The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) is the world's largest documentary

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Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 film festival

Film festival

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 held annually since 1988 in Amsterdam

Amsterdam

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.

The festival was initially held at the Leidseplein

Leidseplein

The Leidseplein is a square in central Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Lying in the southwest of the Grachtengordel district of Amsterdam, the Leidseplein is immediately northeast of the Singelgracht canal. It is situated on the crossroads of the Weteringschans, the Marnixstraat, and the Leidsestraat...

 area in the centre of Amsterdam

Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...

. The festival has since spread to a number of other locations. Cinemas and other institutes that have hosted the festival are: de Balie, Pathé City Theater, Filmmuseum Cinerama, Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam, Paradiso

Paradiso (Amsterdam)

Paradiso is an iconic rock music venue and cultural center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.-History:It is housed in a converted former church building that dates from the nineteenth century and that was used until 1965 as the meeting hall for a liberal Dutch religious group known as the "Vrije...

, the Ketelhuis, the Hotel American, Tuschinski

Tuschinski

Pathé Tuschinski is a movie theater in the Netherlands, in Amsterdam, originally exploited by Abraham Icek Tuschinski, who had it built in 1921 at a cost of 4 million guilders, in a spectacular mix of styles, as designed by Hijman Louis de Jong; Amsterdam School, Jugendstil, Art Nouveau and Art Deco...

 Cinema, Pathé De Munt multiplex, Theatercompagnie and Arti et Amicitiae.

The objective of the IDFA is to promote creative documentaries and to present them to as wide an audience as possible. It started as a small festival and has grown to an eleven-day festival, screening more than 200 documentaries and attracting nearly 120,000 visitors.

Apart from its international film program, the variety of genres and the many European and world premieres featured each year, the festival also hosts debates, forums and workshops.

Prizes

In IDFA's main competition programs, the best new documentaries of the year compete for six different awards.

• The VPRO IDFA Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary for best documentary over 60 minutes in length.

Prize: euro 12,500
(The jury may also present a Special Jury Award)

• The NPS IDFA Award for Best Mid-Length Documentary for best documentary between 30 and 60 minutes in length.

Prize: euro 10,000

• The IDFA Award for Best Short Documentary for best documentary under 30 minutes in length.

Prize: euro 5,000

• The IDFA Award for Best First Appearance for best debut film.

Prize: euro 5,000

• The IDFA Award for Best Student Documentary for best student documentary from film academies around the world.

Prize: euro 2,500

• The Dioraphte IDFA Award for Dutch Documentary for best Dutch documentary.

Prize: euro 5,000
In addition to the competitions, IDFA presents several non-competitive film programs:

• Nederland 2 IDFA Audience Award for best film as voted by audience.

Prize: euro 5.000 euro

• IDFA DOC U! Award for the youth jury’s favorite film.

Prize: euro 1.500

• Mediafundprize Documentary for the winner of the IDFA Documentary Workshop.

Prize: euro 125.000

VPRO IDFA Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary (formerly: Joris Ivens Award)

