18:30
BF
The Lost Boys of Mercury 17:45
S
Facing Darkness
19:00
BF
Red Flag & Postcards from the Verge
14:00
S
The Echo
Ketelhuis: Zaal 1
16:15
BF, FF
The Island
13:00
BF
Queendom
13:45
BF
Coconut Head Generation
Kriterion 1
Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal
They and Them
EC
21:30
BF
21:30
BF
21:30
BF
Transition
BF
Feet in Water, Head on Fire
BF
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
20:30
FLT
BF
20 Days in Mariupol 20:30
IDFA on Stage Intensely Soulful: Docu-Concert NTR
ITA: Rabozaal 11:00
IDFA Shorts 4
De Balie: Grote Zaal
14:00
SC
The Tuba Thieves +
17:30
BF
Omi Nobu
Talk hosted by SWDA
Avond van de Wolf 20:30
LM
Motherland + Talk
Followed by a Q&A with Tobias de Ronde 20:30
10:00
CC
Corresponding Cinemas: Orwa Nyrabia invites Sky Hopinka 11:30
de Brakke Grond
8 de Brakke Grond: Rode Zaal
13:00
Corresponding Cinemas: Sky Hopinka invites Basma al-Sharif
CC
15:30
CC
Corresponding Cinemas: Basma al-Sharif invites Jumana Manna
17:30
CC
Corresponding Cinemas: Jumana Manna invites Ibrahim Shaddad
OS
IDFA on Stage Simple as ABC #7: The Voice of Fingers
Frascati 1
Vondelpark: Cinema
IC
IDFA Hit Selling a Colonial War
Carré
20:15
Play, discover and experience a selection of groundbreaking interactive and multi-sensory XR documentaries in the Phenomenal Friction exhibition. Register online for a free ticket. 12:00
OS
14:00
The Vivid Unknown
CC
Corresponding Cinemas: Ibrahim Shaddad invites Abderrahmane Sissako
DocLab Exhibition: Phenomenal Friction
Borderline Visible (collective
20:30
S
S
Mixtape La Pampa
How to Please & Nightwatchers
F16
BF
While the Green Grass Grows
17:45
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
BF
19:15
The World Is Family
De Groene Amsterdammer
BF
Milisuthando
The Last Year of Darkness
18:15
BF
BF, LM, SC
20:30
20:00
Arna’s Children
13:30
BF
21:00
Followed by a club night, tickets via kanaal40
15:45
BF
waking up in silence & Three Promises
We Will Not Fade Away
BF, S
S
IC, FF
S
Our Body
BF
Choose Me
Pictures of Ghosts
LM, PD, FLT
IDFA Shorts 1
SC, BF
BF
Ramona
16:00
EC
Thermodielectric
Mother Suriname Mama Sranan
17:00
BF
PD
Samsara
S
People from the Heart of the Earth & Marungka Tjalatjunu
16:45
Where God Is Not
13:15
Manu: A Visual Album
Who Tells the Story? & Citizen Sleuth
21:45
LM
20:15
18:00
BF
13:45
YC
Man in Black
Munt 12
Munt 13
Time Bomb Y2K
23:00
FLT
IDFA Shorts 3
18:30
EC
BF
Bad Press
13:45
S
Richland
14:30
PD
Nowhere Near
Munt 9
La cancha
EC
S
On the Adamant
Munt 1
16:00
PD, SC, S, FLT
22:00
#Racegirl – The Comeback of Sophia Flörsch
YC
Youth 13+ Love, Your Neighbour & Another Body
21:00 21:00
Metamorphosis
17:00
EC
20:00
LM
19:00
LM
... ned, tassot, yossot …
IDFA Shorts 5
Canuto’s Transformation
Tuschinski 6
19:00
Glass, My Unful�illed Life
+ Talk
S
18:00 17:45
Silence of Reason
Followed by a Talk
Background
17:00
16:00
13:45
BF
16:00 BF
BF
Machtat
10:30
Tuschinski 5
15:00
Against the Tide + Talk Oxfam Novib Special
hosted by Saeco 10:30
14:00 13:45
S
DocLab Live: Sensory Friction
OS
BF
BF
Corresponding Cinemas: Orwa Nyrabia invites Sky Hopinka
Vondelpark: Cinema
Corresponding Cinemas: Sky Hopinka invites Basma al-Sharif
Corresponding Cinemas: Basma al-Sharif invites Jumana Manna
DocLab Exhibition: Phenomenal Friction Saturday de Brakke Grond 11 November 11:30
Corresponding Cinemas: Jumana Manna invites Ibrahim Shaddad
Corresponding Cinemas: Ibrahim Shaddad invites Abderrahmane Sissako
Play, discover and experience a selection of groundbreaking interactive and multi-sensory XR documentaries in the Phenomenal Friction exhibition. Register online for a free ticket.
10:00
11:00
de Brakke Grond: Rode Zaal 11:30
12:00
13:00
14:00
12:00
OS
14:00
Borderline Visible (collective experience)
15:00
16:00
17:00
18:00
19:00
Public screenings
20:00
21:00
22:00
23:00
20:30
The Vivid Unknown
DocLab Live: Sensory Friction
DocLab: Traversing the Mist, One Two, VR Gallery
Arti et Amicitiae
Dance in the dark in immersive dance performance One Two, journey through a communal sauna in Traversing the Mist and experience a selection of the best of this year’s virtual reality works in the VR Gallery. 20:00-02:00
IDFA Dance Night hosted by Oedipus
Café Kuyl
22:00-05:00
IDFA Meets x kanaal40: The Last Year of Darkness – Live Edit Party
kanaal40
Ticket sales via kanaal40
Industry Saturdayprogram 11 November 09:00 10:00
10:00 11:00
11:00 12:00
09:30
Tuschinski 3
12:30
Market Screening
09:45
Press & Industry The Burden IC
Pathé City 2
Press & Industry As the Tide Comes In
Pathé City 3
Press & Industry Chasing the Dazzling Light
10:00
EC
11:00
Press & Industry Gerlach
Pathé City 4
12:00
Press & Industry Paragate
11:45
Industry Talk Producing Documentary Film in a Climate Crisis
15:00 16:00 FLT
Press & Industry Donga
14:00
16:00 17:00
17:00 18:00
17:15
IC
18:00 19:00
Press & Industry Life is Beautiful
19:00 20:00 19:45
20:00 21:00 FLT
Press & Industry Our Land, Our Freedom
21:00 22:00
22:00 23:00
22:15
Market Screening
LM
Press & Industry How Do You Spell Home? 14:15
13:45
S
14:00 15:00 14:45
IC
IC
10:00
