IDFA 2022 festival report
Our 35th edition was a successful event where audiences, filmmakers, and professionals could once again meet in abundance. IDFA attracted more than 230,000 total visits in 2022. During the festival, the total number of screening visits by audiences and students reached nearly 150,000, a quarter more than in 2021. The number of visits to the festival's professional program amounted to about 45,000. And throughout the year, IDFA received 40,000 visits to screenings for audiences, professionals, and kids. Look back on some highlights below.
Awards and juries
See all awards, jury members, and winners of IDFA 2022 here.
Guest of Honor
Filmmaker and activist Laura Poitras was our esteemed Guest of Honor in 2022. Read more.
Laura Poitras Master Talk
IDFA on video
Get a glimpse of the festival experience.
Audience recap
Professionals report
Program publications
Read an online version of our program guide for guests.
Read a selection of essays and archival material in our new program booklet, Notes on a festival.
Festival campaign
Multimedia artist Louis Hothothot was the visionary behind our 2022 campaign. Read more.
Festival trailer
Long reads
Read essays on queerness without a closet, making meaning in Yugoslavia, the poetics of documentary staging, and deconstructing the dictates of masculinity.
Press conference
Look back at the IDFA 2022 press conference, in which Artistic Director Orwa Nyrabia revealed the competition lineups and the edition's opening film.
IDFA 2022 press conference
