Enjoy these IDFA films at home

Films from previous IDFA editions, and sometimes even from 2025, can often be viewed online. For example, Gaza's Twins, Come Back to Me (IDFA 2025) by Mohammed Sawwaf is already available to watch on NPO Start (in NL only). And Life Invisible (IDFA 2025) by Bettina Perut and Iván Osnovikoff can already be viewed online at The Guardian. Below you find tips for enjoying top documentaries at home (or on the go).

Gaza's Twins, Come Back to Me

What does it mean for a family when a merciless war separates a mother from her two newborn babies? By telling just one story out of many, this film illustrates how the ongoing conflict in Gaza affects every Palestinian.

Ollie Launspach wants to know what it’s like for his girlfriend Sterre Mulder that he’s transitioning, but discovers in this graduation film—a playful, colorful, and uplifting collage—that his wariness mainly reveals his own insecurities.  

On the shortlist of the 96th Academy Awards (Best Documentary Short Film). 

Life Invisible

A microbiologist searches the Atacama Desert in Chile for a life-saving medicine against antibiotic resistance. Time is running out, because the delicate ecosystem is being disrupted by lithium mining for electric cars.

No Other Land

Academy award-winning documentary about the ceaseless Israeli attacks on a network of Palestinian villages in the West Bank, heroically documented by a collective of Palestinian and Israeli journalists.

Black Box Diaries

When journalist Shiori Ito is raped by a colleague, she decides to seek justice, in the face of a Japanese culture of silence. In a legal battle that lasts years, she takes on police and politicians, and the unequal relationship between men and women.

The Propagandist

As the head of the Nazi film guild in the Netherlands during the Second World War, filmmaker Jan Teunissen became known as “the Dutch Leni Riefenstahl.” This revealing portrait also questions the boundaries between documentary and propaganda.

Bye Bye Tiberias

Palestinian actor Hiam Abbass (Paradise Now, Succession) left her homeland more than 30 years ago. Daughter Lina’s personal search for the reasons behind her mother’s emigration brings a fresh perspective to their family history.

On NPO Start, you can find more films that have been shown at IDFA over the years. Watch them via the link below. Due to right holders these films can't be watched outside of the Netherlands.