ITA: Pleinfoyer
EC
13:00 14:00
Press & Industry Flickering Lights
10:00
ITA: Studio 1
Saturday 11 November 12:00 13:00
Press & Industry Tales of Oblivion
EC
LM
Press & Industry Glass, My Unful�illed Life
13:00
Industry Meetup: Our declaration of independence
Industry Session How to work with VOD
14:30
Delegation Project Presentation: South Korea
10:00
ITA: Koninklijke Foyer
Consultancy Desk: Group consultancies
10:00
Vondelpark: Studio
Industry Meetup: NCE Masterclass with editor Michael Aaglund 18:00
Boom Chicago
Guests Meet Guests – hosted by ITA and Doc/it
9
Sunday 12 November 10:00
11:00
10:00
BF
12:00
13:00
09:30
12:00
15:30
S, FF
18:00
19:00
20:00
EC
BF
13:45
11:00
10:00
Wheat Harvest
15:00
S
Manu: A Visual Album
10:15
The Tuba Thieves
Arsenie. An Amazing Afterlife
13:15
BF
18:15
The Klezmer Project
18:00
21:30
BF
Where God Is Not
20:45
S, SC
21:15
PD, S
And How Miserable Is the Home of Evil & Talking with Rivers
BF
In the Rearview
10:00
09:30
Munt 10
RS
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks
Munt 9
12:00
SC, BF
People from the Heart of the Earth & Marungka Tjalatjunu
IDFA Shorts 1
10:30
#Racegirl – The Comeback of Sophia Flörsch
Munt 12
Transition
11:00
09:45
Munt 13
Hollywoodgate
12:30
15:45
Ozogoche
14:30
RS
13:00
IC
Danger Zone
S
Our Body
18:30
LM
This Blessed Plot
21:00
S
A Zed & Two Noughts
20:30
FLT, SC
IDFA Shorts 2
20:00
RS
EC
Metamorphosis
S, EC
16:30
IC
The World Is Family
20:30
Before Sandstorm & Mud
+ Talk
T10
Petition
19:30
17:15
FLT
The Border Crossed Us
21:00
LM
FLT
The Kyiv Files
RS
YC
Youth 13+ Love, Your Neighbour & Another Body
FF
Not a Pretty Picture
17:30
BF
Youth (Spring)
Nightwatching
10:00
Eye: Cinema 2
The Zola Experience
14:00
BF
10:30
18:00
LM, PD, FLT
IDFA Shorts 3
14:30
LM
Another Day
Eye: Cinema 1
15:00
BF, LM, SC
FLT
Munt 11
BF
Knit’s Island
19:45
FLT
BF
FLT
Our Land, Our Freedom
18:45
In Wolf Country
BF
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
Incident & Landslide
S
23:00
RS
21:15
BF, SC
18:30
BF
16:30
LM
... ned, tassot, yossot …
22:00
Peter Greenaway Atelier
IDFA Shorts 7
S
While the Green Grass Grows
12:45
T10
15:15
Citizen Sleuth + Talk
21:00
20:30
IC
The Burden
12:30
Great Photo, Lovely Life
Munt 1
17:00
S
Gasoline Rainbow
A Picture to Remember + Talk
Tuschinski 6
16:00
Please be aware that this screening of the film is Dutch spoken without subtitles
Tuschinski 4
Tuschinski 5
15:00
Occupied City
FLT
2G
14:00
13:30
Kokomo City
Tuschinski 1
Tuschinski 2
Public screenings
IC
Flickering Lights
10:30
Eye: Room at the Top
Shadowtime
Carré
IDFA Hit The Eternal Memory
10:30
13:30
S
IDFA Hit Breaking Social + Talk
+ Talk
12:30
10:15
Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal
Where Zebus Speak French
11:00
They Shot the Piano Player
Ketelhuis: Zaal 1
The Cemetery of Cinema
ITA: Rabozaal
Gerlach
10:00
11:00
BF
11:00
S
Chasing the Dazzling Light
Vondelpark: Cinema
Alreadymade
10:00
14:00
Selling a Colonial War
13:45
I Heard It Through the Grapevine Youth 13+ Where Am I From? & Boyz
S
12:45
Dearest Fiona
YC
PD
Mixtape La Pampa
17:00
17:30
Joan Baez: I Am a Noise
16:00
The Castle
BF
BF
BF
Magic Mountain
20:00
Let the Canary Sing
BF
16:30
20:30
IDFA on Stage Tuning Room
BF
OS
Contagious & Queer
curated by Simon(e) van Saarloos
11:30
de Brakke Grond
DocLab Exhibition: Phenomenal Friction
Play, discover and experience a selection of groundbreaking interactive and multi-sensory XR documentaries in the Phenomenal Friction exhibition. Register online for a free ticket. 21:00 OS
de Brakke Grond: Rode Zaal
10 Arti et Amicitiae
11:30
DocLab: Traversing the Mist, One Two, VR Gallery
Dance in the dark in immersive dance performance One Two, journey through a communal sauna in Traversing the Mist and experience a selection of the best of this year’s virtual reality works in the VR Gallery.
EC
Nowhere Near
20:30
BF
Sultana’s Dream
16:15
21:45
S
Coconut Head Generation
Q&A hosted by Room for Discussion IC
La cancha
20:00
BF
Rejeito
21:30
BF
18:45
F16
T10
by Het Parool
My Worst Enemy
Africa, I Will Fleece You
The Next Life
12:45
EC
De Balie: Grote Zaal
14:00
S
Rialto VU: Zaal 4
16:00
LM
LM
BIDFA Hit urning Out + Talk hosted
18:45
F16
Step by Step & First Case, Second Case
13:00
BF
Ramona
16:15
BF
21:00
FLT
IDFA Hit Copa 71 + Talk
VPRO Extra
The Lost Boys of Mercury
Kriterion 1
17:15
S
(this conversation is) Off the Record
PD
DocLab Exhibition: Phenomenal Friction
de Brakke Grond
Play, discover and experience a selection of groundbreaking interactive and multi-sensory XR documentaries in the Phenomenal Friction exhibition. Register online for a free ticket.
Sunday 12 November de Brakke Grond: Rode Zaal
10:00
11:00
(this Public screenings conversation 21:00 OS
12:00
13:00
14:00
15:00
16:00
17:00
18:00
19:00
20:00
11:30
22:00
23:00
DocLab: Traversing the Mist, One Two, VR Gallery
Arti et Amicitiae
Dance in the dark in immersive dance performance One Two, journey through a communal sauna in Traversing the Mist and experience a selection of the best of this year’s virtual reality works in the VR Gallery.
