IDFA Festival Schedule | Professionals Program & Public Screenings

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

21

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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