Year	Film	Director	Nationality of Director (at time of film's release)
1988	Birthplace Unknown Birthplace Unknown Birthplace Unknown is a 1988 Dutch documentary film by director Karin Junger, featuring two South-Korean girls who were adopted by a Dutch family. The director follows the two young women as they visit their country of birth.-External links:...	Karin Junger
1988	Ksjsiner	Ruben Gevorksjanz
1989	Skierskala	Ivars Seleckis
1990	Christo in Paris	D. Maysles
1991	Dreams and Silence	Omar Al-Quattan
1992	La Memoria del agua	Hector Faver Héctor Fáver Héctor Fáver is an Argentine film producer and director. His film Memory of Water was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-External links:...
1993	Belovy	Victor Kossakovsky Victor Kossakovsky Victor Kossakovsky is a Russian filmmaker. He began his career in motion pictures at the Leningrad studio of Documentaries as assistant cameraman, assistant director and editor in 1978. In many of his films, Kossakovsky plays all of the roles of editor, cinematographer, writer, and director...
1994	Solo, de wet van de Favela	Jos de Putter Jos de Putter Jos de Putter is a Dutch film director, film critic and screenwriter who primarily makes documentaries. He studied political science and literature at the University of Leiden, and was a member of the editorial staff of the film magazine Skrien...
1995	Délits Flagrants	Raymond Depardon Raymond Depardon Raymond Depardon is a French photographer, photojournalist and documentary filmmaker.-Photographer:...
1996	Atman	Pirjo Honkasalo Pirjo Honkasalo Pirjo Honkasalo is a Finnish film-maker. Although she has written and directed over a dozen films, Honkasalo is also an accomplished cinematographer, film editor, producer and actor. For her work in the film industry, Honkasalo has been recognized by winning 19 major film awards while being...	/
1997	Auf der Kippe	Andrei Schwartz Andrei Schwartz Andrei Schwartz is a Romanian footballer currently under contract for Romanian side FC Oţelul Galaţi.-External links:* at otelul-galati.ro * at romaniansoccer.ro...
1998	Fotoamator / Photographer	Dariusz Jablonski
1999	André Hazes - Zij gelooft in mij	John Appel John Appel John George Appel was an Australian politician, lawyer, and farmer. He served from 1908-1929 as a delegate for the electoral district of Albert and from 1909-1915 as the Secretary of Mine and Public Works and Home Secretary of Queensland....
2000	De zee die denkt	Gert de Graaff
2001	Family	Phie Ambo & Sami Saif
2002	Stevie	Steve James Steve James (producer) Steve James is an American film producer and director of several documentaries, including the award-winning Hoop Dreams and Stevie. He is also the director of the 1997 feature film Prefontaine...
2003	Checkpoint Checkpoint (2003 film) Checkpoint is a 2003 documentary film by Israeli filmmaker Yoav Shamir, showing the everyday interaction between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian civilians at several of the regions Israel Defence Forces checkpoints...	Yoav Shamir Yoav Shamir ' is an Israeli documentary filmmaker most noted for the films Checkpoint and Defamation. Shamir's films have received awards from independent film festivals including Best Feature Documentary at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Best International Documentary at the Hot Docs...
2004	Stand van de maan	Leonard Retel Helmrich Leonard Retel Helmrich Leonard Retel Helmrich is a Dutch cinematographer and film director of Indo descent. He was born the 16th of August 1959 in Tilburg, Netherlands and has lived in Amsterdam since 1982...
2005	My Grandmother's House	Adán Aliaga
2006	The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun is a 2006 Danish documentary film directed by Pernille Rose Grønkjær.-Plot Summary:Jørgen Laursen Vig owns a Danish estate, with a ramshackle castle, on the island of Fyn...	Pernille Rose Grønkjær Pernille Rose Grønkjær Pernille Rose Grønkjær is a Danish film director.She graduated from the National Danish Film School in 1997. She is the director of various documentary films for the screen and for television including Min morfar forfra, Repeating Grandpa , and The Monastery: Mr...
2007	Stranded	Gonzalo Arijon
2008	Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country	Anders Østergaard
2009	Last Train Home Last Train Home (film) Last Train Home is a 2009 documentary film directed by Lixin Fan and produced by Daniel Cross and Mila Aung-Thwin of EyeSteelFilm. Last Train Home won the Best Documentary Feature at 2009 IDFA and will be distributed by Zeitgeist Films in the US territory.-Synopsis:Every spring, China's cities are...	Lixin Fan Lixin Fan Lixin Fan is a Montreal, Canada-based documentary film director with the Canadian production company EyeSteelFilm and previously a producer/journalist at China’s state broadcaster CCTV.Lixin's debut feature documentary Last Train Home won several awards...