Industry Sunday 12 program November 09:00 10:00
10:00 11:00
Sunday 12 November
11:00 12:00
12:00 13:00
12:15
LM
09:15
Market
Press & Industry Echo of You
Tuschinski Screening 3
13:00 14:00
14:00 15:00
15:00 16:00
16:00 17:00
14:30
Market Screening
17:15
17:00 18:00 EC
Press & Industry Mud
09:00
Tuschinski 4
is) Off the 21:00 Record
18:00 19:00
19:00 20:00
20:00 21:00
19:00
LM
21:00
Press & Industry Ch’ul be, Sacred Path
21:00 22:00
22:00 23:00
EC
Press & Industry Damnatio Memoriae
Market Screening
10:15
Press & Industry Danger Zone
Pathé City 1 09:45
Pathé City 3
Press & Industry 1489
10:00
ITA: Studio 1
Industry Talk Reel Resistance – Meet the Authors 10:00
ITA: Pleinfoyer
13:45
EC
FLT
12:30
FLT
Press & Industry Behind Closed Doors
Press & Industry Metamorphosis 13:00 TION
Market Screening
Industry Meetup: DAE Meetup at IDFA for members & non-members
Industry Session How to market your �ilm & How to work with a sales agent 10:00
ITA: Koninklijke Foyer
Press & Industry Thermodielectric
Press & Industry The Border Crossed Us
14:15
EC
Press & Industry La cancha
11:45
IC
11:00
Pathé City 4
12:30
IC
14:00
LM
LM
Press & Industry Burning Out
15:00
Industry Talk The State of Documentary Distribution 2023 14:00
Project Presentation: Palestine Film Institute
Consultancy Desk: Group consultancies
18:00
Boom Chicago
Guests Meet Guests – hosted by Polish Docs and HBO Europe
The Burden
11
Monday 13 November 10:00 10:00
Tuschinski 1
Rejeito
11:00
Public screenings
12:00
13:00
14:00
FLT
12:00
F16
Twenty Years Later
Tuschinski 4 11:30
Who Tells the Story? & Citizen Sleuth 11:00
IDFA Shorts 7
11:00
13:45
De Facto
11:30
Alreadymade
S
12:30
10:30
Eye: Room at the Top
15:30
14:15
FLT
The Kyiv Files
Followed by a Q&A 20:45
LM
21:15
IC
1489
Mother Suriname – Mama Sranan
LM
21:00
BF
S, FF
Gasoline Rainbow
Damnatio Memoriae
+ Talk
FLT
Hiding Saddam Hussein
18:15
EC
BF
National Geographic Doc Films
17:30
Tales of Oblivion
BF
20:15
Orlando, My Political Biography + Talk
15:15
S, PD
20:45
waking up in silence & Three Promises
The Mission hosted by
18:30
BF
BF
Red Herring
IC
1001 Days
Malqueridas
21:15
S, SC
BF
17:45
YC
S
They Shot the Piano Player
18:00
Life is Beautiful
LM
How Do You Spell Home?
Feet in Water, Head on Fire 17:30
PD
21:00
20:15
Incident & Landslide
BF
EC
And How Miserable Is the Home of Evil & Talking with Rivers
Eye: Cinema 2
18:45
Youth 9-12 Extraordinary Life
12:00
Eye: Cinema 1
FLT
14:30
BF
Munt 13
15:30
15:00
We Will Not Fade Away
Munt 12
LM
The Driven Ones
IC
Flickering Lights
YC
17:15
The Last Year of Darkness
A Picture to Remember
18:00
LM
21:30
IC
Youth 9-12 Girls’ Stories & And a Happy New Year
In Wolf Country
S
20:30
18:45
BF
23:00
IC
Helke Sander: Cleaning House
The Last
S
Richland
22:00
As the Tide Comes In
LM
EC
The Disappearance of Shere Hite
S
21:00 21:00
Atirkül in the Land of Real Men
Talk hosted by The European Cultural Foundation
14:45
FLT
11:15
20:00
BF
18:00
Chasing the Dazzling Light +
12:15
Tehachapi
Munt 11
19:00
Queendom + Talk Oxfam
15:30
13:45
11:45
18:00
17:15
SC
IDFA Shorts 4
BF, SC
Facing Darkness
Munt 10
15:00
S, BF
Copa 71
Munt 9
17:00
Novib Special
12:00
Our Land, Our Freedom
Tuschinski 6
16:00 S
Our Body
Tuschinski 2
Tuschinski 5
15:00
12:45
BF
21:30
EC
Paradocs Shorts
PD
Shadowtime
14:00
Kriterion 1
17:00
LM
Amor
On the Adamant
21:00
S
18:30
18:00
Ramona
Rialto VU: Zaal 4
21:30
S
The Echo
Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal
How to Please & Nightwatchers 21:00
BF
Bye Bye Tiberias
Q&A hosted by CUT 15:00
The World Is Family
Ketelhuis: Zaal 1
IC
18:00
IDFA Shorts 2
SC, BF
IDFA Shorts 6
21:15
FLT, SC
Ozogoche
BF
LM
13:00
Filmmaker Talk Claire Simon
ITA: Studio 1 10:30
De Balie: Grote Zaal
T10
To Live is Better Than to Die
14:30
Milisuthando
De Balie: Filmzaal
BF
18:00 PD,SC,S,FLT
21:00
IDFA Shorts 5
The Zola Experience
19:30
RS
Alone
Vondelpark: Cinema 13:00
Contagious & Queer Belonging & Performing the Self
Vondelpark: Studio
workshop by Leila Weefur 13:00
Contagious & Queer Virus Becoming
Vondelpark: Franse Kamer
workshop by Shu Lea Cheang 11:30
de Brakke Grond
12 de Brakke Grond: Rode Zaal
DocLab Exhibition: Phenomenal Friction
Play, discover and experience a selection of groundbreaking interactive and multi-sensory XR documentaries in the Phenomenal Friction exhibition. Register online for a free ticket. 12:00
Borderline Visible (collective
OS
14:00
The Vivid Unknown
20:30
DocLab Live: The Art of Resistance
LM
SC, BF
Contagious & Queer Virus Becoming
Vondelpark: Franse Kamer
workshop by Shu Lea Cheang
DocLab Exhibition: Phenomenal Friction Monday de Brakke Grond 13 November 11:30
Play, discover and experience a selection of groundbreaking interactive and multi-sensory XR documentaries in the Phenomenal Friction exhibition. Register online for a free ticket.
10:00
11:00
de Brakke Grond: Rode Zaal 11:30
12:00
13:00
14:00
12:00
OS
14:00
Borderline Visible (collective experience)
15:00
16:00
17:00
18:00
19:00
10:00 11:00
11:00 12:00
The Vivid Unknown
12:00 13:00
09:30
10:00
Press & Industry Embodied Chorus
09:45
FLT
Press & Industry The Kyiv Files 10:00
Industry Talk The Art of Arti�icial Cinema 10:00
12:15 ON
13:45
Market Screening
DocLab Live: The Art of Resistance
11:45
FLT
Press & Industry Hiding Saddam Hussein 12:00
15:00 16:00
16:00 17:00
16:00
LM
Press & Industry Ozogoche
17:00 18:00
18:00 19:00
18:15
Press & Industry In Wolf Country
19:00 20:00
20:00 21:00 21:15
FLT
21:00 22:00
22:00 23:00 LM
Press & Industry The Zola Experience
IC
Press & Industry The Last
LM
Press & Industry Another Day
13:00
Filmmaker Talk Claire Simon
Industry Session How to sell shorts 10:00
ITA: Koninklijke Foyer
LM
14:00 15:00
Market Screening
IC
Press & Industry Limitation
13:00 14:00
13:15
Market Screening
Tuschinski 3
ITA: Pleinfoyer
23:00
Monday 13 November
10:45
ITA: Studio 1
22:00
Dance in the dark in immersive dance performance One Two, journey through a communal sauna in Traversing the Mist and experience a selection of the best of this year’s virtual reality works in the VR Gallery.
