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The 29th IDFA takes place from 18 through 29 November 2015.
Every year, IDFA welcomes some 2,500 international documentary professionals in Amsterdam during eleven days of films, industry events, panel discussions and much more.
FILMS SELECTION 2015
10 Billion - What's on Your Plate?
Valentin Thurn (Germany, 2015, 102 min.)
Panorama
3½ Minutes, Ten Bullets
Marc Silver (USA, 2015, 98 min.)
Panorama / Benjamin Barber: Jihad vs. McWorld 2015
About Heaven
Stéphane Goël (Switzerland, 2015, 85 min.)
Masters
According to Protocol
Anne-Marieke Graafmans (The Netherlands, 2015, 50 min.)
Panorama
Afghanistan Night Stories
Alka Sadat (Afghanistan, 2015, 60 min.)
Panorama
Aida
Maysoon El-Massry (Egypt, 2015, 20 min.)
IDFA Competition for Student Documentary
Alisa in Warland
Liubov Durakova/Alisa Kovalenko (Poland, 2015, 90 min.)
IDFA Competition for First Appearance
Am I Dreaming of Others, or Are Others Dreaming of Me?
Shigeo Arikawa (Japan/The Netherlands, 2014, 11 min.)
Paradocs: Amsterdam Art Weekend at IDFA
The American Epic Sessions
Bernard MacMahon (USA/England, 2015, 146 min.)
Music Documentary
American Epic: The Big Bang
Bernard MacMahon (USA/England, 2015, 53 min.)
Music Documentary
Among the Believers
Hemal Trivedi/Mohammed Ali Naqvi (USA/Pakistan/India, 2015, 84 min.)
Best of Fests / Benjamin Barber: Jihad vs. McWorld 2015
Aracati
Aline Portugal/Julia De Simone (Brazil, 2015, 62 min.)
IDFA Competition for Mid-Length Documentary
Arlette - Courage Is a Muscle
Florian Hoffmann (Switzerland/Germany, 2015, 84 min.)
IDFA Competition for Student Documentary / IDFA DOC U Competition
At Home in the World
Andreas Koefoed (Denmark, 2015, 58 min.)
IDFA Competition for Mid-Length Documentary / Benjamin Barber:
Jihad vs. McWorld 2015
Atlan
Moein Karimoddini (Iran, 2014, 62 min.)
Panorama
Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise
Mark Cousins (England/Scotland, 2015, 72 min.)
Paradocs
Austerlitz
Stan Neumann (France, 2014, 90 min.)
Panorama
Banking Nature
Sandrine Feydel/Denis Delestrac (France, 2014, 90 min.)
Panorama
Battles
Isabelle Tollenaere (Belgium, 2015, 88 min.)
Sounds Real
Becoming Zlatan
Fredrik Gertten/Magnus Gertten (Sweden/The Netherlands/Italy, 2015, 110 min.)
Masters
Behemoth
Liang Zhao (China/France, 2015, 90 min.)
Masters
Best of Enemies
Morgan Neville/Robert Gordon (USA, 2015, 88 min.)
Masters
Beyond My Grandfather Allende
Marcia Tambutti Allende (Mexico/Chile, 2015, 98 min.)
Best of Fests
Big Ben: Ben Webster in Europe
Johan van der Keuken (The Netherlands, 1967, 31 min.)
Dutch Docs 65-90 and Their Shadows
Bird Skin
Clara Peltier (Brazil, 2015, 20 min.)
Panorama
Birobidzhan
Guy-Marc Hinant (Belgium, 2015, 125 min.)
Panorama
Bistro in Vitro
Koert van Mensvoort (The Netherlands, 2015, 100 min.)
DocLab: Seamless Reality
Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
Stanley Nelson (USA, 2015, 114 min.)
Masters
Blood Brothers
Marco Espírito Santo/Miguel Coimbra (Portugal, 2015, 6 min.)
Paradocs
B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989
Jörg A. Hoppe/Klaus Maeck/Heiko Lange (Germany, 2015, 92 min.)
Music Documentary
Bolshoi Babylon
Nick Read (England, 2015, 83 min.)
Best of Fests
Boudewijn de Groot - Come Closer
Suzanne Raes (The Netherlands, 2015, 89 min.)
IDFA Competition for Dutch Documentary / Music Documentary
Boxeadora
Meg Smaker (USA, 2015, 15 min.)
IDFA Competition for Student Documentary
A Boy's Dream
Walther Grotenhuis/Cinta Forger (The Netherlands, 2015, 75 min.)
IDFA Competition for Dutch Documentary
Bright Leaves
Ross McElwee (USA, 2003, 107 min.)
Top 10
Call Me Marianna
Karolina Bielawska (Poland, 2015, 75 min.)
Best of Fests
Calling Ukraine
Jean Counet (The Netherlands, 2015, 12 min.)
Panorama
Cambridge
Eldora Traykova (Bulgaria, 2015, 64 min.)
