International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam is considered the largest documentary film festival in the world. The festival's vision is to strengthen the international climate for documentary films. The documentary film is understood more than ever as an art form. This focus includes documentaries with an original visual language or structure, as well as films showing lesser-known cultures or shot from a non-Western perspective.
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  • Uncanny Me

    Uncanny Me

    2022

    44min

    16+

    Lale creates a digital clone to escape the stressful world of fashion. UNCANNY ME explores identity, technology and the nature of reality.


  • Fragile Memory

    Fragile Memory

    2022

    1h.25min

    16+

    The Ukranian grandson of filmmaker Leonid Burlaka draws a rich picture of Soviet history with archive footage of his grandfather.


  • Menmaniacs - The Legacy of Leather

    Menmaniacs - The Legacy of Leather

    1994

    1h.26min

    16+

    An intense trip into the gay bondage and leather scene: We meet contestants, bondage film actors, uniform fetishists and long-term slaves.


  • Not in my Backyard

    Not in my Backyard

    2011

    1h.27min

    16+

    One of the biggest taboos in society is the rehabilitation of sex offenders. This film takes the offender perspective.


  • Seahorse

    Seahorse

    2020

    16min

    16+

    Hanan fled with her family from northern Iraq across the Mediterranean Sea. At that time, she did not know how to swim. She now overcomes the trauma.


  • The Waldheim Waltz

    The Waldheim Waltz

    2018

    1h.34min

    16+

    This documentary tells the incredibly shocking story of how a Nazi officer became a top politician and UN Secretary General.


  • Blue Eyed

    Blue Eyed

    1996

    1h.33min

    16+

    An eye-opening experience about deep engrained behaviour we barley are aware of in our every day life.


  • It's All Good

    It's All Good

    2018

    1h.10min

    16+

    For years, Venezuela has been fighting the collapse of its public health system. How do you survive in a country that is in chaos?


  • Dil Leyla

    Dil Leyla

    2016

    1h.11min

    16+

    Leyla, a young woman from Germany, campaigns to become the youngest mayor of Turkey - in the town of Cizre, marked by civil war.


  • Focus on Infinity

    Focus on Infinity

    2014

    1h.20min

    16+

    A visit to the breathtaking places and the people who unlock the secrets of the universe.


  • Jaffa - The Orange's Clockwork

    Jaffa - The Orange's Clockwork

    2009

    1h.27min

    16+

    Jaffa, home of the world famous cakes, is a bustling metropolis and focus of this fascinating documentary.


  • Yves' Promise

    Yves' Promise

    2019

    1h.19min

    16+

    Filmmaker Melanie Gärtner looks closely at the fate of one family to illuminate the social structures that lead to flight and migration.


  • China Blue

    China Blue

    2005

    1h.28min

    16+

    CHINA BLUE by Micha X. Peled is a prizewinning documentary that documents conditions at a blue-jeans factory in China.


  • Solo - Out of a Dream

    Solo - Out of a Dream

    2014

    1h.30min

    16+

    Dutch director Jos de Putter once again follows 31-year-old soccer star Leonardo Santiago in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.


  • Bellaria – As Long As We Live!

    Bellaria – As Long As We Live!

    2001

    1h.34min

    16+

    The Bellaria is a small Viennese art house cinema where time seems to stand still. Here, the movies are as old as the audience.


  • Jan - Challenge at the Net

    Jan - Challenge at the Net

    2013

    1h.34min

    16+

    A portrait of a teen tennis pro in the making - a sports documentary as dramatic as fiction films such as “Jerry Maguire”.