09:00 10:00
Pathé City 4
21:00
20:30
Monday 13 November Industry program
Pathé City 3
20:00
DocLab: Traversing the Mist, One Two, VR Gallery
Arti et Amicitiae
Pathé City 2
Public screenings
14:00
LM
Press & Industry Helke Sander: Cleaning House 14:15
LM
Press & Industry Mother Suriname - Mama Sranan 15:00
Industry Talk Livelihood in the Documentary Industry 14:00
Delegation Project Presentation: Poland
Consultancy Desk: Group consultancies
18:00
De Duif
Guests Meet Guests - hosted by ARTE 20:00
De Kring
Industry Meetup: NBF@IDFA Boundaries within Documentaries
Atirkül in the Land of Real Men
13
Tuesday 14 November 10:00
11:00
12:00
10:30
Tuschinski 1
Public screenings
The World Is Family
13:00
11:30
11:15
How to Please & Nightwatchers
11:30
11:45
Silence of Reason
Munt 12
12:15
14:45
SC, BF
10:30
14:00
T10
Petition
The First Year
13:00
Paradocs Shorts
Eye: Cinema 2
21:15
20:00
BF
21:15
FLT
20:45
21:00
20:30
20:30
IC
BF
The Mother of All Lies
18:45
FF, BF
IC
Limitation
Followed by a Talk
The Island
FLT
Donga
FLT
The Burden
FLT
Son of the Mullah
BF
17:30
PD
De Facto
Behind Closed Doors
F16
S
The Trial
Great Photo, Lovely Life
17:45
FLT
Facing Darkness
S
17:00
15:45
PD
Invisible Nation
Bila Burba
S
The Eternal Memory
20:45
BF
Songs of Earth
S
They Shot the Piano Player
LM
Atirkül in the Land of Real Men
LM
17:30
S
Breaking Social
IDFA Shorts 6
Munt 13
Eye: Cinema 1
14:15
21:30
LM
YC
18:30
BF
Rejeito
14:00
EC
The Cemetery of Cinema
15:30
BF
RS
Mrs. Fang
17:00
RS
23:00 BF
LM
Under the Moonlight
Ch’ul be, Sacred Path
The Greenaway Alphabet
Transition
20:45
18:30
BF
14:30
12:15
Munt 11
17:30
22:00
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood + Talk
LM
Youth 9-12 Figure & JessZilla
21:00 21:00
Embodied Chorus
Feet in Water, Head on Fire
YC
20:00
FLT
19:00
YC
BF
14:45
BF
Youth 9-12 Girls’ Stories & And a Happy New Year
Munt 10
Youth 9-12 Extraordinary Life
The Lost Boys of Mercury
Magic Mountain
11:15
18:00
Echo of You
15:45
S, SC
19:00
Stamped from the Beginning + Talk
14:15
SC, BF
12:00
18:00
17:30
Socialist Realism
Incident & Landslide
Munt 9
17:00
15:00
13:15
Tuschinski 6
16:00
IC
LM
Tuschinski 4
Tuschinski 5
15:00
As the Tide Comes In
1001 Days
Tuschinski 2
14:00 14:00
IC
21:30
S
Friendship
BF
waking up in silence & Three Promises
10:30
Eye: Room at the Top
Shadowtime
14:45
20 Days in Mariupol
Kriterion 1
18:00
BF
21:15
BF
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
Q&A hosted by Room for Discussion
18:30
Al Djanat, the Original Paradise
Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal 18:00
Rialto VU: Zaal 4
FLT
They and Them
VPRO Extra 21:15
BF
BF
Sultana’s Dream
21:00
S, EC
Before Sandstorm & Mud
Against the Tide
18:00
21:00
BF
Q&A hosted by Soapbox 15:00
How Do You Spell Home?
Ketelhuis: Zaal 1
LM
Burning Out
LM
The Border Crossed Us
20:00
IDFA on Stage The Lingering Now, Our Odyssey II
ITA: Rabozaal
FLT
OS
Ticket sales via ITA 13:00
Filmmaker Talk Maite Alberdi
ITA: Studio 1
14:45
S, PD
And How Miserable Is the Home of Evil & Talking with Rivers
De Balie: Grote Zaal
17:00
Richland
S
20:30
Danger Zone + Talk
20:30
OS
IDFA on Stage Spectral Transmissions: Love Bends Time
Frascati 1
21:00
When the Bough Breaks
Vondelpark: Cinema 13:00
Contagious & Queer Is Isolation a Form of Experience?
Vondelpark: Studio
A Gift Science Archive pop-up
20:30
ARTISPlanetarium
14 de Brakke Grond
IC
11:30
DocLab Exhibition: Phenomenal Friction
Play, discover and experience a selection of groundbreaking interactive and multi-sensory XR documentaries in the Phenomenal Friction exhibition. Register online for a free ticket.
DocLab Live: Microbes, Machines, and Ahorse!
T10
Contagious & Queer Is Isolation a Form of Experience?
Vondelpark: Studio
A Gift Science Archive pop-up
Tuesday 14 November ARTISPlanetarium
10:00
11:00
DocLab Live: screenings Public Microbes, 20:30
12:00
13:00
14:00
15:00
16:00
17:00
18:00
19:00
11:30
Machines, and
20:00 21:00 Ahorse!
22:00
23:00
DocLab Exhibition: Phenomenal Friction
de Brakke Grond
Play, discover and experience a selection of groundbreaking interactive and multi-sensory XR documentaries in the Phenomenal Friction exhibition. Register online for a free ticket. 11:30
15:00
The Vivid Unknown
de Brakke Grond: Rode Zaal
19:00
DocLab: Immersive Showcase
The Vivid Unknown
VR without headsets, new presentation forms 11:30
DocLab: Traversing the Mist, One Two, VR Gallery
Arti et Amicitiae
Dance in the dark in immersive dance performance One Two, journey through a communal sauna in Traversing the Mist and experience a selection of the best of this year’s virtual reality works in the VR Gallery.