IDFA Competition for Mid-Length Documentary
Captive Horizon
Lukas Marxt (Austria, 2015, 14 min.)
Paradocs
Carolina's World
Mariana Viñoles (Uruguay, 2015, 70 min.)
IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary
Cartel Land
Matthew Heineman (USA/Mexico, 2015, 98 min.)
Best of Fests / Benjamin Barber: Jihad vs. McWorld 2015
Cecilia
Pankaj Johar (India/Norway, 2015, 85 min.)
Panorama
Censored Voices
Mor Loushy (Israel/Germany, 2015, 84 min.)
Best of Fests
Chechen
Beata Bubenets (Russia, 2015, 76 min.)
IDFA Competition for First Appearance
Checks and Balances
Malek Bensmaïl (Algeria/France, 2015, 97 min.)
Masters / Benjamin Barber: Jihad vs. McWorld 2015
Chemsex
William Fairman/Max Gogarty (England, 2015, 80 min.)
Panorama
The Chinese Mayor
Hao Zhou (China, 2015, 87 min.)
Best of Fests / Benjamin Barber: Jihad vs. McWorld 2015
Chinese Verses
Feiyue Wu/Xiaoyu Qin (China, 2015, 96 min.)
IDFA Competition for First Appearance
Class Struggle: Film from the Clyde
Cinema Action (England, 1977, 83 min.)
Dutch Docs 65-90 and Their Shadows
Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah
Adam Benzine (Canada/England/USA, 2015, 40 min.)
Best of Fests
Clear Years
Frédéric Guillaume (Belgium, 2015, 75 min.)
IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary
Coal India
Felix Röben/Ajay Koli (Germany, 2015, 47 min.)
IDFA Competition for Student Documentary
Cocksucker Blues
Robert Frank (USA, 1972, 93 min.)
Don't Blink: Robert Frank
Coming of Age
Teboho Edkins (South Africa/Germany, 2015, 63 min.)
IDFA Competition for Student Documentary
Concerto - A Beethoven Journey
Phil Grabsky (England, 2015, 90 min.)
Music Documentary
The Confessions of Thomas Quick
Brian Hill (England, 2015, 94 min.)
Masters
A Conversation Is a Risk to Lose Your Own Opinion
Feiko Beckers (The Netherlands, 2015, 13 min.)
Paradocs: Amsterdam Art Weekend at IDFA
Conversations in Vermont
Robert Frank (USA, 1969, 26 min.)
Don't Blink: Robert Frank
Coups de foudre
Christophe Reyners (Belgium, 2014, 51 min.)
IDFA Competition for Mid-Length Documentary
Credit for Murder
Vladi Antonevicz (Israel/Russia, 2015, 85 min.)
IDFA Competition for First Appearance
Crocodile Gennadiy
Steve Hoover (USA, 2015, 96 min.)
Best of Fests
Cue China
Ant Hampton (England, 2014, 28 min.)
DocLab: Seamless Reality
Dancing for You
Erlend E. Mo (Norway/Denmark/Sweden, 2015, 30 min.)
IDFA Competition for Kids & Docs / IDFA Junior
Danny's Parade
Anneke de Lind van Wijngaarden (The Netherlands, 2007, 15 min.)
IDFA Junior
Dear Araucaria
Matt Houghton (England, 2015, 10 min.)
Panorama
The Deeper They Bury Me
Angad Bhalla/Ted Biggs (Canada, 2015)
IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling
Déjà vu
Jon Bang Carlsen (Denmark, 2015, 85 min.)
Masters
Democracy
David Bernet (Germany/France, 2015, 100 min.)
Panorama
Dereviled
David Haines (The Netherlands, 2013, 9 min.)
Paradocs: Amsterdam Art Weekend at IDFA
DMZ: Memories of No Man's Land
Hayoun Kwon (South Korea, 2015, 20 min.)
IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling
Do Not Track
Brett Gaylor (France/Germany/Canada, 2015, 10 min.)
DocLab: Seamless Reality
Do You Get It No. 4
Louis van Gasteren (The Netherlands, 1978, 15 min.)
Dutch Docs 65-90 and Their Shadows
Don Juan
Jerzy Sladkowski (Sweden/Finland, 2015, 92 min.)
IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary
Don't Blink: Robert Frank
Laura Israel (USA, 2015, 82 min.)
Don't Blink: Robert Frank
Dots, Chance, Pots, Dance
Jean-Baptiste Maitre (The Netherlands, 2015, 3 min.)
Paradocs: Amsterdam Art Weekend at IDFA
Double Aliens
Ugis Olte (Latvia/Georgian Republic, 2015, 56 min.)
IDFA Competition for Mid-Length Documentary
Drawing Room
Jan Rothuizen/Sara Kolster (The Netherlands, 2015, 7 min.)
IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling
Driving with Selvi
Elisa Paloschi (Canada, 2015, 54 min.)
