International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

WATCH FILMS ONLINE

IDFA isn't just a two-week festival at the end of November. Online, the festival lasts all year, with streaming documentaries from the festival program, and the Docs for Sale Online catalogue, trailers, theme programs and festival reports.

Festival On Demand

Watch full documentaries shown at previous editions of IDFA in streaming video.

Docs for Sale Catalogue

See the online catalogue for Docs for Sale. The Docs for Sale catalogue is available for registered users only; click here for registration information.

Spotlight: Kossakovsky

During IDFA 2012, master documentary maker Victor Kossakovsky talked about his films and the Top 10 programme he curated.

Festival Views

Talkshows

Extended Q&A's

Interviews

Masterclasses

Debates

IDFA 2012 Trailers

Festival Reports

IDFA Commercials

Auteurs

A complete guide to the grand masters of creative documentary: watch their films online or delve into our extensive archive of talkshows, master classes and interviews.

Maziar Bahari

Steve James

Werner Herzog

Leonard Retel Helmrich

Heddy Honigmann

Pirjo Honkasalo

Victor Kossakovsky

Frederick Wiseman

Theme Programs

Why Poverty?

In 2012, IDFA asked 'Why Poverty?', as part of a groundbreaking cross-media event that uses films to get people talking about poverty worldwide. The project's eight feature documentaries, as well as a Why Poverty? short by Victor Kossakovsky, can now be watched online for free.

Doc Next

A showcase of films from the Doc Next Network, a unique movement of media-makers, educators, programmers, researchers and innovators, capturing the views of young European media-makers to redefine documentary within the shifting borders of Europe.

IDFA Shorts

A selection of short documentaries that can be found on IDFA.tv and Youtube. All the films, wide-ranging in style and content, have been part of the IDFA festival and can now be enjoyed online for free.

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IDFA present at GRI Conference In collaboration with the Global Reporting Initiative, IDFA presents two films about sustainability at the Global Conference on Sustainability and Reporting, held May 22-24 in Amsterdam. The program includes Solar Mamas and Greenlit.

Rithy Panh to present Top 10 at IDFA Cambodian director Rithy Panh (1964, Phnom Penh) is to compile this year’s IDFA Top 10. Rithy Panh broke through in 2003 with his documentary S21, The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine. His new film, l’Image Manquante, features in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes film festival, which begins this week.

IDFA WorldView Summer School announces 2013 selection A total of 16 projects from participants all over the world have been selected for the sixth edition of the IDFA WorldView Summer School, which will take place July 1-6, 2013. The projects hail from 14 different countries and range from archive-driven narratives to stories shot in a cinema vérité style.

IDFA 2013 Film Entry now open! Submissions for IDFA 2013 can now be entered. Deadlines are May 1 (for documentaries completed before April 1) and August 1 (for documentaries completed after April 1).

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