Industry Tuesday 14 program November 09:00 10:00
10:00 11:00
Tuesday 14 November
11:00 12:00
12:00 13:00
13:00 14:00
12:00
Market Screening
Tuschinski 3 10:00
Pathé City 2 09:30
Pathé City 3
Press & Industry Bila Burba
09:00
Pathé City 4
11:45
EC
Press & Industry The Wasp and the Orchid FLT
Market Screening 13:45
LM
Press & Industry Under the Moonlight
11:15
Market Screening
11:30
FLT
15:00 16:00
16:00 17:00 16:45
17:00 18:00
18:00 19:00 19:00
LM
Press & Industry Atirkül in the Land of Real Men
19:00 20:00
Press & Industry Amor
LM
20:00 21:00 21:30
21:00 22:00
22:00 23:00 LM
Press & Industry The Driven Ones
Press & Industry Invisible Nation
13:15
FF, LM
Press & Industry A band of dreamers and a judge
14:00 15:00
14:30
Press & Industry Son of the Mullah 13:30
S
Press & Industry Friendship
FLT
LM
Press & Industry 1001 Days
17:00
de Brakke Grond: Rode Zaal 10:00
ITA: Studio 1
Industry Talk In Conversation with Ted Hope
13:00
Filmmaker Talk Maite Alberdi
ITA: Pleinfoyer 10:00
ITA: Koninklijke Foyer
15:00
14:00
Industry Talk Europe Conference The camera in the face of the terrible
Project Presentation: American Film Showcase
Consultancy Desk: Group consultancies
13:30ON
Vondelpark: Cinema
Unity for Humanity & IDFA DocLab
Market Screening
15:00
Market Screening 18:00
De Duif
Guests Meet Guests - hosted by Catalan Films and Docs Barcelona
15
Wednesday 15 November 10:00
11:00
12:00
11:00
Hiding Saddam Hussein
Tuschinski 1
Public screenings
13:00
14:00
15:00
16:00
17:00
15:00
FLT
18:00
In the Rearview + Talk
13:30
Our Land, Our
16:30
BF
Knit’s Island
20:00
21:00
22:00
21:15
FLT
FLT
Copa 71
Freedom hosted by Mama Cash
hosted by De Groene Amsterdammer
Tuschinski 2
19:00
18:15
BF
20:30
RS
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
FLT, SC
IDFA Shorts 2 + Talk hosted by OneWorld 20:45
11:00
13:15
SC, BF
People from the Heart of the Earth & Marungka Tjalatjunu 11:30
The Cemetery of Cinema
10:00
Life is Beautiful
15:45
Al Djanat, the Original Paradise 15:00
BF
12:45
IC
We Will Not Fade Away 15:15
FLT
Behind Closed Doors
11:30
12:00
Red Herring
Munt 11
Malqueridas
The Driven Ones
10:00
The Border Crossed Us
12:30
FLT
Mother Suriname Mama Sranan 11:30
Salesman
Eye: Cinema 2
14:30
F16
18:00
21:30
BF
The Disappearance of Shere Hite 22:00
IDFA Shorts 1 18:45
17:30
21:30
BF
The Lost Boys of Mercury 21:00
IC
DocLab Live: Koyaanisqatsi Special 20:30
FF
Not a Pretty Picture
FLT
Stamped from the Beginning
LM
Echo of You
The Last
LM
21:15
BF
18:00
BF
Helke Sander: Cleaning House
19:15 BF,LM,SC
LM
LM
Metamorphosis
EC
BF
The Mission
BF
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
21:00
Damnatio Memoriae
18:45
Ch’ul be, Sacred Path
15:00
LM
FLT
Magic Mountain
15:30
Eye: Cinema 1
BF
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
Munt 13
21:00
Son of the Mullah
Great Photo, Lovely Life
16:45
IC
Flickering Lights
FLT
Bila Burba
BF
17:45
LM
S
21:30
FLT
Q&A hosted by Machiavelli
IC
15:00
14:00
Munt 12
18:45
18:00
Limitation
BF
This Blessed Plot
Donga
BF
14:45
BF
20:00
FF, S
BF
LM
Embodied Chorus
Sultana’s Dream
Munt 10
Gasoline Rainbow + Talk
BF
12:00
Tuschinski 6
16:30
BF
Queendom
The Trial
Tuschinski 5
Munt 9
LM
Ozogoche
Tuschinski 3
Tuschinski 4
23:00
IC
1489 + Talk
10:30
Eye: Room at the Top
Shadowtime
15:45
Invisible Nation
Kriterion 1
18:45
FLT
21:30
S
Friendship
18:30
Arsenie. An Amazing Afterlife 21:15
BF
waking up in silence & Three Promises
Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal 18:00
Motherland
Rialto VU: Zaal 4
21:00
BF
15:00
Bad Press
20:45
S
Occupied City
Ketelhuis: Zaal 1
BF
LM
Glass, My Unful�illed Life 20:00
IDFA on Stage The Lingering Now, Our Odyssey II
ITA: Rabozaal
LM
Under the Moonlight
OS
Ticket sales via ITA 13:00
ITA: Studio 1
De Balie: Grote Zaal
Filmmaker Talk Ada Solomon
14:15
Songs of Earth
S
17:00
20:30
BF
20 Days in Mariupol
Transition + Talk
20:30
18:00
They Shot the Piano Player
Podium Mozaïek
18:30
Danger Zone
Cinema De Vlugt
16 Vondelpark: Cinema
14:45
Special Screening: Eye Art & Film Prize
17:30
Bing’ai
T10
OS
IDFA on Stage Spectral Transmissions: Love Bends Time
Frascati 1
21:00
S
BF
BF
The Mother of All Lies
IC
21:00
SC
Red Flag & Postcards from the Verge
S
They Shot the Piano Player
Podium Mozaïek
Wednesday 15 November Cinema De Vlugt 10:00
11:00
12:00
18:30
Danger Zone
13:00
14:00
15:00
16:00
14:45
Special Screening: Eye Art & Film Prize winner
Vondelpark: Cinema 13:00
17:00
18:00
17:30
11:30
Red Flagscreenings & Public Postcards
20:00
T10
Bing’ai
21:00
from the 21:00 Verge
SC
22:00
23:00
DocLab Exhibition: Phenomenal Friction
de Brakke Grond
Play, discover and experience a selection of groundbreaking interactive and multi-sensory XR documentaries in the Phenomenal Friction exhibition. Register online for a free ticket. 12:00
de Brakke Grond: Rode Zaal 11:30
14:00
OS
Borderline Visible (collective experience)
The Vivid Unknown
DocLab: Traversing the Mist, One Two, VR Gallery
Arti et Amicitiae
Dance in the dark in immersive dance performance One Two, journey through a communal sauna in Traversing the Mist and experience a selection of the best of this year’s virtual reality works in the VR Gallery.
Industry Wednesday program 15 November 09:00 10:00
10:00 11:00
11:00 12:00
Wednesday 15 November
12:00 13:00
12:00
LM
Press & Industry Where Zebus Speak French
Tuschinski 3
12:15
13:00 14:00
14:00 15:00
14:30
15:00 16:00 FLT
Press & Industry #Racegirl – The Comeback of Sophia Flörsch
16:00 17:00
17:00 18:00
18:00 19:00
19:00 20:00
20:00 21:00
21:00 22:00
22:00 23:00
17:30
Market Screening
Market Screening
Munt 13 10:00
13:00
Industry Talk Kids can handle it! Kids Doc Trends 2023
Filmmaker Talk Ada Solomon
10:00
ITA: Koninklijke Foyer
IC
Contagious & Queer Exquisite Corpse: Archival material and zine making workshop
Vondelpark: Studio
ITA: Studio 1
19:00
The Mother of All Lies
15:00
Industry Talk Unveiling history
Consultancy Desk: Group consultancies
12:00
Vondelpark: Cinema
Market Screening
18:00
Café Kuyl
Guests Meet Guests
17
Thursday 16 November 10:00
11:00
Public screenings
12:00
13:00
14:00
15:00
14:00
17:00
12:15
10:00
They and Them
12:15
Socialist Realism
Tuschinski 5
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks
15:00
18:00
GAMA
22:00
The Mother of All Lies
20:45
#Racegirl – The Comeback of Sophia Flörsch
FLT
21:15
LM
YC
Youth 13+ Where Am I From? & Boyz 20:15
EC
T10
Before the Flood
11:15
10:30
Bushman
Tuschinski 6
15:30
FLT
The Kyiv Files
The Castle
13:45
BF
Paragate
11:45
Youth 9-12 Figure & JessZilla
Munt 10
16:15
EC
14:45
YC
11:45
10:00
Munt 13
14:15
S, SC
Incident & Landslide
Time Bomb Y2K
11:30
Burning Out
Eye: Cinema 1
LM
This Blessed Plot
I Heard It Through the Grapevine 20:45
EC
18:15
S
18:30
IC
Selling a Colonial War
15:15
18:00
F16
EC
21:15
FF
The Connection
F16
Daguerréotypes
+ Talk hosted by De Groene Amsterdammer
Fogo île de feu & On the Other Island
Thermodielectric
IC
The Burden
14:45
Eye: Cinema 2
20:00
FLT
Canuto’s Transformation
15:30
CC
małni—towards the ocean, towards the shore
PD
Samsara
17:15
LM
F16
20:30
S
Invisible Nation
Glass, My Unful�illed Life 12:45
BF
21:00
Step by Step & First Case, Second Case
Background
17:00
IC
As the Tide Comes In
S
Manu: A Visual Album
18:00
S
Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros
Munt 12
18:30
EC
RS
Rembrandt’s J’Accuse
21:30
BF
The Tuba Thieves
La cancha
12:00
Munt 11
18:30
LM
The Zola Experience
Q&A hosted by SIB Amsterdam
11:15
Munt 9
RS
12:45
FF
23:00
BF
Helke Sander: Cleaning House
S
Alreadymade
21:00
20:15
18:30
FLT
20:00
BF
My Worst Enemy
15:45
IDFA Shorts 6
Tuschinski 4
18:00
PD
Nowhere Near
13:00 SC, BF
PD
Dearest Fiona
19:00 BF
Joan Baez: I Am a Noise
15:00
S
The Echo
Tuschinski 2
18:00
17:15
Who Tells the Story? & Citizen Sleuth
Tuschinski 1
Tuschinski 3
16:00
S, BF
20:30
F16
16 Worlds on 16: American Experimental
LM
Where Zebus Speak French
10:30
Shadowtime
Eye: Room at the Top
14:30
17:45
FLT, SC
IDFA Shorts 2
Kriterion 1
18:30
Surprise Screening
21:15
FF, S
Mambar Pierrette
Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal 18:00
14:45
10:00
Sensory friendly screening: Ozogoche
LM
13:00
While the Green Grass Grows
17:30
S
Gerlach
Ketelhuis: Zaal 1
The Wasp and the Orchid
20:45
LM
17:00
S
The Clinic
20:00
EC
19:30
T10
S
Pictures of Ghosts
20:30
In Wolf Country
DeLaMar: Mary Dresselhuys Zaal 14:30
Where God Is Not
De Balie: Grote Zaal 14:00
Podium Mozaïek
LM
Omi Nobu
17:45
BF
16:00
Hiding Saddam Hussein
Hollywoodgate
How Do You Spell Home?