Nederland 2 IDFA Audience Award

Year	Film	Director	Nationality of Director (at time of film's release)
1988	The Last Judgement	Herz Frank
1989	Skierskala	Ivars Seleckis
1990	In Memory of the Day Passed By	Šarūnas Bartas Šarunas Bartas Šarūnas Bartas is a Lithuanian film director. One of the most prominent Lithuanian film directors internationally from the late 20th century...
1991	Djembéfola	Laurent Chevallier
1992	Black Harvest	Robin Anderson & Bob Connolly
1993	Belovy	V. Kossakovsky
1994	Choice and Destiny	Tsipi Reibenbach Tsipi Reibenbach Tsipi Reibenbach is an Israeli Film director, producer and screenwriter. Most of her work is consisted of documentary films dealing with painful issues in the Israeli society such as The Holocaust and Bereavement. Recipient of the Science and Arts Minister of Israel prize for directors and...
1995	Anne Frank Remembered	Jon Blair Jon Blair Jon Blair is a South African born writer, producer and director of documentary films, drama and comedy who has lived in England and the United States ever since he was drafted into the South African army in the late 1960s...
1996	Blue Eyed Blue Eyed Blue Eyed is a 1996 documentary film by Bertram Verhaag in which Jane Elliott is teaching a workshop on racism.She separates people regarding their eye color. The brown eye color people are considered to be superior to the blue or green eye color people...	B. Verhaag
1997	Vision Man	W. Long
1998	Twee Vaders	Ko van Reenen
1999	Crazy Crazy (documentary) Crazy is a 1999 documentary film by Heddy Honigmann on the traumatic effects of war on the soldiers of UN missions.The documentary shows Dutch soldiers that have served in UN peacekeeping missions in former Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Lebanon, Cambodia, Rwanda. The heroic duties contrast with the local...	Heddy Honigmann Heddy Honigmann Heddy Honigmann is a Peruvian-born Dutch director of fictional and documentary films.Heddy Honigmann was born on 1 October 1951 in Lima, Peru to Polish Jewish immigrants. She has spent most of her adult life in the Netherlands, having become a Dutch citizen.Most of her films have been Dutch...
2000	Desi Desi (documentary) Desi is a 2000 Dutch documentary film by director Maria Ramos, featuring the 11-year-old Dutch girl named Desi. Coming from a dysfunctional family, her daily life is full of insecurities, and she is therefore relying on the help of social services in Amsterdam.-External links:* at the Internet...	Maria Ramos Maria Ramos -Early life:Born Maria da Conceição das N. C. Ramos on 22 February 1959 in Lisbon, Portugal, Ramos went on to study economics and taught the subject at the University of South Africa and the University of the Witwatersrand...
2001	Offspring, B	B. Stevens
2002	Bowling for Columbine Bowling for Columbine Bowling for Columbine is a 2002 documentary film written, directed, produced, and narrated by Michael Moore. The film explores what Michael Moore suggests are the causes for the Columbine High School massacre and other acts of violence with guns...	Michael Moore Michael Moore Michael Francis Moore is an American filmmaker, author, social critic and activist. He is the director and producer of Fahrenheit 9/11, which is the highest-grossing documentary of all time. His films Bowling for Columbine and Sicko also place in the top ten highest-grossing documentaries...
2003	My Flesh and Blood	Jonathan Karsh Jonathan Karsh Jonathan Karsh is the winner of the Audience Award and Best Director Award from the 2003 Sundance Film Festival for his directorial debut - the highly acclaimed documentary "My Flesh and Blood" that aired on HBO in 2004...
2004	The Yes Men The Yes Men (film) The Yes Men Fix the World is a documentary film about the culture jamming exploits of The Yes Men. The film premiered in New York City and Los Angeles on October 23, 2009 and in other U.S. cities beginning on October 30...	Dan Ollman & Sarah Price Sarah Price This article is about the swimmer. For the filmmaker see Sarah Price Sarah Price is a former backstroke swimmer from the United Kingdom. She began her swimming career at the Potters Bar club, and turned professional aged fifteen. She set her first British record in 1997 in the 50 m backstroke...  & Chris Smith Chris Smith (filmmaker) Chris Smith is an American film director, cameraman, producer, writer, and editor. He is best known for directing American Movie, which was awarded the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival....
2005	Sisters in Law Sisters in Law Sisters in Law: Stories from a Cameroon Court is a feature-length documentary film by Florence Ayisi and Kim Longinotto portraying aspects of women's lives and work in the judicial system in Cameroon, West Africa.-Plot:...	Kim Longinotto Kim Longinotto Kim Longinotto is a British documentary film maker, well known for making films which highlight the plight of female victims of oppression or discrimination...  & Florence Ayisi
2006	We Are Together / Thina simunye We Are Together (film) We Are Together is a British documentary film about the orphanage "Agape" in South Africa. Children, who live here, lost their parents to AIDS. The film is full of songs, both native and English...	Paul Taylor Paul Taylor (director) Paul Taylor is director of an award-winning documentary film "We Are Together".- External links :* *...
2007	To See If I'm Smiling	Tamar Yarom
2008	RiP: A Remix Manifesto	Brett Gaylor Brett Gaylor Brett Gaylor is a Canadian documentary filmmaker living in Montreal, Quebec. Born in 1977, he grew up on Galiano Island, British Columbia. He is a member director of EyeSteelFilm documentary production company and its Head of New Media....
2009	The Cove	Louie Psihoyos Louie Psihoyos Louis Psihoyos is an American photographer and documentary film director known for his still photography and contributions to National Geographic. Psihoyos, a licensed scuba-diver, has become increasingly concerned with bringing awareness to underwater life...