Best of Fests / IDFA DOC U Competition
The Dybbuk: A Tale of Wandering Souls
Krzysztof Kopczynski (Poland/Ukraine/Sweden, 2015, 85 min.)
Panorama / Benjamin Barber: Jihad vs. McWorld 2015
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On
Kazuo Hara (Japan, 1987, 122 min.)
Top 10
The Enemy
Karim Ben Khelifa (France/Canada, 2015, 17 min.)
DocLab: Seamless Reality
Energy and How to Get It
Robert Frank/Rudy Wurlitzer/Gary Hill (USA, 1981, 28 min.)
Don't Blink: Robert Frank
Eritrea Stars
John Appel (The Netherlands, 2015, 55 min.)
IDFA Competition for Dutch Documentary
Every 28 Days
Ina Borrmann (Germany, 2015, 89 min.)
Panorama
Every Face Has a Name
Magnus Gertten (Sweden, 2015, 76 min.)
Best of Fests
Exhausting a Crowd
Kyle McDonald (USA, 2015, 720 min.)
IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling
Exodus
Nicolas Provost (Portugal, 2015, 14 min.)
Paradocs
Exotica, Erotica, Etc.
Evangelia Kranioti (France, 2015, 73 min.)
Best of Fests
A Family Affair
Tom Fassaert (The Netherlands, 2015, 110 min.)
IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary / IDFA Competition for Dutch Documentary / IDFA DOC U Competition
Famous Deaths
Frederik Duerinck/Marcel Brakel (The Netherlands, 2015)
DocLab: Seamless Reality
Fassbinder
Annekatrin Hendel (Germany, 2015, 92 min.)
Panorama
Fast, Cheap and Out of Control
Errol Morris (USA, 1997, 82 min.)
Errol Morris Retrospective
Fata Morgana
Werner Herzog (Germany, 1970, 79 min.)
Top 10
Flamingo
Robert Frank (USA, 1996, 5 min.)
Don't Blink: Robert Frank
A Flickering Truth
Pietra Brettkelly (New Zealand, 2015, 91 min.)
Best of Fests
Flotel Europa
Vladimir Tomic (Denmark/Serbia, 2015, 71 min.)
Best of Fests
The Fog of Srebrenica
Samir Mehanovic (Scotland/Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2015, 60 min.)
IDFA Competition for Mid-Length Documentary
The Fog of War
Errol Morris (USA, 2003, 95 min.)
Errol Morris Retrospective / Sounds Real
For Kibera!
Kati Juurus (Finland, 2015, 56 min.)
IDFA Competition for Mid-Length Documentary / Benjamin Barber: Jihad vs. McWorld 2015
France Is Our Mother Country
Rithy Panh (France/Cambodia, 2014, 74 min.)
Masters
From the Depths
Valentina Pedicini (Italy, 2013, 73 min.)
Sounds Real
Full of Dreams
Marinka de Jongh (The Netherlands, 2015, 20 min.)
IDFA Competition for Kids & Docs / IDFA Junior
Garage 2.0
Catherine van Campen (The Netherlands, 2015, 85 min.)
IDFA Competition for Dutch Documentary
A German Youth
Jean-Gabriel Périot (France/Switzerland/Germany, 2015, 93 min.)
Best of Fests
The Girl Chewing Gum
John Smith (England, 1976, 12 min.)
Dutch Docs 65-90 and Their Shadows
Grozny Blues
Nicola Bellucci (Switzerland, 2015, 104 min.)
Best of Fests
Grumant: Island of Communism
Ivan S. Tverdovskiy (Russia, 2014, 54 min.)
IDFA Competition for Mid-Length Documentary
Guantanamo's Child: Omar Khadr
Patrick Reed/Michelle Shephard (Canada, 2015, 80 min.)
Masters
Habitat
Victor Semeniuk (Russia, 1986, 26 min.)
Sounds Real
HIGHRISE: Universe Within
Katerina Cizek (Canada, 2015)
DocLab: Seamless Reality
Holy Cow
Imam Hasanov (Azerbaijan/Germany/Romania, 2015, 80 min.)
IDFA Competition for First Appearance
Home Sweet Home
Katrine Philp (Denmark, 2015, 25 min.)
IDFA Competition for Kids & Docs
Horse-Being
Jérôme Clément-Wilz (France, 2015, 63 min.)
IDFA Competition for Mid-Length Documentary
Hot Sugar's Cold World
Adam Bhala Lough (USA, 2015, 85 min.)
Music Documentary
Hot Type: 150 Years of The Nation
Barbara Kopple (USA, 2015, 93 min.)
Masters
How to Change the World
Jerry Rothwell (England/Canada, 2015, 110 min.)
Best of Fests
Human
Yann Arthus-Bertrand (France, 2015, 190 min.)
