Adaptation
This short, post-apocalyptic fantasy, in which the streets of New York have disappeared beneath the rising sea, proves that analogue science fiction can also be highly effective. A solitary boat sails through a drowned city.
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Here you can find the complete IDFA 2022 program of films and new media projects. Find a title alphabetically or use the filter to quickly find films that suit your interests. To see the program schedule, click here.
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All That Breathes
Two Muslim brothers living in Delhi, one of the world’s most polluted cities, try their best to run a sanctuary for birds of prey. In a film that swings between hope and despair, the two central figures remain determined to never give up.
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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Nan Goldin earned fame for her intimate and often intense photos of subcultures she was part of. Now she's fighting the Sackler family, whose wealth comes from selling the addictive painkiller OxyContin. A moving, visual story about love and pain.
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Beba
Dazzling self-portrait of a New York filmmaker who explores her Latin and African-American heritage in this revealing glimpse into her turbulent youth and family history.
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Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
This essay documentary built around Nina Menkes’s lecture “Sex and Power: The Visual Language of Oppression” draws on a selection of classic and cult film images to deconstruct the ubiquitous objectification of women in film.
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Burden of Dreams
A disconcerting account of the insane circumstances surrounding the filming of Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo. Set up as an ethnographic chronicle, this documentary shows us the real Herzog, hysterically defying the impossible.
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Citizenfour
A real-time documentary thriller about the large-scale illegal surveillance practices of the NSA, disclosed in 2013 by whistleblower Edward Snowden through filmmaker Laura Poitras and Guardian reporters Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill.
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A Compassionate Spy
In 1951, at the height of the Cold War, physicist Ted Hall risked his life by sharing US atomic secrets with the Soviet Union. Seventy years on, his wife explains what possessed him to do it.
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De Humani Corporis Fabrica
Following in the footsteps of Andreas Vesalius, who five centuries ago was the first to map human anatomy, this sensorial film explores the bodies of men and women during operations on various parts of the body. Intimate, at a microscopic level.
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Dear Mother, I Meant to Write About Death
Why did her mother not reveal that she had cancer? This is just the first of many questions the filmmaker has in this tender feature-length debut where mother and child explore their relationships—with illness, death and each other.
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