Special Jury Prize

Year	Film	Director	Nationality of Director (at time of film's release)
1988	Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie is a 1988 documentary film directed by Marcel Ophüls about the life of Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie...	Marcel Ophüls Marcel Ophuls Marcel Ophüls is a documentary film maker and former actor.He was born in Frankfurt, Germany, the son of the director Max Ophüls...	/
1988	'The Power of Solovki	Marina Goldovskaya Marina Goldovskaya Marina Goldovskaya, is an eminent Russian born documentary cinematographer famed for her candid portrayal of people. She has documented many types of people including simple folk, seamstresses, a female astronaut, literary and artistic legends, as well as political leaders.The recipient of...
1989	Skierskala	Ivars Seleckis
1990	The Collector	E. Strömdahl
1991	Djembéfola	Laurent Chevallier
1992	Black Harvest	Robin Anderson & Bob Connolly
1993	Mit Verlust ist zu Rechnen	Ulrich Seidl Ulrich Seidl Ulrich Seidl is an Austrian film director, writer and producer.-Selected filmography:* 1990 Good News* 1992 Loss Is to Be Expected * 1995 Animal Love ...
1994	Choice and Destiny	Tsipi Reibenbach Tsipi Reibenbach Tsipi Reibenbach is an Israeli Film director, producer and screenwriter. Most of her work is consisted of documentary films dealing with painful issues in the Israeli society such as The Holocaust and Bereavement. Recipient of the Science and Arts Minister of Israel prize for directors and...
1995	Picasso Would Have Made a Glorious Waiter	Jonathan Schell Jonathan Schell Jonathan Edward Schell is an author and visiting fellow at Yale University, whose work primarily deals with nuclear weapons.-Career:His work has appeared in The Nation, The New Yorker, and TomDispatch...
1996	The Typewriter, the Rifle and the Movie Camera	Adam Simon Adam Simon Adam Simon is an American screenwriter and film director.-Writer:*The Haunting in Connecticut *Bones *The American Nightmare *The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera...
1997	Little Dieter Needs to Fly Little Dieter Needs to Fly Little Dieter Needs to Fly is a 1997 documentary film made for German television, written and directed by Werner Herzog, produced by Werner Herzog Filmproduktion. The film was released to DVD in 1998 by Anchor Bay.-Summary:...	Werner Herzog Werner Herzog Werner Herzog Stipetić , known as Werner Herzog, is a German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and opera director.He is often considered as one of the greatest figures of the New German Cinema, along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff, Werner...
1998	Pavel and Lyalya / a Jerusalem Romance r	Victor Kossakovsky Victor Kossakovsky Victor Kossakovsky is a Russian filmmaker. He began his career in motion pictures at the Leningrad studio of Documentaries as assistant cameraman, assistant director and editor in 1978. In many of his films, Kossakovsky plays all of the roles of editor, cinematographer, writer, and director...
