International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) has been held annually in the Dutch capital of Amsterdam since 1988 . It is the world's largest film festival for documentaries .
Programming
The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam has several competition programs for documentary films. Numerous side series outside of the competition complete the program, including a program with world premieres of Dutch documentary films, a panorama section, the Kids & Docs program with children's films as well as retrospectives and work shows. Public discussions and workshops will be held as part of the festival's supporting program.
In addition to the festival itself, the IDFA operates three other institutions. Docs for Sale is a major international film market. The FORUM is a marketplace to find funding partners for documentary films. Finally, the Jan Vrijman Fund supports documentary film productions and festivals in developing countries.
Film awards
overview
The main prize of the festival is the Joris Ivens Award, named after the Dutch film director Joris Ivens until 2008, for the best documentary film with a length of 60 minutes and more, since 2009 it has only been called the IDFA Award for Best Feature Length Documentary. Other film prizes include the award formerly known as the Silver Wolf Award for the best documentary film with a length of 30 to 59 minutes (now the IDFA Award for Best Mid-Length Documentary) and the award formerly known as the Silver Cub Award for the best documentary film with a length under 30 minutes. In addition, prizes are awarded for first films, student films, films on the subject of human rights and an audience award .
Winner of the Joris Ivens Award
| year | Movie title | Director | country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Birthplace Unknown / Islands | Karin Junge / Ruben Geworkjanz | Netherlands / Soviet Union |
| 1989 | The cross street | Ivars Selezkis | Soviet Union |
| 1990 | Christ in Paris | Deborah Dickson , Susan Froemke , Albert Maysles , David Maysles | United States |
| 1991 | Rêves et silences | Omar al-Qattan | Belgium |
| 1992 | Memory of Water | Héctor Fáver | Spain , Argentina |
| 1993 | The Belovs | Viktor Kosakovsky | Russia |
| 1994 | Solo, the Law of the Favela | Jos de putter | Netherlands |
| 1995 | In the act | Raymond Depardon | France |
| 1996 | Atman | Pirjo Honkasalo | Finland |
| 1997 | On the brink | Andrej Schwartz | Germany |
| 1998 | The photographer | Dariusz Jabłoński | Poland , France, Germany |
| 1999 | André Hazes, zij looped in mij | John Appel | Netherlands |
| 2000 | The sea that thinks | Gert de Graaff | Netherlands |
| 2001 | Family | Phie Ambo , Sami Saif | Denmark |
| 2002 | Stevie | Steve James | United States |
| 2003 | Checkpoint | Yoav Shamir | Israel |
| 2004 | Shape of the moon | Leonard Retel Helmrich | Netherlands |
| 2005 | My grandmother's house | Adan Aliaga | Spain |
| 2006 | The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun | Pernille Rose Grønkjær | Denmark |
| 2007 | The wonder of the Andes | Gonzalo Arijon | France |
| 2008 | Burma VJ - Reports from a locked country | Østergaard is different | Denmark |
| 2013 | Song from the Forest | Michael Obert | Germany |
| 2014 | Of Men and War | Laurent Bécue-Renard | France, Switzerland |
financing
The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam receives financial support from the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the municipality of Amsterdam, the Dutch Film Fund and the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, among others .
With the IDFA Fund, the festival in turn offers financial support for people who are shown in the films presented.
See also
Web links
- Official website (Dutch, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ulrike Putz: Israel's Army - The Taboo Breaker of Haifa , Spiegel-Online, February 17, 2008, accessed on May 21, 2013.
- ↑ Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival - Current and Past Festivals at IMDb , accessed on May 21, 2013.
- ↑ Award Winners and Juries 1988–2014 ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , IDFA, accessed May 25, 2015.