Best of Fests
I Am Dublin
David Aronowitsch/Ahmed Abdullahi/Sharmarke Binyusuf/Anna Persson (Sweden, 2015, 75 min.)
Best of Fests
I Am Sun Mu
Adam Sjoberg (USA, 2015, 87 min.)
Panorama
I Am the Blues
Daniel Cross (Canada, 2015, 96 min.)
Music Documentary
I Remember
Robert Frank (USA, 1998, 7 min.)
Don't Blink: Robert Frank
Iceberg
Juliana Gabriela Gomez Castañeda (Cuba, 2015, 27 min.)
IDFA Competition for Student Documentary
I'll Fly Higher
The Netherlands, 2015, 22 min.)
IDFA Competition for Kids & Docs
Imagine Waking Up Tomorrow and All Music Has Disappeared
Stefan Schwietert (Switzerland/Germany, 2015, 86 min.)
Music Documentary
Imperial Courts
Dana Lixenberg/Eefje Blankevoort (The Netherlands, 2015)
IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling
In California
Charles Redon (France, 2015, 78 min.)
IDFA Competition for First Appearance
In Defense of the Rocket
Martin Ginestie (England, 2015, 5 min.)
Paradocs
In Jackson Heights
Frederick Wiseman (USA, 2015, 190 min.)
Masters
In Limbo
Antoine Viviani (France, 2015, 85 min.)
Panorama
In Transit
Albert Maysles/Lynn True/Nelson Walker/Ben Wu/David Usui (USA, 2015, 76 min.)
Masters
Ingrid Bergman - In Her Own Words
Stig Björkman (Sweden, 2015, 114 min.)
Masters
Inside the Chinese Closet
Sophia Luvara (The Netherlands, 2015, 70 min.)
IDFA Competition for Dutch Documentary
Into Darkness
Rachida El Garani (Belgium, 2015, 31 min.)
IDFA Competition for Student Documentary / IDFA Competition for Kids & Docs
Irrawaddy Mon Amour
Valeria Testagrossa/Nicola Grignani/Andrea Zambelli (Italy, 2015, 58 min.)
IDFA Competition for Mid-Length Documentary
Isabella Morra
Isabel Pagliai (France, 2015, 22 min.)
Paradocs
It Felt Like a Kiss
Adam Curtis (England, 2009, 54 min.)
Top 10
Janis: Little Girl Blue
Amy Berg (USA, 2015, 104 min.)
Music Documentary / Masters
Jheronimus Bosch, Touched by the Devil
Pieter van Huystee (The Netherlands, 2015, 83 min.)
IDFA Competition for Dutch Documentary
Jonas and the Backyard Circus
Paula Gomes (Brazil, 2015, 80 min.)
IDFA Competition for First Appearance
Jungle Sisters
Chloe Ruthven (England, 2015, 80 min.)
Panorama
K2 - Touching the Sky
Eliza Kubarska (Poland/England/Germany, 2015, 72 min.)
Best of Fests
Katsuo-bushi
Yu Nakajima (Japan, 2015, 23 min.)
Panorama
Keith Richards: Under the Influence
Morgan Neville (USA, 2015, 82 min.)
Music Documentary
Kingdom of Shadows
Bernardo Ruiz (USA/Mexico, 2015, 73 min.)
Panorama
Kiya
Nonny de la Peña (USA, 2015, 5 min.)
DocLab: Seamless Reality
The Ladino Ladies' Club
Boris Missirkov/Georgi Bogdanov (Bulgaria/USA, 2015, 26 min.)
Best of Fests
Lahore Landing
Jeremy Ho (Singapore, 2015)
IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling
Lamentation
Christo Doherty/Aryan Kaganof (South Africa, 2015, 18 min.)
Paradocs
Lampedusa in Winter
Jakob Brossmann (Austria/Switzerland/Italy, 2015, 93 min.)
Best of Fests
Land Grabbing
Kurt Langbein (Austria, 2015, 94 min.)
Panorama / Benjamin Barber: Jihad vs. McWorld 2015
Land Without Bread
Luis Buñuel (Spain, 1933, 30 min.)
Top 10
Last Conversations
Eduardo Coutinho (Brazil, 2015, 87 min.)
Masters
Let There Be Light
John Huston (USA, 1946, 58 min.)
Top 10
Life of a Butterfly
Piotr Bernas (Poland, 2015, 50 min.)
IDFA Competition for Mid-Length Documentary
Life on Hold
Reem Haddad (Qatar, 2015)
IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling
Live from New York!
Bao Nguyen (USA, 2015, 90 min.)
Best of Fests
The Load
Victor Alexis Guerrero (Cuba, 2015, 25 min.)
IDFA Competition for Student Documentary
Log Head
Maarit Suomi-Väänänen (Finland/Norway/Canada, 2015, 9 min.)
Paradocs
Look Love
Yun Ye (China, 2015, 146 min.)
IDFA Competition for First Appearance
LoVR
Aaron Bradbury (England, 2014, 4 min.)
IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling
Lyari Notes
Maheen Zia/Miriam Chandy Menacherry (India/Pakistan, 2015, 80 min.)
Panorama
Maiko - Dancing Child
Åse Svenheim Drivenes (Norway, 2015, 70 min.)
Panorama
Man Falling
Anne Regitze Wivel (Denmark, 2015, 105 min.)
Sounds Real
Man with a Movie Camera
Dziga Vertov (Russia, 1929, 68 min.)
Top 10
Manual/2 - The Patient Artist
Barbara Visser (The Netherlands, 2015, 17 min.)
Paradocs: Amsterdam Art Weekend at IDFA
The Many Sad Fates of Mr. Toledano
Joshua Seftel (USA, 2015, 27 min.)
Best of Fests
Martha & Niki
Tora Mårtens (Sweden, 2015, 90 min.)
Panorama
Master and Tatyana
Giedre Zickyte (Lithuania, 2014, 84 min.)
Best of Fests
Mavis!
Jessica Edwards (USA, 2015, 80 min.)
Music Documentary
Me and My Brother
Robert Frank (USA, 1969, 91 min.)
Don't Blink: Robert Frank
The Meadow
Jela Hasler (Switzerland, 2015, 9 min.)
Paradocs
Megacities
Michael Glawogger (Austria/Switzerland, 1998, 90 min.)
Sounds Real
Meru
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi/Jimmy Chin (USA, 2015, 89 min.)
Best of Fests
A Method for Blue Logic
Riley Harmon (The Netherlands, 2014, 14 min.)
Paradocs: Amsterdam Art Weekend at IDFA
Miss Sharon Jones!
Barbara Kopple (USA, 2015, 94 min.)
Music Documentary
Moriom
Francesca Scalisi/Mark Olexa (Switzerland, 2015, 12 min.)
Panorama
Motley's Law
Nicole Nielsen Horanyi (Denmark, 2015, 85 min.)
Panorama
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
Errol Morris (USA, 1999, 91 min.)
Errol Morris Retrospective
Mr. Gaga
Tomer Heymann (Israel, 2015, 100 min.)
Panorama
Mr. Hu and the Temple
Yan Ting Yuen (The Netherlands, 2015, 55 min.)
IDFA Competition for Dutch Documentary
The Mute's House
Tamar Kay (Israel, 2015, 31 min.)
IDFA Competition for Student Documentary / IDFA DOC U Competition
My Aleppo
Melissa Langer (USA, 2015, 18 min.)
IDFA Competition for Student Documentary
My Cancer
Meral Uslu (The Netherlands, 2015, 55 min.)
IDFA Competition for Mid-Length Documentary / IDFA Competition for Dutch Documentary
My Enemy, My Brother
Ann Shin (Canada, 2015, 17 min.)
Best of Fests
My Silicone Love
Sophie Dros (The Netherlands, 2015, 27 min.)
IDFA Competition for Student Documentary
NapolIslam
Ernesto Pagano (Italy, 2015, 75 min.)
Panorama
Natural Disorder
Christian Sønderby Jepsen (Denmark, 2015, 97 min.)
IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary
Need for Meat
Marijn Frank (The Netherlands, 2015, 74 min.)
Panorama
Network Effect
Jonathan Harris/Greg Hochmuth (USA, 2015)
IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling
New York Cuts
Luke Lorentzen (USA, 2015, 77 min.)
IDFA Competition for Student Documentary
Next Stop: Utopia
Apostolos Karakasis (Greece, 2015, 91 min.)
IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary
Nice People
Anders Helgeson/Karin af Klintberg (Sweden, 2015, 92 min.)
Best of Fests
The Nightmare
Rodney Ascher (USA, 2015, 90 min.)
Best of Fests
Ninnoc
Niki Padidar (The Netherlands, 2015, 18 min.)
IDFA Competition for Kids & Docs
No Home Movie
Chantal Akerman (Belgium/France, 2014, 115 min.)
Masters
OK Good
Alexandra Kulak/Yulia Kurmangalina/Anna Kornienko (Russia, 2015, 21 min.)
IDFA Competition for Student Documentary
Old Wives
Galina Krasnoborova (Russia, 2015, 26 min.)
Panorama
Olmo and the Seagull
Petra Costa/Lea Glob (Denmark/Brazil, 2015, 82 min.)
Paradocs
Ommegang
Emma van der Put (The Netherlands, 2015, 6 min.)
Paradocs: Amsterdam Art Weekend at IDFA
On Behalf of... The Union and Its Members
Pieter Verhoeff (The Netherlands, 1973, 42 min.)
Dutch Docs 65-90 and Their Shadows
On Football
Sergio Oksman (Spain, 2015, 68 min.)
Paradocs
On the Pole
Robert Drew (USA, 1960, 58 min.)
Dutch Docs 65-90 and Their Shadows
One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich
Chris Marker (France, 1999, 55 min.)