1999	A Cry from the Grave	Leslie Woodhead Leslie Woodhead Leslie Woodhead is an award-winning British documentary filmmaker.For his National Service he served in Fife at the Joint Services School for Linguists where he was taught Russian. and posted to West Berlin to monitor the communications of Soviet pilots flying in and out of East Germany...
2000	Keep the River on Your Right: a Modern Cannibal Tale	Laurie Gwen & David Shapiro David Shapiro David Shapiro may refer to:*David I. Shapiro, attorney*David Shapiro *David Shapiro , , American jazz musician*David Shapiro *J. David Shapiro , American filmmaker and stand-up comedian...
2001	Elsewhere Elsewhere (film) Elsewhere is an Austrian documentary in 12 episodes which describes life in twelve very different locations. During the year 2000 Nikolaus Geyrhalter and his teams travelled to different places each month, looking for places untouched by the millennium hysteria....	Nikolaus Geyrhalter
2002	On Hitler's Highway	Lech Kowalski Lech Kowalski Lech Kowalski is an American film director of Polish origins. His most notable film is thedocumentary, D.O.A. subtitled "A Rite of Passage", which chronicled the burgeoning UK punk scene at the tail-end of the 70's, and included footage of the Sex Pistols' abortive 1978 American Tour...
2003	The Corporation	Mark Achbar Mark Achbar Mark Achbar is a Canadian filmmaker, best known for directing The Corporation and Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media.- Biography :Achbar is a graduate of Syracuse University's Fine Arts Film Program...
2004	Liberia: an Uncivil War	Jonathan Stack Jonathan Stack Jonathan David Stack is an American documentary filmmaker.-Biography:Born in New York City to a teacher and worker, Jonathan spent much of his childhood exploring and took an early interest to film. He had the chance to travel a lot from a young age, which inspired him to learn about other...  & James Brabazon James Brabazon Leslie James Seth-Smith , known as James Brabazon, was a screenwriter and the author of two well-received biographies of Albert Schweitzer and Dorothy L. Sayers...
2005	Our Daily Bread Our Daily Bread (2005 film) Our Daily Bread is an award winning 2005 documentary directed, co-produced, and with cinematography by Nikolaus Geyrhalter. The script was co-written by Wolfgang Widerhofer and Nikolaus Geyrhalter....	Nikolaus Geyrhalter
2006	Tender’s Heat. Wild Wild beach	Alexander Rastorguev
2007	Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go	Kim Longinotto Kim Longinotto Kim Longinotto is a British documentary film maker, well known for making films which highlight the plight of female victims of oppression or discrimination...
2008	Forgetting Dad	Rick Minnich & Matthew Sweetwood	/
2009	The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers is a 2009 documentary film directed by Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith...	Judith Ehrlich & Rick Goldsmith

NPS IDFA Award for Best Mid-Length Documentary (formerly: Silver Wolf Award)

