Calendar – Past Event

The 22nd edition of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, the largest festival for creative documentaries in the world, will take place in Amsterdam from 19 - 29 November 2009. Each year, IDFA selects and screens more than 250 documentaries, running the gamut from international audience favourites to artistic experiments along the fringes of the genre.

We would like to welcome you to submit your films for IDFA 2009. There are no fees involved (not even if your film gets selected) but please keep our deadlines in mind.

The first deadline is 1 May. This deadline is for all films completed between 1 August 2008 - 1 April 2009.

We're looking forward to another great documentary harvest.

Ally Derks
IDFA Director

Submit with MyIDFA
In order to submit a film, you first have to create a MyIDFA account or use your MyIDFA account from previous years. This will allow you to submit films and projects to IDFA as well as to the Docs for Sale and FORUM markets. You can register for MyIDFA on our website.

Deadlines and Regulations
- 1 May for films finished between 1 August 2008 and 1 April 2009
- 1 August for films finished after 1 April 2009

For more information about the selection criteria, please go to our website and look under Regulations 2009.

New Names for IDFA Competition Sections
There have been changes in the names for several programmes.
Joris Ivens Competition - IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary
Silver Wolf Competition - IDFA Competition for Mid-Length Documentary
Silver Cub Competition - IDFA Competition for Short Documentary
First Appearance Competition - IDFA Competition for First Appearance
IDFA Student Competition - IDFA Competition for Student Documentary

Programme section for new media: DOCLAB
DOCLAB is a new programme section at IDFA, investigating the relationship between new media, web culture and documentary. The programme focuses on projects that creatively use new technologies to represent or chart reality. DOCLAB is open to films, narrative websites, interactive applications and installations. For reference, feel free to take a look at last year's programme on www.idfa.nl/doclab or www.doclab.org.

IDFA Award for Best Dutch Documentary
Dutch films in the above mentioned competitions and the films screening in the Premieres from the Lowlands will compete for a new Award - the IDFA Award for Best Dutch Documentary (€5.000). The Award will be handed out by a new international jury.