International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

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

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

This heart-warming documentary uses beautiful images to tell the story of two sisters who break a vicious circle.

Rafiki Fariala's debut explores student life in Bangui, revealing hopes amid challenges in the Central African Republic.

Artist and sex-industry veteran Tara Emory tries to finish her video porn opus before her landlord kicks her out of her Wonderland studio.

How did Pepe the Frog become the symbol of hatred and racism online?

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

The future and the present intermingle in this visually stunning docu-fiction, to create a mystical universe in the middle of the French Amazon forest

Love for art transcending the ages, international tensions, the burden of an enormous heritage, this doc has it all!

1 year, 11 teens, 8 countries, 1 pandemic: A unique journey through the first year of the pandemic, seen through the eyes of children.

Incredibly close and emotional, the film tells the stories of emancipation, love and struggle within a Turkish family.

In the basement of the never completed Museum of the Revolution, Belgrade dwell the outcasts of a society that is being transformed by capitalism.

This documentary-narrative film hybrid tells the story of two Sicilian underdogs in strong, neorealistic Cinemascope images.

They risk it all: the rock band Arikain, formed by Afghans living in Iran, dreams of performing on a stage one day.

This documentary about everyday hospital life in China combines the serious and the amusing in a very balanced ratio.

In one of the most dangerous countries in the world, a life is not worth much. Victims and perpetrators of the Mexican drug war tell their stories.

This doc is based on newly discovered, powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Africa.

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

In the wilderness of the Bucharest Delta, a family lives in perfect harmony with nature for 20 years until being chased out.

Journalist Ina Borrmann chronicles her own infertility treatment and in the process unsparingly documents what she and her partner experience.

The real kings of LOS REYES ("The Kings"), the oldest skate park in the Chilean capital Santiago, are the two stray dogs Futbol and Chola.

The last round in Sin City. In the shadow of Las Vegas, filmmakers spend the last 24 hours before they close the Roaring 20s bar.

The European self-image, the colonial gaze and the concept of 'noble savages': for decades, René Gardi (1909-2000) shaped our colonial image of Africa

The director of a psychiatric clinic near Tehran gives patients the opportunity to marry each other, in a model project.

A team of specialists is trying to restore identity and dignity to the dead of the worst shipwreck in post-war history in the Mediterranean.

Like all Israeli youths, Atalya is obligated to become a soldier. But unlike most, she questions the practices of her country’s military.

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

After five years of studying, Arash is fed up with France. His friends persuade him to join them on one last trip, hoping to change his mind.

Marianna is an 40-year-old woman who has just sued her parents in order to obtain a gender reassignment.

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

Join Atanásio the legendary storyteller, hidden behind a mysterious wooden mask, in the fascinating Mapiko dance.

The ground beneath the Spanish metropolis of Madrid is crisscrossed by an invisible network of tunnels, shafts and canals.

Eva, 25, living in Berlin, leads a public life with all the consequences. At 14 she took a new name and declared privacy an outdated concept.

Asalif and his mother are displaced from their farmland on the outskirts of Addis Ababa. To fight for their livelihood, Asalif taps into his fantasy.

As a child in Kenya, the filmmaker Beryl Magoko was subjected to a life-threatening ritual which many girls undergo even today.

An exhilarating and terrifying look at David Millar's final races including his last Tour de France.

The British punk duo from Nottingham is known for their brutally honest lyrics and DIY-ethos.

A terrible family secret that spans three generations and a society that refuses to acknowledge the reality behind the house facades.

Surfing in this film is a metaphor and expression of freedom. Young people in Gaza have the same desires as anyone else.

Housing prices are skyrocketing in cities around the world. Incomes are not. PUSH sheds light on a new kind of faceless landlord.

The impressive life story of a unique dancer who successfully left her mark on the dance world.

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

MARTIN ARMSTRONG, once a US based trillion dollar financial adviser, used the number pi to predict economic turning points with precision. When some ...

The documentary shows the training path of nurses in France - with all its ups and downs.

The story of the famous primatologist Jane Goodall.

The last two members of the indigenous Piripkura people from the Amazon rainforest in Brazil are fighting for the survival of their people.

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

The Chinese authorities threaten him to keep his mouth shut. But for Ai Weiwei, silence means not life, but death.

Niels is an idealistic farmer. Not only is he a certified organic farmer, he also allows his animals the freedom to satisfy their natural instincts.

Slavery is not a concept from a bygone era - for Marisch, a Hungarian woman, it was a harsh reality.

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

Director Eric Caravaca tells the story of his sister, whose existence was hushed up.

The gripping documentary FIDAI is about a veteran of the Algerian war.

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

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

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

Imagine waking up tomorrow morning and all music has disappeared. Just like that. What will remain when it is all gone: CD’s, iPods, instruments?

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

Oscar-winning documentary: The incredible, true story of Rodriguez, great '70s rock icon. The moving musical detective story won numerous awards.

Filming the unfilmable: From the particle accelerator in Switzerland, where scientists seek to probe regions of time we cannot see, to lava flows in Hawaii. Working ...

David Sievekind, young filmmaker, is in search of inspiration. He meets David Lynch, who assures him that the meditation TM is the key to success. But, ...

In order to feed his family, the young Kirghiz Alisher enters into a slavery-like working relationship.

In 2016, the Noordbrabants Museum in the Dutch city of Den Bosch held a special exhibition devoted to the work of Hieronymus Bosch, who died 500 years ...

Few things on earth are as wondrous and vital as seeds. Revered and valued since the dawn of mankind.

The film follows five senior athletes along their biggest challenge - maturity. As all of them are between 80 and 100 years old it is a race against time ...

BOLINGO, THE FOREST OF LOVE is a documentary about women fighting for survival for themselves and their children.

Trailblazing Transitions: A poignant look at the lives of 5 transgender women pioneers from the 1950s-60s, directed by Michiel van Erp.

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

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