Year	Film	Director	Nationality of Director (at time of film's release)
1995	6 Open, 21 Closed	Amit Goren
1996	Mr. Behrmann - Leben Traum Tod	Andreas Voigt
1997	Gigi, Monica...& Bianca	Yasmina Abdellaoui & Benoït Dervaux
1998	Hephzibah	Curtis Levy
1999	Les Enfants du Borinage - Lettre à Henri Storck Les Enfants du Borinage - Lettre à Henri Storck The kids of the coal mine: A letter to Henri Storck is a 1999 documentary film by director Patric Jean about the former mining district Borinage in the Walloon region of Belgium....	Patric Jean
2000	Jung (War) in the Land of the Mujaheddin	Fabrizio Lazzaretti & Alberto Vendemmiati	/
2001	Haj-Abba's Wives	Mohsen Abdolvahab
2002	Interesting Times - the Secret of my Success Interesting Times - the Secret of my Success Interesting times: The Secret of my Success is a 2002 documentary film by director Duan Jinchuan about China's contemporary politics of democracy and the realities of the one child policy...	Jinchuan Duan
2003	Surplus: Terrorized into Being Consumers	Erik Gandini Erik Gandini Erik Gandini is an Italian- Swedish film director, producer and writer.He has made several films including: Amerasians, Sacrificio: Who Betrayed Che Guevara?, Surplus: Terrorized into Being Consumers, Gitmo and Videocracy.Videocracy has gone on to win awards at Toronto Film Festival, Sheffield...
2004	Georgi and the butterflies Georgi and the butterflies Georgi and the Butterflies is a Bulgarian documentary film from 2004. It was directed by Andrey Paounov. The film won the "Silver Wolf" award at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.-Plot:...	Andrey Paounov Andrey Paounov Andrey Paounov is a writer - director best known for his documentary feature films.His debut Georgi and the butterflies won the "Silver Wolf" at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.His second feature The Mosquito Problem and other stories was included in the 46th International...
2005	Before Flying Back to the Earth Before Flying Back to the Earth Before Flying Back to the Earth is the first feature-length documentary film by the Lithuanian film director Arūnas Matelis...	Arūnas Matelis Arunas Matelis Arūnas Matelis is an acclaimed Lithuanian documentary film director. From 1979 till 1983 Arūnas Matelis studied Mathematics at Vilnius University and later in 1989 graduated from the Lithuanian Music Academy. In 1992, he established one of the first independent film production companies in...
2006	Enemies of Happiness Enemies of Happiness Enemies of Happiness is a 2006 documentary about the controversial Afghan politician and member of the Afghan Parliament Malalai Joya filmed by Danish director Eva Mulvad....	Eva Mulvad Eva Mulvad Eva Mulvad is a Danish documentaries film director. She graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 2001. Eva is a director of documentaries for DR TV since 1997....
2007	To See If I'm Smiling	Tamar Yarom
2008	Boris Ryzhy Boris Ryzhy Boris Borisovich Ryzhy or Ryzhii was a Russian poet. Some poems by Ryzhy have been translated into English, Italian, German, Dutch and Serbian. He committed suicide on May 7, 2001, at the age of 26....	Aliona van der Horst
2009	Iron Crows	Bong-Nam Park
2010	People I Could Have Been And Maybe Am	Boris Gerrets

IDFA Award for Best Short Documentary (formerly: Silver Cub Award)

Year	Film	Director	Nationality of Director (at time of film's release)
2005	Butterfly Man	Samantha Rebillet
2006	My Eyes	Erlend E. Mo
2007	The Tailor	Oscar Pérez
2008	Slaves - An animated documentary	Hanna Heilborn & David Aronowitsch	/
2009	Six Weeks	Marcin Janos Krawczyk