18:30
Youth 13+ Love, Your Neighbour & Another Body 18:45
YC
Coconut Head Generation
Bijlmerbios
Cinema
20:30
FLT
19:00
IC
Life is Beautiful
Cinema De Vlugt
18 Vondelpark:
IC, FF
S
Tehachapi
The Next Life
BF
Orlando, My Political Biography
The Driven Ones
Rialto VU: Zaal 4
Ketelhuis: Zaal 2
21:30
PD
De Facto
17:30
T10
Last Train Home
BF
20:00
FLT
BF
21:30
LM
FLT
2G
21:00
S, FF
Gasoline Rainbow
21:00
FLT
Stamped from the Beginning
’Til Madness Do Us Part
RS
Youth 13+ Love, Your Neighbour & Another Body
Cinema De Vlugt
Thursday 16 November Bijlmerbios 10:00
11:00
12:00
18:45
Coconut Head Generation
13:00
14:00
15:00
16:00
17:00
18:00
17:30
19:00
BF
Stampedscreenings from Public the Beginning 21:00
20:00
21:00
FLT
22:00
20:00
T10
Last Train Home
Vondelpark: Cinema
Gasoline Rainbow
23:00 RS
’Til Madness Do Us Part
13:00
Contagious & Queer Image2Text < / > Text2Image
Vondelpark: Franse Kamer
workshop by Angelo Madsen Minax 11:30
DocLab Exhibition: Phenomenal Friction
de Brakke Grond
Play, discover and experience a selection of groundbreaking interactive and multi-sensory XR documentaries in the Phenomenal Friction exhibition. Register online for a free ticket. 11:30
The Vivid Unknown
de Brakke Grond: Rode Zaal
11:30
DocLab: Traversing the Mist, One Two, VR Gallery
Arti et Amicitiae
Dance in the dark in immersive dance performance One Two, journey through a communal sauna in Traversing the Mist and experience a selection of the best of this year’s virtual reality works in the VR Gallery.
Industry Thursdayprogram 16 November 09:00 10:00
10:00 11:00
11:00 12:00
Thursday 16 November 12:00 13:00
13:00 14:00
14:00 15:00
15:00 16:00
16:00 17:00
17:00 18:00
18:00 19:00
19:00 20:00
20:00 21:00
21:00 22:00
22:00 23:00
20:00
Awards Ceremony
ITA: Rabozaal 14:00
ITA: Studio 1
Industry Talk Dutch Docs Day
Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros
19
Friday 17 November 10:00
11:00
Public screenings 12:00
13:00
14:00
15:00
16:00
17:00
18:00
19:00
20:00
19:00
EC
A Picture to Remember
Tuschinski 1 11:45
11:15
Mixtape La Pampa
Tuschinski 3
The First Year
Paradocs Shorts
14:30
S
11:45
Tuschinski 4
15:45
BF
The Trial
Tuschinski 2
Bila Burba
13:30
12:15
Feet in Water, Head on Fire
11:30
Africa, I Will Fleece You
Munt 9
14:00 S, SC
15:30
EC
Damnatio Memoriae
11:45
Munt 11
The Eternal Memory
Munt 12
1489
14:30
S
#Racegirl – The Comeback of Sophia Flörsch
12:15
12:00
Echo of You
15:00
F16
Goodbye CP
21:45
LM
LM
Atirkül in the Land of Real Men 21:15
LM
BF
We Will Not Fade Away
21:00
SC, BF
How to Please & Nightwatchers
18:30
21:15
IC
The Last
EC
Metamorphosis
20:00
SC
FF, BF
The Klezmer Project
18:00
Surprise Screening
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
BF
This Woman
BF
Motherland
Red Flag & Postcards from the Verge
14:30
LM
12:30
Eye: Cinema 2
18:00
16:15
21:30
IC
18:30
FF, LM
FLT
Donga
BF
The Castle
Another Day
A Band of Dreamers and a Judge
13:15
20:15
Ch’ul be, Sacred Path
LM
FLT
15:00
IC
Munt 13
Eye: Cinema 1
... ned, tassot, yossot …
BF
Al Djanat, the Original Paradise
19:15
S
Friendship
20:30
BF
Bad Press
22:00
S
YC
Limitation
16:15
Incident & Landslide
IC
Life is Beautiful
18:15
FLT
Stamped from the Beginning
F16
20:45
LM
LM
Amor
15:30
BF
12:15
Munt 10
17:00
PD
De Facto
Tuschinski 6
17:30
23:00 IC
Danger Zone
This Blessed Plot
Youth 9-12 Extraordinary Life
22:00
21:30
19:15
T10
To Live is Better Than to Die
BF
Transition
Tuschinski 5
Embodied Chorus
16:45
FLT
14:30
F16
18:15
PD
21:00
S
Occupied City + Talk
17:30
F16
20:30
S
Songs of Earth
RS
Nightwatching
Hosted by Cortazu
10:30
Shadowtime
Eye: Room at the Top
15:00
18:15
LM
1001 Days
Kriterion 1
Under the Moonlight
Q&A hosted by Off-Screen
21:00
LM
18:30
The Last Year of Darkness 21:15
FLT
Behind Closed Doors
Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal 18:00
Rialto VU: Zaal 4
20:45
Silence of Reason
Q&A hosted by MKDA 10:30
Youth (Spring)
Ketelhuis: Zaal 1 10:00
Ketelhuis: Zaal 2
15:00
RS
Choose Me
BF
17:00
Red Herring
BF
Best of IDFA: Audience Favorites
18:45
Best of IDFA: Award Winners
21:15
BF
Son of the Mullah
20:00
Best of IDFA: Audience Favorites
14:30
14:00
Tales of Oblivion
EC
20:30
T10
Born in Beijing
16:00
Coconut Head Generation
16:00
The Mother of All Lies + Talk hosted by Female Economy
Mother Suriname Mama Sranan BF
S
Gerlach + Talk hosted by The European Cultural Foundation 18:45
BF
FLT
S
Richland
De Balie: Grote Zaal
20 Cinema De Vlugt
S
In the Rearview
10:00
Podium Mozaïek
20:00
Breaking Social
09:30
DeLaMar: Wim Sonneveld Zaal
LM
EC
S, EC
10:30
DLM: Mary Dresselhuys
20:00
Mother Suriname Mama Sranan
Sensory friendly screening: Before Sandstorm & Mud
ITA: Rabozaal
T10
Bing’ai
FLT
The Border Crossed Us
BF
19:00
The Wasp and the Orchid
LM
EC
21:00
Selling a Colonial War
IC
Born in Beijing
De Balie: Grote Zaal
