International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

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Publication date: 5 November 2012
Once again this year, a free IDFA app is available that gives you all the festival information in your hand – all the time! The app contains the film program, descriptions of all the films by title, program section, screening date and location. Also all the latest news, alerts and an overview of all events for which there are still tickets.

A new feature this year is that the app synchronizes with your MyIDFA account. So you don’t need to print out tickets bought online – they will appear in the app on your telephone under MyTickets. So all you need do is show your phone at the door.

The app can be downloaded for free from the App Store and from the Android Market. Just search for IDFA 2012.

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).

Call for Entry IDFA Bertha Fund The IDFA Bertha Fund is looking for new creative documentary projects and documentary festivals from developing countries. The deadline to submit for the second selection round is May 15, 2013.

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.

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.