IDFA Award for Best First Appearance

Year	Film	Director	Nationality of Director (at time of film's release)
1997	Anthem, an American Road Story	Shainee Gabel & Kristin Hahn
1998	Les Amoureux de Dieu / Howling for God	Dan Alexe
1999	Zwischen 2 Welten Zwischen 2 Welten Between two worlds is a 1999 documentary film by director Bettina Haasen. The film focuses on the conversations between director Haasen and members of the nomadic nomadic Woodabe tribe in Nigeria. The documentary has an ethnographical approach.-External links:* * at the Internet Movie Database...	Bettina Haasen
2000	Hybrid Hybrid (film) Hybrid is a 2007 telefilm by Syfy....	Monteith McCollum
2001	Suka	Igor Voloshin
2002	Barbeiros	M. Junkkonen
2003	My Flesh and Blood	Jonathan Karsh Jonathan Karsh Jonathan Karsh is the winner of the Audience Award and Best Director Award from the 2003 Sundance Film Festival for his directorial debut - the highly acclaimed documentary "My Flesh and Blood" that aired on HBO in 2004...
2003	The very best day	Pavel Medvedev Pavel Medvedev Pavel Nikolaevich Medvedev was a Russian literary scholar. He was a professor, social activist, and friend of Mikhail Bakhtin, as well as of Boris Pasternak and Fyodor Sologub. Medvedev held several government posts in education and publishing after the 1917 revolution, publishing a great deal of...
2004	Podul Peste Tisa	Ileana Stanculescu
2005	The Angelmakers	Astrid Bussink Astrid Bussink Astrid Bussink is a Dutch filmmaker. Her debut film is the documentary Angelmakers.She studied fine art at the Academy of fine Arts, AKI, Enschede in the Netherlands and her Master in film at the Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland.During this Master she shot her award winning documentary 'The...	/
2006	We Are Together / Thina simunye We Are Together (film) We Are Together is a British documentary film about the orphanage "Agape" in South Africa. Children, who live here, lost their parents to AIDS. The film is full of songs, both native and English...	Paul Taylor Paul Taylor (director) Paul Taylor is director of an award-winning documentary film "We Are Together".- External links :* *...
2007	End of the Rainbow End of the rainbow End of the Rainbow is a musical drama by Peter Quilter, centred upon the intriguing personality of Judy Garland in the months leading up to her death...	Robert Nugent	/
2008	Constantin and Elena	Andrei Dascalescu
2009	Colony	Ross McDonnell & Carter Gunn	/

Movies that Matter Human Rights Award

Year	Film	Director	Nationality of Director (at time of film's release)
2002	The Day I Will Never Forget	Kim Longinotto Kim Longinotto Kim Longinotto is a British documentary film maker, well known for making films which highlight the plight of female victims of oppression or discrimination...
2002	The Trials of Henry Kissinger The Trials of Henry Kissinger The Trials of Henry Kissinger , is a documentary film inspired by Christopher Hitchens' 2001 book The Trial of Henry Kissinger, examining the alleged war crimes of Henry Kissinger, the National Security Advisor and later Secretary of State under Presidents Nixon and Ford.The film was directed by...	Eugene Jarecki Eugene Jarecki Eugene Jarecki is an author and a dramatic and documentary filmmaker based in New York.His works include Why We Fight, which won the 2005 Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, The Trials of Henry Kissinger, Reagan, Freakonomics , Quest of the Carib Canoe, and Season of the...	/ /
2003	Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer is a 2003 feature-length documentary film about Aileen Wuornos, made by Nick Broomfield as a follow-up to his 1992 film Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer...	Nick Broomsfield & Joan Churchill
2004	The 3 Rooms of Melancholia The 3 Rooms of Melancholia The 3 Rooms of Melancholia is a 2004 Finnish documentary film written, directed and co-produced by Pirjo Honkasalo...	Pirjo Honkasalo Pirjo Honkasalo Pirjo Honkasalo is a Finnish film-maker. Although she has written and directed over a dozen films, Honkasalo is also an accomplished cinematographer, film editor, producer and actor. For her work in the film industry, Honkasalo has been recognized by winning 19 major film awards while being...
2005	China Blue China Blue China Blue is a 2005 documentary film directed by Micha Peled. It follows the life of Jasmine, a young seventeen year old worker from Sichuan province, in a Chinese jeans factory, Lifeng Clothes Factory in Shaxi, Guangdong producing Vigaze Jeans , hence the title...	Micha X Peled
2006	New Year Baby New Year Baby New Year Baby is a 2007 documentary film that tells the story of a family that survived the Cambodian genocide, and started a new life in the United States. The film was directed by Socheata Poeuv and produced by Charles Vogl. It won the 2007 IDFA "Movies That Matter" Award, an initiative of...	Socheata Poeuv
2007	Jerusalem Is Proud to Present Jerusalem Is Proud to Present Jerusalem Is Proud to Present is a 2008 documentary film directed by Nitzan Gilady about the 2006 World Pride Festival, an LGBT festival held in Jerusalem. It follows the lives of members of the Open House, Jerusalem's LGBT community center, who are planning the events, thr threats they and their...	Nitzan Gilady Nitzan Gilady Nitzan Gilady is an Israeli film director who has written, produced and directed the documentary films In Satmar Custody and Jerusalem Is Proud to Present and The Last Enemy....
2008	Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country	Anders Østergaard