Public screenings Podium Mozaïek 10:00
11:00
14:00
Tales of Oblivion
12:00
13:00
EC
14:00
15:00
Gerlach + Talk hosted by The European Cultural Foundation 16:00
Coconut Head Generation
16:00
17:00
16:00
The Mother of All Lies
Cinema De Vlugt
18:45
BF
18:00
Bye Bye Tiberias
Meervaart Blauwe Zaal
19:00
19:00
BF
The Wasp and the Orchid
+ Talk hosted by Female Economy
Followed by a Talk in Dutch 17:00
Mother Suriname Mama Sranan
Selling War Friday 17a Colonial November LM
21:00
20:00
21:00
22:00
23:00
EC
20:00
BF
IC
FLT, SC
IDFA Meets x Studio Meervaart: IDFA Shorts 2 19:45
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Bijlmerbios 10:00 BF,LM,SC
Vondelpark: Cinema
13:00
IDFA Shorts 1
SC
IDFA Shorts 4
15:45
Youth 13+ Un�iltered Reality
YC
18:45 LM, PD
IDFA Shorts 3
21:30 SC, BF
IDFA Shorts 6
13:00
Contagious & Queer Orientations for Transitioning Times
Vondelpark: Studio
workshop by Adriana Knouf 11:30
de Brakke Grond
DocLab Exhibition: Phenomenal Friction
Play, discover and experience a selection of groundbreaking interactive and multi-sensory XR documentaries in the Phenomenal Friction exhibition. Register online for a free ticket. 11:30
de Brakke Grond: Rode Zaal
The Vivid Unknown
11:30
Arti et Amicitiae
DocLab: Traversing the Mist, One Two, VR Gallery
Dance in the dark in immersive dance performance One Two, journey through a communal sauna in Traversing the Mist and experience a selection of the best of this year’s virtual reality works in the VR Gallery.
We Will Not Fade Away
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Saturday 18 November 10:00
11:00
Public screenings
12:00
13:00
14:00
15:00
16:00
17:00
18:00
19:00
20:00
10:00
Best of IDFA: Audience Favorites
Tuschinski 1
11:00
14:00
LM
10:00
In Wolf Country
Tuschinski 5
Limitation
13:15
11:00
09:45
Wheat Harvest
14:30
12:30
10:30
10:00
Munt 11
Against the Tide
10:45
Munt 12
1489
Munt 13
As the Tide Comes In
12:45
BF
10:15
Hiding Saddam Hussein 13:00
IC
FLT
Donga
21:30
Surprise Screening
16:30
Choose Me
15:30
SC, BF
Our Land, Our Freedom
19:15
BF
GAMA
18:45
FLT
Arsenie. An Amazing Afterlife 13:45
A Zed & Two Noughts
16:45
RS
21:45
EC
21:15
BF, FF
Arna’s Children
19:45
S
IDFA on Stage Tuning Room
11:00
10:00
Youth 9-12 Figure & JessZilla
13:00
YC
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
11:00
Facing Darkness
Rialto VU: Zaal 4
12:00
10:00
Sensory friendly screening: Echo of You
15:30
On the Adamant
14:30
Time Bomb Y2K 15:00
S
18:45
BF
Orlando, My Political Biography
BF
S
Alreadymade
Ketelhuis: Zaal 1
16:00
S
Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros
Kriterion 1
The Cemetery of Cinema 18:30
S
17:30
BF
Youth 13+ Un�iltered Reality
Jeugdvoorstelling
Let the Canary Sing
IC
BF
21:00
LM
The Driven Ones
PD
Dearest Fiona
19:00
Best of IDFA: Award Winners
Best of IDFA: Award Winners
De Balie: Grote Zaal
The Lost Boys of Mercury
10:30
BF
20:00
13:30
Son of the Mullah
19:00
FLT
BF
16:00
The Klezmer Project
18:45
BF
Bye Bye Tiberias
18:30
Copa 71
YC
14:00
FF, BF
The Klezmer Project + Concert Amsterdam Klezmer Band
Cinema De Vlugt
Youth 13+ Where Am I From? & Boyz
LM
2Doc Primeur
Queendom
11:00
IC
Flickering Lights
Burning Out NPO
13:30
Podium Mozaïek
21:30
IC
Life is Beautiful
10:30
Blauwe Zaal
21:30
The Burden
LM
DeLaMar: Wim Sonneveld Zaal
22 Meervaart
BF
Sultana’s Dream
20:45
YC
18:00
YC
21:45
BF
CC
Bamako
10:00
DeLaMar: Mary Dresselhuys Zaal
OS
Shadowtime
Eye: Room at the Top
Ketelhuis: Zaal 2
BF
Rejeito
20:30
10:30
Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal
22:00
EC
Chasing the Dazzling Light
F16
Salesman
FLT
2G
The Island
17:00
Tomorrow’s Classics
Eye: Cinema 2
20:30
S, PD
And How Miserable Is the Home of Evil & Talking with Rivers
FF, S
FLT
People from the Heart of the Earth & Marungka Tjalatjunu
10:00
Eye: Cinema 1
21:45
Gasoline Rainbow
13:30
IC
BF
FF
F16
From the East
15:15
LM
Omi Nobu
20:15
BF
The Tuba Thieves
Letter from My Village
17:00
EC
Metamorphosis
20:45
19:00
LM
PD
Nowhere Near
Great Photo, Lovely Life
FLT
The Kyiv Files
The Zola Experience
13:45
S
The Echo
Munt 10
17:30
21:45
CC
Corresponding Cinemas: Basma al-Sharif & Jumana Manna
BF
Where God Is Not
LM
... ned, tassot, yossot … 18:15
15:45
PD
Samsara
18:45
BF
LM
Another Day
21:30
S
Background
S
While the Green Grass Grows
S, BF
T10
Malqueridas
14:00
IC
Who Tells the Story? & Citizen Sleuth
Tuschinski 6
16:00
LM
EC
Canuto’s Transformation
19:00
FLT
Invisible Nation
Helke Sander: Cleaning House
10:30
23:00
21:00
EC
Damnatio Memoriae
16:15
LM
Ch’ul be, Sacred Path
FLT
17:45
S
Tehachapi
Where Zebus Speak French
Tuschinski 4
Munt 9
14:45
S
Our Body
Tuschinski 3
22:00
NPO IDFA Audience Award Winner
10:30
Tuschinski 2
21:00
20:00
YC
Youth 9-12 Girls’ Stories & And a Happy New
17:00
Ramona
BF
21:15
BF
FLT
19:45
Machtat
Joan Baez: I Am a Noise
21:00