Top 10
Only the Dead
Bill Guttentag/Michael Ware (Australia, 2015, 77 min.)
Best of Fests
Opposites
Marta Jurkiewicz (The Netherlands, 2015, 14 min.)
IDFA Competition for Kids & Docs
Oriented
Jake Witzenfeld (England/Israel, 2015, 80 min.)
Panorama
Over the Years
Nikolaus Geyrhalter (Austria, 2015, 188 min.)
Masters
Paper Route
Robert Frank (USA, 2002, 23 min.)
Don't Blink: Robert Frank
Passing By
Trino Flothuis/Jan de Bont (The Netherlands, 1968, 31 min.)
Dutch Docs 65-90 and Their Shadows
Patience, Patience You'll Go To Paradise!
Hadja Lahbib (Belgium, 2014, 85 min.)
Panorama
Patient
Jorge Caballero (Colombia, 2015, 70 min.)
IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary
The Pearl Button
Patricio Guzmán (Chile/France/Spain, 2015, 82 min.)
Masters
Pelota II
Jørgen Leth/Olatz González Abrisketa (Spain/Denmark, 2015, 71 min.)
Masters
People with Good Intentions
Hans Koekoek (The Netherlands, 1969, 42 min.)
Dutch Docs 65-90 and Their Shadows
Phi and Laurine
Sander Breure/Witte van Hulzen (The Netherlands, 2015, 38 min.)
Paradocs: Amsterdam Art Weekend at IDFA
Playing Lecuona
Pavel Giroud/Juan Manuel Villar Betancort (Spain, 2015, 100 min.)
Music Documentary
Please Remember Me
Qing Zhao (China, 2015, 78 min.)
Panorama
A Poem Is a Naked Person
Les Blank (USA, 2015, 90 min.)
Music Documentary / Masters
Poverty, Inc.
Michael Matheson Miller (USA, 2015, 91 min.)
Best of Fests
The Present
Robert Frank (USA, 1996, 27 min.)
Don't Blink: Robert Frank
Pull My Daisy
Robert Frank/Alfred Leslie (USA, 1959, 28 min.)
Don't Blink: Robert Frank
Quipu Project
Maria Court/Rosemarie Lerner (Peru/England/Chile, 2015)
IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling - See more at:
Racing Extinction
Louie Psihoyos (USA, 2015, 90 min.)
Best of Fests
The Rate's Cut
Paco Nicolás (Spain, 2015, 15 min.)
Paradocs
Rebels
Kari Anne Moe (Norway, 2015, 91 min.)
Panorama / IDFA DOC U Competition
Rebuild Fukushima
Bert Hana/Dagmar van Wersch (The Netherlands, 2015)
DocLab: Seamless Reality
RecoVR: Mosul, a Collective Reconstruction
Ziv Schneider/Laura Chen (USA, 2015)
IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling
The Redemption of the Devil
Alex Hoffman (USA/England, 2015, 81 min.)
Music Documentary
Refrain
Nathan Azhderian (The Netherlands, 2015, 5 min.)
Paradocs: Amsterdam Art Weekend at IDFA
Remember Your Name, Babylon
Marie Brumagne/Bram Van Cauwenberghe (Belgium, 2015, 77 min.)
IDFA Competition for First Appearance
Requiem for the American Dream
Peter Hutchison/Kelly Nyks/Jared P. Scott (USA, 2015, 75 min.)
Best of Fests
Return of the Atom
Mika Taanila/Jussi Eerola (Finland/Germany, 2015, 110 min.)
Best of Fests
The Road
Zanbo Zhang (China/Denmark, 2015, 95 min.)
IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary
Rocky Road to Dublin
Peter Lennon (Ireland, 1968, 69 min.)
Dutch Docs 65-90 and Their Shadows
Roshmia
Salim Abu Jabal (United Arab Emirates/Qatar/Palestine/Syria/Lebanon, 2014, 70 min.)
Panorama
Rough Stage
Toomas Järvet (Estonia/Palestine, 2015, 74 min.)
IDFA Competition for First Appearance
Roundabout in My Head
Hassen Ferhani (Algeria/France/Lebanon/Qatar, 2015, 100 min.)
IDFA Competition for First Appearance
Russian Dream
Sergey Debizhev (Russia, 2013, 52 min.)
Sounds Real
The Russian Woodpecker
Chad Gracia (England/USA, 2015, 82 min.)
Best of Fests
Ruth
Hanna Heilborn (Sweden/Norway/Denmark, 2015, 27 min.)
IDFA Competition for Kids & Docs
Sacred Repository N.1: Violently Speaking
Rory Pilgrim (The Netherlands, 2014, 15 min.)
Paradocs: Amsterdam Art Weekend at IDFA
Salamanca
Ruslan Fedotow/Alexandra Kulak (Russia, 2015, 40 min.)
