{"id":864821,"date":"2026-09-29T15:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T15:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/864821\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T15:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T15:02:10","slug":"idfa-announces-100-titles-including-14th-closure-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/864821\/","title":{"rendered":"IDFA Announces 100+ Titles, Including ’14th,’ ‘Closure,’ and More"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe lineup for the 2026 International Documentary Festival Amsterdam<\/a> (IDFA<\/a>) is taking shape, with the announcement Tuesday of more than 100 titles joining the roster.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 39th edition of the world\u2019s largest documentary festival revealed selections across its Signed, Paradocs, Best of Fests, and Short Documentary Competition, and the first projects in its new media DocLab strand. IDFA runs November 12-22 in the Dutch capital, under the artistic direction of Isabel Arrate Fern\u00e1ndez<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Signed section, devoted to celebrating \u201cthose with a unique artistic signature, beyond the canon,\u201d abounds with Oscar contenders: Ava DuVernay\u2019s 14th; Micha\u0142 Marczak\u2019s Closure<\/a>; Once Upon a Time in Harlem<\/a>, directed by David Greaves and produced by Liani Greaves, based on material shot by David\u2019s father, William Greaves; My Undesirable Friends: Part II \u2014 Exile, from director Julia Loktev; Sara Dosa\u2019s Time and Water<\/a>, Luke Lorentzen\u2019s Boatbuilders, and new work from Barbara Kopple (Union Town<\/a>), Sam Pollard (Tutu<\/a>), and Victor Kossakovsky (Holy Wood Dust).<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tThe interior of the Tuschinski Theatre, one of the main venues for IDFA.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMatthew Carey<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Signed category also includes two prominent shorts: They\u2019re Here, directed by Oscar winner Laura Poitras and Rachel Lauren Mueller, and The Revolution Against Death, directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Best of Fests section, presenting \u201cthe year\u2019s most eye-catching and celebrated films from various festivals from around the world,\u201d boasts almost 60 titles, including more Oscar contenders, among them Pegah Ahangarani\u2019s Rehearsals for a Revolution, The Illusion of an Everlasting Summer<\/a>, directed by Alessandra Sanguinetti, and Ahmed Hassouna\u2019s Citizen Osama.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"'The<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\u2018The Illusion of an Everlasting Summer\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMUBI<\/p>\n

\n\tScroll for more details on the IDFA lineup.<\/p>\n

\n\tParadocs showcases the year\u2019s nonfiction film art, \u201cin which visual artists and filmmakers present their explorations into non-fiction filmmaking,\u201d the festival notes.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"'The<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\u2018The Case Against Space\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of IDFA<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis year\u2019s selection of 16 titles explores the world through bold formal experimentation, genre-bending, and unexpected perspectives. A hedonistic escape to a melting glacier is interrupted by apocalyptic climate change and existential anxiety in Susanne Regina Meures\u2019s Eternity\u2014 adapting of Florentina Holzinger\u2019s performance art to the screen. In The Case Against Space, Graeme Arnfield offers a reconstruction of the first \u201cstrike\u201d in space, reframing the astronaut hero through a critical lens on capitalism and surveillance. Johann Lurf\u2019s Forever\u2026Forever presents an overwhelming vision of the cosmos in motion, with an ever-accelerating timelapse of the sun\u2019s path filmed over 22 months\u2014to be shown on 70mm in Eye Filmmuseum.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIDFA DocLab 20th anniversary<\/p>\n

\n\tDFA\u2019s new media program DocLab explores \u201chow emerging technologies and new forms of interaction can expand what documentary can be and how audiences experience it.\u201d Among the first projects unveiled are two participatory works that \u201cturn systems that shape everyday life into audience experiences\u201d for the 2026 Film Fund DocLab Interactive Grant: The Love Files by Sanne De Wilde and Samir Veen, that invites audiences to step inside and critically review a \u201clove file\u201d application for a residence permit, and All the Downtime by Ant Hampton, immersing audiences in an algorithm-led distribution center, just as a power outage disrupts the order and gives way for creative disorder. Each receives \u20ac10,000 to finalize and present the work at IDFA DocLab.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 20th anniversary program additionally features new works developed through Shared Realities, including Tamara Shogaolu\u2019s The Invisible Woman, a VR opera that recovers the story of Francisca de Angola, a 17th-century Black woman in Amsterdam, and Polymorf\u2019s Microbiome Restaurant, with two sensory experiences exploring the human body as an ecosystem.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe IDFA Competition for Short Documentary \u201ccelebrates the versatility of the form, with 15 films that use creativity and imagination to push the boundaries of short documentary. Together, they form a mosaic of styles, themes, and perspectives, driven by ambitious directors with singular cinematic voices and strong artistic visions.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"'Another<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\u2018Another Sky\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of IDFA<\/p>\n

\n\tIDFA Competition for Short Documentary<\/p>\n

all that appears solid is built on blood, dir. Izdihar Afyouni, Gelare Khoshgozaran, (Palestine\/United Kingdom\/United States), 11\u2019 \u2013 International Premiere<\/p>\n

All the Hands I\u2019ve Let Go, Laura Char\u00e1 (Colombia\/France), 23\u2019 \u2013 International Premiere<\/p>\n

Another Sky, Evi Cats (Belgium), 15\u2019 \u2013 World Premiere<\/p>\n

The Bus of Broken Hearts, Bj\u00f6rn Carlberg, Johan Palmgren (Sweden\/Finland), 34\u2019 \u2013 International Premiere<\/p>\n

Canina, N\u00e9stor L\u00f3pez (Spain), 17\u2019 \u2013 World Premiere<\/p>\n

Certainties, Calum Walter (United States), 14\u2019 \u2013 International Premiere<\/p>\n

Eye Sun, Maric\u00e9 Casta\u00f1eda (Peru), 19\u2019 \u2013 World Premiere<\/p>\n

From a Vertebral Collapse Mountains Arose, Giovanni Benini (Italy\/Belgium), 11\u2019 \u2013 World Premiere<\/p>\n

Man of Seed, Mar\u00eda Abenia (Spain), 33\u2019 \u2013 World Premiere<\/p>\n

One Early Morning, the Alligator Swallowed Me, Nicol\u00e1s Palacio (Colombia), 16\u2019 \u2013 World Premiere<\/p>\n

Our Village from the Moon, Perihan Inceg\u00f6z (Switzerland\/Turkey), 14\u2019 \u2013 World Premiere<\/p>\n

PICNIC \u2013 In Light Invisible to the Human Eye, Jan Ij\u00e4s (Finland), 26\u2019 \u2013 International Premiere<\/p>\n

Six Weeks, 3 Days, and All the Years Before, Ankita Gusain (India), 15\u2019 \u2013 World Premiere<\/p>\n

Spectators, Stanislavs Tokalovs, Betija Zvejniece (Latvia), 18\u2019 \u2013 World Premiere<\/p>\n

The Unabsorbed Past, yietnu (Yi Zhang, Nu Ha) (France\/China), 26\u2019 \u2013 World Premiere<\/p>\n

\n\tIDFA will announce final competition titles and its full selection on Tuesday, October 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The lineup for the 2026 International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) is taking shape, with the announcement Tuesday of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,149673,364946,206],"class_list":["post-864821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-idfa","tag-international-documentary-festival-amsterdam","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}