Kokomo City +
BF
Talk hosted by New Metropolis New West & Stichting Prisma Groep
BF
BF
Queendom
Podium Mozaïek
The Klezmer Project
Bye Bye Tiberias
Public screenings Cinema De Vlugt 10:00
11:00 11:00
18:30
Copa 71
12:00
Youth 13+ Where Am I From? & Boyz
Meervaart Blauwe Zaal
13:00
14:00
15:00
14:00
YC
16:00
17:00 17:00
YC
Youth 9-12 Girls’ Stories & And a Happy New Year
Ramona
Kokomo Saturday 18City November 21:00
FLT
19:45
BF
10:00
Youth 9-12 Extraordinary Life
13:00
YC
IDFA Shorts 2
FLT, SC
16:15
BF, SC
IDFA Shorts 7
BF
Machtat
19:00
BF
+ Talk hosted by New Metropolis New West & Stichting Prisma Groep
18:00
Mother Suriname Mama Sranan
Bijlmerbios
Vondelpark: Cinema
Joan Baez: I Am a Noise
21:30
LM
19:00
IDFA Meets x Subbacultcha
Milisuthando
PD
Sergeant responds to Paradocs shorts
21:00
IDFA Meets x Subbacultcha
BF
PD
Sergeant responds to Paradocs shorts
11:30
de Brakke Grond
DocLab Exhibition: Phenomenal Friction
Play, discover and experience a selection of groundbreaking interactive and multi-sensory XR documentaries in the Phenomenal Friction exhibition. Register online for a free ticket. 11:30
de Brakke Grond: Rode Zaal
The Vivid Unknown
11:30
Arti et Amicitiae
DocLab: Traversing the Mist, One Two, VR Gallery
Dance in the dark in immersive dance performance One Two, journey through a communal sauna in Traversing the Mist and experience a selection of the best of this year’s virtual reality works in the VR Gallery. 20:00-02:00
Café Kuyl
IDFA Dance Night Karaoke Edition
Terra Mater
23
Sunday 19 November 10:00
11:00
10:00
12:00
13:00
12:30
S
Gerlach
Tuschinski 1
Public screenings The Clinic
14:00
15:00
16:00
17:00
18:00
16:00
IC, FF
LM
Vriendenvoorstelling Glass, My Unful�illed Life IDFA bedankt haar Vrienden
10:30
The Last
Tuschinski 2
13:30
IC
Before Sandstorm & Mud
11:00
10:30
14:00
BF
This Woman
Tuschinski 3
11:00
10:00
Manu: A Visual Album
11:00
10:15
The Wasp and the Orchid
Munt 10
10:15
15:45
12:45
Youth 13+ Love, Your Neighbour & Another Body
10:30
16:00
IC
Surprise Screening
S
16:30
15:15
LM
Under the Moonlight 16:00
LM
14:00
Koyaanisqatsi
Echo of You
LM
16:30
EC
Paragate
BF
Machtat
The Driven Ones
11:00
Eye: Cinema 2
YC
13:30
IDFA Junior
Eye: Cinema 1
LM
Amor
12:30
S
Friendship
F16
Selling a Colonial War
YC
T10
16:15
LM
12:45
Youth 9-12 Figure & JessZilla
LM
Before the Flood
Occupied City
Munt 13
LM
Ozogoche
10:45
Munt 12
16:30
15:15
1001 Days
BF
FF, LM
16:00
S
Twenty Years Later
10:00
16:30
Embodied Chorus
LM
13:15
CC
EC
20 Days in Mariupol
Munt 11
FLT
Atirkül in the Land of Real Men 13:00
Corresponding Cinemas: Ibrahim Shaddad
Munt 9
13:30
EC
EC
A Band of Dreamers and a Judge
Behind Closed Doors
IC
The World Is Family
Tuschinski 6
EC
14:00
YC
Thermodielectric
Tuschinski 5
Silence of Reason
La cancha
Youth 9-12 Girls’ Stories & And a Happy New Year
Tuschinski 4
16:45
S, EC
Tehran Has No More Pomegranates!
10:30
FF
Shadowtime
Eye: Room at the Top
11:00
10:30
Tales of Oblivion
Rialto De Pijp: Bovenzaal
13:30
BF
Ramona
Kriterion 1
Mixtape La Pampa
13:30
EC
10:15
The Border Crossed Us
13:15
S
Pictures of Ghosts
Rialto VU: Zaal 4
10:00
My Worst Enemy
Ketelhuis: Zaal 1
The Mission
13:00
BF
16:15 LM, PD
S
IDFA Shorts 3 16:00
FLT
The Castle
BF
16:15
BF
How Do You Spell Home? 16:00
BF, SC
IDFA Shorts 7
The Kyiv Files
LM
FLT
10:00
Best of IDFA: Award Winners
ITA: Rabozaal
10:00
DeLaMar: Mary Dresselhuys Zaal
Best of IDFA: Award Winners
09:30
DLM: Wim Sonneveld
Best of IDFA: Audience Favorites
De Balie: Grote Zaal
Old Men
10:30
11:00
Milisuthando
Podium Mozaïek
13:15
T10
BF
13:00
24 Vondelpark: Cinema
09:45
When the Bough Breaks
14:15
T10
13:00
Bila Burba
FLT
Stamped from the Beginning S, FF
Mambar Pierrette
Cinema De Vlugt
16:30
BF
The Disappearance of Shere Hite
Surprise Screening
16:45
FLT
BF
Kokomo City
16:00 PD,SC,S,FLT
IDFA Shorts 5
19:00
20:00
21:00
22:00
23:00
Milisuthando
Podium Mozaïek
Public screenings Cinema De Vlugt 10:00
11:00
09:45
Vondelpark: Cinema
When the Bough Breaks
Stamped from the Beginning 13:00
12:00
13:00
14:00
Sunday 19 November
16:00 PD,SC,S,FLT
S, FF
Mambar Pierrette
T10
Kokomo City
IDFA Shorts 5
15:00
16:00
17:00
18:00
13:00
Surprise Screening
11:30
de Brakke Grond
DocLab Exhibition: Phenomenal Friction
Play, discover and experience a selection of groundbreaking interactive and multisensory XR documentaries in the Phenomenal Friction exhibition. Register online for a free ticket. 11:30
de Brakke Grond: Rode Zaal
The Vivid Unknown
11:30
Arti et Amicitiae
DocLab: Traversing the Mist, One Two, VR Gallery
Dance in the dark in immersive dance performance One Two, journey through a communal sauna in Traversing the Mist and experience a selection of the best of this year’s virtual reality works in the VR Gallery.
Manu A Visual Album
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