Get to know IDFA
What is IDFA?
In the past 35 years, IDFA has grown into an international documentary institute that guides, inspires and takes a stand. This institute consists of a festival, a fund, two markets, a new media - talent - and educational program and an online platform. An institute that is directed at the public, professionals and students which selects its films based on the artistic quality of documentary films as well as on social urgency and accessibility. An institute where inclusion and gender equality are highly valued and in which there is an important focus on talent development, new media and diversity.
Mission
IDFA believes in the power of documentary film as a high-quality, artistic form of information and reflection. In films that help us understand the world and determine our own place in it. In films that make us think, see, and experience so we are willing to stand up for others and build better societies with more democracy, openness, and humanity.
Vision
IDFA strives to strengthen the international documentary climate by focusing more than ever on documentary film as an art form. This focus includes documentary films with an original visual language or structure, films that show lesser-known cultures or are filmed from a non-Western perspective, and interactive or immersive documentaries that innovate the field.
What makes IDFA unique?
Scale
IDFA is the largest documentary film festival in the world and one of the biggest cultural events in the Netherlands (top 3).
Quality
IDFA is the best of the best in the field of documentary and an international quality label with high artistic value.
Community
Every year IDFA brings together the international documentary film world to network, exchange and to do business in this growing Industry.
Facts & Figures 2024
IDFA receives approximately 250,000 visits annually
2,275,691 users 3,473,235 sessions 10,845,687 unique page visitors
83,776 Facebook followers 21,400 Instagram followers 61,341 LinkedIn followers 65,092 X followers
6,070 mentions in worldwide media
IDFA moves to the Vondelpark
IDFA has moved to Het Documentaire Paviljoen in the Vondelpark in Amsterdam! On this impressive location, IDFA as international festival, is visible throughout the year and will play a large role in the cultural life of Amsterdam. IDFA develops from a festival to a physical institute with a mix of public and private screenings.
For Club IDFA members, IDFA's new home will offer the opportunity to host exclusive screenings, meetings and workshops in the filmtheater and spaces for events.