IDFA DOC U! Award for the youth jury’s favorite film (formerly: Moviesquad DOC U! Award)

Year	Film	Director	Nationality of Director (at time of film's release)
2005	Shadya, Roy	Roy Westler
2006	A Lesson of Belorussian A Lesson of Belorussian A Lesson of Belarusian is a 2006 documentary film by Polish director Mirosław Dembiński. It follows the activities of several Belarusian pro-democracy youth activists in the four weeks running up to the highly controversial presidential re-election of Alexander Lukashenko on March 19, 2006...	Miroslaw Dembinski
2007	Planet B-Boy Planet B-Boy Planet B-Boy is a 2007 documentary film that focuses on the 2005 Battle of the Year while also describing B-boy culture and history as a global phenomenon. This documentary was directed by Canadian-American Korean filmmaker Benson Lee, shot by Portuguese-American filmmaker Vasco Nunes, and...	Benson Lee
2008	Kassim the Dream	Kief Davidson
2009	The Yes Men Fix the World	Andy Bichlbaum & Mike Bonanno	/

IDFA Award for Best Student Documentary

Year	Film	Director	Nationality of Director (at time of film's release)
2007	Paradise – Three Journeys in This World	Elina Hirvonen Elina Hirvonen Elina Hirvonen is a Finnish writer, journalist and documentary film-maker.She was educated at the Helsinki University of Art and Design and also the University of Turku where she took literature at the Faculty of Humanities....
2008	Shakespeare and Victor Hugo´s Intimacies	Yulene Olaizola
2009	Redemption	Sabrina Wulff

IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling

Year	Film	Director	Nationality of Director (at time of film or website's release)
2010	Out My Window Out My Window Out My Window is a 2010 web documentary by Katerina Cizek exploring the lives of families living in high-rise buildings in 13 cities around the world. The website is produced by National Film Board of Canada as part its collaborative documentary project Highrise...	Katerina Cizek Katerina Cizek Katerina Cizek is a Canadian documentary filmmaker and web creator whose credits include the 2010 web documentary Out My Window, winner of the inaugural IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam...

Zapper Award (1994 -1996)

Year	Film	Director	Nationality of Director (at time of film's release)
1994	Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy is a 1994 Central Independent Television documentary, written and presented by John Pilger, and directed and produced by David Munro, which uncovers the complicity of the US and Great Britain governments in the East Timor genocide in the context of the...	David Munro David Munro (documentary film-maker) David Ivor Munro was an English documentary film-maker.His parents were Hugh Munro, an actor and television director and Pamela Barnard, also an an actor...
1995	My Vote is My Secret Chroniques Sud Africaines 1994	Julie Henderson Julie Henderson Julie Patrice Henderson is an American model known for her appearances in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. She has also done advertisements for such notable clients as Benetton.- Career :...  & Thulani Mokoena & Donne Rundle
1996	Grenzeloze Liefde - Made in Japan Grenzeloze Liefde - Made in Japan Love beyond frontiers - Made in Japan is a 1996 documentary film by the Dutch director Puck de Leeuw. The documentary tells the story of two Dutch women and one Flemish woman, living in Japan with their Japanese husbands and coping with their new way of life. The documentary is part 1 of the...	Puck de Leeuw

External links

• Official site
• Official YouTube channel of the IDFA (contains all the movie trailers)