IDFA Competition for Mid-Length Documentary
Salero
Mike Plunkett (USA/Bolivia, 2015, 76 min.)
Panorama
Say Something
Åsa Ekman (Sweden/Norway, 2015, 73 min.)
Panorama
(Self)exhibitions
Florencia Aliberti (Spain, 2015, 14 min.)
Paradocs
Sempervirens
Raphaël Dubach (Switzerland, 2015, 46 min.)
IDFA Competition for Student Documentary
Sheriff Software
Dries Depoorter (Belgium, 2015)
DocLab: Seamless Reality
A Sinner in Mecca
Parvez Sharma (USA, 2015, 79 min.)
Best of Fests
The Siren of Faso Fani
Michel K. Zongo (France/Burkina Faso/Germany, 2014, 89 min.)
Best of Fests
Skatekeet
Edward Cook (The Netherlands, 2015, 15 min.)
IDFA Competition for Kids & Docs / IDFA Junior
Sketches of Siberia
Ben van Lieshout (The Netherlands, 2015, 73 min.)
Paradocs
Smith, James O. - Organist USA: Europe (Part 1)
Klaus Wildenhahn (Germany, 1965, 55 min.)
Dutch Docs 65-90 and Their Shadows
Smoke Machine
Hannah Perry (England, 2015, 11 min.)
Paradocs: Amsterdam Art Weekend at IDFA
The Sniper of Kobani
Reber Dosky (The Netherlands, 2015, 12 min.)
Panorama
Snow Monkey
George Gittoes (Australia/Norway, 2015, 150 min.)
IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary
Someone Else
Ant Hampton (Belgium, 2015, 45 min.)
DocLab: Seamless Reality
Song of Lahore
Andy Schocken/Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (Pakistan/USA, 2015, 82 min.)
Music Documentary
Sonita
Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami (Iran/Germany/Switzerland, 2015, 90 min.)
IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary / IDFA DOC U Competition
Sounds for Mazin
Ingrid Kamerling (The Netherlands, 2012, 19 min.)
IDFA Junior
Stamping Ground
Hans Jürgen Pohland/George Sluizer (Germany, 1971, 83 min.)
Dutch Docs 65-90 and Their Shadows
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
Alex Gibney (USA, 2015, 128 min.)
Masters / Benjamin Barber: Jihad vs. McWorld 2015
Still Holding Still
Sarah Vanagt (Belgium, 2015, 10 min.)
Paradocs
A Strange Love Affair with Ego
Ester Gould (The Netherlands, 2015, 90 min.)
IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary / IDFA Competition for Dutch Documentary
Stripes 3
Florian Quistrebert/Michael Quistrebert (The Netherlands, 2015, 6 min.)
Paradocs: Amsterdam Art Weekend at IDFA
Strung Out
Nirit Aharoni (Israel, 2015, 110 min.)
IDFA Competition for First Appearance
Suburban King/Top-girl
Aakash Bhatia (India, 2015, 7 min.)
IDFA Competition for Kids & Docs
The Successor
Mattia Epifani (Italy, 2015, 52 min.)
IDFA Competition for Mid-Length Documentary
Summer Cannibals
Robert Frank (USA, 1996, 4 min.)
Don't Blink: Robert Frank
Super Stream Me
Tim den Besten/Nicolaas Veul (The Netherlands, 2015)
DocLab: Seamless Reality
Surire
Bettina Perut/Ivan Osnovikoff (Chile/Germany, 2015, 80 min.)
Best of Fests
The Swedish Theory of Love
Erik Gandini (Sweden, 2015, 80 min.)
Masters
A Syrian Love Story
Sean McAllister (England, 2015, 76 min.)
Masters / Benjamin Barber: Jihad vs. McWorld 2015
Tabloid
Errol Morris (USA, 2010, 87 min.)
Errol Morris Retrospective
A Tale of Love, Madness and Death
Mijael Bustos Gutiérrez (Chile/Germany, 2015, 22 min.)
IDFA Competition for Student Documentary
Tales of the Grim Sleeper
Nick Broomfield (USA/England, 2014, 105 min.)
Top 10
Tell Spring Not to Come This Year
Saeed Taji Farouky/Mike McEvoy (England, 2015, 82 min.)
Best of Fests
Ten
Nathalie Crum (The Netherlands, 2015, 17 min.)
IDFA Competition for Kids & Docs
Thank You for Playing
David Osit/Malika Zouhali-Worrall (USA, 2015, 80 min.)
Best of Fests
That Dragon, Cancer
Ryan Green/Amy Green/Josh Larson (USA, 2015)
DocLab: Seamless Reality
There's Always the Mailboat
Hans Keller (The Netherlands, 1969, 63 min.)
Dutch Docs 65-90 and Their Shadows
The Thin Blue Line
Errol Morris (USA, 1988, 103 min.)
Errol Morris Retrospective
The Things I Cannot Change
Tanya Ballantyne (Canada, 1967, 55 min.)
Dutch Docs 65-90 and Their Shadows
This Changes Everything
Avi Lewis (Canada/USA, 2015, 89 min.)
Best of Fests
This Is Exile: Diaries of Child Refugees
Mani Y. Benchelah (England/Lebanon/Switzerland, 2015, 56 min.)
IDFA Competition for Mid-Length Documentary / Benjamin Barber: Jihad vs. McWorld 2015 / IDFA DOC U Competition
Those Who Feel the Fire Burning
Morgan Knibbe (The Netherlands, 2014, 74 min.)
Sounds Real
Thru You Princess
Ido Haar (Israel, 2015, 80 min.)
IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary / IDFA DOC U Competition / Music Documentary
Thy Father's Chair
Antonio Tibaldi/Alex Lora (USA/Italy, 2015, 72 min.)
IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary
Tig
Kristina Goolsby/Ashley York (USA, 2015, 90 min.)
Best of Fests
Time Suspended
Natalia Bruschtein (Mexico, 2015, 64 min.)
Best of Fests
Tishe!
Victor Kossakovsky (Russia, 2002, 80 min.)
Sounds Real
Trapped Words
Meiro Koizumi (Japan, 2014, 12 min.)
Paradocs: Amsterdam Art Weekend at IDFA
Ukrainian Sheriffs
Roman Bondarchuk (Ukraine/Latvia/Germany, 2015, 80 min.)
IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary / Benjamin Barber: Jihad vs. McWorld 2015
Under the Sun
Vitaly Mansky (Russia/Latvia/Germany/Czech Republic/North Korea, 2015, 106 min.)
Masters
The Unknown Known
Errol Morris (USA, 2013, 104 min.)
Errol Morris Retrospective
The Unknown Photographer
Loïc Suty (Canada, 2015)
IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling
Unmistaken Child
Nati Baratz (Israel, 2008, 102 min.)
Sounds Real
Varicella
Victor Kossakovsky (Norway/Denmark/Sweden/Russia, 2015, 25 min.)
IDFA Competition for Kids & Docs
The Visit
Michael Madsen (Denmark/Norway/Finland/Ireland/Austria, 2015, 85 min.)
Sounds Real
Vita activa, the Spirit of Hannah Arendt
Ada Ushpiz (Canada/Israel, 2015, 124 min.)
Walden, a Game
Tracy Fullerton (USA, 2015, 360 min.)
DocLab: Seamless Reality
Walls
Pablo Iraburu/Migueltxo Molina (Spain, 2015, 83 min.)
Panorama
A Walnut Tree
Ammar Aziz (Pakistan, 2015, 81 min.)
IDFA Competition for First Appearance
Wastecooking - Make Food, Not Waste
Georg Misch (Austria, 2015, 80 min.)
Panorama
Waves of Grace
Chris Milk/Gabo Arora (USA, 2015)
IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling
Way to Go
Vincent Morisset (France/Canada, 2015)
DocLab: Seamless Reality
We Are Not Alone
Pere Joan Ventura (Spain, 2015, 78 min.)
Panorama / Benjamin Barber: Jihad vs. McWorld 2015
The Wedding Contract
David Dawkins (USA, 2014, 92 min.)
IDFA Competition for First Appearance
Welcome Home
Frans Bromet (The Netherlands, 2015, 90 min.)
Masters
Welcome to Leith
Michael Beach Nichols/Christopher K. Walker (USA, 2015, 86 min.)
Best of Fests / Benjamin Barber: Jihad vs. McWorld 2015
Welfare
Frederick Wiseman (USA, 1975, 167 min.)
Top 10
We're Still Here: Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited
Antonino D'Ambrosio (USA, 2015, 53 min.)
Music Documentary
What Happened, Miss Simone?
Liz Garbus (USA, 2014, 102 min.)
Music Documentary / Masters
When the Earth Seems to Be Light
Salome Machaidze/Tamuna Karumidze/David Meskhi (Georgian Republic/Germany, 2015, 75 min.)
IDFA Competition for First Appearance / IDFA DOC U Competition
Witness 360: 7/7
Darren Emerson (England, 2015, 13 min.)
IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling
Women in Sink
Iris Zaki (England/Israel, 2015, 37 min.)
Best of Fests
Woodstock
Mike Wadleigh (USA, 1970, 184 min.)
Dutch Docs 65-90 and Their Shadows
word.camera
Ross Goodwin (USA, 2015)
IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling
The World According to Monsieur Khiar
Sjors Swierstra (The Netherlands, 2015, 55 min.)
IDFA Competition for Dutch Documentary
Yes, These Eyes Are the Windows
Saskia Olde Wolbers (England, 2015, 20 min.)
Paradocs: Amsterdam Art Weekend at IDFA
A Young Patriot
Du Haibin (China/France/USA, 2015, 106 min.)
Best of Fests